Show #4885 2005-12-02 (taped 2005-09-13) Regular

Contestants

Glenda Niemiec — a payroll specialist from St. Paul, Minnesota

Michael Levitin — an attorney from Arlington, Virginia

Adam Weinstein — a graduate student from Fort Lauderdale, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Adam $3,200 $6,800 $17,800 $19,700
2-day champion: $39,700
$13,400
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Michael $200 $1,200 $9,800 $900
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Glenda $2,400 $3,200 $5,200 $200
3rd place: $1,000
$5,200
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TV FANS COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL NEW HERE? HEY! TAKE MY PICTURE! SAY CHEESE!
$200 [2]
In October 1789 a large crowd of women marched to Versailles demanding this food staple
bread
Michael
$200 [6]
In 1980 fans were trying to guess & bookies were setting odds on "Who Shot J.R.?" on this program
Dallas
Adam
$200 [8]
South of the border:Santiago
Chile
Adam
$200 [21]
If you start an MLB season with 45 days' ML experience, you're not considered one of these any more
a rookie
Adam
$200 [26]
After setting numerous records, sheannounced her retirement at age 30 in 1999
Steffi Graf
Adam
$200 [16]
The Food Lover's Companion says it's "undoubtedly the stinkiest of the strong-smelling cheeses"
Limburger
Adam
$400 [3]
Despite declaring, "Men are born... with equal rights" the Assembly voted to allow this to continue in the colonies
slavery
Adam
$400 [7]
A fan club abbreviated R.A.L.P.H. is "The Royal Association for the Longevity & Preservation of" this sitcom
The Honeymooners
$400 [9]
"Knightly" & daily:Valletta
Malta
Michael
$400 [22]
If you're a One L, you're in your first year here & sweating out contracts & civil procedure
law school
Glenda
$400 [27]
Yippie! He's the 1960s political rabble-rouser seen here
Abbie Hoffman
Adam
$400 [17]
TV's Herman, Lily, Eddie or Marilyn, or this cheese: some add an "E" to its spelling, but it blows the joke
munster
Glenda
$600 [4]
On Feb. 28, 1791 this hero of the American Revolution stopped a riot & a plot to kidnap the royals
Lafayette
Michael
$600 [14]
The Peanut Gallery was this popular show's hard-to-get-into audience
Howdy Doody
Glenda
$600 [10]
Near Florida:Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Adam
$600 [23]
It precedes "15" to describe the extra weight from a new lifestyle of late-night study & excess pizza
freshman
Adam
$600 [28]
The maiden name of either of the two women seen here
Laura Welch (or Barbara Pierce)
$600 [18]
It's named for a town 13 miles northeast of Amsterdam, & you could say it's very gouda (but you'd be wrong)
Edam
$800 [5]
In 1795 there was a debate over what to make the national anthem, "Reveil du Peuple" or this
"La Marseillaise"
Glenda
$800 [15]
Wuff, wuff, wuff, the Dog Pound was this talk-show host's fanatical audience section near the band
Arsenio Hall
Adam
$800 [11]
In Africa:Libreville
Gabon
$800 [24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Parris Island, SC.) Parris Island arrivals stand in their first formation on the yellow footprints & are told to refer to themselves as this word
recruit
Adam
$800 [29]
The talented man seenherewon Oscars for these 2 films
Glory & Training Day
Glenda
$800 [19]
Napoleon III may have named this white, downy-rind cow's-milk cheese after the Norman village where he first sampled it
Camembert
Glenda
$1,000 [1]
In March 1790 Robespierre was elected president of this powerful political "club"
the Jacobins
Adam Michael
$1,000 [13]
Full name of the TV show for whom the Xenites were the ultimate fans
Xena: Warrior Princess
Glenda
$1,000 [12]
In the Caribbean:Roseau
Dominica
DD $1,200 [25]
It can be any beginner, or a person who has entered a religious order but not taken final vows
a novice
Adam
$1,000 [30]
Hemade some Democratic noises in February of 2005
Hosni Mubarak
Michael
$1,000 [20]
A favorite of Charlemagne, a true version of this cheese can be authenticated by a red sheep on the wrapper
Roquefort

Double Jeopardy! Round

PHILOSOPHY SPORTS NICKNAMES SCIENC"E" & NATUR"E" MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HENRY IV, PART 2 BIG WORDS
$400 [5]
A 1954 article by Michael Dummett is provocatively titled, "Can" one of these "precede its cause?"
an effect
Adam
$400 [1]
Mick Jagger had a "Heart Of" it; Roberto Duran had "Hands of" it
"Stone"
Glenda
$400 [27]
"Endangered" & "threatened" are the 2 classifications for animal species facing this
extinction
Glenda
$400 [21]
In French, this instrument is called a petite flute
a piccolo
Adam Glenda
DD $200 [29]
He says, "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men"
Falstaff
Michael
$400 [2]
A top-of-the-beanstalk-livin' guy, or a pro pigskin-totin' one
a giant
Glenda
$1,200 [7]
When philosophers refer to the "Summa", they usually mean this work of Christian thought from around 1270
Summa Theologica
Adam
$800 [9]
The NHL's Mr. Lemieux got this Nintendo-based moniker
"Super" Mario
Michael
$800 [28]
Materials described as photovoltaic convert sunshine directly into this type of energy
electric energy
Michael
$800 [19]
The "clash" ones range in size from about 15 inches in diameter to 22 inches
cymbals
Adam
$400 [16]
The character Rumor gives a recap of this play as an introduction
Henry IV, Part I
Michael
$800 [3]
In 1985 it was found in 2 sections about 400 miles SE of Newfoundland, at a depth of about 12,500 feet
the Titanic
Adam
$1,600 [6]
Plotinus, who taught of eternal realities, thought himself a Platonist; we add 3 letters & call him this
a Neo-Platonist
Adam
$1,200 [10]
The NBA's 6'8", 284-pound Robert Traylor keeps on trucking with this nickname
"Tractor" Traylor
Adam
$1,200 [24]
A unit of work or energy sometimes said to be equivalent to the energy of a mosquito taking off
an erg
Adam
$1,200 [20]
About the size of a violin, a crwth is an ancient bowed stringed instrument of this country
Wales
Adam Glenda
$800 [17]
By the end of the play, Prince Henry, then known as Hal, has become this title character of another play
Henry V
Adam Michael
$1,200 [13]
It describes the "skies" in "America The Beautiful"
spacious
Glenda
$2,000 [4]
Many of Kierkegaard's works were a strong reaction against this German's idealist phenomenology
Hegel
Michael
$1,600 [11]
Many soccer players have had great feet, but Hungary's Sandor Kocsis was nicknamed "Golden" this
"Head"
Adam
$1,600 [25]
From the Greek for "upon the kidney", it's found in the adrenal glands
epinephrine
$1,600 [22]
Piano is short for this word that means "soft loud"
pianoforte
Adam
$1,200 [18]
In Act V, a character named Silence mentions this character that Kevin Costner has played on screen
Robin Hood
Adam
$1,600 [14]
This word famously preceded "wasteland" in a 1961 speech about TV; we'll try not to take it personally
vast
Michael
DD $5,000 [8]
Gilbert Ryle tried to sort out the relation of the body & this, also the title of the venerable journal he edited
mind
Adam
$2,000 [12]
Nickname of Ms. Spencer-Devlin, the LPGA's first openly gay player
"Muffin"
Michael
$2,000 [26]
A cone-shaped laboratory flask with a narrow neck & a broad, flat bottom
an Erlenmeyer flask
Glenda
$2,000 [23]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds up a harmonica.) As opposed to a chromatic harmonica with sharps & flats, this one has holes for just a single scale
a diatonic harmonica
$2,000 [15]
This title adjective describes the "room" in the title of the 1922 e.e. cummings novel of WWI
enormous

Final Jeopardy!

1950s MOVIE ENSEMBLES

Name missing from this list: Webber, Begley, Marshall, Warden, Balsam, Fiedler, Klugman, Binns, Sweeney, Voskovec & Cobb

Fonda

Glenda "Who is Landau?" — wagered $5,000
Michael "Who are Randle?" — wagered $8,900
Adam "Who is Fonda?" — wagered $1,900

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