Show #4891 2005-12-12 (taped 2005-09-21) Regular

Contestants

Bryn Upton — a college professor from Westminster, Maryland

Rich Way — a manager from Aromas, California

Elaine Henderson — a children's encyclopedia editor from New Milford, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Elaine $2,800 $3,800 $6,600 $1,199
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
11 R, 1 W
Rich $-200 $5,200 $16,200 $20,401
New champion: $20,401
$16,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Bryn $2,400 $3,600 $10,200 $14,200
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT TV THEME SONG ENDINGS INTERNATIONAL DATE LINES SIGNS & SYMBOLS GETTING HUNGARY? TIME TO EAT
$200 [7]
In the 1890s Germany's Otto Lilienthal piloted several successful flights in these engineless planes
gliders
Rich
$200 [1]
"You're gonna make it after all"
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Elaine
$200 [10]
"Puedo comprarle una bebida" is Spanish for this happy hour question
Can I buy you a drink?
$200 [11]
A symbol of blood, it's "the blood of the grape"
wine
Rich
$200 [6]
Called the "Queen of the Danube", this city is home to about one-fifth of the country's population
Budapest
Bryn
$200 [12]
From the Italian for "cord", it's long thin strands of pasta
spaghetti
Elaine
$400 [8]
In 1903 Samuel Langley attempted to fly an engine-powered plane launched from a houseboat on this D.C. river
the Potomac River
Bryn
$400 [2]
"Watch out for that tree!"
George of the Jungle
Bryn
$400 [25]
In Russian it's "Ya tebya lyublyu"
I love you
Rich
$400 [17]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew points to some horizontal line figures on a monitor.) In the ancient Asian divination system called this, solid & broken lines represent male & femaleness
I Ching
$400 [13]
More than two-thirds of Hungarians are of this Christian denomination
Roman Catholic
$400 [20]
It's the brand of hot dog that "kids love to bite"
Armour hot dogs
$600 [9]
On May 6, 1937 Herb Morrison described its demise on the radio saying, "It's burning, bursting into flames"
the Hindenburg
Rich
$600 [3]
"Those were the days"
All in the Family
Rich Bryn
$600 [26]
Lines like "Posso leva-la a casa", "May I see you home", show why Portuguese is this type of Latin-derived language
a Romance language
Rich
$600 [19]
The wheel, a symbol of this religion, is often depicted with 8 spokes to represent the Eightfold Path
Buddhism
Bryn
$600 [14]
When it was known as Pannonia, Hungary was incorporated into this empire around 14 A.D.
the Roman Empire
Elaine Rich
$600 [21]
This protein-rich Middle Eastern dish is deep-fried chickpea patties & tahini wrapped in flat bread
falafel
Rich
$800 [18]
In 1919 Alcock & Brown made the first nonstop transatlantic flight: St. John's in this province to Ireland
Newfoundland
Rich
$800 [4]
"We finally got a piece of the pie"
The Jeffersons
Bryn
$800 [27]
Continues Labelle's sexy French invitation, "Voulez-vous..."
coucher avec moi
Bryn
DD $1,000 [29]
One of the 2 back-to-back zodiac signs whose standard symbols usually include an arrow point
Sagittarius (or Scorpio)
Rich
$800 [15]
In March of 1867, Hungary was joined with this country in a dual monarchy
Austria
Elaine
$800 [22]
The Chicken Po'boy & the Catfish Po'boy are culinary highlights of this fried-chicken chain
Popeyes
Bryn
$1,000 [24]
In 1943 Clarence Johnson founded this "stinky" research arm of Lockheed that produced the F-117A Nighthawk
the Skunk Works
Rich
$1,000 [5]
"We'll have a gay old time"
The Flintstones
Elaine
$1,000 [28]
In a German goodbye, it follows "Auf"; to say "Can we see each other again", it follows "Konnen wir uns"
wiedersehen
Rich
$1,000 [30]
Both the staff of Asclepius & this staff of Mercury feature snakes & are symbols of the medical profession
the Caduceus
Bryn
$1,000 [16]
A devastating invasion by these Asian warriors in 1241 killed half of Hungary's population
the Mongols
Elaine
$1,000 [23]
Latvian food favorites include unpasteurized beer, herbed potatoes & these long thin fish of the order Apodes
eels

Double Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY ACTORS' ALMA MATERS MEN OF RELIGION HEAD GEAR FOR THE BIRDS "U" KNOW YOU KNOW
$400 [11]
This creature who had the head & wings of an eagle & the body of a lion guarded the Scythians' gold
a griffin
Rich
$400 [1]
A 1928 graduate of Bryn Mawr, she won her first acting Oscar in 1934
Katharine Hepburn
Bryn
DD $200 [23]
A river linking the Great Lakes & the Atlantic Ocean bears the name of this saint who was martyred by the Romans in 258
St. Lawrence
Bryn
$400 [9]
In 1866 this company introduced its "hat of the west" also called "boss of the plains"
Stetson
Rich
$400 [6]
This bird's name can also mean "to swindle" & it's found in an ancient board game
rook
Rich
$400 [15]
To avoid bad luck, don't open one of these indoors
an umbrella
Elaine
$800 [12]
Norse name of the dragon slayer called Siegried by the Germans
Sigurd
$800 [2]
An Oscar winner for 1940, he'sseenhereplaying his accordion on stage at Princeton in the 1930s
Jimmy Stewart
Elaine
$400 [20]
Despite the Edict of Worms, he translated the Bible into German in secret in 1522
Luther
Elaine
$800 [10]
The name of this jeweled coronet worn by princesses is from the Greek for "turban"
tiara
Rich
DD $600 [8]
The Athene genus of this bird contains 4 species
the owl
Rich
$800 [16]
To be moved to first class on an airplane when your original seat was in coach
upgrade
Bryn
$1,200 [28]
This trickster accompanied Thor to retrieve Thor's hammer from the giant Thrym
Loki
Rich
$1,200 [3]
In the 1950s Jane Fonda attended this New York women's college
Vassar
Bryn
$800 [21]
Because of his Svengali-like control over the Czarina, this "Mad Monk" was murdered in 1916
Rasputin
Bryn
$1,200 [13]
It precedes "rag" in a term for a scarf or kerchief tied to cover the head
dew
Rich
$800 [7]
The greater & lesser scaups, unlike the gadwall, are types of these birds that are divers, not dabblers
ducks
$1,200 [17]
It can mean a mischievous child, a hedgehog or a sea creature
an urchin
Rich
$1,600 [29]
Common group name for Alcyone, Sterope, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope & Taygete
the Pleiades
$1,600 [4]
Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston & Patricia Neal all studied at this Illinois university founded in 1851
Northwestern
Elaine
$1,600 [24]
Knights in the service of Henry II killed this "troublesome priest" in 1170 after he refused to obey the king
Becket
Elaine
$1,600 [14]
His hat came up in the 1888 pres. campaign of his grandson (some said it fit, some said it was too big)
William Henry Harrison
Rich Bryn
$1,600 [26]
This "ruffed" state bird of Penn. is famous for the drumming sound its wings make when proclaiming its territory
a grouse
Rich
$1,600 [18]
This vehicle popular with jugglers was developed from the penny-farthing
a unicycle
Bryn
$2,000 [30]
Zeus was enamored of this young prince whom he carried off to Olympus to be the cupbearer to the gods
Ganymede
$2,000 [5]
20 years after attending Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, he won an Oscar in 1945
Bing Crosby
$2,000 [25]
By his own account, this notorious Khmer Rouge leader spent 2 years as a Buddhist monk
Pol Pot
Rich
$2,000 [22]
While Prince of Wales, Edward VII vistied this German spa town & brought back a hat
Homburg
Elaine
$2,000 [27]
This birds, of which the "great" one is extinct, are considered the N. hemisphere's counterpart to penguins
auks
Rich
$2,000 [19]
It's the nation highlighted here
Uganda
Rich

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY LIT

This work says, "Man is not truly one, but truly two... I learned to recognize the... primitive duality of man"

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Elaine "What is Origin of the Species?" — wagered $5,401
Bryn "What is Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde?" — wagered $4,000
Rich "What is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. [H crossed off, with another H with an arrow pointing to it]yde?" — wagered $4,201

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