Show #4923 2006-01-25 (taped 2005-11-02) Regular

Bob Mesko game 3.

Contestants

Peter Booker — an Army officer from Fort Monroe, Virginia

Margaret Mitchell — a medical assistant from Amherst, New Hampshire

Bob Mesko — an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $1,200 $400 $15,600 $10,799
3-day champion: $42,399
$17,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Margaret $1,200 $1,600 $4,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Peter $1,400 $5,000 $10,200 $8,700
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
16 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

GOING NUCULAR BEATLES BEFORE & AFTER BOROUGH BABIES ALSO A BODY PART BOOZE "FOO" FINDERS
$200 [16]
On TV this Springfield safety inspector once corrected someone who said nuclear instead of "nucular"
Homer Simpson
Peter
$200 [17]
Famous London church whose album cover showed the lads in a zebra crossing
Westminster Abbey Road
Peter
$200 [11]
Donald Trump grew up in a 23-room house in Jamaica Estates here
Queens
Margaret
$200 [24]
It's the bud of a potato, bud
the eye
Peter
$200 [6]
This strong liquor is named for the town in Jalisco, Mexico that's a center for its production
tequila
Peter
$200 [1]
It's a Chinese-American chopped goodies omelet with gravy
egg foo young
Bob
$400 [22]
This president who often said "nucular" proposed the "Atoms for Peace" plan at the U.N.
Eisenhower
Bob
$400 [18]
This 1970 Beatles hit "leads to your door" with an angry outburst by the driver of a car
"The Long And Winding Road Rage"
Margaret
$400 [12]
Born here, Cornelius Vanderbilt started a ferry service at age 16
Staten Island
Bob Margaret
$400 [25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew takes apart a microphone.) A basic part of any microphone is this thin metal disk that vibrates in response to sound; it's also a body part
diaphragm
$400 [7]
Rhyming name of the classic tropical cocktail of rum, curacao & lime juice
a mai tai
Margaret
$400 [2]
Iron pyrite
fool's gold
Peter
$600 [23]
Speechwriters for this 38th president often used "atomic" so he wouldn't say "nucular"
Ford
Peter
$600 [19]
"Unalienable rights" include "life, liberty" & the "White Album"'s ode to firearms
the pursuit of happiness is a warm gun
Margaret Peter
$600 [13]
Sophisticated young Ralph Lifshitz (later Lauren) found it a zoo
the Bronx
Bob
$600 [26]
Ancient Romans called this flatfish "Jupiter's sandal"
sole
Margaret
$600 [8]
Head to Asia for this cocktail of gin, cherry brandy, sugar & water
a Singapore sling
Peter
$600 [3]
"Speedy" term for McDonald's, etc.
fast food
Bob
$800 [29]
The St. Petersburg Times reports this Florida senator, a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, said, "It doesn't pronounce the way it looks"
(Bob) Graham
Peter
$800 [20]
1964 No. 2 hit that says, "Do you promise not to tell" that I'm a spy
"Do You Want To Know A Secret Agent"
DD $1,000 [14]
Author Betty Smith's borough of birth
Brooklyn
Bob
$800 [28]
It equals 30.48 centimeters
a foot
Bob
$800 [9]
If you don't add the salt to a salty dog, you have this other "canine" cocktail
a greyhound
$800 [4]
From the Italian for "clowning", it's a 7-letter word for a person given to clowning & joking
buffoon
Bob Margaret Peter
$1,000 [30]
On the PBS News Hour, Les Aspin, this president's Secretary of Defense, shot off "nucular" weapons
Clinton
Bob
$1,000 [21]
Take this sad song, a 1968 No. 1, & Thomas Hardy's last novel & make it better
"Hey Jude The Obscure"
Peter
$1,000 [15]
Before moving to "The O.C.", Peter Gallagher debuted at Lenox Hill Hospital here
Manhattan
Bob
$1,000 [27]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds a jacketless copy of Jane Austen's Persuasion.) To some, books are like people--maybe that's why some of their parts have names like head, spine &this partthat connects the spine & cover
the joint
Bob
$1,000 [10]
One cover story in the magazine devoted to & named for this liquor was "The Birth of Blending"
whiskey
Bob Margaret
$1,000 [5]
"Essence of Emeril" is a favorite show on this cable TV channel
the Food Network
Peter

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BRITISH ISLES GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT THE REAL ADAMS FAMILY THE "UN"CATEGORY HITTING A HOMER WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL
$400 [8]
Lough Neagh, about 20 miles west of this Northern Ireland capital, is the largest lake in the British Isles
Belfast
Bob
$400 [18]
Tim Robbins wrote & starred in "Bob Roberts"; Tom Robbins wrote "Even" these "Get the Blues"
Cowgirls
Peter
$400 [13]
Let's drink a beer to the memory of this man who died in Boston Oct. 2, 1803, aged 81
Sam Adams
Bob
$400 [1]
The totality of all matter & energy in space
the universe
Bob
$400 [23]
Hers was the face that launched a thousand ships
Helen of Troy
Margaret
$400 [3]
It took this team 88 years, but in 2005 they took it to the Astros & swept to victory in the World Series
the Chicago White Sox
Bob
$800 [9]
On a clear day you can see France from a castle named for this seaport in the county of Kent
Dover Castle
$800 [19]
Maz Azaria created the fashion line BCBG; Hilly Krystal founded this NYC underground music club
CBGB
Margaret
$800 [14]
In 1900 Brooks Adams predicted that in 50 years these countries would be the world's 2 main powers
the United States & Russia
Bob
$800 [2]
A mortician or funeral director
an undertaker
Peter
$800 [24]
In the "Iliad", he was the greatest of the Greek warriors
Achilles
Peter
$800 [5]
In 2006 this team will play in the newly built Busch Stadium, their third home field to carry that name
the Cardinals
Margaret
$1,200 [10]
This island group that lies just north of the Scottish mainland was known to classical writers as the Orcades
the Orkney Islands
Margaret
$1,200 [20]
The Book of Kells dates from about 800 A.D.; "The Story of My Life", which dates from 1902, is the book of her
Helen Keller
Bob
$1,200 [15]
On becoming president, he said he was "less possessed of your confidence... than any of my predecessors"
John Quincy Adams
Margaret
$1,200 [4]
A freshman or a sophomore, when spoken of as "below" a senior or junior
an underclassman
Peter
$1,200 [28]
Brother to Paris, he was the greatest of the Trojan warriors
Hector
Bob
$1,200 [25]
We bet you know that he's Major League Baseball's all-time singles leader at 3,215
Pete Rose
Margaret
$1,600 [11]
Based on its name, you might want to wear a sweater while walking along the coast of this largest Welsh bay
Cardigan Bay
Bob
$1,600 [21]
Harvard is a school; this is a mild cheese once known as Danish tilsit
Havarti
$1,600 [16]
Henry Adams lived in this city, & there's a memorial to his wife Clover in Rock Creek Cemetery there
Washington, D.C.
Bob
$1,600 [6]
The first commercially available electronic computer
UNIVAC
Bob
$1,600 [29]
The king of Troy & husband to Hecuba
Priam
Bob
$2,000 [27]
Commissioner Bud Selig is a former owner of this Midwestern Major League Baseball team
the Brewers
Peter
$2,000 [12]
This low mountain range has been called the "backbone of England"
the Pennine Range
$2,000 [22]
Bilirubin is a bile pigment; Robert Rubin was Secretary of this, 1995-1999
the Treasury
Bob
$2,000 [17]
In 1848 Charles Francis Adams was on the ticket of this 2-word party formed to oppose the extension of slavery
the Free Soil Party
Bob
DD $2,000 [7]
From the Latin for "small claw", it's a generic term for a hoofed mammal
ungulate
Bob
$2,000 [30]
Leader of the Greek armies, he was murdered by his own wife after the war
Agamemnon
Bob
DD $3,000 [26]
In 1975 this ballplayer was awarded the NAACP's prestigious Spingarn Medal
Hank Aaron
Margaret

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

This word that has come to mean "sudden prosperity" means "good weather" in Spanish

bonanza

Margaret "What bueno tiempo?" — wagered $4,200
Peter "What is benefactor" — wagered $1,500
Bob "What is Benifit" — wagered $4,801

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