Show #4954 2006-03-09 Regular

Contestants

Mary Danieli — a library technician from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Denise Hay — a high school administrator and teacher from Crystal Lake, Illinois

Randy Logan — a high school English teacher from Mesquite, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Randy $3,800 $4,000 $11,100 $12,400
2-day champion: $31,200
$9,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Denise $2,200 $5,400 $12,200 $5,200
3rd place: $1,000
$11,400
13 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Mary $600 $1,200 $4,400 $5,800
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
13 R, 8 W

Jeopardy! Round

ETHNIC GROUPS GAME SHOW CATCHPHRASES TEDDY ROOSEVELT SPEAKS ANOTHER WORD IN THESAURUS GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66
$200 [21]
New Zealand's ethnicity is about 70% European & 8% this native group
Maori
Randy
$200 [11]
"I'd like to buy a vowel"
Wheel of Fortune
Randy
$200 [1]
TR told a Progressive Party rally in 1912, "I am as strong as" one of these animals "and you can use me to the limit"
a bull moose
Randy Denise Mary
$200 [6]
One religion makes up about 65% of this state's population
Utah
Randy
$200 [16]
In slang, to kick this 6-letter container is to die
the bucket
Mary
$200 [25]
In Anglo-Saxon times, this land measurement referred to a parcel 66 feet wide & 660 feet long
an acre
$400 [22]
This country's 2 largest ethnic groups are Javanese & Sundanese
Indonesia
Mary
$400 [12]
"Come on down!"
The Price is Right
Randy
$400 [2]
Teddy called the White House a "bully" one of these
pulpit
Randy
$400 [7]
When you "make" this, you go with speed
haste
Denise
$400 [17]
These high-kicking honeys are the signature performers at Radio City Music Hall
the Rockettes
Randy
$400 [26]
The 66 counties of this northern U.S. state include Custer & Minnehaha
South Dakota
Randy Denise Mary
$600 [23]
Monegasques are in the minority in Monaco; this is its top ethnic group
the French
Mary
$600 [13]
"I'd like to phone a friend"
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Randy
$600 [3]
In a 1911 speech Teddy declared, "I took" this zone "and let Congress debate"
the Panama Canal Zone
$800 [9]
A joining of the edges of a wound by a stitch
suture
Randy
$600 [18]
The longest of these in NFL history was a 98-yarder by Steve O'Neal for the New York Jets in 1969
a punt
$600 [27]
There are 66 books in this version of the Bible first published in 1611
the King James Version
Mary
$800 [24]
The Azeris in Iran had the rug pulled out from under them because this is the No. 1 ethnic group
Persian
Denise
$800 [14]
"I'll take Paul Lynde to block"
Hollywood Squares
Mary
$800 [4]
In 1904 TR said, "If elected, I shall see to it that every man has" this type of "deal, no less and no more"
a square deal
DD $1,000 [8]
In 1978 India stopped exporting this type of monkey to scientific labs around the world
Rhesus
Denise
$800 [19]
In official racing events, this swimming stroke traditionally makes use of the frog kick
the breaststroke
Denise
$800 [28]
When Armenian king Tigran II was defeated in 66 B.C., his land became part of this empire
the Roman Empire
Mary
$1,000 [30]
At around 20% in each country, this ethnic group is the largest minority in both Turkey & Iraq
the Kurds
Mary
$1,000 [15]
"Survey said!"
Family Feud
Randy
$1,000 [5]
Teddy Roosevelt reportedly said that this predecessor had "as much backbone as a chocolate eclair"
William McKinley
$1,000 [10]
Last name of the Pointillist artist who died in 1891 at age 31
Seurat
Denise
$1,000 [20]
Fast blows & kicks abound in this martial art whose name comes from Japanese words meaning "empty hand"
karate
Denise Mary
$1,000 [29]
As it has an atomic number of 66, the chemical element dysprosium has 66 of these in each atom
protons
Denise

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY FILMS OF THE '50s HEMINGWAY WORKS IN OTHER WORDS HEY, MUSCLES! IT'S ON "R" MAPS LET'S SPEAK RUSSIAN
$400 [1]
Enticed by a 1915 treaty giving it Trieste, this country joined WWI's Allies
Italy
$400 [16]
Jimmy Stewart has a broken leg when this film begins; at the end, his voyeurism gets him a second broken leg
Rear Window ( A Rear Window accepted)
Mary
$400 [7]
"Grandpa with Ocean"
The Old Man and the Sea
Mary
$400 [26]
Of 100, 300 or 600, the one closest to the total number of muscles in the human body
600
Randy Denise Mary
$400 [21]
Embankments have been built on this "colorful" 500-mile Vietnamese river to keep rice fields from flooding
the Red River
$400 [6]
Russian words for drinks include vodka & voda, which means this
water
Denise
$800 [2]
The 1568 martyrdom of the Comte d'Egmont began the Dutch revolt against Philip II of this country
Spain
Mary
$800 [17]
Frank Sinatra played lovable gambler Nathan Detroit in this 1955 movie musical
Guys & Dolls
Randy
$800 [12]
"So Long, Weaponry"
A Farewell to Arms
Denise
$800 [27]
On a cat, the arrector pili muscles along the back cause this response to stress
the hair stand up on the cat's back
$800 [22]
"The Photo Capital of the World", this city in New York is also the birthplace of American Spiritualism
Rochester
$800 [8]
Stop the presses--it's the Russian word for "truth"
pravda
Mary
$1,200 [3]
He captained the Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship, at Trafalgar (remember the quote)
Hardy
$1,200 [18]
Rich brothers William Holden & Humphrey Bogart vie for the chauffeur's daughter in this 1954 classic
Sabrina
Randy
$1,200 [13]
"One Transferable Banquet"
A Moveable Feast
Denise
$1,200 [28]
Inhaling & exhaling result mainly from the contraction & expansion of this dome-shaped muscle
the diaphragm
Randy
$1,200 [23]
It's "The Pretzel City", Pennsylvania, but you might call it the Monopoly railroad city
Reading
Denise
$1,200 [9]
Written out here, it's a familiar way to say "goodbye"
dosvidanya
Mary
$1,600 [4]
In the 700s, Pepin's widow Plectrude got hammered by Charles Martel vying for rule over these people
the Franks
Mary
$2,000 [20]
The 2 1950s films starring Grace Kelly with "High" in the title
High Society & High Noon
Mary
$1,600 [14]
"A Star Ascends As Well"
The Sun Also Rises
Denise
$1,600 [29]
Eeeeek! By definition, this muscle of the back of the arm has 3 heads
the triceps
DD $2,000 [24]
It's the East River location of the New York City jail
Riker's Island
Denise
$1,600 [10]
This Russian term for a sled drawn by 3 horses has made its way into English
troika
$2,000 [5]
In 1991, republics of the former Soviet Union formed the CIS, which stands for this
the Commonwealth of Independent States
Mary
DD $3,500 [19]
Alan Jay Lerner won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for this 1951 musical about an expatriate
An American in Paris
Randy
$2,000 [15]
"Extinction Following Lunch"
Death in the Afternoon
Mary
$2,000 [30]
This post-Hippocratic 2nd century Greek physician was the first to discover that muscles work in pairs
Galen
$2,000 [25]
In early 2002 Yasir Arafat was confined to his compound in this West Bank city
Ramallah
Mary
$2,000 [11]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls down a street in Moscow, Russia.) So that I could be polite in Russia, I made sure to learn puzhalusta for "please" & this basic word for "thank you"
spasiba

Final Jeopardy!

ISLANDS

Despite landmines dating from 1982, penguins use these islands for mating grounds, being too light to set them off

the Falkland Islands

Mary "What are the Falklands?" — wagered $1,400
Randy "What are The Falkland Islands?" — wagered $1,300
Denise "What is the Falklan Islds?" — wagered $7,000

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