Show #4959 2006-03-16 Regular

Contestants

Scott Gardiner — an Army lawyer from Tampa, Florida

Mike Hagesfeld — a software developer from Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Christine Black — an administrative assistant from Warwick, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Christine $2,400 $4,600 $9,400 $4,400
3rd place: $1,000
$9,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Mike $2,200 $4,400 $8,600 $13,999
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Scott $2,800 $3,000 $11,000 $18,801
New champion: $18,801
$9,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE COMEDY OF ERRORS TWELFTH NIGHT KING JOHN MEASURE FOR MEASURE AS YOU LIKE "IT"
$200 [1]
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is in this town; the theatre overlooks a river
Stratford-on-Avon
Scott
$200 [6]
To distract the media, Kevin Kline puts pratfall-prone Inspector Clouseau on the case in this 2006 movie
The Pink Panther
Mike
$200 [26]
Dealing with a beastly triple-header was this man's famous twelfth labor
Hercules
Mike
$200 [11]
John died in October 1216, probably still stewing over this document he'd agreed to 16 months before
the Magna Carta
Scott
$200 [21]
Small glasses behind the bar include the shot & this one used to measure out an ounce & a half
a jigger
Mike
$200 [16]
If you're in the mood for travel, you're said to have these feet
itchy
Mike
$400 [2]
"The Winter's Tale" has the memorable stage direction "Exit pursued by" this ursine beast
a bear
Christine
$400 [7]
Nicolas Cage & Holly Hunter perform a type of redistribution of baby wealth in this 1987 comedy
Raising Arizona
Mike
$400 [27]
The traditional present for your twelfth wedding anniversary is this fabric created by a type of moth larva
silk
Scott
$400 [12]
John outlawed Eustace the monk but had nothing to do with this fabled outlaw who's portrayed as his adversary
Robin Hood
Scott
$400 [22]
Measured in degrees, it's the angular distance north or south of the Earth's equator
latitude
Mike Scott
$400 [17]
Its territory includes the island of Elba
Italy
Christine
$600 [3]
Forget rotten; T.S. Eliot said "So far from being Shakespeare's masterpiece", it "is most certainly an artistic failure"
Hamlet
Mike
$600 [8]
Appropriately, it's this comedy in which Groucho as Prof. Wagstaff says,"I'd horsewhip you--if I had a horse"
Horse Feathers
Christine Scott
$600 [28]
Seen here, she represented New York's 12th District in the House of Representatives from 1969-1983
Shirley Chisholm
Scott
$600 [13]
When young John was lord of this island, he & his buddies rudely laughed at the beards of local chieftains
Ireland
Scott
$600 [23]
"Welcome to" this scale named for a child's structure; it's 1:12, 1 inch equaling 1 foot
dollhouse
Mike
$600 [18]
Novelty bikini ballad that hit the top of the charts in 1960
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"
Mike
$800 [4]
The line "All the world's a stage" may have been a reference to this theatre, home to Shakespeare's acting co. in 1599
the Globe Theatre
Christine
$800 [9]
A leopard is the "Baby" in the title of this screwball comedy starring Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn
Bringing Up Baby
Scott
$800 [29]
The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution concerns a revamping of this "college"
the Electoral College
Scott
$800 [14]
John supported this dashing brother & future king in his rebellion against their dad, Henry II
Richard the Lionhearted
Christine
$800 [24]
A hundredweight in the U.S. is 100 of these
a pound
Christine
$800 [19]
Fiddler Perlman
Itzhak
Mike
$1,000 [5]
One of Shakespeare's sisters had this name, the same as Will's wife
Anne
Christine
$1,000 [10]
1986 film in which Bette Midler exclaims to Helen Slater, "I'm being marked down... I've been kidnapped by Kmart!"
Ruthless People
$1,000 [30]
This twelfth U.S. president died in office, & his daughter married Jefferson Davis
Zachary Taylor
Scott
$1,000 [15]
As he controlled no territory in his youth, John was known as John "Lack-" this
land
Mike
DD $1,000 [25]
In gold content measurement, one karat is equal to this fraction of pure gold
1/24
Christine
$1,000 [20]
According to the Gospel of John in the King James Bible, they were the last 3 words spoken by Jesus on the Cross
"It is finished"
Scott

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS 1960s ROCK LYRICS DON QUIZ-OTE AIRLINE AD SLOGANS SURVIVORGEOGRAPHY SILENT "G"
$400 [1]
This African was a prisoner for 28 years, then a world leader for 5
Nelson Mandela
Mike
$400 [2]
"Come on baby let's do" this dance "take me by my little hand and go like this"
"The Twist"
Mike
$400 [12]
In 1963 he was a congressman from Illinois; in '75 he began his first stint as Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Scott
$400 [7]
"Something special in the air"
American Airlines
Christine Mike
$400 [26]
(Jeff Probst gives the clue from a rocky exotic locale.) "Survivor: Vanuatu" & "Survivor: Palau" both took place in this ocean
the Pacific Ocean
Scott
$400 [17]
This popular pasta dish consists of wide, flat noodles layered with meat, cheese & tomato sauce
lasagna
Christine
$1,200 [23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls through a shipyard in Gdansk, Poland.) I'm in what's in now simply called the Gdansk Shipyard; during Polish Communist rule, it was named for this man
Lenin
Scott
$800 [3]
In this 1965 hit, The Beatles sang, "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me"
"Yesterday"
Mike
$800 [13]
At age 28 he got NYC to build a convention center on the site of the Penn Central railyards
Donald Trump
Mike
$800 [8]
"The Wings of Italy"
Alitalia
Mike Scott
$800 [27]
(Jeff Probst delivers from near a small grove of trees.) The sixth "Survivor" was along this river that has more than 10 times the volume of flow of the Mississippi
the Amazon
Christine
$800 [18]
That's it, I'm giving up my position, I'm stepping down, I'm doing this
resigning
Scott
$1,600 [24]
Prime Minister of this country under President Banana, Robert Mugabe became its president in 1987
Zimbabwe
Mike
$1,200 [4]
"You know that it would be untrue, you know that I would be a liar" if we said this song wasn't a Doors hit
"Light My Fire"
Mike
$1,200 [14]
After quitting a 1950s series, he quipped, "When you've made 6 pictures and the mule still gets more fan mail..."
Donald O'Connor
Christine Mike
$1,200 [9]
"We love to fly and it shows"
Delta
Mike
$1,200 [28]
(Jeff Probst reads from near the thicket of trees again.) In 2005 "Survivor" went to the Maya Empire in this most populous Central American country
Guatemala
Scott
$1,200 [19]
Injurious to crops, it's a long period of dry weather with little rainfall
a drought
Mike
DD $2,000 [22]
In 1920, 1922, 1926 & 1990 this country had a president with Chamorro in his or her name
Nicaragua
Scott
$1,600 [5]
"On a cold and gray Chicago mornin', a poor little baby child is born" here, "and his mama cries"
"In The Ghetto"
Christine
$1,600 [15]
In 1938 he became the first player to win tennis' Grand Slam
Don Budge
Mike Scott
DD $1,400 [11]
"The world's favourite airline"
British Airways
Mike
$1,600 [29]
(Jeff Probst reads from near some foliage.) In the 2nd season, castaways made camp in the Outback of this"royal" Australian state
Queensland
Mike Scott
$1,600 [20]
It can mean kind & good-natured as well as non-cancerous
benign
Mike
$2,000 [25]
(Jimmy reads from the streets of Lubeck, Germany.)This Lubeck-born West German chancellor said, "I always carried a piece of Lubeck with me wherever I had to go"
Willy Brandt
$2,000 [6]
This "Sweet" Tommy James & the Shondells hit was "so stimulating, so intoxicating", "drink it right down"
"Sweet Cherry Wine"
$2,000 [16]
In 1967 this man's aircraft company merged with McDonnell Aircraft
(Donald) Douglas
Christine
$1,600 [10]
"We have to earn our wings every day"
Eastern
Christine
$2,000 [30]
(Jeff Probst for a final time.) In the 1st "Survivor", when you were voted off the island, it was Pulau Tiga, off Borneo, in this sea
the South China Sea
$2,000 [21]
Ring the bells & tell us the style of bed seen here
sleigh
Scott

Final Jeopardy!

FOOD LORE

In food lore, the design of this treat symbolizes arms folded in prayer & the 3 holes stand for the Trinity

the pretzel

Mike "What What is a pretzel?" — wagered $5,399
Christine "What is a hot cross bun?" — wagered $5,000
Scott "What is the Pretzel?" — wagered $7,801

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