Show #4979 2006-04-13 (taped 2006-03-10) Regular

Contestants

Raena de Silvia — an artist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Brian Lamb — a middle school teacher from Bakersfield, California

Melissa Ahart — a librarian originally from Oswego, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Melissa $0 $400 $4,000 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$4,000
6 R, 2 W
Brian $5,600 $9,200 $22,000 $20,000
New champion: $20,000
$18,800
25 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Raena $2,600 $1,200 $7,600 $7,199
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

1956 LET'S GET MARRIED IN VEGAS! AN OCCUPATION, OR... ANAGRAMMED CANADIAN CITIES YOU DO KNOW JACK "FIT"NESS
$200 [7]
Pius XII okayed transplanting these eye parts from dead people but vetoed monkey-gland rejuvenation
corneas
Brian
$200 [16]
In Vegas to marry Alana Collins in 1972, he probably spent some time tanning poolside
George Hamilton
Raena
$200 [26]
A maker of bread to earn some dough, or a code word used in communications to represent the letter B
baker
Raena
$200 [2]
C'est magnifique:LEMON RAT
Montreal
Brian
$200 [1]
This popular radio & TV comedian began in vaudeville at the age of 17 as a violinist
Jack Benny
Raena
$200 [21]
It's where you try on clothes in a store
a fitting room
Brian
$400 [8]
Ex-drummer boy Albert Woolson, the last survivor of this over 2-million-man army, died in Duluth aged 109
the Union Army
Brian
$400 [17]
Maiden name of the blushing bride seenhereafter her 1967 wedding at the Aladdin
(Priscilla) Beaulieu
Brian
$400 [27]
A mender of pots, kettles & pans, or a Cubs shortstop of yore
tinker
Melissa
$400 [12]
Oh, man, it's in Manitoba:GIN IN PEW
Winnipeg
Raena
$400 [3]
In the 1950s at age 16 this young golfer won the Ohio Open
Jack Nicklaus
Raena
$400 [22]
This is the surplus left to an employer after deducting wages, rent & cost of raw materials
profit
Raena
$600 [9]
This Democratic presidential candidate only carried 7 states--all in the South
(Adlai) Stevenson
Brian
$600 [18]
This acting couple, married at the El Rancho Jan. 29, 1958, celebrated their 48th anniversary in 2006
Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward
Brian
$600 [28]
A maker or mender of clothes, or a verb meaning "to customize"
tailor
Brian
$600 [13]
B.C.-ing you there:NOVA CURVE
Vancouver
Raena
$600 [4]
The personification of very cold wintry weather
Jack Frost
Brian
$600 [23]
This legendary early film director had the given names David Wark
D.W. Griffith
Raena
$800 [10]
One thing that led to this crisis named for a waterway was attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip
the Suez Crisis
Brian
$800 [19]
A year after Kelly Ripa married him at the Chapel of the Bells, their characters tied the knot on "All My Children"
Mark Consuelos
Raena
$800 [29]
An enlisted man, or a specialized ant with powerful jaws to defend the colony from invaders
soldier
Brian
$800 [14]
My hometown:BUS RUDY
Sudbury
$800 [5]
A former presidential cabinet secretary, in the '60s he was a quarterback for the Buffalo Bills
Jack Kemp
Brian
$1,000 [25]
Duck or goose cooked & preserved in its own fat
confit
Raena
$1,000 [11]
George Metalious was fired as a small-town principal the year of the small-town expose "Peyton Place" by this wife
Grace (Metalious)
Raena
$1,000 [20]
He's the blushing groom seenhereafter his 1967 wedding at the Riviera
Roger Smith
$1,000 [30]
The work of Kim Philby & "Harriet", or to catch sight of suddenly
spy
Brian
$1,000 [15]
Cowboys love it:LACY RAG
Calgary
Brian
$1,000 [6]
Some call this controversial Michigan physician "Dr. Death"
Jack Kevorkian
Brian
DD $3,000 [24]
Greek mercenaries used a Cypriot dialect to put this on the Sphinx
graffiti
Raena

Double Jeopardy! Round

MELANCHOLY SITES OF FORMER GRANDEUR WE "LOVE" TELEVISION FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE HARSH DIAGNOSIS BEFORE & AFTER FITNESS
$400 [11]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Hammershus Fortress on Bornholm Island, Denmark.) Thedisrepairof the once mighty 13th century Hammershus Fortress comes from having been used as this type of resource for rocks
a quarry
Brian
$400 [2]
Hooray for Captain Stubing, who was played by Gavin MacLeod on this series
The Love Boat
Raena
$400 [1]
"The Winter's..."
Tale
Brian
$400 [16]
A painful sensation in your esophagus? Sounds like this "cardiac" term, also called pyrosis
heartburn
Brian Raena
$400 [18]
Classic Bette Davis movie chronicling the life of the TV star who played Jan Brady
All About Eve Plumb
Brian
$400 [23]
This type of physical discipline means "union" in Sanskrit
yoga
Melissa
$800 [12]
Amid the wreckage of this city's capitol, Edward Gibbon decided to write of its decline & fall
Rome
Brian
$800 [7]
"All's fair in" these 2 things, also the title of a Susan Dey sitcom
Love & War
Raena
$800 [3]
"The Tragedy of Hamlet..."
Prince of Denmark
Raena
$800 [17]
Good Lord! It's a severe case of halitosis, this alliterative condition! I need a case of Mentos, stat!
bad breath
Raena
$1,200 [20]
Henry James-D.H. Lawrence work in which an American woman goes to Europe & has an affair with a gamekeeper
The Portrait of a Lady Chatterley's Lover
$800 [24]
It's an intensive fitness program, or a Navy & Marine training period; stars of the film "Jarhead" went through both
boot camp
Raena
$1,200 [13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.) With more than 60 known tombs, the Valley of the Kings was part of this ancient city the Greeks called Diaspolis
Thebes
Melissa Raena
$1,200 [8]
In the title of yet another Susan Dey series, this phrase followed "Loves Me"
Loves Me Not
Raena
$1,200 [4]
"Pericles..."
Prince of Tyre
Raena
$1,200 [27]
I'm sorry to say you have this ocular abscess known medically as a hordeolum
a stye
$1,600 [21]
James Joyce novel that becomes a musical whose characters include Stephen Dedalus, Aldonza & Sancho Panza
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man of La Mancha
Melissa
$1,200 [25]
Ultra-endurance athlete Johnny G created this indoor cycling workout
spinning
Brian
$1,600 [14]
In the 1400s the temple complex of Angkor in this present country was abandoned & the jungle crept in
Cambodia
Melissa Raena
$1,600 [9]
What can you say about a '50s game show with the same name (sob) as this Erich Segal novel
Love Story
Brian
$1,600 [5]
"Twelfth Night, or..."
What You Will
Melissa
$1,600 [28]
You have this-tococcal tonsillitis, caused by beta-hemolytic this-tococci, so no yelling
strep
Melissa Raena
$2,000 [22]
Judith Krantz royally bloomed with this Henry James heroine
Princess Daisy Miller
$2,000 [30]
Capoeira, developed in this country in the 1500s, has become a popular dance & martial arts class
Brazil
Melissa
$2,000 [15]
(Jon of the Clue Crew gives the clue under arches in Visby, Sweden.) Sweden's island city of Visby, once the trade center of northern Europe, is alliteratively called "The City of"these melancholy items "and Roses"
Ruins
$2,000 [10]
This classic Sinatra hit served as the theme song for "Married... with Children"
"Love And Marriage"
Raena
$2,000 [6]
"The Third Part of King..."
Henry VI
$2,000 [29]
Bad news & good news--you have hypertension, but the minoxidil will also help your alopecia, this
hair loss (baldness)
Brian
DD $3,000 [19]
Stephen Hawking's 1988 bio of the universe that was a No. 1 hit for Jim Croce
"A Brief History Of Time In A Bottle"
Brian
DD $2,600 [26]
The name of this meditative exercise & martial art comes from Chinese words for "fist of the great absolute"
tai chi
Brian

Final Jeopardy!

'60s NOVELS' FIRST LINES

It begins, "Amerigo Bonasera... waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter"

The Godfather

Melissa "What is Love in the Time of Cholera?" — wagered $3,998
Raena "What is The Carpetbagger" — wagered $401
Brian "What is no idea?" — wagered $2,000

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