Show #4999 2006-05-11 (taped 2006-04-10) Tournament of Champions

2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Bob Mesko — an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado

David Madden — a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey

Michael Falk — a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Michael	$4,600	$6,400	$14,000	$14,000 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$13,800 18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
David	$1,200	$5,400	$23,000	$28,001 Automatic semifinalist	$20,200 22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Bob	$1,400	$4,000	$10,400	$14,400 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$10,400 14 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE NEW YORK TIMESBUSINESS	LOVE SONGS IN GERMAN	FIRST IN OUR HEARTS	IT'S NOT ALEX TREBEK	SCIENCE BRIEFS	RATED "R"
$200 [22] Union Pacific, HP & this Atlanta-based beverage company voted to impose limits on executive severance packages Coca-Cola Michael	$200 [21] Sonny & Cher:"Ich Hab Dich Babe" "I Got You Babe" Bob	$200 [27] The first U.S. coin with the likeness of a president was this coin based on a photo taken in Mathew Brady's studio (the Lincoln) penny Michael	$200 [11] It's not me in the photo seen here, but it isthis1972 nominee Spiro Agnew David Bob	$200 [1] An MMR vaccine stands for these 3 things it treats measles, mumps, & rubella Michael	$200 [6] The Haymarket Square Riot came out of a strike against a company that made these farm machines reapers Michael
$400 [23] This retailer's stock went up when it merged with Kmart, but it has room to improve operationally Sears Michael	$400 [20] The Partridge Family:"Ich Denke Ich Liebe Dich" "I Think I Love You" David	$400 [28] The first of these in the U.S. was for a potash process & was signed by Washington & Jefferson a patent Michael	$400 [12] It's not me, it's this character, who spoke if you pulled a few strings Charlie McCarthy David	$400 [2] "K" can stand for kelvin or for this type of energy, from the Greek for "to move" kinetic Michael	$400 [7] It's the practice of engaging in bootlegging or extortion, for example racketeering Bob
$600 [24] Wal-Mart has been compared to this early grocery chain whose name goes back to 2 oceans A&P David	$600 [19] The Captain & Tennille:"Liebe Halt Uns Zusammen" "Love Will Keep Us Together" David	$600 [29] The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was made by this Italian-American physicist in 1942 Fermi Michael	$600 [16] Despite the uncanny resemblance in the photo seen here, it's actually this Russian born in 1870 Lenin Bob	$600 [3] Conceived around 1686, "G" is known as this man's constant Newton David	$600 [8] (Kelly of the Clue Crew works out on a machine in the gym.) I'm doing exercises to strengthen this group of four shoulder muscles; damaging it could be deadly for my pitching career the rotator cuff David
$800 [25] This oil company with record profits of $36 billion in 2005 appears to have a gradual liquidity strategy ExxonMobil David	$800 [14] Stevie Wonder:"Sie Sind Der Sonnenschein Meines Lebens" "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" Bob	$800 [30] The first of these cast for a woman was Roger MacBride's, going to 1972 Libertarian V.P. candidate Theodora Nathan an Electoral College vote David	$800 [17] It's not me in the photobut this man, who was second in his class at West Point in 1829 Robert E. Lee Bob	DD $1,000 [4] This symbol for the element mercury is downright Wellsian Hg Michael	$800 [9] Sculptor Constantin Brancusi was born in this Eastern European nation Romania Michael
$1,000 [26] A Times writer's "Scandalot" featured Maurice Greenberg, who resigned as CEO of this insurance giant AIG Bob	$1,000 [13] Joe Cocker:"Sie Sind So Schon" "You Are So Beautiful" David	$1,000 [15] Having no reeds, pipes or vibrating parts, this man's 1935 organ was the first of its kind (Laurens) Hammond Michael	$1,000 [18] It's not me seen here, it's this World War II-era British politician Neville Chamberlain David	$1,000 [5] The unit of magnetic flux density, abbreviated "T", is named for this scientist (Nikola) Tesla Michael	$1,000 [10] (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from in front of a statue in West Point, NY.) West Point cadets struggling academically come to spin these on General Sedwig's spurs for better luck the rowels

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS	OFF-BROADWAY	RIDDLE ME THIS	"T" BIRDS	AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH	QUOTATIONS
$400 [6] It's served by Keflavik Airport Reykjavik David	$400 [30] This Baldwin brother was extremely entertaining in the 2006 revival of "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" Alec Baldwin	$400 [21] He used the strength of his mind when he proposed a riddle to the Philistines in Judges 14 Samson David	$400 [12] Common species of this duck include blue-winged, green-winged & cinnamon the teal David	$400 [1] As a child, Joseph Conrad pointed to the center of this continent on a map & said, "I shall go there" Africa Bob	$400 [17] In 1981 he quipped, "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans" Ronald Reagan Bob
$800 [16] It has a museum devoted to composer Zoltan Kodaly Budapest David	$800 [29] "Red Light Winter" centers on a love triangle that begins in the famous Red Light District of this European city Amsterdam Michael	$800 [22] Sphinx: What animal walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon & 3 in the evening? Oedipus: This man Bob	$800 [11] Toco, the largest species of this colorful bird of the American tropics, may have a 7-inch bill a toucan Bob	$800 [2] Poet Gregory Corso went on the beat path after meeting this poet in a Greenwich Village bar in 1950 Allen Ginsberg Michael	$800 [19] In his prime this athlete said, It's hard to be humble "when you're as great as I am" Muhammad Ali David
$1,200 [15] It's home to the Holmenkollen ski jump Oslo David	$1,200 [28] We'd like to "enlighten" you about the musical "Sidd"; it's based on this novel Siddhartha David	$1,200 [23] He created the musical riddles called the "Enigma Variations" (Edward) Elgar Michael	$1,200 [8] One species of this bird breeds in the Arctic tundra & "vacations" at the other end of the globe a tern David	$1,200 [3] In his teens he worked in an assistant D.A.'s office; later his Perry Mason character made fools of D.A.s (Erle Stanley) Gardner Michael	$1,600 [20] A motto of hers was "in politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman" (Margaret) Thatcher Michael
$2,000 [14] It's on the Suriname River Paramaribo Michael	$1,600 [27] A naughty 18th c. novel originally titled "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" inspired the 2006 musical named for her Fanny Hill	$1,600 [24] If this riddling Belgian surrealist painter, born 1898 worked for "Jeopardy!", he might write, "This is not a clue" Magritte David	$1,600 [9] Nightingales & robins belong to this family of melodious songbirds thrushes Bob	$1,600 [4] Her hotsy-totsy diaries trace back to one she began as an 11-year-old aboard ship in 1914 Anaïs Nin Bob	$2,000 [18] From Ft. Sill, Okla. he made the plea, "Arizona is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to... return" Geronimo David
DD $3,400 [7] Guyanese capital named for a Hanoverian monarch Georgetown David	$2,000 [26] In 2006 the cast of this long-running hit embarked onan exuberant & noisy campaignto clean up New York City Stomp Bob	$2,000 [25] This Puccini opera turns on the solution to 3 riddles posed by the heroine Turandot Bob	$2,000 [10] In North America this term is properly applied to only 4 species that are crested, including the tufted a titmouse David	$2,000 [5] In Penny Lane, where this "Hellraiser" grew up, the barber shaves another customer--then flays him alive! Clive Barker	DD $2,200 [13] Oscar Wilde called this 4-letter word "the curse of the drinking classes" work David

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NAMES

A silent movie title includes the last name of this 18th c. statesman & favorite of Catherine the Great

Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin

Bob "Who is Potemkin" — wagered $4,000

Michael "Who was Boris Gudenov?" — wagered $0

David "Who is Potemkin?" — wagered $5,001

« Back to Games