Show #5454 - Thursday, May 1, 2008

Tom Morris game 3.

Contestants

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Melanie Harrington, a business analyst from Vancouver, Washington

Paul Thomas, a theater technician from Hollywood, Florida

Tom Morris, a retailer and student from Irvine, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $50,001)

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Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY INVENTORS
TOM TIME
A WORLD OF BEER
ALL ABOUT PRESIDENTS
CHICAGO FUN & SUNDRY FACTS
CROSSWORD CLUES "C"
    $200 16
In 1880 he invented the photophone, which transmitted speech via light waves
    $200 1
Cuba Gooding's Oscar acceptance speech included this man! "I love you, brother!"
    $200 2
Beck's
    $200 21
The shop at Monticello sells coffee mugs adorned with his quotation "I cannot live without books"
    $200 26
This TV drama is set at Chicago's Cook County General Hospital
    $200 11
Have a bawl
(3)
    $400 17
In 1854 he demonstrated his elevator safety device by ascending in an elevator & having the rope cut
    $400 7
He & his band were runnin' down a dream as the halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl in 2008
    $400 3
Asahi
    $400 22
Zachary Taylor disapproved of his daughter Sarah's 1835 marriage to this future Confederate president
    $400 27
Born in 1861, this Chicago businessman was known as "Monarch of Mastication"
    $400 12
Number cruncher
(10)
    DD: $2,000 18
In 1863 this Swede developed a detonator for nitroglycerin that used shock rather than heat
    $600 8
In addition to techno-thrillers, he's also written such nonfiction works as "Submarine" & "Fighter Wing"
    $600 4
Foster's
    $600 23
He wrote more than 1,300 letters to Bess; their 9-year courtship was called his longest campaign
    $600 28
This amusement park ride premiered at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893
    $600 13
"Googly" sport
(7)
    $800 19
He conceived the idea of his revolver pistol by observing a ship's capstan on a voyage to India in 1830
    $800 9
In 2003 this Pennsylvanian became a presidential cabinet member
    $800 5
Harp
    $800 24
His parents gave him a sailboat for his 15th birthday; he loved sailing it from the family compound on Cape Cod
    $800 29
In 1979 this Chicago Bear linebacking great was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
    $800 14
Kit's partner
(8)
    $1000 20
In 1837 he developed the steel plow & tested it on Lewis Crandall's farm near Grand Detour, Illinois
    $1000 10
"Ambushing the audience is what theater is all about", asserted this author of "The Real Thing"
    $1000 6
Labatt
    $1000 25
After serving as U.S. president, Millard Fillmore became president of the historical society in this upstate N.Y. city
    $1000 30
Jesse James had a vendetta out for this Chicago detective whose men had killed his 8-year-old half-brother
    $1000 15
To burst into flame
(7)

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Tom Paul Melanie
$4,800 $3,000 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Paul Melanie
$9,600 $8,200 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS
TV & FILM FOOD
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS
MAJOR
QUOTATIONS
10-LETTER WORDS
    $400 1
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew walks with a robotic Stegosaurus.) You might encounter a real Stegosaurus if you can go back to the late part of this geological period, a good one for dinosaurs
    $400 11
On this TV show, Dan Aykroyd pitched a timesaving cooking device known as a Bass-O-Matic
    $400 16
Hamlet tells her, "Get thee to a nunnery"
    $400 17
In 1933 this major became the aide to Gen. MacArthur; later, he would become Supreme Allied Commander
    $400 26
James Thurber observed, "It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all" of these
    $400 6
A decorative item on a ship's prow, or a leader with a title but no power
    $800 2
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is stalked by a giant robot T. rex.) Until the recent discovery of the Gigantotasaurus fossil, 3 tons bigger, T. rex was thought to be the largest dinosaur of this dietary class... aaaagh!
    $800 12
It's the nickname for "Seinfeld" character Yev Kasem, a role based on a real NYC cook
    $800 19
When he first contemplates the murder of Duncan, he says its "horrid image doth unfix my hair"
    $800 18
In the 1860s Major John Wesley Powell led a pioneering Grand Canyon expedition on this river
    $800 27
On signing the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, this Egyptian said, "Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights"
    $800 7
This big adjective comes from Rabelais' giant king
    $1200 3
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a robot Stegosaurus.) The Stegosaurus' plates could have been used in mating, may have been for defensive purposes, or may have served as living solar panels and helped the dinosaur regulate this
    $1200 13
This Muppet celebrity once opined, "Never eat more than you can lift"
    $1200 20
This villain tells Roderigo, "Now, sir, be judge yourself whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor"
    $1200 23
In 1655 this Lord Protector of England appointed major generals to combat royalist uprisings
    $1200 28
Jacqueline Roque said of him, "If my husband ever met a woman... who looked like one of his paintings, he would faint"
    $1200 8
In a children's song, this bird "sits in the old gum tree"
    DD: $4,000 4
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Named for its cattle-like horns, this 9-tonner whose name means "bull lizard" had the largest head of any known land animal
    $1600 14
This 2004 film about Miles & Jack boosted sales of pinot noir wine
    $1600 21
Julius Caesar observes that this man "has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous"
    $1600 24
Benedict Arnold is in the basement of St. Mary's Battersea; this major & contact of his lies in Westminster Abbey
    $1600 29
In 1939 Churchill said the action of Russia "is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside" this
    $1600 9
Slow down, as in a car
    $2000 5
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) If a bite that could puncture a car roof wasn't enough, T. rex's teeth have recesses where these live; if the bite didn't kill you, the infection would
    $2000 15
The title character chugs raw eggs & punches slabs of beef in this 1976 Oscar winner
    $2000 22
The first name spoken in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is that of this Amazon queen
    $2000 25
It's the Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera where an old major general sings his "modern" song
    $2000 30
Paine's seasonal phrase that precedes "and the sunshine patriot will... shrink from the service of their country"
    DD: $2,000 10
From the Latin for "sugar", this adjective means sugary or exaggeratedly sentimental

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Paul Melanie
$16,000 $24,600 $7,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES
Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds"

Final scores:

Tom Paul Melanie
$31,999 $32,001 $14,000
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $32,001 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Tom Paul Melanie
$16,000 $20,800 $7,000
25 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W		 11 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $43,800

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