Show #4857 - Tuesday, October 25, 2005

(Kelly: We're here in wonderful Copenhagen celebrating 200 years of Hans Christian Andersen. Join us, next on Jeopardy!)

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Diane Mettam, a pastor from Independence, California

Chris Jones, a loan consultant from Chalfont, Pennsylvania

John Kelly, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,601)

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Jeopardy! Round

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
(Alex: We're celebrating his bicentennial this year.)
ABBA-SOLUTELY FABULOUS
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME
THE BRADY BRUNCH
SPEECH! SPEECH!
OH, BE "SILENT"!
    $200 12
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the statue of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark.) In the original story, the prince never knew how much the Little Mermaid loved him because the Sea Witch had taken this away
    $200 16
Made up of Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson, ABBA hails from this country
    $200 3
Blackmun,
Houdini,
Cohn
    $200 11
"Oh, my nose!", Marcia exclaimed, after bumping into the oven door & causing this light, fluffy egg dish to fall flat
    $200 22
In a 1991 speech this ex-president endorsed the Brady gun-control bill
    $200 1
In German it begins, "Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!"
    $400 13
H.C. Andersen is often compared to this title character of his, who felt unloved until he made a big discovery
    $400 25
"See that girl, watch that scene, dig in" this ABBA title teen
    $400 4
Reynolds,
Allen,
Harry
    $400 15
A hungry Peter keeps mentioning these & applesauce, sweetheart (like in one famous episode)
    $400 23
He gave the plea for mercy speech at Leopold & Loeb's trial on August 22, 1924
    $400 2
Sale in which bids are submitted in sealed envelopes
    $600 14
(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Nyhavn, Denmark.) Hans Christian Andersen lived at several addresses here in Nyhavn, a nautical neighborhood whose name means "new" this
    $600 26
It was the end for Napoleon but this song was the beginning for ABBA, marking its first foray into the Top 40
    $600 5
Bergen,
Degas,
Winter
    $600 19
Jan impressed the family by making the blueberry-filled type of these Jewish pancakes
    DD: $2,800 24
On July 4, 1939 he gave a famous farewell speech in the Bronx
    $600 7
Richard Nixon identified this large group that chooses not to express its views publicly
    $800 17
Andersen's early fairy tales include this one that inspired the musical "Once Upon a Mattress"
    $800 27
In the spring of 1999 this show featuring the songs of ABBA premiered in London
    $800 6
Halley,
Muskie,
Burke
    $800 20
When no one was looking, Cindy & Bobby tried to sneak a sip of this orange juice & champagne cocktail
    $800 29
In a 1922 speech he declared, "Nonviolence is the first article of my faith"
    $800 8
Ironically, Marcel Marceau has the only line of dialogue in this film
    $1000 18
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark.) A visit to Tivoli in its very first season in 1843 inspired Andersen to write this, which he called his "Chinese fairy tale"
    $1000 28
ABBA hit the Top 40 for the third time in 1975 with this 3-letter palindrome
    $1000 10
Klesko,
Longwell,
Gosling
    $1000 21
Alice chopped up lots of vegetables for this Italian omelet that resembles a large pancake
    $1000 30
In 1848, in this New York town, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, "The right is ours. Have it, we must. Use it, we will"
    $1000 9
It's a small container with a hinged lid used to collect crumbs or ashes from the dinner table

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

John Chris Diane
$2,400 $600 $4,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

John Chris Diane
$6,000 $2,200 $8,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS
MOVIES TO THE MAX
ALMOST ASSASSINATED
AMERICAN WOMEN
FURRED, FEATHERED, FINNED
THE "O.C."
    $400 3
By population, it's the largest capital in the Western Hemisphere
    $400 2
Max Detweiler is the impresario character who enters a family in music festival in this beloved 1965 film
    $400 22
February 13, 1933 after making a speech in Miami
    $400 13
"Brooklyn Bridge" was one of the last of her NYC paintings before she moved permanently to New Mexico
    $400 17
The brown type of this pouched bird plunges from the air to fish; the white one scoops up fish as it swims
    $400 7
These crispy snacks were created for a certain mollusk soup
    $800 9
This capital is located on Luzon Island
    $800 1
Laurence Olivier starred as Maxim de Winter in this film, but no one played the title role
    $800 23
May 12, 1982 on a visit to the famous shrine in Fatima, Portugal
    $800 27
6 years after Chuck Yeager, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to do this
    $800 18
The mulgara of Queensland is among the carnivorous members of this order
    $800 8
This type of fabric often used for shirts is named for a city northwest of London
    $1200 14
The famous Gold Museum in this Colombian capital houses a large collection of pre-Columbian gold objects
    $1200 4
This former TV Hillbilly directed the 1976 film "Ode to Billie Joe"
    $1200 24
September 5, 1975 while greeting a crowd in Sacramento, California
    $1200 30
(Hi, I'm Bob Woodward,) One of the most influential women of the 20th century, she was publisher of the Washington Post from 1969 to 1979 & CEO until 1991
    $1200 19
The dogfish is a small type of this fish, & one dogfish is also called the "Greenland" one
    $1200 10
Me, him & her are examples of this form of a pronoun
    $1600 15
The world's largest govt. building after the Pentagon is this city's Parliament Palace, built by Ceausescu
    $1600 5
He directed a 1984 documentary about Marlene Dietrich, his co-star in "Judgment at Nuremberg"
    DD: $2,800 25
August 22, 1962 when his limousine was attacked near Paris
    $1600 29
Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, won for this category in 1950
    DD: $2,500 20
It can be a 1/6-inch printer's unit, or (spelled differently) a 7- or 8-inch furred creature
    $1600 11
He was Jackie Kennedy's official White House designer
    $2000 16
It may ring a bell that this capital of Belize also starts with "Bel"
    $2000 6
In 1935 this great German stage director brought "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to the screen
    $2000 26
October 14, 1912 on his way to a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    $2000 28
Elected in 1993, she's the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate
    $2000 21
The dorsal spines give this fish seen here its name
    $2000 12
This Latin abbreviation is used in footnotes

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

John Chris Diane
$12,300 $7,000 $11,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS
This organization pledges it will strive for "clearer thinking... greater loyalty... larger service, and... better living" in that order

Final scores:

John Chris Diane
$1,799 $4,400 $19,400
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $19,400

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

John Chris Diane
$12,600 $9,800 $11,400
18 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)
15 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)
17 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $33,800

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Game tape date: 2005-08-03
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