Show #3974 2001-12-06 (taped 2001-09-05) Regular

Kathy Cassity game 4.

Contestants

Mittie Boyer — a business analyst from New Orleans, Louisiana

Brian Scheetz — a mortgage banker from Arlington, Virginia

Kathy Cassity — a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii (whose 3-day cash winnings total $36,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kathy $4,200 $4,400 $15,600 $23,200
4-day champion: $59,200
$15,600
23 R, 4 W
Brian $2,200 $2,800 $11,600 $22,600
2nd place: Trip to Madrid, Spain
$11,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Mittie $1,400 $1,400 $3,600 $3,700
3rd place: Trip to Hilton Hawaiian Village, Oahu
$3,400
6 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIRDS' SCIENTIFIC NAMES DOC TALK HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPS CAMILLA "PARK"ER BOWLS
$200 [26]
Continent where you'd find the teal Amazonetta brasiliensis
South America
Kathy
$200 [1]
A doctor should check your BP, this vital sign
blood pressure
Kathy
$200 [19]
In 1964 he won the first of his 3 world heavyweight boxing titles, defeating Sonny Liston by a TKO
Muhammad Ali
Kathy
$200 [12]
Camilla Parker Bowles was born Camilla Shand on July 17, 1947 in this world capital
London
Kathy
$200 [11]
The official rules say that nothing happens on this space in Monopoly--it is merely a resting place
free parking
Brian
$200 [6]
This nursery rhyme guy knew how to party; he called for his pipe, his bowl & 3 fiddlers for some tunes
Old King Cole
Kathy
$400 [27]
Its Latin name indicates that Egretta alba is this color
white
Kathy Brian
$400 [2]
A complaint of S.O.B. means shortness of this
breath
Kathy
$400 [22]
Known for poking fun at his eating habits in TV commercials, he regained his heavyweight crown at age 45 in 1994
George Foreman
Brian
$400 [17]
In an irony to end all ironies, Prince Charles proposed to this woman in 1981 on the grounds of Camilla's estate
Lady Diana Spencer
Kathy
$400 [13]
A news database search got 609 hits over 2 years with the words "hurricane" & this type of camp that provides utilities
trailer park
$400 [7]
After catching his wife with the mailman, this TV title man bought the Stuckey Bowl bowling alley; wouldn't you?
Ed
Brian
$600 [28]
Apteryx australis, it's actually confined to New Zealand
kiwi
Brian
$600 [3]
If you have a GSW, you have this type of wound (& get to a hospital, quick!)
gunshot wound
Mittie
$600 [23]
Between 1937 & 1942, he successfully defended his heavyweight title 21 times
Joe Louis
Brian
$600 [18]
What Prince Charles is to Camilla's first-born son, or the title of a 1969 novel about Don Corleone
"The Godfather"
Brian
$600 [14]
She's the civil rights pioneer seen here
Rosa Parks
Kathy
$600 [8]
This columnist who wrote "If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" died in 1996
Erma Bombeck
Brian
DD $800 [29]
Merops apiaster is an "eater" of these insects
bees
Brian
$800 [4]
It's the C in a C-section
Caesarean
Kathy
$800 [24]
This former heavyweight champ failed to regain his title against Gene Tunney in 1927's "Battle of the Long Count"
Jack Dempsey
$800 [20]
At Prince Charles' 50th birthday party, he & Camilla danced (perhaps prophetically?) to this "regal" 1977 hit by ABBA
"Dancing Queen"
Kathy
$800 [15]
Also known as shaking palsy, it was first described in 1817
Parkinson's disease
Kathy
$800 [9]
"The Grapes of Wrath" showed the plight of Oklahoma migrants from this 1930s Midwest region
the Dust Bowl
Mittie
$1,000 [5]
AMA can mean "against" this
medical advice
Brian
$1,000 [25]
Ingemar Johansson won the heavyweight title from him in 1959, but lost 2 rematches
Floyd Patterson
$1,000 [21]
Camilla's great-grandmother, Alice Keppel, was a mistress of this early 20th century king, seen here
Edward VII
Kathy
$1,000 [16]
This "moony" name of several amusement areas began when the founder of one named it after his sister
Luna Park
$1,000 [10]
"The Golden Bowl" was the last novel by this "Daisy Miller" author
Henry James
Kathy

Double Jeopardy! Round

WWI THE MOVIES LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "M" BY GEORGE! INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WORDS FOR WORDS
$400 [2]
In his war address to Congress, President Wilson said, "The world must be made safe for" this
democracy
Kathy
$400 [1]
He went from waterboy to football star in 1998's "The Waterboy"
Adam Sandler
Brian
$400 [3]
Tea party adjective(3)
mad
Kathy Mittie
$400 [15]
This actor's film credits include "The Hustler", "Dr. Strangelove" & "Patton"
George C. Scott
Mittie
$400 [17]
The Turkish capital city known as this was once known as Angora
Ankara
Kathy
$400 [22]
Don't & can't are these; time how long between them to know whether you're in labor
contractions
Mittie
$800 [6]
In the 2nd Battle of Ypres, the Germans used chlorine gas; at the 3rd Battle, they introduced this gas
mustard gas
Kathy Brian
$800 [4]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew is in New York.) The Plaza Hotel was featured in this 1959 Hitchcock movie that starred Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint
North by Northwest
$800 [11]
Crimes "in the Rue Morgue"(7)
Murders
Kathy
$800 [26]
He's the only man to have served as U.S. president & U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
George H.W. Bush
Kathy
$800 [18]
Now the largest city in Sicily, this metropolis was founded in the 8th C. B.C. by the Phoenicians
Palermo
Kathy
DD $1,000 [23]
From the Latin nominare, "to name", it's an inaccurate designation
misnomer
Mittie
$1,200 [7]
In September 1916 the British rolled out this new secret weapon on the Somme front
the tank
Brian
$1,200 [5]
Marilyn Monroe's toe gets caught in a bathroom faucet in this 1955 classic
The Seven Year Itch
Brian
$1,200 [12]
Maugham paired it with "Sixpence"(4)
Moon
Kathy
$1,200 [28]
He's the former presidential candidate seen here
George Wallace
Kathy
$1,200 [19]
The westernmost mainland country in Africa, its capital is Dakar
Senegal
Brian
$1,200 [24]
The verb "to typewrite" from "typewriter" is an example of this type of "formation"
back-formation
$1,600 [8]
During a "Welcome U.S. Soldiers" celebration in Paris July 4, 1917 Col. C.E. Stanton made this famous 4-word statement
"Lafayette, we are here!"
$1,600 [10]
(Sofia again is in the Big Apple, this time on a subway.) In this 1990 film, Patrick Swayze jumped from subway train to subway train
Ghost
Kathy
$1,600 [13]
What the "Little Women" called their mother(6)
Marmee
$1,600 [29]
Yes sir, he received the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the European recovery plan
George Marshall
Kathy
$1,600 [20]
Mandalay, one of the largest cities & inland river ports of this country, lies on the Irrawaddy River
Myanmar (formerly Burma)
Kathy
$1,600 [25]
A line from "Citizen Kane" might be an RKO-ism; this similar-sounding term refers to an outdated word
archaism
Brian
DD $2,800 [9]
WWI's first declaration of war was July 28, 1914 when Austria-Hungary declared war on this country
Serbia
Brian
$2,000 [16]
Elmer Bernstein did the classic music for this movie in which Steve McQueen flees Nazis on a motorcycle
The Great Escape
Brian
$2,000 [14]
Lady Chatterley's lover(7)
Mellors
$2,000 [21]
It's the country where you'll find the cities of Granma, Cienfuegos & Camaguey
Cuba
$2,000 [27]
On the same page as "epitaph" in the dictionary, it can be a characterizing word or an abusive one
epithet
Kathy

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY

Engineers Jerry Yang & David Filo chose this name for their company in 1994; it's what each considered himself

Yahoo!

Mittie "What is Yahoo?" — wagered $100
Brian "What is Yahoo?" — wagered $11,000
Kathy "What is Yahoo?" — wagered $7,600

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