Show #3979 2001-12-13 (taped 2001-09-06) Regular

(Jimmy: I'm Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the Porter Valley Country Club,making a splashtoday onJeopardy!)

Contestants

Neil Majors — a graduate student from Los Angeles, California

Catherine Skeen — a graduate student and mom from Chicago, Illinois

Tracy Bond Bird — a television and commercial announcer from Louisville, Kentucky (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tracy $1,400 $6,400 $15,600 $30,900
2-day champion: $54,100
$16,600
21 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Catherine $2,400 $6,600 $15,400 $15,400
2nd place: Trip to Mazatlan, Mexico
$17,400
23 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Neil $-400 $-400 $3,200 $200
3rd place: Trip to Argent Hotel, San Francisco
$5,200
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS THE JAPANESE THE NORTHERNMOST NATION FRANCHISES CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE
$200 [1]
Created from the earth, this man's name in Hebrew means "red earth"
Adam
Catherine
$200 [19]
In addition to winning 4 gold medals, he set 3 Olympic records at the 1936 Olympics
Jesse Owens
Catherine
$200 [24]
It's the "craving" that shares its name with the monetary unit of Japan
yen
Catherine
$200 [16]
Poland, England, Finland
Finland
Catherine
$200 [11]
Both Budget Rent-A-Car & this flapjack eatery were founded in 1958 & began franchising in 1960
IHOP (International House of Pancakes)
Catherine
$200 [6]
Boy, it was so quiet you could have heard...
a pin drop
Neil
$400 [2]
It's the numerical name for the principal works of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John
the four gospels
Tracy Catherine
$400 [20]
The darling of the 1972 games, this Soviet gymnast won gold after backflipping on the balance beam
Olga Korbut
Tracy
$400 [25]
There are 6 bashos or grand tournaments every year in this popular Japanese sport
sumo wrestling
Catherine
$400 [17]
Morocco, Mali, Mozambique
Morocco
Catherine
$400 [12]
Main product of both Papa Murphy's & Papa John's
Pizza
Tracy
$400 [7]
I can use whatever you bring me--it's all just...for the mill
grist
Tracy
$600 [3]
Matthew 10:34 recounts that Jesus, the Prince of Peace, "came not to send peace, but" this instead
a sword
$600 [21]
These 2 sisters-in-law have each won 3 Olympic gold medals in track & field events
Jackie Joyner-Kersee & Florence Griffith Joyner
Tracy
$600 [26]
After you perform this Japanese ritual suicide, a friend or kinsman is supposed to decapitate you
harakiri
Tracy
$600 [18]
Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina
Ecuador
Tracy Catherine
$800 [14]
Auntie Anne's Inc., a fast-growing franchise, sells the hand-rolled soft type of these treats
pretzels
Tracy
$600 [8]
You know what they say--it isn't..., it's the size of the fight in the dog
the size of the dog in the fight
Neil
$800 [4]
St. Paul attended a conference in Jerusalem to decide if this "cutting" practice was required
circumcision
Catherine
$800 [22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the pool.) I'm about to do a reverse 3 1/2 somersault dive just like this Olympic platform & springboard gold medalist
Greg Louganis
Catherine
$800 [27]
Name shared by Japan's prime minister of 1901 & the judge in the O.J. Simpson trial
Ito
Catherine
$800 [29]
Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan
Pakistan
Catherine
DD $1,000 [13]
New Orleans Magazine has voted this chicken chain's red beans & rice best 11 years running
Popeye's
Tracy
$800 [9]
Wow, you've taken care of it already?! You don't let the grass...
grow under your feet
Catherine
$1,000 [5]
In II Samuel he laments, "Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!"
David
Tracy
$1,000 [23]
In 1980 he won gold medals in all 5 men's speed skating events
Eric Heiden
Tracy
$1,000 [28]
This city was known as Kyongsong in 1911 when Japan controlled the Korean Peninsula
Seoul
Tracy
$1,000 [30]
Iraq, Yemen, Oman
Iraq
Catherine
$1,000 [15]
Food that fills in the blank in "The Great Steak & ____ Company"
Potato
$1,000 [10]
I know you want to say what you think, but you catch more flies with honey...
than with vinegar
Tracy

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN DRAMATISTS BIG SCREEN MILITARY MEN AWARDS & HONORS THAT'LL BE THE "DAY" WHEN YOU MAKE ME CRY
$400 [6]
His 1964 play "After the Fall" dealt with his relationship with Marilyn Monroe, to whom he was once married
Arthur Miller
Tracy
$400 [1]
1998:Matt Damon
Private Ryan
Catherine
$400 [26]
The Pen/Faulkner Award honors this category of American writing
fiction
Neil
$400 [16]
Changing from standard time to this time makes some folks angry every spring
daylight savings time
Catherine
$400 [7]
It's the tragic year the photo seenherewas snapped
1963
Tracy
$400 [21]
In a nursery rhyme, it's the type of animal that cries, "Wee, wee, wee, wee" all the way home
little piggy
Neil
$800 [12]
In the '30s this "Our Town" dramatist was a lecturer on literature at the University of Chicago
Thornton Wilder
Neil
$800 [2]
1941:Gary Cooper
Sergeant York
Tracy
$800 [30]
After campaigning against the nukes he developed, Andrei Sakharov didn't win the Nobel Physics Prize, but this one
Nobel Peace Prize
Neil
$800 [17]
Wiggle your toe if you know this man who won the Best Actor Oscar for 1989
Daniel Day-Lewis
Tracy
$800 [8]
The man seenhereled the "Storm" in this year
1991 (General Schwarzkopf)
Tracy Catherine
$800 [22]
In "A League of Their Own", he's the actor who delivers the line "There's no crying in baseball!"
Tom Hanks
Neil
$1,600 [14]
(Let's go to Sofia in Central Park.) This author of "The Heidi Chronicles" wrote the libretto for an opera set here at the Bethesda Fountain
Wendy Wasserstein
Catherine
$1,200 [3]
1979:Marlon Brando
Colonel Kurtz
Catherine
$1,200 [29]
Symbolizedhere, it's the oldest U.S. collegiate honor society
Phi Kappa Phi
Tracy
$1,200 [18]
180,000 dwell in this city southwest of Columbus & northeast of Cincinnati
Dayton
Neil
$1,200 [9]
Down the aisle they went in this year, the same year a new U.S. president took office
1981
Tracy Catherine
$1,200 [23]
In an Aesop fable a shepherd boy tests the patience of his village by repeatedly crying this
"Wolf!"
Neil
DD $2,000 [13]
His only comedy among his many plays was 1933's "Ah, Wilderness!"
Eugene O'Neill
Neil
DD $2,000 [4]
1989:Tom Cruise
Ron Kovic
Catherine
$1,600 [28]
Each year 5 Asian achievers are honored by the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation, based in this country
the Philippines
Tracy Catherine
$1,600 [19]
It can mean a wish or fantasy that is unlikely to be fulfilled
daydream
Tracy
$1,600 [10]
The haunting image seenherewas snapped in this year
1972
Tracy
$1,600 [24]
In Mark 1:3 John the Baptist is described as the voice of one crying in this
the wilderness
Catherine
$2,000 [15]
In 1935 he wrote "Waiting for Lefty" for a new Theatre League one-act play contest
Clifford Odets
Catherine
$2,000 [5]
1951 & 1953:James Mason
Erwin Rommel
$2,000 [27]
In 1985 people from IBM, Apple & Boeing won the first National Medals of this
Technology
$2,000 [20]
The Marx Brothers wreak havoc at a sanitorium in this 1937 release
A Day at the Races
Tracy
$2,000 [11]
After a 16-year exile, the man seenherereturned to his home country in this year
1979 (Ayatollah Khomeini)
Tracy
$2,000 [25]
1989's "Harlem Nights" featured this former talk show host as the "Crying Man"
Arsenio Hall
Tracy

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS

He's the only man elected vice president twice & elected president twice

Richard Nixon

Neil "Who is Adams?" — wagered $3,000
Catherine "Who is Cleveland?" — wagered $0
Tracy "Who is Richard Nixon" — wagered $15,300

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