Show #3982 2001-12-18 (taped 2001-10-22) Regular

Champion's winnings matched to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund ($10,000 minimum).

Contestants

Timothy Mahoney — a development officer originally from Detroit, Michigan

Denese Edsall — an equal opportunity manager from Hollywood, Florida

Dana Greenblatt — a graduate student originally from Toledo, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $36,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dana $1,400 $4,000 $7,000 $3,500
2nd place: trip to Ireland + a subscription to The New York Times
$7,800
15 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Denese $1,400 $2,000 $5,200 $0
3rd place: trip to Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas + a subscription to The New York Times
$4,400
9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Timothy $1,600 $6,800 $10,000 $15,000
New champion: $15,000
$10,000
20 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST THINGS FIRST U.S. CITIES THAT'S WHAT MAKES HORSE RACES TAKING THE BAR EXAM "B" ON THE LOOKOUT CHRISTMAS RAPPINGS
$200 [18]
In 1982 Bertha Wilson became this western hemisphere nation's first female supreme court justice
Canada
Timothy
$200 [1]
In 1700 its population of 4,500 consisted of a large number of Quakers professing "brotherly love"
Philadelphia
Dana
$200 [26]
A maiden is a horse that has never done this (no not that)
won a race
Timothy
$200 [12]
Skyy, Wolfschmitt, Smirnoff
vodka
Dana
$200 [11]
It's the stellar grouping seen here
Big Dipper
Timothy
$200 [6]
A No. 1 hit in '52/ M.C. Trebek is tellin' you/ I don't remember dissin' him/ But "I saw mommy kissing" him
Santa Claus
Dana
$400 [19]
Elton John's first U.S. No. 1 hit was this "reptilian" song rom 1972
"Crocodile Rock"
Timothy
$400 [2]
About 1/4 of the 540,000 people of this city work for the state of Texas
Austin
Timothy
$400 [27]
This type of short whip used by jockeys has a cameo in the movie "9 1/2 Weeks"
crop
Dana
$400 [14]
Beaujolais, Liebfraumilch, Zinfandel
wine
Dana
$400 [13]
Edible flower heads of this vegetable may be purple or white as well
broccoli
Denese
$400 [7]
I'm the reindeer kids adore/ Burl Ives told my tale in '64/ Got a nose that you can't miss/ Call it out, my name is this
Rudolph
Denese
$600 [20]
In 1961 Soviet space officials held the first radio talks with a man in space, this cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin
Timothy
$600 [3]
Between 1990 & 1996, the population of this seat of Clark county grew 46% & "odds are" it's still growing
Las Vegas
Denese
$600 [28]
The name of this distance measurement comes from Old English for "furrow"
furlong
Denese
$600 [15]
Bengal, Fleischmann's, Gordon's
gin
Timothy
$600 [23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a card.) Get in touch with this writing system seen here
Braille
Timothy
$600 [8]
He's green, he's mean/ A Christmas-stealing machine/ & that's not even worst of all/ It's that his heart's "2 sizes too small"
the Grinch
Dana
$800 [21]
As the site of the world's first hydrogen bomb blasts, scientists treasure this "swimsuit" isle
Bikini
Timothy
DD $600 [5]
It was laid out in 1847 in a grid pattern based on the 4 streets around Temple Square
Salt Lake City, Utah
Dana
$800 [16]
Mickey's, Olde English "800", Colt 45
malt liquor
Dana
$800 [24]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew climbs a rock-climbing wall.) As a noun, it's a large rock; as a rock-climbing verb, it means to take an easy route close to the ground
boulder
Timothy
$800 [9]
Someone had to be his voice/ Jackie Vernon was the choice/ Jackie really nailed the role/ Of this "jolly happy soul"
Frosty the Snowman
Timothy
$1,000 [22]
(Hey, it's Gary Dell'Abate from The Howard Stern Show.) Before producing Howard's show I attended Adelphi University, which in 1896 became the first co-educational college in this state
New York
Dana Timothy
$800 [4]
General Cornwallis called this city a "hornet's nest", hence the name of its NBA team
Charlotte
Dana Timothy
$1,000 [17]
Masuizumi, Narimasa, Wakatsuru
sake
Timothy
$1,000 [25]
Born in Russia, this statesman seenheresigned an important Middle East treaty in 1979
Menachem Begin
Timothy
$1,000 [10]
He sang "Fame" but here's the thing/ He "pa rum pum pum pum"ed with (M.C.) Bing
David Bowie
Timothy

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL PEOPLE THAT ZANY SCREWBALL COMEDY FAMOUS HOMES 17th CENTURY AMERICA "OLD" SCHOOL
$400 [1]
She asked Samson, "Tell me, I pray there, wherein thy great strength lieth"
Delilah
Denese
$400 [6]
Heiress was a common job for screwball-comedy women like this actress in "It Happened One Night"
Claudette Colbert
Dana
$400 [16]
The house that inspired this Grant Wood painting still stands in Eldon, Iowa
American Gothic
Dana
DD $200 [23]
In January 1636 this clergyman fled Massachusetts & settled in the Narragansett Bay area
Roger Williams
Dana
$400 [11]
Proverbially, these "never die, they just fade away"
old soldiers
Timothy
$800 [2]
This second child of David & Bathsheba was appointed by David as "ruler over Israel and over Judah"
Solomon
Denese
$800 [7]
This 1972 O'Neal-Streisand film was an attempt to revive the screwball genre
What's Up Doc?
Timothy
$800 [17]
In 1942 Fiorello LaGuardia became the first New York City mayor to live in this official residence
Gracie Mansion
Timothy
$400 [21]
On May 13, 1607 it was founded by more than 100 colonists on the "River of Powhatan"
Jamestown
Denese
$800 [12]
General Patton's sanguine nickname
Old Blood & Guts
Dana
$1,600 [4]
This man from Arimathea wrapped Jesus' body in linen & laid him in his tomb
Joseph
Denese
$1,200 [8]
This actor seenheredidn't get the girl in several classic comedies
Ralph Bellamy
Dana
$1,200 [18]
This baseball player's childhood home on Emory Street in Baltimore serves as the Orioles' official museum
Babe Ruth
Timothy
$800 [22]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew holds a plastic jack-o-lantern.) Prithee, tell a maiden this name for the religion of the pilgrims from their wish to cleanse the church
Puritan
Dana
$1,200 [13]
Dickens' title "Shop"
The Old Curiosity Shop
Timothy
DD $2,000 [3]
Fittingly, this disciple was born in the town of Bethsaida-Julias, whose name means "house of the fisherman"
Simon Peter
Denese
$1,600 [9]
"His Girl Friday" was a whirlwind version of this Hecht-MacArthur newspaper play
(The) Front Page
Dana Timothy
$1,600 [19]
Built by her grandparents around 1813, her home was probably the first brick house in Amherst, Mass.
Dickinson
Timothy
$1,600 [24]
In 1675 he was admitted to Harvard at the age of 12 while his father Increase was a fellow there
Cotton Mather
Dana Timothy
$1,600 [14]
The original title of "Swanee River"
"Old Folks at Home"
$2,000 [5]
Although other women were prophets, she was the only known woman to ever judge Israel
Deborah
Dana
$2,000 [10]
He directed comedy classics like "Twentieth Century" as well as "Red River", "The Big Sleep", etc.
Howard Hawks
Denese
$2,000 [20]
In 1942 this residence across the street from the White House became the property of the U.S. government
Blair House
Timothy
$2,000 [25]
After arriving in America, the Pilgrims signed a mutual peace treaty with this chief of the Wampanoag tribe
Massasoit
$2,000 [15]
Period of ancient Egyptian history when Memphis was the capital
The Old Kingdom

Final Jeopardy!

COLONIAL TRADE

The Dutch traded New York to the British for a tiny island producing this, now mainly used at Christmastime

nutmeg

Denese "What are pine trees?" — wagered $5,200
Dana "What is mistletoe" — wagered $3,500
Timothy "What is nutmeg?" — wagered $5,000

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