Show #4090 2002-05-17 (taped 2002-01-29) Regular

Ben Tritle game 2.

Contestants

Trey Morris — a medical student from Lubbock, Texas

Melanie Evans — a librarian from Boston, Massachusetts

Ben Tritle — an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben $3,400 $4,400 $15,000 $26,001
2-day champion: $32,601
$15,600
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Melanie $800 $6,200 $13,000 $25,500
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
17 R, 2 W
Trey $1,600 $4,400 $7,200 $7,201
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NEW ENGLAND MY PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT LANGUAGES RELIGION JOE-PARDY! "EEL" OF FORTUNE
$200 [1]
Hartford & Bridgeport are important cities in this state
Connecticut
Trey
$200 [26]
To do list... oh yeah, pick up my clothes from this establishment that uses perchloroethylene
dry cleaner
Melanie
$200 [6]
"Hauoli makahiki hou" means "happy new year" in this language of the Pacific
Hawaiian
Trey
$200 [11]
One who has memorized the complete text of this Muslim holy book is known as a hafiz
Koran
Trey
$200 [21]
In 1975's "Thrilla in Manila" Muhammad Ali defeated him
Joe Frazier
Ben
$200 [14]
Fruit skin
peel
Ben
$400 [2]
In 1670 Dorothy Jones received the first license to sell coffee in this current state capital
Boston
Melanie
$400 [27]
The calculator shows that with interest rates down, I ought to do this to lower my monthly mortgage payments
refinance
Trey
$400 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates with her ring finger and middle finger bent down to her palm.) It's the three-word phrase expressedherein American Sign Language
I love you
Ben
$400 [12]
Traditional marriages in this religion occur under a huppa, a canopy that symbolizes union of bride & groom
Judaism
Melanie
$400 [22]
Seen here, he first hit the trenches in 1964
G.I. Joe
Melanie
$400 [15]
Bread end
heel
Trey
$600 [3]
The official name of this state includes the phrase "and Providence Plantations"
Rhode Island
Ben
$600 [28]
Let's check the date book--got a 10:30 game of this, developed around 1950 as a cross between squash & handball
racquetball
Trey
$600 [8]
Languages from this country include Assamese, Gujurati & Punjabi
India
Ben
$600 [13]
From 1512 to 1546, this leader of the Reformation taught theology at Wittenberg University
Martin Luther
Ben
$600 [23]
Legendary Joe Paterno has coached this school's football team for 36 years
Penn State
Melanie
$600 [17]
Boat bottom
keel
Melanie
$800 [4]
Nicknamed "The Pine Tree State", it became the 23rd state in 1820 after separating from Massachusetts
Maine
Trey
$800 [29]
I'll use my 3-hour stopover to email my travel agent not to route me through this busiest NYC airport
JFK
Melanie
$800 [9]
"Obrigado" means thank you in this Iberian language spoken by about 190 million people worldwide
Portuguese
Trey
$800 [16]
According to Buddhist belief, people who attain this, literally "extinction", have perfect peace & blessedness
nirvana
Ben
$800 [24]
He teamed with William Hanna to produce "The Flintsones"
Joe Barbera
Melanie
$800 [18]
Fishing line holder
reel
Trey
$1,000 [5]
These "colorful" mountains in New Hampshire are named for their snow-capped peaks
White Mountains
Ben
$1,000 [30]
The world clock reads noon in L.A., so I can catch Geoff at 8 a.m. tomorrow in this New Zealand capital
Wellington
Melanie
DD $1,000 [10]
It's the only Central American country with English as an official language
Belize
Trey
$1,000 [19]
We know this Chinese philosopher by his Latinized name, which means "great master Kong"
Confucius
Melanie
$1,000 [25]
In a 1979 film Meryl Streep seduces fallen politician Alan Alda in "The Seduction of" this man
Joe Tynan
$1,000 [20]
Iron alloy
steel
Trey

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY THE TV VAULT CAPITAL CITY BIRTHPLACES JUST TO THE RIGHT EUROPEAN ART TELL ME "Y"
$400 [21]
In 1947 George Raft starred in "Intrigue" & Thor Heyerdahl intrigued the world with this raft
Kon-Tiki
Ben
$400 [1]
This show that featured a dingbat debuted in 1971
All in the Family
Ben Trey
$400 [23]
Hideki Tojo
Tokyo
Trey
$400 [7]
During a Carnac sketch, he was usually on Carnac's right
Ed McMahon
Ben
$400 [5]
Seen here, Dieric Bouts' version of this event was painted about 30 years before Leonardo's
the Last Supper
Ben
$400 [15]
In 2001 this university celebrated its 300th anniversary
Yale
Melanie
$800 [22]
At the start of the 20th century Indonesia was under this country's rule
the Netherlands
Melanie Trey
$800 [2]
It's the TV show that gave the world the classic catchphrase "Da plane! Da plane!"
Fantasy Island
Ben
DD $600 [29]
Trygve Lie
Oslo
Ben
$800 [8]
In the zodiac look to the right of the weapon-wielding Sagittarius to find this creature
Scorpio
Melanie
$800 [10]
In the 1400s this cloth surface became popular with painters in Venice, where the dampness peeled paint off walls
canvas
Trey
$800 [16]
It contains 2 types of bacteria: Streptococcus thermophilus & Lactobacillus bulgaricus; & we actually eat it!
yogurt
Trey
$1,200 [25]
Nickname given the quintet of senators associated with the 1980s saving & loan scandal
Keating Five
Trey
$1,200 [3]
Heather Locklear played police captain's daughter Stacy Sheridan on this series
T.J. Hooker
Ben
$800 [24]
Albert Gore, Jr.
Washington, D.C.
Ben Trey
$1,200 [9]
At the start of a chess game, it's your piece just to the right of the white king
bishop
Ben Trey
$1,200 [11]
A main cause of the early 20th c. Dadaist movement was artists being bummed out about this 4-year-long event
World War I
Ben Trey
$1,200 [17]
In China it's also known as the Chang Jiang or "long river"
Yangtze
Melanie
$1,600 [26]
Sacco & Vanzetti got the chair when found guilty of robbing & killing 2 workmen at one of these factories
shoe factory
Trey
$1,600 [4]
A sleestack could tell you that 2 kids & a forest ranger went back to pre-historic times on this TV show
Land of the Lost
Melanie
$1,200 [28]
Juan Gris
Madrid
Ben
$1,600 [14]
On a QWERTY typewriter keyboard, it's the key just to the right of the "Y"
U
Ben
DD $2,000 [12]
An 1898 exhibition in Amsterdam devoted to this old master has been called the first blockbuster art show
Rembrandt
Trey
$1,600 [18]
This peninsula separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea
Yucatan
Melanie
$2,000 [27]
After FDR dumped him as Vice President, he was made Secretary of Commerce
Henry Wallace
Trey
$2,000 [6]
Ken Howard played inner city high school basketball coach Ken Reeves on this late '70s TV series
The White Shadow
Ben
$2,000 [30]
Raoul Wallenberg
Stockholm
Melanie Trey
$2,000 [20]
On the periodic table, this gas is just to the right of nitrogen
oxygen
Ben
$2,000 [13]
The artist whose work you can make outherewas known in Italy as Gherardo della Notte, Gerrit of this
of the night
Melanie Trey
$2,000 [19]
Hebrew for "act of sitting", it's a school or college for the study of the Talmud
yeshiva
Melanie

Final Jeopardy!

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

In a popular '90s bestseller, this hero replaces Roger Durling as President of the United States

Jack Ryan

Trey "Who is Jack Ryan?" — wagered $1
Melanie "Who is Jack Ryan?" — wagered $12,500
Ben "Who is Jack Ryan?" — wagered $11,001

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