Show #3989 2001-12-27 (taped 2001-12-02) Kids Week

2001 Holiday Kids Week game 4.(Cheryl: I'm Cheryl of the Clue Crew at theNatural History Museumof Los Angeles County. Shhh!Jeopardy!'s beenbugged--next.)

Contestants

Emily Kamm — a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia

Michael Glick — a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York

Meredith Dedopoulos — a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Meredith $2,400 $5,000 $9,300 $11,300
2nd place: $1,000 shopping spree at HPShopping.com & trip to Oahu, Hawaii with stay at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki
$10,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $2,600 $4,400 $7,200 $4,400
3rd place: $1,000 shopping spree at HPShopping.com & trip to Oahu, Hawaii with stay at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki
$7,200
11 R, 0 W
Emily $3,200 $6,600 $25,200 $35,200
Winner: $35,200 & trip to Oahu, Hawaii with stay at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki
$25,000
26 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER LET'S GO A-CAROLING WHAT'S THE BUG IDEA? EAT YOUR VEGGIES! TIME FOR LEFTOVERS MUSHY STUFF
$200 [16]
Dec. 17, 1903: These brothers make the first successful powered flight
Wright Brothers
Emily
$200 [11]
"We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas and" this
a happy new year
Emily
$200 [6]
Found worldwide this insect has legs adapted for jumping
grasshopper
Emily
$200 [1]
When microwaving a whole potato, do this to it so it doesn't explode
poke a hole in it
Emily
$200 [21]
Of Harvard, USC or Yale, the one that's not an Ivy League college
USC
Meredith
$200 [26]
A peck & a smooch are different names for this
kiss
Meredith
$400 [17]
December 25th, 1776: This American general seenhereleads an important surprise attack
George Washington
Emily
$400 [12]
It's what we're to "deck the halls" with
boughs of holly
Meredith
$400 [7]
It's not a butterfly but this flyer seen here:
moth
Michael
$400 [2]
If chives were chive talkin' they'd mention they were part of this veggie's family
onions
Michael
$400 [22]
In a famous work by Herman Melville, Moby Dick is this kind of animal
whale
Meredith
$400 [27]
Now a symbol of love, the ancient Greeks thought it was the center of your intelligence
heart
Emily
$600 [18]
Dec. 16, 1963: Zanzibar & Kenya become the 112th & 113th members of this world organization
United Nations
Emily
$600 [13]
"On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me three" of these
French hens
Meredith
$600 [8]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew with a creature on her arm.) The emperor variety of this stinging critter is uh, making a move on me
scorpion
Meredith
$600 [3]
Garlic bulbs are broken up into segments called these for cooking
cloves
Emily
$600 [23]
Of apatosaurus, tyrannosaurus or thesaurus, the one that's not a dinosaur
thesaurus
Meredith
DD $600 [30]
When the kids in "Peter Pan" are called this, it could be an endearment or just their last name
Darling
Meredith
$800 [19]
Dec. 11, 1951: Joe DiMaggio retires from pro baseball after 13 years playing for this New York team
Yankees
Michael
$800 [14]
In German this traditional yuletide favorite is titled "O Tannenbaum"
"O Christmas Tree"
Michael
$800 [9]
It's the religious predator seen here:
praying mantis
Meredith
$800 [4]
An L.A. Times correction on March 29, 2001 reported that one of these it had shown as edible can be poisonous
mushroom
$800 [24]
A king once ruled in what is now this U.S. state found in the Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Emily
$800 [29]
An emotional celebration may include the "group" type of this embrace
(group) hug
Meredith
$1,000 [20]
Dec. 18, 1787: New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify this important U.S. document
the Constitution
Emily
$1,000 [15]
In 929 this "Good King" of song, who was actually a duke, was murdered by his wicked younger brother
King Wenceslas
Emily
$1,000 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew with a creature on his hand.) Similar to the centipede this segmented arthropod can probably count to a thousand all by itself
millipede
Emily
$1,000 [5]
All out of pumpkins? You can substitute the butternut type of this in recipes
squash
Michael
$1,000 [25]
Native to a region of Croatia it's the dog breed seen here:
dalmatian
Michael
$1,000 [28]
These first two lines of a lot of mushy poems mention the flowers seen here:
Roses are red, violets are blue
Meredith

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC BATTLES BODIES OF WATER NARESH, MY E-PAL MUPPET MOVIES U.S. GOVERNMENT THE "N" ZONE
$400 [1]
Admiral Nelson's 1798 defeat of the French is a called the battle of this Egyptian river
Nile
Meredith
$400 [12]
Sharing its name with a state, it's the only one of the Great Lakes entirely within the U.S.
Lake Michigan
Michael
$400 [22]
Naresh lives in India, so his e-mail address includes this 2-letter country code
in
Emily
$400 [17]
In "The Muppet Christmas Carol" Michael Caine plays this miserly character
(Ebenezer) Scrooge
Michael
$400 [7]
Members of the House of Representatives serve terms of this many years
2
Emily
$400 [2]
It can be a lump of gold or a bite-size piece of chicken
nugget
Michael
$1,600 [26]
On Oct. 14, 1066 Anglo-Saxon King Harold II was killed at the Battle of Hastings against this "Conqueror"
William the Conqueror
DD $700 [15]
Iraq & Kuwait lie at the northern end of this gulf where a war broke out in 1991
Persian
Meredith
$800 [23]
For dessert Naresh loves barfi, a type of this often chocolate candy that we serve hot on sundaes
fudge
Michael
$800 [18]
In "Muppet Treasure Island", this character plays Benjamina Gunn, queen of the island's warthogs
Miss Piggy
Emily
$800 [8]
The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama is run by this U.S. agency
NASA
Emily
$800 [3]
This land is the setting for a series of books beginning with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"
Narnia
Meredith Michael
$2,000 [25]
8 Minutemen were killed by the British before they retreated in this first battle of the American Revolution
Battle of Lexington
Emily
$800 [13]
The Gulf of Mexico is actually an arm of this second-largest ocean
Atlantic
Meredith
$1,600 [27]
In Calcutta Naresh once saw Mother Teresa, one of these religious women who helped the poor
nuns
Emily
$1,200 [19]
The gang hope to sing & dance on Broadway when "The Muppets Take" this title place
Manhattan
Emily
DD $1,400 [9]
When a bill reaches the President's desk, he may approve & sign it, do nothing, or do this
veto
Emily
$1,200 [4]
This large city in Africa is Kenya's capital
Nairobi
Emily
$1,200 [14]
This nearly 4,000-mile-long river begins high in the Andes Mountains
Amazon
Meredith
$2,000 [24]
Naresh practices this, the main religion of India, & tells me all about karma & reincarnation
Hinduism
Emily
$1,600 [20]
This Muppet goes to Grouchland in search of his lost fuzzy blue blanket
Elmo
Emily
$1,600 [10]
Donald Rumsfeld has served as Secretary of this twice: once under Gerald Ford & now under George W. Bush
Defense
Emily
$1,600 [5]
It's the central part of an atom, or part of the head of a comet
nucleus
Emily
$2,000 [16]
This "stately" river forms the boundary between New York & Pennsylvania
Delaware
$2,000 [21]
Gonzo receives extraterrestrial messages from his breakfast cereal in this film
Muppets from Space
$2,000 [11]
This document served as our basic charter of government from 1781 until the Constitution in 1789
Articles of Confederation
Emily
$2,000 [6]
In a work of fiction, it's the term for the person who tells the story
narrator
Meredith

Final Jeopardy!

STATE SYMBOLS

Appropriately, the mayflower is the official flower of this state

Massachusetts

Michael "What is Pennsylvania" — wagered $2,800
Meredith "What is Massachusetts" — wagered $2,000
Emily "What is Massachusetts?" — wagered $10,000

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