Show #3999 2002-01-10 (taped 2001-10-29) Regular

Contestants

Jeremy Cohen — a television producer from Washington, D.C.

Valerie O'Brien — a Spanish instructor from Arlington, Virginia

David Bell — an advertising executive from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $44,199)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
David	$4,100	$5,100	$12,700	$3,700 2nd place: trip to Grand Cayman Islands by Yahoo! Travel	$12,000 21 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Valerie	$600	$2,800	$5,400	$1,400 3rd place: trip to San Francisco & stay at the Argent Hotel	$8,400 14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jeremy	$800	$2,200	$7,800	$5,500 New champion: $5,500	$7,800 10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ALICE IN WONDERLAND	SAILOR TALK	HISTORICAL COLLECT CALL FROM...	FOREIGN FUNDS	MUSIC MEN	VERB FIRST NAMES
$200 [13] The story began as a tale told to Alice Liddell & her sisters during a rowing trip on this river Thames Jeremy	$200 [1] Can't handle life on board? Don't have your sea legs? The others may call you a land-this lubber Valerie	$200 [19] Congratulate this writer on the 1585 birth of twins; a girl, Judith, & a boy named Hamnet Shakespeare David	$200 [2] The South Sandwich Islands like South London, use this currency pound Valerie	$200 [25] His rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was a highlight of Woodstock Jimi Hendrix David	$200 [4] To close one eye briefly like the host of "Tic Tac Dough" wink David
$400 [14] Alice's trip to Wonderland starts when she follows this character down a hole that's under a hedge White Rabbit David Jeremy	$400 [5] A triangular sail set on the stays of the foremast; you may admire the cut of someone's jib David	$400 [20] Good to hear from you...What? You became the 1st woman to get the British Order of Merit? Good night, nurse? Florence Nightingale David	$400 [3] To buy chili in Colombia or a Columbia VHS tape in Chile, you'll spend currency called this peso	$400 [26] This "noble" bandleader's compositions include "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" Duke Ellington David	$400 [7] Walk in shallow water like baseball's Boggs wade Jeremy
$600 [15] When Alice plays this game, the flamingo she's using as a mallet gets away & tries to fly up into a tree croquet Valerie	$600 [6] Mudhook is a slang term for this piece of equipment anchor Jeremy	$600 [21] It's so funny you'd be calling; I mean, you got the very first call ever on March 10, 1876 Watson Valerie Jeremy	$600 [16] Jump bail in Transylvania in this country & you'll be skipping to the leu its currency Romania Valerie	$600 [27] These brothers collaborated on "Lady Be Good!" & "Of Thee I Sing" the Gershwins Valerie	$600 [8] To surgically cut, like a Tour de France winner lance David
$800 [22] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Alice statue in Central Park.) It was this worm-like creature who told Alicethat eating a mushroom would make her taller or shorter Caterpillar Valerie	$1,000 [12] When a sailor "splices the main brace", he may be adding an extra rope, or doing this ashore getting into the sauce	$800 [23] When this man who gave West Point to Henry Clinton in 1780 calls, explain the irony of his reversing charges Benedict Arnold David	$800 [17] If Dan Marino went to San Marino, he'd find this currency of its neighbor being used until euros came into play lira Valerie	$800 [28] (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Waldorf Astoria.) I'm playing a song by this composer on his piano at the Waldorf"I get no kick from champagne..." Cole Porter Jeremy	$800 [9] To identify something with a spot, like a lover of Cleopatra mark David
—	DD $1,500 [11] Common term for the windows called scuttles; you scuttle the ship if the water line goes above them when open portholes David	$1,000 [24] It's appropriate this president would be calling; in the 1870s he was the first to use a telephone in the the White House Rutherford B. Hayes	$1,000 [18] You'll have to pay your builders in guilders in this former Dutch colony in South America Suriname David	—	$1,000 [10] To bestow, like a "gothic" American painter from Iowa grant David

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS	TELL ME YOUR TROUBLES	SWEET HOME, ALABAMA	QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONORS 2001	SPORTS FILMS	GONNA FLY NOW
$400 [12] Read all about it. His magazine cover "Little Spooners," or "Sunset,"seen here, appeared in 1926 Norman Rockwell David	$400 [1] If your affairs are in shambles, they've gone to "rack &" this ruin David	$400 [7] It became Alabama's capital in 1847 Montgomery David	$400 [17] This Irish flautist can now flaunt his knighthood (James) Galway Valerie	$400 [6] Sylvester Stallone was inspired to write this film after seeing underdog Chuck Wepner take on Muhammad Ali Rocky Valerie	$400 [22] In 1932 she flew from Newfoundland to a pasture near Londonderry in 14 hours, 54 minutes Amelia Earhart Valerie
$800 [18] Between 1971 & 1985 he depicted his neighbor Helga in over 240 of his works Andrew Wyeth Valerie	$800 [2] One possible origin for this state of uncertainty is the Latin quando, "when" quandary Jeremy	$800 [8] An industrial center, this city was named for an industrial city in England Birmingham David	$800 [27] "Thunderbirds are go!" to see this man, their creator, pick up an MBE Gerry Anderson	$800 [10] In "Knute Rockne: All American", this actor delivered the famous deathbed line "Win one for the Gipper" Ronald Reagan Jeremy	$800 [23] Of monoplane, biplane or triplane, the first to achieve manned, powered, heavier-than-air flight biplane David
$1,600 [20] He modeled the male diners in his "Nighthawks" after himself & the female diner after his wife Jo (Edward) Hopper David Jeremy	$1,200 [3] The band Big Star sang, "I've been built up and trusted, broke down and" this busted Jeremy	$1,200 [9] It's Alabama's only seaport Mobile Jeremy	$1,200 [28] This director of "The English Patient" gets to put CBE between his name & "Oscar-winner" Minghella Valerie	$1,200 [11] This 1981 film about 2 participants in the 1924 Olympics ran off with 4 Oscars including Best Picture Chariots of Fire Valerie	$1,200 [24] On December 31, 1968 this country's Tupolev Tu-144 became the first supersonic transport plane to be test flown USSR David
$2,000 [21] America's most collectedliving artist, he's the painter of light whose work is seen here Thomas Kinkade	$1,600 [4] A difficult situation to be "in"; or a way to repair it fix	$1,600 [15] The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is at Tranquility Base in this city Huntsville David	$1,600 [29] "Shirley" you know 2001 honoree Pauline Collins got a 1989 Oscar nomination for playing this woman Shirley Valentine Valerie	$1,600 [13] Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins struck up a romance after meeting on the set of this baseball flick Bull Durham David	$1,600 [25] This term for the flight of an airplane on a combat mission is from the French for "to go out" sortie Valerie
DD $3,000 [19] The feminist artist born Judy Cohen in 1939 goes by this last name, the city of her birth Judy Chicago Valerie	$2,000 [5] As a verb it's an old synonym for "pledge"; as a noun, a difficult condition plight Valerie	DD $2,000 [16] A group of black aviators or "airmen" trained near this city during WWII Tuskegee David	—	$2,000 [14] This 1977 film featured Paul Newman as aging hockey coach Reggie Dunlop Slap Shot David	$2,000 [26] In 1962 Robert White, the first pilot to qualify as an astronaut, flew this experimental plane to over 50 mi. up X-15 David

Final Jeopardy!

PAST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Each fall the Archdiocese of New York sponsors a major fund-raising dinner named for him

Al Smith

Valerie "Who is Tip O'Neil?" — wagered $4,000

Jeremy "Who is Rockefeller" — wagered $2,300

David "Who is Eugene Deb" — wagered $9,000

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