Show #4004 2002-01-17 (taped 2001-10-30) Regular

Contestants

Krista Cain — an optician from Carrollton, Georgia

Steve Mandella — an assistant security manager originally from North Huntington, Pennsylvania

Nanette Wargo — a graduate student from Sauk Village, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $53,030)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Nanette $-1,600 $2,800 $13,000 $11,963
3rd place: trip to Waikik Beach & stay at Outrigger Hotel
$13,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Steve $2,600 $3,400 $8,600 $17,200
New champion: $17,200
$8,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Krista $2,600 $2,200 $10,400 $13,000
2nd place: trip to Aspen, Colorado provided by ski.com
$11,400
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS THE ROLE PLAYED THE 1880s PEOPLE IT'S PARTY TIME! YIDDISH WORDS
$200 [1]
Many say that Tufu was this country's greatest poet
China
Steve
$200 [19]
Theda Bara, Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor
Cleopatra
Steve
$200 [2]
In 1889, with Dumas & de Maupassant protesting loudly, this 984-foot structure opened near the Seine
Eiffel Tower
Krista
$200 [7]
This pair of illusionists has played to more people live in Las Vegas than any other performers
Siegfried & Roy
Nanette
$200 [10]
Emphasizing drinking & merrymaking, this German festival is an autumn tradition
Oktoberfest
Krista
$600 [26]
Traditionally, a Jew might daven, do this, 3 times a day; a Muslim does it 5 times a day
pray
Krista
$400 [8]
Steingrimur Thorsteinsson translated "The Arabian Nights" into this language spoken in Rekjavik
Icelandic
Krista
$400 [20]
Sandra Dee, Deborah Walley, Sally Field
Gidget
$400 [3]
Shortly after Garfield was shot, this notorious young outlaw was shot dead
**Billy the Kid (*Jesse James)
Steve Krista
$400 [15]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Apollo.) Along with Diana Ross, Gladys Knight had a hand in discovering these singers after they appeared here in the late '60s
Jackson 5 (Jacksons)
Nanette Steve Krista
$400 [11]
Named for an auto part, this party is held in a sports stadium parking lot
tailgate party
Krista
$800 [27]
A Yiddish art critic might describe Rubens' women as this, meaning "plump"
zaftig
Nanette
$600 [9]
The blind 19th c. poet Antonio Feliciano de Castilho was a leading literary figure in this European country
Portugal
Nanette
$600 [21]
George Montgomery, Fess Parker, John Wayne
Davy Crockett
$600 [4]
Doctors in the news included "Dr. Jekyll" & this rabies curer
Pasteur
Steve
$600 [18]
The Wall Street Journal has called this "Nightline" host the "pre-eminent TV interviewer in America"
Ted Koppel
Steve
$600 [12]
New president Clinton attended 11 of these on January 20, 1993
inaugural balls
Krista
$1,000 [28]
To answer the question asked in song by Linda Ronstadt, it's Yiddish for "So?" or "Well?"
What's nu?
$800 [16]
One of Maeve Binchy's first plays, "End of Term", premiered in this world capital, her birthplace
Dublin
Nanette
DD $1,000 [22]
Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, Dame Judi Dench
Queen Elizabeth (I)
Steve
$800 [5]
The 1885 Congress of Berlin passed out slices of this continent like cake
Africa
Nanette
$800 [24]
A sign on L.A.'s Sunset Blvd. marks the site where in 1975 he opened the first chocolate chip cookie store
Famous Amos
Nanette
$800 [13]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) Alice & the Mad Hatter had this kind of party in chapter 7 of "Alice in Wonderland"
a tea party
Steve
$1,000 [17]
This man & his sister wrote the novel "A Year at Hartlebury" under pseudonyms in 1834, before he was Britain's P.M.
Disraeli
Nanette
$1,000 [23]
Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., Arnold Vosloo
the Mummy
Steve Krista
$1,000 [6]
On June 20, 1887 Queen Victoria got her shot at meeting this markswoman
Annie Oakley
Steve
$1,000 [25]
She's the financial adviser who's showed us "The Road to Wealth" & "The Courage to Be Rich"
(Suze) Orman
Nanette
$1,000 [14]
In a No. 6 Hit from 1972, Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band were headed to this title function
"Garden Party"

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICA TIME FOR A BEVERAGE TOUGH '70s TV MYTHELLANY I'D LIKE TO BUY AN OWL "PAT"
$400 [19]
This former child star served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976
Shirley Temple (Black)
Nanette
$400 [1]
For "corrupting the youth of Athens" Socrates was compelled to drink this in 399 B.C.
hemlock
Steve
$400 [2]
A 1977 Saturday morning cartoon called "I Am the Greatest" featured "The Adventures of" this champ
Muhammad Ali
Steve
$400 [11]
Celtic myth tells us the Tuatha De Danann often live underground in this country
Ireland
Krista
$400 [5]
The ancient Greeks believed that the owl was sacred to this goddess of wisdom
(Pallas) Athena
Nanette Krista
$800 [28]
It's the murder of one's own father
patricide
Steve
$800 [20]
(Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Africa.) The Yatta Pateau in Tsavo National Park is the world's largest flow of this substance
lava
Krista
$800 [6]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a bar.) This drink could be called "fermented agave juice at dawn"
a Tequila Sunrise
Nanette
$800 [3]
NBC's "Four-in-One" included "Night Gallery", "The Psychiatrist" & this Dennis Weaver series
McCloud
$800 [12]
Mama Quilla, a moon goddess of these people, had a temple dedicated to her at Cuzco
Inca
Krista
$800 [7]
The elf owl, the world's smallest owl at 6", nests in holes in this "giant" cactus of the American Southwest
saguaro
Nanette
$1,200 [25]
The Bible's Isaac, for example
patriarch
Nanette
$1,600 [26]
(Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Africa.) It's one of Kenya's main crops; in 1914, Isak Dinesen grew it in the country
coffee
Nanette
$1,200 [14]
200,000 gallons of this liquor flowed into the Kentucky River in 2000 during a fire at a Wild Turkey warehouse
whiskey (bourbon)
Krista
$1,200 [4]
Series title characters included Lucas Tanner a teacher, & Lucan, a boy raised by these animals
wolves
Nanette
DD $1,000 [13]
Partly from Latin meaning "to speak", it was a medium who spoke for a deity or the shrine whence she spoke
oracle
Krista
$1,200 [8]
This "Elder" Roman wrote that owls foretell evil & are to be dreaded above all other birds
Pliny
Nanette
$1,600 [24]
This 260,000-square-mile area is found between the Andes Mountains & the South Atlantic Ocean
Patagonia
Krista
$2,000 [27]
This third-longest African river flows past ancient Timbuktu on its 2,600-mile trip to the Gulf of Guinea
Niger
Krista
$1,600 [15]
One bushel of this plant known scientifically as Zea mays can sweeten 400 cans of soda pop
corn
Krista
$1,600 [17]
"Temperatures Rising" & "The New Temperatures Rising" featured this "Blazing Saddles" star
Cleavon Little
Steve Krista
$1,600 [21]
Yikes! If you cut off one of the many heads of this Lake Lerna monster, 2 would grow in its place
Hydra
DD $1,400 [9]
This species is named for its piercing call that sounds nothing like a hoot
screech owl
Nanette
$2,000 [23]
Latin for "our father", it's an alternate name for the Lord's Prayer
"Paternoster"
Nanette
$2,000 [16]
(Jimmy and Sarah of the Clue Crew report from New Orleans.) "Stormy" name of this legendary New Orleans mixed drink served in a lantern-shaped glass
a Hurricane
Steve
$2,000 [18]
The summer 1975 series "Joey and Dad" featured this singer-dancer & her dad, Ray
Joey Heatherton
$2,000 [22]
This sly trickster of Norse myth can change his shape at will--sometimes he's a fly, other times, a fish
Loki
$2,000 [10]
The adult male of this owl species is usually pure white, although it may have brown spots
snowy owl
Krista

Final Jeopardy!

MILITARY MATTERS

Completed by the British in 1906, its name means "fear nothing" & it made all others of its kind obsolete

HMS Dreadnought

Steve "What is the Dreadnaught?" — wagered $8,600
Krista "What is the Dreadnaught" — wagered $2,600
Nanette "What is ?" — wagered $1,037

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