Show #4314 2003-05-08 (taped 2003-03-18) Tournament of Champions

2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Jackie Harrison — a surgeon from Chicago, Illinois

Mark Brown — an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona

Jason McCune — an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $0 $2,000 $-2,000 $-2,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$-200
11 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)
Mark $4,400 $7,600 $19,200 $19,205
Automatic semifinalist
$17,600
26 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Jackie $1,800 $3,000 $2,600 $0
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$2,600
9 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

POETS & POETRY ON THE BROADWAY STAGE NEUROSCIENCE INITIALLY YOURS YEMEN-Y SNIPPET FERTILE "I"s
$200 [11]
Longfellow urged, "Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay, for oh, it is not always" this month
May
Jason
$200 [1]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew is on the set of "Rent" at the Nederland Theatre.) I'm on the Broadway set of "Rent", which premiered in 1996, the 100th anniversary of this Bohemian opera that inspired it
La Boheme
Mark
$200 [6]
DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick shocked Freudians by saying these are just the brain's nightly housecleaning
dreams
Mark
$200 [18]
Film pioneer David Wark...
D.W. Griffith
Jackie
$200 [16]
Yemen's city of Aden serves as a refueling center for ships traveling through this canal
Suez Canal
Mark
$200 [24]
Composed around 700 B.C., it recounts a war fought over the abduction of a famous beauty
"The Iliad"
Jason
$400 [12]
"Notwithstanding many hints to the contrary", he said, "I still maintain" Childe Harold "to be a fictitious personage"
Lord Byron
$400 [2]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew is on the set of "Oklahoma!" at the Gershwin Theatre.) The "corn is as high as an elephant's eye", on the Broadway set of "Oklahoma!", the first musical by this songwriting pair
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Mark
$400 [7]
Adjective for the left hemisphere of the brain in most righties, because it controls speech & other functions
dominant hemisphere
Jackie
$400 [19]
Humorous writer Patrick Jake...
P.J. O'Rourke
Jason
$400 [17]
Though still relying on foreign aid, Yemen has begun tapping into its 4-billion-barrel reserve of this for funds
oil
Jason
$400 [25]
Tropical treasure traipsing here
iguana
Jackie
$800 [14]
This "I, Claudius" novelist was also a poet who taught poetry at Oxford in the 1960s
Robert Graves
Mark
$600 [3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is on the set of "Hairspray" at the Neil Simon Theatre.) I'm on the set of the musical "Hairspray", based on a film by this director who calls himself "America's Trash-o-Teur"
John Waters
Jason
$600 [8]
In 1956 George Miller defined it as holding 5 to 9 chunks of information--what category did you pick again?
short-term memory
Jackie
$600 [20]
Brigadier General James Ewell Brown...
J.E.B. Stuart
Mark
$600 [23]
Under Ottoman rule Yemen was big in the trade of this out of the town of Al Mukha, or Mocha
coffee
Jason Jackie
$600 [26]
This adjective comes from the Greek for "Spaniard"
Iberian
Jason
$1,000 [15]
The Rossettis published poems in The Germ, a short-lived magazine from this artsy group
Pre-Raphaelites
Mark
$800 [4]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is on the set of "The Producers" at the St. James Theatre.) I've just made my big entrance onto the Broadway set of "The Producers", the hit musical created by this comic genius
Mel Brooks
Mark
$800 [9]
This structure seen here, which includes the medulla, transmits information from the spinal cord
brain stem
Jackie
$800 [21]
Statesman Frederik Willem...
F.W. de Klerk
Mark
$800 [29]
In 1995 Eritrea & Yemen fought over ownership of Greater Hanish Island at the southern mouth of this sea
Red Sea
Mark
$800 [27]
This high flyer's father built the Labyrinth
Icarus
Mark
DD $1,800 [13]
He wrote, "My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky" in the early 1800s at Grasmere
William Wordsworth
Jason
$1,000 [5]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew is on the set of "Les Miserables" at the Imperial Theatre.) You can almost hear the revolutionaries on the Broadway set of "Les Miserables", based on a novel by this French author
Victor Hugo
Jason
$1,000 [10]
P.E.T., the positron emission type of this kind of imaging, can identify the focal points of seizures
tomography
Mark
$1,000 [22]
"Possession" author & Booker Prize winner Antonia Susan...
A.S. Byatt
$1,000 [30]
Once 2 countries, Yemen still finds itself split religiously between the Sunni Muslims & these Muslims
Shiites
Jason
$1,000 [28]
From the Japanese for "living flowers", it's the Japanese art of flower arranging
Ikebana

Double Jeopardy! Round

AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS THE MOVIES BRITISH HEIR WAYS ART & ARTISTS THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [2]
Its opera house lies on Bennelong Point in Port Jackson Harbour
Sydney
Jason
$400 [1]
A chance at a bounty brings retired killer Clint Eastwood back into service in this 1992 film
Unforgiven
Jason Mark
$400 [26]
He was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the music room at Buckingham Palace on August 4, 1982
Prince William
Jackie
$400 [13]
In this Belgian surrealist's 1928 work "Threatening Weather", the clouds have the shapes of a tuba, a chair & a torso
Rene Magritte
$400 [8]
When Arabs are first mentioned, in an Assyrian inscription of the 800s B.C., they are associated with these animals
camels
Mark
$400 [21]
The star of "Contact" who's behind this brand of sunglasses
Jodie Foster Grant
Mark
$800 [4]
Named for a British naturalist, it's Australia's northernmost capital
Darwin
Mark
$800 [3]
An old satellite brings retired engineer Clint Eastwood back into service in this 2000 film
Space Cowboys
Mark
$800 [27]
Secret files released in 2003 revealed that "the woman he loved" was two-timing him with a car salesman
King Edward VIII
Jason Mark Jackie
$800 [14]
His several "At the Circus" drawings from 1898 include "The Tandem", "Acrobats" & "Rehearsing"
Toulouse-Lautrec
Mark
$800 [9]
The tarsier, the pygmy marmoset & the baboon all belong to this order of mammals
primates
Mark
$800 [22]
Autobiographical Arthur Miller play on a Poe mansion's tumble
After the Fall of the House of Usher
Jason
$1,200 [5]
This capital of Victoria served as Australia's capital from 1901 to 1927 when the seat of govt. was moved to Canberra
Melbourne
Mark
$1,200 [16]
John Malkovich forces Secret Service agent Clint Eastwood back on presidential detail in this 1993 film
In the Line of Fire
Mark
$1,200 [28]
He was an 11-year-old prince when he was betrothed to his brother's 17-year-old widow in 1503
Henry VIII
Mark
$1,200 [15]
In 1879 she became the first & only American woman to exhibit with the Impressionists
Mary Cassatt
Jason
$1,200 [10]
The 2 types of alligator are the American alligator & a rare variety that makes its home in this Asian country
China
$1,200 [23]
Senator & 2004 presidential hopeful who's the breed that won Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show in 2003
John Kerry Blue Terrier
$1,600 [6]
This capital of Queensland was founded as a convict colony in 1824 & named for a governor of New South Wales
Brisbane
Mark
$1,600 [19]
The Mafia pushes retired bareknuckle boxer Clint Eastwood back into service in this 1980 sequel
Any Which Way You Can
Jason Jackie
DD $2,000 [29]
It isn't a deep, dark secret that this brave knight captured the French king at Poitiers in 1356
Edward the Black Prince
Mark
$1,600 [17]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew stands at the front of Rembrandt's home in Amsterdam.) Sadly, 3 years after Rembrandt moved into this house, this wife & portrait subject passed away
Saskia
$1,600 [11]
It's the colorful state bird of Delaware
blue hen chicken
Jason Mark Jackie
$1,600 [24]
"Parade's End" author who drives the first of the Pony Cars
Ford Madox Ford Mustang
DD $3,200 [7]
This capital of South Australia is the only Australian capital named for a woman
Adelaide
Mark
$2,000 [20]
A foe brings former FBI agent Clint Eastwood back into play in this 2002 film
Blood Work
Jackie
$2,000 [30]
As Prince of Wales & Prince Regent, this future king was a close pal of Beau Brummell, & quite a dandy himself
George IV
Jason Mark Jackie
$2,000 [18]
The statue here shows this priest killed by sea serpents when he gave warnings about the Trojan Horse
Laocoon
Mark
$2,000 [12]
Believed to bring good luck, the korat is a rare, short-haired breed of this animal from Thailand
cat
Mark
$2,000 [25]
Supreme Court's "Separate but Equal" decision who's a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Cubs & Rangers
Plessy v. Ferguson Jenkins
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

NATIONAL STATUARY HALL

Both partly of Cherokee descent, they're the 2 men whose statues represent Oklahoma in the U.S. Capitol

Will Rogers & Sequoyah

Jackie "Who are Will Rogers And Jim Thorpe?" — wagered $2,600
Mark "Who are Will Rogers & Sequoyah" — wagered $5

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