Show #4015 2002-02-01 (taped 2001-11-07) Regular

Contestants

Andrew Sims — a high school social studies teacher from Laguna Niguel, California

Anne Takemoto — a consultant from Marina del Rey, California

Susan Robbins — a training and development professional from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Susan $2,800 $3,200 $19,800 $24,800
2-day champion: $36,401
$16,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Anne $200 $0 $2,400 $1
3rd place: trip to Cape Cod, Massachusetts & stay at Cape Codder Resort
$3,200
7 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Andrew $1,600 $5,000 $4,600 $4,801
2nd place: trip to Los Cabos, Mexico by Yahoo! Travel
$4,600
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S A PAULING COLLEGE SPORTS MASS COMMUNICATION THE NEAREST U.S. EMBASSY RAINY DAY GAMES BRIEFLY
$200 [24]
Linus Pauling received this in 1962; he was short a requirement when he was supposed to get it back in 1917 at 16
high school diploma
Anne
$200 [15]
This school's Trojans won a record 5 straight College World Series Baseball titles from 1970 to 1974
USC
Anne
$200 [16]
Most Voice of America affiliates get their programs via one of these orbiting objects
satellite
Susan
$200 [10]
If you're in Abrantes, Portugal
Lisbon
Susan
$200 [1]
Stretch your neck out & name this word game on which TV's "Wheel of Fortune" is based
hangman
Andrew
$200 [6]
Used to express neighborhood opposition to things like prisons & garbage dumps, NIMBY means this
not in my backyard
Susan
$400 [25]
It was biochemist Irwin Stone who suggested that Pauling try large doses of this daily to live longer
vitamin C
Susan
$400 [21]
In 1961 this Ohio State golfer won the NCAA tournament; the following year he won the U.S. Open
Jack Nicklaus
$400 [17]
The diner fixture seenhereis a mini one of these
jukebox
Susan
$400 [11]
If you're on Crete
Athens
Susan
$400 [2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates a game.) This fun rainy day game I'm playing takes its name from British slang for an unlicensed pub
tiddlywinks
Andrew
$400 [7]
Food that's the "bis" in Nabisco
biscuit
Andrew
$600 [22]
This Bruin won the 1971 NCAA men's tennis title & later became professional tennis' all-time tournament winner
Jimmy Connors
Susan
$600 [18]
8-letter term for the bygone type of film seen here
newsreel
Andrew
$600 [12]
If you're in Christchurch
Wellington (or London)
Susan
$600 [3]
This murder weapon in the classic game of Clue is mentioned in the rhyme "Jack be nimble"
candlestick
Andrew
$600 [8]
In business it's what "FIFO" stands for
first in, first out
Susan
$800 [23]
In February 1970 this LSU basketball player, nicknamed "Pistol Pete", scored over 60 points in a game twice
Pete Maravich
$800 [19]
The book "I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby" is "A Colorful History of" these newspapers
tabloids
Andrew
$800 [13]
If you're in Johannesburg
Pretoria
Anne
$800 [4]
Acey-deucey is a variation of this ancient board game of points & stones
backgammon
Susan
$800 [9]
To a doctor a heart attack is an M.I., which stands for these 2 10-letter words
myocardial infarction
Anne
$1,000 [27]
Georgia halfback Herschel Walker won the 1982 Heisman Trophy; this Stanford quarterback was runner-up
(John) Elway
Andrew
$1,000 [20]
The modern TV picture tube is basically this "scope" invented by Vladimir Zworykin
kinescope
$1,000 [14]
If you're in Medellin
Bogotá
Susan Andrew
$1,000 [5]
One of the 2 highest-point-valued tiles in a game of Scrabble
Q (or Z)
Susan Andrew
$1,000 [26]
The movie "The Mummy Returns" used CGI, this kind of imagery
computer graphic (generated)
Andrew

Double Jeopardy! Round

TAKE THE "MONEY" & RUN HUSBANDS & WIVES STARDUST MEMORIES NEW YORK STORIES WOODY ALLEN
$400 [16]
A document for payment purchased at a bank or post office
money order
Susan
$400 [1]
This man married Betsy Griscom of Philadelphia in 1773, perhaps due to her skill with a needle & thread
(John) Ross
Susan
$400 [6]
At 3,280 miles across, this planet's moon Ganymede is the largest satellite in our solar system
Jupiter
Andrew
$400 [11]
This musical "Story" about gangs in New York won 10 Oscars when it made it to the big screen in 1961
West Side Story
Susan
$400 [21]
Woody could say "Thanks for the Memory" to this star of "The Big Broadcast of 1938", an early comedy hero
Bob Hope
$800 [17]
A term for a wealthy personage, or the sacks where you stash your cash
moneybags
Susan
$800 [2]
From the Latin for "sharer", it was Prince Albert's title as Queen Victoria's spouse
Consort
Susan
$800 [7]
In 1877 American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered the moon of this fourth planet from the Sun
Mars
Andrew
$800 [12]
His Catskills-based story "Rip Van Winkle" was inspired by a popular folk tale
Washington Irving
Susan Anne
$800 [25]
Woody graduated from Midwood High School in this NYC borough
Brooklyn
Susan
$1,200 [18]
To "clean" illegal funds by passing them through a legitimate business in order to hide their origins
money laundering
Susan
$1,200 [3]
Will Shakespeare's better half, she shares her name with the young star of "The Princess Diaries"
Anne Hathaway
Anne
$1,200 [8]
The longest one of these celestial events in the 20th century occurred June 20, 1955 & lasted 7 minutes & 8 seconds
eclipse
Susan
$1,200 [13]
In a F. Scott Fitzgerald work, this title character lived at West Egg on New York's Long Island
The Great Gatsby
Anne
$1,200 [22]
Woody can often be seen jazzily blowing this woodwind instrument at New York's Cafe Carlyle
clarinet
Susan
$1,600 [19]
As NYC transit cops, Snipes & Harrelson chase a cash-laden subway car in this 1995 big screen thriller
Money Train
$1,600 [4]
He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht on several works & with Lotte Lenya on 2 marriages
(Kurt) Weill
Anne
$1,600 [9]
The Earth had a close shave with one of these on Dec. 9, 1994, when it came within 60,000 miles
asteroid
Susan Andrew
DD $1,200 [15]
In this mythic novel, Bernard Malamud wrote about Roy Hobbs, a player on the New York Knights baseball team
The Natural
Anne
$1,600 [23]
Woody played Victor Shakapopulis in this 1965 "feline" comedy that starred Peter O'Toole
What's New Pussycat?
Susan
$2,000 [20]
It's the "place" for short-term trade in low-risk securities
money market fund
Susan
$2,000 [5]
Appropriately, "Giulietta Degli Spiriti" was one of Giulietta Masina's films with this director husband
Federico Fellini
Anne
$2,000 [10]
The fastest-rotating one of these objects, believed to be neutron stars, spins once every 0.00156 seconds
pulsar
$1,600 [14]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew stands outside the Plaza Hotel.) The Plaza Hotel is the homeof this fictional little girl, invented in the 1940sby the singer Kay Thompson.
Eloise
Anne
DD $5,000 [24]
Woody's current wife is the adopted daughter of this conductor
André Previn
Susan

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN COMPOSERS

Rachmaninoff & Heifetz watched Paul Whiteman conduct the 1924 premiere of a milestone work by this composer

Gershwin

Anne "Who is" — wagered $2,399
Andrew "Who was Gershwin" — wagered $201
Susan "Who is Gershwin?" — wagered $5,000

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