Show #4027 2002-02-19 (taped 2001-11-27) Regular

Contestants

Paul Holland — a Jesuit priest from Storrs, Connecticut

Nancy Misener — an auditor from Staten Island, New York

Alex Boisvert — a graduate student from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $5,000 $9,800 $13,800 $13,599
2-day champion: $34,400
$13,600
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Nancy $2,000 $4,800 $7,000 $1
2nd place: trip to Barbados and stay at Almond Resorts
$7,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Paul $0 $600 $-800 $-800
3rd place: stay at La Costa Resort and Spa north of San Diego
$4,200
10 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

OLD FAMILIAR PLACES TEA-TOTALING WORD ORIGINS HISTORIC AMERICAN QUOTES A DAY AT THE RACES A NIGHT AT THE OPRAH
$200 [6]
To find this city's Old Town, just follow the Rose Parade floats on Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena
Alex
$200 [11]
Tisane is a fancy name for this type of tea made by steeping flowers or spices like ginger or mint
herb tea
Nancy
$200 [15]
This animal term for a football official is derived from the patterned shirt that he wears
zebra
Alex
$200 [1]
In 1912 he told the Progressive Party, "I am as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit"
Teddy Roosevelt
Alex
$200 [21]
The first of these "Grand" races was run near Le Mans, France in 1906
Grand Prix
Nancy
$200 [26]
All selections of this club created by Oprah in 1996 have become instant bestsellers
Oprah's Book Club
Alex
$400 [7]
The "New" city, the modern seat of the Indian government, is south of this old walled city
Delhi
Alex Paul
$400 [12]
This meal follows "English" & "Irish" in the names of teas
breakfast
Paul
$400 [16]
This word that can mean "scanty" comes from the Latin spargere, "to scatter"
sparse
Alex
$400 [2]
Paul Revere's 4-word warning of April 18, 1775
The British are coming
Nancy
$400 [22]
It's the "insect" stroke used in a swimming medley race
butterfly
Alex
$400 [27]
It's the city Oprah moved to in 1984 to host a morning talk show
Chicago
Nancy
$600 [8]
Christ Church, also known as this, is the oldest church building in Boston
Old North Church
Alex
$600 [13]
The most common grading process separates tea leaves according to this
size
$600 [17]
Urdu for "dusty", this olive drab cloth was first used in the uniforms of the British army in India in 1857
khaki
Paul
$600 [3]
This Teamsters leader told reporters, "I do unto others what they do unto me, only worse"
(Jimmy) Hoffa
Alex
$600 [23]
Andrew Marton won a special Golden Globe Award for directing this sequence in the 1959 film "Ben-Hur"
chariot race
Alex
$600 [28]
Oprah began her broadcasting career in this Tennessee city at the age of 19
Nashville
Alex Nancy
$800 [9]
La Habana Vieja, the colonial section in the capital of this country, is a Unesco World Heritage Site
Cuba
Alex
$800 [14]
Iced tea was introduced at the 1904 World's Fair held in this city
St. Louis
Nancy
$800 [18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from a sail boat.) Derived from Italian, this word refers to a boat race or series of races.
regatta
Alex
DD $1,000 [4]
In 1859 he wrote his wife from Va., "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind"
John Brown
Alex
$800 [24]
The first man to run this Olympic distance in under 10 seconds was 1968 gold medal winner Jim Hines
100-meter
Alex
$800 [29]
Whoopi Goldberg also starred in this film, Oprah's movie debut
The Color Purple
Nancy
$1,000 [10]
Old Castile was Spain's center of Christian resistance to this Berber-Arab group
Moors
Alex
$1,000 [20]
This type of black tea is named for an Indian area in the foothills of the Himalayas
Darjeeling
Nancy
$1,000 [19]
This word often used as a toast comes from the Old Norse for "drinking vessel"
skoal
Alex
$1,000 [5]
He opened his CBS radio broadcasts during World War II by saying, "This--is London"
Edward Murrow
Nancy
$1,000 [25]
The only race this legendary thoroughbred ever lost was to a horse appropriately named Upset in 1919
Man o' War
Alex Nancy
$1,000 [30]
Since May 2000 Oprah has published this magazine
O Magazine
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY ART TRUSTY SIDEKICKS AMERICAN AUTHORS SILENT G AGNATOMY GUITAR PARTS
$400 [2]
The ornate history painters called "Pompiers" created works like Rixens' "The Death of" this Egyptian queen
Cleopatra
Alex
$400 [1]
Little Green Sprout, a fan of certain veggies in ads
Green Giant
Alex
$400 [9]
His novel "The Pioneers" has been called the "finest detailed portrait of frontier life in American literature"
James Fenimore Cooper
$400 [19]
In the military it's a vacation or leave of absence for enlisted personnel
furlough
Alex
$400 [24]
A telescoping organ call the ovipositor allows gnats to place these within schmutz
eggs
Alex
$400 [14]
Not to worry you, but the raised ridges under the strings are called these
frets
Paul
$800 [3]
The family of this often-depicted U.S. President said sculptor John Rogers created the best likeness
Lincoln
Alex Nancy
$800 [5]
Della Street, a secretary
Perry Mason
Nancy Paul
$800 [10]
This author of more than 120 books was most famous for his stories of "Ragged Dick" & "Tattered Tom"
Horatio Alger
$800 [20]
This creature of European folklore is often represented as a misshapen dwarf with a long beard
gnome
Paul
$800 [27]
A gnat's compound eye has multiple lenses which are called these, like the surfaces of a cut gem
facets
Paul
$800 [17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew plays the guitar.) I'm not sticking mine out to tell you the fingerboard covers this part of the guitar.
neck
Alex
DD $1,000 [12]
"The Regatta at Argenteuil" & "The Harbor, Amsterdam" show this Impressionist's love of water subjects
(Claude) Monet
Nancy
$1,200 [6]
Tige, a shoe-dwelling dog
Buster Brown
$1,200 [11]
We're guessing she was all grins when she won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for her "A Thousand Acres"
Jane Smiley
$1,600 [22]
Pretend or put on appearances; it's from the Latin fingere, meaning "to invent"
feign
Paul
$1,200 [28]
In many gnats these sense organs are several-jointed, resembling a string of beads
antennae
$1,200 [18]
A card game shares its name with this piece that raises the strings
bridge
Nancy
$1,200 [4]
Hiroshige's prints include "100 Views of Edo", the place now called this
Tokyo
Paul
$1,600 [7]
Kato, the faithful manservant of a TV & comic crimefighter
Green Hornet
Paul
$1,600 [15]
Each July Sauk Centre, Minnesota has a week-long festival honoring this native son
Sinclair Lewis
$2,000 [23]
Legally, it means to call the accused before a court to answer the charge made against him or her
arraign
Paul
$1,600 [29]
Male gnats may have metallic "scales" on this middle of the 3 parts of insect anatomy
thorax
Alex Paul
$1,600 [25]
(Jimmy of Clue Crew holds a guitar.) Different from an acoustic guitar, this part is solid, baby--solid.
body
$2,000 [13]
Geographical group ofU.S. Painters exemplified here
Hudson River School
$2,000 [8]
Captain Arthur Hastings, chronicler of a literary detective's cases
Hercule Poirot
Nancy
$2,000 [16]
"Go Tell It on the Mountain" that he finished the novel while in Switzerland in 1952
(James) Baldwin
Paul
DD $5,000 [21]
Defame or slander
malign
Paul
$2,000 [30]
A gnat's mouthparts are collectively called by this Latin term, as is an elephant's trunk
proboscis
Paul
$2,000 [26]
Call me crazy, but this piece that holds the strings separate may be a tough one to crack
nut
Nancy

Final Jeopardy!

FOOD SUPERSTITIONS

Sold on Good Friday, they were once used as charms against evil & were said to last without getting moldy

hot cross buns

Nancy "What are fish?" — wagered $6,999
Alex "What are palmfronds? leaves?" — wagered $201

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