Show #4038 2002-03-06 (taped 2001-12-04) Regular

Jason McCune game 2.

Contestants

Sam Mink — an engineer from Norwalk, Connecticut

Anne Scott — a community newspaper editor from Katy, Texas

Jason McCune — an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,241)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $0 $1,600 $14,000 $28,000
2-day champion: $40,241
$10,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Anne $3,600 $8,200 $5,400 $10,699
2nd place: a trip to Mazatlan, Mexico
$5,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Sam $1,400 $4,000 $17,600 $7,100
3rd place: a trip to Florida
$16,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY INTERNAL RHYMES WOMEN WRITERS TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN
$200 [9]
Slowly I turned towards this over 160-foot cataract found on the U.S.-Canadian border
Niagara Falls
Anne
$200 [21]
A flightless bird that's a national symbol
a kiwi
Jason
$200 [4]
Lydia & Kitty Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy are characters in a book by this woman
Jane Austen
Anne
$200 [14]
In the U.S., daylight saving time starts & ends in these 2 seasons
spring & fall
Jason
$200 [26]
The largest land animal native to this continent is a small wingless fly
Antarctica
Anne
$200 [1]
When you're having fun playing the strategy game "Richtofen's War", you'll be using planes from this war
World War I
Sam
$400 [10]
The Canadian postal abbreviation for this province is NB
New Brunswick
Sam
$400 [22]
The largest Bantu-speaking group of South Africa
the Zulu
Jason Sam
$400 [5]
She intended her novel "Shirley" to be as "unromantic as Monday morning", as opposed to her previous novel "Jane Eyre"
Charlotte Bronte
Anne
$400 [15]
It's the second month of the year with exactly 30 days in it
June
Jason Anne
$400 [27]
A pest of wheat, the Hessian fly is so named because it's believed Hessian soldiers brought it here during this war
the Revolutionary War
Sam
$400 [2]
When you're having fun playing this party game, you could call it "Attach the terminal vertebrae to the jackass"
"Pin the tail on the donkey"
Jason
$600 [11]
Polar bears often congregate in Manitoba on the snow-covered shores of this 316,000-square-mile bay
Hudson Bay
Anne
$600 [23]
A homeless traveler riding on freight trains
a hobo
Anne
$600 [6]
Offred tells "The Handmaid's Tale" in a novel by this woman
Margaret Atwood
$600 [18]
This type of year is also known as a bissextile year
a leap year
Anne
$600 [28]
Wake up & tell us the name of this deadly disease, aka trypanosomiasis, spread by the Tsetse fly
sleeping sickness
Anne
$600 [3]
When you're having fun playing this board game invented in 1948, you'll draw up to 7 letter tiles
Scrabble
Anne
$800 [12]
Canada's respected newspaper The Globe and Mail was established in this city in 1844
Toronto
Sam
$800 [24]
The type of basket Yogi Bear likes to heist
picnic
Jason
DD $1,000 [7]
A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1993
Toni Morrison
Anne
$800 [19]
In military time, this time is rendered 1900 hours
7 P.M.
Anne
$800 [29]
It's the common name for the fly known scientifically as musca domestica
the housefly
Anne
$800 [16]
You might play 301, 501 or 1001 when you're playing when you're having fun playing this barroom favorite
darts
Sam
$1,000 [13]
A popular children's book bear derived its name from this Canadian city of 600,000
Winnipeg
Jason
$1,000 [25]
(Sarah and Jimmy are in the Sony Pictures Studios lobby, bowing down to a picture of Alex and the Jeopardy!logo.) It's the ancient Chinese custom we're exhibiting here
to kowtow
$1,000 [8]
This French author chose Audrey Hepburn to play Gigi onstage
Colette
Anne
$1,000 [20]
Sidereal time is time measured in relation to these heavenly bodies
the stars
Anne
$1,000 [30]
Examples of these flies popular with geneticists include the apple maggot & the cherry
fruit flies
Sam
$1,000 [17]
When you're having fun in Japan playing this sport, you'll learn it's known there as besuboru
baseball
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR LEO RELIGIOUS PLACES BEASTLY CINEMA U.S. GOVERNMENT "AZ" I WAS SAYING...
$400 [2]
It was a pillar of the South's economy: in 1860 the U.S. produced 4 1/2 million bales of it
cotton
Sam
$400 [7]
This heartthrob was born on November 11, 1974
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jason
$400 [12]
The collegiate church of Saint Peter in Westminster is known by this term
Westminster Abbey
Jason
$400 [1]
1980:As John Merrick, John Hurt declares, "I am not an animal!"
"The Elephant Man"
Anne
$400 [18]
It's the F in the conservation-oriented agency known as the FWS
Fish
$400 [17]
It's been said that their capital Tenochtitlan was the largest city at the time of the Spanish conquest
the Aztecs
Anne
$800 [3]
Muzzle-loading rifles were partly replaced by weapons loaded at the rear of the barrel, called this
the breach
$800 [8]
This baseball manager was nicknamed "The Lip"
Leo Durocher
Sam
$800 [24]
The famous porcelain one of these Buddhist towers used to stand in Nanjing
a Pagoda
Sam
$800 [13]
1962:Gregory Peck pecks away at Southern injustice
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
Jason
$800 [19]
You'll find its home page at www.uscg.mil
United States Coast Guard
Jason
$800 [20]
Sky blue
azure
Jason
$1,200 [4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Gettysburg.) I'm on Cemetery Ridge, which this man tried to take in the ill-fated charge named for him on July 3, 1863
(George) Pickett
Jason
$1,600 [10]
In 1951 this American guitarmaker created the broadcaster (soon renamed the telecaster)
Leo Fender
$1,200 [25]
Sister Costello yells, "Hey, Abbess!" to call her boss in this place whose name is from the Latin for "assembly"
a convent
Sam
$1,200 [14]
1975:Al Pacino knocks over a bank to bankroll his lover's sex change
"Dog Day Afternoon"
Jason
$1,200 [28]
It's the N in the energetic agency abbreviated NRC
Nuclear
Sam
$1,600 [22]
This North Atlantic island group was uninhabited until the Portuguese settled there in the mid-1400s
the Azores
Jason
$1,600 [5]
(Jimmy is aboard a ship.) This admiral uttered the line, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
Admiral (David) Farragut
Sam
DD $2,000 [9]
You can "count" on this classic author seen here
Leo Tolstoy
Sam
$1,600 [26]
From the Greek for "a hidden place", it may contain an altar for worship or tombs for the dead
a crypt
Anne
$1,600 [15]
1958:Pollitt family members claw & scratch each other for Big Daddy's money
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sam
$1,600 [29]
The book "Gimme Some Truth" contains John Lennon's FBI files obtained under this, the FOIA
the Freedom of Information Act
Sam
$2,000 [23]
In astronomy, it's the angular horizontal distance, clockwise, from due south
the Azimuth
Jason
$2,000 [6]
Joseph Johnston caught his death of cold at the 1891 funeral of this union general who had accepted his surrender
General (William T.) Sherman
Anne
$2,000 [11]
This late USC professor left us some lessons on "Living, Loving, and Learning"
Leo Buscaglia
Sam
$2,000 [27]
It's a building attached to a church, or a chamber within it, in which affusions are performed
the Baptistry
$2,000 [16]
1932:Groucho rides to the rescue as the new president of Huxley College
Horse Feathers
Jason Anne Sam
$2,000 [30]
Since 1973, the U.S. Army has been an AVF, an all-this force
volunteer
Anne
DD $5,200 [21]
The name of this rhododendron is from the Greek for "dry" because it grows in dry soil
Azalea
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

TELEVISION

The characters Adam, Eric & Joseph were much younger on the 2001 PAX prequel to this '60s series

Bonanza

Anne "What is Bonanza?" — wagered $5,299
Jason "What is Bonanza?" — wagered $14,000
Sam "What" — wagered $10,500

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