Show #3828 2001-04-04 (taped 2000-12-13) Regular

Ryan Moore game 1.

Contestants

Ryan Moore — a dot-com start-up partner from Venice, California

Steve Gelder — a stand-up comedian from Raleigh, North Carolina

Jessica Raine — a graduate student from Brookline, Massachusetts

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jessica $400 $1,800 $4,900 $3,700
2nd place: a Caribbean cruise on Carnival Cruise Lines
$6,300
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Steve $100 $1,300 $5,900 $1,999
3rd place: a Novica.com shopping spree
$5,900
16 R, 2 W
Ryan $400 $700 $4,900 $9,800
New champion: $9,800
$4,900
14 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY ANNUAL EVENTS DUETS WORD SMITHS WHATSITS, DOOHICKEYS, THINGAMABOBS "PIN" ME
$100 [5]
The Hungarians call this "Beautiful Blue" river the Duna
Danube
Jessica
$100 [21]
Pearl Harbor Day is observed on this date
December 7
Jessica Ryan
$100 [1]
He was Michael Jackson's duet partner on "Say, Say, Say" & Stevie Wonder's on "Ebony and Ivory"
Paul McCartney
Steve
$100 [10]
"The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine" is a book by this chef
Jeff Smith
Jessica
$100 [14]
A tailor's term, it's also the spiral part of a screw
Thread
Steve
$100 [26]
Disney brought this character to life on the big screen in 1940
Pinocchio
Steve
$200 [7]
Strictly speaking, the name of this volcano in southern Italy refers only to a crater inside Monte Somma
Mount Vesuvius
Ryan
$200 [22]
Pardeeville, Wisconsin hosts a yearly competition for the eating & seed-spitting of this fruit
Watermelon
Steve
$200 [2]
In 1994 he charted a new version of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", this time with Ru Paul
Elton John
Jessica
$200 [11]
This gossip columnist gives the scoop on herself in the 2000 autobiography "Natural Blonde"
Liz Smith
Ryan
$200 [15]
Also a body part, in plumbing it's the fitting used to connect the joints of 2 pipes that meet at an angle
Elbow
Jessica
$200 [27]
The name of this rum cocktail is Spanish for "strained pineapple"
Pina Colada
Ryan
$300 [8]
Until 1940, Lake Ladoga, the largest entirely within Europe, was shared by Russia & this country to the west
Finland
Steve
$300 [23]
In May at the Calaveras County Fair in Calif., more than 3,000 of these critters take part in a jumping jubilee
Frogs
Steve
$400 [4]
It might ring a "Belle" that Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson had a 1992 hit with this movie theme
Beauty and the Beast
Ryan
$300 [13]
His translation of "The Book of Mormon" was published in 1830
Joseph Smith
Steve
$300 [16]
To set up one of these in the Northern Hemisphere, point the gnomon on its face to the North Pole
Sundial
Ryan
$300 [28]
After deposing president Salvador Allende, he served as the dictator of Chile
Augusto Pinochet
Ryan
$400 [9]
Germany's tallest peak, Zugspitze, lies in these Alps
Bavarian Alps
$400 [24]
These relatives have their own special day, the first Sunday in September after Labor Day
Grandparents
Jessica
DD $500 [3]
(Hi, I'm Randy Travis, here at the Hollywood Bowl.) On my 1990 "Heroes & Friends" album, this legend joined me in singing..."Happy Trails to You"
Roy Rogers
Jessica
$400 [19]
"White Teeth", a 2000 bestseller by this woman, isn't a dental handbook, but a novel about 2 London families
Zadie Smith
$400 [17]
A key is inserted into this part of a lock that contains the pins, springs & plug
Cylinder
$400 [29]
Cio-Cio-San's marriage to this character ends badly in "Madam Butterfly"
Lt. Pinkerton
Jessica
$500 [12]
This Estonian capital was founded by Danish forces who occupied the area in 1219
Tallinn
Ryan
$500 [25]
This middle leg of the Triple Crown in horse racing is run the third Saturday in May
Preakness Stakes
Steve Ryan
$500 [6]
This singer featured on "Ally McBeal" duetted with Dan Hill on 1987's "Can't We Try"
Vonda Shepard
Jessica Ryan
$500 [20]
In a 1776 work, he inquired into laissez-faire economics
Adam Smith
Ryan
$500 [18]
It's a trough used by "carriers" for carrying bricks
Hod
Jessica
$500 [30]
In the portrait of Teddy Roosevelt seen here, it's the accessory that fits the category
Pince-nez

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE FEATURE FILM DEBUTS NOTORIOUS FACES HEADQUARTER CITIES WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A "WAY"
$200 [26]
Silver iodide & silver bromide are sensitive to this, hence their use in photography
light
Jessica
$200 [20]
Megan Mullally of "Will & Grace" debuted as a call girl in this 1983 Tom Cruise classic
Risky Business
Ryan
$200 [1]
She's the accused murderer from Fall River seen here:
Lizzie Borden
Jessica
$200 [7]
Dow Jones & Company
New York City
Steve
$200 [6]
A line in his will that forbade tampering with his work foiled Ted Turner's attempt to colorize his "Citizen Kane"
Orson Welles
Ryan
$200 [12]
Collectively, brothers Keenen, Damon, Shawn & Marlon
the Wayans Brothers
Steve
$400 [27]
Term for the edible endospermic seeds of an ear of corn
kernels
Steve Ryan
$400 [21]
Before he saw dead people in "The Sixth Sense", Haley Joel Osment played the son of this Tom Hanks title character
Forrest Gump
Steve
$400 [2]
Hisexecution in the 1970s opened the doors to many more:
Gary Gilmore
Steve
DD $200 [18]
Aetna U.S. Healthcare
Hartford
Jessica
$400 [8]
A will naming Melvin Dummar as beneficiary of 1/16 of this reclusive billionaire's estate was found to be a fraud
Howard Hughes
Jessica
$400 [13]
7-letter word for one who turns away from what's right or proper; a son can be described this way
wayward
Jessica
$600 [28]
Sore, stiff joints are one symptom of this condition suffered by sailors off the C, vitamin C
scurvy
Jessica
$600 [22]
The 1971 biker epic "Angels Hard as They Come" introduced this actor who later played Buddy Holly
Gary Busey
Jessica
$600 [3]
"Motherly" 1930s criminal seen here:
Ma Barker
Steve
$400 [17]
Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing
St. Paul
Jessica Steve
DD $500 [9]
In 1933 this president left a will consisting of a single sentence, leaving everything to his wife
Calvin Coolidge
Jessica
$600 [14]
The 18th century's "Mad Anthony" or the 20th century's "Duke"
Wayne
Ryan
$800 [29]
Though his work was "uncertain", he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932, just on "principle"
Werner Heisenberg
Ryan
$800 [23]
She made her big-screen debut as one of Cher's daughters in "Mermaids"; we think of her every "Wednesday"
Christina Ricci
Steve
$800 [4]
Hitchcock's "Rope" was based on a 1924 murder committed by these two, seen here:
Leopold & Loeb
Ryan
$800 [19]
Aluminum Company of America
Pittsburgh
$800 [10]
This "All That Jazz" director left $25,000 so friends could buy a dinner on him--must've been some meal
Bob Fosse
Jessica
$800 [15]
People who travel by foot, or a type of eyewear
wayfarers
Jessica
$1,000 [30]
The element named for him wasn't one of the ones he left a gap for in the periodic table; it came in at 101
Dmitri Mendeleev
Jessica
$1,000 [24]
Helena Bonham Carter lost her head over her first film role, as this nine-day queen of England
Lady Jane Grey
Jessica Ryan
$1,000 [5]
Thislong-time international fugitive "animal" was captured in 1994:
Carlos "The Jackal"
Steve
$1,000 [25]
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, New York
Jessica
$1,000 [11]
This ex-Playboy playmate won round 1 (& $449 million) contesting her late 90-year-old husband's will
Anna Nicole Smith
Steve
$1,000 [16]
Bill Archer was the chairman of this committee in the House of Representatives
Ways and Means
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC PEOPLE

A copper statue of this hero of the 1960s welcomes visitors to Star City near Moscow

Yuri Gagarin (first man in space)

Jessica "Who is Khruschev?" — wagered $1,200
Ryan "Who is Yuri Gagarin?" — wagered $4,900
Steve "Who is Lenin?" — wagered $3,901

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