Show #3814 2001-03-15 (taped 2000-12-05) Regular

Contestants

David Sales — a physician from Northbrook, Illinois

Nick Ireland — a court reporting instructor from Longview, Texas

Raj Choudhary — a customer care manager from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Raj $500 $1,500 $7,000 $10,000
3-day champion: $26,800
$7,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Nick $900 $2,400 $7,800 $1,599
3rd place: a Natural Wonders gift certificate
$7,800
20 R, 1 W
David $2,000 $2,400 $6,600 $6,199
2nd place: a trip to Paris courtesy of Priceline.com
$6,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AWARDS DON'T ROCK THE... STATES BY SENATORS TONY ORLANDO! IT'S COLUMBO JUST "ONE" MORE THING
$100 [6]
In 1999 Gisele Bundchen was this of the Year at the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards
Model
Raj
$100 [11]
This large barge of the Bible carried passengers in pairs
Noah's Ark
Nick
$100 [1]
Akaka & Inouye
Hawaii
Nick
$100 [26]
Collective name for Tony's backup singers Telma Hopkins & Joyce Vincent
Dawn
Raj
$100 [21]
Sri Lanka's port city of Colombo is near the mouth of the Kelani River on this ocean
Indian Ocean
Raj
$100 [16]
Proverbially, this action "deserves another"
one good turn
Raj
$200 [7]
Hollywood.com gives Golden Hitches to these previews of coming attractions
trailers
Raj
$200 [12]
It can be logs lashed together or inflatable rubber
raft
David
$200 [2]
Thurmond & Hollings
South Carolina
Nick
$200 [27]
In 1980 Tony appeared in a Broadway production of a musical about this circus showman
P.T. Barnum
Nick
$200 [22]
Dating back 2,000 years, the Kelaniya Raja Mahavihara is Colombo's most prominent temple of this religion
Buddhism
Raj Nick
$200 [17]
This 4-word phrase means "suitable to be worn by almost everyone"
one size fits all
Raj
$400 [9]
The M in AMS, which gives awards for predicting the weather, stands for this 14-letter word
Meteorological
David
$300 [13]
Take note, these large luxurious ships can hold passengers (& LPs)
liners
$300 [3]
Cochran & Lott
Mississippi
Raj
$300 [28]
In 1977 Orlando announced his retirement after the suicide of this comedian friend
Freddie Prinze
Raj
$300 [23]
This political official's house in Colombo is known as "Queen's House"
President
Nick David
$300 [18]
This playground selection system counts closed hands as "spuds"
"One potato, two potato..."
David
DD $500 [8]
The Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership honors the late secretary of this cabinet department
Commerce
Raj
$400 [14]
In the 1988 America's Cup, the Stars & Stripes, this type of ship, beat New Zealand's entry
(racing) yacht
David
$400 [4]
Specter & Santorum
Pennsylvania
Raj
$400 [29]
Tony wondered about the whereabouts of this title woman in thefollowing:
"Sweet Gypsy Rose"
David
$400 [24]
In 1791 the city of Colombo passed to this empire that made it the capital of its crown colony of Ceylon
Great Britain/England
Raj
$400 [19]
This 1954 big screener was highlighted by Marlon Brando as the leader of the "Black Rebels"
The Wild One
Nick
$500 [10]
In 1979 Philip Johnson was the first winner of the Pritzker Prize in this field
Architecture
David
$500 [15]
This 19th century speedy, sharp-bowed, fully rigged sailing ship sounds like it went to Barber-y Coast School
clipper
David
$500 [5]
Grassley & Harkin
Iowa
Nick
$500 [30]
In the early '90s Tony moved to this Missouri city where he opened his own theater
Branson
Nick
$500 [25]
Traders from this Iberian nation arrived in Colombo in the 16th c. & built a fort to protect their spice trade
Portugal
Nick
$500 [20]
In a No. 1 R&B hit from 1978, Funkadelic celebrated this "under a groove"
"One Nation"

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 1920s WHO'S YOUR DADDY? BOTANY FILMS OF THE '90s THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES "LES" IS MORE
$200 [2]
In 1921 this Swiss psychiatrist developed his famous inkblot test
Hermann Rorschach
Nick
$200 [7]
Horse-loving Princess Anne
Prince Philip
Raj David
$200 [22]
Introduced into New Zealand in 1906, this fruit was named for the country's national symbol
Kiwi fruit
Nick
$200 [15]
Who could forget Demi Moore as Hester Prynne in this 1995 film?
The Scarlet Letter
Nick
$200 [16]
"I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money"
Arthur Miller ( Death of a Salesman )
Nick
$200 [26]
This drug-addled big screener from 1987 was based on a Bret Easton Ellis novel
Less than Zero
Raj
$400 [3]
During a cruise Harold Vanderbilt perfected the "contract" form of this game
Bridge
Nick
$400 [8]
Tricia Cox
Richard Nixon
David
$400 [23]
The Holy Ghost flower, an orchid, is the national flower of this long, narrow Central American nation
Panama
Raj
$400 [14]
Al Pacino couldn't see but he sure could tango in this 1992 film
Scent of a Woman
Raj
$400 [17]
"WEAF presents Dinner at Brighton Beach starring the Jacob Jerome family..."
Neil Simon ( Brighton Beach Memoirs )
Raj
$400 [29]
Sappho's birthplace
Lesbos
David
$600 [4]
Awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith", he said no thanks
Sinclair Lewis
Nick
$800 [10]
Actress Angelina Jolie
Jon Voight
Nick
$600 [24]
This spice comes from the membrane that covers the nutmeg seed kernel
Mace
David
$600 [13]
"They stole his mind, now he wants it back" was a tagline for this Arnold Schwarzenegger film
Total Recall
Raj Nick
$600 [18]
"I think you ought to know, Doolittle, that Mr. Higgins's intentions are entirely honorable"
George Bernard Shaw ( Pygmalion )
Nick
$600 [30]
This country of southern Africa was formerly known as Basutoland
Lesotho
Nick
$800 [5]
Expelled from the Communist Party in 1927, he was deported to Turkey in 1929 & later moved to Mexico
Leon Trotsky
Raj
DD $1,000 [9]
Ilyasah & Attallah Shabazz
Malcolm X
David
$800 [25]
By definition, this branch of botany studies fossil plants
paleobotany
David
$800 [12]
John Travolta was the perfect candidate for this 1998 movie based on a book by "Anonymous"
Primary Colors
Raj
$800 [19]
"Good-by, good-by world. Good-by Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking..."
Thornton Wilder ( Our Town )
Raj
$800 [27]
She's the towering Olympic & WNBA standout seen here:
Lisa Leslie
Raj
$1,000 [6]
Some dispute it but Floyd Bennett & this man claimed to have been first to fly over the North Pole in May 1926
Richard Byrd
Nick
$1,000 [11]
Tennis star Alexandra Stevenson
Julius Erving
Raj
$1,000 [21]
In 1742 he became professor of botany at Upsala, Sweden
Carl Linnaeus
David
DD $1,500 [1]
In this 1990 film Robin Williams played a doctor who was able to rouse a group of catatonic patients
Awakenings
Raj
$1,000 [20]
"Gimme a whiskey--ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby"
Eugene O'Neill ( Anna Christie )
$1,000 [28]
Group name for the islands that extend from Puerto Rico to the northeast coast of South America
Lesser Antilles
David

Final Jeopardy!

THE CALENDAR

It's the second-shortest month in most of the U.S., beating out the third-shortest months by one hour

April

David "What is November?" — wagered $401
Raj "What is April" — wagered $3,000
Nick "What is Apli" — wagered $6,201

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