Show #4136 2002-09-02 (taped 2002-06-10) Regular

First game of Season 19.

Contestants

Connie Campbell — a costume designer and historian originally from Cheyenne, Wyoming

Rev. Ricky Hoyt — a minister from Burbank, California

David Bitkower — a judicial law clerk from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $1,800 $2,600 $10,600 $1,599
3rd place: $1,000
$16,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Ricky $3,200 $6,600 $15,000 $5,000
2nd place: $2,000
$14,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Connie $4,200 $5,400 $9,800 $19,599
New champion: $19,599
$9,800
16 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE WAR YEARS MUSEUMS LITERARY LINGO "S"PORTS HOMEMAKING -O-O-O- YES!
$200 [1]
1861-1865
the Civil War
Ricky
$200 [2]
Elvis-a-Rama, just off the strip in this city, is said to have $5 million worth of Elvis memorabilia on display
Las Vegas
David Ricky
$200 [11]
From the Greek for "to sing", Keats wrote several, including one "On Melancholy"
an ode
David
$200 [21]
In declaring the winner in tennis, it traditionally comes between "game" & "match"
"set"
David
$200 [25]
Camphor is used to make plastics, but it's also a common repellent for these clothes-munchers
a moth
Ricky
$200 [16]
At this game's start, each player gets $1,500
Monopoly
Connie
$400 [3]
1914-1918
World War I
David
$400 [7]
Bertramka Villa in Prague, a museum devoted to this "Don Giovanni" composer, has his harpsichord on display
Mozart
Ricky
$400 [12]
The term "stream of" this first appeared in William James' 1890 textbook "The Principles of Psychology"
consciousness
Ricky
$400 [22]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue... and a perfect basketball shot!) Five-letter term that describes the perfection of the shot seen here... (I won't tell you what number take this is)
swish
David
$400 [26]
If you're washing greasy dishes, use cold water as you run this device
the disposal
David Ricky
$400 [17]
This son of Bathsheba was noted for a meeting with the Queen of Sheba
Solomon
Ricky
$600 [4]
In North America,1754-1763
the French & Indian Wars
Connie
$800 [9]
The Beachside branch of this Ca. museum endowed by an oil tycoon is modeled on the Villa Dei Papiri of ancient Rome
the Getty Museum
Ricky
$600 [13]
In the Petrarchan type of these, an octave is followed by a stanza of 6 lines
a sonnet
Ricky
$600 [23]
In football only the defense can score one of these
a safety
David
$600 [27]
When I sweep these "hare-y" items out from under the bed, they're not nearly as cute as Chuck Jones' Bugs
a dust bunny
Ricky
$600 [18]
In October 1973 this show debuted with Tom Snyder as its host
Tomorrow
Ricky
$800 [5]
264-241 B.C.
the First Punic War
Connie
DD $1,000 [8]
The museum devoted to this pop artist is in Pittsburgh, where he went to college
Andy Warhol
Ricky
$800 [14]
This adjective describes a genre of Spanish prose that depicts the adventures of roguish heroes
picaresque
Connie
$800 [24]
Bobby Hull & Al MacInnis are among NHL players famous for this powerful type of shot
slap
Ricky
$800 [28]
Properly speaking, a piece of carpet that isn't wall-to-wall is called this, also a slang term for a toupee
a rug
Ricky
$800 [19]
The city of Perm in Russia used to be called this, also the name of an infamous cocktail
Molotov
Ricky
$1,000 [6]
1701-1714, over a throne
the War of the Spanish Succession
David
$1,000 [10]
Behind St. Augustine's Church in Waikiki, there's a small museum devoted to this Belgian priest's life
Father Damien
Connie
$1,000 [15]
A poem or ballad, like Walter Scott's "Of the Last Minstrel"
a lay
Connie
$1,000 [30]
This term used in downhill skiing also means water-skiing on a single ski
slalom
Ricky
$1,000 [29]
Use this pad of metal shavings to clean up your kids' scuffs & your great-aunt's cigarette burns
steel wool (or SOS, or Brillo)
$1,000 [20]
This decorative style originated in France in the early 18th century
Rococo
Ricky Connie

Double Jeopardy! Round

BOOKSTORES EYE ON ASIA SONGS FROM MUSICALS WORLD ART "Y" ME? WE GOTTA BLAME SOMEBODY
$400 [1]
Blackwell's, in this British university city since 1879, has a 10,000-square-foot room of books
Oxford
Ricky
$400 [11]
On Dec. 13, 1937 Japan took over the city of Nanking in this Asian country after heavy fighting
China
Connie
$400 [2]
"I Could Have Danced All Night"
My Fair Lady
Connie
$400 [12]
Delacroix' tour of this continent in the 1830s resulted in paintings like "Fanatics of Tangier"
Africa
Connie
$400 [18]
It's the river that runs through Wuhan & Hubei
the Yangtze
Connie
$400 [23]
In a famous novel, he takes the blame when Becky Thatcher tears the schoolmaster's book
Tom Sawyer
David
$800 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands among the stacks.) I'm at City Lights, an important publisher as well as agroovy bookstorein this city
San Francisco
David
$800 [15]
Asian action star Zhou Run Fa is better known by this name in the West
Chow Yun Fat
Connie
$800 [3]
"I Feel Pretty"
West Side Story
David Ricky
$800 [13]
M's that apply to 20th c. painter David Siqueiros include Marxist, muralist & this nationality
Mexican
Connie
$800 [19]
A 1995 Newsweek article advised this Russian to "check into the Betski Ford Clinic"
Yeltsin
David
$800 [24]
The population decline & extinction of the Tasmanian wolf is largely blamed on this wild canine
the dingo
Connie
$1,200 [8]
Kramerbooks, in this city's Dupont Circle, was one of the USA's first of the now commonbookstore/cafes
Washington, DC
David
$1,200 [28]
This important Asian political & business "association" is abbreviated ASEAN
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
David
$1,200 [4]
"I Whistle A Happy Tune"
The King and I
Connie
$1,200 [14]
"Spring Ice" is a work by Tom Thomson, a landscapist in this country's Algonquin Park
Canada
David Connie
$1,200 [20]
This keyboardist's album "Live At the Acropolis" hit No. 5 on the charts
Yanni
David
$1,200 [25]
In a 1963 hit song, Eydie Gorme wanted to "Blame It On" this Latin American dance
the bossa nova
Connie
$1,600 [9]
Books of Wonder, an independent store, was the model for Meg Ryan's shop in this 1998 movie
You've Got Mail
David Ricky
$1,600 [29]
Keep "tabs" on this South Asian percussion instrument heard here
the tabla
$1,600 [5]
"I Enjoy Being A Girl"
Flower Drum Song
Connie
$1,600 [16]
In 1911 Kandinsky & Franz Marc formed Germany's Blaue Reiter group, named for their love of blue & of these animals
horses
Ricky
$2,000 [22]
This Irish poet's epitaph reads, "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by"
(William Butler) Yeats
Ricky
$1,600 [26]
Some blamed this President's death on an Indian curse put on him because of the Battle of Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
David
$2,000 [10]
This Paris bookstore run by Sylvia Beach was the first publisher of Joyce's "Ulysses"
Shakespeare and Company
David
$2,000 [30]
Built in Asia in the 1930s as a military supply route, this "Road" stretches from Kunming to Lashio
the Burma Road
David
$2,000 [6]
"I Hope I Get It"
A Chorus Line
David
$2,000 [17]
This Swiss sculptor known for lonely, elongated figures designed a set for "Waiting For Godot"
Giacometti
Ricky
DD $6,000 [21]
The title of an Al Jolson song, it was also Al's prophetic 5-word ad lib in 1927's "The Jazz Singer"
"You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"
David
DD $2,000 [27]
Later PM, as First Lord of the Admiralty he took the blame for the disastrous Gallipoli invasion
Winston Churchill
David

Final Jeopardy!

STATUES

On May 8, 2002 the city of Minneapolis placed a statue of this fictional character at the corner of 7th St. & Nicollet Mall

Mary Richards

Connie "Who is Mary Richards?" — wagered $9,799
David "WHO IS Paul Bunyan?" — wagered $9,001
Ricky "Who is Paul Bunyan?" — wagered $10,000

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