Show #3840 2001-04-20 (taped 2001-01-31) Regular

Contestants

Joe Collins — a stagehand from Lincolnwood, Illinois

Nancy Mitchell — a human resources systems manager from Easthampton, Massachusetts

Ashley Ward — an actress originally from Conyers, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ashley $2,000 $2,700 $4,100 $3,399
2nd place: Trip to the Lucayan Resort, Grand Bahama Island
$4,100
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Nancy $900 $3,300 $4,700 $3,000
3rd place: Samsung Digital Camera Package
$4,700
15 R, 2 W
Joe $900 $1,700 $9,100 $9,401
New champion: $9,401
$8,700
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY POINTING THE FINGER SELF-TITLED ALBUMS IT'S A DISASTER! I AM THE WALRUS "GOO" GOO G'JOOB
$100 [21]
Paris, Madrid, Rome
Paris
Nancy
$100 [6]
"Digital" slogan used by KFC
"Finger-lickin' good"
Ashley
$100 [1]
This 1999 album contains "Livin' La Vida Loca" & "Shake Your Bon-Bon"
Ricky Martin
Ashley
$100 [14]
In 1917 an ammunition ship explosion in this Nova Scotia capital leveled 2 square miles & killed 1,600 people
Halifax
Ashley
$100 [11]
These "elephantine" features on walruses can be up to 3 feet long & weigh 12 pounds
Tusks
Joe
$100 [16]
Proverbially, what's good for it is also good for the gander
The goose
Joe
$200 [22]
Beirut, Ankara, Tel Aviv
Ankara
Nancy
$200 [7]
The work seen here is located in this chapel, erected 1473-1481
The Sistine Chapel
Nancy
$200 [2]
No. 1 songs from this 1990 album included "Vision Of Love" & "Someday"
Mariah Carey
Ashley
$200 [25]
This Pennsylvania city had more than $200 million in damage when it was flooded yet again in 1977
Johnstown
Nancy
$200 [12]
The walrus is valued by Eskimos for this, a fat layer under the skin from which oil is made
Blubber
Ashley
$200 [17]
Disney character who hit the big time in 1932's "Mickey's Revue"
Goofy
Ashley
$300 [23]
Canberra, Wellington, Jakarta
Jakarta
Ashley
$300 [8]
Equal to about 9 inches, a span is measured from the tip of the thumb to the tip of this
Little finger (pinky)
Ashley
$300 [3]
"Sailing" sailed off this 1980 album
"Christopher Cross"
Joe
$300 [26]
In 1992 "He" hit the Bahamas, Florida & Louisiana, causing about $22 billion in damage
Hurricane Andrew
Ashley
$300 [13]
Some walruses can live up to this many years, or 20 terms for a U.S. Congressman
40
Nancy
$300 [18]
A "nutty" state nickname for Georgia
"The Goober State"
Ashley
$400 [24]
Brasilia, Santiago, Caracas
Caracas
Joe
DD $400 [9]
Dactyloscopy is the practice of using these as a means of identification
Fingerprints
Ashley
$400 [4]
"That's The Way Love Goes" is on this album, period
Janet
Ashley Joe
$400 [27]
Egyptair flight 990 went down in the waters of Nantucket not far from where this Italian liner sank in 1956
Andrea Doria
Nancy
$400 [15]
A walrus feeds on these mollusks, though we doubt they're served "casino"
Clams
Nancy
$400 [19]
Term for a black-footed albatross found on islands in the Pacific
gooney birds
Ashley Joe
$500 [30]
New Delhi, Beijing, Islamabad
Beijing
Nancy
$500 [10]
Keuka, Seneca & Cayuga, for example
Finger Lakes
Ashley
$500 [5]
"Dimelo (I Need To Know)" the title of this album that includes that song
Marc Anthony
Ashley
$500 [28]
In the worst aviation disaster, nearly 600 people were killed when 2 jets collided on Tenerife in this island group
Canary Islands
Nancy
$500 [29]
Nicknamed "The Walrus", this golfer seen here won the 1982 Masters
Craig Stadler
$500 [20]
She's the British chimp expert born April 3, 1934
Jane Goodall
Nancy

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR NAME THE MOVIE NEW JERSEYITES HISTORICAL NOVELS SECTIONS ALPHABETICALLY BEFORE AFTER
$200 [25]
Templar enlistment rose dramatically following writings by this medieval saint who shares his name with a dog breed
Saint Bernard
Nancy
$200 [1]
1964:"I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else"
My Fair Lady
Joe
$200 [16]
What was once the town of Raritan is now named for this "inventive" New Jersey resident
Thomas Edison
Joe
$200 [6]
Adina de Zavala, who barricaded herself inside this San Antonio landmark to save it in 1908, inspired a 1999 novel
The Alamo
Ashley
$200 [11]
Section of the Los Angeles Times that covers money matters like the stock market & personal finance
Business
Nancy Joe
$200 [17]
Less than a friend, one may be "passing"
Acquaintance
Nancy
$400 [26]
Burned at the stake in 1314, Jacques De Molay was the last Templar of this title, today used by chess players
Grandmaster
Joe
$400 [2]
1974:"No, it's pronounced Eye-Gor"
Young Frankenstein
Joe
$400 [18]
Known as "Bull", this WWII admiral from Elizabeth said he didn't trust a man who doesn't drink or smoke
William F. Halsey
$400 [7]
"Henry St. John, Gentleman" is set in this Virginia valley at the onset of the American Revolution
Shenandoah Valley
$400 [12]
The cabaletta is the last section of one of these songs in an opera
Aria
Ashley
$400 [21]
This term for what an adolescent grows into comes from the same Latin root
Adult
Ashley
$600 [27]
By arresting them all & seizing their property in 1307, this country's Philip IV began the suppression of the Templars
France
Ashley Joe
$800 [4]
1992:"You be sweet to your wife. My husband wasn't sweet to me and look how I turned out"
Thelma & Louise
$600 [19]
New Jersey-born singer-actor seen here:
Jon Bon Jovi
Nancy
$600 [8]
The 3rd book in James Reasoner's Civil War saga is named for this Maryland battle the Rebels called Sharpsburg
Antietam
Nancy
$600 [13]
The ordinary conic sections are the hyperbola, the parabola, the ellipse & this
Circle
$600 [22]
They're what the 2 "A"s in NASA stand for
Aeronautics & Administration
Joe
$800 [28]
Only Templar knights wore the distinctive white surcoats emblazoned with this symbol
Red cross
$1,000 [5]
1988:"I have a head for business and a bod for sin"
Working Girl
Ashley
DD $700 [30]
James Bayley, bishop of Newark, named this Jersey school after his aunt, the first U.S.-born saint
Seton Hall (after Elizabeth Ann Seton)
Joe
$800 [9]
Jane Porter's 1810 novel "The Scottish Chiefs" tells the story of this man, the hero of "Braveheart"
William Wallace
Joe
$800 [14]
The banana section rooted for its own celebrity couple on this Bert Convy show
Tattletales
Joe
$800 [23]
Meaning "walking", it's how Shakespeare's Henry V & Sherlock Holmes described "the game"
Afoot
Joe
$1,000 [29]
The last Templar headquarters & base for attacks on Palestine was this eastern Mediterranean island
Cyprus
Nancy
DD $1,700 [3]
1970:"All you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich..."
Five Easy Pieces
Joe
$800 [20]
This director of "Lone Star", "Passion Fish" & "Return of the Secaucus Seven" has long been based in Hoboken
John Sayles
Joe
$1,000 [10]
The first novel written by a Zulu in the Zulu language was John L. Dube's novel about this great Zulu chief
Shaka
Joe
$1,000 [15]
Gandy dancer is a slang term for a gang laborer who maintains sections of this
Railroad track
Nancy
$1,000 [24]
Term for a person who studies or teaches the ABCs
Abecedarian

Final Jeopardy!

ENGINEERING

The first one, built in 1893, consisted of 2,200 tons of steel, rose 268 feet & had 36 cars each carrying 60 people

Ferris Wheel

Ashley "What is a skycar?" — wagered $701
Nancy "What" — wagered $1,700
Joe "What is a ferris wheel?" — wagered $301

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