Show #4116 2002-06-24 (taped 2002-02-26) Regular

Eric Floyd game 3.

Contestants

Peter Paniccia — a bartender from Columbus, Ohio

Maria Harrigan — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois

Eric Floyd — a college student from Calhoun, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $55,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eric $4,000 $10,200 $19,400 $15,000
3-day champion: $70,200
$18,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Maria $0 $-1,200 $1,600 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$1,600
5 R, 4 W
Peter $800 $3,400 $1,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$13,400
18 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NICKNAMES HAIL TO THE K.C. CHIEF GIVE 'EM A HAND GERMAN CITIES DISASTER DIGEST GARDEN TALK
$200 [2]
Learning her craft from Tessie the Tassel-Twirler, this burlesque artist was "The Best Undressed Woman in America"
Gypsy Rose Lee
$200 [1]
This hall of fame ex-Chief QB is actually much better known as a 49er QB
Joe Montana
Peter
$200 [17]
On Feb. 1, 1964 this song replaced Bobby Vinton's "There! I've Said It Again" at No. 1 & stayed there 7 weeks
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Eric
$200 [10]
This capital's oldest church, older than the city itself, is the 800-year-old St. Nicholas Church
Berlin
Eric
$200 [15]
A shaking of the earth's surface caused by the rapid movement of the earth's outer layer
earthquake
Maria
$200 [26]
To protect yourself from losing, you may do this to "a bet"
hedge
Maria
$400 [3]
Born in 1642, this great British scientist was known as "The Priest of Nature"
Isaac Newton
Peter
$400 [6]
This hall of fame ex-Chief QB now hosts "Inside the NFL" for HBO
Len Dawson
Eric
$400 [18]
Nickname of the aces & eights held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder in Deadwood, S.D.
dead man's hand
Eric
$400 [11]
In 1923 Hitler staged his Beer Hall Putsch in this capital of Bavaria
Munich
Peter
$400 [16]
It's the up to 300-mile-per-hour phenomenon seen here
tornado
Eric
$400 [27]
In "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" it's what you do, do, do for the home team
root
Peter
$600 [4]
Nicknamed "Beau", he brought moderation to men's apparel by replacing breeches with trousers
Beau Brummell
Peter
$600 [7]
When he retired, this running back, a former Raider, was second to Jerry Rice in career TDs with 145
Marcus Allen
Eric
$600 [19]
In this 1967 film Paul Newman is sent to a prison chain gang for destroying parking meters
Cool Hand Luke
Peter
$600 [12]
In German, it's Koln; in English, this
Cologne
Eric
$600 [22]
Rain in the form of balls or lumps of clear ice more than 1/5 of an inch in diameter
hail
Peter
$600 [28]
To conceal a bugging device
plant
Eric Maria
$800 [5]
Imprisoned by the Polish government in the early 1980s, he became known as "The Man of Iron"
Lech Walesa
Eric
$800 [8]
During Super Bowl IV, this head coach, actually said, "Let's matriculate the ball down the field!"
Hank Stram
Eric
$800 [20]
In Matthew 27:24, he "took water, and washed his hands" of the responsibility for Christ's crucifixion
Pontius Pilate
Eric
$1,000 [14]
Europe's second-busiest port, it's said to have more bridges than Venice & Amsterdam combined
Hamburg
Eric
$800 [23]
It's any swift movement of snow or ice down a mountainside or slope, or a Colorado hockey team
avalanche
Maria
$800 [29]
It's a thinner-than-foil sheet of gold
leaf
Eric Maria
$1,000 [25]
After the brutal suppression of a 1956 uprising, this Soviet premier became "The Butcher of Budapest"
Khrushchev
Eric Maria
$1,000 [9]
When teams tried to run at this 6'7", 274-pound defensive lineman, the buck stopped there
Buck Buchanan
$1,000 [21]
In this book Adam Smith created the economic principle of the invisible hand
The Wealth of Nations
Eric
DD $1,600 [13]
A British royal house that ruled from 1714 to 1901 originated in this city from which it got its name
Hanover
Eric
$1,000 [24]
They're hurricane-type cyclones in the western Pacific
typhoon
Eric
$1,000 [30]
When your eyes are smiling, these contractible diaphragms may be changing their sizes
iris
Peter

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD TESTAMENT GROUPS GENETICS BITS & PIECES MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS THE "CRU" CLUE
$400 [7]
Psalm 37 says that after this group inherits the earth, they shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace
meek
Eric
$400 [1]
It can be a packed-together group or a teen's puppy love
crush
Peter
$400 [13]
Men get their X chromosome from this parent
mother
Peter
$400 [5]
The stone or piece of lumber that lies under a door, it's usually beneath a carried bride
threshold
Peter
$400 [26]
This show which opened on Broadway in 1993 originated as a 1969 rock opera album
Tommy
Eric
$400 [18]
Unrefined petroleum
crude
Eric
$800 [8]
Want to cure your boil? Try Isaiah's remedy of a lump of this fruit, whose leaves were used to make clothing
fig
Eric
$800 [2]
Carrying on the whole "lamb of God" motif, this is the term for a church's congregation
flock
Maria Peter
$800 [14]
Trisomy 21, a condition where a person has an extra copy of chromosome 21, is also called this syndrome
Down Syndrome
Eric
$800 [6]
The jabby bit on the end of a fork; you can call them prongs or these
tines
Eric
$800 [27]
"Raisin" is the musical version of this Lorraine Hansberry play with a longer title
A Raisin in the Sun
Eric
$800 [19]
Hamlet said, "I must be" this "only to be kind"
cruel
Peter
$1,200 [9]
Bani the Gadite & Elhanan, son of Dodo, were part of the personal guard of this second king of Israel
David
Peter
$1,200 [3]
The innate desire in you to be part of a group especially of cattle, is known as this "instinct"
herd mentality (instinct)
Eric
$1,200 [15]
These controversial cells are obtained from human embryos at the blastocyst stage
stem cells
Peter
$1,200 [23]
What the cop yelled when he saw this part of a Greek temple between cornice & architrave running away
frieze
Peter
$1,200 [28]
"Rent", which features a drug-addicted dancer named Mimi, is loosely based on this opera
La Bohème
Peter
$1,200 [20]
Chrysler's PT isn't a boat, it's this
Cruiser
Peter
$1,600 [10]
He sent 10 of his kids to Egypt to buy corn from his other son Joseph
Jacob
Eric
$1,600 [4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew writes on a chalkboard.) If A represents all people & B represents men, then B is this of A
a subset
Maria
$2,000 [17]
The genesis of this, abbreviated HGP, was a 1984 conference in Alta, Utah
Human Genome Project
Eric
$1,600 [24]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew holds a camera.) It's the term for the flash holder on a camera
a shoe
Peter
$1,600 [29]
Anne Baxter, who played the title role in this 1950 film, also starred in "Applause", the musical based on it
All About Eve
$1,600 [21]
This processor from Transmeta is supposed to make your laptop run longer on every battery charge
Crusoe
$2,000 [11]
"The Open Bible" calls this fifth book Moses' "Upper Desert Discourse"
Deuteronomy
Peter
$2,000 [12]
From the Turkic word ordu comes this term for a group of Asian nomads, once "golden"
horde
Peter
DD $3,000 [16]
It wasn't until 1956 that it was established that human cells contain this diploid number of chromosomes
46
Peter
$2,000 [25]
Between the pulp & the enamel in a tooth is this
dentin
Maria
DD $9,000 [30]
This 1985 Tony winner was based on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Big River
Peter
$2,000 [22]
They're hors d'oeuvres of crunchy celery or carrot pieces served with a dip
crudités
Peter

Final Jeopardy!

GOVERNMENT & ECONOMICS

Though a legal requirement in 49 states, it failed in the '90s as an amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Balanced Budget Amendment

Peter "What is Equal Rights?" — wagered $1,400
Maria "What is theflag prequal right ame" — wagered $1,600
Eric "What is the seat belt Law?" — wagered $4,400

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