Show #3857 2001-05-15 (taped 2001-02-13) Regular

Contestants

Mike Madison — a law professor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Erica Gaddy — a stay-at-home mom from Carencro, Louisiana

Travis Brazil — a waiter and actor from North Hollywood, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $11,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Travis $1,200 $2,500 $8,900 $2,800
3-day champion: $14,599
$8,300
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Erica $200 $2,500 $7,500 $1
2nd place: Trip to Hong Kong, courtesy of Priceline.com
$6,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Mike $1,400 $2,800 $7,200 $1
3rd place: Bikeshop.com Gift Certificate
$7,200
14 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW PRODUCT PLACEMENT WARS BY BATTLE FAST FOOD HAIKU 2001 U.S. STAMPS 4-LETTER VERBS
$100 [6]
As this man "Was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son of man be...in...the Earth"
Jonah
Travis
$100 [13]
Austin Powers' warning "Get your hands off my Heinie, baby" referred to this beer
Heineken
Travis
$100 [1]
1944:The Bulge
World War II
Travis
$100 [8]
No more chihuahua/but Gorditas & tacos/Chalupa Supreme
Taco Bell
Erica
$100 [26]
Cost of the 2001 stamp seen here
34 cents
Erica Mike
$100 [21]
According to the title of a 1992 film "White Men Can't" do this
Jump
Travis
$200 [7]
"If a man have" 100 of these & one "be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine" to seek the stray?
Sheep
Erica
$200 [15]
In 2000's "Hamlet", Ethan Hawke soliloquizes in one of this chain's video stores
Blockbuster
Mike
$200 [2]
1862:Second Bull Run
U.S. Civil War
Travis
$200 [9]
Sourdough or jumbo/Ultimate Cheeseburger too/Fajita Pita
Jack in the Box
Travis Erica
$200 [27]
The Nobel Prize 1901-2001 stamp is a joint issue of the U.S. & this country
Sweden
Mike
$200 [22]
TV game show host Martindale
Wink
Travis
$300 [14]
"Suffer" these, "and forbid them not, to come unto me"
Little children
Erica
$300 [16]
Sales for these candies rocketed after being featured in "E.T."
Reese's Pieces
Travis
$300 [3]
1968:The Tet Offensive
Vietnam War
Mike
$300 [10]
Grand Slam, Denver Slam/French Slam, Slim Slam, Shamrock Slam/Dagwood Breakfast Slam
Denny's
Erica
$300 [28]
On the Love-Letters series, the bud of this flower is the "O" in the word love
Rose
Mike
$300 [23]
This animal verb means to down your food voraciously
Wolf
Travis
$400 [17]
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out...if" this "offend thee, cut it off"
Right hand
Erica
$400 [19]
Business for these sunglasses wasn't risky after Tom Cruise wore them in "Risky Business"
Ray-Ban
Travis
$400 [4]
1916:Verdun
World War I
Mike
DD $500 [11]
Sandwiches & wraps/seven with 6-grams of fat/6-inch or footlong
Subway
Erica
$400 [29]
1 of the 2 Rockwells with works featured in the American Illustrators series
Norman Rockwell or Rockwell Kent
Erica
$400 [24]
What a barber does, or the "joint" in which he overcharges for the service
Clip
Erica
$500 [18]
In parables that bring business to dentists, "There shall be weeping and" this activity
Gnashing of teeth
Erica
$500 [20]
This company's Powerbook helps Jeff Goldblum save the planet in "Independence Day"
Apple
Mike
$500 [5]
1461:Towton, Yorkshire
the Wars of the Roses
Travis Erica
$500 [12]
Ultimate deep dish/hand tossed & crunchy thin crust/Heatwave carriers
Domino's
Erica Mike
$500 [30]
The Chinese New Year stamp for 2001 features this animal set in grass-style calligraphy
Snake/serpent (2001 being the year of the snake)
Mike
$500 [25]
A housewife might do it to the mantle; a forensic expert would do it to look for fingerprints
Dust
Erica

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 50 STATES YALE A KITTY CAT-EGORY WORDS & MUSIC THE U.N. "GENERAL" ASSEMBLY
$200 [1]
On December 30, 1940 this state opened its first freeway, Arroyo Seco Parkway in Pasadena
California
Travis
$200 [6]
A Yale song goes "Boola, Boola Boola...when we roughhouse" this school "they will holler Boola Boo"
Harvard
Travis
$200 [9]
Technically, these highly sensitive touch organs are known as vibrissae
Whiskers
Erica
$200 [14]
"Embraceable You":Ira Gershwin & ____
George Gershwin
Erica
$200 [26]
It's the "Principal judicial organ of the United Nations"
World Court/International Court of Justice
Erica
$200 [18]
This soap opera premiered April 1, 1963
General Hospital
Travis
$400 [2]
The town of Warsaw on Harry Truman Reservoir had this state's highest & lowest temperatures, 118 & -40, respectively
Missouri
Travis
$600 [8]
Senator Arlen Specter & Clarence Thomas are among graduates of this prestigious part of Yale
Law school
Erica
$400 [10]
This most popular breed of longhair cat is also simply known as the longhair
Persian
Erica
$400 [15]
"Camelot":Alan Jay Lerner & ____
Frederic Lowe
Erica
$400 [27]
The seventh Secretary-General, he's fluent in English, French & several African languages
Kofi Annan
Travis Erica
$400 [19]
A shop selling a variety of goods
General store
Mike
$600 [3]
A map of this state appears on its seal along with the names of its neighbors Florida, Georgia, Mississippi & Tenn.
Alabama
Travis
$800 [17]
Generations of the Bush family have belonged to this society called Bones for short
Skull and Bones
Travis
$600 [11]
It's a term for any domestic cat, especially a female; or a coat with dark stripes & blotches
Tabby
Travis Erica
$600 [16]
"Do You Know The Way To San Jose?":Hal David & ____
Burt Bacharach
Mike
$600 [28]
United Nations troops first arrived to keep the peace on this eastern Mediterranean isle in March 1964
Cyprus
Mike
$600 [23]
A drug that produces unconsciousness
General anesthetic/anesthesia
Travis
$800 [4]
"Where The Columbines Grow" has been its state song since 1915
Colorado
Mike
DD $1,000 [7]
Familiar first name of benefactor Yale & alumnus Whitney
Eli
Travis
$1,000 [13]
This "Turkish" cat was named for the city of Ankara
Angora
$800 [21]
"Stardust":Mitchell Parish & ____
Hoagy Carmichael
Erica
$800 [29]
Born in 1918, this controversial figure served in World War II & was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations
Kurt Waldheim
Travis
$800 [24]
The price of unreserved seats at an event
General admission
Travis
$1,000 [5]
In the 1800s the Pony Express & the Oregon Trail crossed over the Rockies at South Pass in this state
Wyoming
Erica
$1,000 [20]
Famous Finn who designed Ingalls Rink, seen here
Eero Saarinen
Mike
DD $2,000 [12]
In 1878 the first of this breed arrived in the U.S., a gift to the wife of President Hayes from the American consul in Bangkok
Siamese
Erica
$1,000 [22]
"Maria":Stephen Sondheim & ____
Leonard Bernstein
Erica
$1,000 [30]
In 1992 this troubled European nation was expelled from the United Nations
Yugoslavia
Mike
$1,000 [25]
It was the nickname of Bo & Luke's fast-moving 1969 Dodge Charger on "The Dukes of Hazzard"
"General Lee"
Travis

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS OF THE 1920s

Lawrence Durrell said that in a 1928 novel this man used 4-letter words to canonize & celebrate raw sensuality

D.H. Lawrence ("Lady Chatterley's Lover")

Mike "Who was Henry ____" — wagered $7,199
Erica "Who is Henry Miller?" — wagered $7,499
Travis "Who is Henry Miller?" — wagered $6,100

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