Show #3861 2001-05-21 (taped 2001-02-14) Regular

Babu Srinivasan game 4.

Contestants

David Martin — a publicity and editorial assistant from Queens, New York

Laura Archer — a homemaker from Atlanta, Georgia

Babu Srinivasan — a graduate student and history teacher from Houston, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $43,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Babu $1,400 $3,200 $9,200 $18,300
4-day champion: $61,800
$5,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Laura $2,000 $2,900 $6,500 $6,500
2nd place: Trip to Barcelona, courtesy of Priceline.com
$6,700
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
David $800 $1,900 $8,500 $2,500
3rd place: Cambridge Sound Works Power Speakers
$8,500
19 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

01/01/01 2-LETTER WORDS LET'S VISIT CUBA SCHOOL DAYS SPORTS CUPS INITIALS M.S.
$100 [19]
On January 1, 2001 Detroit mayor Dennis Archer opened one of these that had been sealed January 1, 1901
Time capsule
David
$100 [18]
Yes, for a senor or senorita
Babu
$100 [1]
Disco Ayala in the city of Trinidad is located inside one of these, so you're always in the batroom
Cave
David
$100 [13]
This Oscar-winning star of "Emma" & "Bounce" wasn't a Spice Girl, but a Spence girl, from NYC's Spence School
Gwyneth Paltrow
David
$100 [2]
The Stanley Cup
Ice hockey
Laura
$100 [3]
She was in the TV miniseries "Holocaust" & starred in the Holocaust film "Sophie's Choice"
Meryl Streep
Laura
$200 [21]
The first legal direct boat trips between Taiwan & this country in over 50 years began service
People's Republic of China
Babu
$200 [27]
In the name of the children's card game, it precedes "fish"
Go
Babu
$200 [5]
Take note, hotels in Cuba rent by the night, most inns & posadas by this, hmmmmmm
By the hour
Laura
$200 [14]
This Ivy League school gave Bill Bradley his B.A.
Princeton
Babu
$200 [7]
The America's Cup
Yachting
Babu
$200 [4]
On TV he played Lt. Col. Henry Blake of the 4077th
McLean Stevenson
Babu
$300 [22]
This NBC anchor was Grand Marshall of the Rose Bowl Parade
Tom Brokaw
David
$300 [28]
Bunyan's Babe was a blue one
Ox
David
$300 [15]
Visit this site that Teddy did in 1898 & see small monuments marking the battle & a rusted ferris wheel
San Juan Hill
David
$300 [20]
Superstar artists Robert Longo & Cindy Sherman both did time at this university's Buffalo campus
SUNY (State University of New York)
Babu
$300 [9]
The Ryder Cup
Golf
Babu
$300 [6]
One of his "SCTV" characters was Jackie Rogers Jr.
Martin Short
David
$400 [23]
At the Las Vegas House of Blues Axl got in gear & debuted a new version of this rock group
Guns N' Roses
David
$400 [29]
It's what you "get" when you lose your job or your head
Ax
Laura
DD $300 [17]
Diving & snorkeling are popular (between U.S. invasions) at Playa Giron on this bay
Bay of Pigs
Laura
$400 [25]
Bertolucci & Pirandello gained wisdom at this city's university, known as La Sapienza, "Wisdom"
Rome
$400 [10]
Royal Ascot Gold Cup
Horse racing
Laura
$400 [8]
This children's author cooked up "Chicken Soup With Rice"
Maurice Sendak
$500 [24]
This Arkansas-based chicken firm announced it was going to buy the No. 1 U.S. beef processor, IBP Inc.
Tyson Foods
Babu
$500 [30]
Don't have a cow, man, it's just the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet
Mu
Laura
$400 [16]
The Cuban home of this "Snows of Kilimanjaro" author is preserved almost as he left it
Ernest Hemingway
Laura
$500 [26]
Ken Griffey Jr. attended this city's Moeller High, most famous as a football powerhouse
Cincinnati
Babu
$500 [12]
The Winston Cup
Auto racing
Laura
$500 [11]
In 1985, at age 12, she became the youngest to be named Yugoslavia's Sportswoman of the Year
Monica Seles
Babu

Double Jeopardy! Round

2000 AND WON JEAN-WHAT? BRITANNICA AN UNFINISHED LIT CATEGORY MIKE MYERS SCH"WING"!
$200 [8]
Tom Bergeron won a Daytime Emmy in this category
Best Game Show Host
$200 [6]
Actor Van Damme
Jean-Claude
David
$200 [26]
If you're awarded one of these, you get to put VC after your name
Victoria Cross
Babu
$200 [1]
Even if Hawthorne had finished "Septimius Felton" & "Dr. Grimshawe's Secret", we doubt they'd have rivaled his "The Scarlet..."
Letter
Laura
$200 [11]
Mike was born May 25, 1963 in this Canadian town; Simon & Garfunkel might wonder if it has a "fair"
Scarborough
David
$200 [21]
Allison Janney plays press secretary C.J. Cregg on this TV drama
The West Wing
Laura
$400 [9]
The Latin Grammys' first Record of the Year went to "Corazon Espinado", by this man's band Mana
Carlos Santana
David
$400 [7]
20th century thinker Sartre
Jean-Paul
Babu
$400 [27]
This body is the final court of appeals in England
the House of Lords
Babu
$400 [2]
The middle class is skewered in the incomplete novel "Bouvard And Pecuchet" by French author Gustave...
Flaubert
David
$400 [17]
Put a pinkie to your lips & say the name of this "Austin Powers" villain, partly based on SNL's Lorne Michaels
Dr. Evil
David
$400 [22]
A song asks, "Did you ever know that you're my hero... you are" this
the wind beneath my wings
Laura
$800 [14]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the discoverers of polymers that conduct this
electricity
Babu
$600 [10]
Film director Godard
Jean-Luc
Laura
$800 [29]
The Welsh village of Portmeirion was made famous from its use in this Patrick McGoohan TV series
The Prisoner
Babu
$600 [3]
"Poodle Springs" was Raymond Chandler's final, partial tale of detective Philip...
Marlowe
David
$600 [18]
First name of Mike's character Mr. Campbell, an "excellent" host on a public access station in Aurora, Illinois
Wayne
Laura
$600 [23]
An officer in the Royal Air Force, or a space combat video game
Wing Commander
David
$1,000 [15]
A 2000 Pulitzer went to Stacy Schiff for "Vera", a bio of the wife of this "Lolita" author
Vladimir Nabokov
David
$800 [12]
18th century thinker Rousseau
Jean-Jacques
Babu
$1,000 [30]
Name of the saint credited with founding Glasgow, it's also the first name of Scottish explorer Park
Mungo
$800 [4]
Though unfinished at his death, "Western Star" won a Pulitzer for Stephen Vincent...
Benet
Laura
$800 [19]
On "SNL" this German "Sprockets" host would invite guests to touch his monkey
Dieter
David
$800 [24]
Jon Favreau was so money, baby, & Heather Graham knew it in this 1996 flick
Swingers
Laura
DD $1,600 [13]
The NAACP's Spingarn Medal for 2000 went to this talk show host
Oprah Winfrey
Babu
$1,000 [16]
Hatian leader Aristide
Jean-Bertrand
Babu Laura
DD $3,600 [28]
Number of Henrys who ruled England between 1000 & 1600 A.D.
8
Babu
$1,000 [5]
At his death, Christopher Marlowe left part of a poem on "Hero and..."
Leander
David
$1,000 [20]
Mike played both father & very nervous son in the '93 film "So I" did this
Married an Axe Murderer
Laura
$1,000 [25]
A 1902 novel by Henry James
Wings of a Dove
David

Final Jeopardy!

COINS

The ancient coin seen here comes from this island

Crete (The Labyrinth, where the Minotaur lives)

Laura "What is Crete?" — wagered $0
David "What is Easter Island?" — wagered $6,000
Babu "What is Crete?" — wagered $9,100

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