Show #3880 2001-06-15 (taped 2001-02-27) Regular

Contestants

Kara Miller — a graduate student from Carlisle, Massachusetts

Sam Meyer — a video editor from Atlanta, Georgia

Liam Healy — an attorney from Needham, Massachusetts

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Liam $-800 $100 $7,000 $0
3rd place: a Skagen Denmark shopping spree
$7,800
18 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Sam $1,800 $3,200 $9,600 $5,199
2nd place: a trip to Bal Harbour, Florida
$9,600
21 R, 0 W
Kara $200 $700 $4,100 $8,100
New champion: $8,100
$4,100
12 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

FACES IN HISTORY MOTTOES & SLOGANS THE OLD WEST CANDY NAMES NETWORKING IT'S ALL "HOO" YOU KNOW
$100 [10]
Depicted here, he was the first vice president who never became president
Aaron Burr
Kara
$100 [1]
Service that completes "The Few. The Proud..."
The Marines
Sam
$100 [15]
In 1862 he succeeded his brother Virgil as marshal of Tombstone
Wyatt Earp
Sam
$100 [5]
In a '77 film Diane Keaton was looking for him
Mr. Goodbar
Sam
$100 [24]
"Teletubbies","Sesame Street","Charlie Rose"
PBS
Sam
$100 [7]
It can be people who utter owl noises or the name of a popular chain of restaurants
Hooters
Sam
$200 [11]
"Little Lady" depictedherewho wrote the bestselling American novel of the 1850s
Harriet Beecher Stowe ( Uncle Tom's Cabin )
Liam
$200 [2]
Dirigo, meaning "I" do this, is the motto of Maine, not of James Cameron or Oliver Stone
Direct
Liam
$200 [16]
In 1876 he led the Indian attack at Little Bighorn; a year later he was killed by a soldier at Fort Robinson, Neb.
Crazy Horse
Kara
$200 [19]
Dumas work serialized in Le Siecle in 1844
"The Three Musketeers"
Kara
$200 [25]
"Melting Pot","Iron Chef","Ready...Set...Cook!"
The Food Network
Kara
$200 [8]
An informal performance by folksingers & dancers
a hootenanny
Liam Kara
$300 [12]
A senator before he was vice president, he ran for the top job a few years later
Walter Mondale
Liam
$300 [3]
This slogan associated with the girl seenherehas been used since 1914
"When it rains, it pours"
Liam
$300 [17]
In 1861 this "Wild" gunslinger killed David McCanles & 2 others near Fairbury, Neb.; pulp novels upped the account to 30
Wild Bill Hickok
Sam
$300 [23]
Laughs disrepectfully
Snickers
Liam
$300 [28]
"The Spin Room","Moneyline","Capital Gang"
CNN
Liam
$300 [9]
You're "in" this when in a secret partnership with someone
Cahoots
Kara
$400 [20]
This environmentally-minded Arizona Democrat's strongest run for the presidency came in 1976
Morris Udall
Kara
DD $500 [4]
The Jesuits' motto "Ad majorem Dei gloriam" translates as "To the greater" this phrase
"glory of God"
Liam
$400 [18]
In 1885 this Sioux leader was allowed to leave the reservation to tour with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Sitting Bull
$400 [30]
The time during the week when wages are given
Pay Day
Liam
$400 [27]
"The Daily Show","Absolutely Fabulous","The Man Show"
Comedy Central
Kara
$400 [13]
A long full article of clothing belled out with circular supports
Hoop skirt
Sam
$500 [21]
Towns & counties across America are named for this patriotic Pole
Casimir Pulaski
Sam
$500 [6]
An infamous slogan from concentration camp gates stated that this "will set you free"
Work (arbeit)
Sam
$500 [22]
In 1860 this Chiricahua Apache was falsely accused of kidnapping a boy in Arizona, which led to a brief war
Cochise
Kara
$500 [29]
A spiral galaxy
Milky Way
Liam
$500 [26]
"Acme Hour","Dexter's Laboratory","The Powerpuff Girls"
Cartoon Network
Sam
$500 [14]
Also known as a hubble-bubble, it's the eastern smoking device seen here
a hookah
Liam Sam

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN WILDLIFE STATELY FIRST NAMES IT'S A LONG STORY BIG SCREEN BIOGRAPHIES "P"LACES HELP ME WITH THIS CROSSWORD!
$200 [16]
This largest pachyderm has no sweat glands, so it cools off by rolling in ponds & streams
an elephant
Sam Kara
$200 [11]
This author created Ichabod Crane & Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
$200 [24]
A 1968 film based on this Russian novel was released in a shortened 6-hour 13-minute version
War And Peace
Kara
$200 [6]
1993:Angela Bassett as this singer
Tina Turner
Kara
$200 [1]
W.C. Fields joked that his epitaph should read, "On the whole, I'd rather be in" this city
Philadelphia
Liam
$200 [26]
It's where you hope not to be led to:[21 Across: _ _ O_]
Doom
Liam
$400 [17]
This fastest feline is now endangered with an estimated 13,000 remaining in the wild
Cheetah
Liam
$400 [12]
Sean Connery played this character's dad, Henry, in a 1989 film
Indiana Jones
Sam
$400 [21]
Dorothy Dunnett's 6-volume Lymond Chronicles begin in this U.K. country in the aftermath of war with England
Scotland
Sam
$400 [7]
1953:Tony Curtis as this magician
Harry Houdini
Liam
$400 [2]
Located in northwest India, this state is bordered on the north by Jammu & Kashmir
Punjab
Liam
$400 [27]
Aluminum silicate mineral:[6 Across: F E _ D S P A _]
Feldspar
Sam
$600 [18]
Also known by this 3-letter name, the wildebeest comes in 2 species: black & blue
Gnu
Liam
$600 [13]
Cathy reveals that "Suddenly, Last Summer" cousin Sebastian was cannibalized in a play by this man
Tennessee Williams
Sam
$600 [22]
This 4-word phrase begins the title of Sergio Leone's epic films set "In The West" & "In America"
Once upon a time
Sam
$600 [8]
2000:Ed Harris as this painter
Jackson Pollock
Kara
DD $600 [3]
This capital was virtually deserted during the reign of the Khmer Rouge
Phnom Penh
Liam
$600 [28]
Type of dance or button:[45 Across: _ _ _ _ Y]
Belly
$800 [19]
Most of these flightless birds are found in or near Antarctica, but the jackass species is found off South Africa
Penguins
Liam
DD $700 [15]
Like her contemporary James Joyce, this author of "To The Lighthouse" used stream of consciousness
Virginia Woolf
Liam
$800 [23]
This "Little" Dickens novel of 1857 runs about 900 pages
"Little Dorrit"
Liam
$800 [9]
1992:Gerard Depardieu as this explorer
Christopher Columbus
Kara
$800 [4]
More than half the population of this country perished in an 1864-1870 war with Argentina, Brazil & Uruguay
Paraguay
Kara
$800 [29]
"Hectoring" father:[12 Across: P R _ _ M]
Priam
Sam
$1,000 [20]
Unlike anteaters, this ant-eating "earth pig" has 20 cylindrical, rootless teeth
Aardvark
Sam
$800 [14]
"Fast" Eddie Felson challenges this "stately" pool player in "The Hustler"
Minnesota Fats
Liam
$1,000 [25]
After "Pamela", Samuel Richardson wrote a million-word novel about this heroine
Clarissa
Kara
$1,000 [10]
1951:Burt Lancaster as this athlete
Jim Thorpe
Liam
$1,000 [5]
Peter Mayle wrote "A Year In" this French region
Provence
Sam
$1,000 [30]
Shiver, in Cherbourg:[17 Across: F _ _ _ _ O N]
Frisson
Sam

Final Jeopardy!

NAMES IN THE NEWS

On December 16, 2000, the day after his graduation, LSU retired his No. 33 jersey

Shaquille O'Neal

Kara "Who is Shaquille O'Neill?" — wagered $4,000
Liam "Who is Larry Bird?" — wagered $7,000
Sam "Who is Manning?" — wagered $4,401

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