Show #3796 2001-02-19 (taped 2000-11-15) Regular

Contestants

Brooke Scarpa — a web design manager from Boston, Massachusetts

Kent Coker — an advertising sales representative from River Ridge, Louisiana

Mark Stacy — a newspaper copy editor from Morgantown, West Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $13,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $1,800 $2,800 $6,000 $5,300
4-day champion: $18,500
$3,500
18 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Kent $1,100 $2,600 $2,600 $0
2nd place: a trip to Stockholm, Sweden, courtesy of Priceline.com
$2,600
17 R, 3 W
Brooke $-200 $-500 $-1,900 $-1,900
3rd place: Epson digital camera + printer
$-1,100
3 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC NAMES '90s SITCOMS LITERARY CHARACTERS THAT'S JUST "GREAT" JEOPARDY! PLACE
$100 [11]
Hooray! Dan Castellaneta's wild 1-man stage show named for this artist doesn't have "a single ear reference"
Vincent Van Gogh
Kent
$100 [24]
This "Bloody" queen was the daughter of King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon
Mary I ("Bloody Mary")
Mark
$100 [1]
On this series, baby Maggie's first words, "Dah-dee", were spoken by Elizabeth Taylor
The Simpsons
Mark
$100 [16]
In this novel, Jack Kerouac depicted himself as Sal Paradise, tagging along after the charismatic Dean Moriarty
On the Road
Kent
$100 [6]
Michigan, Erie & 3 others
the Great Lakes
Mark
$100 [19]
Emily, sobbing, tells Jonas Teri wants her to plead guilty; Jonas starts singing this 1988 Bobby McFerrin hit
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
Kent
$200 [12]
The 100th birthday of this New England city's Symphony Hall inspired the line "A plain home with a sense of place"
Boston
Brooke
$200 [25]
When he visited Europe in 1971, he became the first Japanese monarch to go abroad during his reign
Emperor Hirohito
$200 [2]
Roz Doyle is his producer & call-screener at Seattle's KACL Radio
Frasier Crane
Mark
$200 [17]
This Conrad character hasn't been dubbed "Lord" yet when he wimps out in a maritime emergency
Lord Jim
Kent
$200 [7]
Proverbially, these "think alike"
great minds
Mark
$200 [20]
Jonas slips Emily a fake passport & a plane ticket to this city, Brazil's most populous
São Paulo
Kent
$300 [13]
"As if St. Thomas Church were not making enough good music with its own choir", this abbey's choir visited in Oct. 2000
Westminster Abbey
Kent
$400 [27]
To help him build a poweful navy, this "Magnificent" Ottoman ruler enlisted the aid of Barbarossa
Suleiman
$300 [3]
In 1997 Carol Burnett won an Emmy for playing Teresa Stemple, Jamie Buchman's mother on this series
Mad About You
Kent
$300 [18]
He does quite a bit of bed-hopping in the 4 John Updike novels featuring him
Rabbit Angstrom
Mark
$300 [8]
In 1861 Dickens finished writing this novel
Great Expectations
Mark
$300 [21]
FBI agent Malone comes into town to find out how a claymore mine got there & see his mom, one of these blood doctors
Hematologist
Mark Brooke
$400 [14]
The Chamber Music Society of this "Center" put the Times "in a millennial mood" with a "Thousand Years of Love"
Lincoln Center
Kent
$500 [28]
Stricken with leprosy, this Scottish king died in seclusion in 1329
Robert the Bruce
$400 [4]
MIchelangelo is the middle name of Lewis Kiniski, Ryan Stiles' character on this sitcom
The Drew Carey Show
$400 [22]
WWII spymaster Vera Atkins inspired this secretary of M in James Bond novels
Miss Moneypenny
Kent
$400 [9]
This vast geographic plateau stretches from northern Colorado to southern Texas
the Great Plains
Mark Brooke
$500 [15]
Gore Vidal told the Times that JFK gave him one of the lines he used in this 1960 play, revived on Broadway in 2000
The Best Man
DD $1,400 [26]
American flags flew at half-mast when this Frenchman died in Paris May 20, 1834
the Marquis de Lafayette
Mark
$500 [5]
This sitcom was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning columns by humorist Dave Barry
Dave's World
Mark
$500 [23]
A medieval epic about this grail-seeking hero was turned into an opera by Wagner
Parsifal (or Percival)
Mark Kent
$500 [10]
Under the leadership of this man, seen here, his nation doubled in size & became a major European power
Frederick the Great (of Prussia)

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS "B" SURE BIG SCREEN BRAINBUSTERS TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
$200 [19]
At the Centennial Exposition in 1876, he was on call to introduce his new telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Kent
$200 [1]
Type of creature seen here
a baboon
Mark
$200 [13]
Advertising for this Eastwood film included the line "For 3 men the Civil War wasn't hell. It was practice!"
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Kent
$200 [4]
To walk through the Garden of Ruins in this country, head southwest from Budapest to Szekesfehervar
Hungary
Mark
$200 [17]
E.T. had one that Neil Diamond sang about
Heartlight
Kent Brooke
$200 [2]
Sword & sorcery author Ru Emerson has been writing TV tie-in novels featuring this warrior princess
Xena
Mark
$400 [20]
In 132 Zhang Heng developed a crude one of these instruments that registers earthquakes
a seismograph
Mark
$400 [9]
A type of unglazed china, or a thick cream soup often made with lobster
bisque
Mark Brooke
$400 [14]
Regarding the food of the future, Charlton Heston reveals it's people! in this "colorful" film
Soylent Green
Mark
$400 [5]
If you make it to this London museum's rooms 91-93, you'll see decorative snuff boxes & the Darnley Ring
the Victoria and Albert Museum
Kent Brooke
$400 [21]
In the mid-19th century kerosene replaced this as the main oil used in lamps
whale oil
Kent
$400 [3]
"Doom" video game designer American McGee has put a demented twist on this heroine, as seen here
Alice in Wonderland
Kent
$600 [23]
In 1862 he patented America's first practical quick-firing machine gun
Richard Gatling
Kent
$800 [11]
It's the capital of Slovakia
Bratislava
Mark
$600 [15]
John Leguizamo, Patrick Swayze & this man "dragged" through 1995's "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar"
Wesley Snipes
$600 [6]
This North American city's Faubourg Ste-Catherine is similar to Boston's Quincy Market
Montreal
Mark Kent Brooke
$600 [22]
Luminescence is caused by the movements of these particles from more to less energetic states
electrons
$800 [24]
For developing this nylon fastener, George de Mestral is stuck in the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Velcro
Mark
$1,000 [12]
It's the 19th century German style of furniture seen here
Biedermeier
Brooke
$800 [16]
In "The Final Countdown", this aircraft carrier travels back in time to just before the attack on Pearl Harbor
the Nimitz
Kent
$800 [7]
Button up your Cote D'Azur & visit this city's Carnival to watch the flower battles
Nice
Brooke
$1,000 [25]
In his 1619 "Harmonice Mundi', he announced his third law of planetary motion
Johannes Kepler
Kent
DD $2,000 [10]
This ethnic group lives in the Pyrenees & speaks Euskera
Basque
Mark
$1,000 [18]
Chicago newspaperman Jimmy Stewart helps a woman prove her son's innocence in this 1948 classic
Call Northside 777
DD $800 [8]
The Palacio Nacional de Mafra in this country was built with gold from Brazil
Portugal
Brooke

Final Jeopardy!

THE U.S. SPACE PROGRAM

Of the Apollo missions, the total number that successfully landed men on the Moon

6 (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 & 17)

Kent "What is 3?" — wagered $2,600
Mark "What is 5?" — wagered $700

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