Show #3808 2001-03-07 (taped 2000-11-29) Regular

Rick Knutsen game 2.

Contestants

Jim Oddie — a management consultant from Alameda, California

Dorene Smith — a law librarian from Portland, Oregon

Rick Knutsen — a musician from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rick $3,600 $6,400 $13,000 $15,000
2-day champion: $23,400
$11,400
30 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Dorene $600 $1,700 $2,500 $0
3rd place: Epson Prize Package
$2,500
10 R, 1 W
Jim $300 $400 $4,100 $3,100
2nd place: Trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$3,400
9 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATIVE AMERICANA I LOVE CANDY SPORTS FIRSTS ON THE FIRST SCIENCE CLASS "DIS"INTEGRATION DO YOU SMELL SOMETHING?
$100 [12]
The well-meant Dawes Act of 1887 divided these Indian areas into individual parcels of land
Reservations
Dorene
$100 [7]
The pattern on this Christmas favorite may have come from the barber pole
Candy cane
Rick
$100 [6]
On June 1, 1925, pinch hitting for Pee Wee Wanninger, he played his first of 2,130 games in a row
Lou Gehrig
Dorene
$100 [17]
This insulin disorder, the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S., can lead to kidney failure & amputations
Diabetes
Jim
$100 [1]
To expel an attorney from the legal profession
Disbar
Rick
$100 [26]
This distinctive aroma of a wine can also mean a group of cut flowers
Bouquet
Rick
$200 [13]
Mahicans lived along the Hudson; Mohegans lived in Connecticut; Mohicans were created by this author
James Fenimore Cooper
Rick Jim
$200 [19]
It's a good ship for Shirley Temple, & a bad woods to get lost in while playing Candy Land
Lollipop
Rick
$200 [8]
On February 1, 1970 Dave Balon pulled off his first one of these in his pro hockey career
Hat trick
Rick
$200 [18]
[Here comes Bill Nye, The Science Guy] The north pole on a bar magnet will attract this pole on another bar magnet
South pole
Dorene
$200 [2]
To hop down from your camel or horse
Dismount
Rick
$200 [27]
Often a "Jeopardy!" category, it's a fragrant mixture of dried flower petals & spices
Potpourri
Rick
$300 [14]
The Plains Indians' parfleche was a bag made of this, also a Clint Eastwood TV show
Rawhide
Rick
$300 [20]
The "Candy Man" Sammy sang about was this one played by Gene Wilder
Willy Wonka
Rick
$400 [10]
On April 1, 1990 he won the first tournament he played on the Senior PGA Tour by 4 strokes
Jack Nicklaus
Rick
$300 [23]
A "Mission to" this planet would be about 34.6 million miles, or its closest approach to Earth
Mars
Rick
$300 [3]
The controller of a fleet of taxis
Dispatcher
Rick
$300 [28]
A strong, earthy smell, or the type of music George Clinton plays
Funk
Rick
$400 [15]
To white settlers, the beads with this Indian name were currency; the Indians turned them into belts, as seen here
Wampum
Rick
$400 [21]
This late actor was a part owner of the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts
John Candy
Rick
$500 [11]
On March 1, 1941 Elmer Layden, once part of this legendary quartet, was named the first NFL commissioner
Four Horsemen of Notre Dame
Jim
$400 [24]
Friction, as when a brake pad slows a wheel, converts kinetic energy into this
Heat
$400 [4]
To be formally released from military service, we hope honorably
Discharged
Dorene
$400 [29]
3-word French term for perfumed bath water
Eau de toilette
Dorene
$500 [16]
This English word comes from a Delaware name for a turtle
Terrapin
$500 [22]
"Hard Candy" was a 1954 collection of short stories by this "Rose Tattoo" playwright
Tennessee Williams
Rick
DD $900 [9]
On January 1, 1935 Bucknell beat Miami 26-zip in the first playing of this bowl game
Orange Bowl
Rick
$500 [25]
Adjective for the simplest type of vibratory motion; it's seen (& heard) in violin strings
Harmonic vibration
Rick
$500 [5]
A strict rule enforcer
Disciplinarian
Rick
$500 [30]
From the old French for "small bag", it's a small bag of powder used for scenting clothes or linens
Sachet
Dorene

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIRTH OF A PRESIDENT CRIME-TIME TELEVISION THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS NOTABLE WOMEN "PRO"s CANNES
$200 [1]
January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jim
$200 [6]
This Mike Connors P.I. was parodied by Bob & Ray's "Blimmix", who got beaten up in every episode
Mannix
Dorene
$200 [13]
In "Dream Catcher" Margaret A. Salinger writes about life with Dad, this reclusive author
J.D. Salinger
Rick
$200 [7]
In 1978 Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman to achieve the men's int'l grandmaster title in this
Chess
Dorene
$200 [21]
Type of view seen here
Profile
Dorene
$200 [30]
Also known as the Cote D'Azur, it's the coastal strip where you'll find Cannes
French Riviera
Rick
$400 [2]
May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
Jim
$400 [10]
Tony, the main character in this HBO series, is in the waste management business--& others
The Sopranos
Jim
$600 [15]
Susanna Kaysen's 2-year stay at a psychiatric institute is recounted in this memoir
Girl, Interrupted
$400 [8]
In 1997 this actress turned politician was appointed a minister in the U.K. Transport Department
Glenda Jackson
$400 [22]
According to Mary Shelley, Frankenstein was "The Modern" version of this fire-stealer
Prometheus
Rick
$400 [26]
The Clampetts could tell you this southern California city is a sister city of Cannes
Beverly Hills
Rick
$600 [3]
June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts
George (H.W.) Bush
Jim
$600 [11]
Stavros & Crocker were 2 put-upon minions of this Manhattan South police detective
Theo Kojak
$800 [16]
This girl group singer penned the memoir "Be My Baby"
Ronnie Spector
Rick
$600 [9]
Astronomer Margaret Burbidge was appointed the first woman director of this institution in England in 1972
Royal Observatory at Greenwich
$600 [23]
A scriber of software
Programmer
Rick
$600 [27]
In an effort to regain power, this leader returned to France near Cannes in 1815
Napoleon
Rick
$1,000 [5]
January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio
William McKinley
$800 [12]
In series titles, this word preceded "Eye" in the '60s & "Heat" in the '80s
Hawaiian
Dorene
$1,000 [17]
In "Command Performance", this actress discusses "The Theater of Politics"--namely, her 4-year term as head of the NEA
Jane Alexander
Rick
$800 [19]
In 1999 a high court in Lahore found her guilty of accepting bribes in exchange for a contract
Benazir Bhutto
$800 [24]
Any object that can be fired or launched
Projectile
Jim
$800 [28]
Cannes is a busy trade center for flowers & fruit, but this is its chief industry
Tourism
Jim
DD $1,500 [4]
July 4, 1872 in Plymouth, Vermont
Calvin Coolidge
Jim
$1,000 [18]
"NYPD Blue" premiered in 1993; 2 years later the other coast got this: "Life on the Beat"
LAPD
Jim
DD $1,400 [14]
This cancer survivor tells of his "Journey Back to Life" in "It's Not About the Bike"
Lance Armstrong
Rick
$1,000 [20]
Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral represented this country as a "Life Consul"
Chile
$1,000 [25]
From the Latin for "tomorrow", it means to habitually postpone doing something
Procrastinate
Dorene
$1,000 [29]
In 1993 this female director from New Zealand won the Cannes Film Festival's Palm D'Or
Jane Campion (for "The Piano")
Rick

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE & FILM

Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter & Cybill Shepherd have all starred in films based on this man's works

Henry James

Dorene "Who is Shakespeare" — wagered $2,500
Jim "Who is ?" — wagered $1,000
Rick "Who is Henry James?" — wagered $2,000

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