Show #4127 2002-07-09 (taped 2002-03-05) Regular

Contestants

Carol Stettheimer — a mother and home educator from Arlington, Texas

Sean Scarry — a substitute teacher and graduate student from Mount Laurel, New Jersey

Shelley Forbess — a 7th-grade science teacher from El Dorado, Arkansas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Shelley $3,800 $6,600 $12,200 $24,400
3rd place: $1,000
$12,200
19 R, 1 W
Sean $1,200 $4,000 $13,200 $26,200
New champion: $26,200
$12,400
17 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Carol $2,200 $3,000 $12,600 $25,200
2nd place: $2,000
$13,800
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CAPES FAMOUS NAMES GONE WITH THE WIND THE OLYMPICS CAR NAMES "DIS"SING YOU
$200 [16]
Barnstable, Massachusetts, including the village of Hyannis, is the largest city on this hook-shaped peninsula
Cape Cod
Carol
$200 [6]
Seen here, he body-slammed the political pundits on November 3, 1998
Jesse Ventura
Shelley
$200 [1]
In Chapter II Scarlett's father declares he's proud of his origins in this country
Ireland
Sean
$200 [19]
The only Olympic tournament in this sticky wicket sport was at the 1900 Games &, of course, Great Britain won
cricket
Shelley
$200 [24]
This wild horse is also called a cayuse or a bronco
a Mustang
Sean
$200 [11]
2-word term for a flooded region eligible to receive government relief; it applied to my room as a child
a disaster area
Carol
$400 [17]
Mariners sometimes mistake a cape on Hoste Island 35 miles to the northwest for this cape in Tierra del Fuego
Cape Horn
Sean
$400 [7]
This troubled poet & author seenheredied in 1849
Edgar Allan Poe
Shelley
$400 [2]
Ashley & the rest of this family are "kind of queer about music and books and scenery"
the Wilkes
Carol
$400 [20]
(Sofia is at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.) This ex-St. Louis first baseman wore this jerseyin the 1984 Olympic Games; baseball was just a demonstration sport
Mark McGwire
Shelley
$400 [25]
Quicksilver
Mercury
Carol
$400 [12]
In 1923 he moved to L.A. & tried to make it as a film director, but had to go back to producing cartoons
Walt Disney
Sean
$600 [18]
Alaska's Cape Prince of Wales & Russia's Cape Dezhnyov are separated by this body of water
the Bering Strait
Shelley Carol
$600 [8]
Seen here in 1996, she was the victim of a sensational kidnapping in 1974
Patty Hearst
Carol
$600 [3]
This organization of "hoods", prominent in the book, isn't mentioned by name in the movie
Ku Klux Klan
Shelley
$600 [21]
A special event at the 1928 & 1948 Winter Games, this bare-bones sled slid back to the Games in 2002
the skeleton
Shelley
$600 [26]
An agreement
an Accord
Sean
$600 [13]
It covers 68 square miles along the Potomac River between Maryland & Virginia
the District of Columbia
Sean
$1,000 [30]
Knowing that Captain Cook named this cape on Washington's strait of Juan de Fuca "will get you no where"
Cape Flattery
Shelley
$800 [9]
Pioneering turn-of-the-century scientist seen here
Marie Curie
Shelley
$800 [4]
In 2001 the Margaret Mitchell estate tried to stop publication of this parody by Alice Randall
"The Wind Done Gone"
Shelley
$800 [22]
At the 2002 Winter Games, this country edged out the U.S. for the most total medals
Germany
Sean
$800 [27]
English seaport from which the Mayflower set sail in 1620
the Plymouth
Sean
$800 [14]
In horses, this contagious disease is caused by streptococcus equi bacteria & is also called strangles
distemper
DD $1,200 [29]
This North Carolina cape on Smith Island was named for the treacherous waters surrounding it
Cape Fear
Carol
$1,000 [10]
This provocative, non-traditional playwright seenherefirst attracted attention in 1920s Berlin
Bertolt Brecht
$1,000 [5]
Melanie's elderly aunt got this nickname as a child from her restless, scampering feet
Aunt Pittypat
Shelley
$1,000 [23]
At the 1972 Munich Olympics, he won the 100-meter & 200-meter butterfly events, among others
Mark Spitz
Carol
$1,000 [28]
An insect of the order Coleoptera
a Beetle
Carol
$1,000 [15]
Nicknamed "Dizzy", this statesman died on April 19, 1881 in London
Benjamin Disraeli
Carol

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC BALTIMORE "GIRL" MOVIES WEATHER SUPERLATIVES THEME PARKS PRODUCTS DOUBLE LETTERS
$400 [26]
In 1827 a group of merchants was granted a charter for this railroad, which began rolling in 1830
the Baltimore & Ohio
Carol
$400 [1]
1999:Angelina Jolie
"Girl, Interrupted"
Sean
$400 [6]
The largest of these in the U.S. fell on Coffeyville, Kansas; it measured 17 1/2 inches in circumference
a hailstone
Sean
$400 [11]
Seen here, he's the star attraction at several theme parks
Shamu
Sean
$400 [19]
Sealy coined this brand name the same year the FTC restricted the usage of the word "orthopedic"
Posturepedic
Carol
$400 [14]
Dickens' mean-spirited Christmas miser. Humbug!
(Ebenezer) Scrooge
Shelley
$800 [27]
A Cathedral plaque depicts the ark & dove, which brought the USA's first settlers of this faith across the ocean
Catholic
Shelley
$800 [2]
1988:Melanie Griffith
"Working Girl"
Carol
$800 [7]
On July 10, 1913 it reached 134 degrees Fahrenheit at this California site; still the North American record
Death Valley
Shelley
$800 [12]
Visit the Lost Continent & the attraction seenhereat this company's Islands of Adventure in Florida
Universal Studios
Shelley
$800 [20]
The Maxxum 7xi camera, which used fuzzy logic to take sharp pictures, was "from the mind of" this company
Minolta
Shelley
$800 [15]
4-letter slang word for a hand or fist, or something a baseball catcher uses
a mitt
Shelley
$1,200 [28]
(For this clue, we go to Sofia at Fort McHenry.)Fearing Maryland's secession, Lincoln imprisoned its key legislators at Fort McHMcHMcHMcHMcHMcHMcHMcHenrydspendedisit
habeas corpus
Carol
$1,200 [3]
1995:Parker Posey
"Party Girl"
$1,200 [8]
On May 3, 1999 the wind in one of these near Oklahoma City reached 318 mph, the fastest wind ever recorded
a tornado
Sean
$1,200 [13]
Watch out for falling toy blocks when visiting this theme park in Carlsbad, California
Legoland
Carol
$1,200 [21]
Not to jar you, but this brand name is Italian for "rich meat sauce"
Ragù
Shelley
$1,200 [16]
One who imports or exports goods without paying lawful duties or customs charges
a smuggler
Sean
$1,600 [29]
One of the "star" attractions of Baltimore's inner harbor is this Civil War ship
the U.S.S. Consellation
$1,600 [4]
1989:Geena Davis
"Earth Girls Are Easy"
Sean
$1,600 [9]
On March 15-16, 1952 it rained a record 72 inches in 24 hours on the French island of Reunion in this ocean
the Indian Ocean
DD $2,000 [24]
2001 was a "banner" year for this largest regional theme park company, which celebrated its 40th anniversary
Six Flags
Sean
$1,600 [22]
Warner-Lambert makes Actifed as well as this cold, cough & sinus product whose main ingredient is pseudoephedrine
Sudafed
Carol
DD $2,000 [17]
From the French for a bundle of papers labeled on the back, it's a file containing detailed info on someone
a dossier
Sean
$2,000 [30]
This watery attraction that opened in 1981 is a big part of the revitalized waterfront area
the National Aquarium
$2,000 [5]
1962:Elvis Presley
"Girls! Girls! Girls!"
Shelley Sean
$2,000 [10]
Arica, Chile in this desert may be the driest place on Earth; it had an annual rainfall of only .03'' during a 59-year period
the Atacama
Shelley
$2,000 [25]
I will always love this theme park that features the Smoky Mountain Rampage, Tennessee Twister & Country Fair Falls
Dollywood
Carol
$2,000 [23]
Introduced in 1982, this company's 64 model soon became the bestselling home computer
Commodore
Sean
$2,000 [18]
This city in eastern Oklahoma named for a tribe of the Creek nation was once the capital of the Indian territory
Muskogee
Carol

Final Jeopardy!

AWARDS

Nominees in 2002 for these awards included Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Ann-Margret, George Carlin & Jimmy Carter

the Grammys

Shelley "What are Grammys?" — wagered $12,200
Carol "What is a Grammys?" — wagered $12,600
Sean "What is a Grammy" — wagered $13,000

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