Show #4068 2002-04-17 (taped 2002-01-14) Regular

Contestants

Becky Powell — a graduate student from Knoxville, Tennessee

Rich Clarey — a film student originally from Petaluma, California

Ben Bass — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben $1,800 $4,400 $15,400 $19,601
3-day champion: $54,801
$17,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Rich $200 $3,800 $9,800 $18,800
2nd place: trip to Mazatlan, Mexico
$9,800
12 R, 1 W
Becky $2,200 $4,000 $3,600 $7,199
3rd place: trip to Desert Springs Villas in Palm Desert, California
$3,600
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

NURSERY RHYME WOMEN TV MOVIES FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD VISIBLE BODY PARTS "OO" 7-LETTER WORDS BONDS, COMMON BONDS
$200 [26]
This nursery rhyme maiden tumbled down a hill
Jill
Ben
$200 [10]
In 2000's "Possessed", Timothy Dalton plays a priest attempting this procedure
an exorcism
Ben
$200 [8]
If you have a root cellar, you can store this root vegetable in it for several weeks
beets
Ben Becky
$200 [21]
The name of this tree or car part also refers to your body minus the head & limbs
trunk
Becky
$200 [1]
Who needs an alarm clock when one of these lives in your neighborhood; listen
a rooster
Rich
$200 [6]
Vallee, Giuliani, Tomjanovich
Rudy
Ben
$400 [27]
She "lost her sheep, and can't tell where to find them"
Little Bo-Peep
Rich
$400 [17]
(Hi, I'm Jeffrey Nordling.) It was a giant leap for me when I played this man in the movie "Apollo 11"
Neil Armstrong
Rich
$400 [9]
You need to shuck some of these for a Hangtown fry
oysters
Rich Becky
$400 [22]
On a man whose shirt size is 16-34, this part of his body is 16 inches around
the neck
Ben
$400 [2]
It's a whaler's weapon of choice
a harpoon
Rich
$400 [7]
Frogs, years, Christmas lords
things that leap
Becky
$600 [28]
She "put the kettle on" so we'll have tea
Polly
Becky
$600 [18]
This sitcom bartender played a dad accused of incest in the controversial "Something about Amelia"
Ted Danson
Ben
$600 [14]
(Sarah is cooking up the clue.) Our spicy dinner is this shrimp dish, Spanish for "devil". Whooooo!
shrimp diablo
Ben
DD $800 [23]
If you can move the muscles called auriculares, you can move these
your ears
Ben
$600 [3]
This legendary creature of the Pacific Northwest is said to stand from 7 to 10 feet tall
Bigfoot
$600 [11]
Fireplace logs, sundae bananas.infinitives
things that are split
Becky
$800 [29]
She & her husband "lick'd the platter clean"
(Mrs.) Sprat
Ben
$800 [19]
The title of a 2001 movie about Roger Maris' home run record chase was the number 61 followed by this
the famous asterisk
Ben
$800 [15]
Devonshire clotted cream is a traditional topping for these biscuit-like treats
scones
Becky
$800 [24]
Medically speaking, the thumb is the pollex & this big digit is the hallux
the big toe
Rich
$800 [4]
It can describe moonshine whiskey, or be a deceptive play in football
bootleg
$800 [12]
Newspaper pages, the Parthenon, Chinese menus
things that have columns
$1,000 [30]
Container in which Peter, Peter kept his wife; "he kept her very well"
a pumpkin shell
Ben Rich
$1,000 [20]
In the TV movie "Ruby Ridge", Randy Quaid played this man also named Randy
Randy Weaver
$1,000 [16]
With a mottled green & yellow skin & salmon-colored flesh, a crenshaw is a type of this
a melon
Rich
$1,000 [25]
This outer layer of skin is anchored to the inner layer by tissue called the basement membrane
the epidermis
Becky
$1,000 [5]
A seasonal storm of the Indian Ocean, it blows from the SW in summer & NE in winter
a monsoon
Becky
$1,000 [13]
Golfers, decks of cards, cliche cavemen
things with clubs
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPEAKERS BUREAU DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE 1930-SOMETHING FRANKS & BEENS -OLOGIES AGAINST THE "WALL"
$400 [16]
This popular speaker seenhereis a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers & Wedgwood china
Princess Fergie
Rich
$400 [1]
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Becky
$400 [26]
In 1934 the man convicted of the Reichstag fire was executed in Germany with this French device
la guillotine
Ben
$400 [21]
He has been called the "Father of the Dime Store" (The F. stands for Frank)
(F.W.) Woolworth
Ben
$400 [2]
From the Greek for "to shake", it's the scientific study of earthquakes
seismology
Ben
$400 [11]
After 28 years, it came down on November 9, 1989
the Berlin Wall
Ben
$800 [17]
This 1990s Speaker of the House from Georgia will be a speaker at your event for big bucks
Gingrich
Ben
$800 [3]
"Diary of a Young Girl"
The Diary of Anne Frank
Rich Becky
$800 [27]
In 1937 the FCC rebuked NBC for a program starring this lusty blonde
Mae West
Ben
$800 [22]
He has been forever linked with Joseph Tinker & John Evers
Frank Chance of the Cubs
Ben
$800 [7]
Viniculture or oenology is the science of making this
wine
Ben
$800 [12]
It can be a plant with fragrant colorful flowers or a shy person unnoticed at a social event
a wallflower
Ben
$1,200 [18]
"Meet" this speaker on current events, seen here
(Tim) Russert
Ben
$1,200 [4]
"My Posse Don't Do Homework"
Dangerous Minds
Rich
$1,200 [28]
There's no trial like this kind of phony trial, held for Grigory Zinovyev in the USSR in 1936
show trial
DD $1,200 [23]
This Limerick-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning author has been called "a haunted man"
Frank McCourt
Ben
DD $1,000 [10]
These 2 similar words are for the study of insects & the study of words
entomology & etymology
Ben
$1,200 [13]
Based in Budapest, this Swedish diplomat worked to protect Hungarian Jews during World War II
Raoul Wallenberg
Ben
$1,600 [19]
Former world leaders on the speaking circuit include this man, Mexico's president from 1994 to 2000
Ernesto Zedillo
$1,600 [5]
"The 7 Pillars of Wisdom"
Lawrence of Arabia
$1,600 [24]
This Massachusetts congressman has been after the press for their "Gotcha" stories
Barney Frank
$1,200 [8]
Mycology is the branch of botany that studies these, which include mold, mildew & mushrooms
fungi
Ben
$1,600 [14]
In the 1980s this band was on "Mexican Radio"
Wall of Voodoo
Rich
$2,000 [20]
This man who speaks on "A Political Insider's View" learned to play "Hardball" as Tip O'Neill's right-hand man
(Chris) Matthews
Ben
$2,000 [6]
"The Death and Life of Dith Pran"
The Killing Fields
Rich
$2,000 [25]
Since the '70s this gold medal-winning runner has been a driving force in the long-distance running boom
Frank Shorter
$1,600 [9]
This branch of zoology studies amphibians & reptiles
herpetology
$2,000 [15]
He wrote & performed the jazz classic "Ain't Misbehavin'"
(Fats) Waller
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. STATE CAPITALS

This state capital is farthest away from any other state capital

Honolulu

Becky "What is Honolulu?" — wagered $3,599
Rich "What is Honolulu" — wagered $9,000
Ben "What is Honolulu?" — wagered $4,201

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