Show #3610 2000-04-21 Regular

Contestants

Kate Lowe — an Internet copywriter from Shoreview, Minnesota

Vernon Martin — an aspiring screenwriter from Brooklyn, New York

Darren Millam — a customer service representative from Kansas City, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Darren $700 $1,500 $3,500 $7,000
2nd place: Intel Any Point Home Network Software
$3,500
17 R, 5 W
Vernon $0 $300 $-400 $-400
3rd place: TicketsNow.com Gift Certificate
$100
12 R, 11 W (including 1 DD)
Kate $700 $1,800 $5,400 $7,001
New champion: $7,001
$5,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY TRIANGLES THE CATEGORY OF DANIEL THE U.S. MINT CROSSWORD CLUES "P" CLOWN SONGS
$100 [4]
When the European mole wants lunch, it goes after this annelid that comes out after the rain
an earthworm
Darren Vernon
$100 [5]
In 1918 the USS Cyclops vanished into this "Triangle"
the Bermuda Triangle
Vernon
$100 [8]
In 1775 this pioneering American blazed the Wilderness Road
Daniel Boone
Vernon
$100 [27]
The U.S. Mint Police protect $100 billion in assets at this Kentucky site
Fort Knox
Kate
$100 [3]
Manicotti or macaroni(5)
Pasta
Darren
$100 [1]
"Fe Fe Fi Fi Fo Fo Fum" this title character of a Coasters song is "a clown"
"Charlie Brown"
Darren
$200 [18]
Rodents native to this continent include the cavy, coypu & capybara
South America
Darren Vernon Kate
$200 [6]
Term for the process of putting all your billiard balls in a triangle to set them for a break
Racking
Darren
$200 [13]
One of his literary works gave us the term "Man Friday"
Daniel Defoe
Darren
$200 [28]
During WWII these were made of steel, but a rare 1943 copper one has sold for over $80,000
Penny
Darren
$200 [9]
Pilgrims' stepping stone(8,4)
Plymouth Rock
Vernon
$200 [2]
Judy Collins recorded a version of this song from "A Little Night Music"
"Send in the Clowns"
Vernon
$300 [19]
The white variety of this pachyderm is the only type that eats by grazing
Rhinoceros
Darren Kate
$300 [7]
A Badfinger hit or the 4-word phrase associated with the item seen here:
"Come And Get It"
Kate
$300 [14]
On the big screen he's been Gerry Conlon, Hawkeye & Christy Brown
Daniel Day-Lewis
$300 [29]
Perhaps the young woman seenhereis looking to these 2 expedition leaders for their next words to translate:
Lewis & Clark
Darren
$300 [10]
Coffin carrier(10)
Pallbearer
Kate
$300 [15]
In 1960 the Everly Brothers reached the top of the charts with this tune
"Cathy's Clown"
Darren Vernon
$400 [20]
The big toe on a marmoset doesn't have a claw like its other digits; it has one of these, like you
Nail
Darren Vernon
$400 [25]
Body part in the triangle atop the pyramid in the Great Seal of the United States
Eye
Kate
$400 [21]
One of his best-known orations is the Bunker Hill speech of 1825
Daniel Webster
Vernon
$500 [26]
He crossed from heads to tails to appear on the reverse of the 1999 New Jersey quarter
George Washington
Kate
$500 [12]
Ahab's vessel(6)
Pequod
Vernon Kate
$400 [16]
His hit "I'm Still Standing" says, "If our love was just a circus, you'd be a clown by now"
Elton John
Darren
$500 [23]
Unlike birds today, the Hesperornis of the Cretaceous period had these, all the better to eat fish with
teeth
Darren
$500 [24]
To get into this city's Golden Triangle you can use the Fort Pitt Bridge
Pittsburgh
Darren
$500 [22]
The Pentagon Papers he gave to the N.Y. Times in 1971 revealed deceptions about Vietnam dating back to the 1940s
Daniel Ellsberg
DD $600 [11]
A seedy fruit(11)
Pomegranate
Kate
$500 [17]
This title of a Stealers Wheel song completes the line "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am..."
"Stuck in the Middle With You"
Darren

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY NOTABLE WOMEN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR MONTANA I GOT A CALDECOTT! LEGENDARY RHYME TIME
$200 [22]
In 1161 Pope Alexander III canonized this British king & gave him the title of Confessor
Edward
Vernon
$200 [1]
She was named for her birthplace: Winona, Minnesota
Winona Ryder
Darren Vernon
$200 [20]
"The Crusades","The King of Kings","The Ten Commandments"
Cecil B. DeMille
Darren
$200 [3]
In a bitterly fought 1894 election to decide the state capital, Anaconda lost to this city
Helena
Kate
$200 [21]
Arnold Lobel took a page out of Aesop's book, publishing a book of these that won in 1981
Fables
Kate
$200 [8]
A survey of the gnomelike beings of Scandinavian folklore
Troll poll
Vernon
$400 [2]
These ever-popular singing sisters perform at the Lawrence Welk Champagne Theatre in Branson, Missouri
Lennon Sisters
Darren Vernon Kate
$400 [16]
"Dick Tracy","Reds","Heaven Can Wait"
Warren Beatty
Darren
$400 [4]
This nickname used on Montana license plates is also the name of a popular ski resort
Big Sky
Vernon
$400 [23]
If you wonder where the Caldecotts are, in 1964 the new one was with this author/illustrator
Maurice Sendak
Vernon
$400 [9]
A perspiring abominable snowman
Sweaty yeti
Kate
$600 [5]
Kay Waldo Barnes, this former CBS anchorman's cousin, became the first female mayor of Kansas City, MO. in 1999
Walter Cronkite
Darren
DD $500 [15]
"Straw Dogs","The Killer Elite","The Wild Bunch"
Sam Peckinpah
Vernon
$600 [13]
The Cartwright family would be right at home with this type of pine, the state tree of Montana
Ponderosa pine
Vernon
$600 [24]
The 1998 Paul O. Zelinsky book about this girl isn't a hair-raising tale, just the opposite!
Rapunzel
Vernon
$600 [10]
Goat god's well-thought-out merrymaking schemes
Pan's plans
Kate
$800 [6]
Her first novel, "The Road Through the Wall", was published in 1948, the same year as her short story "The Lottery"
Shirley Jackson
Kate
$800 [18]
"Three Amigos!","National Lampoon's Animal House","The Blues Brothers"
John Landis
Darren
$800 [17]
In 1882 the Northern Pacific Railroad founded this city & named it for one of its presidents, not a collection dept.
Billings
Vernon
$800 [25]
Remember, this 1982 Chris Van Allsburg winner is only a book; well, a game, too...a book & a game
"Jumanji"
Vernon
$800 [11]
Top Greek god's prune squeezin's
Zeus's juices
Kate
$1,000 [7]
(Hi, I'm Ekaterina Gordeeva.) I won my first Olympic gold medal in 1988, the same year this skater won her second gold medal
Katarina Witt
Vernon Kate
$1,000 [19]
"Death Becomes Her","Back to the Future","Forrest Gump"
Robert Zemeckis
Darren Kate
$1,000 [14]
In 1916 this Missoula, Montana native became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress
Jeannette Rankin
$1,000 [26]
1948's & '49's books had this weather condition in their titles; Roger Duvoisin's was "White" & "Bright"; the Haders', "Big"
Snow
$1,000 [12]
A wisdom goddess' amphitheaters
Athena's arenas
Vernon Kate

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS LEGENDS

Retired since 1977, he said, "All I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm"

Pele

Darren "Who is Pele?" — wagered $3,500
Kate "Who is Pele?" — wagered $1,601

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