Show #4202 2002-12-03 (taped 2002-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Bob DeBellis — a graduate student from New York, New York

Linda Kampe Houtz — a substitute teacher from Lafayette, Indiana

Anne Cichocki — a recent law school graduate from Jacksonville, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Anne $1,200 $1,000 $9,000 $15,601
2-day champion: $46,501
$9,000
14 R, 2 W
Linda $400 $2,600 $3,400 $6,700
2nd place: $2,000
$3,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Bob $400 $2,600 $7,800 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MOUNTAINS ONE-HIT WONDERS THE NEW YORKER TICKER-TAPE PARADE HONOREES IRS STUFF 2-LETTER ABBREV.
$200 [1]
This volcano on the side of Hawaii's Mauna Loa once contained a lake of bubbling molten lava
Kilauea
Anne Bob
$200 [16]
Pratt & McClain were a one-hit wonder with a theme to this Ron Howard TV show
Happy Days
Bob
$200 [21]
The first cover, & many since, showed Eustace Tilley, a fop wearing this on his head
a top hat
Bob
$200 [25]
In June 1991, 15 days after vets from the Gulf War got a parade, vets from this war 40 years earlier got one
the Korean War
Linda
$200 [12]
The IRS now allows some deductions for treatments, not including the over-the-counter patch, to quit this
smoking
Bob
$200 [4]
They "Bring Good Things to Life"
GE
Bob
$400 [2]
This Argentinian peak near the Chilean border is only 623 feet higher than nearby 22,211-foot Cerro Mercedario
Mount Aconcagua
Bob
$400 [17]
Jeannie C. Riley hit No. 1 with this 1968 story song about a small-town widow & an uptight school group
"Harper Valley PTA"
Linda
$400 [22]
After his "In Cold Blood" ran as a 4-part series, he never published in The New Yorker again
Truman Capote
Anne
$400 [26]
He was the first man to win golf's Grand Slam & the first to receive 2 Broadway ticker-tape parades
Bobby Jones
Bob
$400 [13]
To deduct these, your new job must be over 50 miles farther from your former home than your old job was
moving expenses
Linda
$400 [5]
In 1939 this organization introduced its 12-step program
AA
Anne
$600 [3]
This Alpine peak rises 14,692 feet on the border of Switzerland's Valais Canton & Italy's Piedmont region
the Matterhorn
Bob
$600 [18]
In a 1980 hit Lipps, Inc. asked, "Won't you take me to" this title place
"Funkytown"
Bob
$600 [23]
A New Yorker staffer coined this term for a biographical sketch, meant to show just one side of a person
profile
Anne Bob
DD $800 [27]
The October 28, 1886 parade was for the dedication of this piece of art
the Statue of Liberty
Linda
$600 [11]
If you've been selected for one of these, the IRS cheerfully informs you that many of them result in refunds
an audit
Linda
$600 [6]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports.) Before the CD, there was this
LP
Linda
$800 [9]
In 1896 an Alaskan mount was named for this man elected president that year
William McKinley
Anne
$800 [19]
This TV comedienne had a big hit with 1973's "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"
Vicki Lawrence
$800 [24]
The cartoon seenhereis from this creator of Gomez & Morticia, & is still funny
Charles Addams
Linda
$800 [14]
Filing jointly, families with 2 or more kids & making under $34,178 a year may receive the EITC, this credit
the Earned Income Tax Credit
Linda
$800 [7]
On "Law & Order", Sam Waterston plays an assistant one
D.A.
Anne
$1,000 [10]
According to the Bible, Moses saw the Promised Land from this mountain in Jordan's Pisgah Range
Mount Nebo
Anne Linda Bob
$1,000 [20]
He's the tech-savvy artist heard here with a 1983 hit:
Thomas Dolby
Bob
$1,000 [15]
About 9% of the individual returns for 2000 checked the box to donate this much to the Presidential Election Fund
$3
Linda
$1,000 [8]
A Fleetwood or Winnebago
RV
Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE VISIGOTH HANDBOOK SAM I AM SCIENCE CLASS MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSIONIST BEFORE & AFTER THE OLYMPIC GAMES
$400 [19]
A spectacle once performed by the Visigoths in Spain, this sport is featured in Shakira's "Te Dejo Madrid" video
bullfighting
Bob
$400 [11]
Remarkably, using only the jawbone of an ass, he slew 1,000 men in the Old Testament
Samson
Anne
$400 [6]
Emil Fischer must have been in a coffeehouse when he identified this stimulant as part of the purine group
caffeine
Linda
$400 [3]
His "Four Dancers" was not one of the 24 works he submitted to an Impressionist show in 1876
Edgar Degas
Anne
$400 [1]
1990s Lakers general manager who became a state in 1863
Jerry West Virginia
Anne
$800 [26]
The 1956 summer games in this country were the first not held in Europe or the U.S.
Australia (Melbourne)
$1,200 [18]
In 376 when this Asian group threatened them, the Visigoths appealed to Rome for help
the Huns
Linda Bob
$800 [12]
"I'm just talking about" the figurine seenhereof this actor in a 2000 action blockbuster
Samuel L. Jackson
Anne
$800 [7]
From the Latin for "to lie upon", these hospital machines are used to help control preemies' oxygen supplies
incubators
Anne
$800 [4]
At first Camille Pissarro used comma-shaped strokes, but after seeing this artist's work, switched to dots
Georges Seurat
Anne
$800 [2]
"Blame it on" this dance & Canadian province
Bossa Nova Scotia
DD $1,200 [20]
The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius", or "Faster, Higher", this
Stronger
Bob
$1,200 [13]
Found in Bonham, Texas, the library named for this Speaker of the House features a replica of his U.S. Capitol office
Sam Rayburn
Bob
$1,200 [8]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the science lab.) With chicken manure & water you can make an anaerobic digester that produces this gas, CH4, which can be used as a fuel
methane
Bob
$1,200 [5]
Manet's impression of this city is seen here:
Venice
Linda
$1,200 [23]
Bunny home that turns up in the study on the JFK assassination
Rabbit Warren Commission
Anne
$1,600 [21]
In 1976 this 14-year-old Romanian gymnast earned 7 perfect scores of 10
Nadia Comăneci
Bob
$1,600 [16]
He's directed "Evil Dead", "Army of Darkness" & "Spider-Man"
Sam Raimi
Bob
$1,600 [9]
During the 1970s this British physicist made the unexpected discovery that black holes emit thermal radiation
Stephen Hawking
Bob
$1,600 [14]
At the famous April 15, 1874 exhibition in Paris, this artist had the only work with "Impressionist" in the title
Claude Monet
Anne
$1,600 [24]
After it was opened all that was left in it was hope, a sandwich, chips, an apple & a juice carton
Pandora's box lunch
Anne
$2,000 [22]
This Spaniard served as president of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Linda
DD $2,000 [17]
This "Christabel" poet defined the sonnet as "a small poem, in which some lonely feeling is developed"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bob
$2,000 [10]
Seen here is this 2-time Nobel Prize-winning scientist
Linus Pauling
Bob
$2,000 [15]
Painter of "The Wave", he was the father of French first wave filmmaker Jean
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
$2,000 [25]
Air Force general & George Wallace running mate celebrated by pole dancers in the spring
Curtis LeMay Day

Final Jeopardy!

WASHINGTON, D.C.

The National Mall is bounded by these 2 avenues whose names recall historic documents

Constitution & Independence Avenues

Linda "What are constitution & independence" — wagered $3,300
Bob "What is Versailles & Constit" — wagered $7,700
Anne "What are Constitution & Independence" — wagered $6,601

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