Show #3781 2001-01-29 (taped 2000-11-14) Regular

Contestants

Matt Waddell — an attorney from Flushing, New York

Naomi Barell Urbaitel — a photographer and desktop publisher from Burlington, Vermont

Aaron Kilmer — a graduate student from Pasadena, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Aaron $1,000 $1,400 $5,200 $2,900
2nd place: a trip to Vienna, Austria courtesy of Priceline.com
$4,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Naomi $-100 $200 $1,400 $1
3rd place: Samsung cameras
$1,400
8 R, 4 W
Matt $1,500 $1,100 $8,300 $10,500
New champion: $10,500
$7,100
20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE MARSHAL PLAN AUTHOR! AUTHOR! A MICHAEL JACKSON QUICKIE TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 "V" ARE NOT AFRAID
$100 [1]
Through 1870 U.S. Marshals were in charge of taking this once every 10 years
the census
Matt
$100 [5]
This author's almanacs are still popular
Benjamin Franklin
Aaron
$100 [23]
His first wife
Lisa Marie Presley
Aaron
$100 [21]
In 1865 acting Idaho governor C. DeWitt Smith died after a strenuous match at this board game
chess
Naomi
$100 [13]
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth"
Genesis
Aaron
$100 [3]
Technically, it's any vessel that carries blood to the heart
a vein
Aaron
$200 [2]
The U.S. Marshals Service was created in this year when our constitution first took effect
1789
$200 [10]
Nobel Prize-winning Mississippian seen here
William Faulkner
Matt
$200 [27]
His youngest sister
Janet Jackson
Naomi
$200 [22]
In December 1941 Joseph Poindexter, governor of this territory, declared martial law
Hawaii
Matt
$200 [14]
"There was a man in the land of Uz..."
Job
$200 [4]
Seen here, he ran for president three times, but only won the first time in 1836
Martin Van Buren
Naomi
$300 [9]
Nicolas Cage might be able to tell you the service's plane transport system for prisoners has been dubbed this
Con Air
Matt
$300 [11]
This Irishman's many prose innovations included the use of stream of consciousness
James Joyce
Matt
$300 [28]
His biggest-selling solo album
Thriller
Aaron
$400 [25]
Missouri's governor from 1813 to 1820, he named one of his sons after Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Naomi
$300 [15]
"Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came unto Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob"
Exodus
Naomi
$300 [6]
A colorless liquor made from any starchy material such as grain
vodka
Aaron Matt
$400 [19]
On a special operation in 1996 to protect these people in Atlanta, the service used the logo seen here
Olympic athletes
Aaron
$400 [12]
He's the former Coast Guard journalist seenherewho helped popularize genealogy
Alex Haley
Aaron
$400 [29]
The "lunar" title of his 1988 autobiography
Moonwalk
Matt
DD $500 [24]
He was Indiana governor for 12 years, 144 times longer than he was U.S. president
William Henry Harrison
Aaron
$400 [16]
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly"
Psalms
Aaron Naomi
$400 [7]
This man seen here helped America reach new heights in the 1960s
Wernher von Braun
Matt
$500 [20]
Marshals & their deputies are responsible to the deputy this in the Department of Justice
attorney general
Matt
$500 [18]
Author & involuntary recluse seen here
Salman Rushdie
Matt
$500 [30]
His second wife & mother of his 2 children
Debbie Rowe
$500 [26]
Before the city of Lincoln was chosen, Thomas Cuming helped his friends by making this city Nebraska's capital
Omaha
Aaron Matt
$500 [17]
"In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon..."
Daniel
Matt
$500 [8]
A submicroscopic entity that only lives in a cell of another living organism
a virus
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MARSHALL PLAN MOVIE PORTRAYALS A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE SOLAR SYSTEM TOUR ALPHABET SOUP
$200 [3]
He argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court, a body he later joined
Thurgood Marshall
Aaron
$200 [9]
In 1999's "Man on the Moon", this comic was great as the late Andy Kaufman
Jim Carrey
Matt
$200 [16]
Laredo, El Paso
the Rio Grande
Aaron Matt
$200 [23]
In 1974 Britannica was split into 2 main parts, Micropedia (ready reference) & this (knowledge in depth)
Macropedia
Aaron
$200 [1]
Don't blink or you'll miss this little guy, a planet that's smaller than Earth's moon
Pluto
Matt
$200 [14]
This TV drama is set at Chicago's Cook County General Hospital
ER
Matt
$400 [4]
Around 1900, this Chicago businessman had expanded into Europe & Japan
Marshall Field
$400 [10]
She played author Isak Dinesen in "Out of Africa"
Meryl Streep
Naomi
$400 [17]
Citta Di Castello, Rome
the Tiber
Aaron
$400 [24]
This encyclopedia extended its "global" reach with a 1961 Braille edition & a 1980 audio edition
World Book
Naomi
$400 [2]
Note the lava channels on Mars' Olympus Mons, one of these that's higher than Everest & as big as Arizona
Volcano
Aaron
$400 [15]
Paul Muller won a 1948 Nobel Prize for developing this now widely banned insecticide
DDT
Aaron
$600 [5]
In the 1964 film "Ensign Pulver", this future game show host played Carney
Peter Marshall
Naomi
$600 [11]
This cop who blew the whistle on police corruption in NYC was played by Al Pacino in a 1973 film
Frank Serpico
Matt
$600 [18]
Wuhan, Shanghai
the Yangtze
Aaron Naomi
$600 [6]
Looks like we've got a green light, folks--oops, it's just the clouds of me than e around this third-largest planet
Uranus
Aaron Naomi
$600 [26]
A cable network, or an explosive
TNT
Matt
$800 [21]
This future 5-star general officially became Army Chief of Staff the day WWII began
George Marshall
$1,000 [13]
This boxing champ of the '40s was portrayed by Paul Newman in "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
Rocky Graziano
Naomi
$1,000 [20]
Nantes, Orleans
the Loire
Matt
$800 [7]
On this huge planet, passengers get half a day for sightseeing--but that's less than 5 Earth hours
Jupiter
Matt
$800 [27]
It's the highest officer of a company, like Michael Eisner for Disney
CEO
Matt
$1,000 [22]
In 1968 this Canadian's message "War and Peace in the Global Village" was in the book medium
Marshall McLuhan
Matt
DD $2,000 [12]
(Hi, I'm Yolanda King. My father was Martin Luther King, Jr.) In the 1996 movie "Ghosts of Mississippi", I played Reena, the daughter of this civil rights leader killed in 1963
Medgar Evers
Matt
DD $2,000 [19]
Obidos, Iquitos
the Amazon
Aaron
$1,000 [8]
Guess how big this biggest moon of Saturn is--scientists don't know because of haze around it
Titan
Matt
$1,000 [25]
This flavor enhancer used in Asian cooking was first obtained from seaweed
MSG
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS PHRASES

This phrase for the sport of Sugar Ray Robinson is attributed to 19th century writer Pierce Egan

The Sweet Science

Naomi "What is boxing?" — wagered $1,399
Aaron "What is pugilism?" — wagered $2,300
Matt "What the sweet science" — wagered $2,200

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