Show #4144 2002-09-12 (taped 2002-06-11) Regular

14th show in a row with a new champion.(Sofia: Fast lane racing clues onJeopardy!... stay tuned!)

Contestants

Julie Agnew Thomas — a chamber-of-commerce executive from Barlow, Kentucky

Tom Kelso — a credit analyst from Chicago, Illinois

Lorraine Cruz — a substitute teacher from Temecula, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lorraine $800 $1,800 $14,400 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Tom $5,400 $10,400 $27,600 $28,801
New champion: $28,801
$26,600
31 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Julie $200 $-1,000 $-5,000 $-5,000
3rd place: $1,000
$-5,000
5 R, 9 W

Jeopardy! Round

RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS SWEETS '90s MOVIE LINES 2001 "A" ____ ODYSSEY
$200 [17]
Purim, Sukkot
Judaism
Tom
$200 [1]
These "chewy cinnamon flavored candies" sound like a spicy Mexican dish
Hot Tamales
Tom Julie
$200 [2]
1994:"Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get"
Forrest Gump
Lorraine
$200 [7]
In January 2001 rolling blackouts were ordered by officials in this state
California
Tom
$200 [22]
"All in the Family" became "_____ Bunker's Place"
Archie
Lorraine
$200 [12]
Soon after his son Telemachus was born, Odysseus joined the expedition to this city
Troy
Tom
$400 [18]
Assumption, Ascension
Roman Catholicism
Lorraine
$400 [27]
This Middle East confection of ground sesame seeds & honey is sold in bars & slabs
Halvah
Julie
$400 [3]
1998:"I have a new play". "What's it called?" "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter"
Shakespeare in Love
Julie
$400 [8]
In August a textile maker popped into the news with a new fabric made with polymers from this food
corn
Julie
$400 [23]
Drivin' from Mississippi to Georgia you're bound to drive through _____
Alabama
Tom
$400 [13]
Guest-starring in Book IV is this little lady from "The Iliad" over whom a war was fought
Helen of Troy
Julie
$600 [19]
Eid al-Fitr, Laylat al-Qadr
Islam
Lorraine
$600 [28]
If you're looking for a chocolate bar chock full of peanuts, try this one introduced in 1925
Mr. Goodbar
Tom Julie
$600 [4]
1999:"Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England"
The Cider House Rules
Tom
$600 [9]
Flights in & out of Puerto Rico were canceled July 29, due to one of these in Montserrat
a volcanic eruption (or volcanic explosion)
Lorraine
$600 [24]
Among the juices in Hawaiian Punch is _____; there is also some apricot puree
apple
Tom
$600 [14]
In order to blind Polyphemus, Odysseus had to put out this many eyes
1
Tom
$800 [20]
Diwali, Holi
Hinduism
Tom
$800 [29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) Made from nut paste, it's the colorful confection seen here
marzipan
Lorraine
$800 [5]
1992:"If she were a president she'd be Baberaham Lincoln"
Wayne's World
Lorraine
$800 [10]
On February 6 this Likud Party leader was elected prime minister
Ariel Sharon
Tom
$800 [25]
On October 3, 1985 the space shuttle _____ took off on its first mission
Atlantis
Tom
$800 [15]
In Homer's time the tale wasn't read, it was chanted to the accompaniment of this
a lyre
Lorraine Tom Julie
$1,000 [21]
Wesak, Navam
Buddhism
Julie
$1,000 [30]
From the French for "lightning", it's an oblong cream- or custard-filled pastry
an eclair
Tom
$1,000 [6]
1996:"Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'Hello'"
Jerry Maguire
Tom
$1,000 [11]
In April a U.S. plane & a Chinese fighter jet collided & in February a U.S. sub hit a boat from this country
Japan
Tom
$1,000 [26]
_____ is the name of a dog in Joyce's "Ulysses" & of a Musketeer partner of Dumas' Aramis
Athos
Lorraine Tom
DD $2,000 [16]
This demigoddess trapped Odysseus on Ogygia for 7 years--7 years of steel drums & "The Banana Boat Song", we guess...
Calypso
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE IN THE 1800s MYSTERY! WOMEN 19! IT BORDERS BOTH A VERY "P.C." CATEGORY
$400 [2]
The chemistry team of Pelletier & Caventou isolated strychnine & this stuff that makes plants green
chlorophyll
Lorraine
$400 [26]
Jeremy Brett played this consulting detective in programs like "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
Sherlock Holmes
Lorraine
$400 [1]
This woman bears 2 children in Genesis 4
Eve
Tom Julie
$400 [9]
In 1999, after 19 Emmy nominations for playing this character, Susan Lucci won for her first time
Erica Kane
Tom Julie
$400 [10]
Switzerland & Spain
France
Tom
$400 [4]
Completed in 1914, it stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Panama Canal
Lorraine
$1,200 [15]
Physicist Gaspard de Coriolis lived up to his potential by first defining this type of energy
kinetic energy
Tom
$800 [27]
Joan Hickson played this Christie sleuth, previously portrayed by Angela Lansbury & Helen Hayes
Miss Marple
Tom
$800 [18]
This fictional female Amazon's arsenal includes powerful bracelets, a golden lasso & an invisible plane
Wonder Woman
Lorraine
$800 [22]
In 1981 this group had a hit with the song heard here
Steely Dan
Tom
$800 [11]
Iraq & Afghanistan
Iran
Lorraine
$800 [5]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Richard Petty Driving Experience at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) It's the 2-word term for the support group that's helping me to get back in the race
pit crew
Lorraine
$1,600 [16]
This German for whom a unit of frequency is named was the first man to send & receive radio waves
Heinrich Hertz
Julie
$1,200 [28]
Edward Petherbridge had trouble keeping his monocle in place as this Dorothy Sayers lord
Lord Peter Wimsey
Tom
$1,200 [19]
She was nominated for the 1978 Best Actress Oscar for her role in "An Unmarried Woman"
Jill Clayburgh
Tom
$1,200 [23]
According to the 19th Amendment, "The rights of citizens of the U.S. to" do this "shall not be denied..."
vote
Tom Julie
$1,200 [12]
Egypt & Algeria
Libya
Tom
$1,200 [6]
Also called bonobos, they're the small African creatures seen here
pygmy chimpanzees
Lorraine
$2,000 [17]
The 1899 first edition of this medical "manual" recommended smoking to treat asthma
Merck Manual
$1,600 [29]
Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison burst onto American TV in 1992 in this 4-part series
Prime Suspect
Tom
$1,600 [20]
This early feminist, the wife of William Godwin, penned "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" in 1792
Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin)
$1,600 [24]
The 19th letter in the Greek alphabet, it follows sigma
tau
Tom
$1,600 [13]
Bulgaria & Armenia
Turkey
Tom
$1,600 [7]
It was founded in December 1620
Plymouth Colony
Lorraine Julie
DD $2,200 [3]
In 1861 Eduard Suess, proposer of the concept of Gondwanaland, became professor of this at the U. of Vienna
geology
Lorraine
$2,000 [30]
This somewhat cranky Oxford inspector was featured in a record 64 "Mystery!" episodes
Inspector Morse
Tom
$2,000 [21]
This NPR legal correspondent is also seen on "Nightline" & has been one of Esquire's "Women We Love"
Nina Totenberg
Tom Julie
$2,000 [25]
Chapter 19 of this Mark Twain tale is "Knight Errantry as a Trade"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Lorraine
DD $2,000 [14]
Malaysia & Papua New Guinea
Indonesia
Tom
$2,000 [8]
This Spaniard born in 1876 was widely regarded as a 20th century master of the cello
Pablo Casals
Lorraine

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. HISTORY

Dating back to the Revolution, it's the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States

West Point

Lorraine "What is Valley Forge?" — wagered $14,400
Tom "What is West Point?" — wagered $1,201

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