Show #4162 2002-10-08 (taped 2002-06-25) Regular

Mark Brown game 4.(Sofia: Hey Jimmy, William Howard Taft lived here.)(Jimmy: Let's go inside and check out how big the bathtub is!)

Contestants

Jason Schneiderman — an editor from Somerville, Massachusetts

Kate Martin — a researcher and editor from New Bedford, Massachusetts

Mark Brown — an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona (whose 3-day cash winnings total $42,899)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $1,000 $5,800 $8,000 $16,000
4-day champion: $58,899
$5,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W
Kate $3,600 $3,800 $10,000 $3,999
2nd place: $2,000
$7,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Jason $2,800 $4,800 $7,200 $1,000
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
13 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

CAPITAL TOURISM TV PUPPETS LEAP DAY BABIES A PROVERBIAL MESS FULL SERVICE BY HALVES
$200 [1]
A huge monolith featuring 121 carved figures adorns Vigeland Sculpture Park in this Norwegian capital
Oslo
Jason
$200 [2]
Mallory Tarcher has had a hand in continuing Lamb Chop, created by this woman, her mother
Shari Lewis
Kate
$200 [21]
February 29 baby Karl von Baer established that babies develop from these female reproductive cells
ova
Mark
$200 [8]
What preach you practice
Practice what you preach
Jason
$200 [26]
Performed to make you part of the Mormon Church, it needs a body of water large enough for total immersion
baptism
Mark
$200 [13]
After being made with a new metal in 1883, the U.S. coin known as the half dime became known as this
nickel
Mark
$400 [4]
Sir Francis Chantrey's statue of King George IV stands in a corner of this famous London square
Trafalgar Square
Kate
$400 [3]
Known as the Foster Imposters, a puppet pair of these animals want to be Foster Farms products
chickens
Mark Jason
$400 [22]
Morarji Desai, former prime minister of this country, died in 1995 aged 99 (or just 24)
India
$400 [9]
Iron while is the strike hot
Strike while the iron is hot
Jason
$400 [27]
They're the first 2 words in the Book of Common Prayer (1549 ed.) wedding service
Dearly beloved
Mark Kate
$400 [15]
Nickname of Melissa Gilbert's character on "Little House on the Prairie"
Half Pint
Mark
$600 [14]
Devon House, built in 1881 by one of the Caribbean's 1st black millionaires, is a major attraction in this Jamaican capital
Kingston
Jason
$600 [5]
In 1989 NBC had this alien help host the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
ALF
Kate
$600 [23]
This Italian celebrated his 6th birthday in 1816, days after his opera "The Barber of Seville" premiered
Gioachino Rossini
Mark
$600 [10]
Lead roads all Rome to
All roads lead to Rome
Kate
$600 [28]
As used during the Last Supper they're the food & drink blessed during the eucharist
bread & wine
Kate
$600 [18]
According to Tennyson, the Light Brigade moved into the Valley of Death by these increments
half-leagues
Jason
$800 [16]
Te Papa Tongarewa, Maori for "repository of things precious", is the name of the waterfront museum in this city
Wellington
Mark Kate
$800 [6]
Humans on this 2002 Fox puppet series include Sarah Silverman & Seth Green
Greg the Bunny
Jason
$800 [24]
This actor & jeans model seenherereally is in the "junior league"; he's only had 7 birthdays
Antonio Sabato Jr.
$800 [11]
Better one are heads than two
Two heads are better than one
Kate
$800 [29]
Kol Nidre, which negates vows made between humans & God, is recited on the eve of this Jewish holiday
Yom Kippur
Jason
$800 [19]
A "half" this is a dive that includes a half backward somersault & ends facing the board
kick
Jason
$1,000 [17]
A hill known as El Panecillo--"The Bread Roll"--provides fine views of this Ecuadorian city
Quito
Mark
$1,000 [7]
On "Unhappily Ever After", he supplied the voice of Mr. Floppy
Bobcat Goldthwait
Jason
DD $1,400 [25]
In 1896 Herman Hollerith, born on Leap Day 1860, organized the Tabulating Machine Co., which evolved into this giant
IBM
Mark
$1,000 [12]
Pen mightier is than the the sword
The pen is mightier than the sword
Kate
$1,000 [30]
This kind of mass has included a "Dies Irae"; Mozart wrote one late in his life
requiem mass
Mark
$1,000 [20]
For thorium-234 it's about 25 days; for thorium-232, about 14 billion years
half-life
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT WRITERS' PEN NAMES POP MUSIC DECADES HAWAII FILE UNDER "H"
$400 [18]
Taft was criticized for not doing more to reduce the power of Joe Cannon, holder of this post in Congress
Speaker of the House
Mark
$400 [7]
A steenbok is a grassland antelope; this is the man who wrote "Tortilla Flat"
John Steinbeck
Kate
$400 [4]
Richard Bachman
Stephen King
Mark
$400 [13]
This Motown group's many '60s hits include "Stop! In The Name Of Love"
The Supremes
Kate
$400 [24]
In the Hawaiian language, kane is a man & this is a woman
wahine
Mark
$400 [1]
In 1998 this largest automaker of South Korea acquired a major stake in Kia Motors
Hyundai
Jason
$800 [19]
With Taft & Teddy Roosevelt splitting the Republican vote, this Democrat easily won the 1912 election
Woodrow Wilson
Mark
$800 [8]
Elder is a species of tree; eider is a species of this
duck
Mark
$800 [12]
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Washington Irving
$800 [14]
Giant of the '70s airwaves seen here
John Denver
Mark
$800 [30]
In the 1790s, cattle were brought to Hawaii by George Vancouver who served under this discoverer of the islands
Captain James Cook
Mark
$800 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) It's the method I'm using to type a memo... I was never very good
hunt-and-peck
Kate
$1,200 [20]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Cincinnati.) Before ascending to the presidency, the only job Taft was voted into was as one of these in Ohio
Superior Court judge
Mark Kate
$1,200 [9]
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection; this was the '80s TV show hosted by Deney Terrio
Dance Fever
Jason
$1,200 [15]
Elron
L. Ron Hubbard
Mark
$1,600 [22]
"Shake It" is the last song on his 1983 album "Let's Dance"
David Bowie
Jason
$1,200 [29]
Known as the "Napoleon of the Pacific", he united the islands by 1810 & forged them into a kingdom
King Kamehameha
Mark
$1,200 [3]
It's another name for a filbert
hazelnut
Jason
$1,600 [25]
Taft set up this bureau in the Interior Dept. to reduce underground explosions, that sort of thing
Bureau of Mines
Mark Kate
$1,600 [10]
Baskin-Robbins creates fancy ice cream treats; he created the ballet "Fancy Free"
Jerome Robbins
Kate
$1,600 [16]
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter
$2,000 [23]
In 1959 she had a hit with the following
Dinah Washington
Kate
$1,600 [27]
This island's Kalaupapa National Historical Park preserves the Kalaupapa leper settlement
Molokai
Mark
$1,600 [5]
Despite a clubfoot, Lord Byron played cricket for this London school in its rivalry match against Eton
Harrow
Kate
DD $3,800 [26]
Alliterative term for Taft's foreign policy, which emphasized monetary investment
"Dollar Diplomacy"
Mark
$2,000 [11]
Topaz is a yellow stone; this is the U.S. national park with the highest waterfall
Yosemite
Mark
$2,000 [17]
A.A. Fair
Erle Stanley Gardner
Jason
DD $3,800 [21]
A bestselling album of 1945 was from this bandleader who'd died the previous year
Glenn Miller
Kate
$2,000 [28]
Volcanic craters on Oahu include Diamond Head, Koko Head & this "bowl" in the heart of Honolulu
Punchbowl
$2,000 [6]
Largely through the efforts of Clive Cussler, this Confederate sub that sank with its crew in 1864 has been recovered
C.S.S. Hunley
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

1896

This venture was financed by the sale of souvenir stamps & medals & a large donation from businessman Georgios Averoff

the Olympic Games (first of the modern era)

Jason "What is The Red Cross?" — wagered $6,200
Mark "What are The Olympics" — wagered $8,000
Kate "What was the Panama Canal?" — wagered $6,001

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