Show #4165 2002-10-11 (taped 2002-06-25) Regular

Contestants

Meredith Allen — a recent college graduate from Peterborough, New Hampshire

Rafi Kam — a web programmer from Danbury, Connecticut

Tanya Tyler — a writer and editor from Lexington, Kentucky (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tanya $800 $3,400 $14,600 $15,600
2-day champion: $35,600
$14,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Rafi $1,600 $3,800 $5,000 $7,500
3rd place: $1,000
$5,000
13 R, 3 W
Meredith $1,800 $2,800 $7,400 $11,900
2nd place: $2,000
$6,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. ENDANGERED SPECIES WORLD SERIES HOMERS NUMB WITH NUMBERS PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES WE'VE GOT COMPANY STATELY REBUSES
$200 [13]
Corynorhinus townsendii ingens is the Ozark big-eared one of these cave dwellers
bat
Tanya
$200 [12]
Game 5 of the 1920 Series featured a triple play & the first World Series one of these bases-loaded clouts
grand slam
Meredith
$200 [16]
Number of bits in a byte or number of Liz Taylor's marriages
8
Rafi
$200 [6]
"Lyss"
Ulysses S. Grant
Tanya
$200 [11]
This company made the "Zoomer" before making the "Pilot"
Palm
Rafi
$200 [1]
Thelma's movie partner goes to the "Talk Soup" network to speak with actress Paquin
Louisiana
Tanya
$400 [27]
It's not only the chinook; the sockeye species of this fish is endangered also
salmon
Meredith
$400 [14]
Seen here, he hit his first of a record 18 Series homers against the Dodgers in 1952
Mickey Mantle
Rafi
$400 [19]
Number of words in this clue when you consider this part of it also
14
$400 [7]
"Elegant Arthur"
Chester A. Arthur
Meredith
$400 [23]
This worldwide record store chain began with one store in Sacramento in 1960
Tower Records
Rafi
$400 [2]
The vehicle Noah traveled in together with the tool he used to cut word to make it
Arkansas
Meredith
$600 [28]
Still listed as endangered as of 2002, the ivory-billed species of this bird may be extinct
woodpecker
$600 [15]
One "Amazing" moment in this team's 1969 Series win was a homer by Al Weis, who hit 7 in his whole career
New York Mets
Tanya
$600 [20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew standing in front of a blackboard) The number of zeroes in the product of a billion & a million
15 (9 + 6)
Rafi
$600 [8]
The "Kinderhook Fox"
Martin Van Buren
Tanya
$600 [24]
The nation's second-largest Internet service provider; its logo is seen here
EarthLink
Meredith
$600 [3]
A smaller than regular-sized carbonated soft drink
Minnesota
$800 [29]
Over half of the insects listed as endangered in the U.S. are types of these, & many of them are blue
butterflies
$800 [17]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew standing in front of Wrigley Field in Chicago) Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard Round the World" in New York; Babe Ruth hit this 1932 World Series home run in Wrigley Field
the "Called Shot"
$800 [21]
In a 1976 song, the number of crew members who perished in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
29
Tanya
DD $1,000 [9]
The 4 often called "The Virginia Dynasty"
Washington, Jefferson, Madison & Monroe
Tanya
$800 [25]
Founded in 1934 as Telegraph Delivery Service, it's a competitor of FTD
Teleflora
Tanya
$800 [4]
The astral glow around your body has vanished
Oregon
Meredith
$1,000 [30]
To everything there is a season, including these endangered birds: the least, roseate & California least
terns
$1,000 [18]
At Yankee Stadium this man hit 3 first-pitch home runs in the final game of the 1977 World Series
Reggie Jackson
Tanya
$1,000 [22]
It's the number of years in a French president's term of office; in 2000 it was reduced from 7
5
Rafi
$1,000 [10]
"Ten-Cent Jimmy", as well as "Old Buck"
James Buchanan
Tanya
$1,000 [26]
Adams makes the Tight Lies series of these
golf clubs
$1,000 [5]
What the Beastie Boys album gives you "License to" & what it does to your mom when you crank it up
Illinois
Tanya Rafi

Double Jeopardy! Round

A NATIONAL ENQUIRER ROLE PLAYING LAST LINES THE COURAGE TO "B" DAY TIME KNIGHT TIME
$400 [1]
This Middle Eastern country borders Saudi Arabia, Turkey & of course Kuwait
Iraq
Rafi
$400 [7]
"Mrs. Doubtfire"(1993)
Robin Williams
Tanya
$400 [5]
In a 1914 book he says, "My mother was an ape...she couldn't tell me much about it. I never knew who my father was"
Tarzan
Rafi
$400 [15]
He's the friendly purple & green dinosaur who has his own TV show on PBS
Barney
Meredith
$400 [20]
In 2002 Earth Day fell on this day, what the Italians call Lunedi, after the moon
Monday
Tanya
$400 [25]
The first knights in England were just French soldiers trained to fight on these
horses
Tanya
$800 [2]
The chancellor of this nation is a longtime member of the Social Democratic Party
Germany
Meredith
$800 [8]
"American Gigolo"(1980)
Richard Gere
Tanya
$800 [6]
Thomas Mann work that ends, "A shocked and respectful world received the news of his decease"
Death in Venice
Rafi
$800 [16]
The scientific name of this playful species of dolphin is Tursiops truncatus
bottlenose
Meredith
$800 [21]
"Hump Day" was named for this Norse god
Odin
Rafi Meredith
$800 [26]
After a knight was totally covered in armor you could still identify him by this on his shield or surcoat
coat of arms
Rafi
$1,200 [3]
King Umberto II, son of Victor Emmanuel III, was this country's last monarch in 1946
Italy
Tanya
$1,200 [9]
"Mr. Saturday Night"(1992)
Billy Crystal
Rafi
$1,600 [12]
In this book, Jesus cries, "'It is accomplished!' and it was as though he had said: 'Everything has begun'"
"The Last Temptation of Christ"
Rafi
$1,200 [17]
Paul could tell you it's defined as a swelling of the joint between the big toe & the first metatarsal
bunion
Tanya
$1,200 [22]
Anagram "inverse" to get this day of the week in Spain
Viernes
Rafi
$1,200 [27]
In this jousting event, the object was to unseat the knight coming at you on the other side of the railing
tilting
Meredith
$1,600 [4]
In February 1952 this "Union" vetoed Italy's attempt to join the United Nations
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
$1,600 [10]
"Mr. & Mrs. Bridge"(1990)
Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward
Tanya
DD $2,000 [11]
Set in medieval times, this modern novel ends in Latin: "Stat rosa pristina nomine. Nomina nuda tenemus"
"The Name of the Rose"
Tanya
$1,600 [18]
If you've got a deficiency of vitamin B1, you've got the disease with this double-talk name
beriberi
Tanya
$1,600 [23]
In French this day should "gras" on you; it's a red planet letter day
Mardi
Tanya
$1,600 [28]
Hey 13th century knight, you've got this flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
chain mail
Meredith
$2,000 [30]
From 1569 to the late 1700s, Poland & this Baltic nation it borders were united under a single parliament
Lithuania
Rafi
$2,000 [14]
"Tom Jones"(1963)
Albert Finney
$2,000 [13]
This Laurence Sterne novel's last line says you've been reading a story about "A cock and a bull"
"Tristram Shandy"
$2,000 [19]
A former kingdom in the western Czech Republic
Bohemia
$2,000 [24]
By the sound of it, on this German day, you should kick back, relax & read "The Volcano Lovers"
Sontag
DD $3,000 [29]
By the 15th century knights just weren't that important anymore due to the introduction of this from China
gunpowder
Meredith

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS AMERICANS

In 1785 he wrote that "After fifty years' service in public affairs", he wanted to "make plenty of experiments"

Benjamin Franklin

Rafi "Who was Benjamin Franklin" — wagered $2,500
Meredith "Who is Benjamin Franklin?" — wagered $4,500
Tanya "Who is Ben Franklin?" — wagered $1,000

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