Show #4169 2002-10-17 (taped 2002-06-26) Regular

(Sofia: Today the Clue Crew is taking a field trip--a Field Museum trip!)

Contestants

Rob Kobman — a bartender and recent college graduate from Spotsylvania, Virginia

Heather Townsend — a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.

Tom McDermott — a municipal court magistrate from Bowling Green, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $800 $1,800 $21,000 $5,999
2nd place: $2,000
$11,800
12 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Heather $1,400 $4,800 $18,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$18,000
23 R, 3 W
Rob $4,000 $11,400 $15,800 $12,800
New champion: $12,800
$11,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE ARABIAN NIGHTS POLITICIANS LANGUAGES WHATCHAMACALLIT MISHEARD LYRICS PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE
$200 [16]
He picked up the transparent fruit of different colors on the way back from getting the wonderful lamp
Aladdin
Rob
$200 [21]
She was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988
Dianne Feinstein
Heather
$200 [7]
This country's official language, Tajik, is an Iranian language
Tajikistan
Heather
$200 [1]
Term for the Revolutionary War militia members who were ready to fight at a moment's notice
Minutemen
Rob
$200 [2]
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles:"I suck on that emotion"
"I Second That Emotion"
Rob
$200 [26]
In 1943 a young JFK was given command of the PT this
109
Heather
$400 [17]
After a horrible first voyage he had planned to stay in Baghdad, but wound up making 6 more
Sinbad
Heather
$400 [22]
Both Nixon & Ford employed his services as Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger
Tom
$400 [8]
This language's main dialect, Castilian, developed from the area of Burgos
Spanish
Tom Rob
$400 [12]
As it's Russian for "big", that makes it just a big ballet company
Bolshoi
Rob
$400 [3]
The Four Tops:"Ain't no woman like a one-eyed goat"
'Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)"
Tom
$400 [27]
This Marla Gibbs sitcom ran from 1985 to 1990
227
Rob
$600 [18]
The mounted men Ali Baba saw & figured were thieves, numbered this many
40
Heather
$600 [23]
He's the U.S. representative from Massachusetts seen here
Barney Frank
Tom Rob
$600 [9]
Words in the English language taken directly from this language include flak, hinterland & kindergarten
German
Rob
$600 [13]
A rowel is the spiked wheel at the back of this cowboy accessory
spurs
Rob
$600 [4]
Pat Benatar:"Hit me with your pet shark"
"Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
Rob
$800 [29]
Clorox' all-purpose cleaner is Formula this
409
Rob
$800 [19]
"The Arabian Nights Entertainments" is also known by this numerical name
"One Thousand and One Nights"
Heather
$800 [24]
In 2000 Donald Trump challenged Pat Buchanan for this party's presidential nomination
Reform Party
Heather Rob
$800 [10]
Important literary works in the Eastern variety of this language of India are written in Awadhi
Hindi
Rob
$800 [14]
The Paraclete is this part of the Trinity
Holy Spirit
Heather Rob
$800 [5]
Aerosmith:"Loving an alligator"
"Love in an Elevator"
Rob
$1,000 [30]
If you start with 99 bottles of beer on the wall, it's the first prime number you'll be left with after some fall
97
Rob
$1,000 [20]
The genie that the fisherman released had been bottled up by this king, the son of David
Solomon
Heather
$1,000 [25]
In 1989 David Dinkins defeated this man in NYC's Democratic mayoral primary
Ed Koch
Heather
$1,000 [11]
Although Wolof is Senegal's most widely spoken language, this is its official language
French
Rob
$1,000 [15]
It's the tallest type of tree named for a Cherokee
Sequoia
Heather
$1,000 [6]
Bachman-Turner Overdrive:"Tape it to a biscuit"
"Takin' Care of Business"
Heather
DD $4,800 [28]
Of V, X, L, D or C, the prime number
V (5)
Rob

Double Jeopardy! Round

TOUGH GEOGRAPHY INVASIONS UNDERGROUND THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR AUTO LOGOS "D" CATEGORY
$400 [16]
This desert makes up half of the area of Israel
Negev
Tom
$400 [21]
Within hours of an August 1990 invasion, this country had complete control of one of its neighbors
Iraq
Heather
$400 [26]
In New York City the top of a coffin only has to be this far underground, half the proverbial depth
3 feet under
Rob
$400 [1]
"The Lodger","Strangers on a Train","The Birds"
Alfred Hitchcock
Heather
$400 [6]
This company's bow tie logo appeared for the first time in 1914
Chevrolet
Heather
$400 [11]
The ancient Olympic games were believed to have included the throwing of a bronze one
discus
Rob
$800 [17]
Seoul's chief seaport is this nearby city where MacArthur's troops landed in September 1950
Inchon
Rob
$800 [22]
The United States launched a multiple invasion of this country to start the War of 1812
Canada
Tom
$800 [27]
Among Burchell's army ants, the queen can see but these underground laborers are blind
workers
Tom Heather Rob
$800 [2]
"The Elephant Man","Eraserhead","Mulholland Dr."
David Lynch
Rob
$800 [7]
The three-pointed star on this company's logo represents land, sea & air
Mercedes-Benz
Heather
$800 [12]
Playful plant eater pictured here
dugong
Heather
$1,200 [18]
Only the narrow Isthmus of Chignecto joins Nova Scotia to this mainland province
New Brunswick
Heather
$1,600 [24]
After the 1940 Nazi invasion of this country, Vidkun Quisling took power there
Norway
Heather
$1,200 [28]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Field Museum in Chicago.) Earthworms, like birds, have this portion of the digestive system; they use it to grind up the earth they swallow
a gizzard
Rob
$1,200 [3]
"The Hard Case","Snatch","Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"
Guy Ritchie
Heather
$1,200 [8]
Although its symbol looks like a cowboy in a big hat, it's actually three ellipses
Toyota
Rob
$1,200 [13]
Its border with Haiti is about 195 miles long
Dominican Republic
Tom
$1,600 [19]
The Paraguana Peninsula is not in Paraguay but in this other South American country which borders the Caribbean
Venezuela
Heather
$2,000 [25]
One of the last European conquests on the African continent began with Italy's 1935 invasion of this country
Ethiopia
Heather
$1,600 [29]
The USA's first mine for this opened in Virginia around 1750
coal
Tom Heather Rob
$1,600 [4]
"The Wedding Banquet","Sense and Sensibility","Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
Ang Lee
Rob
$1,600 [9]
Its prancing horse logo was originally the emblem of WWI flying ace Francesco Barraca
Ferrari
Heather Rob
$2,000 [15]
It's a megalithic stone slab marking a prehistoric tomb
dolmen
$2,000 [20]
The north part of this Pacific sea off Australia's Queensland state is known as the Solomon Sea
Coral Sea
Tom
DD $7,000 [23]
Ski boots were needed in quantity when Russia invaded this neighbor in 1939
Finland
Tom
$2,000 [30]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Field Museum in Chicago.) From the Latin for "little knot", these are formed on roots to help in nitrogen fixation
nodules
Heather
$2,000 [5]
"Medicine Man","Die Hard","The Last Action Hero"
John McTiernan
Tom
$2,000 [10]
In the 1960s this 200 MPH muscle car designed by Carroll Shelby was "poison" to its racing competition
Cobra
Rob
DD $5,000 [14]
Aye, matey, it's naval navigation by geographic means, not astronomical observation
dead reckoning
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

MODERN-DAY KNIGHTS

At the Knights of the Garter's Chapel, the heraldic crest representing this man depicts a kiwi with an axe

Sir Edmund Hillary

Rob "Who is re" — wagered $3,000
Heather "Who is Lord Sydney?" — wagered $17,999
Tom "Who is Eric Clapton" — wagered $15,001

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