Show #4556 2004-05-31 (taped 2004-02-24) Regular

Anne Boyd game 5.

Contestants

Jerry Harvey — a freelance educator originally from California, Missouri

Patti Gregg — a college administrator from Decatur, Georgia

Anne Boyd — a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $84,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Anne $3,000 $2,600 $17,600 $17,600
2nd place: $2,000
$19,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Patti $1,400 $100 $4,900 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Jerry $2,400 $5,400 $20,600 $35,201
New champion: $35,201
$12,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

OFFICIAL COUNTRY DESIGNATIONS BIG DAYS ON THE COURT HOBBIES ROMAN AROUND POLITICAL GOBBLEDYGOOK "W"ORDS
$200 [7]
This tiny nation in the Pyrenees is one of the 3 nations of Europe officially designated as principalities
Andorra
Patti
$200 [10]
(Hi, I'm Bill Walton.) On March 26, 1973 I helped this school to the NCAA championship by making 21 of 22 shots against Memphis State
UCLA
Jerry
$200 [9]
Collectors of this ever-fashionable doll know that she's celebrating the 45th anniversary of her debut
Barbie
Jerry
$200 [1]
In 275 B.C. Manius Curius Dentatus brought the first of these animals to Rome; that was about 60 years before Hannibal
an elephant
Anne
$200 [4]
Mainstream street spot where politicians seem to stay
the middle of the road
Anne
$200 [11]
Some strive to have abs as hard & ripply as this laundry implement
washboards
Anne
$400 [8]
Appropriately, it's the "Hellenic Republic"
Greece
Anne
$400 [17]
(Hi, I'm Becky Hammon.) In game 1 of the 2002 WNBA finals, I was 4 for 6 on these shots--"beyond the arc", as we say
3-point shots
Jerry
$400 [22]
The Waxhouse/Scentmasters sells starter kits for making these; they contain wax, scenting oil & plenty of wick
candles
Jerry
$400 [2]
In 67 B.C. Pompey was out fighting these on the high seas of the Mediterranean
pirates
$400 [18]
In the '90s, FOB didn't mean "freight on board", it stood for "Friends of" him
Bill (Clinton)
Anne
$400 [12]
To hone or stimulate, like an appetite or one's curiosity
to whet
Anne
$600 [16]
One of the world's 2 sultanates
Brunei (or Oman)
Jerry
$600 [25]
(Hi, I'm Julius Erving.) With under 3 minutes left, I scored 7 straight points to rally this team in the game that won us the 1983 NBA title
the Philadelphia 76ers
Jerry
$600 [3]
Patricius, the son of Calpurnius, a Roman nobleman, traveled to & became the patron saint of this country
Ireland
Patti
$600 [19]
They're referred to so often they're just called WMD
weapons of mass destruction
Patti
$600 [13]
An eddy or a maelstrom
a whirlpool
Patti
$800 [23]
Since its former rulers were defeated, it's been known as a "transitional Islamic state"
Afghanistan
Anne
$800 [26]
(I'm Jalen Rose.) In a 2003 game I had 21 points, 11 assists & 14 rebounds for my first career one of these
a triple-double
$800 [5]
The Romans founded the city of Antinoopolis in Egypt to honor Antinous, who had drowned in this river
the Nile
Anne
$800 [20]
News organizations find politicians speak in these quotable snappy snippets
sound bites
Patti
$800 [14]
A river, canal or other route for transport or travel for ships
a waterway
Anne
$1,000 [24]
This European country is a confederation
Switzerland
Jerry
$1,000 [27]
(I'm NBA Hall of Famer Walt Frazier.) On May 8, 1970 I scored 36 points to lead this team to their first championship
the New York Knicks
$1,000 [6]
Augustus' brother-in-law, he alienated the Romans by spending so much time in Egypt
Marc Antony
Jerry
DD $2,700 [21]
Phrases from this "Puzzle Palace" include "flexible response" & "credible deterrent"
the Pentagon
Patti
$1,000 [15]
In "The Hollow Men", T.S. Eliot wrote, "The world ends not with a bang but" this
a whimper
Jerry

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS VEGAS ON FILM FAMOUS NAMES PRESIDENTIAL FACTS GYMNASTICS ON THE "MAT"
$400 [6]
David McCullouch earned the 1978 History Award for "Path Between the Seas", about the creation of this from 1870 to 1914
the Panama Canal
Patti
$400 [1]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from outside a casino.) In this 1998 film, Raoul Duke & Dr. Gonzo cruise the strip, terrorizing squares
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Patti
$400 [9]
William of Orange, like his father William II, wed an English girl named this
Mary
Jerry
DD $200 [25]
A heating pad kept him warm during his second inauguration, the first one held in January
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Anne
$400 [11]
In 1976 this perfect 10 Romanian had to remind the persistent press she was only 14
Nadia Comaneci
Jerry
$400 [12]
Term for a person who keeps taking abuse & humiliation: it's like he has "welcome" written on him
a doormat
Anne
$800 [7]
At the first National Book Awards, in 1950, Ralph Rusk won for his biography of this other Ralph, an essayist
Emerson
Patti
$800 [2]
After her single mom/waitress turn in "As Good as It Gets", she played a single mom/Vegas waitress in "Pay it Forward"
Helen Hunt
Anne
$800 [15]
Doing this 48 times in 1963 put Valentina Tereshkova in the headlines
circling the Earth
Jerry
$400 [10]
He left the White House in 1809, went home & never left Virginia for the remaining 17 years of his life
Jefferson
Jerry
DD $10,000 [27]
Women performing this event with no equipment but a mat must make the moves to match the tempo & mood of the music
the free exercise (or floor exercise)
Jerry
$800 [20]
Type of business seenherethat was popular in the '40s & '50s
an automat
Jerry
$1,200 [8]
His novel "Herzog" won in the Fiction category in 1965
Saul Bellow
Jerry
$1,200 [3]
Spacy 1984 film featuringthe followingsequence"Hit the giant jackpot and your troubles are over! Half a million dollars, folks! Who's gonna take a shot?""Define giant jackpot.""A giant jackpot is a lot of money.""Money? Geetus? Bread? An arm and a leg?"
Starman
Anne
$1,200 [17]
In 1628 the British took this founder of Quebec prisoner, holding him in England until 1633
Champlain
Jerry
$800 [16]
The portrait seenhereis a mosaic done in these, a favorite of President Reagan's
jelly beans
Anne
$1,200 [22]
Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary is the highest rank of this
a diplomat
Anne
$1,600 [13]
She won in the category children's fiction (paperback) for "Ramona and her Mother"
Beverly Cleary
Patti
$1,600 [4]
In the first of these films, Whoopi Goldberg was a Reno lounge singer; in the second she's a Vegas headliner
Sister Act
Anne
$1,600 [18]
Depictedhereduring a demonstration in 1854, he's the inventor safe & sound up on the platform
(Elisha) Otis
Anne
$1,200 [21]
During the Vietnam War, LBJ dreamed he was this WWI president after the stroke
Wilson
Anne
$1,600 [23]
If you have a radioactive spill, who do you call? This emergency team
the HAZMAT team
Patti
$2,000 [14]
Jonathan Franzen didn't want Oprah's Book Club seal, but thanked her when this novel won the 2001 fiction award
The Corrections
Anne
$2,000 [5]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reads from Las Vegas.) In "Viva Las Vegas", Elvis & his rival, Count Elmo Mancini, tour the strip looking for her
Ann-Margret
Anne
$2,000 [19]
By 1946, he'd catalogued over 29,000 galaxies, almost 4,000 asteroids & 1 new planet--Pluto
Clyde Tombaugh
Jerry
$2,000 [26]
Washington, D.C. locale where President Garfield was fatally shot
the railroad station
Jerry
$2,000 [24]
This prefix is from the Greek for "blood"
hemato- (or hemat-)
Anne

Final Jeopardy!

THE MIDWEST

To journey through 3 adjacent states that start with the same letter, you have to go through these 3

Iowa, Illinois & Indiana

Patti "What are Ohio, Michigan +" — wagered $4,900
Anne "What are Iowa, Illinois and Indiana?" — wagered $0
Jerry "What are Iowa Illinois Ind Go Knights!" — wagered $14,601

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