Show #4342 2003-06-17 (taped 2003-02-24) Regular

John Beck game 3.

Contestants

Jay Porter — a brand strategist from Seattle, Washington

Leigh Barrett — a freelance writer from East Point, Georgia

John Beck — a copywriter from Torrance, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $8,200 $12,400 $22,400 $26,399
3-day champion: $74,999
$20,200
27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Leigh $-200 $1,200 $9,200 $15,201
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
10 R, 2 W
Jay $2,600 $4,600 $7,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$12,600
16 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MONK SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE THE SHIELD TAKEN 24 "ER"
$200 [26]
Before his death, this cruel Russian czar joined an order of monks & renamed himself Jonah
Ivan the Terrible
John
$200 [11]
Who could forget this funny lady as Lisa Loopner & Baba Wawa
Gilda Radner
John
$200 [21]
Monthly fees to groups of physicians for miners' health care evolved into this program in 1939
Blue Shield
John Leigh Jay
$200 [16]
1 of the 2 current U.S. possessions acquired as a result of the Spanish-American War
Guam or Puerto Rico
John
$200 [6]
Its atomic number is 79 & the purest types are said to be 24-karat
gold
John
$200 [1]
A short trip somewhere to do something on behalf of somebody else
errand
Jay
$400 [27]
In the 13th century a Japanese monk named Nichiren founded a branch of this religion based on the Lotus Sutra
Buddhism
Jay
$400 [12]
Joe Piscopo was Pokey to his Gumby, dammit!
Eddie Murphy
John
$400 [22]
Israel's national emergency medical service, Magen David Adom, is this color shield of David
red
John
$400 [17]
After World War I, Czechoslovakia was established on territory formerly belonging to this empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
John
$400 [7]
On October 30, 1954 this sport introduced the use of the 24-second clock
basketball
John
$400 [2]
This small northern weasel is also known as a stoat
ermine
Leigh
$600 [28]
England's first archbishop of this city was a Benedictine monk named Augustine in the 7th century
Canterbury
John
$600 [13]
Sluggo & Mr. Hand were the arch-nemeses of this falsetto-voiced character
Mr. Bill
John Leigh
$600 [23]
From the Old French, it's the heraldic design on the shield seen here
a chevron
Leigh
$600 [18]
1848's Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending this war added over 500,000 square miles to the U.S.
Mexican War
$600 [8]
In an old nursery rhyme four and twenty of these birds are baked into a pie served to a king
blackbirds
John
$600 [3]
From the Latin for "pull up by the roots", it means to completely get rid of something, like a disease
eradicate
Jay
$800 [29]
This monk tested over 28,000 pea plants between 1856 & 1863
Gregor Mendel
John
$1,000 [15]
This "Weekend Update" anchor seenhereis the first female head writer in the show's over-25-year history
Tina Fey
Jay
$800 [24]
By law, this state's seal "shall be a shield argent charged with a pine tree with a moose at the foot of it"
Maine
John
$800 [19]
This empire lost nearly all of its European territories during the Balkan Wars of 1912 & 1913
Ottoman Empire
Jay
$800 [9]
This political party split during Buchanan's presidency & wasn't elected to the presidency for 24 years
Democrats
Jay
$800 [4]
This 3-word Gaelic phrase means "Ireland Forever"
"Erin Go Bragh!"
John
$1,000 [30]
Cheers to this blind French monk who is credited with pioneering the making of champagne around 1698
Dom Perignon
Leigh
DD $3,000 [14]
Enid Strict is the rarely used name of this Dana Carvey character
The Church Lady
John
$1,000 [25]
The shield of these Catholic "knights", founded in 1882, bears a sword & axe
Knights of Columbus
Jay
$1,000 [20]
Following this "long" conflict that ended in 1453, England had lost all its territory on the continent except Calais
Hundred Years' War
John
$1,000 [10]
You're within this "circle" if you experience 24 continuous hours of sunlight on June 21
Arctic Circle
John
$1,000 [5]
Asmara is this African nation's capital
Eritrea
John

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS LET'S GET SMALL UNUSUAL TREES INTERNATIONAL LAW THE AUSSIE POSSE NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS
$400 [1]
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"(1907)
Pablo Picasso
John Leigh
$400 [12]
The title of the category is the title of a famous album by this comedian
Steve Martin
John
$400 [17]
White fringe tree, named for its fringes of white flowers, is also called "old man's" this facial feature
beard
John
$400 [22]
In the 1940s Raphael Lemkin coined this term for destruction of a group, now a crime under international law
genocide
Jay
$400 [7]
This actress who plays elf queen Galadriel provides the narration for "The Fellowship of the Ring"
Cate Blanchett
Leigh Jay
$400 [6]
A catechumen is a student getting the basics of Christianity in this question-&-answer form
catechism
Leigh
$800 [2]
"Irises"(1889)
Vincent Van Gogh
Jay
$800 [18]
A dust devil is a small whirlwind in the desert or a small, cordless hand-held brand of these
vacuum cleaners
John
$800 [30]
It's the part of the cannonball tree that gives the tree its name
fruit
Jay
$800 [23]
The Vienna Conventions codified this principle that protects ambassadors from local prosecution
diplomatic immunity
Jay
$800 [8]
We can't get this Aussie singer & soap star out of our heads
Kylie Minogue
John
$800 [13]
Rhyming with clasp, it's a clasp for a door or lid that's fastened with a padlock
hasp
John
$1,200 [3]
"St. Bartholomew", seen here(1661)
Rembrandt
Jay
$1,200 [19]
A small place of worship, it was originally the place French kings stored the capella or "cape" of St. Martin
chapel
Jay
$1,200 [29]
This follows "shag" in the name of a hickory tree because it breaks up into loosely attached plates as the tree ages
bark
Jay
$1,200 [24]
In case of losses, the 1988 Basel Capital Accord makes banks set aside 8 cents on every dollar they make in these
loans
Jay
$1,200 [9]
This Melbourne native seenhereplays an American on "Six Feet Under"
Rachel Griffiths
Jay
$1,200 [14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew combs a horse.) Spicy-sounding name for the type of comb I'm using to give Daily Double a good grooming
a curry comb
Jay
$1,600 [4]
"The Blue Boy"(1770)
Thomas Gainsborough
John
$1,600 [20]
It's what's "small" on a black bass that differentiates it in name from the "large" one
mouth
Leigh
$2,000 [28]
This tree's odd appearance gave it an odd name from Lewis Carroll, "for the snark was one of these, you see"
boojum tree
$1,600 [25]
In 1793, as France & Britain went to war, George Washington proclaimed this status for the U.S.
neutral
John
$1,600 [10]
Born in Hawaii to Australian parents, this star of "The Others" moved to Sydney at age 4
Nicole Kidman
Leigh
$1,600 [15]
This word starting with "T" means "one who does believe in God" (add an A & you'd get one who doesn't)
theist
Leigh
DD $2,000 [5]
"Napoleon Crossing the Alps"(1800)
Jacques-Louis David
John
$2,000 [21]
While you're enjoying the mountain scenery you might spot a tarn, a small one of these left by a glacier
lake
John
DD $5,000 [27]
Hamamelis virginiana gets this common name from the use of its branches to find water, my pretty
Witch-hazel
Jay
$2,000 [26]
The 1919 Treaty of Versailles was this type, from the Latin for "many" & "side"
multilateral
Jay
$2,000 [11]
He co-wrote & directed the movies "Strictly Ballroom" & "Moulin Rouge!"
Baz Luhrmann
Leigh
$2,000 [16]
It's a person of great learning in a variety of subjects, though it sounds like only in trig & calculus
polymath
Jay

Final Jeopardy!

DISNEY FILMS

Disney theme park attractions based on this 1960 film flew the flag seen here

Swiss Family Robinson

Jay "What is Climb the Matterhorn?" — wagered $7,600
Leigh "What is Swiss Family Robinson?" — wagered $6,001
John "What is Swiss Family Robinson?" — wagered $3,999

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