Show #4349 2003-06-26 (taped 2003-02-25) Regular

Seth Alcorn game 2.

Contestants

Elaine Brofford — an usability consultant from Denver, Colorado

Nancy Jankowiak — a program manager from Woburn, Massachusetts

Seth Alcorn — a bookseller from Placentia, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $42,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Seth $1,600 $5,000 $14,200 $28,300
2-day champion: $70,400
$14,200
21 R, 4 W
Nancy $2,000 $6,800 $19,400 $10,399
2nd place: $2,000
$19,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Elaine $-1,000 $-200 $11,900 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE GREAT DEPRESSION SHAPES CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT JIMMY JAM DRIVING ADD A LETTER
$200 [26]
In the hardest times, this figure stood at over 25%, representing almost 15 million Americans
unemployment rate
Nancy
$200 [6]
It's the common graphic the USDA used as a visual guide for healthy eating
pyramid
Seth Nancy
$200 [1]
This character wed Tracy Draco in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
James Bond
Seth
$200 [11]
He played Victor Sifuentes on "L.A. Law" before hitting the street as Det. Bobby Simone on "NYPD Blue"
Jimmy Smits
Seth
$200 [21]
Tom & Ray of "Car Talk" use the slogan "Drive Now, Talk Later" to alert us to the danger of these
using cell phones while driving
Elaine
$200 [16]
To turn maze into corn add this letter
I (for maize)
Seth
$400 [27]
Half a loaf was better than none for the people seen in one of these
bread line
Seth
$400 [7]
Oooh, a "love" one of these involves 2 people who each love the same third person
triangle
Seth
$400 [2]
While Rip Van Winkle slept, this war took place around him
Revolutionary War
Seth
$400 [12]
"Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads" is a 1992 box set retrospective by this singer
Jimmy Buffett
Nancy
$400 [22]
These exist even at unmarked intersections, so watch for that old lady with the baby carriage
crosswalks
Nancy
$400 [17]
It turns real into a word meaning royal
G (for regal)
Seth
$600 [28]
This "holiday" declared March 6, 1933 came with a $10,000 fine or 10 years in jail for violators
bank holiday
Elaine
$600 [8]
You'll need at least 54 feet of moulding for a 12 foot x 15 foot room, one in this shape
rectangle
Seth
$600 [3]
In "The Years with Laura Diaz", Laura spends part of her long life as a companion to this Mexican female artist
Frida Kahlo
Nancy
$600 [13]
From 1974 through 1978, he was ranked the No. 1 tennis player in the world
Jimmy Connors
Nancy
$600 [23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew) To earn the Auto Mechanic Scouting badge, you must know how to change these 2 filters
oil & air
Seth
$600 [18]
Turn pizza into a public square by adding this letter
A (for piazza)
Nancy
$800 [29]
Things named for him during the Depression include a big dam & a type of miserable shantytown
Herbert Hoover
Nancy
$800 [9]
Apple introduced this style for the Powermac in 2000 & discontinued it in 2001 due to poor sales
cube
$800 [4]
With a tambourine & a goat, this gypsy girl dances before Notre Dame
Esmeralda
Nancy
$800 [14]
He was the lead guitarist for Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page
Nancy
$800 [24]
ANCO says smearing & chattering are 2 problems that should make car owners consider replacing these
windshield wiper blades
Seth
$800 [19]
It's what you add to flue to get an amusement park log ride
M (for flume)
Nancy
$1,000 [30]
Some say the 1930 tariff named for these 2 politicians made the Depression worse & helped spread it overseas
Smoot & Hawley
Seth
$1,000 [10]
Danish composer Rued Langgaard is known for his "Sfaerernes Musik", "Music of" these
spheres
Seth
DD $1,400 [5]
Adopted by an Irish regiment, Kipling's Kimball O'Hara was from this country
India
Nancy
$1,000 [15]
And now an update...this "Saturday Night Live" regular also appeared in HBO's "Band of Brothers"
Jimmy Fallon
Seth Elaine
$1,000 [25]
Don't drive without passengers in a H.O.V. lane, short for this
high occupancy vehicle
Nancy
$1,000 [20]
Add this one letter to -ology to get the zoology branch that studies birds' eggs
O (for oology)
Nancy

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEDICINE LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY INVENTIVE MINDS AREAS OF THE U.S. ALL IN THE FAMILY "MOTHER", "FATHER", "SISTER", "BROTHER"
$400 [2]
An otoscope has a small funnel-shaped attachment that is used to peer into this organ
ear
Nancy
$400 [1]
It's a malt liquor, a gun or a former Houston Major League Baseball team
Colt .45
Nancy
$400 [18]
After he forgot a can opener for his beverages at a picnic, Ermal Fraze invented this
pull tab opener
Seth
$400 [23]
The combined surface area of the 5 bodies of water in this group is 94,230 square miles
Great Lakes
Seth
$400 [9]
Today you'll find Archie & Edith Bunker's easy chairs here
Smithsonian Institution
Elaine
$400 [8]
Bearded codger carrying a scythe & an hourglass
Father Time
Elaine
$800 [3]
In 1844 dentist Horace Wells used this anesthetic on himself to pull a tooth; he then began using it on patients
nitrous oxide
Seth
$800 [4]
This lawyer went to high school with Dustin Hoffman, repped Michael Jackson &, from time to time, indulges in rhyme
Johnnie Cochran
Seth
$800 [19]
This office supply invented by Johann Vaaler is a real gem today
paper clip
Elaine
$800 [24]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew in New York City) I'm at this part of Manhattan named for the paper of record
Times Square
Nancy
$800 [10]
He may have been a meathead, but he's now a successful director & producer
Rob Reiner
Seth
$800 [11]
Your native language
mother tongue
Nancy
$1,200 [28]
E. Donnall Thomas shared the Nobel Prize for the first transplant of this bone substance between 2 people who weren't twins
marrow
Nancy
$1,200 [5]
This movie cop said, "This is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off"
Dirty Harry
Seth
$1,200 [20]
Joseph-Marie Jacquard made his moolah inventing a new one of these
loom
Nancy
$1,200 [25]
In the late 20th century, much of the Rust Belt lost population, but this warm southwestern belt gained it
Sun Belt
Seth Nancy
$1,200 [15]
Premiering in 1972, it was the first spinoff of "All in the Family"
Maude
Elaine
$1,200 [12]
Dostoyevsky's last novel
"The Brothers Karamazov"
Seth
$1,600 [29]
An EKG is an electrocardiogram; an EEG, this
electroencephalogram
Seth
$1,600 [6]
This lawyer & author seen here clerked for Supreme Court justice Arthur Goldberg in 1963
Alan Dershowitz
$2,000 [22]
U.S. Patent 4,173,796 was issued in 1979 to this doctor from the Univ. of Utah for an artificial heart
Robert Jarvik
$1,600 [26]
"Artistic" name for a colorful area of sandstone formations in northeastern Arizona
the Painted Desert
Elaine
$2,000 [17]
This member of the Rat Pack made a memorable guest appearance on the show in 1971
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Elaine
$1,600 [13]
The inner iridescent layers of the shells of many bivalve mollusks
mother of pearl
Nancy
$2,000 [30]
One of the goals of this "Project" is to identify the sequence of the chemical base pairs that make up our DNA
Human Genome Project
Nancy
$2,000 [7]
Taking a bullet for the chief exec isn't enough; this Treasury Dept. division also goes after counterfeiters
the Secret Service
Seth
DD $3,000 [21]
An early name for this fastener device invented by Whitcomb Judson was the clasp locker
zipper
Nancy
$2,000 [27]
These rugged, uninhabitable areas are in northwest Nebraska & the western Dakotas
the Badlands
Seth
DD $3,700 [16]
He's the big band leader mentioned in the first line of the show's theme song
Glenn Miller
Elaine
$2,000 [14]
This Chekhov play concerns Olga, Masha & Irina Prozorov
The Three Sisters
Elaine

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

This word that begins with the Greek word for "all" was coined by John Milton & means "tumultuous disorder"

pandemonium

Elaine "What ?" — wagered $11,899
Seth "What is pandemonium?" — wagered $14,100
Nancy "What is chaos?" — wagered $9,001

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