Show #4353 2003-07-02 (taped 2003-03-04) Regular

Contestants

Dennis McGraw — a teacher from Kapaa, Hawaii

Valerie Schultz — a writer and director of religious education from Tehachapi, California

Tom Guymon — a business manager from Anaheim, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Tom	$4,400	$6,200	$16,600	$17,600 2-day champion: $28,400	$16,200 24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Valerie	$800	$3,400	$7,400	$6,100 2nd place: $2,000	$7,000 8 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Dennis	$1,400	$1,800	$2,200	$100 3rd place: $1,000	$4,200 14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

UNUSUAL PLACE NAMES	NAVAL VESSELS	PLAGUES ON EGYPT	"M"BRACE ME!	HELLO, SPORTS FANS	HAVE A BEER!
$200 [5] While there's no Mama in this state, there is a Papa & a Papaaloa Hawaii Tom	$200 [13] The specific job of this type of ship is to trawl the waters searching for explosive devices minesweeper Dennis	$200 [24] Plague No. 4, they were everywhere, including in my soup! Waiter! flies Tom Dennis	$200 [19] Its most famous voyage was from September 16, 1620 to November 21, 1620 Mayflower Tom	$200 [7] (Yankees manager Joe Torre reads the clue.) In 1971 I led the league in average & RBIs, so I was just the home run title short of winning this Triple Crown Tom	$200 [1] The "King of Beers" Budweiser Tom
$400 [12] It's the state where you'll find Tumtum, Nooksack & Walla Walla Washington Dennis	$400 [14] The Massachusetts, this type of ship that sailed in WWII, was actually built in Quincy battleship Dennis	$400 [25] In plague No. 2 these went a-pharaoh courtin', uh-huh frogs Dennis	$400 [20] One who grinds grain into flour miller Tom	$400 [8] A sculpture of this heavyweight's fist was donated to the city of Detroit by Sports Illustrated Joe Louis Dennis	$400 [2] "It's Australian for beer" Fosters Tom
$800 [17] An Alaskan town bears the name of this type of bread, a staple of miners during the Gold Rush Sourdough	$600 [15] The name of this ship that provides service & support to other ships is also the "T" in TLC tender Tom	$600 [26] This plague, No. 8, occurs every 17 years in some places locusts Dennis	$600 [21] It's the body of water dreamily lamented in this song standard "Moon River" Dennis	$600 [9] (I'm Ed McCaffrey.) It was the name of my team at Stanford, & also one of the team colors Cardinal Tom	$600 [3] "La cerveza mas fina" Corona
DD $1,000 [16] This town, 10 miles south of Boston, sounds like it grows cerebrums & cerebellums on its branches Braintree Tom	$800 [28] Your regular old garden variety destroyer's main mission is to sound out & destroy these submarines Valerie	$800 [27] In 1991 Gloria Estefan was "Coming Out of" this, also plague No. 9 the darkness	$800 [22] In a Biblical parable, Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven to a grain of this seed mustard seed Valerie	$800 [10] (Pro golfer Peter Jacobsen.) To land the ball on the green with this, also called juice, hit the ball below its equator with a lofted club backspin Dennis	$800 [4] "The beer that made Milwaukee famous" Schlitz Tom Valerie Dennis
$1,000 [18] In the 1950s this Texas town considered changing its name, so as not to be associated with the Nabokov novel Lolita Valerie Dennis	$1,000 [30] This adjective from the animal world is used to describe ship-to-shore transport craft amphibious vessels	$1,000 [29] Pharaoh could have used a pediculicidal shampoo to get rid of these in plague No. 3 lice Tom	$1,000 [23] One of the first films of this '20s superstar cowboy was "Custer's Last Stand" in 1909 Tom Mix	$1,000 [11] (I'm NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia.) In 2000 I became the fourth 49er to throw for 30 TDs in a season, after John Brodie & these 2 other fairly decent passers Joe Montana & Steve Young Tom	$1,000 [6] "From master brewers a master brew" Meister Brau Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

EARLY AMERICANS	MOVIE TAGLINES	CHARACTERS IN PLAYS	GEMS & JEWELRY	BEASTLY NAMES	WELL, I'LL BE A '30s WORD
$400 [9] In 1803 he invited William Clark along on an enterprise fraught with fatigues, dangers & honors Meriwether Lewis Tom	$400 [7] 2002:"With the right song and dance, you can get away with murder" Chicago Tom	$400 [1] This Shaw character is a professor of phonetics Henry Higgins Tom	$400 [23] At her 1953 coronation, she wore special gold bracelets representing sincerity & wisdom Queen Elizabeth II Dennis	$400 [2] Al Capone's rival George Moran was better known as this, from his odd behavior "Bugs" Dennis	$400 [17] The Oxford English Dictionary traces this term describing a mystery tale back to 1930 whodunit Dennis
$800 [18] The last work of the creator of Rip Van Winkle was a 5-volume bio of this man, the author's namesake George Washington Dennis	$800 [8] 2002:"The War of the Ring has begun" The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Dennis	$800 [3] During a typhoon off the Philippines, Lt. Stephen Maryk relieves this captain of his command Captain Queeg Tom	$800 [30] Miss Manners says it is almost always proper to wear a strand of these, but never with your bathing suit pearls Tom	$800 [13] The paternal grandfather of this current Mexican leader was an Irish-American from Ohio Vicente Fox Tom	$800 [29] From 1937, it's an aimless or casual scribble, not necessarily done by a Yankee doodle Valerie
$1,600 [20] Hamilton used the 1786 Shays Rebellion & this 1794 rebellion as proof of a need for a strong central gov't Whiskey Rebellion Tom	$1,200 [10] 1976:"His whole life was a million-to-one shot" Rocky Tom	$1,200 [4] In "A Doll's House", she forges a check to help her sick husband Torvald but he scolds her for doing it Nora Valerie	$1,200 [22] (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Paris) This term for a narrow loaf of French bread also describes the cut of diamond I'd like baguette Tom	$1,200 [14] "Whooping" it up at Christmas, 1899 helped finish off this tubercular American writer Stephen Crane Tom	$1,200 [28] You get more than a pat on the back for identifying this 4-letter word for "belch" that came out in the 1930s burp Dennis
DD $2,000 [19] Some of his unaccepted spelling changes were hed for head, rong for wrong & iz for is Noah Webster Dennis	$1,600 [11] 2002:"Get ready for the ultimate spin!" Spider-Man	DD $2,000 [5] In a Eugene O'Neill play, this former Pullman porter & ex-convict imposes himself as an emperor on a West Indian island Brutus Jones ( The Emperor Jones ) Valerie	$1,600 [24] Blue, a line of jewelry from this British pottery co., is inspired by the Jasper Ware it has produced since the 1700s Wedgwood	$1,600 [15] The 2001 concept car The Bengal was named by Buick in honor of this man Tiger Woods Tom	$1,600 [27] This name for vitamin B2 appeared in the scientific literature in the 1930s riboflavin
$2,000 [21] In May 1792 Robert Gray sailed up this "River of the West", naming it for his ship Columbia River Dennis	$2,000 [12] 2001:"Man the guns--join the fight" Pearl Harbor	$2,000 [6] Salesman Willy Loman's 2 sons Biff & Happy	$2,000 [25] This variety of chrysoberyl is named for a 19th century czar, not moi Alexandrite Valerie Dennis	$2,000 [16] He's the 1960s Birmingham police chief seen here Eugene "Bull" Connor	$2,000 [26] In 1938 Milton Sirotta coined this word for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes googol Valerie

Final Jeopardy!

THE BODY HUMAN

At about 63%, there are more atoms of this element than any other in your body

hydrogen

Dennis "What is car bon" — wagered $2,100

Valerie "What is carbon?" — wagered $1,300

Tom "What is hydrogen?" — wagered $1,000

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