Show #4305 2003-04-25 (taped 2003-01-29) Regular

Contestants

Kay Reimann — an attorney from Pebble Beach, California

Alex Kouba — an entrepreneur from Los Angeles, California

Matt Caruso — a director of market research from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $79,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $0 $-200 $1,800 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$1,800
8 R, 7 W
Alex $1,000 $2,400 $3,200 $3,601
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kay $5,200 $6,200 $20,000 $25,000
New champion: $25,000
$14,200
25 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER WEIGHTS & MEASURES AN ANCIENT LIFETIME AGO A COLORFUL CATEGORY THEY PUT ME ON HOLD AGAIN! "POP" CULTURE
$200 [19]
Scientists believe this sea was formed when the Arabian Peninsula was torn from Africa 20 million years ago
Red Sea
Kay
$200 [16]
The amount of this per liter determines if champagne is brut, sec or doux
sugar
Kay
$200 [11]
The top choice for sweetening food or medicine, the Hymettus type from Attica was famous
honey
Kay
$200 [6]
As a sign of respect, sailors will "strike the colors" by lowering this
the flag
Alex
$200 [17]
You might get this hold music after dialing a dating service
"Only The Lonely"
Kay
$200 [1]
Fruit-flavored ice on one or 2 sticks
popsicle
Kay
$400 [20]
Islands in this gulf include Bahrain, Kharg & Bubiyan
Persian Gulf
Alex
$400 [21]
A calendar month is an arbitrary number; a synodic month or a sidereal month is based on the movement of this
the moon
Matt
$400 [12]
The Roman gladiators only worked funerals until this leader instituted some games for them in 46 B.C.
Julius Caesar
Matt
$400 [7]
This U.S. military decoration is awarded to all armed forces personnel wounded or killed in action
Purple Heart
Alex
$400 [18]
Thissong would be appropriate hold music for a maternity ward
"New Kid In Town"
Kay
$400 [2]
Happy-go-lucky "naked" guy seen here
Poppin' Fresh
Matt
$600 [25]
A small portion of Russia is separated from the motherland & lies between Poland & Lithuania on this sea
Baltic Sea
Matt Kay
$600 [22]
This measure of water depth was originally the distance between your fingertips with your arms outstretched
fathom
Kay
$600 [13]
The monster Typhon, the giant Enceladus & the workshop of Vulcan have been called sources for its eruptions
Mount Etna
Kay
$600 [8]
This "dark" epidemic that swept medieval Europe killed millions, including Laura, the beloved of Petrarch
Black Plague (or Black Death)
Alex
$600 [3]
She's the high-flying nanny of Jane & Michael Banks
Mary Poppins
Kay
$800 [26]
In the mid-1970s an oil pipeline was built between this Alaskan bay & the city of Valdez on Prince William Sound
Prudhoe Bay
Kay
$800 [23]
A seed of this tree that gives us a chocolate substitute is the original "carat"
carob
Kay
$800 [14]
Ptolemy X, a little short of funds, replaced this Macedonian's fancy gold coffin with an alabaster one
Alexander the Great
Kay
$1,000 [10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) Paired with colors that produce white or gray when combined are called this
complementary
Kay
$800 [4]
You'll often find them sprinkled on top of kaiser rolls
poppy seeds
Kay
$1,000 [27]
In 1957 a deep channel was completed allowing ocean ships to reach this largest Venezuelan lake
Lake Maracaibo
$1,000 [24]
150 MHz is in this band that falls between HF & UHF
VHF
Alex
$1,000 [15]
At 15, Ovid's "Metamorphoses" topped the length of this poet's "Aeneid" by 3 books
Virgil
Alex
DD $1,200 [9]
The Buddhist Gelukpa sect, which this man heads, is also known as the Sect of the Yellow Hat
Dalai Lama
Alex
$1,000 [5]
It was the nickname of Eddie Egan, the cop whose life was the basis of "The French Connection"
"Popeye"
Kay

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE LABORS OF HERCULES BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS GOVERNMENT & POLITICS YOU O ME SHIRTS SKINS
$400 [14]
Hercules used these flying weapons to shoot down the Stymphalian birds
arrows
Kay
$400 [6]
1994:Tom Hanks for this modern parable
Forrest Gump
Matt
$400 [1]
Originally, members of the U.S. Senate were chosen not by popular vote, but by these bodies
state legislatures (or state governments)
Kay
$400 [16]
Pile an O atop this Swiss mountain to get this dog food
Alp & Alpo
Kay
$400 [23]
For a preppy look, the points of the button-down one of these are fastened to the shirt
collar
Kay
$400 [11]
Before snakes shed their skin, also called this activity, their eyes get cloudy, then clear again
molting
Alex
$800 [15]
One of the labors was to capture this raging porker of Mount Erymanthus
big boar
$800 [7]
1944:Bing Crosby for this religious experience
Going My Way
Matt Kay
$1,200 [3]
In early January this official presides over a joint section of Congress at which the electoral votes are counted
vice president (who is president of the Senate)
Kay
$800 [17]
A one-person compartment with a telephone; remove an O & you get a word referring to 2 people
booth & both
Matt
$800 [24]
The formal garment known as a boiled shirt is usually this color
white
Matt
$800 [12]
3-foot-long tusks & inch-&-a-half-thick skin are among the defenses of this Arctic mammal
walrus
Kay
$1,200 [25]
Instead of getting these golden fruits of the Hesperides himself, Herc held up the sky while Atlas got them for him
apples
Kay
$1,200 [8]
1934:Clark Gable for this romantic comedy
It Happened One Night
Matt
$1,600 [4]
In 1856, 3 years after leaving the presidency, he ran again--this time as the Know-Nothing Party's candidate
Millard Fillmore
Matt
$1,200 [18]
The title of this 1847 Melville novel is the sound an Irish cow might make
Omoo & moo
$1,200 [27]
The name of this type of shirt also means to puff out loosely over the waistband
blouse
Matt Kay
$1,200 [13]
2 of the main types of these are the cycloid ones found on salmon & the placoid ones on sharks
scales
Matt Alex
$1,600 [26]
For his labor of cleaning the Augean Stables, Hercules diverted 1 or 2 of these
rivers
Alex
$1,600 [9]
1938:Spencer Tracy for this heartfelt drama
Boys Town
$2,000 [5]
Independent Bernard Sanders is this state's sole representative in the House
Vermont
Matt
$1,600 [19]
An extra O differentiates these 2 words, both pictured here
dragon & dragoon
Matt
$1,600 [21]
In primates, volar skin, which is hairless & sweats, is found in these 2 places on the body
palms of your hand & the soles of your feet
Matt Kay
DD $5,000 [28]
The work seenhereshows Hercules in his second labor doing battle with this monster
the Hydra
Kay
$2,000 [10]
1937:Spencer Tracy for this rollicking adventure
Captains Courageous
Kay
DD $3,600 [2]
The Bureau of Land Management is part of this cabinet department
Department of the Interior
Kay
$2,000 [20]
These 2 words, one O different, combine to form the name of a plant disease
root & rot (rootrot)
$2,000 [22]
In the mammalian order Chiroptera, 2 layers of skin stretch out to form these distinctive features
wings
Kay

Final Jeopardy!

OCCUPATIONS

Called the first U.S. stewardess, Ellen Church later went back to this old job, something the 1st stews had to be

nurse

Matt "What is ?" — wagered $1,800
Alex "What is a nurse?" — wagered $401
Kay "What is a nurse?" — wagered $5,000

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