Show #4269 2003-03-06 (taped 2002-11-16) Regular

Max Levaren game 2.Missing 12th clue of Jeopardy! Round and 3rd clue of Double Jeopardy! Round.

Contestants

Laurie Zorn — a computer programmer from Bremerton, Washington

Jason Affourtit — a research scientist from New Haven, Connecticut

Max Levaren — a personal success coach from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Max $200 $5,400 $16,600 $11,100
2-day champion: $31,400
$16,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jason $4,000 $5,800 $11,000 $2,700
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
18 R, 3 W
Laurie $1,000 $400 $2,600 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$6,200
8 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

FELINES ROCK NICKNAMES THE FABRICS OF YOUR LIVES BRITISH ROYAL DADS AROUND THE GLOBE GETTING POSSESSIVE
$200 [13]
Your average housecat can extend & sheathe most of these at will
claws
Max
$200 [6]
"Piano Man"
Billy Joel
Jason
$200 [26]
The name of this sheer, fluffy silk is also used for a fluffy lemon pie
chiffon
Jason
$200 [19]
He fathered the current Prince of Wales
Prince Philip
Max
$200 [1]
Useful in navigation because it's unaffected by magnetism, a gyrocompass points toward this location
North Pole
Max Jason
$200 [2]
You sign them as soon as you buy them & sign them again when paying for merchandise abroad
traveler's checks
Max
$400 [14]
Nepetalactone is the main ingredient in this pleasure-inducing mint plant
catnip
Laurie
$400 [7]
"The Cute Beatle"
Paul McCartney
Jason
$400 [27]
Chenille, French for "velvety cord", literally refers to this insect that may look like a velvety cord
caterpillar
Jason
$400 [20]
He fathered 2 queens of England by 2 different women
Henry VIII
Jason
$400 [12]
(Clue with the Clue Crew missing because of a tape problem)
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Jason
$400 [3]
They are painful contractions of hand muscles while utilizing your penmanship
writer's cramp
Laurie
$600 [15]
Special muscles control these, also known as vibrissae, to help kitty feel its way around in low light
whiskers
Jason
$600 [8]
"Pearl"
Janis Joplin
Jason
$600 [28]
Sackcloth was originally made of this animal's hair; mohair still is
goat
Max
$600 [23]
He died from typhoid fever at age 42 in 1861, but not before he fathered King Edward VII
Prince Albert
$600 [16]
By percentage of overall landmass, this 109-acre country is one of the most urbanized nations in the world
Vatican City
Laurie
DD $600 [4]
You don't hear much about this 19th c. American civil engineer, husband of a famous portrait subject
Whistler's father
Laurie
$800 [21]
As this 2000 Ben Stiller movie showed, you can toilet train a cat
Meet the Parents
Jason
$800 [9]
"Slowhand"
Eric Clapton
Laurie
$800 [29]
Kersey is a coarse, woolen cloth; this, one letter away, is an elastic knit cotton
jersey
Max
$800 [24]
Born in what's now France, he fathered William Rufus & Henry I
William the Conqueror
Max
$800 [17]
These areas were given a 3-mile limit in 1789 because 3 miles was the maximum distance cannons could fire a shot
shorelines
Max
$800 [5]
U.S. real estate in 2000 was this, a situation of high prices & demand exceeding supply
seller's market
Jason
$1,000 [22]
The mother of this breed is considered to be a cat named Wong Mau, imported to the U.S. from Rangoon
Burmese
Max
$1,000 [10]
"The Motor City Madman"
Ted Nugent
Jason
$1,000 [30]
The name of this smooth, closely woven cotton cloth used in bedsheets is from a Persian word
percale
$1,000 [25]
He fathered the current monarch
George VI
Max
$1,000 [18]
To avoid storms, planes will often fly in this relatively peaceful atmosphere layer that's just below the mesosphere
stratosphere
$1,000 [11]
Graham Parker sang, "I get left in the cold 'cause I will search the world for" this deceiving stuff
fool's gold
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE RIVER LETHAL WEAPON THE PATRIOT SIGNS HAMLET MEL GIBSON
$400 [20]
This tributary of the Mississippi is even longer than the Mississippi itself
Missouri River
Max
$400 [2]
The weapons in this board game are a rope, a lead pipe, a knife, a wrench, a candlestick & a revolver
Clue
Laurie
$400 [16]
In 1758 he resigned his commission in the Virginia militia; in 1759 he married Martha Custis
George Washington
Jason
$400 [7]
[video clue]
the peace sign
Laurie
$400 [12]
This character says, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" & "To thine own self be true"
Polonius
Max
$400 [1]
Although many believe Gibson was born in Australia, he was actually born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill in this state
New York
Jason
$800 [23]
It's the longest river entirely within England
Thames
Max
$800 [3]
(Clue with the Clue Crew missing because of a tape problem)
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Jason
$800 [17]
In 1766 this Philadelphian spoke out against the Stamp Act in England's House of Commons
Ben Franklin
Max
$800 [8]
It's the sign of the Zodiac that's represented by an archer
Sagittarius
Max
$800 [13]
This girl gets mixed up with Hamlet & ends up drowned
Ophelia
Max
$800 [27]
An ABC telecast of this animated film had a scene in which Mel, as John Smith, & Judy Kuhn sang a duet
Pocahontas
Jason
$1,200 [24]
The source of this river that flows across Cambodia & Vietnam wasn't discovered until 1994; it's in Tibet
Mekong
$1,200 [4]
First put into use by the Russians in 1949, this assault rifle was invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov
AK-47
Jason
$1,200 [18]
In 1784 Congress chose him as Secretary of Foreign Affairs; 5 years later he became Chief Justice of the U.S.
John Jay
Max
$1,200 [9]
[video clue]
paragraph symbol
Laurie
$1,200 [14]
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth", Hamlet tells him, "than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
Horatio
Laurie
$1,200 [30]
In this film Gibson played Lt. Col. Hal Moore, who led his men in the first major U.S. land battle of the Vietnam War
We Were Soldiers
$1,600 [25]
The Paraguay River originates in the highlands of Mato Grosso in this country
Brazil
Max
$1,600 [5]
Used to entangle a cow's legs, gauchos make good use of this weapon of strong cords with weighted ends
bola
Jason
$1,600 [19]
From 1756 to 1764 this former brewer served as tax collector of Boston
Samuel Adams
Jason
$1,600 [10]
The Pennsylvania Dutch were famous for painting these signs on their barns, possibly to ward off evil
hex signs
Max
$1,600 [15]
Hamlet tells this queen of Denmark, "Would it were not so, you are my mother"
Gertrude
Jason
$2,000 [28]
Mel made his directorial debut in this 1993 film in which he played a scarred teacher who mentors a 12-year-old boy
The Man Without a Face
Laurie
DD $2,000 [26]
It enters the Mediterranean Sea after separating into Rosetta & Damietta branches
Nile
Max
$2,000 [6]
In Washington, Ark. there's a replica of the smithy where these eponymous knives were first made in the 1830s
Bowie knives
Max
$2,000 [21]
Known as the "Financier of the American Revolution", he died penniless in 1806
Robert Morris
$2,000 [11]
In math a plus or minus sign is also called this, like a certain person reached by phone
operator
$2,000 [22]
The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to Hamlet & accuses this man of murdering him
Claudius
Max
DD $3,000 [29]
In this 2000 film Mel's character Nick says, "This is nice. I don't understand why" they complain about waxing
What Women Want
Laurie

Final Jeopardy!

AGRICULTURE

The Norse were impressed by these in North America, but they weren't grown profitably in North America until around 1850

grapes

Laurie "What is ?" — wagered $2,599
Jason "What are Trees?" — wagered $8,300
Max "What are sweet potatoes?" — wagered $5,500

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