Show #4276 2003-03-17 (taped 2002-12-03) Regular

Contestants

Rob Eingurt — a campaign staffer from Washington, D.C.

Courtney Hanlon — a talent agent from Los Angeles, California

Amanda Potocky — a senior clinical data coordinator from Cary, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amanda $2,400 $4,600 $9,200 $4,399
2-day champion: $22,400
$13,000
19 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Courtney $1,800 $4,000 $2,000 $500
2nd place: $2,000
$2,000
8 R, 2 W
Rob $2,200 $2,600 $7,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS GO FOR THE JUGGLER SEE YOU IN COURT THE ANIMAL KINGDOM CROSSWORD CLUES "M" JIMMY, CHERYL, SOFIA OR SARAH
$200 [2]
In 2004 this Portuguese city is set to host the European football championship
Lisbon
Amanda
$200 [26]
These brothers who ran a famous circus bearing their name worked in it as jugglers & tightrope walkers
Ringling Brothers
Courtney
$200 [7]
Deaths in its Pinto made it the first U.S. corporation to face criminal charges over product design
Ford
Amanda
$200 [12]
Nearly a quarter of all species of mammals are these flyers
bats
Rob
$200 [1]
Enormous, like an extinct elephant(7)
mammoth
Rob
$200 [16]
In April 2001 she announced her engagement to her "Scooby Doo" co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Courtney
$400 [3]
Now Jamaica's capital, it was founded in 1693 to replace Port Royal, which was destroyed by an earthquake
Kingston
Rob
$400 [27]
Ah, Yes! This comedic actor seen here starred in Vaudeville as an expert juggler
W.C. Fields
Rob
$400 [8]
The government sued Frank Snepp over his 1977 book based on his years with this agency
CIA
Courtney
$400 [13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo) The manatee can live in both of these types of environments, or in a mixture of them called brackish
salt & freshwater
Courtney
$400 [15]
1,609 meters(4)
mile
Rob
$400 [22]
Born Sofia Scicolone, her A&E bio was subtitled "Actress Italian Style"
Sophia Loren
Amanda
DD $400 [5]
Commissioned by Malcolm III's wife, the Chapel of St. Margaret is the oldest surviving structure in this capital
Edinburgh
Rob
$600 [28]
Dating back to 2000 B.C., the earliest known depiction of juggling was found near this river
Nile
Rob
$600 [9]
Perhaps because no one could figure out what he'd been trying to do, Aaron Burr was acquitted of this in 1807
treason
Amanda
$600 [14]
An African species of this reptile in the genus Dasypeltis feeds entirely on birds' eggs
snake
Amanda
$600 [19]
Proverbially slow syrup(8)
molasses
Rob
$600 [23]
In 1975 she became the first model to get a second Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover
Cheryl Tiegs
Rob
$600 [4]
A landmark of this Uruguayan capital is The Cerro, or hill, for which it's named
Montevideo
$800 [29]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew) Devilstick juggling probably originated in this Asian country, where it's called wakan
China
Amanda
$800 [10]
Carol Burnett's suit against the National Enquirer for this hinged on whether the Enquirer was really a newspaper
libel
Amanda
$800 [17]
The golden type of this, now a common pet, was thought to be extinct until around 1930
hamster
Amanda
$800 [20]
Plaster condiment(7)
mustard
Amanda
$800 [24]
This sassy singer must have been jazzed when she won a Grammy for her album "Gershwin Live!"
Sarah Vaughan
Courtney Rob
$1,000 [6]
It ranks as the second-largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca
Rabat
Rob
$1,000 [30]
Margarita Ayala & her daughters are famous for juggling flaming torches while hanging by this
their hair
$1,000 [11]
In 1977 the Supreme Court ruled that John Bates, in this profession, had the right to advertise low fees
lawyer/law
Courtney
$1,000 [18]
Though it's not a feline, this creature sometimes has "cat" attached to its name
civet (or civet cat)
Rob
$1,000 [21]
Tasty tidbit(6)
morsel
Amanda
$1,000 [25]
This noted oddsmaker of the 1970s cashed in his chips in Vegas April 21, 1996
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder
Courtney

Double Jeopardy! Round

IRISH WRITERS AT THE MOVIES THE ROMAN EQUIVALENT "M.D."s COMPOSE YOURSELF LAST PAGE OF THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY
$400 [7]
His preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" says, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book"
Oscar Wilde
Amanda
$400 [1]
Perhaps to keep Americans from thinking they'd missed parts 1&2, "The Madness of George III" was changed to this
The Madness of King George
Amanda
$400 [11]
Ares
Mars
Amanda
$400 [6]
This pioneering surgeon co-wrote "The Living Heart"
Michael DeBakey
$400 [14]
In 1762 Leopold Mozart presented musical performances by his kids, 10-year-old Nannerl & this 6-year-old
Wolfgang Amadeus
Amanda
$400 [19]
Population 350,000, it's the largest city in Switzerland
Zurich
Rob
$800 [8]
His play "Man and Superman" is subtitled "A Comedy and a Philosophy"
George Bernard Shaw
Rob
$800 [2]
One of the only 2 musicals to win 9 or more Oscars; one was in 1958 & one was in 1961
Gigi or West Side Story
Amanda
$800 [12]
Poseidon
Neptune
Rob
$800 [27]
In 1973 this Israeli defense minister married Rachel Korem
Moshe Dayan
Courtney
$800 [15]
He wrote the libretto to his own opera "Siegfried"
Richard Wagner
Amanda
$800 [20]
Ethnic group primarily found in South Africa's Natal province
Zulu
Rob
$1,200 [9]
Ezra Pound gave an enthusiastic review to "Dubliners", a collection of short stories by this Irish author
James Joyce
Rob
$1,600 [4]
At the 61st Academy Awards Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for this 1988 film
The Accused
Rob
$1,200 [22]
Hades
Pluto
$1,200 [28]
He wrote Elvis' hit "In the Ghetto" & co-wrote "A Little Less Conversation", a posthumous hit for the King
Mac Davis
$1,200 [16]
The same not very skillful eye surgeon operated on Bach & on this man born in 1685, his greatest contemporary
George Frideric Handel
Courtney Rob
$1,200 [21]
Southern Louisiana musical style combining French, Caribbean & Blues elements
Zydeco
Amanda
$1,600 [10]
His poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" says, "I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above"
William Butler Yeats
Amanda
DD $1,800 [3]
Young women with the last names Chandler, McNamara & Duke are known by this title name in a 1989 black comedy
Heathers
Amanda
$1,600 [23]
Dionysus
Bacchus
Amanda
$1,600 [29]
One of this French artist's "Readymades" was a photo of the "Mona Lisa" with a moustache & goatee
Marcel Duchamp
Courtney
DD $2,000 [17]
City where the composer of the following lived; it's also in the name of the piece
Vienna ("The Waltzes of Vienna")
Amanda
$1,600 [25]
A cell formed by the union of 2 gametes
zygote
Amanda
$2,000 [13]
His plays include "In the Shadow of the Glen", "Riders to the Sea" & "Playboy of the Western World", his masterpiece
John Millington Synge
$2,000 [5]
This title star of 1922's "Oliver Twist" was the first child star to top a million dollars in film earnings
Jackie Coogan
$2,000 [24]
Demeter
Ceres
Amanda
$2,000 [18]
A controversial piece of his consists of a pianist sitting without playing for 4 minutes 33 seconds
John Cage
Rob
$2,000 [26]
Hungarian-born American film producer who helped start Paramount Pictures
Adolph Zukor
Amanda Rob

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE

As it has no mass, this particle travels at about 186,000 miles per second

photon

Courtney "What is an Electron" — wagered $1,500
Rob "What is light?" — wagered $7,000
Amanda "What is a neutrino?" — wagered $4,801

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