Show #4245 2003-01-31 (taped 2002-10-29) Regular

Jackie Harrison game 4.

Contestants

Nikki Lindsey — a history teacher and graduate student from Urbana, Illinois

Victor Fernandez — a nonprofit professional from Miami, Florida

Jackie Harrison — a surgeon from Chicago, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $55,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jackie $-2,000 $600 $5,500 $11,000
4-day champion: $66,602
$10,200
16 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs)
Victor $3,200 $3,600 $10,800 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
13 R, 2 W
Nikki $2,400 $4,000 $8,400 $50
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD MYTHS & LEGENDS RANCHES WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? '80s ROCK MAMA & PAPAYA THE JAMES GANG
$200 [5]
The Japanese pantheon includes Kagutsuchi, god of this, something to get your hibachi going
fire
Nikki
$200 [20]
At about 12,000 sq. mi., Strangeray Springs, a cattle ranch (or station) in this country, is bigger than Vermont
Australia
Jackie Nikki
$200 [12]
The Foreign Service Institute
State Department
Nikki
$200 [1]
In December 1984 Madonna touched No. 1 for the very first time with this song
"Like A Virgin"
Nikki
$200 [11]
While these look like caviar & are edible, Mama usually throws them out
papaya seeds
Nikki
$400 [17]
The deposed father of England's Queen Anne
James II
Victor Nikki
$400 [6]
If you needed a railway tunnel dug, you could call on this American folk hero--it was his job
John Henry
Nikki
$400 [21]
Prairie Chapel is the name of George W. Bush's ranch near this Texas town, population 705
Crawford
Nikki
$400 [13]
The Office of Disability Employment Policy
Department of Labor
Victor
$400 [2]
In 1984 this group of all-stars tried to make things better with "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Band Aid
Nikki
$400 [18]
Mama joked that this other name for the papaya makes it sound like little cat feet--Mama wasn't funny
pawpaw
$800 [25]
Born in Greenock, Scotland in 1736, this inventor is mostly renowned for his improvements to the steam engine
James Watt
$600 [7]
Jewish legend says his first wife was Lilith, who created the need for a good divorce lawyer
Adam
Jackie
DD $800 [22]
Kendall County, Texas is named for the man who brought Merinos to the area as this type of rancher
sheep rancher
Nikki
$600 [14]
The Bureau of Engraving & Printing
Treasury Department
Nikki
$600 [3]
Title of a 1985 Bruce Springsteen hit, or a book about him by Dave Marsh
"Glory Days"
Jackie
$600 [19]
Papaya plants are dioecious, meaning the plants are divided this way, like Mama & Papa
by sex
Jackie
$1,000 [26]
In 1986 he was named the first ever artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera
James Levine
$800 [9]
The life of this legendary king of Britain was fodder for a Shakespeare tragedy in 1605
King Lear
Victor
$800 [23]
Around 1905 these animals, not native to Arizona, were brought to a ranch in the state, where they now roam
buffalo
$800 [15]
The U.S. Marshals Service
Justice Department
Victor Nikki
$800 [4]
In 1987 this group dreamed up its first Top 10 hit, heard here
R.E.M.
Victor
$800 [27]
When things get tough in the kitchen, Mama gets out the hammer or uses this with papain, an enzyme from papaya, in it
meat tenderizer
Jackie
$1,000 [10]
When he fell for Helen, Paris was married to Oenone, one of these nature deities
nymph
Jackie Victor
$1,000 [24]
It's the name of Steve & Gayle Henson's California ranch for which a creamy dressing was named
Hidden Valley
Nikki
$1,000 [16]
The National Park Service
Department of the Interior
Victor
$1,000 [8]
A No. 1 hit by this group began, "You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you"
The Human League
Jackie Nikki
$1,000 [28]
When Mama's in the mood for Indian food, she makes papdi &, to top them, this relish with papaya
chutney
Jackie

Double Jeopardy! Round

"B" IN GEOGRAPHY LETTER HISTORIES MANY MOONS VAUDEVILLE THE LINCOLN LOG FROM THE FRENCH
$400 [1]
The NFL Europe's Dragons play their home games in this Spanish city that hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics
Barcelona
Jackie
$400 [6]
Seventh in the Greek alphabet, it came back later as the last, but not least, letter
zeta
Victor Nikki
$400 [26]
It's the closest planet to the sun that has a moon
Earth
Jackie Nikki
$400 [21]
It's an early name for vaudeville, or a type of skit-&-music TV show descended from vaudeville
variety
$400 [14]
The month in which Abe Lincoln was born
February
Nikki
$400 [11]
A diplomat serving temporarily in place of an ambassador is called this "d'affaires"
charge
Victor
$800 [2]
This southern South American capital city's first European visitor was Pedro de Mendoza in 1536
Buenos Aires
Jackie Victor
$800 [7]
A 14th century addition, it came from a little extra ornamentation of the "I"
J
Jackie
$800 [27]
Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, was discovered by this man in 1610
Galileo
Jackie
$800 [22]
A vaudevillian transported clothes & gear in one of these, & might have been born in one in Pocatello, Idaho
trunk
Victor
$800 [15]
The state from which Abe was first elected to national office
Illinois
Jackie
$800 [12]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew) This bike part whose name is from the French helps you shift gears; it's not used to overturn trains
derailleur
$1,200 [3]
This bay between Spain & Brittany is named for the Basques who live on the shore there
Bay of Biscay
Victor
$1,200 [8]
A Latin link of 2 letters pronounced as one is why we, in modern English, always follow this letter with U
Q
Jackie
$1,600 [29]
Because of its decaying orbit, the moon Phobos will crash into this planet--in about 40 million years
Mars
Nikki
$1,200 [23]
When you were playing the best vaudeville houses, you'd "hit" this, also a Peter Gabriel song title
the "Big Time"
Jackie
$1,200 [16]
His wife's maiden name
Todd
Victor
$1,200 [13]
The French word for "father", it's an equivalent of "senior", as when it follows Dumas or George Bush
pere
Jackie
$1,600 [4]
The British looted this Asian capital in 1860, bringing back a dog breed bearing its old name
Beijing
Nikki
$1,600 [9]
An Anglo-Saxon rune became this letter that's double one of its predecessors
W
Jackie
DD $2,700 [28]
Its moon Charon is about half its size
Pluto
Jackie
DD $2,000 [24]
This theater fit for royalty, once the premiere vaudeville venue, was revived when Judy Garland played it in 1951
the Palace
Jackie
$1,600 [19]
The photographer whose picture was the basis for the image on the five-dollar bill
Mathew Brady
Nikki
$1,600 [17]
In "Alice in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll adapted this 4-couple French dance for lobsters
quadrille
$2,000 [5]
This Slovakian capital was widely known by the German name Pressburg until after World War I
Bratislava
Jackie Victor
$2,000 [10]
Latin abandoned this letter, from the Semitic symbol for an open hand, in favor of the "C"
K
Victor
$2,000 [25]
This sales pitch was the catchphrase of Joe Penner, seen here
"Wanna buy a duck?"
$2,000 [20]
His first vice president
Hannibal Hamlin
Jackie
$2,000 [18]
From the French for "to slaughter", it's another name for a slaughterhouse
abattoir
Jackie

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

In September 2002 he offered $10,000 to help capture the person who burned down Iowa's Cedar Bridge

Robert James Waller (author of "The Bridges of Madison County")

Jackie "Who is Waller" — wagered $5,500
Nikki "Who is Robert James Lowell" — wagered $8,350
Victor "Who is King?" — wagered $6,001

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