Show #4237 2003-01-21 (taped 2002-10-23) Regular

Contestants

Charles Rosenthal — a manager for an executive search firm from Coral Springs, Florida

Kerry Halpern — a law student from Arlington, Virginia

Mark Epstein — an attorney from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $1,400 $2,800 $8,800 $17,599
2nd place: $2,000
$8,800
10 R, 2 W
Kerry $1,000 $2,400 $10,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Charles $4,600 $12,000 $24,400 $28,000
New champion: $28,000
$19,400
27 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

1870s AMERICA FIRST NAME'S THE SAME HEALTH MATTERS THE NEW YORK YANKEES GO FLY A KITE! "D" TIME
$200 [26]
In 1871 the federal government arrested this Mormon leader for polygamy
Brigham Young
Mark Charles
$200 [1]
Jung or Sandburg
Carl
Kerry
$200 [16]
Before the use of insulin as a treatment, the Type 1 form of this disease was usually fatal
diabetes
Charles
$200 [6]
(With the clue here's Yankee manager Joe Torre) The White Construction Company put up Yankee Stadium, but it's called "The House That" this man "Built"
(Babe) Ruth
Kerry
$200 [21]
A kite-eating tree is often the nemesis of this comic strip boy
Charlie Brown
Kerry Charles
$200 [7]
The soda fountain used to be a common feature in this type of commercial establishment
drugstore
Charles
$400 [27]
In 1870, a year after he wrote "The Innocents Abroad", he married Olivia Langdon
Mark Twain
Mark
$400 [2]
Faulk or McLuhan
Marshall
Kerry
$400 [17]
Hypertension is the medical term for this common 3-word phrase
high blood pressure
Charles
$400 [8]
In 1973 he said he wouldn't interfere with the Yankees' management & he'd stick to building ships--uh-huh
George Steinbrenner
Charles
$400 [22]
The song "Let's Go Fly a Kite" is featured in this movie about a flying nanny
Mary Poppins
Charles
$400 [10]
If you don't think Laurel & Hardy co-star James Finlayson was a master of this reaction, look again
doubletake
Kerry Charles
$600 [28]
The focus of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in this city was Machinery Hall, which displayed American inventions
Philadelphia
Charles
$600 [3]
Glitter or Hart
Gary
Mark
$600 [18]
Characterized by chills & swollen lymph glands, this illness earned Ted Nugent his only Top 40 hit
"Cat Scratch Fever"
$600 [9]
(Joe Torre) As seen in a well-known clip, July 4, 1939 was appreciation day for this ailing man at Yankee Stadium
Lou Gehrig
Kerry
$600 [23]
Brothers in this family invented a man-lifting kite & also founded the Boy Scouts
Baden-Powell
Kerry
$600 [13]
This current slang term for something excellent can also mean illegal substances or a stupid person
dope
Charles
$800 [29]
On March 15, 1875 archbishop John McCloskey became America's first cardinal; he was invested at this NYC church
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Charles
$800 [4]
Boulle or Salinger
Pierre
Mark
$800 [19]
More accurate than a tine test, the Mantoux skin test is used for screening & diagnosing this infectious disease
tuberculosis
Charles
$800 [11]
When robbed by Al Gionfriddo's famous catch in 1947, this Yankee went crazy--he actually kicked the dirt
Joe DiMaggio
Charles
$800 [24]
The box kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave in the 1890s, is so stable that it doesn't need this usual kite feature
tail
Mark
$800 [14]
This word meaning "to make insane" sounds like where a warped cowboy might be "home on"
derange
Charles
DD $3,200 [30]
In October 1879 he discovered that a thread of carbonized cotton will burn for 13 hours in a vacuum
Thomas Edison
Charles
$1,000 [5]
McGillicuddy or Vanderbilt
Cornelius
Charles
$1,000 [20]
The FDA advises pregnant women not to eat shark & swordfish; they contain high levels of this element
mercury
Kerry
$1,000 [12]
(Joe Torre) In my first World Series in 1996, I managed the Yankees to victory against this team I once played for
Atlanta Braves
Charles
$1,000 [25]
He used a kite to raise an antenna when he sent his first transatlantic wireless message in 1901
Guglielmo Marconi
Charles
$1,000 [15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam) In the early 1600s, one tulip bulb could pay for a house or be given by a bride's family as this
dowry
Charles

Double Jeopardy! Round

MUSIC OFFICIAL LANGUAGES FOREIGN FILMS FROM THE GREEK BRITANNICA "WORLD" BOOK
$400 [1]
An odd subject for an opera, but composer John Adams wrote one about this president's 1972 trip to China
Richard Nixon
Kerry
$400 [6]
Of Bangla, Glad, or Ladesh, the official language of Bangladesh
Bangla
$400 [21]
This 1980s submarine classic starred Jurgen Prochnow as the captain
Das Boot
Kerry
$400 [12]
The term "atom" comes from the Greek "atomos", meaning this, the word that follows "One Nation, Under God"
indivisible
Mark Charles
$400 [27]
Ancient Romans founded this English city as Aquae Sulis, named for its mineral hot springs
Bath
Kerry
$400 [11]
A savage named John has educated himself by reading Shakespeare in this futuristic novel by Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Charles
$800 [2]
On the soundtrack to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he plays the cello solos
Yo-Yo Ma
Kerry
$800 [7]
Official language in common to the Central African Republic & Canada
French
Charles
$800 [22]
Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" is partly dedicated to this man who directed Clint in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
Sergio Leone
Mark
$800 [13]
From the Greek peda, "leader", it's the helmsman on a ship or the operator of a plane
pilot
Charles
$800 [29]
This song says, "Send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us"
"God Save the Queen"
Kerry
$800 [17]
This thriller by Michael Crichton is a follow-up to "Jurassic Park"
"The Lost World"
Kerry
$1,200 [3]
Franz Schubert was probably the best-known composer of these German songs
lieder
$1,200 [8]
Khmer is this country's official language
Cambodia (Kampuchea)
Charles
$1,200 [23]
A Foreign Language Oscar went to Menshov's 1979 film called this city "Does Not Believe in Tears"
Moscow
$1,600 [15]
Originally a shopkeeper, this older term for a pharmacist is from the Greek for "to put away"
apothecary
Mark
$1,200 [26]
Cambridge University dates back to this century; so does the Magna Carta
the 13th century
Charles
$1,600 [19]
John Irving established his reputation with this 1978 book about the life of a novelist
"The World According to Garp"
Charles
$1,600 [4]
Many a wedding procession has featured the following canon by this composer
Johann Pachelbel
Mark
$1,600 [9]
It's the official language of Antigua, as well as Barbuda
English
Charles
$1,600 [24]
Truffaut's musician's tale "Tirez sur le pianiste" is known as this in English
Shoot the Piano Player
Mark
$2,000 [16]
From the Greek for "a point in time", Eocene & Paleocene were 2 of these periods of geologic time
epochs
Mark
$1,600 [28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in London) After St. Paul's was destroyed by fire in 1666, this man was commissioned to design a new building
Sir Christopher Wren
Charles
$2,000 [20]
Sixth grader Karen Newman deals with her parents' divorce in this novel by Judy Blume
"It's Not the End of the World"
$2,000 [5]
This instrument is Latin America's equivalent of the xylophone
marimba
Charles
$2,000 [10]
Turkish is an official language of this island whose highest peak is called Mount Olympus
Cyprus
Mark
$2,000 [25]
Ingmar Bergman announced his retirement from moviemaking after the early '80s film about these 2 title characters
Fanny and Alexander
DD $4,000 [14]
This powerful pain reliever & sedative derives its name from the Greek god of dreams
morphine (from Morpheus)
Charles
$2,000 [30]
Running from Charing Cross to Parliament, this street has lent its name to the British civil service
Whitehall
DD $4,000 [18]
Published serially in Le Temps in 1872, this globetrotting work made a novel debut in 1873
"Around the World in Eighty Days"
Kerry

Final Jeopardy!

POPULAR SYMBOLS

Starting in the 1860s, this cartoonist gave us the modern image of Santa Claus

Thomas Nast

Mark "Who is Nast?" — wagered $8,799
Kerry "Who is Nash?" — wagered $9,999
Charles "Who is Nast" — wagered $3,600

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