Show #4212 2002-12-17 (taped 2002-09-18) Regular

Contestants

Tom Lundregan — a computer network manager from Springfield, Virginia

Catherine Pritchard — a newspaper columnist from Fayetteville, North Carolina

Elizabeth Baxter — a college student from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Elizabeth $4,600 $6,600 $17,200 $11,200
2-day champion: $18,300
$17,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Catherine $200 $1,400 $3,000 $300
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
9 R, 2 W
Tom $3,400 $4,400 $5,600 $5,199
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE ARGENTINA STUPID ANSWERS ANATOMY LUNAR TUNES CAN WE TALK?
$200 [16]
The Bluebird Cafe in this Tenn. city was featured prominently in the River Phoenix film "The Thing Called Love"
Nashville
Elizabeth
$200 [26]
Famed Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera drew from the dances & songs of these cowboys in his early works
gauchos
Catherine Tom
$200 [6]
This character is the narrator of the classic Charlotte Bronte novel "Jane Eyre"
Jane Eyre
Elizabeth
$200 [11]
Each of these is made up of 4 kinds of tissue: pulp, dentin, enamel & cementum
teeth
Catherine
$200 [21]
It's the classic No. 1 hit that says, "You saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart"
"Blue Moon"
Tom
$200 [1]
When having a casual conversation, you do this to "the rag" or "the fat"
chew
Catherine
$400 [17]
Beach music lives at the Rock 'N Roll Beach Club at this Florida theme park's Pleasure Island
Walt Disney World
Elizabeth
$400 [27]
More than 2/3 of Argentina's population lives in this fertile plain that has some of the world's best topsoil
Pampas
Elizabeth
$400 [7]
Her 2000 debut album was titled "Who is Jill Scott?"
Jill Scott
Tom
$400 [12]
As their name suggests, these female reproductive organs produce the eggs
ovaries
Elizabeth
$400 [22]
In a 2002 episode of "Sex and the City", Carrie & Mr. Big danced to this Andy Williams classic
"Moon River"
Tom
$400 [2]
Speak slowly with--pauses;--"He who"--does it "is--lost"
hesitates
Elizabeth
$600 [18]
Rah-rah for Ra, a nightclub named for an Egyptian sun god at this Las Vegas hotel
Luxor
Elizabeth
$600 [28]
Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, lies on this island territory of Argentina
Tierra del Fuego
Elizabeth
$600 [8]
(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst.) Parts of this 2000 Leonardo DiCaprio movie were filmed nearby on the beach of Thailand's Phi Phi Island
The Beach
Tom
$600 [13]
This slender, closed tube that extends from the large intestine may become inflamed & even burst
appendix
Catherine
$600 [23]
This No. 2 hit by CCR warns, "Looks like we're in for nasty weather"
"Bad Moon Rising"
Tom
$600 [3]
Change one letter in yabber, Australian for "to talk foolishly", & you get this, "to talk rapidly"
jabber
Tom
$800 [19]
Don't make an ass of yourself at "The Donkey Show"--an interactive disco version of this "seasonal" Shakespeare saga
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Elizabeth
$1,000 [30]
Argentina has 2 major political parties: the radical Civic Union & the Justicialist Party, also called this
Peronist Party (party of Juan Peron)
$800 [9]
The flag of this union of European countries has a circle of 12 gold stars on a field of blue
European Union
Elizabeth
$800 [14]
The uvula is that fleshy piece at the back of the throat & the uvea is the pigmented middle layer of this organ
eye
Catherine Tom
$800 [24]
A 1955 film made this standard, heard here, a classic
"Moonglow" (from Picnic )
$800 [4]
Add this letter to "utter" to get a word meaning "to utter in low, unclear tones"
m (for "mutter")
Elizabeth
$1,000 [20]
Dallas' Longhorn Ballroom, site of an infamous Sex Pistols concert, was once run by this man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
Catherine
DD $2,000 [29]
Both Argentina & the Rio de la Plata derive their names from the Latin word for this
silver
Elizabeth
$1,000 [10]
This stone is so named because it was first made in the city of Strasbourg, on the Rhine River
rhinestone
Elizabeth
$1,000 [15]
A stroke may leave you unable to speak if it damages the brain "area" named for this French surgeon
(Paul) Broca
Elizabeth
$1,000 [25]
This 1993 song by R.E.M. was a tribute to Andy Kaufman
"Man on the Moon"
Elizabeth
$1,000 [5]
It means "to speak pompously & dogmatically" or, a little better, "to speak like a pope"
pontificate
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

I LOVE THE KNIGHT LIFE THE SPORTING NEWS SHORT STORIES ORGANIZATIONS CANADIAN P.M.s FROM A TO ALMOST Z
$400 [19]
Originally, a knight was knighted with a blow of the hand; mercifully, that was replaced by a tap with this
sword
Elizabeth
$400 [14]
One name for this sport derives from the Latin "pugnare", to fight with fists
boxing
Tom
$400 [6]
Henry Fleming appears in this author's short story "Lynx-Hunting" as well as in "The Red Badge of Courage"
Stephen Crane
Elizabeth
$400 [9]
In 1963 JFK donated his Pulitzer Prize money from this book to the United Negro College Fund
"Profiles in Courage"
Catherine
$400 [26]
Since 1867 all the P.M.s, except for 2 Unionists, have been from 1 of these 2 parties
Conservative or Liberal
Tom
$400 [1]
It's a big bird house
aviary
Elizabeth
$800 [20]
When a future knight was about 7, he began serving as one of these (with the appropriate hairstyle)
page
Elizabeth
$800 [15]
This 2-word term meaning "large prize" in French refers to a Formula 1 championship auto race
grand prix
Tom
$800 [7]
His classic short stories include "The Undefeated" & "The Killers"
Ernest Hemingway
$800 [10]
Collectively, the 11 members of this organization supply about 40% of the world's oil output
OPEC
Elizabeth
$2,000 [27]
The first Canadian to win the Nobel Peace Prize (he did it in 1957), he retired as P.M. in 1968
Lester Pearson
$800 [2]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew looks at a picture of Alex on the wall.) Hmmm, that picture is offending my aesthetic sensibilities; it's slightly this, but I'll fix it
askew (awry accepted)
Catherine
$1,200 [21]
Attention, Theodore Cleaver: "Leave it to" this piece of armor that protected a knight's mouth & chin
beaver
Elizabeth
$1,200 [16]
Now officially made by Inglasco for the pros, these were originally made from frozen cow dung in Canada
hockey pucks
Catherine
$1,200 [8]
Dorothy Parker wrote a story about Hazel Morse, the title "Big" one of these
Blonde
$1,200 [11]
Since 1920 the organization known by these 4 letters has helped defend the rights & freedoms of our people
ACLU
Tom
$1,200 [3]
Figure out how much gold's in your ore
assay
Catherine Tom
$2,000 [23]
Knights are moved to tears at the mere thought of this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set at the Tower of London
The Yeomen of the Guard
$1,600 [17]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is credited with perfecting this shot aka a high hook shot
sky hook
Tom
$1,600 [24]
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a collection of short stories by this "Wise Blood" author
Flannery O'Connor
Elizabeth
DD $2,000 [12]
This actress' daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, is president of Alzheimer's Disease International
Rita Hayworth (she suffered from Alzheimer's before her death)
Tom
$1,600 [4]
Well, this is a big letdown
anticlimax
DD $3,000 [22]
Knights know that jousting is the official state sport of this U.S. state founded by an English lord
Maryland
Elizabeth
$2,000 [18]
Similar to 10-pin bowling is this "avian" variety using shorter & squatter pins
duckpin bowling
$2,000 [25]
His first book, "Cabbages and Kings", is a series of loosely-linked short stories about adventures in Central America
O. Henry
Catherine
$2,000 [13]
If you're really smart, you might know that this organization's name means "table" in Latin
Mensa
Elizabeth
$2,000 [5]
A symbolic narrative; Piers Plowman starred in a famous one
allegory

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE

It takes approximately 24,840 mph to achieve this

escaping the Earth's gravity (& go off into outer space, on your way to the Moon, for instance)

Catherine "What is the speed of light?" — wagered $2,700
Tom "What is a sonic boom!" — wagered $401
Elizabeth "What is the speed of sound?" — wagered $6,000

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