Show #4214 2002-12-19 (taped 2002-09-18) Regular

Contestants

Molly Woods — a copywriter from Arlington, Virginia

Patrick Morris — a caterer at fairs from Alameda, California

Elizabeth Baxter — a college student from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (whose 3-day cash winnings total $39,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Elizabeth $1,600 $6,900 $9,500 $2,500
2nd place: $2,000
$12,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Patrick $3,200 $4,400 $5,200 $10,400
New champion: $10,400
$5,200
12 R, 5 W
Molly $1,400 $3,600 $7,800 $300
3rd place: $1,000
$10,800
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BOSTON "T" PARTY CLASSROOM FILMS DAIRY PRODUCTS INNOVATORS COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
$200 [19]
The state dog of Massachusetts is the "Boston" this
terrier
Elizabeth
$200 [16]
1989:Robin Williams inspires his prep school students to discover Whitman & Tennyson
Dead Poets Society
Elizabeth
$200 [1]
Cottage cheese comes in small, medium & large sizes of this dairy substance
curd
Molly
$200 [14]
Fred Morrison came up with the idea for the Frisbee & sold it to this company in 1955
Wham-O
Elizabeth Molly
$200 [2]
It's a notice of dismissal from a job
pink slip
Patrick
$200 [8]
Each engine of a 747 generates over 43,000 pounds of this force
thrust
Patrick
$400 [20]
In a Boston-set sitcom, they were paired with "a Girl & a Pizza Place"
Two Guys
Elizabeth
$400 [18]
1955:Idealistic Glenn Ford tries to reach troubled students like Sidney Poitier
Blackboard Jungle
Elizabeth Patrick
$400 [3]
Yogurt is made by curdling milk with purified cultures of these, like Streptococcus thermophilus
bacteria
Patrick Molly
$400 [15]
The work of Marion Donovan (a mom) & Victor Mills (a grandpa) made these disposable
diapers
Molly
$400 [4]
"Love Story" author Erich Segal helped with the script for this Beatles film
Yellow Submarine
Elizabeth
$400 [9]
A strong motion accelerograph, a type of this device, records shaking too strong for sensitive ones
seismograph
Elizabeth
$600 [21]
Boston's Freedom one begins near the frog pond in Boston Common
Freedom Trail
Elizabeth
$600 [24]
1967:Idealistic Sidney Poitier teaches rough East Enders, earns respect & a song from Lulu
To Sir, with Love
Patrick
$600 [5]
This process uses moderately high temperatures for a short time to kill microorganisms in milk
pasteurization
Elizabeth
$600 [17]
George Ballas invented the powered plant-cutting tool known by this alliterative name
Weed Whacker
Patrick Molly
$600 [11]
Members of the U.S. Army special forces are also called this, from part of their uniform
Green Berets
Patrick
$600 [10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Science Museum of Minnesota) Movement of the ocean floor can cause these fearsome waves with a Japanese name
tsunamis
Molly
$800 [22]
In the Boston area, U.S. Interstate 90 is also known as this type of road
turnpike
Patrick
$800 [25]
1987:Edward James Olmos' students from the East L.A. barrio pass the A.P. calculus exam & are accused of cheating
Stand and Deliver
Molly
$800 [6]
Ghee is a clarified form of this
butter
Patrick
$800 [27]
Unaffected by magnetic fields, Elmer Sperry's gyroscopic type of this device even worked at the North Pole
compass
Molly
$800 [12]
To go out & celebrate boisterously, particularly by hitting bars & other nightspots
to paint the town red
Patrick
$800 [29]
In a car, the reciprocating, or up-&-down, motion of these is changed to rotary motion in the wheels
pistons
Elizabeth
$1,000 [23]
In a kids' book, this young Boston Johnny-on-the-spot becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty
Johnny Tremain
Elizabeth
$1,000 [26]
1995:Marine vet Michelle Pfeiffer uses unorthodox methods to teach inner city kids
Dangerous Minds
Elizabeth
$1,000 [7]
A special lowfat milk has a reduced content of this milk sugar that is hard for some people to digest
lactose
Patrick
$1,000 [28]
Mr. Alter, who designed a type of catamaran or "cat", goes by this first name
Hobie
$1,000 [13]
Originally, it was a tribute paid by English & Scottish farmers to freebooters for protection from harassment
blackmail
DD $1,500 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew paddling a kayak) From the Latin for "to twist", this causes a kayak to rotate in the opposite direction from the side of a stroke
torque
Elizabeth

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD OF AUTHORS 19th CENTURY BASEBALL VICE PRESIDENTS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES A NIGHT AT THE OPERA GOING THROUGH THE EMOTIONS
$400 [6]
While he wrote a lot of poems, "Doctor Zhivago" was his only novel
Boris Pasternak
Elizabeth
$400 [26]
Ned Cuthbert is credited with inventing this larcenous move in the 1860s
base stealing
Elizabeth
$400 [11]
William King, Pierce's VP, used to be the roommate of this bachelor president
James Buchanan
Molly
$400 [15]
When you say BUD, you're referring to this Hungarian city's airport
Budapest
Elizabeth
$400 [21]
Act IV of this opera begins with Desdemona's "Willow Song"
Otello
Molly
$400 [1]
Emotion that's a homophone of a word meaning "Stop!" to a horse
woe (Whoa!)
Elizabeth
$800 [7]
After going "Out of Africa" for good in 1931, Isak Dinesen returned to this country
Denmark
Patrick Molly
$800 [27]
In 1860s baseball, the pitching distance was this many feet, about three-quarters of what it is now
45
Patrick
$800 [12]
Henry Wilson, later Grant's VP, left the Whigs & the Know-Nothings because of their soft stands on this issue
slavery
Molly
$800 [17]
Go away mad & you've left from this world capital's airport, code MAD
Madrid
Patrick
$800 [22]
He was only 24 when he composed "The Pearl Fishers", which was rediscovered after the success of his "Carmen"
Georges Bizet
Elizabeth
$800 [2]
These feelings of distress or sorrow are also what you send to decline an invitation
regrets
Elizabeth
$1,200 [8]
After writing "J'accuse", he was convicted of libel
Emile Zola
$1,200 [28]
An 1887 rule counting these "free passes" as hits led to 20 guys batting .400
walks
Patrick
$1,200 [13]
Elbridge Gerry almost became president when this man got very sick in 1813, but wound up dying in office himself
James Madison
Elizabeth
$1,200 [18]
The luck of the Irish is with you if you know SNN is this city
Shannon
Patrick
$1,200 [23]
It's the English translation of the title of Bellini's "La Sonnambula"
The Sleepwalker
Molly
$1,200 [3]
The adjective "blithe" is closely related to this word meaning "ecstasy"
bliss
Elizabeth
$1,600 [9]
A rat infestation takes its toll on a French town in this Algerian-born author's "The Plague"
Albert Camus
Elizabeth
$1,600 [14]
Seen here, he served as vice president for just over 2 years
Nelson Rockefeller
Patrick
$1,600 [19]
In Spanish aca means "here" & if you land at ACA, you'll be here
Acapulco
Molly
$1,600 [24]
The first & second Knights of the Grail are roles in this 1882 Wagner opera
Parsifal
Elizabeth
$2,000 [5]
In a poem, Wordsworth was "surprised by" this emotion & "impatient as the wind"
joy
Molly
$2,000 [10]
The main character in his 1947 novel "Doktor Faustus" is a German composer named Adrian Leverkuhn
Thomas Mann
$2,000 [16]
Garret Hobart was such a good VP that this president didn't replace him after he died in 1899
William McKinley
DD $3,000 [20]
Landing at WLG, this city's airport, will set you south of the equator
Wellington, New Zealand
Molly
$2,000 [25]
This Tchaikovsky opera was based on Pushkin's 1833 "Novel in Verse"
Eugene Onegin
DD $3,000 [4]
This feeling of awe & respect follows "Your" in a form of address for certain clergymen
reverence
Elizabeth

Final Jeopardy!

TV & MUSIC

Scooby-Doo's name was inspired by a line in this 1966 song standard

"Strangers in the Night"

Patrick "What is Strangers in the Night" — wagered $5,200
Molly "What is good morning Starshine?" — wagered $7,500
Elizabeth "What is Blue Moon?" — wagered $7,000

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