Show #4215 2002-12-20 (taped 2002-09-18) Regular

Contestants

Laura Sturaitis — a marketing executive from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Marlon Shows — a technology consultant from Detroit, Michigan

Patrick Morris — a caterer at fairs from Alameda, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Patrick $1,400 $2,000 $8,200 $999
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Marlon $2,600 $3,400 $2,200 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$2,200
8 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Laura $400 $2,800 $7,700 $2,700
New champion: $2,700
$6,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 7 W

Jeopardy! Round

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES FAMILY FILMS ENDS IN "ENCH" WOMEN! CAN'T LIVE WITH 'EM ...OR WITHOUT 'EM
$200 [6]
Teams at a Tennessee university named for this man are nicknamed the Railsplitters
Abraham Lincoln
Patrick
$200 [12]
Steve Martin played hapless dad George Banks in this 1991 matrimonial comedy
Father of the Bride
Patrick
$200 [13]
Where Souter sits
bench (of the Supreme Court)
Marlon
$200 [22]
This teacher died in 1936, ending her 49-year symbiotic relationship with Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan
Laura
$200 [7]
After the swarm's flight, these insects of the order isoptera lose their wings & eat you out of house & home
termites
Patrick
$200 [1]
A major task of this hormone is to stimulate the uptake of glucose by cells
insulin
$400 [14]
Emerson's "American Scholar" was an oration to the Phi Beta Kappa society of this school, his alma mater
Harvard
Marlon
$400 [16]
1981 film that immortalized the line "No wire hangers--ever!"
Mommie Dearest
Laura
$400 [18]
Make a tight fist
clench
Marlon
$400 [23]
Maiden name of author Anne, widow of Charles Lindbergh; she died in 2001 at age 94
Morrow
Laura
$400 [8]
Phrase for the year of a toddler's life that's full of tantrums, aggression & repetition
terrible twos
Patrick
$400 [2]
Without biotin, part of this complex, your body can't break down fatty acids
B complex
Patrick
$600 [15]
In the book "The Sun Also Rises", Robert Cohn is a novelist who had attended this New Jersey university
Princeton
Laura
$600 [17]
Sissy Spacek did her own singing in this 1980 film bio
Coal Miner's Daughter
Patrick
$600 [27]
She played "M" in the James Bond movies "Tomorrow Never Dies" & "The World is Not Enough"
Dame Judi Dench
Laura
$600 [24]
She's the distinctive British voice heard here
Marianne Faithfull
Laura
$600 [9]
This folklore figure killed 6 wives who went against his orders & entered a room he kept locked
Bluebeard
Laura
$600 [3]
Key to glandular function, this mineral is (alphabetically) about the last thing your body needs
zinc
Marlon
$800 [19]
The Thomas Jefferson Medals for architecture & for law are given annually at this university
University of Virginia
Laura
$800 [20]
Gaby Hoffmann & Macaulay Culkin play niece & nephew to John Candy in this 1989 comedy
Uncle Buck
Laura
$800 [28]
Ooh, what's that odor!
stench
Marlon
$800 [25]
The vice president's wife, she has long focused on the importance of history education
Lynne Cheney
Marlon Laura
$800 [10]
Ernie K-Doe sang about her, "Every time I open my mouth she steps in and tries to put me out"
"Mother-in-Law"
$800 [4]
The antioxidant nutrients include vitamins C & E & this substance that occurs naturally in orange veggies
beta -carotene
Marlon
$1,000 [29]
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace is part of this Palo Alto university
Stanford
Patrick
$1,000 [21]
This film from Joel & Ethan Coen was partly based on Homer's "Odyssey"
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Patrick Laura
$1,000 [26]
This "countess" from Rome began designing when she noticed how dull her husband's ties were
Countess Mara
Laura
$1,000 [11]
From words meaning "great madness", these people have delusions of grandeur
megalomaniacs
Laura
DD $1,000 [5]
Though rice & beans are "incomplete" these, together they provide all the essential amino acids
proteins
Marlon

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY BOOKS THE BICYCLE HISTORY ART RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN THAT'S OUR ISLAND! BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [3]
Modern Library's pick as one of this century's top English-language novels is this 1969 Philip Roth book
"Portnoy's Complaint"
Laura
$400 [11]
As in horseback riding, it's the bike part a rider sits on
saddle
Laura
$400 [8]
Benjamin West's "Death of General Wolfe", seen here, is in the National Gallery of this country, whose history it depicts
Canada
Patrick
$400 [9]
Mary Martin received a Tony Award for playing Maria in this 1959 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
The Sound of Music
Patrick
$400 [1]
Greenland
Denmark
Patrick Marlon
$400 [26]
This star is truly a "Top Gun" when he's flying below radar to deliver a warhead
Tom Cruise missile
Patrick
$800 [4]
In 1929 William Faulkner made a lot of "noise" in the literary world with this book
"The Sound and the Fury"
Laura
$800 [21]
These long, fashionable items were the reason that ladies' bicycles used to be made without the crossbar
skirts
Patrick
$800 [16]
An elephant pulls this man's chariot in Charles Le Brun's depiction of his 331 B.C. entry into Babylon
Alexander the Great
Patrick Laura
$800 [12]
"Younger Than Springtime" was written for "Allegro" but not used; instead, it appeared in this musical
South Pacific
Laura
$800 [2]
Bali
Indonesia
Laura
$1,200 [5]
Over a decade before Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique", this woman wrote "The Second Sex"
Simone de Beauvoir
Laura
$1,200 [22]
On fixed-gear racing bikes, the pedals turn whenever the bike is moving, making this effortless activity impossible
coasting
Patrick
DD $1,000 [25]
Famous document being signed aboard ship in the Tompkins Matteson painting seen here
the Mayflower Compact
Patrick
$1,200 [13]
"Oklahoma!" opens with Curly singing this song about the new day
"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning"
Laura
$1,200 [10]
Ibiza
Spain
Marlon
$1,600 [6]
2067 will be the 100th anniversary of his "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Laura
$1,600 [23]
To reduce wind resistance, racing bikes lack these, so they can't make cool noises with baseball cards
spokes
Patrick
$1,200 [17]
Here, Thomas Hovenden dramatically depicts the 1859 last moments of this man
John Brown
Patrick
$2,000 [15]
Musical numbers in this 1945 film include "All I Owe Ioway" & "It's a Grand Night for Singing"
State Fair
$1,600 [18]
Aruba
The Netherlands (Holland)
Laura
$2,000 [7]
If we say books published in 1915, you should make "The Rainbow" connection with this author
D.H. Lawrence
$2,000 [24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew bikes up a hill.) When climbing & mountain biking, pick a gear that allows you to keep this between 60 & 90
RPMs (revolutions per minute)
Patrick Marlon
$1,600 [19]
Delacroix, like Byron, sided with this people's fight to break free of Turkey, leading to his "Massacre at Chios"
Greeks
Patrick
DD $2,500 [14]
The musical "Pipe Dream" was set in Cannery Row & based on this author's novel "Sweet Thursday"
John Steinbeck
Laura
$2,000 [20]
Lewis with Harris
Scotland
Patrick

Final Jeopardy!

GREEK GODS

Isthmia in Corinth was the site of the sanctuary of this Greek god

Poseidon

Marlon "Who is Hermes" — wagered $2,198
Laura "Who was Zues?" — wagered $5,000
Patrick "Who is Apollo" — wagered $7,201

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