Show #4205 2002-12-06 (taped 2002-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Andrew Woolsey — a production assistant from Los Angeles, California

Ayesha Black — a student from Los Angeles, California

Todd Hellman — an attorney from Lakeland, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Todd $-800 $1,400 $10,500 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$10,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Ayesha $5,200 $6,400 $17,200 $12,200
New champion: $12,200
$17,800
26 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Andrew $-200 $1,000 $3,800 $6,800
2nd place: $2,000
$3,800
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

'40s FICTION FINANCIAL MATTERS THE AFI'S 100 GREATEST LOVE STORIES I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE OR HARVARD OLD SCHOOL THAI
$200 [3]
He wrote 1948's "The Naked and the Dead" while studying at the Sorbonne
Norman Mailer
Andrew
$200 [1]
A killer bee is an investment banker helping thwart a hostile one of these
takeover
Ayesha
$200 [9]
"Here's looking at you, kid" & at this 1942 classic which tops the list
Casablanca
Ayesha
$200 [14]
You can "learn by heart" or as they used to say, "commit to" this
memory
Todd
$200 [19]
It's the oldest
Oxford
Ayesha
$200 [21]
Until 1939 Thailand was known by this name
Siam
Todd
$400 [4]
His "The Last Tycoon" was published posthumously in 1941
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ayesha
$400 [2]
Appropriately, investing in housing can be one of these, letting you pay less to the IRS
tax shelter
Todd Ayesha Andrew
$400 [10]
"Beauty and the Beast" & this 1955 Disney film about puppy love both made the list
Lady and the Tramp
Todd Andrew
$400 [15]
When you're fully prepared for action, you're like a hunter with a heavy charge of ammo who's "loaded for" this
bear
Ayesha
$400 [20]
One of its clubs gives out the Hasty Pudding Award
Harvard
Andrew
$400 [30]
Known as the "Venice of the East", this Thai city was modernized by King Mongkut in the 1800s
Bangkok
Andrew
$600 [5]
To research this 1943 novel, Ayn Rand worked in an architect's office
"The Fountainhead"
Ayesha
DD $800 [8]
This alphanumeric clause of the 1978 Tax Reform Act now enrolls over 40 million Americans
401(k)
Ayesha
$600 [11]
He starred in 6 of the films, including "Notorious", "An Affair to Remember" & "To Catch a Thief"
Cary Grant
Ayesha
$600 [16]
You can "beat" this 1987 Bond title "out of" someone
The Living Daylights
Todd
$600 [22]
The current Prince of Wales earned his bachelor's degree there
Cambridge
Todd Ayesha
$600 [29]
Thailand is an important source of these blue September birthstones
sapphires
Andrew
$800 [6]
This novel about a politician's rise & fall earned Robert Penn Warren a Pulitzer Prize in 1947
"All the King's Men"
$800 [25]
Term for the interest rate on a bond, as well as a piece of paper that lowers your grocery bill
coupon
Ayesha
$800 [12]
Warren Beatty made his screen debut opposite Natalie Wood in this film, No. 47
Splendor in the Grass
Ayesha
$800 [17]
You can do this "through the ranks", "to the bait" or "to the occasion"
rise
Todd
$800 [23]
Its main library is the Bodleian
Oxford
$800 [28]
About 95% of Thais practice the Theravada form of this religion
Buddhism
Andrew
$1,000 [7]
Carson McCullers was only 23 when she published this 1940 novel about a deaf-mute
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
Ayesha
$1,000 [26]
This 6-letter word can mean frugality, or a savings & loan association
thrift
$1,000 [13]
Burning up the list at No. 94 is this Kathleen Turner-William Hurt film
Body Heat
Ayesha
$1,000 [18]
This tactic in basketball is used as an idiom for "an all-out effort to exert pressure"
full-court press
Ayesha
$1,000 [24]
Its department of physics is the Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge
Todd Ayesha Andrew
$1,000 [27]
(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst [in Thailand]) Tarutao means "old, mysterious & primitive" in this language, also the name of a nearby peninsula
Malay

Double Jeopardy! Round

MILLENNIUM MOMENTS TELESCOPES BANG THE DRUM AUCTION PACKED "ANN" IN OTHER NEWS... FINE & ANDY
$400 [1]
In 1543 Copernicus added that while it's the center of the universe, it's not the true center of all space
the sun
Todd
$400 [6]
In 1663 James Gregory figured a reflecting telescope was possible; this Brit made it a reality in 1668
Sir Isaac Newton
Ayesha
$400 [24]
Whether "floor" or "mounted", these drums bear a man's name
tom-toms
$400 [22]
In 2000, shoes she wore in a 1939 film were auctioned off for $666,000
Judy Garland
Ayesha
$400 [13]
To incorporate territory, Karvina did it to Frystat in 1949
annex it
Ayesha
$400 [8]
D'ja ever notice this "60 Minutes" commentator quit CBS in 1971 when it refused to air his "Essay on War" about Vietnam
Andy Rooney
Ayesha
$800 [2]
In 1397 the Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden & this country
Norway
Ayesha
$800 [7]
The Very Large Array in New Mexico is a group of 27 of these (not optical) telescopes
radio telescopes
Andrew
$800 [27]
Scour the barnyards to find one of these percussion instruments that can be part of a drum set
cowbell
Ayesha
$800 [18]
At a 1990 Sotheby's auction in New York, a bronze version of this Rodin sculpture sold for $1.2 million
"The Thinker"
Ayesha
$800 [14]
From the Latin for "to nothing", it's the mutual destruction of matter & antimatter after the Big Bang
annihilation
Andrew
$800 [9]
His 1960-68 sitcom was about a small-town sheriff who played by his own rules while raising his oddly-named boy
Andy Griffith
Ayesha
$1,200 [3]
England's James I denounced this product in 1604; the pope banned it in Seville churches in 1642
tobacco
Todd
$2,000 [28]
Florence's Museo Storia Della Scienza has 2 of his telescopes & the lens of the one that found 4 moons of Jupiter
Galileo
Todd
$1,200 [25]
Varieties of cymbals include ride, splash & this "loud" one
crash
Andrew
$1,200 [19]
Gary Busey paid over $240,000 for a guitar once owned by this man he played on film
Buddy Holly
Ayesha
$1,200 [15]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Field Museum in Chicago) This name for the phylum to which earthworms belong comes from the Latin for "little ring"
Annelida
DD $800 [11]
This actor was born in Havana on April 12, 1956
Andy Garcia
Ayesha
DD $1,500 [4]
In 1764 Catherine II of Russia ordered further exploration of this future U.S. state
Alaska
Todd
$1,600 [26]
This large drum shares its name with another instrument in a standard rock band
bass drum
Ayesha
$1,600 [20]
In 1949 a copy of this speech by Abraham Lincoln sold at auction for $54,000
the Gettysburg Address
Ayesha
$1,600 [16]
No looking in your wallet--on the reverse of a $1 bill, this precedes "coeptis" on the Great Seal of the U.S.
annuit
Ayesha
$1,200 [10]
His first 3 forays into the Top 10 went to No. 1, including "Shadow Dancing" in 1978
Andy Gibb
Ayesha
$2,000 [5]
In 1827 this Edinburgher came out & said, "That hugely popular 'Waverley' novel, I wrote it"
Sir Walter Scott
$2,000 [23]
This drum used for military marching shares its name with a device to catch animals
snare drum
Todd
$2,000 [21]
This American-born duchess' jewels were sold at auction in 1987 for $50 million
Wallis Simpson
Ayesha
$2,000 [17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports) In glassblowing, this word means "to heat the finished vessel", & then allow it to cool uniformly
anneal
$2,000 [12]
Popular in '80s new wave, he's the guitarist seen here
Andy Summers (of the Police)
Todd

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC

This work written in 1931 consists of 5 movements including "On the Trail" & "Painted Desert"

"Grand Canyon Suite" (by Ferde Grofe)

Andrew "What is the Grand Canyon Suite?" — wagered $3,000
Todd "What is Billy the Kid" — wagered $10,400
Ayesha "What is Rodeo" — wagered $5,000

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