Show #4459 2004-01-15 (taped 2003-11-12) Regular

Contestants

Frank Amanat — an attorney from South Orange, New Jersey

Liz Slaby — a high school teacher from North East, Pennsylvania

Steve Hall — a nurse and "Mr. Mom" from Hamden, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $-600 $2,400 $7,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
12 R, 2 W
Liz $200 $2,000 $3,600 $100
2nd place: $2,000
$5,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Frank $3,800 $3,600 $18,000 $15,250
New champion: $15,250
$17,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY ROLLING STONES SONGS STUPID ANSWERS NUMERICAL PHRASES CORN BROTHERS ON BROTHERS
$200 [1]
On Nov. 11, 1918, Pvt. Henry Gunther became the last American casualty in this war
World War I
Liz
$200 [7]
"You'll come runnin' back, you'll come runnin' back, you'll come runnin' back to me"
"Time Is on My Side"
$200 [6]
On June 4, 2002 The New York Times ran the obituary for Albin Krebs, 73, who wrote these from 1969 to 1989
obituaries
Steve
$200 [14]
It's the usual item with which you wouldn't touch someone despicable
a 10-foot pole
Liz
$200 [19]
About 75% of the corn sold by farmers in the U.S. is used as this on other farms
animal feed
Frank
$200 [20]
(Dr. Joyce) Having older brothers may make a girl more likely to be this sporty type, a word that includes a male name
tomboy
Liz
$400 [2]
Remarkably, there were more than 60 survivors when this Zeppelin crashed in New Jersey in 1937
the Hindenburg
Steve
$400 [8]
"Who could hang a name on you?"
"Ruby Tuesday"
Steve
$400 [10]
(I'm Jeff Probst in Panama) The Pearl Islands are in this gulf, off the coast of Panama
the Gulf of Panama
Liz
$400 [15]
Though "heck" & "darn" are examples of these, the phrase usually refers to saltier language
4-letter words
Liz
$400 [21]
The official website for this 2002 Mel Gibson film explains how they made its crop circles in cornfields
Signs
Frank
$400 [22]
A 1977 study found that these children learn language slowly, because adults leave them to amuse each other
twins
Steve
$600 [3]
Elected the 19th U.S. president in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was a member of this political party
Republican
Frank
$600 [9]
"You better stop. Look around. Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes"
"19th Nervous Breakdown"
$600 [11]
In 2003 top model Tyra Banks conducted a search for "America's Next" one of these
Top Model
Steve Frank
$600 [16]
This traditional symbol of businessman's indulgence adds up to about 6 ounces of gin
3-martini lunch
Liz
$600 [28]
In 1906 a man with this last name began the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company
Kellogg
Steve
$600 [23]
In the "complex" named for this Biblical man, one brother must de-identify with another to avoid angry competition
the Cain complex
Liz
$800 [4]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Ronald Reagan Library) This man awarded the Medal of Freedom to Ronald Reagan on January 13, 1993
George H.W. Bush
Frank
$800 [26]
"I was born in a crossfire hurricane"
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
$800 [12]
David James Elliott of "JAG" might know it's the monogram of our 20th president
JAG (James A. Garfield)
Frank
DD $600 [17]
Originated by Alcoholics Anonymous, it includes a "fearless moral inventory"
12-step program
Liz
$800 [24]
I played Dr. O'Dell in this "Rich Man, Poor Man" sequel that's about coping with the loss of a brother
Beggarman, Thief
Frank
$1,000 [5]
This Indian "king" for whom a war against American colonists was named was tracked down & killed in 1676
Philip
Frank
$1,000 [27]
"My back is broad, but it's a-hurtin', all I want is for you to make love to me"
"Beast of Burden"
Steve
$1,000 [13]
1939 film in which Bette Davis said, "That's our victory--our victory over the dark"
Dark Victory
Steve Liz
$1,000 [18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome) It's the literal translation of the grateful Italian phrase "mille grazie"
a thousand thanks
Liz
$1,000 [25]
For this famous man's patient "Little Hans", the birth of a sister helped cause a fear of horses--go figure
(Sigmund) Freud
Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN POETS CINEMANIA EUROPE WHAT THE HECK IS IT? ALL "DE" PEOPLE TERM ME LOOSE
$400 [1]
In May 1827 he enlisted in the U.S. Army as "Edgar A. Perry"
Edgar Allan Poe
Liz
$400 [26]
This 1977 film that was the highest-earning film of the 1970s didn't even take place in our galaxy
Star Wars
Steve
$400 [6]
In 2002 the commonwealth rejoiced as she celebrated 50 years on the throne
Queen Elizabeth II
Steve
$400 [21]
Pocatello
a city in Idaho
Frank
$400 [16]
The first president of the Fifth French Republic, he was wounded 3 times while serving in World War I
Charles de Gaulle
Liz
$400 [11]
Term for the 3 lower pipes on a bagpipe, or the male honey bees that live off the work of others
drones
Liz
$800 [2]
In 1900 his grandfather bought him a chicken farm near Derry, New Hampshire
Robert Frost
Frank
$800 [30]
In the beginning of this film, peaceful apes confront a black monolith & turn deadly & carnivorous
2001: A Space Odyssey
Steve
$800 [7]
One of the few houses left from the early 18th century in Bonn is the 1770 birthplace of this composer
Beethoven
Frank
$800 [22]
Clavichord
musical instrument
Liz Frank
$800 [17]
9 years before arriving at the Mississippi River, he met the Incan ruler Atahualpa in Peru
Hernando de Soto
Frank
$800 [12]
The place where relief pitchers warm up, or the group of relief pitchers; this term works for both
bullpen
Liz
$1,600 [4]
He wrote, "What would you do if you were up a dark alley with Caesar Borgia and he was coming torgia"
Ogden Nash
$1,200 [29]
The Sony Pictures Studios were once home to this co.; Gracie Films is in the building that held Louis B. Mayer's office
MGM
Frank
$1,200 [8]
The Piazza del Duomo is the center of religious life in this city, the birthplace of the Renaissance
Florence
Liz
$1,200 [23]
Mimic thrush
bird
Frank
$1,200 [18]
In 1993 Nelson Mandela & this fellow South African shared the Nobel Peace Prize for ending apartheid
F.W. de Klerk
Frank
$1,200 [13]
This 4-letter word is the Aussie term for the wild, wooded & little-populated part of Australia
the bush
Liz
DD $2,000 [3]
He was a descendant of John & Priscilla Alden, whose love story he told in an 1858 narrative poem
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
Frank
$1,600 [28]
Dude, in 1998 this brotherly team brought us "The Big Lebowski"
the Coen Brothers
Steve
$1,600 [9]
Scotland's first national park includes this, Scotland's largest lake
Loch Lomond
Frank
$1,600 [24]
Sphalerite
mineral
Frank
$1,600 [19]
While assistant vice-consul in Egypt, this French diplomat began planning the construction of the Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps
DD $2,000 [14]
This term for chaos is from the Greek for "all the demons"
pandemonium
Liz
$2,000 [5]
First name of the Pulitzer-winning poet whose son Charles was involved in the 1950s quiz show scandals
Mark (Van Doren)
$2,000 [27]
The military clones Ripley to produce a bioweapon in this 1997 film, the fourth in the "Alien" series
Alien: Resurrection
Steve
$2,000 [10]
Gloria is a popular restaurant & wine cellar in this capital of Estonia
Tallinn
Frank
$2,000 [25]
A plessor
little hammer with a rubber head
$2,000 [20]
This Italian director, an exponent of Neorealism, used that technique in "The Bicycle Thief"
Vittorio De Sica
$2,000 [15]
Term for the Neoclassical style of furniture, decoration & fashion in vogue in Napoleonic France
the Empire Style

Final Jeopardy!

POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS

This man's successful 2001 campaign was the most expensive non-presidential campaign in history

Michael Bloomberg

Liz "Who was Powell" — wagered $3,500
Steve "Who is Pataki?" — wagered $7,600
Frank "Who is Pataki?" — wagered $2,750

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