Show #4464 2004-01-22 (taped 2003-11-13) Regular

Contestants

Margaret Meehan — a medical records supervisor from Brick, New Jersey

Barry McKnight — a sportscaster from Auburn, Alabama

Clinton Reese — a student from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $39,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Clinton $1,200 $3,400 $9,000 $6,100
2nd place: $2,000
$9,000
12 R, 2 W
Barry $2,400 $5,000 $3,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$2,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 8 W
Margaret $4,000 $6,800 $19,900 $20,800
New champion: $20,800
$19,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WRITERS ON CAPE COD CELEBRITY RELATIVES THEY NAMED IT FOR ME TAKE IN ORDER '60s STUFF GIVE "P"s A CHANCE
$200 [26]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) In the years after leaving Walden Pond, he made four walking trips to Cape Cod, wishing to get a better view of the ocean
(Henry David) Thoreau
Clinton
$200 [16]
His father Shirley Povich was one of the greatest sportswriters of the 20th century
Maury Povich
Barry
$200 [11]
His big wheel built for the 1893 expo in Chicago & used at the 1904 expo in St. Louis was then sold for scrap
George Ferris
Barry
$200 [21]
By definition, crudites are veggies served this way
raw
Margaret
$200 [6]
In 1967 this company bought Burger King for a lot of dough, boy
Pillsbury
Barry
$200 [1]
On his last of 3 live appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show", he was only shown from the waist up
Elvis Presley
Margaret
$400 [27]
This "Breakfast of Champions" author once put breakfast on the table by selling Saabs on Cape Cod
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Margaret
$400 [17]
The family tree of actress Leelee Sobieski includes Jan Sobieski, a 17th century king of this country
Poland
Margaret
$400 [12]
She left her mark on Louis XV & her name on a big hair style
Madame de Pompadour
Barry
$400 [22]
Egypt's hawk-headed sun god
Ra
Barry
$400 [7]
Photographer Linda Eastman hooked up with this rock star in 1967 & married him 2 years later
Paul McCartney
Barry
$400 [2]
You might need "jacks or better" to open when playing this game
poker
Clinton
$600 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew) Though part of it was written in one of these Cape Cod dune shacks, his 1957 work "On the Road" begins & ends in New York City
Jack Kerouac
Barry
$600 [18]
This actor from "Twin Peaks" & "Sex and the City" claims to be a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach
Kyle MacLachlan
$600 [13]
A territory in Africa & a scholarship in Oxford have borne this businessman's name
Cecil Rhodes
Margaret
$600 [23]
Speaking familially, the opposite of bro
sis
Barry
$600 [8]
A soup can Andy Warhol exhibited in 1960 was Campbell's this, of the genus Lycopersicon, & rice
tomato
Barry Margaret
$600 [3]
Since 1954, the Blue Angels' home base has been this Florida naval air station known as the "Annapolis of the Air"
Pensacola
Margaret
$800 [29]
This 4-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright launched his career with the Provincetown Players
Eugene O'Neill
Barry Margaret
$800 [19]
She got her first big break playing Connie in "The Godfather", directed by her brother Francis Ford Coppola
Talia Shire
Barry
DD $1,000 [14]
Last name of John & Henry, who leased the land for a Louisville racetrack to their nephew
Churchill
Margaret
$800 [24]
Oops, "I fall down, go" this
boom
Barry
$800 [9]
Popular fashions in 1967 included the Sgt. Pepper satin uniform look & jackets named for this ex-Indian prime minister
Nehru
Barry
$800 [4]
Ceramic name for the type of enamel used in bathroom fixtures
porcelain
Clinton
$1,000 [30]
In January 2003 Provincetown proclaimed this "Naked and the Dead" author's day, in honor of his 80th birthday
Norman Mailer
Clinton
$1,000 [20]
Dancer Martha Graham was a descendant of this colonist whose "Courtship" was the subject of a famous poem
Miles Standish
Clinton
$1,000 [15]
Though famous for his red-shirted followers, he has an orange fish named for him
Giuseppe Garibaldi
$1,000 [25]
In 2003 Playtex introduced 1/2 sizes to this product
bras
Margaret
$1,000 [10]
Comic artist who created the famous "Keep on Trucking" cartoon
Robert Crumb
Margaret
$1,000 [5]
A verb & the words modifying it make up this syntactic unit that's part of a complete sentence
predicate
Barry

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE HIMALAYAS SPORTS NUMBERS BOTANY WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK WAS IT? PEOPLE IN SONG FROM THE GREEK
$400 [16]
In 1951 British explorer Eric Shipton took photos of what were reported to be the footprints of this creature
the Yeti/the Abominable Snowman
Barry
$400 [6]
Number in the name of a Florida auto race first run on February 22, 1959
(Daytona) 500
Barry
DD $100 [29]
Also known as ling, this low evergreen shrub grows in the moors of Britain & is found in peat bogs
heather
Margaret
$400 [11]
March 31, 2002, seen here
Sunday
Margaret
$400 [1]
Pam Tillis asked us to "Call Me" this woman, "'cause I'm the queen of denial"
Cleopatra
Margaret
$400 [17]
Before you ask for mine, you should know it's from the Greek for "self written"
autograph
Margaret
$800 [22]
This pack animal is also called the grunting ox because of its grunts of protest when it is overloaded
yak
Barry
$800 [7]
A period of regulation play in the National Hockey League lasts this many minutes
20
Margaret
$400 [26]
This green plant pigment was first produced in the laboratory by Robert Woodward in 1960
chlorophyll
Clinton
$800 [12]
November 3, 1992, November 5, 1996 & November 7, 2000
Tuesday
Margaret
$800 [2]
Eminem compared himself & his daughter to this gangster duo of the 1930s
Bonnie and Clyde
Margaret
$800 [18]
In church, & on a chess board, it's from the Greek for "overseer"
bishop
Barry
$1,200 [23]
This peak in the Karakoram Range is the second-highest in the Himalayas
K2 (Godwin-Austen)
Barry
$1,200 [8]
(I'm NFL wide receiver Troy Brown) I'm happy to say that a defensive back can only bump me until I'm this far from the line of scrimmage
5 yards
Clinton
$800 [27]
Of tulips, carnations or dahlias, the one not grown from bulbs
carnations
Clinton Barry
$1,200 [13]
October 27, 2001 & another sea of red, seen here
Saturday
Clinton
$1,200 [3]
A big band number said this man "sailed the sea without a compass, when his men began a rumpus"
Christopher Columbus
$1,200 [19]
This liquid part of the blood derives its name from the Greek for something molded or formed
plasma
Margaret
DD $2,000 [24]
Pilgrims from all parts of central Asia journey to Tibet to Mount Kailas, which is sacred to these 2 religions
Buddhism & Hinduism
Barry
$1,600 [9]
If you strike out & double in 2 major league at bats, your batting average is .500 & your slugging average is this
1.000
Clinton
$1,200 [28]
The "L" attached to the names of numerous plants refers to this 18th century botanist
(Carl) Linnaeus
Margaret
$1,600 [14]
April 14, 1865
Friday
Barry Margaret
$1,600 [4]
Don McLean's musical tribute to this man begins, "Starry starry night"
Vincent van Gogh
Margaret
$1,600 [20]
From Greek for "color", it means pertaining to color, or to a musical scale that's been modified
chromatic
Clinton Barry
$2,000 [25]
This river, Pakistan's longest, rises in Tibet & then flows through the Himalayas on its way to the sea
the Indus
$2,000 [10]
Minimum number of points you must win to win a set in tennis
24
Clinton
$2,000 [30]
It's the carbohydrate found in fruits used to jell various foods
pectin
Barry
$2,000 [15]
October 19, 1987, a "Black" day for Wall Street
Monday
Clinton Barry Margaret
$2,000 [5]
The Beatles' "I'm So Tired" says, "I'll have another cigarette and curse" this man who died in 1618
Sir Walter Raleigh
Margaret
$2,000 [21]
A battery of tests will tell you this element's name is from the Greek for "stony"
lithium
Clinton Barry

Final Jeopardy!

TECHNOLOGY FIRSTS

In 1923 the Zeiss unit seen here was placed under a dome to create the first modern one of these

a planetarium

Barry "What is a vacuum?" — wagered $3,000
Clinton "What is a kaleidiscope?" — wagered $2,900
Margaret "What is [telescope] plane planetarium" — wagered $900

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