Show #4468 2004-01-28 (taped 2003-11-20) Regular

Contestants

Elizabeth Fricker — an academic services coordinator from Decatur, Georgia

Rob Poodiack — a mathematics professor from Williston, Vermont

Lili Williams — a wife and mother from Antelope, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lili $4,800 $7,800 $12,000 $6,800
2-day champion: $15,400
$13,000
16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Rob $600 $4,800 $12,000 $6,000
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
17 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Elizabeth $1,800 $3,800 $8,600 $5,199
3rd place: $1,000
$8,600
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN WRITERS CARY GRANT FILMS LEAVES COUNTRY TIME THE SWEET SPOT NURSERY RHYME TIME
$200 [8]
Her initials stand for Joanne Kathleen
J.K. Rowling
Rob
$200 [3]
In "She Done Him Wrong" she invited Cary to come up & see her sometime
Mae West
Elizabeth
$200 [26]
The leaves of this large family of tropical trees are folded in a distinct fanlike shape called plicate
palm trees
Lili
$200 [21]
It's the country where you'll find a theatre, library & rose garden all named for Grace Kelly
Monaco
Elizabeth
$200 [16]
2-word term for benzosulfamide or aspartame, for example
artificial sweetener
$200 [1]
Sheep searcher Little Bo's military vehicles
Peep's jeeps
Lili
$400 [12]
Some skeptics said that her novel "Wuthering Heights" must have been actually written by her brother Branwell
Emily Bronte
Lili
$400 [7]
The chase on Mount Rushmore is a memorable moment from this thriller
North by Northwest
Elizabeth
$400 [27]
When practicing this art, a circle signifies future success
reading tea leaves
Elizabeth
$400 [22]
On May 14, 1948 Rachel Cohen & David Ben-Gurion signed this country's Declaration of Independence
Israel
Rob
$400 [17]
You'd be wrong, but not alone in calling these yams
sweet potatoes
Rob
$400 [2]
Merry old king's food-serving containers
Cole's bowls
Rob
$600 [13]
Sue Monk Kidd's debut novel is called "The Secret Life of" these insects
Bees
Elizabeth
$600 [9]
Cary has 2 aunts who poison gentlemen callers in this comedy
Arsenic and Old Lace
Lili
$600 [28]
Koalas eat mistletoe too, but mainly these leaves
eucalyptus
Elizabeth
$800 [24]
This former Soviet republic is less than half the size of the U.S. state of the same name
Georgia
Lili
$600 [18]
In "Peanuts" it's Sally's term of endearment for Linus
"My Sweet Baboo"
Rob
$600 [4]
Nonfat eating Jack's pet animals
Sprat's cats
Elizabeth
$800 [14]
Her 1960 classic begins, "When he was nearly 13, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"
Harper Lee
Lili
$800 [10]
Ghosts Cary Grant & Constance Bennett haunt a banker, the title character of this 1937 film
Topper
Lili
$800 [29]
The leaves seen here, they also turn up in the book of Genesis
fig leaves
Elizabeth
DD $1,000 [23]
In 2002 this country shifted out of neutral & finally joined the U.N.
Switzerland
Rob
$800 [19]
It's the title of the 1970 album on which you can hear the song "Fire and Rain"
"Sweet Baby James"
Rob
$800 [5]
Pignapper's explosive devices
Tom's bombs
$1,000 [15]
The name of this Ann Patchett bestseller about a soprano is an Italian musical term
Bel Canto
$1,000 [11]
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen & Douglas Fairbanks Jr. battle the Thuggee cult in this film inspired by a Kipling poem
Gunga Din
Lili
$1,000 [30]
Wrigley's could tell you that the strong-smelling oil of this plant, mentha spicata, comes from hairs on its leaves
spearmint
Lili
$1,000 [25]
Sadly, it was the site of the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978
Guyana
Rob
$1,000 [20]
In 1959 Elia Kazan directed this Tennessee Williams play
Sweet Bird of Youth
Lili
$1,000 [6]
Little Jack's funeralgoers
Horner's mourners
Lili

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE GUYS COURT MONARCHS HENRY WHO? CRUISIN' THE CARIBBEAN 11/30 "N" MASSE
$400 [17]
Naturalist William Maccgillivray provided most of the scientific data for this man's "Birds of America"
Audubon
Lili
$400 [26]
Before retiring in 1999, this German ranked No. 1 in women's tennis for a record 377 weeks
Steffi Graf
Rob
$400 [6]
Was Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977
Kissinger
Rob
$400 [16]
You'll find life's a beach on Playa del Carmen, a popular stop in this country
Mexico
$400 [11]
In the West Indies, this weather season runs from June 1 to November 30
hurricane season
Rob
$400 [1]
White Mountain National Forest is partly within this Northeastern state
New Hampshire
Rob
DD $1,000 [18]
In 129 B.C. Hipparchus completed the first known catalog of these, listing about 850 of them
stars
Lili
$800 [27]
Brooke Shields' grandfather Francis X. Shields was captain of this U.S. tennis team in 1951
the Davis Cup team
$800 [7]
Won an Oscar for the theme heard here
Mancini
Lili
$800 [22]
Before your ship gets into Barbados, make a tour reservation on the Atlantis II, one of these crafts
submarine
$800 [12]
On Nov. 30, 1601 she delivered her "Golden Speech" to Parliament on "To Be a King"
Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth
$800 [2]
The last military engagement of the French & Indian War was fought near St. John's in this Canadian province
Newfoundland
Elizabeth
$1,200 [19]
For helping to develop "wireless telegraphy" he & Karl Braun shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
Marconi
$1,200 [28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Tennis Hall of Fame in Rhode Island) Participant in the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" who wore this jacket
Bobby Riggs
Lili
$1,200 [8]
Sailed the Hopewell along Greenland's east coast in 1607
Henry Hudson
Rob
$1,600 [24]
U.S. Route 1 begins (or ends) at this U.S. port of call
Key West (Florida)
Rob
$1,200 [13]
On November 30, 1979 he won the WBC welterweight title
Sugar Ray Leonard
Rob
$1,200 [3]
Richard I of this French dukedom wasn't "the Lionhearted", but he was "the Fearless"
Normandy
Lili
$1,600 [20]
He got through a pile of work between his birth in Rome in 1901 & his death in Chicago in 1954
Enrico Fermi
Rob
$1,600 [29]
In 1993 this American became the first pro tennis player to have more than 1,000 aces in a single year
(the recently retired) Pete Sampras
$1,600 [9]
Wrote "The Turn of the Screw"
Henry James
Elizabeth
DD $2,000 [23]
Our first port of call is Oranjestad on this island, also the first stop in the song "Kokomo"
Aruba
Rob
$1,600 [14]
Donald Johanson named this 3.2-million-year-old woman after a Beatles tune he heard Nov. 30, 1974 while partying
Lucy
Lili
$1,600 [4]
Begun around 5,000 years ago, Stonehenge's construction belongs to this "new stone" time period
Neolithic
Elizabeth
$2,000 [21]
In the 1940s Gerard Kuiper discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus & Nereid, a moon of this planet
Neptune
$2,000 [30]
Also a singles star, she was Martina Navratilova's long-time doubles partner
Pam Shriver
$2,000 [10]
Sculpted Lincoln Center's "Reclining Figure"
Henry Moore
$2,000 [25]
This largest island of the Netherlands Antilles is known for its liqueur
Curacao
Elizabeth
$2,000 [15]
His feast day is November 30, & his cross is seen here on a flag
St. Andrew (Scottish flag)
Rob Elizabeth
$2,000 [5]
The initials of this prize-winning author stand for Vidiadhar Surajprasad
V.S. Naipaul

Final Jeopardy!

LATIN LINGO

This 3-word phrase familiar in the U.S. originated in an ancient poem & described assembling foods to make salad

E pluribus unum

Elizabeth "What is ?" — wagered $3,401
Rob "What is "Grabbus Vegetablus"?" — wagered $6,000
Lili "What is a la carte?" — wagered $5,200

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