Show #4493 2004-03-03 (taped 2003-12-03) Regular

Contestants

Chris Parsons — an undergraduate student from Wabasso, Florida

Judy Weisman — a surgeon from Plattsburgh, New York

John Davies — a graduate student from Wilmington, Delaware (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $1,600 $4,400 $18,800 $7,999
3rd place: $1,000
$18,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Judy $1,400 $3,400 $7,800 $10,800
2nd place: $2,000
$7,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Chris $3,400 $5,600 $14,800 $18,801
New champion: $18,801
$15,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS LITERARY POP GHOST WE LOVE L.A. A THOUSAND SOMETHING RHYME TIME
$200 [26]
Robert Engle & Clive Granger earned this prize for their new statistical models for financial data
Economics
Chris
$200 [1]
Welsh singer Thomas John Woodward became this after his boss compared him to a Henry Fielding character
Tom Jones
John
$200 [11]
Ashcroft, Colorado & Jerome, Arizona are 2 examples of these "spiritual" communities
ghost towns
Chris
$200 [4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew) According to legend this star of "Citizen Kane" set a record by eating 18 of Pink's famous hot dogs at one sitting
Orson Welles
Chris
$200 [17]
At 1,864 square miles, it's much bigger than its neighbor Tobago
Trinidad
Chris
$200 [12]
$1.99 for a box of Uncle Ben's
rice price
$400 [27]
Of both Boer & English descent, J.M. Coetzee of this country won the Nobel for Literature
South Africa
John
$400 [2]
This techno musician got his name from a book about a big ocean mammal
Moby
John
$400 [22]
The well-known Drury Lane Theatre in this capital city is equally well-known for its ghosts
London
John
$400 [5]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew) It's the alliterative name for this stretch of boulevard featuring clubs like the Whiskey-A-Go-Go
the Sunset Strip
Chris
$400 [18]
His term as U.S. president was just 1,036 days
John F. Kennedy
Judy
$400 [13]
A chilly swimming basin
cool pool
Chris
$600 [28]
Abriskosov, Ginzburg & Leggett fielded this award for their work with quantum superconductivity
Physics
Judy
$600 [3]
The band Veruca Salt took its name from the spoiled rich girl in this Roald Dahl children's book
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chris
$600 [23]
The ghost of the first Duke of Buckingham has been seen at this royal residence, burial place of Henry VIII
Windsor Castle
John
$600 [6]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew) Edgar Rice Burroughs bought 550 acres in what's now Tarzana, California, the year after this first "Tarzan" movie came out
Tarzan of the Apes
$800 [20]
To travel at a speed of 1,037 miles per hour just stand on the Earth anywhere along this
the Equator
John
$600 [14]
A large, noisy group of people
loud crowd
Judy
$800 [29]
John Paul II was the favorite, but Shirin Ebadi, a female Muslim from this country, took home the Peace Prize
Iran
Chris
$800 [9]
This band was born to be wild enough to take its name from a Herman Hesse novel
Steppenwolf
Chris
$800 [24]
The first ghost to appear to Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" is of this dead partner of his
(Jacob) Marley
John
$800 [7]
(Sofia) Very busy as it moves through L.A., the 405 freeway is named for this big city to the south
San Diego
Chris
DD $1,000 [19]
There are mille six cent soixante-cinq steps to the top of this famous landmark
the Eiffel Tower
Judy
$800 [15]
Where to hide your sodium chloride
salt vault
Judy
$1,000 [30]
For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur & Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel
Medicine
John Chris
$1,000 [10]
These mega-cool rockers took their band name from an Aldous Huxley book about using mescaline
The Doors
John
$1,000 [25]
In the first book of Samuel, Samuel's ghost appears to this king of Israel & predicts his military defeat
Saul
Chris
$1,000 [8]
(Sarah) Mulholland Drive overlooks L.A. from these mountains that share their name with a beachside community
the Santa Monica Mountains
Chris
$1,000 [21]
It's the number inscribed on Plymouth Rock
1620
Chris
$1,000 [16]
Smooched with the composer of "Hungarian Rhapsodies"
kissed Liszt
Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MAUREEN CORPS SEMPER "FI" A FEW GOOD MEN YOU CAN'T HANDEL THE TRUTH
$400 [17]
Maureen McCormick played this sitcom girl who had hair of gold like her mother
Marcia Brady
John
$400 [22]
This classic name for dogs comes from the Latin for "faithful"
Fido
Judy
$400 [13]
Thomas Mallon's book "Henry and Clara" concerns Henry Rathbone, wounded by this man at Ford's Theater
John Wilkes Booth
John
$400 [8]
New thermometers containing this may not be sold in Minnesota
mercury
John
$400 [3]
Handel composed it in about 3 weeks in 1741; its text was adapted from the Bible & the Book of Common Prayer
The Messiah
John
$400 [1]
This syrup brand comes in a distinctive grandmother-shaped bottle
Mrs. Butterworth's
John
$800 [18]
Born in Ireland in 1911, she played Jane to Tarzan & wife to John Farrow
Maureen O'Sullivan
Judy
$800 [23]
A book on the making of "Heaven's Gate", or the approved edited version of a motion picture
final cut
John
$800 [14]
Starting out in 1865, this man famous for his cowboy hats became the leading hatmaker in the U.S.
Stetson
Judy
$800 [9]
Per the Alabama Code, section 13A-12-1, it's when card playing is illegal
Sunday
John
$800 [4]
Along with Bach, Handel is considered one of the greatest composers of the late era of this musical style
Baroque
Chris
$800 [2]
In a game of Monopoly, 2 ways you can get out of jail are by rolling doubles or by paying this amount of money
$50
Chris
$1,200 [19]
Born in Ireland in 1920, she appeared in several John Ford films, starting with "How Green Was My Valley"
Maureen O'Hara
John
$1,200 [25]
Iowa senator Chuck Grassley is the chairman of this U.S. Senate committee
Finance
Judy
$1,200 [15]
One of the first U.S. presidents to have his picture taken, James Polk was photographed by this man in 1849
Mathew Brady
Judy
$1,200 [10]
In Massachusetts you can get 5 years for hiding one of these, like the one Grandma cut you out of
a will
John
$1,200 [5]
2 women dispute the parentage of a child in a scene from Handel's 1749 oratorio about this Biblical figure
Solomon
John
$1,200 [28]
As a senator, Andrew Johnson suggested the abolition of this body in choosing the president
the Electoral College
Chris
$1,600 [20]
Maureen Tucker played drums for this '60s band led by Lou Reed
the Velvet Underground
John
$1,600 [26]
Predatory insect invader seen here
fire ant
Chris
$1,600 [16]
The world's largest diamond bears the name of this man who was head of South Africa's Premier Mine in 1905
Sir Thomas Cullinan
Chris
DD $1,200 [12]
In 1835 Britain's parliament banned this so-called amusement that set dogs on a large carnivore
bear-baiting
Chris
$1,600 [6]
In 1710 Handel was appointed kapellmeister to the elector of Hanover, this future king of England
George I
John
$1,600 [29]
Flip Wilson endowed a scholarship for African-American journalism majors at this New Jersey state university
Rutgers
Chris
$2,000 [21]
In 1995 she began taking "Liberties" on the New York Times op-ed page
Maureen Dowd
John
$2,000 [27]
Countable, with an end or limit
finite
Chris
$2,000 [24]
He was the last of several U.S. presidents who graduated from a military academy
Jimmy Carter (from the Naval Academy)
John
$1,600 [11]
Under the Federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, you can't send the junk type of these
faxes
Chris
DD $2,000 [7]
On July 17, 1717 this piece made its fitting debut on a barge on the river Thames
Water Music
John
$2,000 [30]
St. Martin is one of these "Lesser" islands in the Caribbean Sea
the Antilles
John

Final Jeopardy!

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