Show #3918 2001-09-19 (taped 2001-04-25) Regular

Mark Dawson game 4.

Contestants

Becky Molina — an educator and mother from Fort Pierce, Florida

Todd Tarantino — a composer from New York, New York

Mark Dawson — a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $40,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $900 $2,100 $3,800 $3,800
4-day champion: $44,399
$5,100
16 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Todd $900 $1,100 $4,900 $2,199
2nd place: a trip to Shanghai, China
$4,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Becky $1,100 $2,500 $5,100 $399
3rd place: Pinseeker golf clubs
$4,900
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 13 COLONIES BEASTLY MOVIES TOLSTOY'S R US USING YOUR NOODLE LET'S TALK THE NEW YORK TIMESCROSSWORD CLUES "O"
$100 [19]
On April 12, 1776, this future "Tar Heel State" became the first colony to instruct its delegates to vote for independence
North Carolina
Becky
$100 [15]
1988:Sigourney Weaver battles primate poachers
Gorillas in the Mist
Mark Becky
$100 [14]
Our copy of this 1865-69 Tolstoy work is 1,444 pages long
War and Peace
Mark
$100 [1]
You might sit for a spell with this dish that has letters made of noodles
alphabet soup
Mark
$100 [6]
In 1958, this telegram company introduced Telex into the US providing a new system to send & receive messages
Western Union
Becky
$100 [7]
56 down:Woodwind(4)
oboe
Todd
$200 [20]
Its colonial governors included Thomas Lee, Robert Dinwiddie & Nathaniel Bacon
Virginia
$200 [17]
1980:Robert De Niro battles his way to the top of the middleweight boxing world
Raging Bull
Mark
$200 [27]
In 1852, Tolstoy decided to "be all that he could be" & joined this, where he helped defend Sevastopol
the army
Becky
$200 [2]
The name of this dish, invented in America, is Chinese for "fry noodles"
chow mein
Todd
$200 [12]
The 2 forms of dialing mechanisms are tone & this
pulse
Todd
$200 [8]
58 down:Spoken(4)
oral
Todd
$300 [22]
In 1732, the area between the Altamaha & Savannah Rivers was granted to 21 men who founded this colony
Georgia
Mark
$300 [28]
1978:Robert De Niro battles post-Vietnam stress
The Deer Hunter
Mark Todd
$300 [26]
This 1875 epic novel begins, "All happy familes are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion"
Anna Karenina
Todd
$300 [3]
It's a long flat, rectangular Italian pasta or a meat, cheese & sauce layered dish made with it
lasagna
Todd
$300 [13]
Long distance telephone service that crosses state lines comes under the auspices of this federal agency
the FCC
Mark
$300 [9]
45 across:___ Navy (store)(3)
Old
Todd
$400 [23]
Dominated by Quakers, its legislature was reluctant to get involved in its Western Indian wars
Pennsylvania
Todd
$400 [18]
Tolstoy's Christian reform work went too far for some, leading to the church doing this to him in 1901
excommunicating him
Becky
$400 [4]
These Chinese noodles are made from mung-bean flour or seaweed, not clear package wrap
cellophane noodles
Becky
$400 [16]
In 1877, this inventor, not Bell, designed a transmitter for the telephone allowing better clarity & sound
Edison
Todd
$400 [10]
10 down:A must-do(10)
obligation
$500 [24]
This colony was granted to Sir George Carteret who had been lt. governor of one of the Channel Islands
New Jersey
Mark
$500 [25]
1850s Tolstoy novels included "Childhood", "Boyhood" & this, which proverbially "is wasted on the young"
Youth
Mark
$500 [5]
Nissin Foods' 2 big sellers are "Cup Noodles" & "Top" this
Ramen
Mark
DD $700 [21]
The founders of the Bell Telephone Company were Gardiner Hubbard, Thomas Sanders, Bell & this assistant
(Thomas) Watson
Becky
$500 [11]
33 across:Electrician's mantra(3)
ohm
Becky

Double Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITALS LITTLE ROCK BISMARCK NASHVILLE COLUMBIA BOYS' "E"
$200 [11]
This city is home to the Empire State Plaza
Albany
Mark
$200 [12]
A small, flat fragment of rock, perhaps "off the old block"
a chip
Mark
$200 [21]
In 1998, Gerhard Schroder took over this office that Bismarck held for 19 years
the chancellor of Germany
Todd Becky
$200 [10]
The duo The Lynns could sing of being a coal miner's granddaughters, since this singer is their mom
Loretta Lynn
Becky
$200 [6]
Columbia University is the oldest institution of higher learning in this state
New York
Todd
$200 [1]
A growing boy needs this high regard from him"self" as well as from others
esteem
Becky
$400 [14]
It's named for the third president of the U.S.
Jefferson City
Todd
$400 [13]
Rock flour, fine rock particles, shouldn't be confused on your table with halite, rock this
rock salt
Becky
$400 [22]
Logically, the only international gathering over which Bismarck presided was the 1878 Congress of this capital
Berlin
Mark Todd
$600 [28]
A tribute album to this late singer includes Elton John singing "Stand By Your Man"
Tammy Wynette
Mark
$400 [7]
This college for women became affiliated with Columbia in 1889
Barnard
Todd
$400 [2]
The boys in Brooklyn know this treat is made with milk, seltzer & U-bet chocolate syrup
an egg cream
Todd
$600 [15]
While Portland is Maine's main city, this is the capital
Augusta
Todd
$600 [18]
A flat piece of Blanco River, Texas limestone was used to set a 1994 world record of 38 in this activity
stone skipping
Mark
$600 [29]
As a university student, Bismarck was a hellion, reportedly engaging in 25 of these with swords
duels
Becky
$800 [26]
In one of their biggest hits, the Oak Ridge Boys sang that their "heart's on fire" for this girl
Elvira
Todd
$800 [9]
Columbia was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of this English king
George II
Mark Todd
$600 [3]
DWEMs, whose domination of curricula was challenged in the '90s, stands for "dead white" these "males"
European
Todd
$800 [16]
The first capital of the Confederacy, it's nicknamed "The Cradle of the Confederacy"
Montgomery, Alabama
Mark
$800 [19]
Archaeological term for a piece of stone like this one removed from a larger core, the basis of ancient stone toolmaking
a flake
$800 [27]
Bismarck showed off the Prussian military when he provoked this northern country into war over Schleswig-Holstein
Denmark
Mark
$1,000 [25]
As you might gather from their name, the members of this group heardherehail from Texas"I don't know why you do what you do /I'm so in love with you..."
Lonestar
Mark
DD $1,000 [8]
His will established Columbia's graduate school of journalism
Pulitzer
Todd
$800 [4]
Boys & girls were excited by a 2000 Newsweek with an "exclusive" one of these from the new Harry Potter novel
excerpt
$1,000 [17]
Fall River, Massachusetts is part of the metropolitan area of this state capital
Providence
Todd Becky
DD $1,300 [20]
Pebbles called gastroliths are found in this part of a bird that goes through a daily grind
the gizzard
Mark
$1,000 [24]
The 1890 cartoon seenhereshows Bismarck & this man who dismissed him
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Mark
$1,000 [23]
An early trustee of the college was this man, the first Chief Justice of the U.S.
John Jay
Mark
$1,000 [5]
The boys at the boxing gym use equipment from this company, founded in 1910 & once a supplier to Jack Dempsey
Everlast
Todd

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPEAN PRINCESSES

On July 20, 1999 she gave birth to her fourth child, Princess Alexandra of Hanover

Princess Caroline of Monaco

Mark "Who is Princess Anne" — wagered $0
Todd "Who is Princess Anne?" — wagered $2,701
Becky "Who is Sarah Ferguson?" — wagered $4,701

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