Show #3922 2001-09-25 (taped 2001-08-13) Back to School

2001 Back to School Week game 2.

Contestants

Eric Webb — a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas

Aki Terasaki — an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware

Whitney Dearden — an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Whitney $1,700 $2,700 $7,100 $9,100
2nd place: $9,100
$6,900
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Aki $1,300 $1,100 $3,100 $5,700
3rd place: $5,700
$2,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Eric $800 $2,300 $8,600 $12,100
Winner: $12,100
$9,100
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS IT'S A LIVING LET'S CELEBRATE! MARS WHEN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SPEAK & SPELL
$100 [1]
The message "Some pig", spun by a spider, convinces a farmer to save Wilbur in this book
Charlotte's Web
Aki
$100 [6]
Donna Karan, Mossimo
a fashion designer
Eric
$100 [11]
Celebrated on November 11, it honors those who served in our Armed Forces
Veterans Day
Eric
$100 [16]
Because of its hue, Mars is known as this "colorful" planet
red
Eric
$100 [22]
Pat Sajak's was one of the stars temporarily removed from this street during its subway construction
Hollywood Boulevard
$100 [21]
Go north, young person & spell...
Q-U-E-B-E-C
Eric
$300 [3]
The subtitle of this J.R.R. Tolkien novel is "There and Back Again"
The Hobbit
Whitney
$200 [7]
Julia Child, Emeril Lagasse
a chef
Eric
$200 [12]
Holiday celebrated in the parade seen here
St. Patrick's Day
Eric
$200 [17]
In the H.G. Wells novel "War of the Worlds", invading Martians attack this capital city of England
London
Aki
$200 [23]
You can check out the Nixon library in Yorba Linda or this '80s president's library in Simi Valley
Reagan
Eric
$200 [27]
Get onboard & cruise to the spelling of...
Y-A-C-H-T
Eric
$400 [4]
This Philip Pullman series includes "The Golden Compass", "The Subtle Knife" & "The Amber Spyglass"
His Dark Materials
Whitney
$300 [8]
David Blaine, David Copperfield
a magician
Eric
$300 [13]
In 1621 Pilgrims celebrated the first traditional Thanksgiving in this Massachusetts colony
Plymouth
Aki
$300 [18]
Phobos & Deimos are the names of these 2 objects that orbit Mars
moons
Aki
$300 [24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the Page Museum.) The big tooth seenhereis from this ancient relative of the elephant whose name means "big"
a mammoth
Eric
$300 [28]
Brace yourself & spell...
O-R-T-H-O-D-O-N-T-I-A
Aki Eric
DD $500 [2]
Meg Murry finds out that this title phenomenon, also called a tesseract, exists in a Madeleine L'Engle novel
A Wrinkle in Time
Aki
$400 [9]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, William Rehnquist
a justice of the Supreme Court
Eric
$400 [14]
Also known as Shrove Tuesday, this lively celebration is held on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday
Fat Tuesday (or Mardi Gras)
Aki
$400 [19]
Meteorites from Mars have been found on this cold continent at the bottom of the world
Antarctica
Whitney
$400 [25]
This "Eye" network's "Television City" is next to the Farmer's Market
CBS
Eric
$400 [29]
Everyone agrees you can spell...
U-N-A-N-I-M-O-U-S
Whitney Aki
$500 [5]
Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books chronicle the lives of these 3 orphans
the Baudelaires
Whitney
$500 [10]
Jeb Bush, Gray Davis
governors
Eric
$500 [15]
In 1915 President Wilson proclaimed that the second Sunday in May would be this annual holiday
Mother's Day
Whitney
$500 [20]
Olympus Mons, one of these lava-spewing openings in Mars' surface, is over 16 miles high
volcano
Whitney
$500 [26]
Tiffany's, Versace & Chanel are among the names on stores on this famous Beverly Hills street
Rodeo Drive
Whitney
$500 [30]
Get nosy & spell...
A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K
Eric

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SOUND & THE FURRY GOOD SPORTS PEOPLE IN HISTORY QUARTER BACKS THE FIVE SENSES I KNOW IT FORWARD & BACKWARD
$200 [3]
Thisanimal heard here is also called the king of the beasts
a lion
Aki
$200 [12]
This team sport is known as football in most of the world, but we call it this
soccer
Whitney
$200 [18]
In a famous kite experiment, this Statesman proved that lightning is a form of electricity
Benjamin Franklin
Eric
$200 [25]
It's the state featured on the quarter here
New York
Aki
$200 [5]
Bummer, dude! Getting otitis media before a rock concert totally messes up this all-important sense
hearing
Whitney
$200 [1]
Dad's "Other half"
mom
Aki
$400 [4]
"Big bad" beast heard here
a wolf
Eric
$400 [14]
The Indianapolis 500 is one of the major events in this sport
car racing
Whitney
DD $300 [23]
In 1804 this man crowned himself Emperor of France
Napoleon
Eric
$400 [27]
A yellow jessamine, a palmetto tree & a Carolina Wren show off this state's nature
South Carolina
Whitney
$400 [9]
Your tactile sense; it can proverbially be this "& go"
touch
Eric
$400 [2]
When the shadow on your sundial is pointing due north, it's this time
noon
Eric
$600 [6]
Thisbig fella of northern North America is named for its grizzled fur
a grizzly bear
Eric
$600 [13]
This sport involves using a long shaft to swing yourself up & over a crossbar
pole vaulting
Whitney
$400 [19]
One of the first Europeans to reach North America was this son of Eric the Red
Leif Ericson
Whitney
$600 [28]
Seen here this state's quarter features Narragansett Bay
Rhode Island
Whitney
$600 [10]
If you have the "Second" type of this sense, you already knew you'd answer this clue correctly
sight
Whitney
$600 [17]
Craft illustrated here
kayak
Aki Eric
$800 [7]
The African animal heard here, it comes in Mountain & Lowland types
a gorilla
Whitney
$800 [15]
Derek Jeter & Pedro Martinez play this professional sport
baseball
Eric
$600 [22]
Winning a military victory in 47 B.C., this Roman general said, "I came, I saw, I conquered"
(Julius) Caesar
Eric
$800 [29]
The quarter for this state features a race horse; we can't tell if it's standing on bluegrass
Kentucky
Whitney
$800 [11]
You can have a lack of it in fashion, or use chemoreceptor cells to aid it at Chuck E. Cheese's
taste
Whitney
DD $1,000 [20]
Air traffic controllers keep their eyes glued to this screen, following the blips on it
radar
Whitney
$1,000 [8]
Thistype of "Dog" heard here doesn't sound much like rover
a prairie dog
Eric
$1,000 [21]
(Cheryl of the clue crew swings a club on a golf course) On my way to the green I've ended up in this turbulent part of a golf course
the rough
Eric
$1,000 [24]
This 17th century English sea captain gave his name to a large North American bay, a river & a strait
(Henry) Hudson
Eric
$1,000 [30]
Thisstate's Governor Zell Miller selected a peach of a quarter
Georgia
Eric
$1,000 [16]
Use your septum & posterior nares to help get this sense of your surroundings
smell
Aki
$1,000 [26]
Piece of paper that says you own the property
deed
Aki

Final Jeopardy!

POP MUSIC

Selling over 12 million copies, this singer's 1999 album is the bestselling album by a teenage solo artist

Britney Spears

Aki "Who is Britney Spears?" — wagered $2,600
Whitney "Who is Brittney Spears???" — wagered $2,000
Eric "Who is Britney Spears?" — wagered $3,500

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