Show #4440 2003-12-19 (taped 2003-10-21) Regular

Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.

Contestants

Kathleen Mainhart — an assistant professor of education from Brookfield, Connecticut

Christian Maher — a consultant from Erie, Pennsylvania

Erika Rogers — a bartender from Indianapolis, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Erika $3,200 $7,800 $17,000 $15,000
2-day champion: $25,000
$17,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Christian $1,400 $2,800 $-800 $-800
3rd place: $1,000
$-800
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Kathleen $600 $600 $600 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$600
5 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRY TURKEY CHINA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CUBA "ICE"LAND
$200 [6]
In October 2002 this late rocker's "30 #1 Hits" CD debuted at the top of the country charts
Elvis Presley
Christian
$200 [1]
This Founding Father & publisher recommended the turkey for our national symbol as a "much more respectable bird"
Benjamin Franklin
Erika
$200 [11]
2 of these weapons, blue & crossed, are the mark of the fine china of Meissen, Germany
swords
Christian
$200 [26]
The name of this central African republic comes from camaroes, a Portuguese word for the prawns found there
Cameroon
Erika
$200 [16]
Show us you know that Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar for his role in this film
Jerry Maguire
Erika
$200 [17]
It can be poetic or driver's
license
Erika
$400 [7]
This singer seenherewas given the first & middle names Loretta Lynn, but she's not named for that singer
Lorrie Morgan
Christian
$400 [2]
This characteristic gurgling sound of male turkeys can also mean to eat food quickly & greedily
gobble
Erika
$400 [12]
The logo of this British china maker founded in 1759 is seen here
Wedgwood
Christian
$400 [27]
Kampala is the bustling capital city of this central African republic of about 20 million
Uganda
Christian
$400 [22]
Roger Moore once suggested that Cuba Gooding Jr. be the next choice to play this franchise character
James Bond
Christian
$400 [18]
To repeat an action in order to get better at it
practice
Erika
$600 [8]
He won a 1967 Grammy for "Gentle on My Mind", which later became the theme song to his TV series
Glen Campbell
$600 [3]
The "Joy of Cooking" suggests doing this to the turkey every 30 minutes with butter or pan drippings
basting
Kathleen
$600 [13]
Introduced in 1962, a Royal Albert design featuring these flowers has sold over 100 million pieces
roses
Erika
$600 [28]
Niamey is the capital city of this republic that shares its name with Africa's third-longest river
Niger
Erika
$600 [23]
Cuba's first big screen role was in this 1988 film starring Eddie Murphy as a transplanted African prince
Coming to America
Erika
$600 [19]
Flavored with the root of a Eurasian plant, chewy candy often made in black strips
licorice
Christian
$800 [9]
"I Cross My Heart" & "Heartland" were No. 1 singles from his 1992 film "Pure Country", in which he played a Country singer
George Strait
Erika Christian
$800 [4]
Roast turkey & all the trimmings was on the menu when these 2 men touched down on the Moon in 1969
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Erika
$800 [14]
Fine china is vitrified, meaning the silica in it turns to this material when fired
glass
Christian
$800 [29]
The southernmost section of this largest African country stretches into the heart of central Africa
the Sudan
$800 [24]
In 1997 this magazine chose Cuba as one of its "50 Most Beautiful"
People
Erika
$800 [20]
A Colonel or a Major, but not a private
officer
Erika
$1,000 [10]
(Hello there, this is George Jones.) This song, my first number one hit, was written by The Big Bopper & is another slang term for moonshine
"White Lightning"
Erika
$1,000 [5]
It's the muscular digestive organ a turkey uses to grind its food; who wants it?
the gizzard
Erika
DD $1,000 [15]
A high-quality type of china is made from these parts of animals, reduced to ash
bones
Christian
$1,000 [30]
This central African republic's old national flag was a red, yellow & green tricolor with an "R" in the middle
Rwanda
$1,000 [25]
In a 1995 TV movie Cuba soared with this first squadron of black combat pilots
the Tuskegee Airmen
Erika
$1,000 [21]
To attract or lure by arousing desire
entice
Erika

Double Jeopardy! Round

WRITERS' RELATIVES TAKE MY FIRST WIFE... PLEASE! AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH DO THE MATH QUOTES ABOUT 3 THINGS IT'S CAPITALIZED
$400 [7]
Heading it in the 1930s, her father Eugene was the second president of the Atlanta Historical Society
Margaret Mitchell
Christian
$400 [6]
Josephine de Beauharnais
Napoleon
Erika
$400 [12]
In Japan the inner bark fibers of the Broussonetia papyrifera are used to make this, as its name suggests
paper
Erika Kathleen
$400 [21]
On the keypad, the digits in the phone numberAAA-AAAAadd up to this
14
Erika Kathleen
$400 [22]
You wander upstairs, downstairs & in your lady's chamber if you're this nursery rhyme character
Goosey Goosey Gander
Erika
$400 [1]
This word when it precedes "of Buena Vista" (in 1847) or "of Lake Erie" (in 1813)
Battle
Christian
$800 [8]
He was grandpapa to actresses Margaux & Mariel
Ernest Hemingway
Erika
$800 [17]
Bianca Perez Morena de Macias
Mick Jagger
Erika
$800 [13]
The Morus multicaulis species of mulberry is fed to these insects important to China's textile industry
silkworms
Erika
$1,600 [28]
You'll pay this much to stay in a $200-a-night hotel suite for all of February 2004
$5,800
Erika Christian
$800 [23]
It's what Elizabeth Barrett Browning did "to the depth and breadth and height" her soul could reach
love
Erika
$800 [2]
A registered one of these; Spam is one of Hormel Foods Corporation
trademarks
Christian
$1,200 [9]
In 1914 she trekked to east Africa to marry her cousin, a baron named Bror
Isak Dinesen
Kathleen
$1,200 [18]
Jane Wyman
Ronald Reagan
Kathleen
$1,200 [14]
In 1787 William Bligh was commissioned to transport this type of mulberry tree from Tahiti to the West Indies
breadfruit
$2,000 [27]
(Video of Jimmy at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY.) The Kentucky Derby is a mile and a quarter race run on a mile oval, so the start and finish line are this many feet apart
1,320
$1,200 [24]
They're the 3 things poet Edward Fitzgerald put with "a book of verses underneath the bough"
a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou
$1,200 [3]
Sacred books like this, the Hebrew name for the first 5 books of the Bible
the Torah
Erika Christian
$1,600 [10]
His father Donald, a Marine Colonel, took his nickname the "Great Santini" from an aerial acrobat he once saw
Pat Conroy
$1,600 [19]
Khadijah, a rich older widow
Muhammad
Kathleen
$1,600 [15]
Black mulberries are used in winemaking; female flowers of this mulberry plant are used to brew beer
hops
Erika
$1,600 [25]
The first witch in "Macbeth" wondered if her group would meet again in 1 of these 3 choices
thunder, lightning or in rain
$1,600 [4]
The names of these "related" biological groups that come between order & genus
families
Christian
$2,000 [11]
Name of the father, an English Poet Laureate, whose son Daniel starred in "In the Name of the Father"
Cecil Day-Lewis
Christian
$2,000 [20]
Alice Hathaway Lee, but she wouldn't live to be First Lady
Theodore Roosevelt
Christian Kathleen
DD $2,000 [16]
This plant, Ficus elastica, was once the most popular of house plants; in the jungle it can grow to a height of 100 feet
the rubber tree plant
Erika
DD $2,000 [26]
Attributed to Martin Luther is "Who loves not these 3 things remains a fool his whole life long"
wine, women and song
Erika
$2,000 [5]
In addresses, Street, Road & this word from the French for "to approach"
Avenue
Kathleen

Final Jeopardy!

TELEVISION

In Spring 2003 episodes of these 2 dramas invoked the little-used 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

The West Wing & 24

Kathleen "What are Law and Order and The Practice?" — wagered $600
Erika "What is The West Wing & ?" — wagered $2,000

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