Show #4441 2003-12-22 (taped 2003-10-22) Regular

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Contestants

Tom Underwood — an attorney from Haddon Heights, New Jersey

James Meyers — a student-teacher from Kingston, New York

Erika Rogers — a bartender from Indianapolis, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Erika	$3,000	$5,000	$16,600	$15,599 3-day champion: $40,599	$16,600 20 R, 0 W
James	$1,200	$2,600	$200	$200 3rd place: $1,000	$1,400 7 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Tom	$1,200	$2,800	$8,800	$600 2nd place: $2,000	$10,600 16 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

BIOLO"G"	SINGERS ALSO KNOWN AS	PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES	AMERICAN WOMEN	TEST YOUR SNOW HOW	WORD HISTORY
$200 [8] These line up in single file on chromosomes genes Tom	$200 [1] This stage name of Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis may "dawn" on you Tony Orlando James	$200 [23] Bill Mauldin in 1945 & 1959 Cartooning James	$200 [6] In 2002 the people of this state said Aloha as they welcomed Linda Lingle, their first woman Governor Hawaii Erika	$200 [13] One of these Inuit dwellings can be made out of sod or wood, as well as snow an igloo Tom	$200 [7] Logically enough, it combines a word meaning "child" & old criminal slang for "to steal" kidnap James
$400 [9] Types of these include sweat & endocrine glands Erika	$400 [2] This R & B diva's real last name is Arnold, not Lewinsky Monica Erika	$400 [24] Joe Rosenthal in 1945 for work done on Iwo Jima Photography Tom	$400 [19] It wasn't Mel Brooks' wife but another woman named this who was the first to cross the ice to the North Pole Ann Bancroft Tom	$400 [14] For a snowstorm to be called one of these, it must have winds higher than 32 mph for 3 hours or longer a blizzard Erika	$400 [10] The Pentagon drafted this word meaning "fix firmly" for a program of linking reporters with combat units embed Tom
$600 [16] In animals that give birth to live young, it's the term for the period between conception & birth gestation Erika	$600 [3] Bill Robinson the dancer was known as "Bojangles"; Bill Robinson the singer is nicknamed this (what a "Miracle"!) Smokey Robinson Erika	$600 [25] Robert Lowell in 1947 & 1974 Poetry James	$600 [20] She painted "Hoosick River, Summer, 1952", seen here, when she was in her 90s Grandma Moses Erika	$600 [26] Around 1800 Barry, a dog of this breed, saved more than 40 people trapped in the snow in the Swiss Alps St. Bernard Tom	$600 [11] It was coined in 1854 after "marine vivarium" proved unsatisfactory aquarium Tom
$800 [17] The name of this colorful nerve tissue of the brain is also slang for the intellect gray matter Erika	$800 [4] No kidding, this rapper-singer's real name is Bob Ritchie Kid Rock Tom	$800 [29] Samuel Barber in 1958 & 1963 Music	DD $600 [22] Born in 1821, she's the only woman in modern history to have founded a major religion Mary Baker Eddy Tom	$800 [27] (Video of Sofia in Squaw Valley, CA) Most snowflakes are basically symmetrical, and have this many sides 6	$800 [12] If you believe in nothing, you may be attracted to this philosophy, from the Latin for "nothing" nihilism James
$1,000 [18] The pancreas produces this hormone that regulates the amount of glucose in the blood glucagon	$1,000 [5] "If I had a hammer", I'd hammer out his full first name: it's Trinidad Trini Lopez Tom	$1,000 [30] David McCullough, twice Biography	$800 [21] After her daughter was killed by an inebriated motorist, Candy Lightner founded this organization MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) Tom	$1,000 [28] This hare with a white winter coat is named for its large feet that help it get around in winter snow the snowshoe hare James	$1,000 [15] The name of the go-between for Troilus & Cressida evolved into this word meaning "to cater to low tastes" pander Erika

Double Jeopardy! Round

GRENADA	ROBIN WILLIAMS ROLES	MEN ON SKIS	___ & ___	HEIR RAISING	NOVELS
$400 [6] Those who enjoy this activity can see the wreckage of the ocean liner Bianca C, which sank off Grenada in 1961 scuba diving Erika	$400 [1] Peter Banning aka Peter Pan Hook Tom	$400 [10] (Video of Sofia in Squaw Valley, California.) In 1960, at Squaw Valley, Jean Vuarnet became the first man to win Olympic gold on skis made of this, not wood metal Tom	$400 [14] Food term also meaning one's basic means of support bread & butter Erika	$400 [11] The eldest son of Queen Beatrix, Willem-Alexander is the heir to the throne of this Low Country The Netherlands Erika	$400 [7] In this novel, Ishmael's roommate aboard the Pequod is a Polynesian prince named Queequeg Moby-Dick Tom
$800 [18] You can study this at St. George's University, like the nearly 650 American students rescued by the 1983 invasion medicine Tom	$800 [2] DJ Adrian Cronauer Good Morning, Vietnam Erika	DD $1,200 [30] At the Battle of Suomussalmi in December 1939, this country's ski troops dealt the Russians a shocking defeat Finland James	$800 [15] The Amish dress in a plain style, using these 2-piece fasteners, not buttons hook & eye Tom	$800 [22] DNA helped prove Anna Manahan was not this Russian heiress as she claimed Anastasia Erika	$800 [8] This title character in a Dickens novel receives a gunshot wound during a burglary with Bill Sikes Oliver Twist Erika
$1,200 [19] On the left of Grenada's flag, seen here, is this spice, for which the country is famous nutmeg	$1,200 [3] Prep school English teacher John Keating Dead Poets Society Tom	$1,200 [29] (Video of Sarah in the Sierra Nevadas.) For 20 years in the mid-1800s, John Thompson skied over the Sierra Nevadas, a 3-day journey, to do this for the government deliver mail James	DD $1,200 [16] In early English law, it was pursuit of an offender with loud shouts of alarm hue & cry Tom	$1,200 [24] This 12th century Duchess of Aquitaine gave England an heir in her son, Richard the Lion-Hearted Eleanor Erika	$1,200 [9] On the island of Glubbdubdrib, a sorcerer showed him apparitions of Hannibal & others with whom he talked Gulliver James
$1,600 [20] Carriacou, part of Grenada, is the largest of this group of 600 of the Windward Islands the Grenadines	$1,600 [4] Therapist Sean McGuire Good Will Hunting James	$1,600 [27] This 3-time Olympic gold medalist from Bologna says his weaknesses are wine, women & tortellini Alberto Tomba Erika	$1,600 [17] In Genesis 3 God said, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know" these good & evil	$1,600 [25] With no male heir, Julius Caesar adopted this grandnephew who later became Emperor Augustus Erika	$1,600 [12] It's Claude Frollo's profession in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" a priest Erika
$2,000 [21] Columbus reached Grenada in 1498, but this fierce tribe kept colonizers away until 1650 the Carib James	$2,000 [5] Sax player Vladimir Ivanoff Moscow on the Hudson Tom	$2,000 [28] (Video of Sofia in Squaw Valley, California.) This maker of skiing films taught skiing here at Squaw Valley, back when it had just one chair lift Warren Miller	$2,000 [23] The origins of tap lie in this dance created by 19th century African Americans the buck & wing	$2,000 [26] The 843 A.D. Treaty of Verdun divided this great Frankish king's empire among 3 grandsons Charlemagne Tom	$2,000 [13] In an 1894 Mark Twain novel, it's the nickname the townsfolk gave to eccentric lawyer David Wilson Pudd'nhead Erika

Final Jeopardy!

FRUIT

Its name is from the Portuguese for "goblin", referring to the facelike appearance of its 3 depressions

the coconut

James "What is the coconut?" — wagered $0

Tom "What is avocado?" — wagered $8,200

Erika "What iscasaba?" — wagered $1,001

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