Show #4446 2003-12-29 (taped 2003-10-28) Regular

Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.

Contestants

Riki Swanson — an economist from Arlington, Virginia

Chris Stansfield — a bartender from New York, New York

John Salmon — a computer programmer from Altadena, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $31,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $1,400 $5,600 $8,800 $6,401
2nd place: $2,000
$9,000
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $3,000 $5,400 $13,400 $21,400
New champion: $21,400
$15,400
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Riki $2,600 $3,200 $10,200 $2,200
3rd place: $1,000
$8,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ROBERT E. LEE TELEVISION & THE '60s WHIRLED CAPITALS AIRLINE CARRY-ON NO-NOs KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES WHAT THE "L"?!
$200 [26]
In 1829 Robert E. Lee graduated second in his class from this academy
West Point
Chris
$200 [3]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Kauai, Hawaii.) On November 22, 1963, while making the pilot for this Bob Denver series here on Kauai, the cast learned that JFK had been shot
Gilligan's Island
Chris
$200 [1]
NON OLD
London
Riki
$200 [12]
Metal ones with pointed tips are a no-no; the blunt plastic pairs used by kids are okay
scissors
John
$200 [14]
The phrase "I have not yet begun to fight" has been attributed to this man
John Paul Jones
John
$200 [19]
The 36 columns of his memorial represent the number of U.S. states at the time of his assassination
Lincoln
Riki
DD $200 [29]
The Virginia house & surrounding grounds where Lee once lived became this hallowed site
Arlington National Cemetery
John
$400 [4]
By the time this series ended, it was set in the '60s & The Fonz had become Dean of Boys at a high school
Happy Days
Chris
$400 [2]
IN VANE
Vienna
John
$400 [9]
Even Cupid can't carry on these tools of his trade
arrows
Riki
$400 [16]
(Hey y'all, this is Darryl Worley.) When I was in college, my band sang the songs of this man, the "Rolls Royce of Country singers"
George Jones
Riki
$400 [15]
There's one "of Bagger Vance" & one "of Sleepy Hollow"
legend
Chris
$400 [27]
In 1859 Lee commanded a group of Marines who were called in to capture this man at Harpers Ferry
John Brown
Chris
$600 [5]
Barbara Walters started out as a writer on this morning show in 1961, eventually working her way up to co-host
Today
Chris
$600 [8]
I RASP
Paris
John
$600 [21]
Meat cleavers--no, hammers--no, this invention of Alfred Nobel--really no!
dynamite
John
$600 [13]
This model played May Day in "A View to a Kill"
Grace Jones
Chris
$600 [20]
This 3-letter- named car of the 1920s sounds like a psychedelic drug from the hippie era
LSD
John
$600 [28]
The detail of Lee seenhereis from this monumental landmark in Georgia
Stone Mountain
John
$800 [6]
Debuting in 1966, this Marlo Thomas sitcom paved the way for other shows about independent career women
That Girl
Chris
$800 [10]
APE RUG
Prague
$800 [23]
Screwdrivers are a no-no, except as part of a repair kit for these
eyeglasses
John
$800 [17]
A biography of this labor organizer called her "The Miner's Angel"
Mother Jones
Chris
$800 [22]
You'll find Texas Tech in this Texas town
Lubbock
John
$1,000 [30]
In the photo seen here, Lee is sitting astride this beloved horse
Traveler
$1,000 [7]
A Red Cross worker named Cherry White was killed in the 1968 Tet Offensive on a 1989 episode of this series
China Beach
Riki
$1,000 [11]
IN SILK, EH?
Helsinki
Riki
$1,000 [24]
On your mark... get set... no! for this sporting device
a starter's pistol
Chris
$1,000 [18]
His novels include "The Thin Red Line" & "From Here to Eternity"
James Jones
$1,000 [25]
Atomic number 103, this short-lived element is named for the physicist who built the machine that first produced it
Lawrencium
John

Double Jeopardy! Round

INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS SONGS FROM MUSICALS THE UNITED NATIONS LET ME HAVE YOUR ADDRESS WOMEN AUTHORS ALLITERATION
$400 [6]
To teach everyone about everything Pierre Larousse published a 17-volume combined dictionary & this
an encyclopedia
John
$400 [1]
"Cell Block Tango" &"All That Jazz"
Chicago
Riki
$400 [12]
The U.N. delegates' dining room offers international cuisine (naturally) & views of this river
the East River
John Chris
$400 [17]
When chatting with Queen Elizabeth, you can just use "Ma'am" after calling her this once
Your Majesty
John Riki
$400 [21]
Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska is one of the most famous modern poets in this language
Polish
Chris
$400 [26]
These edibles are the best part of some parties--mmm, here comes the stuffed mushroom lady
finger food
Chris Riki
$800 [7]
Cryptologists don't break into crypts, they devise & break these
codes
Chris
$800 [2]
"I Won't Grow Up" &"I'm Flying"
Peter Pan
Chris
$800 [11]
In 2003 its docket included a frontier dispute between Benin & Niger
the World Court
Chris
$800 [16]
To address a Marquess, George Harrison would have said this (& he didn't need the "sweet")
My Lord
Riki
$800 [22]
In "Northanger Abbey" she wrote that in novels "the greatest powers of the mind are displayed"
Jane Austen
Riki
$800 [27]
(Video of Sarah in Squaw Valley, California.) Seasonal term for what I'm doing; good thing there's still snow on the mountain
spring skiing
Chris
$1,200 [8]
A popular superstring theory says there are 10 of these, including time
dimensions
John
$1,200 [3]
"If Ever I Would Leave You" &"I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight"
Camelot
Chris
$1,200 [13]
The Security Council's Rule of "Great Power Unanimity" means 5 nations have this on substantive matters
veto power
Chris
$1,200 [18]
If Hillary Clinton becomes President, she'd be addressed this way when you talk to her
Madam President
Chris
$1,600 [24]
The author of "Ramona" had this name, like a current actress, before marrying William Jackson
Helen Hunt
$1,200 [28]
As opposed to the trade type, it's a roughly 4x7 paperback sold in drugstores & airports
mass market
Riki
$1,600 [9]
Around 400 B.C. Indian grammarian Panini compiled the grammar of this language
Sanskrit
Chris
DD $2,000 [4]
"The King of Broadway" &"In Old Bavaria"
The Producers
Chris
$1,600 [14]
A member of the U.N. system, it's the international agency symbolized here
the International Atomic Energy Agency
John
$1,600 [19]
Writing to anyone in the military, it's rank, full name, comma, then the abbreviation for this
branch of service
John Chris
$2,000 [25]
Her stories, in collections like "Friend of My Youth", often concern women of small-town Canada
Alice Munro
$1,600 [29]
Term for the animals seen here, it's mispronounced in a memorable "Honeymooners" episode
polo ponies
John
$2,000 [10]
The theoretical radiation emitted by these is called Hawking Radiation after physicist Stephen, who proposed it
black holes
John
$2,000 [5]
"Big Spender" &"If My Friends Could See Me Now"
Sweet Charity
Chris
$2,000 [15]
U.N. mediation helped create the 1992 peace accord between the FMLN & this country's government
El Salvador
John Riki
$2,000 [20]
If you take a bead on an Archdeacon you can refer to him as this, like Bede
Venerable
Riki
DD $3,000 [23]
Existentialism pervades the work of this Parisian woman who died in 1986
Simone De Beauvoir
Riki
$2,000 [30]
Another name for the game of skipping stones, from the stones' resemblance to skipping waterfowl
ducks and drakes

Final Jeopardy!

FOODSTUFFS

A plant called this accompanies sushi & also the Passover seder

horseradish

John "What is nori?" — wagered $2,399
Riki "What is ginger?" — wagered $8,000
Chris "What is horseradish?" — wagered $8,000

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