Show #4409 2003-11-06 (taped 2003-08-20) Regular

Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.

Contestants

Michele Liguori — an applications engineer and technical trainer from Maynard, Massachusetts

Julie Harris — a news librarian from Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Chuck Ladd — a project manager from Raleigh, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chuck $1,600 $5,800 $10,000 $20,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Julie $1,000 $1,600 $8,800 $17,600
3rd place: $1,000
$6,400
9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Michele $4,400 $3,800 $15,000 $20,001
New champion: $20,001
$15,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FLIGHTLESS BIRDS TRACK & FIELD WHO WAS THE PREZ WHEN... BAR HOPPING 15 MINUTES OF FAME WORD "UP"
$200 [4]
Nearly half of the height of this largest living bird is neck
the ostrich
Michele
$200 [26]
From 1964 to 1999, the women's record in this event was lowered from about 3-1/2 hours to under 2-1/2 hours
the marathon
Chuck
$200 [21]
...the Berlin airlift resupplied a Soviet-blocked West Berlin
Harry Truman
Chuck
$200 [3]
This mill byproduct lies around on the floor of The Red Dog Saloon in Juneau, Alaska
sawdust
Michele
$200 [2]
Stella Liebeck won damages from McDonald's after she was injured by this product
coffee
Julie
$200 [1]
In a beauty pageant, it's the person who comes in second
the runner-up
Julie
$400 [5]
One species of this flightless bird lives at the Equator on the Galapagos Islands; other species live in Antarctica
the penguin
Michele
$400 [27]
In 1990 Randy Barnes set this record at 75 feet, 10-1/4 inches; as of 2003 the record stands
the shot put
$400 [22]
...the Beatles appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
Lyndon Johnson
Chuck
$400 [17]
New York City's best-known of these illicit '20s establishments was Jack & Charlie's 21 on 52nd Street
speakeasies
Chuck
$400 [9]
Of Mouse, Moose, Meese or Grunwald, the Maryland Police Chief prominent in the 2002 sniper hunt
Moose
Michele
$400 [13]
Descriptive name for how the food seenherewas prepared
sunny side up
Michele
$600 [6]
The New Zealand government has passed laws to protect this national symbol & prevent its export
the kiwi
Chuck
$600 [28]
This country's runner Haile Gebrselassie was the Track & Field News Athlete of the Year in 1995 & 1998
Ethiopia
Chuck Michele
$600 [23]
...Three Mile Island's nuclear reactor No. 2 went kerflooey
Jimmy Carter
Chuck
$600 [18]
This type of "mill", slang for a bar, is also the name of a popular bar in Albuquerque
a gin mill
Julie
$600 [10]
Soon after doing this July 28, 2000, optical networks company Corvis, with no revenues, was more valuable than GM
going public (Initial Public Offering)?
Michele
$600 [14]
Neil Sedaka said this "is hard to do"
Breaking Up
Julie
$800 [7]
Now extinct, this native of Mauritius is a character in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
the dodo
Michele
$800 [29]
In July 1999 Tomas Dvorak set a world record in this event with a total of 8,994 points
the decathlon
$800 [24]
...Neil & Buzz strolled across the Sea of Tranquility
Richard Nixon
Chuck
$800 [19]
What's billed as the USA's first of these places to quaff Medocs & Tokays is on Sansome Street in San Francisco
a wine bar
DD $600 [12]
Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahaf, Saddam's Minister of this, gained fame with quotes like "We have them surrounded"
Information
Michele
$800 [15]
In 2001 Rick Baker & Gail Ryan won Oscars in this category for "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
makeup
Michele
$1,000 [8]
Australia's national bird, it has been hunted to scarcity because it's destructive to crops
the emu
$1,000 [30]
This Ukrainian pole vaulter was No. 1 for 11 straight years--a record for any track & field event
Sergei Bubka
$1,000 [25]
...the War of 1812 was fought in the U.S.
James Madison
Chuck Julie
$1,000 [20]
Freedom fighters & regular drunks have gathered at the venerable Brazen Head, on the Liffey in this city
Dublin
Julie
$800 [11]
He co-hosted the first season of "American Idol" with Ryan Seacrest
Brian Dunkleman
$1,000 [16]
A delay, or an armed robbery
hold-up
Chuck

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHERE AM I? CELEBRITY WINEMAKERS 2003 NEWS SPECIAL DAYS POE-POURRI WEBSTER'S 1806 DICTIONARY
$400 [2]
(Video of Sarah.) I'm in this "Biggest Little City in the World," celebrating its centennial in 2003
Reno, Nevada
Chuck
$400 [11]
This director is "The Godfather" of celebrity winemakers
Francis Ford Coppola
Chuck
$400 [21]
This name was abolished & replaced by "Serbia & Montenegro", its 2 remaining republics
Yugoslavia
Michele
$400 [16]
In 2002 Easter fell on the fifth Sunday in March, so the fourth Sunday in March was this
Palm Sunday
Michele
$400 [1]
Poe called this title maiden "My darling--my life and my bride"
Annabel Lee
Chuck
$400 [22]
It's "a quadruped remarkable for its smell"
a skunk
Chuck
$800 [3]
(Video of Jimmy swinging a baseball bat.) I'm in this city, swinging one of its signature products
Louisville, Kentucky
Michele
$800 [12]
You can buy coonskin bottle toppers at the winery owned by this man, TV's Davy Crockett
Fess Parker
Chuck
$800 [23]
In a long-awaited decision on this univ.'s Affirmative Action policies, the Supreme Court said...some are OK, some aren't
the University of Michigan
Chuck
$800 [17]
In the U.S., Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May & Father's Day is this
the third Sunday in June
Julie Michele
$1,200 [8]
The raven perched on a bust of this Greek goddess "just above my chamber door"
Athena
Michele
$2,000 [27]
A tiringroom is used by actors to do this in
change
Michele
$1,200 [4]
(Video of Cheryl & Jimmy at Grambling State University.) We're in this southern state, home of the world famed Tiger Marching Band
Louisiana
$1,200 [13]
Find out about this golfer's wines at www.shark.com
Greg Norman
Michele
DD $1,000 [24]
The design selected for the World Trade Center site included a tower of this symbolic height
1,776 feet
Chuck
$1,200 [18]
The 19th season of "Jeopardy!" premiered on this day, but we didn't have to work
Labor Day
Michele
$1,600 [9]
The title of this 1843 story refers to a scarab beetle with a death's head marking
"The Gold Bug"
Julie
$1,600 [5]
(Video of Sarah.) I'm in this L.A. area that gave its name to the towers behind me
Watts
Julie
$1,600 [14]
This Italian-American racing legend has a Napa Valley winery & a wine club called The Winner's Circle
Mario Andretti
Michele
$1,600 [25]
Happily, this abducted Utah teen was found & reunited with her family
Elizabeth Smart
Michele
$1,600 [19]
The U.S. Supreme Court's term begins on it
the first Monday in October
$2,000 [10]
This detective appears in "The Mystery of Marie Roget" & "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Auguste Dupin
Chuck
$2,000 [6]
(Video of Sofia in a boat.) I'm just off this New England city, looking at its Head Light, one of the USA's oldest operating lighthouses
Portland, Maine
$2,000 [15]
This French actor who starred in "Cyrano de Bergerac" produces a wine called Cuvee Cyrano
Gerard Depardieu
Michele
$2,000 [26]
Last winter he drifted into the job of Treasury Secretary
John Snow
Michele
$2,000 [20]
For most of the U.S., in 1971 Memorial Day moved from this set day to the last Monday in May
May 30
DD $3,200 [7]
One of the title objects in this Poe story had a "terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet or more)"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"?
Julie

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE HISTORY

It's the simple 6-letter name of the journal that published the 1953 paper revealing the structure of DNA

Nature

Julie "What is "Nature"?" — wagered $8,800
Chuck "What is "Nature"?" — wagered $10,000
Michele "What is "Nature"?" — wagered $5,001

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