Show #4082 2002-05-07 (taped 2002-03-24) Million Dollar Masters

2002 Million Dollar Masters quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Babu Srinivasan — a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas

India Cooper — an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York

Robin Carroll — an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robin $3,000 $2,600 $8,800 $5,600
3rd place: $10,000 if eliminated
$5,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
India $2,400 $4,800 $18,200 $18,100
Automatic semifinalist
$14,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Babu $-800 $400 $6,000 $12,000
2nd place: $10,000 if eliminated
$5,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PLAY BALL! FRENCH LIT WELCOME BACK, CARTER COMPOSERS THE NATURAL WORLD THE NEW YORK TIMESCROSSWORD CLUES
$200 [15]
MLB's all-time stolen base leader, in 2001 he also set a record for most career walks
Rickey Henderson
India
$200 [1]
Jean Chapelain's ponderous epic & Voltaire's mock epic, both called "La pucelle", were about this French heroine
Joan of Arc
India
$200 [8]
He was Georgia's governor from 1971 to 1975
Jimmy Carter
India
$200 [9]
In 1863 he became music director of the court balls in Vienna
(Johann) Strauss
India
$200 [2]
These animals are divided into 4 groups: lizards & snakes; turtles; crocodilians; & the tuatara
reptiles
India
$200 [3]
55 down:Flying mammals(4)
bats
Robin
$400 [16]
Last name of brothers Pedro & Ramon, who faced each other on the mound in a 1996 game
Martinez
India Babu
$400 [4]
This book about an adulterous wife named Emma, which some called morally offensive, became a bestseller
Madame Bovary
Robin
$400 [27]
She played Lucy in the Merchant Ivory film "A Room with a View"
Helena Bonham Carter
Robin
$400 [12]
By his death at age 31 in 1828, he'd composed more than 600 lieder including "Ave Maria"
Schubert
India
$400 [20]
Indians prized the Eulachon, also called this kind of "fish", because it was so oily it could be burned like one
a candle
India
$400 [10]
47 down:Indian prince(5)
rajah
India
$800 [18]
Just a week after Roy Campanella's death, the Dodgers lost this Hall of Famer & broadcaster
(Don) Drysdale
Babu
$600 [5]
Serialized in Le Siecle from March to July 1844, it was sold "all for one" price later in the year
3 Musketeers
India
$600 [28]
He was the first to achieve bowling's grand slam
Don Carter
$600 [23]
This composer of the ballet "Rodeo" scored an Oscar for his score from "The Heiress"
Copland
India
$600 [21]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew groups with the troop.) Referring to its hair color, thedominant malein a group of gorillas is called this
a silverback
India
$600 [11]
64 across:Gardener's need(4)
hose
Robin
DD $1,000 [17]
This legend was born in Narrows, Georgia December 18, 1886
Ty Cobb
Babu
$800 [6]
The first volume in this author's 3,000-page novel was 1913's "Du Cote de Chez Swann"
Marcel Proust
Robin Babu
$800 [29]
This archaeologist made a great find in the Valley of the Kings in 1922
Howard Carter
India
$800 [24]
In 1927 the Baldwin Piano Co. sponsored this Hungarian composer's first visit to the U.S.
Béla Bartók
Robin India
$800 [22]
18th C. naturalist Georg Steller described the sea eagle, the sea lion & this slow-moving "sea" beast
the sea cow
India
$800 [13]
43 down:Big citrus fruit(6)
pomelo
$1,000 [19]
In 1993 this one-handed pitcher, then with the Yankees, pitched a no-hitter against the Indians
Jim Abbott
India
$1,000 [7]
This onetime military pilot wrote "Le Petit Prince"
Saint-Exupery
Robin
$1,000 [30]
Jazz vocalist heard here"Don't know why /There's no sun up in the sky /Stormy weather..."
Betty Carter
Babu
$1,000 [25]
He's the French composer of the following
(Erik) Satie
India
$1,000 [26]
The "least" one of these creatures is the smallest member of the order of carnivores
the weasel
$1,000 [14]
52 across:What the queasy rodeo rider didn't feel like(1,7,5)
a million bucks

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLAYBILL THE 1940s GREECE WOMEN IN LABOR 15-LETTER WORDS THE HEADACHES OF MILLIONAIRES
$400 [7]
Playbill exposed the way this show's final scene is tastefully lit during those last few seconds when 6 guys bare all
The Full Monty
Babu
$400 [5]
In 1949 he began his reign over a principality & has served in that capacity ever since
Prince Rainier
India
$400 [17]
Around 1930 Angelos Sikelianos tried to revive the famous festival of this town, "Navel of the World"--didn't work
Delphi
$400 [1]
Flora Tristan, a women's rights & labor activist, was the grand-mere of this artist who painted Tahitians
(Paul) Gauguin
Robin India
$400 [2]
Madeleine Albright or Martina Navratilova, by birth
a Czechoslovakian
Robin Babu
$400 [22]
Take language classes now to fit in during visits to this region stretching from Hyeres, France to La Spezia, Italy
the Riviera
Robin
$800 [14]
What a record! Emanuel Azenberg has produced all of this writer's plays since 1972's "The Sunshine Boys"
Neil Simon
Robin
$800 [6]
The action in this bestselling novel published in 1949 takes place 35 years later
1984
India
$800 [18]
Baron de Coubertin's heart is buried in this city, home to the ancient version of the modern games he founded
Olympia
Robin Babu
$800 [3]
Founded in the early '70s, COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) is for women in this "oldest profession"
prostitutes
India
$800 [4]
A film's director of photography often goes by this title
cinematographer
Robin
$800 [23]
On your next tax form, be prepared for the IRS to take a close look at this, your A.G.I.
adjusted gross income
India
$1,200 [16]
Ellen Burstyn told Playbill she just wanted to wear "sequins like Betty Grable" till this method guru changed her life
(Lee) Strasberg
Babu
$1,200 [9]
One of Alec Guinness's many masterly character portrayals was as this man in 1948's "Oliver Twist"
Fagin
Babu
$1,200 [19]
After docking at this island, Apollo's birthplace, head up the sacred way to the sanctuary of Apollo
Delos
$1,200 [8]
As a lawyer in 1944, Ruth Weyand argued before the Supreme Court; she did it for the NLRB, this group
the National Labor Relations Board
Robin
$1,200 [11]
In 1964 James Garner & Julie Andrews starred in "The" this "of Emily"
Americanization
Babu
$1,200 [24]
Get used to sitting in 1st class & hearing this ex-Enron CEO's wife Linda complain about her finances
Kenneth Lay
Robin
$2,000 [29]
This playwright said that he's "testing the limits of tolerance" with his new play about 4 people & a goat
Edward Albee
India
$1,600 [13]
In 1942, he painted his best-known work, "Nighthawks"
(Edward) Hopper
India
$1,600 [20]
If you love the nightlife & want to boogie, head to Pierros, a bar on this party island of the Cyclades
Mykonos
$1,600 [10]
From 1933 to 1945 she had her work cut out for her as the U.S. Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins
India
$1,600 [27]
From Greek & Latin for "life light", it's the production of light by certain living organisms, like fireflies
bioluminescence
Robin Babu
$2,000 [26]
Because of your enormous wealth, get used to people saying you're "as rich as" this ancient king of Lydia
Croesus
Robin
DD $5,000 [30]
This musical's "American Dream" ended on B'way after 4,097 performances--& a lot of helicopter flights
Miss Saigon
India
$2,000 [15]
In 1940 this Republican lost to FDR in the presidential election
(Wendell) Willkie
India
$2,000 [21]
The Long Walls Pericles built connected Athens with this port city, 4 miles away
Piraeus
$2,000 [12]
Formed in 1896, the Daughters of St. Crispin was a union for women in this trade
shoemaking
Babu
$2,000 [28]
It's the biblical event depicted in the painting seen here
The Transfiguration
Robin India
DD $5,000 [25]
Visit Monte Carlo & you'll be expected to bet big playing this game from which chemin de fer is derived
baccarat
Robin

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

The 2 Best Picture nominees for 1983 that featured astronaut characters

The Right Stuff & Terms of Endearment

Babu "What are The Right Stuff & Terms of Endearment?" — wagered $6,000
Robin "What are E.T. and Apollo 13?" — wagered $3,200
India "What are Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff?" — wagered $100

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