Show #4914 2006-01-12 (taped 2005-10-26) Regular

Kevin Marshall game 3.(Sarah: Don't pull your ripcord yet! We've got plenty of adrenaline-pumping clues with theGolden Knightsnext onJeopardy!)

Contestants

Jesse Liu — a grad student from Boston, Massachusetts

Kerri Griffith — an editor from New York, New York

Kevin Marshall — a student from Metairie, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $1,200 $3,200 $14,600 $29,200
3-day champion: $56,801
$11,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Kerri $3,200 $7,200 $23,000 $15,799
2nd place: $2,000
$21,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jesse $0 $0 $6,800 $6,800
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WEATHER EASILY IMITATED PARACHUTING WITH THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS THE U.S. CONGRESS FAMOUS FOLKS HIDDEN COUNTRIES
$200 [1]
The highest low temperature of any U.S. state is the 12 degrees F. recorded in this state on May 17, 1979
Hawaii
Jesse
$200 [16]
"You're despicable!"
Daffy Duck
Kevin Jesse
$200 [22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Fort Bragg, NC, holding a parachute.) Packing of all reserve chutes in the United States, even those used by the Army's Golden Knights, is overseen by this federal organization
the FAA
Kerri
$200 [17]
Each member of the House of Representatives represents one of these territorial divisions of a state
a congressional district
Kerri
$200 [7]
Shewas still a teenager when Howard Hughes discoveredherin 1940
Jane Russell
Kerri
$200 [3]
I go to the spa in the nude
Spain (in spa in )
Kevin
$400 [2]
On a weather map, 3 horizontal & parallel lines indicate this weather condition
fog
Jesse
$400 [18]
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"
Groucho Marx
Kerri
$400 [23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds open a parachute at Fort Bragg, NC.) Though they may still say "hit the silk", the Golden Knights use a ripstop version of this synthetic fabric, created by Dupont in the '30s
nylon
Kevin
$400 [24]
She was the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress
Elizabeth II
Kerri Jesse
$400 [8]
In 1976, this high-flying woman was simply gym-dandy
Nadia Comaneci
Jesse
$400 [11]
Chair and table
Iran (in cha ir an d)
Kevin Kerri
$600 [4]
The Fujita scale that ranks the intensity of these goes from F-0 on up; an F-5 has wind speeds exceeding 261 mph
a tornado
Kevin Jesse
$600 [19]
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
Humphrey Bogart
Kerri
$600 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a parachute at Fort Bragg, NC.) Also found on cars, when these steering lines are used dually, they slow the parachute; singly, they allow turning
brakes
$600 [25]
We swear, the very first law passed by Congress concerned how these pledges were to be made
oaths of office
Kerri Jesse
$600 [9]
He's the famous Russian seenherein 1961
Yuri Gagarin
Jesse
$600 [12]
Hype rubber chickens
Peru (in Hy pe ru bber)
Kerri
$800 [5]
Sadly, in 2005 many learned this alliterative 2-word term for a rise in sea level accompanying fierce winds
storm surge
Kevin
$800 [20]
"I'm lookin' at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it"
John Wayne
Kerri
$800 [29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a runway at Fort Bragg, NC.) The Army employs two jumping methods: a static line in which the jumper is tethered to the plane, & this style, reminiscent of a Tom Petty tune
freefalling
Kerri
$800 [26]
Frustrated with his own political party, in 2001 this senator from Vermont switched to indepedent
Jeffords
Kevin
DD $1,000 [10]
Before her time as a First Lady, this woman was a radio & film actress
Eva Peron
Jesse
$800 [13]
I've been through analysis
Ghana (in throu gh ana lysis)
Jesse
$1,000 [6]
This type of weather radar calculates the speed & direction of a weather system
Doppler
Kerri
$1,000 [21]
"You're the man now, dog!"
Sean Connery
$1,000 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew prepares to jump from an aircraft at Fort Bragg, NC.) Beginning parachuters usually jump with a partner, referred to as this term from the Latin for "at length"
tandem
Kerri
$1,000 [27]
Former senators are allowed back on the Senate floor, but they're restricted from doing this the first year out of office
lobbying
Kevin
$1,000 [15]
He's the World War I military leader & member of royalty seen here
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kerri
$1,000 [14]
Hug and accept it
Uganda (in H ug and a ccept)
Kerri

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR ED-UCATION CHINESE REGIONAL CAPITALS NEW -OLOGIES NOTIFY NEXT OF "KIN"
$400 [1]
George Custer was wounded only once during the war but had 11 of these killed under him
horses
Kerri
$400 [16]
The 2005-2006 TV season marks this famous Ed's 25th year on "60 Minutes"
Ed Bradley
Kevin
$400 [18]
This city is the capital of the high-altitude autonomous region that until 1965 was its own country
Lhasa
Kevin
$400 [2]
"Green Coca-Cola Bottles" (1962) & other pieces of pop art are part of this science
Warhology
Kerri
$400 [23]
It was during this war that Lt. Andrew Rowan delivered his famous "Message to Garcia" from Pres. McKinley
the Spanish-American War
Kevin
$400 [11]
Small dry twigs used to start a fire
kindling
Jesse
$800 [7]
A young conscript from North Carolina was called this, slang for the peanuts grown there
a goober
$800 [17]
He was nominated for an Oscar for playing an abstract expressionist in a 2000 film that he directed himself
Ed Harris
Jesse
$800 [21]
Chengdu is the hot & spicy capital of this province that lends its name to a hot & spicy Chinese food variety
Szechuan
Jesse
$800 [3]
If you avidly follow Latin American soccer, you're gaining knowledge in this area
futbology
Kerri
$800 [24]
In August 1858 the first transatlantic cable message was sent from this monarch to Pres. Buchanan
Queen Victoria
Kevin
$800 [12]
Congo capital founded by Henry Stanley
Kinshasa
Kerri
$1,200 [8]
During the war, this Ozark state had 2 competing governments
Arkansas
Kevin Jesse
$1,200 [19]
This conservation-conscious co-star of St. Elsewhere was once L.A.'s environmental affairs commissioner
Ed Begley, Jr.
Kerri
$1,200 [22]
This capital of the island province of Hainan sounds like a short Japanese poem of 17 syllables
Haikou
Kevin
$1,200 [4]
Get a Ph.D. studying products released in a spray through a nozzle & you're an expert in this
aerosology
Kerri
$1,200 [25]
After defeating a British fleet on Lake Erie, he sent out the message "We have met the enemy, and they are ours"
Oliver Hazard Perry
Kerri
$1,200 [13]
A film of a transmitted television program
a kinescope
Kevin Kerri
$1,600 [9]
This Confederate submarine was recovered in 2000; its crew was buried in Charleston in 2004
the Hunley
Kevin
$1,600 [20]
He showed off his singing pipes when he played Drew Barrymore's fiance in the film "Everyone Says I Love You"
Ed Norton
Jesse
$2,000 [30]
This capital of Hubei province lent its name to a deadly flu virus
Wuhan
$1,600 [5]
Need a minty flavoring for candies or cigarettes? Call someone who knows about this
menthology
Kevin
$1,600 [27]
On May 24, 1844 he sent the famous message, "What hath God wrought"
(Samuel) Morse
Kerri
$1,600 [14]
From the Greek for "movement", this real -ology studies mechanics with respect to human anatomy
kinesiology
Kerri
$2,000 [10]
This term that means an ambusher & also inlcudes "B-U-S-H" gets that meaning from Civil War guerrillas
a bushwhacker
Kerri
$2,000 [26]
In 1995 he wrote, directed & starred in his first film, "The Brothers McMullen"
Edward Burns
Kevin
DD $5,000 [29]
Its former capital was Victoria
Hong Kong
Kevin
$2,000 [6]
The examination of the Russian tale "Dead Souls" & other works by the same author
Gogology
Jesse
$2,000 [28]
Before this battle, Lord Nelson sent the message to his sailors that "England expects that every man will do his duty"
the Battle of Trafalgar
Kevin
DD $3,400 [15]
Honey of critter seen here
a kinkajou
Kerri

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS

Appropriately, this villainous movie character's name comes from the Dutch word for "father"

Darth Vader

Jesse "Who is Vandal?" — wagered $0
Kevin "Who isDaDarth Vader?" — wagered $14,600
Kerri "Who is Scrooge?" — wagered $7,201

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