Show #4669 2004-12-16 (taped 2004-09-13) Regular

Contestants

Cliff Kowalczyk — a trucking subcontractor from Lakewood, Ohio

Grayson Holmes — a legal assistant from Washington, D.C.

Joel Kahn — a physician from Irvine, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joel $2,200 $3,600 $11,400 $22,600
3rd place: $1,000
$14,400
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Grayson $1,600 $3,000 $16,100 $29,201
New champion: $29,201
$16,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Cliff $2,800 $9,400 $14,600 $24,600
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

W.H.O. WHAT'S COOKING, COWBOY? WHEN WAS THAT MOVIE? WHERE IS THAT, PIERRE? WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT? "HOW" NOW
$200 [24]
The World Health Organization was established in 1948 by this international body
the U.N.
Cliff
$200 [18]
After a good feed, it's time to settle down with a cup of arbuckle, or this
coffee
Joel
$200 [14]
Released in 1968 it starred Keir Dullea as an astronaut out to solve a cosmic mystery
2001: A Space Odyssey
Grayson
$200 [1]
If you're visiting the Cannes Film Festival, you're on this sea
the Mediterranean
Cliff
$200 [6]
In 1888 Nikola Tesla came up with the first practical system for generating & transmitting this type of current
A.C.
Grayson Cliff
$200 [9]
In the children's song, it's the line that follows "twinkle, twinkle, little star"
how I wonder what you are
Cliff
$400 [25]
"3 by 5" is a program to provide, by 2005, anti-retroviral therapy to 3 million suffering from this
AIDS
Cliff
$400 [19]
If you know what kind of wagon it was served in, you'll know this old west word for food, chow, grub
a chuckwagon
Cliff
$400 [15]
Richard Burton's last film role was as the torturer O'Brien in this cautionary George Orwell tale
1984
Cliff
$400 [2]
The Jura Mountains straddle the border between France & this country
Switzerland
Cliff
$400 [7]
Hiram Percy Maxim invented the muffler for a car & this for a gun
a silencer
Cliff
$400 [10]
The 5 words that begin the 43rd of the "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
How do I love thee
Cliff
$600 [26]
The W.H.O.'s administrative HQ is located in this Swiss city on the Rhone River
Geneva
Grayson
$600 [20]
From genus prosopis, this western wood that started a cooking craze gives off a tangy smoke
mesquite
Cliff
$600 [21]
Songs in this revolutionary musical include "Sit Down, John" & "The Lees of Old Virginia"
1776
Cliff
$600 [3]
This region of NW France derives its name from Celts fleeing the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England
Brittany
Cliff
$600 [8]
Andrew Beard invented an improvement for the device that coupled 2 of these when they bumped together
train cars
Joel
$600 [11]
"Smokestack Lightnin'" was the biggest hit for this bluesman born Chester Burnett
Howlin' Wolf
Joel
$800 [27]
On March 15, 2003 the W.H.O. issued a rare emergency travel advisory in response to this outbreak
SARS
Cliff
$800 [29]
The bone-in type of this steak with a double anatomical name is also called a cowboy steak
ribeye
Joel Grayson
$800 [22]
John Belushi starred as Capt. Wild Bill Kelso in this romp about hysteria gripping America after Pearl Harbor
1941
Cliff
$800 [4]
This region of France between the Seine & Marne Valleys is famous for its soft white cheese
Brie
Grayson
$1,000 [17]
Garrett Morgan's "safety hood" was one of these used by World War I soldiers
a gas mask
Joel Cliff
$800 [12]
Dale Carnegie convinced us all with this 1936 work
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Grayson
$1,000 [28]
The eradication of this paralyzing viral disease mainly affecting children is a W.H.O. goal for 2004
polio
Joel
$1,000 [30]
Trail cooks couldn't carry eggs & milk, so they used starter to make this type of biscuit called a "hot rock"
sourdough
$1,000 [23]
Gary Grimes starred as Hermie in this "seasonal" film about 3 teenagers coming of age during World War II
Summer of '42
Cliff
$1,000 [5]
A northern member of the Windward Islands, this volcanic isle has been a possession of France since 1635
Martinique
Joel
DD $2,800 [16]
This invention began in 1951 as a bottle of white tempera waterbase paint & a small brush
Wite-Out (or Liquid Paper)
Cliff
$1,000 [13]
Erica Jong's bestselling 1977 follow-up to "Fear of Flying"
How to Save Your Own Life

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHO-SIERS PIANISTS DISASTER DIGEST McCLURE'SMAGAZINE PLACES "P"s ON EARTH
$400 [7]
Indianan who created such radio and TV charcters as Freddie the Freeloader & Clem Kadiddlehopper
Red Skelton
Cliff
$400 [1]
An amateur pianist, this President often entertained White House guests in the 1940s
Harry S. Truman
Joel
$400 [19]
1666: A great fire destroys much of this capital city
London
Grayson
$400 [26]
Writing on corruption in McClure's, Lincoln Steffens said this little state is for sale, & cheap
Rhode Island
Joel Grayson
$400 [2]
Thisisland had its own Norman conquest and Roman conquest and Vandal and Saracen
Sicily
Joel
$400 [8]
The event in the Olympic decathlon in which the contestant gets the farthest off the ground
pole vault
Cliff
$800 [15]
Indianan who composed such standards as "Night And Day" & "Begin The Beguine"
Cole Porter
Grayson
$800 [13]
He co-wrote the jazz classic "Ain't Misbehavin'" & performed it in the film "Stormy Weather"
Fats Waller
Grayson
$800 [20]
1687: Munitions stored by the Ottoman Turks explode & wreck this Athens landmark
the Parthenon
Cliff
DD $700 [29]
McClure's sent William Glackens to this island in 1898 to provide illustrations of the battles
Cuba
Grayson
$800 [3]
Governor Granholm, not shown works in this city
Lansing
Grayson
$800 [9]
It's a large Marine corps training camp near San Diego
Camp Pendleton
Joel
$1,200 [16]
Indianan writer who appears in the photo seen here
Kurt Vonnegut
Joel
$1,200 [14]
A promotional pianist for the piano maker Erard, this Hungarian's compositions included 1857's "A Faust Symphony"
Franz Liszt
Joel
$1,200 [21]
1906: 3,000 people die when a major earthquake hits this metropolis
San Francisco
Grayson
$800 [28]
The postage stamp "Flappers do" this dance was based on an illustration in McClure's
the Charleston
Grayson
$1,200 [4]
It's the name of this state, mate
Victoria
Grayson
$1,200 [10]
While exploring the Arkansas River in 1806, he discovered the Colorado Peak named for him
Zebulon Pike
Joel
$1,600 [17]
Indianan who switched from Democrat to Republican in the 1930s & ran against FDR in 1940
Wendell Wilkie
$1,600 [24]
The nickname of this innovative Jazz pianist was "Fatha"
Earl Hines
Joel
$1,600 [22]
1281: A "divine wind" saves this nation from a Mongol invasion
Japan
Cliff
$1,600 [30]
She resigned as editor of McClure's in 1912 to become a novelist, mainly with tales of Nebraska
Willa Cather
Joel
$1,600 [5]
Until 1966, it was Basutoland
Lesotho
Grayson
$1,600 [11]
Though she was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, this seedy young lady only spent part of the year with them
Persephone
Grayson
DD $3,000 [18]
Indianan who formed the American Railway Union in 1893 & was a candidate for President 5 times
Eugene Debs
Joel
$2,000 [25]
In 1958 this pianist was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City
Van Cliburn
Cliff
$2,000 [23]
The early 1800s: This "colorful" disease kills tens of thousands in southern Spain
yellow fever
Grayson
$2,000 [27]
In 1899 McClure's published this Brit's "The White Man's Burden"
Rudyard Kipling
Grayson
$2,000 [6]
County of cliffs & Celts seen here
Cornwall
Grayson
$2,000 [12]
Through the house of York, Richard I was the last king of this dynasty
Plantagenet
Joel

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC OBJECTS

More than 600 people, 200 horses, 40 ships, Edward the Confessor & Halley's Comet are depicted on it

the Bayeux Tapestry

Joel "What is the Bayeux Tapestry?" — wagered $11,200
Cliff "What is the Bayeux Tapestry" — wagered $10,000
Grayson "What is the Bayeux Tapestry?" — wagered $13,101

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