Show #4962 2006-03-21 Regular

Contestants

Margaret Kickliter — a catering assistant from Palm Harbor, Florida

Patricia DiMaggio — a school registrar from Maynard, Massachusetts

Kate Miller — a human resources assistant from Oxnard, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kate $2,000 $2,400 $9,200 $13,800
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Patricia $2,600 $3,800 $8,200 $14,001
New champion: $14,001
$8,200
13 R, 1 W
Margaret $1,500 $4,300 $7,000 $9,500
3rd place: $1,000
$8,400
11 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

EGGHEADS SPORTSMEN THE MATERIAL WORLD WORLD WAR II: THE HOME FRONT I THINK I LOVE YOU IT'S ALL "OVER", BABY
$200 [6]
Edward O. Wilson, an authority on these very social colony insects, linked human to animal behavior in "Sociobiology"
ants
Margaret
$200 [28]
Known as "Mac the Strife", this tennis champ once told an umpire, "You are the pits of the world"
John McEnroe
Kate
$200 [16]
This trademarked brand of hook & loop fasteners is named in part for velour
Velcro
Kate
$200 [10]
When this P.M. visited the White House in 1941, he startled the staff by spending much of his time in the nude
Churchill
Patricia
$200 [19]
In mythology, she pined away for Narcissus until nothing was left but her voice
Echo
Margaret
$200 [1]
Write a check for more than you've got & your account is considered this
overdrawn
Kate
DD $500 [7]
She went to the U. of Denver at 15 & got a Ph.D. there studying the USSR; she's now in the Cabinet
Condoleezza Rice
Margaret
$400 [24]
He spent 5 seasons with the Shanghai Sharks before becoming the Houston Rockets' center in 2002
Yao Ming
Kate
$400 [17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads in front of the Pentagon.) The Pentagon was constructed primarily with this building material; steel was saved for the 2nd World War effort
(reinforced) concrete
Kate
$400 [11]
Silver foil was being rationed, so production of these smoochable candies was halted during World War II
Hershey's Kisses
Patricia
$400 [20]
This title character of a Voltaire work falls in love with Cunegonde, a baron's daughter
Candide
$400 [2]
It can mean to toss a baseball too far or to remove a ruler by force
to overthrow
Kate
$600 [8]
Mathematician Kurt Godel was a luminary at this New Jersey town's Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton
Kate
$600 [25]
In 2006 "The Bus" went into the garage as this running back played his last game in the Super Bowl
Jerome Bettis
$600 [18]
This hard substance also comes from the tusks of the narwhal & the teeth of the hippo
ivory
Patricia
$600 [12]
When stockings were no longer available, ladies drew lines on their legs with eyebrow pencil to simulate these
nylon seams
Patricia
$600 [21]
In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, she's the young woman the poet will see "nevermore"
Lenore
Patricia
$600 [3]
It's where a "man" is when the O flag is hoisted on a ship
overboard
Patricia
$800 [9]
In 1921 psychology prof Karl Jaspers became a professor of this instead; he went on to be a major existentialist
philosophy
Kate
$800 [29]
This 26-year-old Spanish professional golfer is nicknamed "El Nino"
Sergio Garcia
$800 [27]
This flooring material is made by pressing linseed oil & rosins onto a cloth backing
linoleum
Margaret
$800 [13]
As the 1943 winner of this national title, beautiful Jean Bartel sold 2 1/2 million dollars worth of war bonds
Miss America
Patricia
$800 [22]
This Tolstoy character is one Aleksei's lover & another Aleksei's wife
Anna Karenina
Margaret
$800 [4]
3-word topographical phrase for someone whose peak years are behind him
over the hill
Margaret
$1,000 [15]
Seen here, Robert J. Aumann shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in this for his work based on game theory
Economics
Kate
$1,000 [30]
This 18-year-old phenom from Nova Scotia was chosen No. 1 by Pittsburgh in the 2005 NHL draft
Sidney Crosby
$1,000 [26]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads while picking up stamps with tongs.) I'm using special tongs to put my stamps into this type ofenvelope whose name is derived from a transparent material
glassine
Margaret
$1,000 [14]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from the track stadium at Duke University.) Because World War II was raging, this event had to be moved away from the West Coast, & on January 1, 1942, it took place right here at Duke University
the Rose Bowl
Margaret
$1,000 [23]
Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title lover in this man's "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
D.H. Lawrence
Kate
$1,000 [5]
Move your pawns up too far too fast, or lend & spend more money than you should, & you're this 12-letter word
overextended

Double Jeopardy! Round

BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT MOVIE "&" TV OLD YORK, OLD YORK BARTENDING SCIENCE CLASS REALLY LONG WORDS
$400 [4]
He was governor of Arkansas
Bill Clinton
Margaret
$400 [14]
Harry Connick Jr. has been seen as Dr. Leo Markus on this NBC show
Will & Grace
Kate
$400 [24]
Forces of this empire occupied York around 71 A.D. & called it Eboracum
Rome
Patricia
$400 [1]
Mel or Althea might've enjoyed this, 2 1/2 oz. gin, 1 1/2 teaspoons dry vermouth & 3 cocktail onions
a Gibson
Kate
$400 [11]
The Faraday effect shows how this type of field can rotate the vibration plane of a beam of polarized light
a magnetic field
Kate
$400 [13]
Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word ever used by this man--it's in "Love's Labour's Lost"
Shakespeare
Patricia
$800 [5]
He lived the life of a cowboy on his North Dakota ranch
Teddy Roosevelt
$800 [15]
The original setting for this 2002 animated Disney adventure was Kansas, not Hawaii
Lilo & Stitch
Patricia
$800 [25]
"York" is from Yorvick, the name used by these Scandinavians who conquered the city around 867 A.D.
the Vikings
Patricia
$800 [2]
Ground control to this drink: "Take your vodka, triple sec, kirsch & grapefruit juice & put your helmet on"
a Major Tom
Kate
$800 [12]
Geysers of what is probably nitrogen rise as high as 5 miles on Triton, this planet's largest moon
Neptune
Patricia Margaret
$800 [19]
Dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane is the long form for the insecticide known by this 3-letter abbrev.
DDT
Kate
DD $900 [8]
He was editor & owner of the Marion, Ohio Star newspaper
Warren G. Harding
Margaret
$1,200 [16]
They're the 2 words directly separated by an ampersand in the title of the feature-length "South Park" film
Longer & Uncut
Kate
$1,200 [26]
York's cathedral of St. Peter is the largest church in England built in this medieval architectural style
Gothic
Kate
$1,200 [3]
1 1/2 oz. Scotch, 1/2 oz. drambuie & a lemon twist might get your head pounding if you have too many "rusty" these
a rusty nail
Patricia
$1,200 [23]
According to string theory, our universe has at least this many dimensions, but 6 are "curled up" & hard to see
10
$1,200 [20]
As you might surmise, anhydrohydroxy-progesterone is a type of this
a hormone
Margaret
$1,200 [6]
He was the head of Princeton University
Wilson
Margaret
$1,600 [17]
This 1997 sequel to a Tim Burton movie featured 2 future U.S. governors--Jesse Ventura & Arnold Schwarzenegger
Batman & Robin
$1,600 [27]
York suffered severely during this man's conquest of Northern England in the 1060s
William the Conqueror
Patricia
$1,600 [9]
This 6-letter drink has 1 oz. light, dark & anejo rum, as well as 2 teaspoons of 151 proof rum, but no human brains
a zombie
Margaret
$1,600 [21]
The "nihil" in floccinaucini-hilipilification suggests it means to judge something as worth this
nothing
Kate
$1,600 [7]
He was mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee
Andrew Johnson
$2,000 [18]
2 of the 3 Jim Carrey movies that fit the category
(2 of) Dumb & Dumber , Me, Myself, & Irene & Fun with Dick & Jane
$2,000 [10]
Green creme de menthe, Bailey's Irish cream, vodka & Kahlua make a "dirty" this, not what Juliette Low had in mind
a Girl Scout
Kate
DD $2,000 [22]
Antidisestablish-mentarianism, as per the OED, is opposition to the disestablishment of this church
the Church of England (or the Anglican Church)
Kate

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY LITERATURE

"Annie" Sadilek, an immigrant girl from Bohemia, inspired the title character in this 1918 novel of the Great Plains

My Antonia (by Willa Cather)

Margaret "What is My Antonia" — wagered $2,500
Patricia "What is My Antonia?" — wagered $5,801
Kate "What isMy Antonia?" — wagered $4,600

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