Show #4683 2005-01-05 (taped 2004-11-03) Regular

Kerry Breitenbach game 4.

Contestants

Val Nieman — a college professor and writer from Greensboro, North Carolina

Harry Hall — a systems manager from Cleveland, Ohio

Kerry Breitenbach — a marketing analyst from South Euclid, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $55,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kerry $1,200 $5,200 $17,200 $26,100
4-day champion: $81,700
$18,800
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Harry $2,000 $7,000 $13,000 $6,000
3rd place: $1,000
$11,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Val $2,800 $3,400 $11,000 $12,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
18 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITALS I'LL BE YOUR WAITER THEY PASSED REIGN CHECK AMERICANA "ROLL" CALL
$200 [1]
Nebraska Wesleyan University is in this state capital
Lincoln
Kerry Val
$200 [19]
We have an international flavor for this "of the day"--Cuban black bean or French onion
soup
Val
$200 [24]
Some say she made a "Titanic" mistake saying no to "Shakespeare in Love" to make "Hideous Kinky"
Kate Winslet
Harry
$200 [14]
After they killed themselves, she & Mark Antony were buried together, as both of them wished
Cleopatra
Kerry
$200 [11]
The theme park once known as Silver Dollar City got a makeover & in '86 was renamed this, in honor of a famous blonde
Dollywood
Harry
$200 [6]
This kitchen item with a short handle at each end could easily be the seventh clue murder weapon
a rolling pin
Kerry
$400 [2]
(Hi, I'm Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press.) Before joining NBC News, I observed politics firsthand as a lawyer working in the N.Y. Governor's office in this state capital
Albany
Val
$400 [20]
Sir, some fresh ground this spice, from Malabar, India, on your salad? No? Too late
pepper
Kerry
$400 [25]
Kate Jackson was originally Dustin Hoffman's Mrs. Kramer but this TV show she was on couldn't make the schedule work
Charlie's Angels
Harry
$400 [15]
Around 1000 A.D. Olof Skotkonung became the first Christian king of this Scandinavian country
Sweden
Harry Val
$400 [12]
New Mexico's state song, "O, Fair New Mexico", was written by the daughter of this man who killed Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett
Val
$400 [7]
You'll flip for this heavy steel transverse item in the form of an inverted U on a vehicle
a roll bar
Harry
$600 [3]
This state capital is home to one of the armed forces academies
Annapolis
Val
$600 [21]
Ah, the pouilly-fuisse, a lovely choice from this region also called Bourgogne
Burgundy
Harry Val
$800 [27]
"American Beauty" might've been a little different if this "Fletch" star hadn't turned down the Kevin Spacey role
Chevy Chase
Harry
$600 [16]
During WWII this Dutch monarch became the first reigning Queen to address the U.S. congress
Queen Wilhelmina
Val
$600 [13]
George Gershwin prepared to write this opera by studying Southern black culture on an island off the Carolina coast
Porgy & Bess
Kerry
$600 [8]
Random House defines it as "a small gravity railroad"
a roller coaster
$800 [4]
(Hi, I'm Tucker Carlson of CNN's Crossfire.) One of my first jobs in journalism was as a staff writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in this state capital
Little Rock
Harry
$800 [22]
Even if you're not all related, we serve our portions this "style", so get used to sharing
family style
Kerry
$1,000 [28]
Jack Nicholson won an Oscar replacing this man who quit "Terms of Endearment" to make "Stroker Ace"
Burt Reynolds
Val
$800 [17]
This pair succeeded James II, the last Catholic king of Britain
William & Mary
Kerry
$800 [29]
At the Cabildo in New Orleans, you can see the death mask of this ruler who ceded New Orleans to the U.S.
Napoleon (I)
$800 [9]
A return to a lower level in prices
a rollback
Val
$1,000 [5]
It's the state capital whose major newspaper is a "Bee"
Sacramento
Harry
$1,000 [23]
We serve only Angus beef, known for this quality of having white flecks of juicy fat
marbling
Kerry
DD $2,000 [26]
Tired of wearing a leather jacket for his ABC-TV day job, he passed on the lead in the movie "Grease"
Henry Winkler
Harry
$1,000 [18]
Kings of this North African country have included Muhammad V & Hassan II
Morocco
Kerry
$1,000 [30]
(Hi, I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBSSaturday Early Show.) As a former Miss Minnesota, I know that the Minnesota state motto is "L'Etoile du Nord", or this "of the North"
star
Harry
$1,000 [10]
Appropriate 7-letter term for the first public showing of an aircraft
rollout
Val

Double Jeopardy! Round

WELCOME TO STRATFORD A BEFORE E THEY FOUND MORE THAN ONE ELEMENT LEGEND SAYS... JOE MAMA ROLE CALL
$400 [21]
Traveling players were hired by Shakespeare's father, who was Stratford's bailiff, what we would call this
mayor
Harry
$400 [14]
Precedes Dukakis, Graves, or "Row the boat ashore"
Michael
Kerry
$400 [23]
Make no bones about it, Sir Humphry Davy discovered calcium, Ca, Sodium, Na, & this, K
Potassium
Val
$400 [1]
He defied Austrian authority & was forced at 80 paces to shoot an apple off his son's head
William Tell
Val
$400 [5]
An American icon, the first of her 4 sons, Joseph Jr., was born in 1915; the last, Edward, in 1932
Rose Kennedy
Harry
$400 [6]
Bronco Billy, Thunderbolt Doherty, Harry Callahan
Clint Eastwood
Val
$800 [22]
The play's the thing in a theatre named for this bird to which Ben Jonson compared Shakespeare
the swan
Val
$800 [15]
We dig this scientific study of prehistoric people by analysis of their artifacts
archaeology
Val
$800 [24]
Ramsey & Travers must have been into sci-fi--they found xenon & this element, No. 36
Krypton
Val
$800 [2]
The Haleakala Volcano on Maui was once home to this goddess of fire
Pele
Kerry
$800 [8]
On Dec. 21, 1879 near Tbilisi, Georgia, Ekaterina Djugashvili gave birth to the future leader who went by this name
Joseph Stalin
Kerry
$800 [7]
Terl, Vincent Vega, Chili Palmer
John Travolta
Kerry
DD $1,000 [29]
Locals will snicker (as will I) if you pronounce the second W in this "Shire" that Stratford's in
Warwickshire
Kerry
$1,200 [17]
These chlorophyll-containing organisms include the pyrrophyta & rhodophyta
algae
Val
DD $1,000 [27]
Klaproth, who found cerium, also found this element that's last on the alphabetical list
zirconium
Kerry
$1,200 [3]
Legend says while this famous animal was gallivanting, its footprints created Minnesota's 10,000 lakes
Babe the Blue Ox
Val
$1,200 [9]
Jacob could've sung "I'll Be There For You" when she gave birth to Joseph in Genesis 30
Rachel
Kerry
$1,200 [11]
Reggie Dunlop, Lew Harper, Rocky Graziano
Paul Newman
$1,200 [28]
Sarah from the Clue Crew: William Shakespeare is buriedherein Holy Trinity Church near the remains of his wife, this woman
Anne Hathaway
Kerry
$1,600 [18]
Wax nostalgic & name this Athenian craftsman, father of Icarus
Daedalus
Kerry
$1,200 [25]
The industrious Berzelius ferreted out thorium & selenium & was the first to see Si, this
Silicon
Val
$1,600 [4]
With the Spanish Armada closing in on England, this British vice-admiral calmly continued his game of bowls
Sir Francis Drake
Kerry
$1,600 [10]
His mother Marcia was 85 and still living in Stamford, Connecticut when he ran for nationwide office in 2000
Joseph Lieberman
Harry
$1,600 [12]
Reggie Love, Annie Savoy, Helen Prejean
Susan Sarandon
Harry
$2,000 [30]
Shakespeare'sbirth homeis in the style called half-this, alluding to the amount of wood used
timber
Kerry Val
$2,000 [19]
Sponsorship, or Zeus' breastplate with a Gorgon's head at its center
Aegis
Harry
$1,600 [26]
Scheele helped discover every element whose name ends in "Orine", these two
chlorine and fluorine
Kerry
$2,000 [16]
This pope was dragged out of Rome & stoned to death after she gave birth
Pope Joan (or Pope John VII)
$2,000 [20]
Fuhgeddaboudit! This Brooklyn-born writer, Lena's boy, flew 60 combat missions as a WWII bombardier
Joseph Heller
Val
$2,000 [13]
Trevor McKinney, Cole Sear, Forrest Gump, Jr.
Haley Joel Osment
Kerry Val

Final Jeopardy!

1920s NOSTALGIA

A poor couple window-shopping a diamond bracelet at this store inspired the song "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"

Tiffany's

Val "What is Tiffany's?" — wagered $1,000
Harry "What is Woolworth's?" — wagered $7,000
Kerry "What is Tiffany's?" — wagered $8,900

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