Show #3857 - Tuesday, May 15, 2001

Contestants

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Mike Madison, a law professor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Erica Gaddy, a stay-at-home mom from Carencro, Louisiana

Travis Brazil, a waiter and actor from North Hollywood, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $11,799)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
PRODUCT PLACEMENT
WARS BY BATTLE
FAST FOOD HAIKU
(Alex: We want you to name the chain here)
2001 U.S. STAMPS
4-LETTER VERBS
    $100 6
As this man "Was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son of man be...in...the Earth"
    $100 13
Austin Powers' warning "Get your hands off my Heinie, baby" referred to this beer
    $100 1
1944:
The Bulge
    $100 8
No more chihuahua/
but Gorditas & tacos/
Chalupa Supreme
    $100 26
Cost of the 2001 stamp seen here
    $100 21
According to the title of a 1992 film "White Men Can't" do this
    $200 7
"If a man have" 100 of these & one "be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine" to seek the stray?
    $200 15
In 2000's "Hamlet", Ethan Hawke soliloquizes in one of this chain's video stores
    $200 2
1862:
Second Bull Run
    $200 9
Sourdough or jumbo/
Ultimate Cheeseburger too/
Fajita Pita
    $200 27
The Nobel Prize 1901-2001 stamp is a joint issue of the U.S. & this country
    $200 22
TV game show host Martindale
    $300 14
"Suffer" these, "and forbid them not, to come unto me"
    $300 16
Sales for these candies rocketed after being featured in "E.T."
    $300 3
1968:
The Tet Offensive
    $300 10
Grand Slam, Denver Slam/
French Slam, Slim Slam, Shamrock Slam/
Dagwood Breakfast Slam
    $300 28
On the Love-Letters series, the bud of this flower is the "O" in the word love
    $300 23
This animal verb means to down your food voraciously
    $400 17
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out...if" this "offend thee, cut it off"
    $400 19
Business for these sunglasses wasn't risky after Tom Cruise wore them in "Risky Business"
    $400 4
1916:
Verdun
    DD: $500 11
Sandwiches & wraps/
seven with 6-grams of fat/
6-inch or footlong
    $400 29
1 of the 2 Rockwells with works featured in the American Illustrators series
    $400 24
What a barber does, or the "joint" in which he overcharges for the service
    $500 18
In parables that bring business to dentists, "There shall be weeping and" this activity
    $500 20
This company's Powerbook helps Jeff Goldblum save the planet in "Independence Day"
    $500 5
1461:
Towton, Yorkshire
    $500 12
Ultimate deep dish/
hand tossed & crunchy thin crust/
Heatwave carriers
    $500 30
The Chinese New Year stamp for 2001 features this animal set in grass-style calligraphy
    $500 25
A housewife might do it to the mantle; a forensic expert would do it to look for fingerprints

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Travis Erica Mike
$1,200 $200 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Travis Erica Mike
$2,500 $2,500 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 50 STATES
YALE
A KITTY CAT-EGORY
WORDS & MUSIC
THE U.N.
(Alex: The United Nations)
"GENERAL" ASSEMBLY
    $200 1
On December 30, 1940 this state opened its first freeway, Arroyo Seco Parkway in Pasadena
    $200 6
A Yale song goes "Boola, Boola Boola...when we roughhouse" this school "they will holler Boola Boo"
    $200 9
Technically, these highly sensitive touch organs are known as vibrissae
    $200 14
"Embraceable You":
Ira Gershwin & ____
    $200 26
It's the "Principal judicial organ of the United Nations"
    $200 18
This soap opera premiered April 1, 1963
    $400 2
The town of Warsaw on Harry Truman Reservoir had this state's highest & lowest temperatures, 118 & -40, respectively
    DD: $1,000 7
Familiar first name of benefactor Yale & alumnus Whitney
    $400 10
This most popular breed of longhair cat is also simply known as the longhair
    $400 15
"Camelot":
Alan Jay Lerner & ____
    $400 27
The seventh Secretary-General, he's fluent in English, French & several African languages
    $400 19
A shop selling a variety of goods
    $600 3
A map of this state appears on its seal along with the names of its neighbors Florida, Georgia, Mississippi & Tenn.
    $600 8
Senator Arlen Specter & Clarence Thomas are among graduates of this prestigious part of Yale
    $600 11
It's a term for any domestic cat, especially a female; or a coat with dark stripes & blotches
    $600 16
"Do You Know The Way To San Jose?":
Hal David & ____
    $600 28
United Nations troops first arrived to keep the peace on this eastern Mediterranean isle in March 1964
    $600 23
A drug that produces unconsciousness
    $800 4
"Where The Columbines Grow" has been its state song since 1915
    $800 17
Generations of the Bush family have belonged to this society called Bones for short
    DD: $2,000 12
In 1878 the first of this breed arrived in the U.S., a gift to the wife of President Hayes from the American consul in Bangkok
    $800 21
"Stardust":
Mitchell Parish & ____
    $800 29
Born in 1918, this controversial figure served in World War II & was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations
    $800 24
The price of unreserved seats at an event
    $1000 5
In the 1800s the Pony Express & the Oregon Trail crossed over the Rockies at South Pass in this state
    $1000 20
Famous Finn who designed Ingalls Rink, seen here
    $1000 13
This "Turkish" cat was named for the city of Ankara
    $1000 22
"Maria":
Stephen Sondheim & ____
    $1000 30
In 1992 this troubled European nation was expelled from the United Nations
    $1000 25
It was the nickname of Bo & Luke's fast-moving 1969 Dodge Charger on "The Dukes of Hazzard"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Travis Erica Mike
$8,900 $7,500 $7,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS OF THE 1920s
Lawrence Durrell said that in a 1928 novel this man used 4-letter words to canonize & celebrate raw sensuality

Final scores:

Travis Erica Mike
$2,800 $1 $1
3-day champion: $14,599 2nd place: Trip to Hong Kong, courtesy of Priceline.com 3rd place: Bikeshop.com Gift Certificate

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Travis Erica Mike
$8,300 $6,200 $7,200
23 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
21 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W
14 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $21,700

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Game tape date: 2001-02-13
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