Responses for show #3930 - Friday, October 5, 2001

Contestants

David Mitchell, a recent college graduate from Seattle, Washington

Cheryl Howard, a computer scientist and mother of two from Falls Church, Virginia

Rod Sanders, a master control operator from Corpus Christi, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,200)

Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS
BRIT SPEAK
WORLD SKYLINE TOURS
THE COMEDY STYLINGS OF...
(Alex: You have to tell us the identity of the person.)
MONOTREMES
THAT'S A CRIME!
    $100 13
a Space Shuttle mission

David
    $100 23
(Alex: Minute to go.)

the tube

Rod
    $100 5
London

Cheryl
    $100 1
David Letterman

Cheryl
    $100 15
(Alex: That's what monotremes are: mammals who lay eggs.)

eggs

David
    $100 16
Homicide

Rod
    $200 3
Sidney Poitier

David
    $200 22
a bonnet

Rod
    $200 6
Sydney, Australia

David
    $200 2
(Cheryl: Who is Jon Stewart?)

Jay Leno

CherylDavid
    $200 27
Australia

Rod
    $200 17
perjury

Cheryl
    $300 4
Girl Scouts of America

Triple Stumper
    $300 24
an electrician

David
    $300 7
(Alex: You see Mount Fuji in the background.)

Tokyo

Triple Stumper
    $300 10
Conan O'Brien

Rod
    $300 28
a duck bill

Rod
    $300 18
manslaughter

Rod
    $700 14
(David: What is the Secretary of the Interior?)
(Alex: No.)
(David: Uh, the--what--excuse me--what is the--)
(Alex: No.)
(David: --Department of the Interior?)
(Alex: No.)

Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

David
    $400 25
biscuits

David
    $400 8
Toronto

Rod
    $400 11
Steven Wright

Rod
    $400 29
(Rod: What is a tail?)

a foot

Rod
Triple Stumper
    $400 19
blackmail

Cheryl
    $500 21
Dr. Ralph Bunche

Triple Stumper
    $500 26
(David: What is a theater?)

a surgery

CherylDavid
    $500 9
Rio de Janeiro

Rod
    $500 12
George Carlin

Rod
    $500 30
an echidna

Rod
    $500 20
embezzlement

David

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Rod Cheryl David
$2,100 $0 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Rod Cheryl David
$3,400 $1,100 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FRENCH ART & ARTISTS
LAST COMPLETE NOVEL
WACKY MATH
ERAS & AGES
STEPHEN HAWKING
A BRIEF HISTORY OF RHYME
    $200 2
Paris

Cheryl
    $200 21
L. Frank Baum

Rod
    $200 1
0

Rod
    $200 9
the Space Age

Triple Stumper
    $200 26
Albert Einstein

Rod
    $200 17
Tut's guts

Rod
    $400 3
Marie Antoinette

Cheryl
    $400 22
James Joyce

Cheryl
    $400 7
8 (5 + 3)

David
    $400 10
the studios

Triple Stumper
    $400 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Cambridge

Cheryl
    $400 18
Nero's heroes

David
    $600 4
(Cheryl: What is The Picnic?)
(Rod: What is A Picnic?)
(David: What is Picnic in the Park?)

Luncheon on the Grass

RodCherylDavid
Triple Stumper
    $1,400 23
(Cheryl: Who is Conrad?)

Dashiell Hammett

Cheryl
    $600 8
(David: What is 298?)

300 (366 - 66)

RodDavid
    $1,000 13
(David: Who is Charlemagne?)

Louis XIV

David
    $600 14
Hannibal's cannibals

Rod
    $800 5
(Rod: Who is Monet?)
(David: Who is Manet?)

Toulouse-Lautrec

RodDavid
Triple Stumper
    $800 24
Jane Austen

Triple Stumper
    $800 11
1 (12/Adam 12)

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
The Gilded Age

Cheryl
    $800 19
Saul's molls

Rod
    $1000 6
Monet

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
Edna Ferber

Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
1,013

David
    $1000 16
Augustus

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
(Alex: And that's a--a minute left.)

Cyrus's viruses

Cheryl

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Rod Cheryl David
$4,800 $2,300 -$400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY WOMEN
(Alex: He picked Margaret Mead, I think, is the Mead to whom you were referring.)
(Rod: Well, just some Mead.)
(Alex: Some Mead?)
(Rod: No--no specific Mead.)
(Alex: No specific Mead!)
(Rod: Could be--yeah.)
(Alex: Were you thinking perhaps of the drink?)
(Rod: Might go well now.)
CherylWho was Katherine Graham?
$2,299
RodWho is Mead?
$100
Katharine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post)

Final scores:

Rod Cheryl David
$4,700 $4,599 -$400
3-day champion: $21,900 2nd place: a trip to Spice Islands Beach Resort, Grenada 3rd place: a golfing trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Rod Cheryl David
$4,800 $3,700 $1,300
19 R,
3 W		 11 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
6 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $9,800

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