Show #3816 - Monday, March 19, 2001

Contestants

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Dennis Scott, an actor from Baltimore, Maryland

Michelle St. James, an attorney from Baldwin, Massachusetts

Raj Choudhary, a customer care manager from Houston, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $29,400)

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Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC OCCASIONS
TV SPIN-OFFS
(Alex: You have to name the show each was spun off from)
OUT FOR BLOOD
LET'S ALL HEAD TO KANSAS
THE ART OF WAR
5-LETTER WORDS
    $100 21
James Marshall found this Jan. 24, 1848, days before California was handed over to the U.S.
    $100 11
"Frasier"
    $100 16
If this pooch who hunts by scent alone identifies a criminal, it's accepted in U.S. courts
    $100 26
Kansas became a U.S. territory as a part of this 1803 purchase
    $100 1
"Returning Fire", a painting by Bill McGrath, depicts these 2 Civil War ironclads in battle
    $100 4
When you want someone to hurry up with a lengthy explanation, have them "cut to" this
    $200 22
The 1851 Lopez Expedition, a disastrous attempt to free this island, was an early version of the Bay of Pigs
    $200 12
"Laverne & Shirley"
    $200 17
This islander in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific" sings "Happy Talk" & "Bali Ha'i"
    $200 27
It's the Kansas "city" known as the "Cowboy Capital of the World"
    $200 2
It's the 1836 battle captured here by Kirk Stirnweis
    $200 5
One of these can toss a stone or hold steady a broken arm
    $300 23
In 1798, in this African country, Napoleon said, "Soldiers...forty centuries look down upon you"
    $300 13
"Melrose Place"
    $300 18
In this 1935 film Errol Flynn plays an Irish physician who's forced to become a pirate
    $300 28
Near this president's library & museum in Abilene you'll also find his grave & boyhood home
    $300 3
Seen here, "Leave No One Behind", by Joe Klein, depicts a scene from this war
    $300 8
It's a danger to a chess player's king, or something you request from a waiter
    DD: $500 24
Name shared by an American film made in 1903 & a British crime committed in 1963
    $400 14
"Knots Landing"
    $400 19
In 1975 UPI named this Rams defensive end the National Football Conference's Defensive Player of the Year
    $400 29
With music by Daniel Kelley & words by Brewster Higley, it's Kansas "Home"y style song
    $400 6
The bombing of this Spanish city in 1937 inspired a famous painting by Picasso
    $400 9
As a noun it's a steep-walled canyon; as a verb, to stuff yourself with food
    $500 25
This man died April 5, 1975, after a quarter of a century leading Nationalist China on Taiwan
    $500 15
"Promised Land"
    $500 20
Truman Capote called this book about the murder of a farmer & his family a "nonfiction novel"
    $500 30
Today the site of a federal penitentiary, this city was the first incorporated community in the Kansas territory
    $500 7
He's the Scottish king depicted here who defeated Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314
    $500 10
An organism's ecological role in the community, or a recess in the wall for a statue

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

Raj Michelle Dennis
$1,400 $1,500 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Raj Michelle Dennis
$2,200 $1,500 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASTRONOMY
CELEBRITY ODD JOBS
AUTHORS
MOVIE SPORTSMEN
(Alex: You have to name the person portrayed)
"U" HAVE THE RIGHT
TO REMAIN SILENT
    $200 20
The Bayeux Tapestry depicted an early sighting of a comet later given this name
    $200 15
Before he was one of the "Legends of the Fall", he dressed up as a chicken for the El Pollo Loco fast-food chain
    $200 26
This "Don Quixote" author was called the "Maimed of Lepanto" for wounds suffered in battle
    $200 10
1992:
John Goodman
    $200 1
This pure white fabulous equine is a symbol of virginity
    $200 6
A charity may hold a silent one of these to raise some money before the dinner
    $400 21
It's the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor
    $400 16
This "Wild & Crazy" guy probably didn't wear a fake arrow through his head when he sold guidebooks at Disneyland
    $400 27
Activities at a Key West, Fla. festival honoring this author include a running of the bulls & a short story contest
    $400 13
1961:
Jackie Gleason
    $400 2
Webster's 3rd says it's an interjection used to express reassurance when a small child is lifted
    $400 7
In the original German this song begins, "Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!"
    $600 22
Among the most distant of these, the Trojan Group actually travels in the same orbit as Jupiter
    $600 17
This country singer/songwriter was "On The Road Again" as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman
    $600 28
19th century author Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pen name
    $600 12
1994:
Tommy Lee Jones
    $600 3
Beaverdam Creek & Kings Peak are the low & high points of this state
    $600 8
In business, one of these firm members may be full, senior or silent
    $800 23
From 1979 to 1999 it was the planet in our solar system farthest from the sun
    $800 18
She worked in an Australian gold mine before becoming a "Warrior Princess"
    DD: $500 29
In 1842 he & a shipmate jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands & lived for a month with the Typee tribe
    $800 11
1971:
James Caan
    $800 4
The union of Egypt & Syria that lasted from 1958 to 1961 was dubbed this
    $800 9
Sources say he wrote his November 1969 "Silent Majority" speech all by himself
    $1000 24
Black holes are thought to "power" these remote objects named for their resemblance to stars
    DD: $4,000 19
[Hi, I'm Wendie Malick from "Just Shoot Me"] I once worked for this former Bills quarterback when he represented a Buffalo-area district in Congress
    $1000 30
He based Mark Rampion in "Point Counter Point" on his friend D.H. Lawrence; Philip Quarles was based on himself
    $1000 14
1978:
LeVar Burton
    $1000 5
The "U" on that UL tag on your product means it was tested for safety by these laboratories
    $1000 25
He's played Silent Bob in a slew of films including "Mallrats" & "Clerks"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Raj Michelle Dennis
$11,900 $2,300 $9,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN HISTORY
Ruth Perry, modern Africa's first female head of state, headed a transitional government in this country in 1996

Final scores:

Raj Michelle Dennis
$5,400 $0 $7,500
2nd place: Trip to Stockholm, Sweden courtesy of Priceline.com 3rd place: Panasonic Digital Camera New champion: $7,500

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Raj Michelle Dennis
$9,400 $2,300 $9,100
22 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)
6 R,
0 W
24 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $20,800

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Game tape date: 2000-12-06
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