Show #3561 - Monday, February 14, 2000

2000-A College Championship semifinal game 1.

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Gina Bronsberg, a sophomore at the University of Illinois from Chicago, Illinois

Natalie Tindall, a senior at Florida A&M from Tallahassee, Florida

Greg Hodgin, a senior at Emory University from Columbia, South Carolina

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round

FICTION
ENTERTAINING CATS
AROUND THE WORLD
BEASTLY RHYME TIME
CANDY
IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY
    $100 9
Kaye Gibbons' "Ellen Foster" & "A Virtuous Woman" have found their way into this TV host's book club
    $100 7
Jim Davis draws the line at this title cat
    $100 1
When remeasured in 1999, this highest mountain was found to have grown by 7 feet
    $100 26
An oversized oinker
    $100 14
Get the "cool sensation" of these mint candies made by Hershey
    $100 10
In 1929 Al Capone's men massacred rival gangsters on St. Valentine's Day in this city
    $200 11
Isabel Allende's 1999 novel "Daughter of Fortune" begins in Valparaiso in this country
    $200 8
Distinct phraser heard here reading "The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat":
    $200 2
Most of this small British dependency on ths Spanish coast is dominated by a big "rock"
    $200 27
An appaloosa from Oslo
    $200 15
According to a jingle, "Almond Joy's got nuts", this candy bar "don't"
    $200 18
TV's Mrs. Brady, she was born on Feb. 14, 1934
    $300 12
Chili Palmer returns in "Be Cool", a 1999 sequel to this Elmore Leonard novel
    $300 20
This colorful big cat has been bopping to a Henry Mancini theme since 1963
    $300 4
For safety reasons this landmark seen here was closed to the public in 1990:
    $300 28
A bird of prey allowed by law
    $300 16
The name of this candy bar, taffy with a peanut butter center, runs from A to Z to A
    $300 19
In 1995 Arthur Chaskalson, who defended Nelson Mandela in 1964, was sworn in as this country's chief justice
    $400 21
Say a little prayer for this title character of a 1989 John Irving novel, who speaks in capital letters
    $400 24
Beanie Baby fanatics know Blizzard is a white one of these
    DD: $600 5
Vatnajokull, the largest glacier in this country, covers some 3,200 square miles
    $400 29
Goldilocks sat on one (actually, on all three)
    $400 13
The character seen here represents this candy:
    $400 23
Americans fell in love with her when she gave a TV tour of the White House on Feb. 14, 1962
    $500 22
Newsweek calls this "Cryptonomicon" author "The Hacker Hemingway"
    $500 25
The cat seen here lives with the TV family with this last name:

Salem the Cat: "I'll take WORLD DOMINATION for $1000, Alex!"
    $500 6
Argentina, Bolivia & Brazil could say to this small country, "Halt, we've got you surrounded!"
    $500 30
The jargon of an Australian wild dog
    $500 17
The peaks & the triangular shape of this Swiss chocolate bar were inspired by the Matterhorn
    $500 3
On Feb. 14, 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini called for the death of this Indian-born British author

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Greg Natalie Gina
-$100 $1,200 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Greg Natalie Gina
$900 $2,000 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

FRICTION
SCARY MOVIE SEQUELS
(Alex: Aren't they all!)
EDIBLE LINGO
CELEBRITY ALUMNI
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
LOVE POETRY WITH JOHNNY GILBERT
    $200 1
These fluid-filled swellings on the skin are most commonly caused by burns or friction
    $200 2
This 1997 movie opens with Jada Pinkett meeting her end at a screening of "Stab"
    $200 19
Life's not the pits when it's like "a bowl of" these
    $200 13
Though he's rather dim as Dick on "3rd Rock from the Sun", he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
    $200 8
She ran the farm while the revolution kept her & future president John apart for most of 10 years
    $200 10
We hope she meant the following for husband Robert:

"I love thee to the level of every day's /
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light"
    $400 4
A violinist rubs this substance onto his bow to increase the friction between it & the strings
    $400 3
"Judgment Day" was the subtitle to this 1991 movie sequel
    $400 20
Some people can be "as nutty as" this holiday treat with a long shelf life
    $400 14
She was a freshman at the University of Miami when she joined the Miami Sound Machine in 1975
    $400 9
At Cornwallis' defeat, 1 of the 3 major American divisions was headed by this Frenchman
    $400 24
It's the object John Donne is addressing here:

"Why dost thou thus, /
Through windows, and through curtains call on us? /
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?"
    $600 5
The rolling element types of these friction-reducing machine parts come in 2 varieties, roller & ball
    DD: $1,400 15
"The Dream Child" was the subtitle to the fifth installment in this series
    $600 21
Hold on to your wallet if you're ever "packed in like" these small herring relatives
    $600 26
David Schwimmer's friends know he studied speech & drama at this Evanston, Illinois school
    DD: $900 11
For his dealings with this man, Major John Andre concocted codes & used secret inks
    $600 25
With words like the following, this poet's name could be read as a statement:

"So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, /
So deep in luve am I; /
And I will luve thee still, my dear, /
Till a’ the seas gang dry"
    $800 6
Friction gives a balloon rubbed on wool a static charge by transferring these subatomic particles
    $800 16
In this series Part 4 was "The Final Chapter", but Part 5 was "A New Beginning"
    $800 22
A score of zero in sports is also known by this bird term
    $800 27
This oldest of the Baldwin acting brothers was a poli sci major at George Washington University
    $800 12
This future treasury secretary was appointed Washington's aide-de-camp in 1777
    $800 29
It's the line that precedes the following:

"Thou art more lovely and more temperate. /
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May..."
    $1000 7
Friction is what makes this type of machine impossible; all machines will eventually run down
    $1000 18
"The Evil Escapes" in the fourth installment of this normally housebound "Horror"
    $1000 23
Proverbs 9:17 wisely observes that "Stolen waters are sweet, and" this food "eaten in secret is pleasant"
    $1000 28
He wrote his 1st complete play, "Camel", while studying at Goddard College; "Glengarry Glen Ross" came later
    $1000 17
A staff officer for Frederick the Great, he came to fight after meeting Franklin in France
    $1000 30
She wasn't so "saint"ly when she wrote the following:

"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, /
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain /
Under my head till morning"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Greg Natalie Gina
$7,000 $9,600 $2,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC QUOTATIONS
According to Suetonius it was inscribed on a parade wagon after the 5-day Pontic campaign of 47 B.C.

Final scores:

Greg Natalie Gina
$7,000 $5,100 $300
Finalist 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Greg Natalie Gina
$7,300 $8,800 $2,400
16 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 12 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $18,500

[game responses] [game scores] [suggest correction]

Game tape date: 2000-01-16
The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. Scraping, republication, monetization, and malicious use prohibited; this site may use cookies and collect identifying information. See terms. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.