Show #4380 - Friday, September 26, 2003

2003 Back to School Week game 5.

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Josh Woo, an eleven-year-old seventh-grader from River Ridge, Louisiana

Becca Portman, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Deerwood, Maryland

Matt Bischoff, a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Sicklerville, New Jersey

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round

CLASSIC LITERATURE
HILARY DUFF STUFF
DINOSAURS
TRICKY QUESTIONS
(Alex: Watch out for those.)
YUM YUM!
"T" TIME
    $200 3
The horseman that terrorized Sleepy Hollow was this, not legless or armless
    $200 1
Hilary hit No. 1 with her hit "I Can't Wait" on this kids' radio network
    $200 21
This dinosaur "king" could run as fast as 25 MPH & recent evidence suggests it was warm-blooded
    $200 14
If you start with 30 marbles & lose all but 7 in a game, this is how many you have left
    $200 4
Inspired by the Harry Potter books, these beans come in odd flavors like grass, sardine & earwax
    $200 5
If you prefer a Butterfinger to a brisket you have a "sweet" one
    $400 18
This character concocted the potion that created Mr. Hyde
    $400 2
On a Disney Channel series Hilary was occasionally very animated as this title character
    DD: $400 24
This dinosaur of the late Cretaceous Period had 2 brow horns & one nose horn, as its name indicates
    $400 15
It's the technical reason you can't take a photograph of a man with a wooden leg
    $400 10
Introduced in 2002, Slimy Ghoul is a glow-in-the-dark dispenser for this 3-letter candy
    $400 6
When you're throwing a tantrum, it means you've lost this
    $600 22
Another name for a mirror; Alice went "through" one
    $600 16
In this 2003 film the assignment of a CIA spy Frankie Muniz is to get close to Hilary Duff
    $600 26
One theory says the triangular plates on its back helped control body temperature; another says they attracted mates
    $600 20
Good students will know that this word is the one word that is mispelled in this question
    $600 11
York introduced these yummy "patties" in 1940, but they weren't distributed nationally until 1975
    $600 7
A witness is asked to tell this, the whole this & nothing but this
    $800 23
After picking up his book "Moby Dick", you might be relieved to know he wrote short stories too
    $800 17
In 1998 Hilary played this young witch who meets Casper the Friendly Ghost
    $800 27
Made famous by "Jurassic Park", this 6-foot-long "swift robber" had a "killing claw" on each foot
    $800 25
Number of F's in this flimsy formulation of a question
    $800 12
H.B. Reese made Johnny Bars & Lizzie Bars before coming up with these famous "Cups" in the 1930s
    $800 8
A pointer called a yad, Hebrew for "hand", is used when reading from this in synagogue
    $1000 29
This character's squire was Sancho Panza
    $1000 19
Hilary and this young rapper duetted on the song "Tell Me A Story"
    $1000 28
Minimum number of ducks required to have a line in which 1 duck is behind 2, 1 in front of 2 & 1 in the middle
    $1000 13
Pop Rocks pop in your mouth because they contain bubbles of this gas
    $1000 9
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew throws a crumpled up piece of paper into a wastepaper basket.) From the Latin for "to throw across", this path has to be very precise to make a basket

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

Matt Becca Josh
$200 $1,000 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Becca Josh
$600 $2,400 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

LOUISIANA
SLOW-POURRI
FORMER WORLD LEADERS
PATRIOTIC SONG TITLES
MEDICINES
ENDS IN "OO"
    $400 3
In New Orleans you can jazz things up aboard the steamboat Natchez for a jazz cruise along this river
    $400 11
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shakes her head at a digitally reduced speed.) It's the two-word name for the special effect seen here
    $400 13
Former prime ministers of this country include Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath & John Major
    $400 8
"What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming"
    $400 10
Motrin works to bring down this, which is simply an above-normal body temperature
    $400 1
In 1738 Franz Ketterer created the first one of these clocks that chirp the time
    $800 4
450 feet tall with 34 floors, the Capitol building in this Louisiana city is the tallest state Capitol
    $800 17
In a fable, this animal tells the hare, "you are much faster than I, but... slow and steady wins the race"
    $800 14
Indira Gandhi was the first & only female prime minister so far of this Asian nation
    $800 9
"Mind the music and the step and with the girls be handy"
    $800 15
A 2002 study found that eye drops treat "lazy eye" just as well as this item from a pirate costume
    $800 2
From an Inuit word for "house", this house is made from blocks of hard-packed snow
    $1200 12
During Carnival season, nearly a million visitors attend this Shrove Tuesday celebration in New Orleans
    $1200 22
In 1997 Dr. Steven Chu won a Nobel Prize for slowing down atoms using one of these amplified light beams
    $1200 21
The first 3 emperors of this ancient empire were Augustus, Tiberius & Caligula
    $1200 19
"O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain..."
    $1200 16
81 milligrams is the standard children's dose of this popular pain-relieving drug made by Bayer
    $1200 5
Capt. James Cook introduced this word to English speakers after he saw skin designs on Polynesian natives
    DD: $800 18
During the 1800s the growing of sugar & this fiber became big business in Louisiana
    DD: $2,000 23
When called by God to lead the Israelites in Exodus, he says, "but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue"
    $1600 25
From 1953 until 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was the powerful leader of this large nation
    $1600 20
"From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam..."
    $1600 27
Boiron's Chestal Honey Base is a type of this liquid, & also soothes the throat
    $1600 6
In many Asian countries, the shoots of this very tall grass are eaten as a vegetable
    $2000 26
Louisiana was included in that famous purchase bought from this Frenchman in 1803
    $2000 24
The name of this slow-moving mammal seen here comes from an Old English word for "slow"
    $2000 28
"Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring"
    $2000 7
Its website has been called the first large-scale directory of the Internet

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Becca Josh
$3,400 $11,200 $12,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

THE TOY BOX
Spud & Yam are 2 of the offspring of this toy introduced in 1952

Final scores:

Matt Becca Josh
$1 $22,399 $11,799
3rd place: $1,000 + Classroom Jeopardy! + a $1,000 Dell Computer gift certificate Winner: $22,399 + Classroom Jeopardy! + a $1,000 Dell Computer gift certificate 2nd place: $2,000 + Classroom Jeopardy! + a $1,000 Dell Computer gift certificate

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Matt Becca Josh
$3,000 $11,200 $13,000
13 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W		 14 R,
1 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $27,200

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

Game tape date: 2003-08-26
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.