Responses for Show #3983 - Wednesday, December 19, 2001

Champion's winnings matched to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund ($10,000 minimum).
Performances by the L.A. Spirit Chorale.

Contestants

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Sarah Cooper, an administrative assistant from Whittier, California

Karim Moore, a civil engineer from Laurel, Maryland

Timothy Mahoney, a development officer originally from Detroit, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BIOLOGY
SALAD DAYS
ORIGINAL TITLES
DICTATORS & TYRANTS
REMEMBER THE '60s?
YOU WEREN'T "THERE"
    $200 11
coleslaw

Karim
    $200 6
Jaws

Timothy
    $200 1
Nero

Timothy
    $200 12
hippie

Karim
    $200 17
(Timothy:What is I met a crooked man?)

There was a crooked man

TimothyKarim
    $400 22
mozzarella

Timothy
    $400 7
(Timothy: What is War and Remembrance?)

War and Peace

TimothySarah
    $400 2
Holy Roman Emperor

Sarah
    $400 13
The Supremes

Timothy
    $400 18
There's Something About Mary

Karim
    $600 23
walnuts

Timothy
    $600 8
Portnoy's Complaint

Sarah
    $600 3
Dominican Republic

Timothy
    $1,000 14
[Timothy gave the correct response after Alex gave the year, before he finished reading the clue. Alex then finished reading it.]
(Alex: You got ahead of me.)
(Timothy: Yes. What are the [*]?)
(Alex: You're right.)
(Timothy: Sorry about that.)
(Alex: That's okay.
Is it all right --
do I have your permission now to take us into a commercial break?
Well, I won't take us
into a commercial break,
but the L.A. Spirit Chorale
will.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-horse open sleigh
)

Summer Olympics

Timothy
    $600 19
"There's No Business Like Show Business"

Sarah
    $800 27
(Karim: What are cephalopods?)
(Sarah: What are...cretaceans?)
[Laughter]
(Alex: No. But you were
so close, Sarah.
It's [*], not cretaceans.
Not the cretaceous period.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

crustaceans

KarimSarah
Triple Stumper
    $800 25
Crab Louie

Triple Stumper
    $800 9
Treasure Island

Karim
    $800 4
Herod

Sarah
    $800 15
Georgy Girl

Timothy
    $800 20
There's one born every minute.

Timothy
    $1000 26
(Timothy: What are 2 genes?)

recessive

TimothyKarim
    $1000 24
mandarin

Timothy
    $1000 10
The Time Machine

Sarah
    $1000 5
(Timothy: Who is Noriega?)

Anastasio Somoza

Timothy
Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
1962

Sarah
    $1000 21
"There Goes My Baby"

Timothy

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

Timothy Karim Sarah
$1,000 $1,200 $3,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Timothy Karim Sarah
$4,400 $2,000 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AUDIO BOOKS
RHYME SPREE
NATIONS' MOST POPULOUS CITIES
ALONG COMES MARY
SWAN LAKE
JEFF PROBST IN AFRICA
    $400 18
Homer

Sarah
    $400 1
(Sarah: What is Buddha [*]?)

Gouda

Sarah
    $400 6
Rome

Sarah
    $400 13
Mary Tyler Moore

Timothy
    $400 11
tears

Karim
    $400 17
Born Free

Sarah
    $800 19
Judge Judy

Karim
    $800 2
(Timothy: What is Marge [*]?)

barge

Timothy
    $800 7
Bangkok

Sarah
    $800 14
"Proud Mary"

Timothy
    $800 23
dawn

Sarah
    $800 27
(Timothy: What are ears?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
[Timothy's response was initially accepted as correct but is ruled incorrect before Final Jeopardy!]
...
(L.A. Spirit Chorale: We wish you a merry Christmas /
We wish you a merry Christmas /
We wish you a merry Christmas /
And a happy new year...
)

big ears

Timothy
Triple Stumper
    $1200 20
(Karim: Who is...Joe Montana?)
(Sarah: Who is Joe Namath?)

Terry Bradshaw

KarimSarah
Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
(Alex: For Speed, yes.)

greed

Karim
    $1200 8
(Timothy: What is Calcutta?)
(Karim: What is New Delhi?)

Bombay/Mumbai

TimothyKarim
Triple Stumper
    $1200 12
Mary Decker

Sarah
    $5,000 24
(Alex: Okay, $5,000.
Whoa. All right.
merry Christmas, happy holidays to you if it works out.)
(Sarah: Who is Diaghilev?)

Bolshoi

Sarah
    $1600 22
Tropic of Cancer

Sarah
    $1,600 4
(Alex: Karim?)
(Karim: What is...)
(Alex: Say something.)
(Karim: Squirrelly?)
(Alex: No, but you're
on the right track. It is Curly and [*]. That's not a very well-known word.)

burly

Karim
    $1600 9
Monrovia

Timothy
    $1600 15
Mary Leakey

Karim
    $1600 25
(Timothy: What is a polonaise?)

mazurka

Timothy
Triple Stumper
    $2000 21
(Alex: Yes, a minute to go.)

Elmore Leonard

Sarah
    $2000 5
(Sarah: What is west?)
...
(Alex: Yes, we're going for
the response to the clue,
not the thing it rhymes with.)

quest

KarimSarah
    $2000 10
Riyadh

Timothy
    $2000 16
(Karim: Who is Mary Shelley?)

Mary Mapes Dodge

Karim
Triple Stumper
    $2000 26
bow & arrow

Sarah

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Timothy Karim Sarah
$6,400 $2,000 $5,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

STATE NICKNAME ORIGINS
(Timothy: I was gonna go for Vermont.)
KarimWhat is Tennessee
$201
SarahWhat is Connecticut
$5,800
TimothyWhat is V
$5,599
North Carolina

Final scores:

Timothy Karim Sarah
$801 $1,799 $0
2nd place: a trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica & stay at Wyndham Rose Hall New champion: $1,799 3rd place: a trip to Cape Cod, Massachusetts & stay at Cape Codder Resort

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Timothy Karim Sarah
$6,000 $3,600 $10,800
16 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W
11 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)
17 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $20,400

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Game tape date: 2001-10-22
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