Show #3663 2000-07-05 (taped 2000-04-11) Regular

Johnny Gilbert accidentally announces Alex as "Glenn Trebek".

Contestants

Bill Wilcox — a project manager from San Diego, California

Cindy Olson — a dermatologist from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Glen Savory — an Air Force contracting officer originally from Georgetown, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Glen $2,400 $3,600 $10,600 $6,600
3-day champion: $33,600
$8,400
26 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Cindy $1,100 $3,400 $11,000 $700
3rd place
$11,000
22 R, 1 W
Bill $400 $100 $1,500 $3,000
2nd place
$1,500
7 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE SPORTSTALK GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ON THE "OUT"s CHINA RICE, RICE BABY
$100 [16]
The 27th of these begins, "The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?"
Psalms
Cindy
$100 [1]
Submarine, steal, knuckleball
baseball
Cindy
$100 [6]
This term for the assistant to the majority or minority leader in the House will get you cracking
whip
Bill
$100 [10]
Lose consciousness or turn out all the lights as an air raid precaution
blackout
Glen
$100 [26]
The Huang He or Yellow River is called "China's Sorrow" because of its habit of doing this
flooding
Cindy
$100 [21]
In 1999 this "treat" sponsored the annual San Francisco cable car bell-ringing contest
Rice-A-Roni
Glen
$200 [17]
Jacob wrestled this new name out of an angel
Israel
$200 [2]
Between the pipes, icing, bodycheck
ice hockey
Glen
$200 [7]
After spending about $76 million this publisher canceled himself out of the 2000 presidential race
Steve Forbes
Glen
$200 [11]
The American Cancer Society organized the first "Great American" one of these in 1977
Smokeout
Cindy
$200 [27]
In the 16th century Chinese play "Journey to the West", the hero seeks scriptures of this religion
Buddhism
Glen
$200 [22]
Low walls of earth called bunds enclose the water-covered rice fields known as these
paddies
Glen
$300 [18]
In the King James Version, these large black birds fed Elijah in hiding by the brook Cherith
ravens
Glen Bill
$300 [3]
Flip-flop, flea-flicker, flying wedge
football
Glen
$300 [8]
The site for the White House was chosen by James Hoban, Charles L' Enfant & this man
George Washington
Bill
$300 [12]
One of these occurs when prisoners illegally leave the prison or when some people eat strawberries
a breakout
Glen
$300 [28]
His second name is Zedong in the Pinyin Romanization System, Tse-tung according to the older Wade-Giles
Mao
Glen
$300 [23]
Eating unpolished rice may help prevent this disease disease caused by the lack of thiamine
beri-beri
Glen Cindy
$400 [19]
This first Christian martyr saw "the heavens opened" right before he was stoned to death
Stephen
Cindy
$400 [4]
Creeper, nose hit, open frame
bowling
Cindy
$400 [9]
(Jimmy Carter reads the clue.) In 1999 the Carter Center monitored this process in the Cherokee nations, Nigeria, East Timor & some Chinese villages
elections
Cindy
$500 [15]
It carries the rainwater from the gutter on the roof to the ground
a downspout
Cindy
$400 [29]
Chengdu is the capital city of this province famous for its pig bristle production & spicy food
Szechuan
Glen
$400 [24]
Long grain rice is rich in amylose, a component of this carbohydrate, making it dry & fluffy when cooked
Starch
Cindy
$500 [20]
Both the gospel of Luke & this book are addressed to someone named Theophilus
Acts of the Apostles
$500 [5]
Corner, header, bicycle
soccer
Glen
$500 [13]
The next amendment to be tacked on to the Constitution will sport this number
the 28th Amendment
DD $800 [14]
It may be emotional consequences or radioactive ash
fallout
Glen
$500 [30]
Like Vietnam's Haiphong, China's city of Beihai is a major port receiving shipping on this gulf
the Gulf of Tonkin
Bill
$500 [25]
As with wheat, a process known as this is done after harvesting to separate the grains from the plants
threshing (or winnowing)
Cindy Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE 20TH CENTURY AMERICA TITLE FILM FOLK WHERE IT HAPPENED FRENCH WEIGHTS & MEASURES ENDS IN "TT"
$200 [1]
"Les chatiments" is a group of satirical poems attacking Napoleon III by this creator of Quasimodo
Victor Hugo
Glen
$200 [11]
In 1976 this former president was disbarred in New York State
Richard Nixon
Glen
$200 [6]
"Evita"(1996)
Madonna
Bill
$200 [16]
In 1858 John Hanning Speke discovered the largest lake on this continent
Africa (Lake Victoria)
Glen
$200 [26]
Pull up to le garage & you'll get your essence, "gas", in these units
litres
Bill
$200 [21]
On April 12, 1998 Mark O' Meara sank a 20-foot one & won the Masters golf tournament by 1 stroke
a putt
Bill
$400 [2]
The Jindyworobak Movement of the 1930s celebrated this country's Aboriginal culture
Australia
Glen
$400 [12]
In 1987 he claimed God would take him if he didn't raise $8 million
Oral Roberts
Glen
$400 [7]
"Erin Brockovich"(2000)
Julia Roberts
Cindy
$400 [17]
In Bennington, Vermont you can visit the site of the Catamount Tavern where this Ethan Allen gang met
the Green Mountain Boys
Glen
$400 [30]
It's trois heures moins le quart, this time, & there's no one in the place except you & me
quarter to three (2:45)
Cindy
$400 [22]
This unit of electrical power is abbreviated kW
kilowatt
Glen
DD $800 [3]
The heroine of her 1849 novel "Shirley" was inspired by her late sister Emily
Charlotte Bronte
Glen
$600 [13]
In 1901 after 2 years in the pen, William Sydney Porter continued to write under this pen name
O. Henry
Cindy
$600 [8]
"Selena"(1997)
Jennifer Lopez
Glen
$600 [18]
Around 1271 the city of Herat, Afghanistan was visited by this famous Venetian
Marco Polo
Glen
$800 [28]
Heavier than a foil, but lighter than a sabre, this fencing weapon weighs 770 grams
an epée
Glen
$600 [23]
Last name shared by the current Secretary of the Interior & a Sinclair Lewis title character
Babbitt
Cindy
$800 [4]
The title of this poet-playwright's 1893 book "The Celtic Twilight" became a synonym for the Irish literary revival
William Butler Yeats
$800 [14]
In 1917 tons of fruit pits, especially peach pits, were collected to make filters for these
gas masks
Bill
$800 [9]
"Shaft"(1971)
Richard Roundtree
Glen
$800 [19]
In 1958 this nuclear-powered craft passed near Point Barrow on its way into the Arctic basin
Nautilus
Cindy
$1,000 [27]
An "effect" of water spiraling down a drain & a force acting on projectiles are named for this Frenchman
Gaspard Coriolis
Glen Cindy
$800 [24]
Synonym for a Latvian
a Lett
Cindy
$1,000 [5]
This South African called her 1965 story collection "Not For Publication"
Nadine Gordimer
Cindy
$1,000 [15]
In 1943 Selman Waksman discovered streptomycin, a drug classified under this term he coined in 1941
antibiotics
Cindy
$1,000 [10]
"Pat and Mike"(1952)
Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn
Cindy
$1,000 [20]
Current foreign capital in which the Gadsden Purchase was negotiated
Mexico City
Cindy
DD $2,200 [29]
The becquerel is a unit of radiation that has replaced this, the name of Henri Becquerel's co-Nobel Prize winners
the curie
Glen
$1,000 [25]
Arms of this Rhode Island bay include Greenwich Bay, Mount Hope Bay & the Providence River
Narragansett Bay
Cindy

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTIONS

The delivery system for Ban deodorant, introduced in 1955, was based on this invention, patented in 1938

Ball Point Pen

Bill "What Ball Point Pen" — wagered $1,500
Glen "What is the jet engine" — wagered $4,000
Cindy "What is a popsicle?" — wagered $10,300

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