Show #3977 2001-12-11 (taped 2001-09-06) Regular

Contestants

Mike Rohan — an attorney from Orland Park, Illinois

M J Selle — a freelance writer and editor from Katy, Texas

Bill O'Donnell — a national park ranger from Eminence, Missouri (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $3,800 $6,200 $17,400 $17,199
2nd place: a trip to Aruba Grand Resort
$17,400
19 R, 0 W
M J $3,800 $6,000 $8,800 $17,600
New champion: $17,600
$8,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Mike $1,000 $1,200 $8,600 $16,700
3rd place: HSN.com Shopping Spree
$9,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

BESTSELLERS ANCIENT EGYPTIANS GETTIN' FRIENDLY WITH MADONNA MAGS FOR MEN YOU GOT "GUM"? WHAT'LL YA HAVE?
$200 [2]
The 2001 World Almanac lists this "agricultural" rival at No. 3 among bestselling almanacs
The Old Farmer's Almanac
Bill
$200 [1]
In 47 B.C. she gave birth to Caesarion whom she claimed was the son of Julius Caesar
Cleopatra
M J
$200 [17]
Follow the bouncing ball: Madonna dated Rodman, who wed Electra, who once got cozy with this "purple" rocker
Prince
M J
$200 [12]
This mag that could be called "Hunt & Fish" has an essay contest on "How Hunting/Fishing has Influenced my Life"
Field & Stream
M J
$200 [7]
Pokey's buddy
Gumby
M J
$200 [26]
(Sofia plays bartender at the Plaza Hotel.) This cocktail popular with a certain fictional spy can be shaken or stirred
a martini
Bill
$400 [13]
David McCullough planned a joint bio of Thomas Jefferson & this man, but dropped Jefferson along the way
John Adams
Mike
$400 [3]
The name of this king, who reigned from age 9 to his death at 18, means "gracious of life is Amon"
Tutankhamun
M J
$400 [22]
Paparazzi learned to duck when trying to snap a picture of this actor/then-husband of Madonna's
Sean Penn
M J
$400 [18]
Yeah, I'll take a quart of milk, 2 packs of gum, a Lotto ticket &, uh, this magazine that has a "Pet of the Month"
Penthouse
M J
$400 [8]
Thickened stew of fish or poultry
gumbo
Mike
$400 [27]
(Sofia, still behind the bar, pours vodka into orange juice.) Don't try operating heavy machinery after having one of these tools
a screwdriver
M J
$600 [14]
John Gray's books include this planetary pair "Starting Over" & "in the Bedroom"
Mars & Venus
M J
$600 [4]
Little is known of his life because the Great Pyramid was looted in ancient times
Cheops/Khufu
M J
$600 [23]
Schwing! Mike Myers made out with Madonna when he played this master of air guitar
Wayne Campbell
Mike
$600 [19]
In 2001 you could take aim at the special 500th issue of "Guns &" this
Ammo
Bill
$600 [9]
Brother to Harpo & Chico
Gummo Marx
M J
$600 [28]
(Sofia, at the bar, shows a recently poured glass of beer with a frothy top.) A sign of good brewing, it's the body part seen here
the head
Bill
DD $1,000 [15]
His "Report" to the House of Representatives was flying off the shelves in 1998
Kenneth Starr
M J
$800 [5]
In his work "Mathematike Syntaxis", this astronomer wrongly claimed that the Earth was stationary
Ptolemy
Bill
$800 [24]
Madonna sang "Sooner or later, I always get my man" in this film & she did: Warren Beatty
Dick Tracy
M J
$800 [20]
The devil is in this magazine where racy columnist Anka Radakovich gained fame
Details
$800 [10]
The courage to act
gumption
Bill
$800 [29]
(Sofia, behind the bar, garnishes a cocktail in a lowball glass with a green sprig.) The addition of the condiment seen here gives this bourbon drink its distinctive name
a mint julep
Mike
$1,000 [16]
It's the type of type referred to in Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo's "Eat Right 4 Your Type"
blood type
Mike
$1,000 [6]
This queen & wife of Akhenaton was the subject of numerous sculptures during her life, many of which survive
Nefertiti
Bill
$1,000 [25]
This Madonna pal came out with "I'm Your Woman" in '85 but she's better known for "Without You I'm Nothing"
Sandra Bernhard
Mike
$1,000 [21]
Launched in 1997, it calls itself "The Best Thing to Happen to Men Since Women"
Maxim
Mike
$1,000 [11]
A private detective, sweetheart
gumshoe
Bill
$1,000 [30]
(Sofia pours vodka into a zombie glass of tomato juice garnished with a celery stalk.) This "sanguine" cocktail shares its name with a 16th century English queen's nickname
a Bloody Mary
Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

SELLERS' BEST ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN RELATIVE SUCCESS U.S. BUILDINGS ALLITERATURE LANGUAGE BARRIERS
$400 [17]
As this character, Peter Sellers gave unique inflections to words like "room", "phone" & "monkey"
Inspector Clouseau
Bill
$400 [2]
Tragically in 1999 this favorite son, his wife & her sister perished in a plane off Martha's Vineyard
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Bill
$400 [11]
Early TV star "Miltie"
Uncle
Bill Mike
$400 [1]
This Arlington, Virginia building covers 29 acres, employs 23,000 workers & houses its own shopping center
The Pentagon
M J
$400 [24]
In "Gone with the Wind" she wrote of "the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain"
Margaret Mitchell
M J
$400 [7]
In Rome a castello might be encircled by a fosso, one of these
moat
Mike
$800 [18]
Perhaps not one of Sellers' best, "The Bobo" co-starred this Swedish-born actress to whom he was married
Britt Ekland
M J
$800 [13]
His daughter Anna accompanied him when he went to Yalta in 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mike
$800 [19]
Patrick Dennis' "Mame"
Auntie
Bill
$800 [3]
If Superman needs leaping practice, he could try this city's Wacker Drive, with several buildings 500 feet or higher
Chicago
Bill
$800 [27]
Drama whose original alternate title was "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"
Peter Pan
Mike
$800 [8]
At the Barcelona Olympics Mark McCoy won the 110-meter vallas, these
hurdles
Mike
$1,200 [23]
Besides blankly watching TV, it's the original occupation of Chance, Sellers' character in "Being There"
gardener
Mike
$1,200 [14]
These twins born November 25, 1981 were named for their grandmothers
Barbara & Jenna Bush
M J
$1,200 [20]
Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny
Sister
Bill
DD $1,000 [5]
This NYC museum features a large glass skylight above a 6-floor spiral
the Guggenheim
Mike
$1,200 [28]
Right after "Oliver Twist", Dickens wrote a novel about this hero with a sense of "N"-titlement
Nicholas Nickleby
$1,200 [9]
It's also called Wanli Changcheng, meaning it's 10,000 li long
the Great Wall of China
Bill
$1,600 [25]
Woody Allen wrote this '60s film featuring Sellers as a lecherous psychoanalyst
What's New Pussycat?
DD $2,000 [15]
Both of his sons graduated from Stanford University during the 1920s & both became engineers
Herbert Hoover
M J
$1,600 [21]
Labor leader Mary Jones
Mother
Mike
$1,200 [4]
Until 1976 the stairwell of this building housed the Liberty Bell
Independence Hall
Mike
$1,600 [10]
Eiserner vorhang is German for this metaphorical barrier that used to divide Germany & Europe
the Iron Curtain
M J
$2,000 [26]
John Lennon was among the fans of this influential radio show starring Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan
The Goon Show
$2,000 [16]
The eldest son of a president, this Ohio senator of the 1940s was known as "Mr. Republican"
Robert Taft
Bill M J
$2,000 [22]
American Revolutionary statesman Jonathan Trumbull
Brother
$2,000 [6]
Built in Boston in the 1740s by the merchant for whom it's named, it's still used as a market & meeting place
Faneuil Hall
Bill
$2,000 [12]
In French un obstacle is this 10-letter word; the "speech" type is un defaut d'elocution
impediment
Bill

Final Jeopardy!

ENTERTAINERS

Interviewed on "60 Minutes" in 2001, he said, "It's been one of my lifelong jobs... to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler"

Mel Brooks

Mike "Who is Mel Brooks?" — wagered $8,100
M J "Who is Mel Brooks" — wagered $8,800
Bill "Who is Carl Reiner?" — wagered $201

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