Show #3978 2001-12-12 (taped 2001-09-06) Regular

Contestants

Tracy Bond Bird — a television and commercial announcer from Louisville, Kentucky

Christopher Seivard — a cinematographer from Hershey, Pennsylvania

M J Selle — a freelance writer and editor from Katy, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
M J $1,400 $2,400 $4,000 $8,000
3rd place: Trip to Outrigger Hotel, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii
$4,000
15 R, 6 W
Christopher $2,400 $2,000 $11,800 $20,800
2nd place: Trip to France
$12,200
14 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Tracy $1,400 $2,400 $11,600 $23,200
New champion: $23,200
$12,000
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ROCK "E" RACCOON JESTERDAY HELLO, GOOD BUY COME TO GATHER I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HUN
$200 [2]
Earth joined Wind & Fire & he joined Lake & Palmer
Keith Emerson
M J
$200 [7]
As it has this many toes on each foot, a raccoon's footprints have a human look
5
M J
$200 [12]
The romances of this legendary king tell of Dagonet, a fool he knighted
King Arthur
Tracy
$200 [17]
Ty Cobb, baseball's "Georgia Peach", made millions on early investment in this Georgia beverage company
Coca-Cola
M J
$200 [26]
Gather your grain, or the kind of moon that's asked to "shine on" in a song
harvest
Tracy
$200 [1]
Encarta calls him "the most renowned Hun leader"
Attila
Tracy
$400 [3]
In titles it preceded Eddie Money's "Nights" & Richard Marx's "Summer Nights"
Endless
Tracy
$400 [8]
Allsands.com's "How to" section includes how to make these popular with the Davy Crockett wannabees
coonskin caps
M J
$400 [13]
The Earl of Suffolk's fool Dickie Pierce was buried with an epitaph by this "Gulliver" author
Jonathan Swift
Christopher
$400 [18]
In 1982 Peter Lynch bought this troubled U.S. car company at about 2 bucks a share; in 1986 he sold for around 40
Chrysler
M J
$400 [27]
People do it to stamps or coins & when they pass Go in Monopoly
collect
M J Tracy
$400 [22]
Ammianus Marcellinus wrote that the Hun could eat, live, sleep & conduct his business from the back of this
his horse
M J
$600 [4]
This botanical tune grew up to No. 1 in 1988
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" (by Poison)
Tracy
$600 [9]
Newborn raccoons lack the familiar tail rings & this famous facial feature
mask
M J
DD $400 [14]
It's the only part of Hamlet's father's jester seen in Shakespeare's play
his skull (Yorick's)
Christopher
$600 [19]
Pfizer was a good buy in May 2001, when the government said 3 times more people need drugs to lower this
cholesterol
M J Christopher
$600 [28]
Completes the Biblical quote "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also..."
reap
Tracy
$600 [23]
The town on the site of this capital of Bulgaria was plundered & burned by the Huns around 447
Sofia
M J
$800 [5]
Though this Art Alexakis band was formed in Portland, its first hit was about Santa Monica
Everclear
Christopher
$800 [10]
After being "A Tramp Abroad", this author yearned for home-style foods like possum & 'coon
Mark Twain
Christopher
$800 [15]
Term for a jester's scepter, a stick with a head on it; today you lump it with a bangle & bead
bauble
Tracy
$800 [20]
This office equipment maker was first listed on the NYSE in 1961 & split 5 for 1 in 1963
Xerox
Christopher
$800 [29]
(Sofia reports from the United Nations.) People from Uruguay to Ukraine have held the presidency of this body that meets here
the General Assembly
M J Christopher
$800 [24]
The Huns tried to extend west into the area then called this & "Frank"ly were beaten there in 451
Gaul
Christopher
$1,000 [6]
The Eurythmics were on the bill in 2000 at the grand opening celebration of this Seattle rock museum
Experience Music Project
$1,000 [11]
Keep it under your hat--in the 1840s this U.S. political party used the raccoon as its emblem
the Whig Party
$1,000 [16]
Even his jester Muckle John couldn't cheer up this king when he was beheaded in 1649
Charles I
M J
$1,000 [21]
Stock in this "systems" company that's "Empowering the Internet Generation" doubled in value in 1998 & in 1999
Cisco
Christopher
$1,000 [25]
The Huns only sacked Milan; this group destroyed it less than 100 years later, in 539
Goths
M J Tracy

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEET THE BEETLES LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" BRIT LIT BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [17]
Of 3,000, 30,000, or 300,000, the approximate number of beetle species in the world
300,000
Tracy
$400 [22]
Founded in 1962, this country's Kabul Times was its first English-language newspaper
Afghanistan
M J
$400 [16]
Andrea Solari dished up the painting of this saint seen here
John the Baptist
M J
$400 [11]
"Lion"ized studio(3)
MGM
Tracy
$400 [2]
"Sea and Sardinia" is a travel book by this "Sons and Lovers" author
D.H. Lawrence
M J
$400 [1]
"Downtown" singer who works as a reporter for the Daily Planet
Petula Clark Kent
M J
$800 [18]
It's the company that produced the popular "insect" seen here
Volkswagen
Tracy
DD $400 [29]
At the present its co-princes are Jacques Chirac & Bishop Joan Marti Alanis
Andorra
Tracy
$800 [25]
Andrea D'Agnolo di Francesco is better-known by this name found in the title of Robert Browning's poem about him
Andrea del Sarto
$800 [12]
"Falcon" nationality(7)
Maltese
Tracy
$800 [3]
Famous for a set of bawdy stories, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christopher
$800 [4]
Controversial '60s comic who sang "Born in the U.S.A."
Lenny Bruce Springsteen
Tracy
$1,200 [19]
Because of the potential damage, potato growers are very wary of this "Rocky Mountain State" beetle
Colorado beetle
Christopher
$800 [23]
Dating from 1624, this country's San Francisco Xavier University in Sucre is one of the oldest in the Americas
Bolivia
M J Christopher
$1,200 [26]
Seen here is Antonio Canova's statue of this French emperor's scandalous sister Pauline
Napoleon
M J
$1,200 [13]
Title time for a New York "Cowboy"(8)
Midnight
Tracy
DD $1,000 [8]
He returned to India at age 17 in 1882 & worked as a journalist; he published his first poems in 1886
Rudyard Kipling
Christopher
$1,200 [5]
Butch Cassidy's sidekick's extreme tact & delicacy
Sundance Kid gloves
Christopher
$1,600 [20]
It's the beetle variety that rolls balls of manure into its burrows to feed its larvae
dung beetle
Tracy
$1,200 [24]
The capital of this grand duchy is the seat of the Court of Justice of the European Communities
Luxembourg
M J Christopher
$1,600 [27]
Sebastiano's enormous painting of the "Raising of" this Biblical man is in the National Gallery in London
Lazarus
Tracy
$1,600 [14]
Field & MacLaine were "Steel" ones(9)
Magnolias
Christopher
$1,600 [9]
This Walter Scott character is chieftain of the MacGregor clan
Rob Roy
M J
$1,600 [6]
Lakers guard who anchored the "Today" show for 15 years
Kobe Bryant Gumbel
$2,000 [21]
The resemblance of the jaws of the beetle seen here to a male deer's antlers gives it this name
stag beetle
Tracy
$2,000 [28]
Lorenzo Ghiberti is best-known for the magnificent bronze doors he created for the baptistery in this city
Florence
$2,000 [15]
Matinee idol Marcello(11)
Mastroianni
Christopher
$2,000 [10]
Published in 1985, "The Tenth Man" was a long-lost novella written by this "Third Man" author back in 1944
Graham Greene
$2,000 [7]
"Ozymandias" poet who played Lolita's mom on film
Percy Bysshe Shelley Winters

Final Jeopardy!

TV SPIN-OFFS

One of the 2 hourlong dramas spun off from popular half-hour sitcoms in the 1970s

Lou Grant or Trapper John, M.D.

M J "What is Lou Grant" — wagered $4,000
Tracy "What is Lou Grant?" — wagered $11,600
Christopher "What is Lou Grant?" — wagered $9,000

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