Show #3324 1999-02-04 Regular

Contestants

Yen Bawagan — a research scientist from Wayne, Pennsylvania

Nathan Childs — a reporter from Washington, D.C.

Josh Flosi — a teacher from Danville, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Josh $2,200 $3,100 $2,300 $800
3rd place: Store of Knowledge Gift Certificate
$4,300
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Nathan $-700 $400 $3,700 $6,800
New champion: $6,800
$3,500
13 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Yen $900 $2,900 $7,100 $6,799
2nd place: Trip to Wyndham Rose Hall & Beach Resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica
$7,100
22 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE IN HISTORY DAD TV GORILLA MY DREAMS ARCH-EOLOGY FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD FIX THE PROVERB
$100 [1]
He was so hefty he was nicknamed "Uncle Jumbo"; he probably preferred to be called "Our Grover"
Grover Cleveland
Nathan
$100 [11]
Ward Cleaver
Leave It To Beaver
Josh
$100 [29]
The first gorilla born in captivity was Colo, who debuted in 1956 in this Ohio capital
Columbus
Yen
$100 [6]
Built to honor Napoleon's victories, this Paris landmark was completed long after the emperor's death
the Arc de Triomphe
Nathan Yen
$100 [17]
In 1958 the first International House Of these opened in Toluca Lake, California
Pancakes
Yen
$100 [30]
The best things in life are whee!
The best things in life are free
Yen
$200 [2]
These 2 Texans, gunned down on May 23, 1934, weren't nearly as good-looking as Faye & Warren
Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow
Josh
$200 [12]
Jed Clampett
The Beverly Hillbillies
Josh
$200 [28]
Gorillas belong to this order of mammals which also includes monkeys, lemurs & man
Primates
Nathan
$200 [7]
It's not half of the world's largest McDonald's sign, it's the structure seen here
St. Louis Gateway Arch
Josh
$200 [24]
This "cocktail" ingredient, ranging in size from miniature to colossal, is the USA's favorite shellfish
shrimp
Nathan Yen
$200 [22]
Fractions speak lewder than weirds
Actions speak louder than words
Yen
$300 [3]
Hua Guofeng is far less famous than this man he succeeded as chairman of China's Communist party in 1976
Mao Tse-tung
Nathan
$300 [13]
Cliff Huxtable
The Cosby Show
Yen
$300 [26]
There are 3 types of gorillas: eastern lowland, western lowland & this one that lives at altitudes up to 13,000 feet
Mountain gorilla
Nathan
$300 [8]
This capital city's Independence Arch commemorates Korean resistance to foreign dominance
Seoul
Josh
$300 [23]
Eskimo Pie inventor Russell Stover used his proceeds to open one of these shops in 1923
Candy store/chocolate shop
Nathan
$300 [14]
Beware of geeks wearing lifts
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
Josh
DD $500 [4]
Rumor has it that Cleopatra hatched plots against this king of Judea after she tried to seduce him & failed
Herod the Great
Nathan
$400 [15]
Ben Cartwright
Bonanza
Yen
$400 [25]
This zoologist founded the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda where she studied gorillas for 18 years
Dian Fossey
Yen
$400 [9]
The Windows & The Garden of Eden are found in this state's Arches National Park
Utah
Josh
$400 [19]
This sauce made with butter, egg yolk & lemon juice embellishes Eggs Benedict
Hollandaise sauce
Nathan
$400 [21]
The pan is meatier than the sarge
The pen is mightier than the sword
Josh Nathan
$500 [5]
Just thinking about this Russian's experiments with dogs & bells makes us salivate
Ivan Pavlov
Yen
$500 [27]
Jack Gallo
Just Shoot Me! (played by George Segal)
$500 [18]
This fully adult male with a colorful name may weigh twice as much as the adult females in his group
Silverback
Yen
$500 [10]
This just in! The Victory Arch in this Virginia port near Norfolk is a memorial to U.S. forces
Newport News
Josh Nathan
$500 [16]
The pamphlet C.W. Post gave with each box of his new Grape Nuts was titled "The Road To" this
Wellville
Nathan
$500 [20]
If you lie down with frogs, you'll wake up with brie
If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas
Josh

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE DIRECTORS WORD ORIGINS HEIFETZ TUESDAY THIS MUST BE BELGIUM
$200 [1]
Chapter one of this book informs us that "There was unquestionably a Chuzzlewit in the Gunpowder Plot"
Martin Chuzzlewit
Yen
$200 [6]
Mel Brooks' film "High Anxiety" spoofed this director's films, including, of course, "Vertigo"
Alfred Hitchcock
Yen
$200 [11]
This "relative" term for sorority members is derived from middle English & old Norse
Sister
Josh
$200 [26]
When Jascha debuted in this NYC hall in 1917, its steel-making benefactor was still alive
Carnegie Hall
Josh Yen
$200 [21]
Tuesday Weld had one child, not 10, while married to this star of "10"
Dudley Moore
Nathan Yen
$200 [16]
Its upper city portion is home to the parliament & the royal palace
Brussels
Josh
$400 [2]
Originally, the term Picaresque referred to fiction from this country about rogues called Picaros
Spain
Nathan
$400 [7]
This director claimed he called his 1971 film "Bananas" "Because there are no bananas in it"
Woody Allen
Josh
$600 [13]
This type of tripe is named for its resemblance to a certain bee structure
honeycomb
Nathan Yen
$400 [27]
With the USO, Heifetz told soldiers that Bach was like this vegetable--you may not like it, but it's good for you
spinach
Josh Nathan
$400 [22]
Weld co-starred with him in "Wild In The Country" & played a mother in love with him in "Heartbreak Hotel"
Elvis Presley
Yen
$400 [17]
This fictional Belgian detective fled to England when World War I broke out
Hercule Poirot
Nathan
$600 [3]
The last chapter of this Charlotte Bronte novel begins with the words "Reader, I married him"
Jane Eyre
Yen
$600 [8]
"I like to use cities as characters", said this "Meet Me In St. Louis" director, Liza's dad
Vincente Minnelli
Yen
$800 [14]
This insect's name is derived from the superstition that it enters a sleeping person's aural organs
Earwig
Josh
$600 [28]
One of Heifetz' prized violins was made by this great Cremonese in 1731
Stradivarius
Josh
$600 [23]
On TV, Tuesday was one of "The Many Loves of" this title character
Dobie Gillis
Yen
$600 [18]
This Motown star was living in Ostend when he co-wrote "Sexual Healing"
Marvin Gaye
Nathan
$800 [4]
In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, "Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Josh Yen
$800 [9]
He directed his good friend John Wayne in many films; the last was "Donovan's Reef", in 1963
John Ford
Nathan
$1,000 [15]
The name of these strips of cloth wound around soldiers' lower legs comes from Hindi & Sanskrit for "bandage"
Puttees
Yen
$800 [24]
Tuesday was Oscar-nominated for her role in this 1977 Diane Keaton film
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Yen
$1,000 [20]
A famous musical had this Belgian-born singer-songwriter "Alive and Well and Living in Paris"
Jacques Brel
$1,000 [5]
A category called Famous Andres would have to include this Frenchman who wrote "Man's Fate" & "Man's Hope"
Andre Malraux
$1,000 [10]
He said, "My wife has taught me the meaning of uxoriousness" when he won an Oscar for "The English Patient"
Anthony Minghella
Yen
DD $2,000 [12]
It's the part of a saddle whose name comes from a Latin word for "fruit"
pommel
Josh
$1,000 [25]
With Tuesday at his side, he starred in "Soldier In The Rain" & "The Cincinnati Kid"
Steve McQueen
Yen
DD $1,500 [19]
Declared a traitor by the Jacobins, this hero of the American Revolution fled to Flanders
Marquis de Lafayette
Nathan

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NICKNAMES

This famous 20th century nickname is the Argentinian equivalent of "Y'know?" or "Hey, you!"

Che (for Che Guevara, who was born in Argentina)

Josh "What is Evita?" — wagered $1,500
Nathan "What is Che?" — wagered $3,100
Yen "What is Senor?" — wagered $301

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