Show #3046 1997-11-24 Regular

Bob Harris game 2.

Contestants

Monica Holland — a law student from New York City, New York

Bruce Gilbert — a librarian from Ames, Iowa

Bob Harris — a writer originally from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $3,000 $4,900 $11,700 $12,700
2-day champion: $22,300
$11,100
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Bruce $700 $1,800 $4,200 $1,200
2nd place: Trip to Hotel Melia Castilla, Madrid, Spain
$4,200
15 R, 3 W
Monica $-300 $1,700 $400 $700
3rd place: Samsung 8 mm Hi-Fi Stereo Compact Camcorder
$2,900
11 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

TRINIDAD '70s FADS & FASHIONS DOC TALK THE OLD WEST STANDUP COMICS "NUT"s TO YOU
$100 [12]
Trinidad's Pitch Lake is a natural lake of this black substance used to surface roads
Tar/asphalt
Bruce
$100 [6]
Fiery name given the short shorts women were wearing in 1971
hot pants
Monica
$100 [16]
This emergency room term is short for a Latin term meaning "immediately"
Stat (Statim)
Monica
$100 [21]
It's a cattle or horse pen, OK?
Corral
Bob
$100 [1]
Before 1997 she was best known for her standup, her sitcom & her book "My Point... and I Do Have One"
Ellen DeGeneres
$100 [26]
1996 film in which Eddie Murphy played most of the extended family of an "extended" chemistry teacher
The Nutty Professor
Bruce
$200 [11]
In 1889 this Caribbean island was joined politically to Trinidad
Tobago
Bruce
$200 [7]
In the early 1970s an "Earth" type of these came into vogue; later came a "chunky" type
a shoe
Bruce
$200 [17]
Meaning a feeding apparatus, IV stands for this
Intravenously
Monica
$200 [22]
When Abilene decided to clean up its image in 1871, it dismissed this "wild" marshal
Wild Bill Hickok
Bruce
$200 [2]
Despite his cherubic appearance, this comic is known for raunchy material:
Buddy Hackett
Bruce
$200 [27]
This phrase can mean all-encompassing, or from the first course of a big meal to the last
From soup to nuts
Monica
$300 [9]
This form of folk music popularized by Belafonte originated in Trinidad
Calypso
Bob
$300 [8]
In the '70s people were shelling out big bucks for necklaces made of these Hawaiian shells
Puka shells
$300 [18]
Acute, meaning sudden & brief, is the opposite of this term that means persistent
Chronic
Monica
$300 [23]
Cibola, as in the 7 Cities of Cibola, is the Spanish word for this large animal of the plains
Buffalo
Bob
$300 [3]
He performed off-center "sick comedy" before occupying the center of "The Hollywood Squares"
Paul Lynde
Bob
$300 [28]
Not a snack for big sluggish guys, it's usually 4 or 5 of these that secure a wheel onto a car
Lugnuts
Bruce
$400 [10]
U.S.O.C. president Leroy Walker, not Runner, once coached this Trinidadian Olympic team
track & field
Bruce Monica
$500 [15]
In 1974 this singer streaked to the top of the pop charts with the fad-based song "The Streak"
Ray Stevens
Bruce
$400 [19]
DNR, used to contraindicate life-prolonging treatment, stands for this
do not resuscitate
Monica
$400 [24]
Way before they made cars, Studebaker had these covered for the Old West
Wagons
Monica
$400 [4]
Sunglasses-sporting priest who's the "altar" ego of comic Don Novello
Father Guido Sarducci
Bob Bruce
$400 [29]
The ballet in which a little girl is entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy
The Nutcracker
Monica
$500 [13]
What the Trinidadians call Shango, the Haitians call this
Voodoo
Bob
DD $1,000 [14]
It was the nightclub fad that even had Gene Kelly doing it on film wearing the skatesI'm holding
roller disco
Bob
$500 [20]
It's not a backup for a farm machine, but a device to pull back tissue so a surgeon can look inside you
Retractor
Bob
$500 [25]
As this Arizona city's marshal in 1881, Virgil Earp earned some money from the prostitutes' license fees
Tombstone
Bob
$500 [5]
I Hate Myself is the production company of this female comic who starred in "The Truth About Cats & Dogs"
Janeane Garofalo
Bob
$500 [30]
It's Connecticut's "spicy" nickname
"The Nutmeg State"
Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS AMERICANS MOVIE BIOGRAPHIES ODD GODS PSYCHOLOGY STATE ANAGRAMS AROUND THE HORN
$200 [23]
Stephen Vincent Benet said this president was "Six feet one in his stocking feet" & "Tough as a hickory rail"
Abraham Lincoln
Bob Monica
$200 [13]
In 1994's "Tom & Viv", Willem Dafoe played this poet
T.S. Eliot
$200 [1]
Neptune's Greek counterpart, he transformed himself into a stallion for a roll in the hay with Demeter
Poseidon
Bob
$200 [7]
From 1896 to 1899 Freud might have spent some sleepless nights writing "The Interpretation Of" these
Dreams
Bruce
$200 [15]
AT SEX
Texas
Bob
$400 [25]
In Biblical times, this horn proclaimed the anointing of a new king
a shofar
Monica
$400 [19]
This 20th century wilderness photographer had an earlier career as a professional musician
Ansel Adams
Bruce
$400 [12]
He was nominated for a 1974 Oscar for playing Lenny Bruce
Dustin Hoffman
Bob
$400 [2]
The Japanese god Raiden likes to eat this body part found in the name of an orange
Navel
Bruce
$400 [3]
Term for a graphic representation suggesting how fast a person acquires knowledge
Learning curve
Bob
$400 [8]
ON MY WIG
Wyoming
Bob
$600 [24]
Named for the "March King", this horn is basically a helicon with a detachable bell
Sousaphone
Bob
$600 [20]
In 1942 this brother of President Eisenhower directed the War Relocation Authority
Milton Eisenhower
Bruce
$600 [14]
Composer played by Cornel Wilde in "A Song to Remember" & by Hugh Grant in "Impromptu"
Frederic Chopin
$600 [4]
In case you were wondering, there is a god of snowshoes: it's Ull, the son of this thunder god's wife Sif
Thor
Monica
$600 [9]
This term has replaced "psychopath" for a callous, lying & often lawbreaking personality
Sociopath
Bruce
$600 [16]
NO GORE
Oregon
Bob
$1,000 [27]
This wooden Swiss horn can be up to 10 feet long--Ricola!
an alpenhorn
$800 [21]
The original Tybee lighthouse at the mouth of the Savannah River was built in 1736 by this Georgia founder
James Oglethorpe
Bob
DD $1,000 [28]
Errol Flynn played this other dissipated matinee idol in 1958's "Too Much, Too Soon"
John Barrymore
Monica
$800 [5]
Ironically, this Greek god of war was cowardly in battle; he cried & ran away when he was wounded
Ares
Bob
$800 [10]
It's the shift of attitudes toward one's parents onto one's analyst
Transference
Bob
$800 [17]
LOOK, A HAM
Oklahoma
Bob
DD $1,500 [26]
From the German for "wing", this horn, heard here, was popularized by Chuck Mangione:
the flugelhorn
Monica
$1,000 [22]
In 1976 this founder of the Opera Company of Boston became the first woman to conduct at the Met
Sarah Caldwell
$1,000 [29]
Director known for his free interpretations of the lives of Tchaikovsky, Liszt & Valentino
Ken Russell
Bruce
$1,000 [6]
A holiday for this Egyptian god might be the day of the jackal, since he had a jackal head
Anubis
Bob
$1,000 [11]
This syndrome named for a French physician may involve barking & continuous cursing
Tourette's Syndrome
Bruce
$1,000 [18]
SEWING TRIVIA
West Virginia
Bruce

Final Jeopardy!

SOUTHERN NOVELISTS

She based the character of Dill Harris on her childhood friend Truman Capote

Harper Lee (author of To Kill a Mockingbird )

Monica "Who is Harper Lee?" — wagered $300
Bruce "Who is Rawlings?" — wagered $3,000
Bob "Who was Harper Lee?" — wagered $1,000

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