Show #3029 1997-10-30 Regular

Contestants

Matt Mann — an operations manager from Carpinteria, California

Lyn Jessup — a retired executive secretary from Granada Hills, California

Liza Marshall — an attorney from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Liza $100 $700 $5,900 $199
2nd place: Trip to La Casa del Zorro, Borrego Springs, California
$5,900
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Lyn $1,200 $1,800 $5,200 $2
3rd place: Motorola StarTac Cellular Phone
$4,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Matt $1,100 $1,000 $5,800 $1,401
New champion: $1,401
$5,800
16 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HALLS OF FAME FAMOUS HALLS WHATCHA DOIN'? COOKING ON TV HISTORIC DOCUMENTS DOUBLE LETTER PERFECT
$100 [10]
In 1997 their career was "Stayin' Alive" with a new CD & induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
the Bee Gees
Matt
$100 [4]
Founding brothers Joyce, Rollie & William Hall put their stamp on this greeting card company
Hallmark
Lyn
$100 [9]
Hitting a chip shot onto the green
golfing
Matt
$100 [25]
After she cooked an omelette on a book review show, WGBH created "The French Chef" for her
Julia Child
Lyn
$100 [1]
The 1996 GOP platform proposed amending this to protect crime victims & the unborn
the Constitution
Matt
$100 [20]
A street sign with this letter pair denotes a crossing that has the ties that bind
RR
Liza Lyn
$200 [11]
A "Magic Earring Ken" doll is among the items displayed in a Palo Alto, Calif. Hall of Fame devoted to her
Barbie
Matt
$200 [5]
Time was on Jerry Hall's side in 1990 as she married this singer after a long romance
Mick Jagger
Lyn
$200 [15]
Splitting a pair & taking a hit on each
playing blackjack
Lyn
$200 [26]
"How To Boil Water" & "Grillin' & Chillin'" are cooking shows featured on this cable channel
The Food Network
$200 [2]
In 1939 Albert Einstein wrote to Franklin Roosevelt urging development of this weapon
the atomic bomb
Liza
$200 [21]
This suffix denotes a person who is a recipient of something
ee (as in honoree)
$300 [12]
This comic duo's "Who's on First?" routine is enshrined on a gold record in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Abbott & Costello
Liza
$300 [6]
In 1987 she testified to altering & shredding documents for her boss Oliver North
Fawn Hall
Matt
$300 [16]
Setting the timing after gapping the points & plugs
tuning an automobile
Matt
$300 [27]
Based on an actual New York restaurateur, this Seinfeld character refused to serve Elaine
the Soup Nazi
Lyn Matt
$300 [3]
An 1886 convention on copyrights & an 1864 convention on the rules of war were signed in this country
Switzerland
Matt
$300 [22]
A little ball, 0.18 inches in diameter, fired from an air rifle or a special gun
BB
Matt
$400 [13]
This prodigy who won the U.S. Open at age 14 in 1957 was a charter member of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame
Bobby Fischer
Liza
$400 [7]
As head of the National Theatre, Peter Hall oversaw its 1976 move out of this "old" home
the Old Vic
$400 [17]
Blending 1 teaspoon sugar, the juice of 1/2 a small lime & 2 ounces of rum & straining it into a glass
making a daiquiri
Liza Lyn Matt
$400 [14]
In 1222 the Golden Bull of Hungary gave rights to nobles, like this English charter 7 years before
the Magna Carta
Lyn
$400 [23]
Ask a Spaniard how to pronounce this double letter pair & he may say "y"
ll
Liza
$500 [18]
The Dog Mushers Hall of Fame in Knik, Alaska is in a building used as the 1967 HQ for this sled dog race
the Iditarod
Liza
$500 [8]
The 1995 movie "Kids" was written by the grandson of Huntz Hall, one of these tough movie kids
the Bowery Boys (or the Dead End Kids or the East Side Kids)
Lyn
$500 [19]
In the 1850 Punctuation of Olmutz, this German-speaking country halted Prussia's aims to unite Germany
Austria
$500 [24]
For the ivory tickler it means "very softly"
pp (pianissimo)
Lyn

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRIT LIT DANCE SHEEPISH COUNTRIES THE OSCARS POLITICAL POSTS MORE REDUNDANCY & REPETITION
$200 [1]
In this novel, Mr. Rochester "has a fine bass voice, and an excellent taste for music"
Jane Eyre
Liza
$200 [5]
After watching this movie dancer, Baryshnikov said, "We all should have been in another business"
Fred Astaire
Matt
$200 [14]
Producing about 30% of the world's wool, this country has 7.7 jumbucks per person
Australia
Matt
$200 [6]
Though he's acted on screen, as in "Tommy", his first nomination & win was for a song in "The Lion King"
Elton John
Lyn
$200 [15]
This future president was U.S. envoy to China in 1974 & 1975
George H.W. Bush
Liza
$200 [18]
The book of Leviticus says of an evildoer, "The people of the land shall stone him with" these
stones
Liza
$400 [2]
Dorlcote Mill in her book "The Mill on the Floss" resembles Arbury Mill, where she played as a child
George Eliot
Liza
$400 [9]
A movement & a call in square dancing, it comes from French for "back to back"
do-si-do
Matt
$800 [26]
This country's 266,000 people should keep its 500,000 sheep away from Mount Hekla, an active volcano
Iceland
Matt
$400 [7]
Song from "Pinocchio" that won a real, not wooden, Oscar
"When You Wish Upon A Star"
$400 [17]
Many places now appoint one of these instead of a coroner
a medical examiner
Lyn
$400 [22]
This word, the "A" in the acronym scuba, makes "scuba gear" somewhat repetitive
apparatus
Liza
$600 [3]
He wrote his semi-autobiographical novel "Sons and Lovers" in part as a tribute to his mother
D.H. Lawrence
Lyn
$600 [12]
The name of this high-stepping dance developed on plantations means something certain or easy
cakewalk
$1,000 [27]
This second-largest member of the C.I.S. has almost twice as many sheep & goats as people
Kazakhstan
Matt
$800 [10]
In 1951 "Harvey"'s Jimmy Stewart lost by a nose to best actor Jose Ferrer in this title role
Cyrano de Bergerac
Matt
$600 [19]
St. Louis has a board of these, literally meaning "older" people
aldermen
Lyn
$600 [23]
007 film song in which Paul & Linda McCartney wrote of "this ever-changing world in which we live in"
"Live And Let Die"
Matt
$800 [4]
The young man who wishes, "If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now!"
Dorian Gray
Lyn
$800 [13]
Critic Arlene Croce refused to do this before attacking Bill T. Jones' piece "Still/Here" as "victim art"
see it
DD $1,000 [8]
Film seen here, its director was nominated, but it didn't make it into the Best Picture category:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Lyn
$800 [20]
President Grant appointed Chester A. Arthur collector of customs for this port
New York City
Matt
$800 [25]
Using "from" before this word that means "from where" has been called redundant
whence
Liza
DD $1,000 [16]
In an Evelyn Waugh novel, one of Lord Marchman's children is known as Bridey, which is short for this
Brideshead
Liza
$1,000 [11]
Paul Newman's only win for Best Actor was for the second time he played this character
"Fast Eddie" Felson
Lyn
$1,000 [21]
Archibald Cox was appointed as one of these in 1973
a special prosecutor
Liza
$1,000 [24]
You don't need to put "the" before this Greek phrase for "the masses" because hoi means "the"
hoi polloi
Liza

Final Jeopardy!

THE WESTERN U.S.

This city's official seal depicts a phoenix & a motto in Spanish: "Gold in Peace--Iron in War"

San Francisco

Lyn "What is Phoenix, Ariz" — wagered $5,198
Matt "What is Phoenix, AZ" — wagered $4,399
Liza "What is Sacramento?" — wagered $5,701

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