Show #3635 2000-05-26 Regular

Contestants

Steve Throneberry — a first-year law student from Santa Ana, California

Peggy Nomland — a pharmaceutical representative from San Diego, California

Mike Andrews — a writer originally from Detroit, Michigan (whose 3-day cash winnings total $29,501)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $1,100 $3,300 $4,900 $2,999
2nd place: a houseboating vacation from Forever Resorts
$4,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Peggy $700 $700 $5,600 $1,399
3rd place: a TicketsNow.com gift certificate
$6,100
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Steve $1,100 $1,600 $3,400 $5,601
New champion: $5,601
$3,400
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MAY 26 TALL TALK NONFICTION I WRITE THE SONGS HOLLYWOOD BLVD. COMPLETES THE PROVERB
$100 [19]
On May 26, 1805 this crown-crazy Corsican became king of Italy
Napoleon
Mike
$100 [11]
Cosmopolitan's "Sexiest Man In The World" for 1993 was this 6' 3" hunk seen on romance novels
Fabio
Steve
$100 [16]
David McCullough won a 1993 Pulitzer for his biography of this Missouri-born president
Harry S. Truman
Mike
$100 [6]
These brothers wrote "Night Fever" & "Stayin' Alive" (they also sang them)
the Bee Gees (Brothers Gibb)
Mike
$100 [3]
In June 1999 the Metro Rail opened a station named for this world-famous intersection
Hollywood & Vine
Peggy
$100 [1]
"Cleanliness is next to..."
godliness
Mike
$200 [20]
You can "talk to me" & tell me it's the birthday of this singer seen here:
Stevie Nicks
Steve
$200 [12]
It's hard not to look up to this New Jersey Democrat & presidential hopeful; he's 6' 5"
Bill Bradley
Mike
$200 [27]
Clarissa Pinkola Estes encourages women to return to their "feral" roots in "Women Who Run With" these
Wolves
Mike
$200 [7]
He wrote "Blinded By The Light" & "Fire", which were hits for Manfred Mann & the Pointer Sisters, respectively
Bruce Springsteen
Mike
$200 [4]
In 1994 Schwarzenegger's size 12 boot prints were planted in its "Forecourt of the Stars"
Mann's Chinese Theatre (or Grauman's Chinese Theatre)
Peggy
$200 [2]
"If you can't stand the heat..."
get out of the kitchen
Steve
$300 [21]
On May 26, 1967 the Vatican decreed Protestants could receive these, including penance & extreme unction, in some cases
the Sacraments
Mike
$300 [24]
At 7' 4" this wrestler whose last name was Roussimoff brought many an opponent to his knees
Andre the Giant
Mike
$300 [28]
An "Inaugural Edition" of this JFK book was a bestseller in 1963, the "Memorial Edition" in 1964
Profiles in Courage
Steve
$300 [8]
This group's Adam Duritz co-wrote 1993's "Mr. Jones" & 1999's "Hanginaround"
Counting Crows
$300 [5]
These awards are slated to return to the boulevard at a new theatre in 2001
Academy Awards (Oscars)
Mike Steve
$300 [13]
"Give a man enough rope..."
and he'll hang himself
Mike
$400 [22]
This future "Treasure State" became the "Treasure Territory" May 26, 1864
Montana
Mike
$400 [25]
"(Hi, I'm Sandy Duncan) I was first partnered with this 6' 6" dancer when I was 12 & he was a teen back in our native Texas"
Tommy Tune
Mike
$400 [29]
Her "Aunt Erma's Cope Book" was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1979
Erma Bombeck
Mike
DD $500 [9]
He's the answer, my friend to who wrote Peter, Paul & Mary's "Blowin' In The Wind"
Bob Dylan
Mike
$400 [17]
June 16, 1999 was "Another Day In Paradise" when this composer got a star on the Walk of Fame
Phil Collins
$400 [14]
"A place for everything, and..."
everything in its place
Peggy
$500 [23]
In this country's "War of the Two Brothers", Dom Miguel capitulated to Dom Pedro May 26, 1834
Portugal
$500 [26]
This 6' tall forward for the Houston Comets is the first woman to have a Nike basketball shoe named for her
Sheryl Swoopes
$500 [30]
Nonfiction works by this attorney include "Reasonable Doubts" & "Chutzpah"
Alan Dershowitz
Mike
$500 [10]
Queen's lead singer, he wrote the group's hit "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Freddie Mercury
Steve
$500 [18]
Cybill Shepherd has sung in this hotel's Cinegrill
the Roosevelt Hotel
Mike
$500 [15]
"You can't make bricks..."
without straw

Double Jeopardy! Round

ROMAN HOLIDAY BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S "CHA"RADE THE NUN'S STORY AUDREY HEPBURN
$200 [16]
Romans honored the god Janus on this day when Americans make &/or break resolutions
New Year's Day
Peggy
$200 [15]
You might sweeten up your morning with the breakfast treat seen here:
Pop-Tarts
Peggy
$200 [3]
In 1861 Tiffany was commissioned to design a special presentational pitcher for this president's inauguration
Abraham Lincoln
Steve
$200 [8]
This grape used in making white burgundies lends its name to a popular California white wine
Chardonnay
Mike
$200 [7]
John Pielmeier's play about this woman "of God" is the shocking story of a troubled young nun
Agnes of God
Mike
$200 [1]
In 1954, less than a week after winning an Oscar, Audrey won this award for her stage work in "Ondine"
Tony
Steve
$400 [17]
On August 9, Romans, like beach bunnies, paid homage to this god whose Greek equivalent was Helios
Sol
Mike
$400 [24]
In addition to their original line of these, Lender's also makes ones that are Big 'N Crusty
bagels
Mike
$400 [20]
For well over 150 years, the distinctive Tiffany shade of this color has been seen on Tiffany's boxes & bags
Blue
Mike Steve
$400 [9]
Name of the animal seen here, or of a cloth made to imitate its soft skin:
Chamois
$400 [13]
12th century nun Heloise penned her famous love letters to this man, himself a monk
Peter Abelard
Mike
$400 [2]
Like Anne Frank, who was a month younger, Audrey spent much of World War II in this country
Holland (the Netherlands)
Mike
$600 [21]
It's February 27 & they're off to celebrate Equirria with these events in the Campus Martius
chariot/horse races
Mike Peggy
$1,000 [25]
Perhaps German for "mixture" or "mush", it's a cereal of oats, raisins, nuts & bran mixed together
Muesli
Mike
$600 [28]
The original store was called Tiffany & Young, & it wasn't on 5th Avenue but on this theatrical street
Broadway
Mike
$600 [10]
It's a feeling of irritation, mixed with disappointment & a generous helping of shame
Chagrin
Mike
$600 [14]
Son of a man named Nun, he was Moses' right hand man
Joshua
Mike Steve
$600 [4]
Young Audrey dreamed of becoming one of these, so she attended London's Rambert School
Ballerina
Steve
$800 [22]
On April 25 Romans appeased Robigus, god of this--the kind that afflicts plants, not old cars
rust
Peggy
DD $1,000 [27]
Tiffany displays the 128.5 carat Tiffany Diamond, found in 1877 in this present-day country's Kimberley Mines
South Africa
Peggy
DD $700 [12]
City where the university building seenhereis located:
Charlottesville (University of Virginia)
Peggy
$800 [18]
Elvis' last feature film was in this movie co-starring Mary Tyler Moore as a dedicated inner-city nun
Change of Habit
Steve
$800 [5]
This actor, Audrey's husband from 1954 to 1968, directed her as Rima the bird girl in "Green Mansions"
Mel Ferrer
Steve
$1,000 [23]
The name of this joyous December 17 festival is now a "planetary" synonym for wild revelry
Saturnalia
Mike
$1,000 [26]
This daughter of Francoise Gilot & Pablo Picasso has been designing jewelry for Tiffany since 1980
Paloma Picasso
Peggy
$800 [11]
From Spanish, it's a dense growth of shrubs seen in the southwestern U.S.
Chaparral
Peggy
$1,000 [19]
"Dead Man Walking" is this nun's powerful account of being a counselor on death row
Sister Helen Prejean
$1,000 [6]
Hubert was the first name of this French designer, Audrey's longtime costumer & couturier
Hubert de Givenchy
Peggy Steve

Final Jeopardy!

BASEBALL HISTORY

Current name of the National League team that started out in the 1870s as the Boston Red Stockings

Atlanta Braves

Steve "What are The Braves" — wagered $2,201
Mike "What are the Boston Red Sox?" — wagered $1,901
Peggy "What are the [Red Sox] Cin Reds" — wagered $4,201

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