Show #3809 2001-03-08 (taped 2000-11-29) Regular

Rick Knutsen game 3.

Contestants

Pamela Meneley — a production assistant from San Diego, California

Cecil Chang — a physician from Lafayette, California

Rick Knutsen — a musician from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $23,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rick $2,800 $4,200 $12,000 $12,100
3-day champion: $35,500
$11,500
32 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Cecil $300 $1,200 $5,800 $7,199
2nd place: Trip to Switzerland
$5,800
13 R, 2 W
Pamela $1,000 $2,200 $2,200 $1
3rd place: Vocopro Karaoke Machine
$3,200
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC COUPLES CLASSIC SITCOM EPISODES ROCKS & MINERALS LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS SYRUPTITIOUS WHAT THE "H" IS IT?
$100 [10]
In his will, this playwright left his second-best bed to his wife; maybe the best one went to Gwyneth Paltrow
William Shakespeare
Rick
$100 [1]
"The Ricardos Change Apartments"
I Love Lucy
Pamela
$100 [15]
This dazzling rock is so hard it can only be scratched by another one
Diamond
Rick
$100 [18]
This company first introduced its MSN Network as part of Windows 95
Microsoft
Rick
$100 [26]
You'd be "as slow as" this syrup too if you were made from cane sugar
Molasses
Rick
$100 [6]
Footgear for Secretariat, or an enjoyable backyard game
Horseshoes
Cecil
$200 [11]
Against all odds, Catherine Parr's marriage to this man who'd been wed 5 times before was surprisingly happy
Henry VIII
Cecil
$200 [2]
"Wally's Girl Trouble"
Leave it to Beaver
Rick
$200 [17]
Often white & translucent, this delicate variety of gypsum has been used to make statues & vases
Alabaster
Cecil
$200 [19]
Here's the "scoop": this chain began operating in 1978 out of a renovated gas station in Vermont
Ben & Jerry's
Rick
$200 [27]
She's the "syrupy" mrs. seen here:
Mrs. Butterworth
Rick Cecil
$200 [7]
It can be a business recruiter or a cranium collector
Headhunter
Rick
$300 [12]
Some say this Scottish queen only married the Earl of Bothwell because he abducted her
Mary, Queen of Scots
Rick
$300 [3]
"Sheriff Barney"
The Andy Griffith Show
Rick
DD $200 [25]
A carbonate of copper, the ornamental stone malachite is this color
Green
Rick
$300 [20]
With its "Softer Side" ads aside, this retailer now offers "The Good Life at a Great Price. Guaranteed."
Sears
Rick
$300 [28]
Mon dieu! This Canadian province produces more maple syrup than any other
Quebec
Rick
$300 [8]
The last stage of an undertaking, or the last part of a race
Homestretch
Rick
$400 [13]
This "Great" czar forced his first wife, Eudoxia, to become a nun, but she gave up the veil & romanced Stepan Glebov
Peter the Great
Rick
$400 [4]
"Hot Lips and Empty Arms"
M*A*S*H
Rick
$300 [23]
Red pyrope, a type of this mineral & birthstone, is often sold as an imitation ruby
Garnet
Pamela
$400 [21]
This airline first took to the skies in 1924 as a crop-dusting service based in Macon, Georgia
Delta Airlines
Cecil
$400 [29]
Used in a variety of foods, this a"maize"ing syrup is made by processing a starch with acids or enzymes
Corn syrup
Pamela
$400 [9]
Hawaii favorite flowering here
Hibiscus
Pamela
$500 [14]
This philandering U.S. pres. called his wife Florence "The Duchess"; we wonder if she had any choice nicknames for him
Warren G. Harding
Rick Pamela
$500 [5]
"Lovey's Secret Admirer"
Gilligan's Island
Rick
$400 [24]
New Hampshire's state rock of coarse is this common building material
Granite
Rick
$500 [22]
I can get it for you wholesale at this warehouse chain that merged with Price Club in 1993
Costco
Cecil
$500 [30]
After baking, syrup is poured over this multilayered paper-thin Turkish & Greek pastry
Baklava
Pamela
$500 [16]
Das kapital of das Keystone State
Harrisburg (Pennsylvania)
Rick

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN CAPITALS BYE-BYE THREE RIVERS STADIUM ENGLISH LIT NOTABLES RHYME TIME "PEP" BOYS MANET, MONET OR JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
$200 [1]
The 50-story Canary Wharf Tower in this capital is the U.K.'s tallest building
London
Pamela
$200 [15]
Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970, the same year as this city's Riverfront Stadium
Cincinnati
Rick
$200 [6]
It's the part of Julia that poet Robert Herrick said was "as white and hairless as an egg"
Leg
$200 [19]
Serling's deities
Rod's gods
Rick
$200 [7]
This last name of NYC sports commentator Phil also precedes "Le Pew" & "Le Moko"
Pepe
Rick
$200 [26]
His "Impression: Sunrise" was a seascape
Monet
Cecil
$400 [2]
Its famous avenue Unter Den Linden connects the Schlossplatz & the Brandenburg Gate
Berlin
Pamela
$400 [16]
This pro football team had to find a new home with the closure of the stadium
Pittsburgh Steelers
Rick
$400 [12]
The 1927 book "The Road to Xanadu" was about this poet's sources for "Kubla Khan" & "The Ancient Mariner"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rick
$400 [20]
Rickenbacker's flimsy nightwear
Eddie's teddies
Rick Cecil
$400 [8]
He trained at the Actors Studio before starring on "Banacek" & "The A-Team"
George Peppard
Rick
$400 [27]
He painted the deaths of Lepeletier & Bara, as well as Marat
Jacques -Louis David
Rick Cecil Pamela
$600 [3]
This city's Christianborg Palace houses parliament & the supreme court
Copenhagen
Cecil
$600 [17]
For the Pirates' last home game in the stadium, this "We Are Family" group sang the National Anthem
Sister Sledge
Rick
$600 [13]
There was a 6-year gap between the publications of the first 3 books of his "Faerie Queene" & the last 3
Edmund Spenser
Rick
$600 [21]
Schwarzkopf's latter-day saints
Norman's Mormons
Rick Cecil
$800 [10]
He founded the Malibu university where Kenneth Starr was once about to become dean of law
George Pepperdine
Rick
$600 [28]
His "Olympia" was a new version of the recumbent Venus popular with Italian masters
Manet
$800 [4]
To visit the National Museum in Bosnia, head to this capital
Sarajevo
Pamela
$800 [18]
As PNC Park replaced Three Rivers, Three Rivers replaced this park
Forbes Field
$800 [14]
His 1919 novel "The Moon and Sixpence" was turned into an opera in 1957
Somerset Maugham
Cecil
$800 [22]
Brummell's schnoz
Beau's nose
Rick
$1,000 [11]
We thought we'd sneak this 17th century diarist into the category even though his name has a long "E" sound
Samuel Pepys
Cecil
$800 [29]
In 1883 he settled in Giverny & built a little pond
Monet
Cecil
DD $1,000 [5]
A castle on the Vltava River in this capital was once home to the kings of Bohemia
Prague
Pamela
$1,000 [24]
This MVP of the '79 World Series was honored as part of the closing ceremonies
Willie Stargell
Cecil
$1,000 [25]
George Du Maurier's "Trilby" featured this sinister hypnotist
Svengali
Rick
$1,000 [23]
Eldridge's cloth-makers
Cleaver's weavers
Rick
DD $1,400 [9]
It's odd that Charlemagne, the son of this 8th century ruler, was unusually tall
Pepin the Short
Rick
$1,000 [30]
His painting "The Fifer", seen here, dates from 1866:
Manet

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. HISTORY

This president signed the bill to create a transcontinental railroad; he didn't live to see its completion

Abraham Lincoln

Pamela "Who was William Henry Harrison" — wagered $2,199
Cecil "Who is Lincoln?" — wagered $1,399
Rick "Who was Lincoln?" — wagered $100

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