Show #3817 2001-03-20 (taped 2000-12-06) Regular

Contestants

Rob Core — a collections account manager from Akron, Ohio

Kathryn Wildt — a scientist from Washington, D.C.

Dennis Scott — an actor from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dennis $600 $1,100 $5,600 $8,600
2nd place: Trip to Amsterdam courtesy of Priceline.com
$6,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Kathryn $1,500 $2,400 $1,600 $0
3rd place: Novica.com Shopping Spree
$3,600
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Rob $-300 $2,400 $6,000 $11,601
New champion: $11,601
$6,000
16 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A WORDLY CATEGORY THEY'RE GREAT! WELL, THAT'S OBVIOUS STRAIGHT TO VIDEO CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS "OIL" IT
$100 [14]
At about 7 million, this Iranian city is the Middle East's second most populous, after Cairo
Tehran
Kathryn
$100 [30]
This great president was known as the "Great Emancipator"
Abraham Lincoln
Kathryn
$100 [1]
In many countries the name Primo is most often given to this son
First son
Dennis
$100 [11]
The sequel to this film is subtitled "Simba's Pride"
The Lion King
Dennis
$100 [6]
While all the animals breathe, this is the only one that you'd expect to breathe fire
Dragon
Dennis
$100 [29]
Exhausting labor
Toil
Dennis
$200 [15]
The region of Andalusia is found in the southern part of this nation
Spain
Dennis
$200 [28]
Revealed in a May 1964 speech, it was LBJ's campaign slogan
"The Great Society"
Rob
$200 [2]
One O' Cat is a predecessor of this game named for the places a runner had to get to & the main piece of equipment
Baseball
Dennis
$200 [12]
He reprised his role as Wayne Szalinski in "Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves"
Rick Moranis
Kathryn
$200 [7]
"Mr. Ed" went off the air in 1966, ironically the year of this animal
Horse
Dennis
$200 [19]
To change from liquid to vapor
Boil
Dennis
$300 [16]
This former monarchy in southwest Asia was occupied by Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989
Afghanistan
Rob
$300 [27]
In about 326 B.C. his horse Bucephalus died in India; he built a city to honor his trusty steed
Alexander the Great
Kathryn
$300 [3]
The food item seen here is from this chain that opened its first location in 1946
Hot Dog on a Stick
Rob
$300 [13]
Universal has released 7 films in this dinosaur series & has plans for an 8th
The Land Before Time
$400 [9]
One of the largest animals, it has the shortest name--2 letters
Ox
Kathryn
$300 [20]
A small, ornamental mat
Doily
Kathryn
$400 [17]
Of New York City, Havana, Cuba or Santiago, Chile, the one that's farthest east
Santiago
$400 [26]
On "The Flintstones" Harvey Korman voiced this tiny alien from the planet Zetox
The Great Gazoo
Rob
$400 [4]
It's the title of Madonna's 2000 album, or what you'll hear on it
"Music"
Kathryn
$400 [24]
In "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command", this "enterprising" actor sings "To Infinity & Beyond"
William Shatner
Kathryn Rob
$500 [10]
First name of John Wayne's character Cogburn
Rooster
Dennis
$400 [21]
To prevent from being successful
Spoil/foil
Rob
$500 [18]
4,389-foot Cerro de Punta on this Caribbean island is the highest point on a U.S. possession not in the 50 states
Puerto Rico
Kathryn
$500 [25]
This 19th C. Kentuckian was known as the "Great Pacificator" for his ability to settle bitter political conflicts
Henry Clay
$500 [5]
The 16th century painting seen here is known as the "Madonna With the Long" one of these
Neck
Kathryn
$500 [23]
This series isn't up to "Fievel Get You: 10" yet, but its "Mystery of the Night Monster" is number 4
An American Tail
Rob
DD $600 [8]
William Blake had the "bright" idea to spell this animal's name with a "Y"
Tiger ("Tyger, tyger burning bright...")
Dennis
$500 [22]
To spring back upon firing
Recoil
Rob

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICANS THE WRESTLING WORLD AUTHORS & THEIR SLEUTHS TIME TO "B" SPECIAL IT'S CHER'S WORLD WE JUST LIVE IN IT
$200 [19]
In the 1790s, this First Lady said she felt like a "state prisoner"
Martha Washington
Kathryn Rob
$200 [7]
Athletes in this sport train on a stew called chankonabe, along with vast quantities of rice & beer
Sumo wrestling
Kathryn
$200 [2]
Mike Hammer
Mickey Spillane
Rob
$200 [20]
This literary movement was led in part by the poetry & prose of Burroughs, Ginsberg & Kerouac
Beat
Dennis
$200 [1]
Cher started putting out these videos in 1991 with one subtitled "A New Attitude"
Exercise videos
Rob
$200 [14]
It can refer to a one-story suburban home as well as to a home on a large farm where animals are raised
Ranch house
Dennis
$400 [27]
She was nicknamed "Mother of the Red Cross"
Clara Barton
Kathryn
$400 [8]
Henry Coppinger, seen here, helped popularize this sport
Alligator wrestling
Dennis
$400 [3]
Philip Marlowe
Raymond Chandler
Kathryn Rob
$400 [21]
Ursa Major contains this smaller constellation
Big Dipper
$400 [10]
In 1987 Cher won acclaim as Brooklyn bookkeeper Loretta Castorini in this film
Moonstruck
Rob
$400 [15]
This word for a shack is also heard in quarterbacks' signals
Hut
Dennis
$600 [28]
On April 15, 1821 President Monroe appointed him the first governor of the territory of Florida
Andrew Jackson
Rob
DD $500 [9]
In an upset at the 2000 Olympics, Rulon Gardner beat Alexander Karelin in this "classic" style
Greco-Roman wrestling
Dennis
$600 [4]
Sam Spade
Dashiell Hammett
Kathryn
$600 [22]
Before "Showgirls", she played Jessie Spano on the Saturday morning sitcom "Saved By The Bell"
Elizabeth Berkley
$600 [13]
In 1998 Cher published this autobiographical book; they say there's one for everything
"The First Time"
$600 [16]
Fictional hero Travis McGee lives aboard one of these, The Busted Flush, moored at Fort Lauderdale
Houseboat
Kathryn
$800 [29]
This Nez Perce chief visited Teddy Roosevelt twice to plead for his people's return to their ancestral homeland
Chief Joseph
$800 [11]
Masks are worn & chairs are often thrown in lucha libre, or this national type of wrestling
Mexican wrestling
Rob
$1,000 [6]
V.I. Warshawski
Sara Paretsky
$800 [23]
Ulrike Meinhof was a prominent leader of this 1970s German terrorist gang
Baader-Meinhof Gang
$800 [25]
At Cher's website, T-shirts & a thermal PJ set appear under this rhyming name
Cher Wear
Rob
$800 [17]
Hyphenated name for a shelter made of an inclined roof supported by 2 upright pieces
Lean-to
Dennis
$1,000 [30]
In August 1858 this American financier succeeded in laying the first successful Transatlantic cable
Cyrus Field
$1,000 [12]
Jewish giant of the professional ring seen here
Goldberg
Dennis
DD $2,000 [5]
Bishop Blackie Ryan
Andrew Greeley
Kathryn
$1,000 [24]
In "The Jungle Book", he's Mowgli's instructive panther
Bagheera
Rob
$1,000 [26]
"Prophetic" name of Cher's son with Gregg Allman
Elijah Blue
Dennis
$1,000 [18]
This name for an often rundown apartment building comes from the Latin for "to hold"
Tenement
Rob

Final Jeopardy!

THEATRE HISTORY

This playwright died in 406 B.C., so he never saw his famous tragedy at Colonus produced

Sophocles

Kathryn "Who was Euripedes" — wagered $1,600
Dennis "Who was Sophocles" — wagered $3,000
Rob "Who was Sophocles?" — wagered $5,601

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