Show #3820 2001-03-23 (taped 2000-12-06) Regular

Contestants

Jack Breschard — a high school teacher from Santa Monica, California

Armando Martinez — a golf greenskeeper from Santa Monica, California

Matthew Wiehr — a geology student from Eugene, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matthew $200 $1,200 $-1,400 $-1,400
3rd place: MyPoints.com Gift Certificate
$-400
11 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Armando $1,700 $2,500 $4,700 $0
2nd place: Trip to Hong Kong, courtesy of Priceline.com
$5,700
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jack $1,600 $1,800 $7,200 $4,990
New champion: $4,990
$6,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE "DO", "RE", "MI" PLAY REVIVALS HERE COMES BAHRAIN AGAIN IT SOUNDS LIKE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
$100 [3]
Walt Whitman's 52-section "Song Of Myself" is the longest work in this collection first published in 1855
"Leaves of Grass"
Matthew
$100 [21]
Nancy Davis' married name
Reagan
Armando
$100 [11]
In August 2000 Lea Thompson sallied forth as Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of this musical
"Cabaret"
Jack
$100 [20]
In 1991 Bahrain was one of the good guys in this conflict & the U.S. sold it Apache helicopters
The Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm
Jack
$100 [15]
Jay Leno's show, it sounds like how you address a letter for Sir Galahad
Tonight
Armando Jack
$100 [1]
Porky popped out of this type of drum at the end of many a Looney Tune
Bass drum
Matthew
$200 [5]
In this Steinbeck novel, Lennie has nightmarish visions of his dead aunt Clara & of a gigantic rabbit
"Of Mice and Men"
Jack
$200 [22]
A small filet of prime beef
Mignon
Matthew
$200 [12]
In 1992 you could have seen James Gandolfini playing cards with Stanley Kowalski in a revival of this play
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
Armando
$200 [23]
This country that controlled Bahrain in the 18th century renewed its claim after its 1979 revolution
Iran
Matthew
$200 [16]
A cylindrical storage container for grain, it sounds like an order to exhale quietly
Silo
Jack
$200 [2]
Type of drum seen here, or a dance done to them
Conga
Armando
$300 [6]
In this novel, Javert says, "There is a brigand, there is a convict called Jean Valjean, and I have got him!"
"Les Miserables"
Armando
$300 [28]
It can mean relating to home or a servant who works there
Domestic
Matthew
$300 [13]
He starred on Broadway in "The Crucible" in 1991, a few years before becoming president (on TV, that is)
Martin Sheen
Armando
$300 [24]
The "humped" shape of a Bahraini island gives it the name Hawer, meaning "young" one of these
Camel
Matthew
$300 [17]
A pitcher who comes in late in the game, it sounds like a feeling trees have in the spring
Relief
Armando
$300 [4]
On the web you can find A. Claude Ferguson's masterful manual on playing these eating utensils
Spoons
Armando
$400 [7]
This James M. Cain novel, which has been filmed "twice", was written under the title "Bar-B-Q"
"The Postman Always Rings Twice"
Armando
$400 [29]
This kind of "name" is also known as an Internet address
domain
Armando
$400 [14]
George Grizzard was on board as Cap'n Andy when this "Ol' Man River" musical rolled into London in 1998
Show Boat
Jack
$400 [25]
The Khalifa clan, which has ruled Bahrain for 2 centuries, belongs to this majority branch of Islam
Sunni
Matthew Armando
$400 [18]
It sounds like the kind of personality most likely to have a heart attack in the capital of Taiwan
Taipei
Matthew
$400 [9]
Originally bean-containing dried gourds on handles, they were named by the Tupi of South America
Maracas
Jack
$500 [8]
This Muriel Spark novel is set at the Marcia Blaine School For Girls in Edinburgh
"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
Jack
$500 [30]
Harmful or poisonous fumes caused by decaying organic matter
Miasma
DD $1,000 [27]
Ethan Hawke appeared in a 1992 production of this Chekhov play with another bird in its name
"The Seagull"
Armando
$500 [26]
A causeway linking Bahrain & Saudi Arabia is named for this man who became Saudi king in 1982
King Fahd
$500 [19]
A runway material, it sounds like what you do before you feather your Apple computer
Tarmac
Armando
$500 [10]
Percussion instrument whose possible changes for a set of five are seen here
Bells

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH NOBILITY WHERE'S THE COLLEGE? QUOTATIONS CARY GRANT FILMS WATERFALLS FILE UNDER "K"
$200 [23]
In the 16th C. the Earl of Surrey helped bring this 14-line poetic form to England
Sonnet
Matthew
$200 [11]
University of Washington
Seattle
Matthew
$200 [3]
With his new $88.5 million contract, this Laker said, "I'm not really a big spender, I can get a lot of Krispy Kremes"
Shaquille O'Neal
Jack
$200 [1]
She done Cary right casting him as her co-star in "She Done Him Wrong"
Mae West
Jack
$200 [8]
Wollomombi Falls in northern New South Wales is one of this continent's highest waterfalls
Australia
Armando
$200 [7]
Its state flower is the goldenrod
Kentucky
Matthew Armando
DD $1,000 [27]
As a boy in 1461, the future King Richard III was made Duke of this
Gloucester
Matthew
$400 [12]
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Matthew
$400 [19]
Woody Guthrie wrote for this party's paper & joked, "I've been in the red all my life"
Communist party
Jack
$400 [2]
In this 1944 film about a pair of murderous aunts, Cary says, "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops"
Arsenic and Old Lace
Armando
$400 [9]
This African waterfall is also known as Mosi-Oa-Tunya, or "Smoke That Thunders"
Victoria Falls
Armando
$400 [16]
The Nancy Drew books are written under this pseudonym
Carolyn Keene
$1,000 [28]
In 1702 military hero John Churchill became this "man" as the first Duke of it
Marlborough
$600 [24]
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Matthew
$600 [20]
In 1783 he wrote, "There never was a good war or a bad peace"
Benjamin Franklin
Matthew Jack
$600 [4]
"High Society" is a musical version of this Cary Grant-Jimmy Stewart-Katharine Hepburn classic
The Philadelphia Story
Jack
$600 [10]
One of the most spectacular sites in this national park is Bridalveil Fall, which drops a misty curtain of water 620 feet
Yosemite
Jack
$600 [17]
His "Ode To A Nightingale" says, "With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, and purple-stained mouth"
John Keats
Armando
$800 [25]
University of South Carolina
Columbia
Matthew
$800 [21]
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, this Sec. of State said, "We're eyeball to eyeball & I think the other fellow just blinked"
Dean Rusk
$800 [5]
Joan Fontaine thinks that hubby Cary Grant is trying to murder her in this Hitchcock film
Suspicion
Jack
$800 [13]
The height of Shoshone Falls on this river in Idaho exceeds that of Niagara Falls
Snake River
Armando
$800 [15]
Former mortuary science student Jonathan Davis plays bagpipes & sings for this "Freak on a Leash" group
Korn
$1,000 [26]
University of Miami
Coral Gables
Matthew Jack
$1,000 [22]
This Nixon aide coined the phrase "Twist slowly, slowly in the wind" during a phone call to John Dean
John Ehrlichman
Jack
DD $2,000 [6]
This 1957 Cary Grant-Deborah Kerr weepie was a major plot device in "Sleepless In Seattle"
An Affair To Remember
Jack
$1,000 [14]
This scenic waterfall on the Brazil-Argentina border actually consists of about 275 individual cataracts
Iguazu Falls
Armando
$1,000 [18]
This is white wine & creme de cassis; substitute champagne for white wine & it becomes "royale"
Kir
Armando

Final Jeopardy!

TRANSPORTATION INNOVATIONS

This type of program that began in 1981 was inspired by Green Stamps

Frequent flyer program

Armando "What is computerized tok" — wagered $4,700
Jack "What is quick passes" — wagered $2,210

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