Show #3865 2001-05-25 (taped 2001-02-14) Regular

Contestants

Steve Engel — a psychology professor from Los Angeles, California

Liz Bakulski — an investment advisor originally from Andover, Massachusetts

Carl Brownell — a high school teacher from Evanston, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carl $2,700 $4,600 $7,500 $15,000
2nd place: Trip to Singapore courtesy of Priceline.com
$6,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Liz $-800 $-800 $1,000 $1,000
3rd place: Sony Card $1,000 Shopping Spree
$1,400
4 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Steve $1,800 $6,400 $10,000 $15,001
New champion: $15,001
$7,700
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE & NATURE HARD ROCK CAFE A NOVEL CATEGORY REMEMBER 1989? RHYMES WITH RHYME GAMING
$100 [22]
About one-millionth as bright as our sun, these small red stars are also known as flare stars
dwarfs
Steve
$100 [1]
These rockers conquered the world with albums like "High Voltage", "Highway to Hell" & "Back in Black"
AC/DC
Carl
$100 [16]
Elias Canetti's "Die Blendung" has been published in English under the Biblical title "The Tower of" this
Babel
Carl
$100 [6]
Based on a comic book & a campy '60s TV show, this movie was an immense hit in 1989
Batman
Carl
$100 [21]
Unlawful activity
crime
Steve
$100 [11]
One story credits 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal with the invention of this ball-&-wheel game
roulette
Steve
$200 [23]
The mud eel is not really an eel, but a species of this tailed amphibian
a salamander
Carl
$200 [2]
At No. 4, this Robert Plant band's highest-charting U.S. hit was 1969's "Whole Lotta Love"
Led Zeppelin
Carl
$200 [17]
This "Don Quixote" author wrote his first novel, "La Galatea", in 1585
Cervantes
Carl
$200 [7]
Attracting widespread media coverage, this star of "The Queen of Outer Space" slapped a cop
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Carl
$200 [24]
Sound of a bell
chime
Carl
$200 [12]
Hazard is a centuries-old game using these, which Einstein thought God doesn't play with
dice
Steve
$300 [27]
Of the 6 simple machines in physics, this one uses a spiral inclined plane
a screw
Steve
$300 [3]
On the Michael Jackson hit "Beat It" this virtuoso lead guitarist played a solo
Eddie Van Halen
Carl
$300 [18]
"The Plum in the Golden Vase", a novel known for its eroticism, was written at the time of this Chinese dynasty
the Ming Dynasty
$300 [8]
Playing for the Texas Rangers, this man became the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters
Nolan Ryan
Steve
$300 [25]
Slug & snail residue
slime
Carl
$300 [13]
Wild Fruit Bars & Jackpot Party are popular types of these machines
slot machines
Steve
$500 [29]
All 6 noble gases were discovered on Earth between 1894 & 1900; this one, symbol Rn, was the last
radon
Steve
$400 [4]
In the 1970s the man seen here fronted this "colorful" rock band:[Ozzy Osbourne]
Black Sabbath
Carl Liz
$400 [19]
The 1803 book "Thaddeus of" this Polish city is called one of the first historical novels
Warsaw
Carl
$400 [9]
Echoing sports cars of the past, Mazda introduced this 2-seat roadster
Miata
Steve
$400 [26]
A Canadian coin
dime
Steve
$400 [14]
Aussie mogul Kerry Packer reportedly lost $15 million in a weekend at this game that involves a banker
baccarat
Carl Liz
DD $2,700 [28]
The name of this Alpine flower is German for "noble white"
Edelweiss
Steve
$500 [5]
Known best for "Rock You Like A Hurricane", this metal band cut an album in 2000 with the Berlin Philharmonic
The Scorpions
Liz
$500 [20]
A relative of Chilean president Salvador Allende, she wrote the luminous novel "Eva Luna"
Isabel Allende
Carl
$500 [10]
In 1989 this Japanese corporation bought Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion
Sony
Carl
$500 [30]
First in degree or rank
prime
Steve
$500 [15]
Caesars Palace historians tell us this game with numbers marked on a ticket helped fund the Great Wall of China
keno (lottery accepted)
Carl Liz Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

DRAMA & DRAMATISTS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! NESTLE'S COUNTRY MUSIC WORDS FROM CHINESE
$200 [8]
As a music critic, this playwright signed his essays first as "Corno di Bassetto", then as "G.B.S."
George Bernard Shaw
$200 [1]
Monrovia
Liberia
Carl
$200 [13]
This leader in power from 1917 to 1924 founded Russia's Communist Party & the Soviet state
V.I. Lenin
Steve
$200 [6]
Nestle's began making this in 1904; they claim to make the very best of it
chocolate
Carl Liz
$200 [26]
The originator of the Bakersfield sound, he once referred to himself in song as "Ol' Buck"
Buck Owens
Carl
$200 [21]
"Great wind", a tropical cyclone
typhoon
Carl
$400 [9]
In 1622 this French comedic playwright was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in Paris
Molière
Carl Steve
$400 [2]
Kinshasa
Congo (formerly Zaire)
Steve
$400 [14]
Seen here, she's made a name for herself on & off the tennis courts
Anna Kournikova
Carl
$400 [7]
On Nestle's brand list, 1 of the 2 mineral waters filed under "P"
Perrier (or Poland Spring)
Steve
$400 [27]
Country music fans often tune into TNN, which now stands for "The National Network", but used to stand for this
The Nashville Network
Carl
$400 [22]
The name of this game played with 144 tiles comes from a Chinese word meaning "sparrows"
Mah jongg
Steve
$600 [10]
This 1961 Tennessee Williams play takes place at the Costa Verde, a small Mexican hotel on a jungle-covered hilltop
Night of the Iguana
Carl
$600 [3]
Muscat
Oman
$600 [15]
Court jeweler to Alexander III & Nicholas II, he was famous for his beautifully crafted eggs
Carl Faberge
Steve
$600 [18]
Nestle's first non-milk product was an instant form of this in 1938
coffee (Nescafé)
$600 [28]
In the 1970s this singer from Butcher Holler teamed with Conway Twitty for 5 No. 1 hits
Loretta Lynn
Carl
DD $400 [24]
"Man herb", an aromatic root used medicinally
ginseng
Liz
$1,000 [12]
In this Chekhov play, a merchant buys Madame Ranevsky's estate & plans to cut down its trees
The Cherry Orchard
Steve
$800 [4]
Dakar
Senegal
Carl
$800 [16]
A ballet by this composer features the piece heard here:["The Russian Dance"]
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Carl
$800 [19]
In 1985 Nestle's bloomed when it acquired this American maker of evaporated milk from contented cows
Carnation
Liz Steve
$800 [29]
November 28, 1925 marked the debut of this station's "Barn Dance", which later became the "Grand Ole Opry"
WSM ("World's Sweetest Music")
$600 [23]
It's the sand-fur dog variety seen here
a shar-pei
Liz
DD $1,500 [11]
From 1851 to 1857 he served as writer-manager of the Norwegian Theatre in Bergen
Henrik Ibsen
Carl
$1,000 [5]
Central America's Belmopan
Belize
$1,000 [17]
This Russian poet & author of the drama "Boris Godunov" died from wounds suffered in a duel in 1837
Alexander Pushkin
Carl
$1,000 [20]
Henri Nestle began his company in this country in the 1860s selling a cow's-milk food for babies
Switzerland
Liz
$1,000 [25]
Gold-orange fruit seen here
a kumquat
Steve

Final Jeopardy!

INTERNATIONAL STARS

Since 1978 the city of Paris has funded his Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris

Marcel Marceau

Liz "Who is Marcel Marceau" — wagered $0
Carl "Who is Marcel Marceau?" — wagered $7,500
Steve "Who is Marcel Marceau" — wagered $5,001

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