Show #3878 2001-06-13 (taped 2001-02-27) Regular

Mark Eckard game 4.

Contestants

Jessica Finkelberg — a talent backer from Jersey City, New Jersey

Jason Blankenship — a public defender from Keene, New Hampshire

Mark Eckard — a software engineer from Bedford, Massachusetts (whose 3-day cash winnings total $38,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $1,600 $3,000 $9,200 $17,200
4-day champion: $55,500
$8,300
25 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W
Jason $600 $2,700 $8,500 $100
2nd place: Forever Resorts Houseboat Vacation in Nevada
$8,500
19 R, 1 W
Jessica $2,400 $3,400 $4,000 $1
3rd place: Pinseeker Golf Clubs
$4,000
14 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

GEORGE W. - THE GUBERNATORIAL YEARS OUT OF THE "BLUE" LAST NAME'S THE SAME BOOK REVIEWS LET'S CELEBRATE! THE JOY OF SAX
$100 [26]
A bill signed by Bush allowed Texans to carry these for the first time since the 1870s
handguns
Jason
$100 [1]
It's generally a high-priced stock with a long history of growth, like G.E. or AT&T
blue chip
Mark
$100 [16]
Dave, Clarence, Marlo
Thomas
Jessica
$100 [6]
One review called this Robert James Waller tale of a photographer's affair with a farmwife "Yuppie women's porn"
The Bridges of Madison County
Jessica
$100 [11]
The people of Monroe in this state have been celebrating "Cheese Days" since 1914 (They must be tired!)
Wisconsin
Jason
$100 [21]
David Sandborn doesn't do "Stupid Sax Tricks" when he sits in with Paul & the band on this man's show
David Letterman
Mark
$200 [27]
In '97 Bush got one of these worth $1 billion; in 2001 he asked for one worth more than $1 trillion
a tax cut
Jessica
$200 [2]
In a famous jingle, "Everything's better with" this kind of margarine "on it"
Blue Bonnet
Mark
$200 [17]
James Earl, Tommy Lee, Rickie Lee
Jones
Mark
$200 [7]
"Dr. Seuss took 220 words, rhymed them, and turned out" this "volume of absurdity that worked like a karate chop"
The Cat in the Hat
Jessica
$200 [12]
French for "good journey", it's the kind of party thrown to celebrate setting off on a cruise
Bon Voyage
Mark
$200 [22]
Office held at the time by the man in the 1992 clip seen here
Governor of Arkansas
Jason
$300 [28]
It's the Y in TYC, the commission whose funding doubled under Bush to combat juvenile crime
Youth
Mark
$300 [3]
Before holding court on "Judging Amy", Amy Brenneman played a cop on this drama
NYPD Blue
Jessica
$300 [18]
Rita, Martha, Calvin
Coolidge
Jessica
$300 [8]
One reviewer said "Wondrous beasts and scientific possibilities" made this Michael Crichton novel "alluring"
Jurassic Park
Mark
$300 [13]
This festival officially opens when the mayor of Munich taps the first barrel & shouts, "O'zapft Is!"
Oktoberfest
Mark
$300 [23]
Before taking some letters off his last name, Gorelick, this soprano sax man's first paid gig was with Barry White
Kenny G
Mark
$400 [29]
On June 1, 2000, Gov. Bush postponed one of these for the first time in over 130 chances
an execution
Jessica
$400 [4]
It begins, "Well it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go cat go"
"Blue Suede Shoes"
Jessica
$400 [19]
Norma, Robert, Calvin
Klein
Jason
DD $500 [9]
One review said that this 1977 horror novel "can burn its images--such as room 217--into your brain"
The Shining
Mark
$400 [14]
In September the San Gennaro Festival turns this "small" ethnic area of Manhattan into a street fair
Little Italy
Jessica
$400 [24]
Dizzy Gillespie & this alto sax man known as "Bird" helped popularize bebop in the '40s
Charlie Parker
Jason
$500 [30]
One of Bush's first initiatives was tort reform to stop what he called the "junk" type of these
lawsuits
Mark
$500 [5]
They're the bad guys whom the Beatles battled in the movie "Yellow Submarine"
Blue Meanies
Jessica
$500 [20]
Graham, Clarence, Ogden
Nash
Jason
$500 [10]
His "tales of failure are his successes, and 'An American Tragedy', in which failure is unalleviated, is his greatest success"
Theodore Dreiser
Jessica
$500 [15]
(Hi, I'm Jodie Foster.) When my friend Mel Gibson won 2 Oscars for this film, I hired a bagpiper to follow him around at the parties
Braveheart
Jason
$500 [25]
Some of "My Favorite Things" by this sax genius are "Giant Steps" & "Equinox"
John Coltrane
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIG OLD ISLANDS LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR FONTS OF INFORMATION GENERALLY SPEAKING EDIBLE TV THE JOY OF SIX
$200 [1]
In 1856 those little devils on Van Diemen's Land changed its name to this
Tasmania
Jason
$200 [26]
Of 1/3 & 1/5
15
Mark Jason
$200 [21]
The name of this font also belongs to ancient Teutonic people & a style of architecture
Gothic
Mark Jason
$200 [7]
George C. Scott won an Oscar for his portrayal of this general
George S. Patton
Mark
$200 [4]
Dean Martin hosted several of these, in which celebrities were insulted by their peers
roasts
Mark
$200 [16]
"Sing a song of" this & some reasonably priced blackbirds baked in a pie
sixpence
Mark
$400 [2]
Darwin & the Beagle stopped by this island named by Magellan off the tip of South America
Tierra del Fuego
Jason
$400 [27]
Of 1/4 & 1/6
12
Jessica
$400 [22]
This font is called Big Top or by the name of this 19th century big top showman
(P.T.) Barnum
Mark
$400 [8]
2 years before Little Bighorn, he published "My Life on the Plains"
George Custer
Jason
$400 [12]
A short-lived '80s cartoon featured a fat husband named Meatballs & his thin wife named this
Spaghetti
Mark
$400 [17]
Michael Douglas' wife should know it's the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet
Zeta
Mark
$600 [3]
The westernmost of Indonesia's Sunda Islands, it also starts with "Su"
Sumatra
Jessica
$600 [28]
Of 1/6, 1/8 & 1/12
24
Mark
$600 [23]
The font seen here:10, 9, 8, 7...
Countdown
Mark
$600 [9]
In 2000 this Desert Storm general received the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award
Norman Schwarzkopf
Mark
$600 [13]
In a show adapted from a film, Tom Mason was Freebie & Hector Elizondo played him
The Bean
Jessica
$600 [18]
The "Six Counties" of the northern part of this island include Armagh, Antrim & Derry
Ireland
Mark
$1,000 [6]
It's the largest island of the Nunavut Territory, as well as of its country
Baffin Island (Canada)
Mark Jason
$800 [29]
Of 1/9 & 1/15
45
Jason
$800 [24]
This typeface was inspired by & named for this 1920s German design school
Bauhaus
Jason
$1,000 [11]
Before Powell, 1 of 2 4-star generals who went on to become Secretary of State
Alexander Haig or George Marshall
$800 [14]
"The Ed Sullivan Show" was originally called this "of the Town"
Toast of the Town
Mark
$800 [19]
Numerical proverb used when there's no good choice between 2 propositions
"Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other"
Mark Jason
DD $1,200 [5]
Encarta notes shoe manufacturing is a big industry on this largest of the islands once ruled by Marcos
Luzon (in the Philippines)
Mark
$1,000 [30]
Of 1/2, 1/5, 1/10 & 1/12
60
Jason
$1,000 [25]
Neither snow, nor rain, etc. stays this font from the swift completion of its appointed rounds
Courier
Jason Jessica
DD $1,200 [10]
This Civil War hero was originally named for a Shawnee Indian chief, William was added later
William Tecumseh Sherman
Mark
$1,000 [15]
A 1989 game show of TV trivia, or the kind of people who did well on it
Couch Potatoes
Mark
$1,000 [20]
In '77 this Lou Gramm-led group was hot when they hit No. 6 with "Cold As Ice"
Foreigner
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

DIRECTORS

In 1939 he helped Roger Hill prepare the "Mercury Shakespeare", a series of editions for actors

Orson Welles

Jessica "Who is Olivier?" — wagered $3,999
Jason "Who was Capra" — wagered $8,400
Mark "Who was Orson Welles" — wagered $8,000

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