Show #3886 2001-06-25 (taped 2001-03-06) Regular

Lan Djang game 4.

Contestants

Kris Springer — a children's librarian from Brighton, Massachusetts

Gary Rewerts — a geological exploration technician from Houston, Texas

Lan Djang — a business analyst from Toronto, Ontario (whose 3-day cash winnings total $27,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lan $700 $3,300 $7,000 $13,000
4-day champion: $40,300
$7,300
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Gary $2,000 $3,200 $7,500 $999
2nd place: a trip to La Costa Resort & Spa, San Diego
$6,500
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Kris $800 $1,300 $3,900 $1
3rd place: a Fisher Sound Stage home theater system
$3,900
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE SOUTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY NANCY SIN-EMA THEY SAID IT NEW ENGLISH NOBILITY? WHERE IS EVERY "BODY"?
$100 [12]
London, Paris, Lisbon
Lisbon
Gary
$100 [22]
In books, she does her sleuthing with the help of pals Bess & George
Nancy Drew
Lan
$100 [1]
Alone it's a James Caan flick; it's also found before "of Hearts" & "of Baghdad"
Thief
Gary Kris
$100 [5]
Oscar Wilde wrote in "Lady Windermere's Fan", "I can resist anything except" this
Temptation
$100 [18]
We were not amused by his role as Genghis Khan, but for Rooster Cogburn, we honor this "Duke"
John Wayne
Kris
$100 [7]
A person who meddles or pries into the affairs of others
Busybody
Kris
$200 [13]
Sydney, Wellington, Jakarta
Wellington
Lan
$200 [23]
This famous daughter & singer made her national TV debut with dad & Elvis in 1959
Nancy Sinatra
Lan
$200 [2]
Andrew Kevin Walker wrote & played a dead man in this movie about a killer using the deadly sins as his M.O.
Se7en
Lan
$200 [14]
In a 1789 letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, this American said, "But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"
Benjamin Franklin
Gary
$200 [19]
For exploits superior as a N.Y. Knicks guard, we ennoble this man, also known as "The Pearl"
Earl Monroe
Gary
$200 [8]
The process of developing human musculature especially for competitive exhibition
Bodybuilding
Kris
$300 [28]
Khartoum, Tripoli, Cairo
Khartoum
Lan
$300 [24]
Seen here, he's Nancy's sidekick
Sluggo
Gary Kris
$300 [3]
Julie London copes with a jealous husband in 1959's "A Question of" this Biblical sin
Adultery
Lan
$300 [15]
Fred Allen quipped that this doctor "Is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself"
Psychiatrist
Lan
$300 [20]
For playing a Hawaiian cop for 12 years & keeping his hair in perfect form the entire time, we dub thee...
Jack Lord
Kris
$300 [9]
To ride the waves to shore without a board
Bodysurfing
Gary
$400 [29]
Taipei, Hanoi, Manila
Manila
Lan
$400 [25]
She played Tony's mom, Livia Soprano
Nancy Marchand
Lan
$400 [4]
The Bob Hope film "Nothing But the Truth" has the same premise as this Jim Carrey vehicle with a repetitive name
Liar Liar
Kris
$400 [16]
In "To A Louse" he wrote, "O wad some power the giftie gie us, to see our sels as ithers see us!"
Robert Burns
Kris
$400 [21]
We were moved by Diana Ross in Billie Holiday's film bio & reaffirm this nickname of Billie's
"Lady Day"
Lan
$400 [10]
One whose interests center on his dwelling place
Homebody
Gary
$500 [30]
Kingston, Havana, Nassau
Kingston
Gary Kris
$500 [26]
Nancy Travis was the mom of the title tot in this 1987 film in which a trio of bachelors take on fatherhood
Three Men and a Baby
Lan
$500 [6]
1990's "Henry: Portrait of" one of these was loosely based on the notorious Henry Lee Lucas
A serial killer
Gary
$500 [17]
Longfellow line that precedes "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"
"One if by land, two if by sea"
$500 [27]
Governor of California from 1949 to 1953 & a Supreme Court Chief Justice, we confer on him the title of....
Earl Warren
Kris
DD $800 [11]
A substance produced in the blood in response to a specific toxin
Antibody
Gary

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY AMERICANS TV NOSTALGIA WRITERS' HUSBANDS LOST VEGAS WHAT KIND OF SHAPE ARE YOU IN? BEFORE & AFTER
$200 [1]
In 1850 this religious leader became the first governor of the Utah territory
Brigham Young
Lan
$200 [2]
In titles of TV series, it followed "Grandpa Goes to..." & "Mr. Smith Goes to..."
Washington
Gary
$200 [15]
In 1947 future feminist firebrand Betty Goldstein married a man named this
Carl Friedan
Gary
$200 [11]
I long for the days when this pyramid-shaped hotel featured a Nile River cruise through its lobby
Luxor
Lan
$200 [16]
Its area equals pi r (squared)
Circle
Lan
$200 [25]
Former Van Halen lead singer who became a comic strip Viking
Sammy Hagar the Horrible
Lan
$400 [7]
He began selling his first gum brands, Lotta & Vassar in 1892; Juicy Fruit came a year later
William Wrigley
Lan
$400 [3]
This movie cowboy's '50s TV series was so popular that his horse Champion got his own series, too
Gene Autry
Gary Kris
DD $300 [27]
This wealthy future Senate candidate wed Arianna Stassinopoulos in 1986
Michael Huffington
Lan
$400 [12]
Vegas said "Adios" to the Hacienda Casino in 1996, imploding it on this holiday eve
New Year's Eve
Kris
$400 [19]
Its area equals one of its sides times itself
Square
Lan
$400 [28]
Proverbial biblical skeptic who invented many things as "The Wizard of Menlo Park"
Doubting Thomas Edison
Lan Gary
$600 [8]
At the 1851 World's Fair in London, he won a medal for his "American Daguerreotypes"
Mathew Brady
Lan
$600 [4]
"Sigmund and the Sea Monsters" starred Johnny Whitaker, who had played Jody on this sitcom
Family Affair
Gary
$800 [22]
In 1914 she married her cousin Bror
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
$600 [13]
This blonde actress' hotel-casino & movie museum were sold in 1998 to the World Wrestling Federation
Debbie Reynolds
$600 [17]
Its area equals half of the product of the base times the height
Triangle
Lan
$600 [26]
Cole Porter's "Shakespearean" musical starring the actress who played "Star Trek" captain Janeway
Kiss Me, Kate Mulgrew
Lan
$800 [9]
His ballad "Beautiful Dreamer" wasn't published until after his death
Stephen Foster
$1,000 [6]
Teresa Graves starred as a sexy black policewoman on the '70s series called "Get" her!
Christie Love
$800 [14]
The El Rancho Hotel demolished in 2000 was originally known as this "bird", like a Ford model
Thunderbird
Kris
$800 [18]
Seen here, its area equals the product of the base times the height
a parallelogram
Lan Gary
$800 [23]
Famous phrase attributed to Horace Greeley that's a musical about Don Quixote
Go West Young Man of La Mancha
Lan
$1,000 [10]
His 1830 poem "Old Ironsides" helped save the U.S.S. Constitution from destruction
Oliver Wendell Holmes
DD $1,500 [5]
This author introduced the first episode of the epic 1978 miniseries "Centennial"
James Michener
Gary
$1,000 [21]
The Club Bingo went bye-bye back in '52 when this desert-named hotel replaced it
Sahara
Lan
$1,000 [20]
Seen here, its area equals half the sum of the parallel sides multiplied by the height
a trapezoid
Gary
$1,000 [24]
First U.S. woman to win 3 golds in Olympic track who "had a very shiny nose"
Wilma Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Kris

Final Jeopardy!

OPERATIC TITLE CHARACTERS

These title characters of a classic operatic work are a bunch of mythical dwarves

The Nibelung

Kris "Who are the fairies" — wagered $3,899
Lan "Who are the Nibelung?" — wagered $6,000
Gary "Who?" — wagered $6,501

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