Show #3888 2001-06-27 (taped 2001-03-06) Regular

Kevin Keach game 1.

Contestants

Chris Howard — a heavy equipment sales representative from Mississauga, Ontario

Elizabeth Heichler — a newswire editor from Arlington, Massachusetts

Kevin Keach — an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $1,100 $2,500 $7,900 $7,100
New champion: $7,100
$7,900
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Elizabeth $1,100 $2,000 $2,000 $1
3rd place: a Sony Card $1,000 shopping spree
$1,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Chris $1,100 $3,700 $3,500 $4,100
2nd place: a trip to Marriott's Desert Springs Villas, Palm Desert, California
$3,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LIT SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES SURVIVAL SKILLS ANIMALS YOU SAY POTATO CROSSWORD CLUES "K"
$100 [1]
In "Blessed By Thunder", Flor Fernandez Barrios describes growing up in this country during Castro's revolution
Cuba
Chris
$100 [26]
From the Latin for "hearing", it's a short performance by an actor applying for a role
Audition
Elizabeth
$100 [11]
Lie flat on your back with arms & legs outstretched to avoid sinking in this, which is just sand mixed with upwelling water
Quicksand
Elizabeth
$100 [2]
It's the common term for the young of a whale as well as a cow
Calf
Chris
$100 [17]
The Russet Burbank potato is also known by this "state"ly name
Idaho potato
Elizabeth
$100 [12]
Derby state(8)
Kentucky
Elizabeth
$200 [6]
His 1999 memoir "'Tis" opens in 1949, when he emigrated from Ireland to America at age 19
Frank McCourt
Elizabeth
$200 [27]
This name for the Hollywood actor's necessity seenheresounds like a boxing blow to the skull
a headshot
Elizabeth
$200 [22]
(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst of Survivor.) Stings from this marine creature, also called a medusa, should be washed with rubbing alcohol or vinegar
a jellyfish
Kevin
$200 [3]
Of a wild dog, a rabbit or a bird, what a jackdaw is
Bird
Chris
$200 [18]
At a New Jersey spelling bee in 1992, he insisted that "potato" was spelled with an "E" at the end
Dan Quayle
Elizabeth
$200 [13]
Chivalrous chesspiece(6)
knight
Kevin
$300 [7]
Euphrase Kezilahabi of Tanzania wrote his novel "Rosa Mistika" in this African language
Swahili
Elizabeth
$300 [28]
Important on-set experience can be gained working as one of these aka atmospheres or background artists
an extra
Elizabeth
$300 [23]
A person who's suffered this "stroke" should be cooled quickly--he may have a high fever & have stopped sweating
Heat stroke
Chris
$300 [4]
This civet relative not only kills cobras but mice, rats & poultry as well
Mongoose
Chris
$300 [19]
Don Rickles voiced Mr. Potato Head in this 1995 film
Toy Story
Kevin
$300 [14]
Cinematic knockout Novak(3)
Kim
Chris
$400 [8]
Some find that reading this marquis' 18th century novel "Justine" is pure torture
Marquis de Sade
Kevin
$400 [29]
For practice, many Hollywood actors memorize one of these long passages in a play spoken by only one character
Soliloquy/monologue
Kevin
$400 [24]
Direct pressure & elevation can control bleeding; this device--a last resort--can cause gangrene & the loss of the limb
Tourniquet
Chris
$400 [5]
These mollusks, not oysters, are the most common source for freshwater pearls
mussels
Kevin Elizabeth Chris
$400 [20]
This snack company uses over 5 billion pounds of potatoes annually to make Ruffles & other chips
Frito-Lay
Chris
$400 [15]
Canadian river, or singer Lainie(5)
Kazan
Kevin
$500 [9]
This Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale" set her novel "Cat's Eye" in Toronto
Margaret Atwood
Chris
$500 [30]
They're the 2 main unions that represent professional TV & film actors in Hollywood
AFTRA & SAG
Kevin
$500 [25]
If attacked by a python or boa, this type of snake that coils to suffocate its prey, try to control its tail & uncoil it
a constrictor
Chris
$500 [10]
"Euell" be glad to know these small apes are the only ones to habitually walk erect
Gibbons
DD $1,000 [21]
In Gaelic it's known as "An Gorta Mor" (The Great Hunger)
The Irish Potato Famine
Chris
$500 [16]
A gazebo, or an outdoor newsstand(5)
kiosk
Kevin

Double Jeopardy! Round

RUSSIAN HISTORY CALLED ON THE CARPET ITALIAN MUSICAL TERMS SPORTS NICKNAMES WAY OUT WEST "WO" IS ME
$200 [1]
In December 1994 Russia sent troops into this breakaway republic to quell an independence movement
Chechnya
Chris
$200 [26]
The 3 main types of woven rugs, velvet, Wilton & Axminster, are made on different types of this machine
Loom
Chris
$200 [21]
This interval is an ottava
Octave
Chris
$200 [6]
He really delivers as the "Mailman"
Karl Malone
Kevin
$200 [16]
The "suite" about this Arizona landmark had its debut in 1931 in--Chicago
Grand Canyon
Kevin
$200 [10]
Garrison's sorrowful lake
Lake Wobegon
Kevin
$400 [2]
After marrying Nicholas II, German princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt took this Russian name
Alexandra
Elizabeth
$400 [30]
Seen here is an example of the Tabriz school of this geographical type of carpet
a Persian rug
Kevin
$400 [22]
Meaning "cadence", it's a virtuoso solo passage
cadenza
Elizabeth
$400 [7]
Football fans nicknamed him "Big Sky"
Joe Montana
$400 [17]
Originally called Church Island, Antelope Island is the largest island in this lake
the Great Salt Lake
Chris
$400 [11]
Asian archenemy of "Hawaii Five-O"
Wo Fat
Kevin
$800 [4]
In 1240 his grandson Batu invaded Kiev & Russia became part of the Mongol empire
Genghis Khan
Kevin
$600 [29]
This type of rug covers only part of a room, much less than the same type of "code"
Area rug
Elizabeth
$600 [24]
5-letter word for "very slow", even slower than lento
Largo
Chris
$600 [8]
This tennis player is the "Iron Maiden" & "Tini Linguini"
Martina Navratilova
Kevin Elizabeth
$600 [18]
Legend says that in 1859 he bought the Nevada lode now named for him for a bottle of whiskey & a blind horse
Henry Comstock
Kevin
$600 [12]
Queeg's creator
Herman Wouk
DD $1,000 [3]
On Feb. 8, 1904 this country attacked Port Arthur, a Chinese port leased by the Russians, beginning a 19-month war
Japan
Elizabeth
$800 [28]
This room, seen here, is recognizable partly by its floor covering
the Oval Office
Chris
$800 [27]
Many a classical movement is this, Italian for "joke"
scherzo
Chris
$800 [9]
In the '20s & '30s this "Norwegian Doll" was the "Queen of the Ice" & a "Symphony on Silver Skates"
Sonja Henie
Elizabeth
$800 [19]
Founded in Pasadena in 1891 as the Throop University, it has many Nobel-winning alumni
Caltech
Kevin Elizabeth Chris
$800 [13]
"Weekly" Anglo-Saxon god
Woden
Chris
$1,000 [5]
In 1783, after defeating the Turks, Russia annexed this Ukrainian peninsula
Crimea
Kevin Chris
$1,000 [25]
These large, delicately woven rugs are named for the French village of their manufacture
Aubusson
Elizabeth
$1,000 [23]
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony begins "with vigor", allegro con this
Brio
Kevin
DD $1,000 [15]
This golfer was once known by the uncomplimentary nickname "Ohio Fats"
Jack Nicklaus
Kevin
$1,000 [20]
In 1909 the Bishops opened their new plant in this Oregon town to make Indian blankets
Pendleton
Elizabeth
$1,000 [14]
A Polish Pope
(Karol) Wojtyla
Kevin Elizabeth

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS COUPLES

The inscription on their crypt reads "Together Again" with the dates 1902-1964 & 1896-1996

George Burns & Gracie Allen

Elizabeth "Who were ?" — wagered $1,999
Chris "Who are George Burns and Gracie Allen?" — wagered $600
Kevin "Who are King & Queen Farouk?" — wagered $800

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