Show #3460 1999-09-24 (taped 1999-07-14) Regular

Contestants

David Stuart — an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Mike Long — a school librarian originally from Simsbury, Connecticut

Dylan McKenna — an actor from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $14,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dylan $1,900 $2,400 $6,800 $11,000
3-day champion: $25,900
$7,800
18 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Mike $600 $2,200 $5,400 $10,800
2nd place: Trip to Carmel Valley Ranch Resort, Carmel, California
$5,400
16 R, 1 W
David $-400 $200 $3,700 $7,400
3rd place: DirecTV Satellite System
$3,100
10 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORS MUSIC OF THE '60s COMMIE TALK CITY SEALS HAT HAPPY ROUND NUMBER, PLEASE
$100 [26]
"African Game Trails"
Teddy Roosevelt
David
$100 [1]
In 1969 "Something" became the only No. 1 hit he composed for The Beatles
George Harrison
Mike
$100 [6]
Marxism combined with a strong party structure is called "Marxism" this "ism"
Leninism
Mike David
$100 [11]
This northwestern city's seal bears the image of Chief Sealth, for whom the city is named
Seattle
Mike
$100 [16]
Title of the gagster who doffed the top seenherein the Middle Ages:
Court jester
Dylan
$100 [21]
It's the Major League record for home runs in a season
70
David
$200 [27]
"Where's the Rest of Me?"
Ronald Reagan
$200 [2]
In 1969 B.J. Thomas had the biggest hit of his career with this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
David
$200 [7]
This group manages the daily work of a Communist Party & might also win the Triple Crown
Secretariat
$200 [12]
The seal of this Texas city features a plow & a locomotive, but no Saturn V rocket
Houston
Dylan
$200 [17]
A 1,200-year-old city lends its name to this hat seen here:
Fez
Mike
$200 [22]
On March 29, 1999 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above this benchmark for the first time
10,000
Mike
$300 [28]
"My Boyhood in Iowa"
Herbert Hoover
$300 [3]
In this 1965 hit, Roger Miller tells us that "Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve four-bit room"
"King of the Road"
Mike
$300 [8]
Chinese Communists could have used "Greyhound" in place of this term for counter-revolutionaries
Running dogs
$300 [13]
Its seal features the Latin phrase for "Let Brotherly Love Continue"
Philadelphia
Dylan
$300 [18]
Hatmaker whose name is found on a Florida university & the brand of hat seen here:
Stetson
Mike
$300 [23]
A U-turn, or a complete reversal of opinion
180
David
DD $500 [29]
"As We Remember Joe"
John F. Kennedy
David
$400 [4]
In 1968 his "Hurdy Gurdy Man" came singing songs of love
Donovan
Dylan
$400 [9]
One who accepts Communist doctrine but doesn't join the party is this type of "journeyer"
Fellow traveler
$400 [14]
This state capital's seal features a ship; we're sure it's the Santa Maria
Columbus, Ohio
$400 [19]
The jipijapa plant is the main ingredient of this national hat seen here
Panama hat
Dylan
$400 [24]
In 1899 the Jamais Contente, "Never Satisfied", became the first auto to "go like" this
60
Mike David
$500 [30]
"Crusade in Europe"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
$500 [5]
In the 1960s she reached the Top 20 3 times with duets: twice with Lee Hazelwood & once with her father
Nancy Sinatra
Dylan David
$500 [10]
This organization whose name was an abbreviation of "Communist International" existed from 1919 to 1943
Comintern
$500 [15]
The seal of Memphis shows a steamboat & this fiber plant
Cotton
Dylan
$500 [20]
"Bakery" nickname for the wearers of the hat seen here:
Doughboys
Mike
$500 [25]
Number of psalms in the Biblical book of Psalms
150

Double Jeopardy! Round

UNITED "STATE"S CHINESE LEADERS RUSSIAN RECIPES AMERICAN LITERATURE EARLY BRITISH CINEMA CANADIAN TOURISM
$200 [1]
It's a private compartment on a ship or train
Stateroom
David
$200 [24]
Party chairman from 1949-1976
Mao Tse-tung
Dylan
$200 [18]
Russia claims it invented this unaged liquor once made from potatoes
Vodka
Dylan
$200 [9]
Some of his stories of the Yukon were published in the 1910 collection "Lost Face"
Jack London
Mike
$200 [16]
Hitchcock's "Blackmail" of 1929 was Britain's first feature film of this type
Talkie
Dylan
$200 [6]
The thunderous waters of this world famous tourist attraction border Canada's Victoria Park
Niagara Falls
Dylan
$400 [2]
Created in 1789, it replaced Foreign Affairs in the U.S. cabinet
Department of State
Mike
$400 [25]
President in China, 1948-1949; President in exile on Taiwan, 1949-1975
Chiang Kai-shek
Mike
$400 [19]
To serve it in traditional style, always garnish this Russian beet soup with a dollop of sour cream
Borscht
Dylan
$400 [8]
A rum smuggler is the central character in his 1937 novel "To Have and Have Not"
Ernest Hemingway
Dylan
$400 [17]
Of 1885, 1895 or 1905, the year Birt Acres launched the British film industry with his "Kinetic Lantern"
1895
$400 [7]
The Nova Scotia museum named for this man features early experimental models of his telephones
Alexander Graham Bell
David
$600 [3]
On January 19, 1999 this speech was given to the combined houses of Congress
State of the Union
Mike
$600 [26]
The last emperor, 1908-1912
Pu Yi
Mike
$600 [20]
As "holubtsi", this slaw ingredient is stuffed, seasoned, baked & served as an entree
Cabbage
Dylan
$600 [10]
"Horseman, Pass By", the first novel by this Texan, was made into the movie "Hud" in 1963
Larry McMurtry
$600 [22]
1914's version of this colorful story was the first big screen treatment of a Sherlock Holmes mystery
"A Study in Scarlet"
David
$600 [13]
Each year this British Columbia city hosts the Symphony of Fire, a 4-day fireworks extravaganza
Vancouver
Dylan
$800 [4]
When something is at the highest level of current development, it's described with this 4-word phrase
State of the art
David
$800 [27]
President, 1993-today
Jiang Zemin
Dylan
$800 [21]
To prepare this gourd, curcurbita pepo, Russian style, stuff it with rice, apples & sour cherries, then bake it
Pumpkin
$800 [11]
This 1936 novel by Faulkner tells the story of Thomas Sutpen & bears the name of an Old Testament figure
"Absalom, Absalom!"
Dylan
$800 [28]
In 1933 Brit cinema enjoyed a boost with Alexander Korda's film "The Private Life of" this king
Henry VIII
DD $1,000 [14]
If you're a Shakespeare fan, don't miss Canada's most famous dramatic festival, held each year in this city
Stratford, Ontario
Dylan
$1,000 [5]
A Nittany Lion could tell you this city is home to Penn State's main campus
State College
Dylan Mike
$1,000 [30]
Vice Premier & most powerful member of Chinese Communist Party from 1980-1989
Teng Hsiao-ping
Mike
DD $1,500 [23]
The popular codfish soup named for this Russian mystic reputedly gave him his health, vigor & virility
Rasputin
David
$1,000 [12]
Her essays in "Against Interpretation" & "On Photography" call for an emotive response to creative works
Susan Sontag
$1,000 [29]
Britain's most popular silent film star, this woman shares her last name with a 1917 "Declaration"
Betty Balfour
$1,000 [15]
Each February the Northern Trapper's Festival held north of Winnipeg in this province celebrates early Canadian pioneers
Manitoba
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

OLYMPICS 2000

Name of the new Olympic event that will cover a total of 51.5 kilometers

the triathlon

David "What is the triathalon?" — wagered $3,700
Mike "What is the triathlon?" — wagered $5,400
Dylan "What is the triathlon?" — wagered $4,200

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