Show #3462 1999-09-28 (taped 1999-07-21) Regular

Steve Fried game 2.

Contestants

Pam Byers — a homemaker from Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Lyle Hertzig — a computer materials manager from Los Gatos, California

Steve Fried — an airline and cruise scheduler from Phoenix, Arizona (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $700 $2,700 $8,400 $6,100
2-day champion: $15,900
$7,500
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Lyle $600 $1,300 $5,100 $1,800
2nd place: Trip to Regal East Asia International Hotel, Shanghai, China
$6,100
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Pam $2,300 $3,300 $5,300 $1,300
3rd place: Kathy Ireland Fitness Equipment
$5,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES THAT'S LUNCH! ROCK & ROLL JEOPARDY! FLAKES COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG
$100 [5]
"Beantown"
Boston
Steve
$100 [22]
It's been applied to a 747 jet, a Barnum elephant & eggs
Jumbo
Pam
$100 [1]
In Panama, the fringe-lipped species of these flying mammals eats frogs
bats
Steve
$100 [4]
David Keith, Kurt Russell & Don Johnson have all portrayed this singer on film
Elvis Presley
Steve
$100 [10]
Wilson A. Bentley spent most of his life taking photos of these & probably no 2 of the photos are alike
snowflakes
Pam
$100 [15]
At night, you should get plenty of bo peep--this
sleep
Steve
$200 [6]
"Music City, U.S.A."
Nashville
Lyle Pam
$200 [27]
For cooks, it's the amount of, say, salt, that can be held between the thumb & forefinger
a pinch
Steve
$200 [2]
The sloth bear's long snout & flexible lips allow it to suck up these wood eaters
termites
Pam
$200 [16]
This 1982 Michael Jackson album has sold 25 million copies
Thriller
Steve
$200 [11]
Flakes of this ingredient are found in ambrosia, a dessert
coconut
Pam
$200 [23]
Whether or not they're knobby, these body parts are your biscuits & cheese
knees
Pam
$300 [7]
"The Big Heart of Texas"
Austin
Pam
$300 [28]
A kid who's hard to control is described as "a real" one of these approximate measures
a handful
Steve
$300 [3]
Like pandas, some lemurs dine primarily on this
bamboo
Lyle
$300 [17]
She was on the cover of the February 1999 Harper's Bazaar dressed like a geisha
Madonna
Pam
$300 [12]
This work in the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie began to flake during Leonardo da Vinci's lifetime
The Last Supper
Steve
$300 [24]
It may be the staff of life, but to a Cockney it's Uncle Fred
bread
Lyle
$400 [8]
"The Roger Williams City"
Providence
Pam
$400 [29]
Clusters of short hair or grass growing close together, perhaps in a Medford, Mass. university
tufts
Steve
$400 [13]
It wiggles an arm like a worm to attract a crab, pounces on it, then sticks its beak in, injecting a poison
an octopus
Pam
$400 [18]
(Hi, I'm Meredith Brooks.) I've performed several dates on this annual tour that premiered in 1997 to celebrate women in music
Lilith Fair
Steve
$400 [20]
In 1894 at his sanitarium he accidentally invented flaked cereal
W.K. Kellogg
Lyle
$400 [25]
Isle of Wight means this, so if you buzz in with a correct response, I'll say it
right
Pam
DD $500 [9]
"The First City of the First State"
Dover, Delaware
Pam
$500 [30]
Amount of wine poet Edward Fitzgerald wanted in the wilderness with a loaf & thou
a jug
Lyle
$500 [14]
Lions like to gnaw on these, gnus for short
wildebeests
Lyle
$500 [19]
"At first I was afraid, I was petrified", is the first line of this disco anthem by Gloria Gaynor
"I Will Survive"
Steve
$500 [21]
Flakes of this top a bialy
onion
Steve
$500 [26]
Cockneys refer to these as April showers--makes sense
flowers
Steve Lyle

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY '70s TV LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS TRAVEL IRELAND AUTOBIOGRAPHERS QUOTATIONS FROM HELL
$200 [1]
This system of ranking social orders was developed by the Aryans in ancient India
the caste system
Lyle
$200 [16]
Characters he played on his new variety hour included the Reverend Leroy & Geraldine Jones
Flip Wilson
Steve
$200 [6]
Last name of "The Chocolate Soldier" composer Oscar; it has one fewer "S" than a famous waltzing family
Straus
Pam
$200 [7]
This County Cork landmark is scrubbed 4 times a day with disinfectant
the Blarney Stone
Pam
$200 [10]
"Bo Knows Bo"
Bo Jackson
Pam
$200 [24]
William Tecumseh Sherman's 1879 3-word comment on armed conflict
"War is hell"
Lyle
$400 [2]
Bartolomeu Dias constructed & outfitted 4 ships for this man's 1497-1498 voyage from Lisbon to India
Vasco da Gama
Lyle
$400 [17]
This ABC show made its debut on Monday, September 21, 1970 & is still on
Monday Night Football
Steve
$400 [12]
Thomas Morley was known for putting lots of fa-la-las into these songs for several voices
madrigals
Steve
$400 [8]
On Dublin's Grafton Street is a statue of this "sweet" cockle & mussel seller with her wheelbarrow
Molly Malone
$400 [11]
"Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It"
Mae West
Steve
$400 [25]
It precedes, "And I'm not going to take it any more"
"I'm mad as hell"
Steve
$600 [3]
During his 46-year reign, this 18th c. king doubled the size of Brandenburg-Prussia
Frederick the Great
Lyle
$600 [18]
In 1975 this TV family moved from Queens up to Manhattan's East Side
The Jeffersons
Pam
$800 [14]
Krumpholz is best remembered for his works for this large, triangular stringed instrument
the harp
Pam
$600 [9]
Visit County Kerry to see the home of these "colored" terriers
Kerry Blue terriers
$600 [21]
"Child Star"
Shirley Temple Black
Steve
$600 [26]
In 1775 Samuel Johnson said not the road to hell, but hell itself, "is paved with" these
good intentions
Lyle
$800 [4]
Many mark the beginning of the French nation with the crowning of this king in 987
Hugh Capet
Lyle
$800 [19]
(Hi, I'm Jeff Greenfield.) During the 1970s I frequently appeared on this PBS show hosted by William F. Buckley
Firing Line
Steve
$1,000 [15]
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf based 12 symphonies on this Ovid work about wondrous transformations
Metamorphoses
Lyle
$800 [22]
"Mayor"
Ed Koch
Steve Lyle
$800 [27]
"Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church and" these "shall not prevail against it"
the gates of hell
Lyle
$1,000 [5]
Around 1650 B.C. these people made their capital at Hattusas in central Anatolia in what is now Turkey
the Hittites
Lyle
$1,000 [20]
When this series began, the youngest child Nicholas Bradford was 8
Eight Is Enough
Steve
DD $1,500 [13]
He's better remembered for the rumor that he poisoned Mozart than for his operas like "Tarare"
Antonio Salieri
Steve
$1,000 [23]
"You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again"
Julia Phillips
DD $1,000 [28]
In "Paradise Lost" Milton wrote, "Better to" do this "than serve in heav'n"
reign in hell
Lyle

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

In April 1999 Paul Simon took center field for the dedication of a monument to this man

Joe DiMaggio

Lyle "Who is John Len" — wagered $3,300
Pam "Who is Doubleday?" — wagered $4,000
Steve "Who is Elvis Presley" — wagered $2,300

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