Show #3464 1999-09-30 (taped 1999-07-21) Regular

Steve Fried game 4.

Contestants

Gerardo Gutierrez — a judicial assistant from Los Angeles, California

Laura Jansen — a graduate student from Montgomery, Alabama

Steve Fried — an airline and cruise scheduler from Phoenix, Arizona (whose 3-day cash winnings total $25,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $1,800 $2,700 $12,100 $10,900
4-day champion: $36,300
$9,700
29 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Laura $800 $2,900 $5,400 $3,900
2nd place: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion Multimedia Desktop PC & Broyhill Computer Home Office Cabinet
$5,100
14 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Gerardo $200 $300 $1,700 $100
3rd place: 1-800-Gift-Certificate
$1,700
8 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD TESTAMENT NEXT IN LINE, PLEASE LEFTOVERS THEATRE ELEVATOR RIDE "MIS" QUOTES
$100 [8]
After he slew Goliath, he cut off the giant's head
David
Steve
$100 [7]
PG, PG-13, R...
NC-17
Gerardo
$100 [25]
Of CNN, TNN & TNT, the 2 founded by Ted Turner
CNN & TNT
Steve Laura Gerardo
$100 [1]
"Takasago" by Zeami Motokiyo is one of this country's most famous No plays
Japan
Steve
$100 [14]
First floor.Cordless phones, answering machines & this hit
"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
Gerardo
$100 [5]
According to the proverb, this "loves company"
Misery
Steve
$200 [15]
The Lord destroyed these 2 cities with fire & brimstone because "their sin is very grievous"
Sodom & Gomorrah
Laura
$200 [9]
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus...
Numbers
Laura
$500 [26]
In this official language, the "Z" in Mozambique becomes a "C" with a squiggle under it
Portuguese
Gerardo
$200 [2]
When she played Peter Pan on Broadway in 1954, her daughter Heller Halliday played Liza the maid
Mary Martin
Steve
$200 [19]
Second floor.Whips, chains & this oft-recorded song
"Hurts So Bad"
Steve
$200 [10]
The U.S. Constitution says a president can be impeached for "high crimes and" these
Misdemeanors
Steve
$300 [21]
The trumpets sounded, Joshua's people shouted & this city's "wall fell down flat"
Jericho
Steve
$300 [16]
Phi, chi, psi...
omega
Laura
$300 [3]
David Mamet wrote a play called "Sexual Perversity In" this Midwest city--coincidentally, his birthplace
Chicago
Steve
$300 [20]
Third floor.Pharmacy & this golden oldie
"Love Potion No. 9"
Gerardo
$300 [11]
In 1959 Johnny Mathis sang he was "too" this "and too much in love"
Misty
Steve
$400 [23]
To escape the pursuing Egyptians, the Israelites went into the midst of this sea "upon the dry ground"
the Red Sea
Laura
$500 [18]
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn...
Uranus
Laura
$400 [4]
Ferenc Molnar's Hungarian drama "Liliom" inspired this "merry-go-round" of a musical that debuted in 1945
Carousel
Steve Laura
$400 [22]
Fourth floor.Women's attire & this Chris de Burgh number
"Lady In Red"
Gerardo
$400 [12]
In an 1899 speech, Willard Vandiver said, "I am from" this state; "you have got to show me"
Missouri
Steve
DD $800 [17]
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe...
John Quincy Adams
Laura
$500 [6]
In 1999 Lea Salonga returned to the cast of this musical that won her a Tony not salonga go (in 1991)
Miss Saigon
Steve
$500 [24]
Top level.Observation deck & of course, this song
"On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
Steve
$500 [13]
The Duke of Wellington put it best: "There is no" this; "there has been no" this; "and there shall be no" this
Mistake

Double Jeopardy! Round

SEPTEMBER 30 NATIONAL PARKS KHAN GAMES ROLE PLAYING SOCIOLOGY 13-LETTER WORDS
$200 [1]
He was killed on Sept. 30, 1955 when his Porsche Spyder collided with another car
James Dean
Steve
$200 [8]
Petrified Forest National Park lies within this brilliantly colored Arizona "desert"
Painted Desert
Steve
$200 [21]
A National Geographic article called him the George Washington of the Mongols
Genghis Khan
Steve
$200 [2]
"Jerry Maguire"(1996)
Tom Cruise
Laura
$200 [23]
It's considered the basic kinship group of all societies
Family
Steve
$200 [13]
This Asian therapist will have you on pins & needles (well, needles for sure)
Acupuncturist
Steve
$400 [7]
The U.S. Treasury announced a budget surplus of $70 billion on Sept. 30, 1998, the end of this financial period
Fiscal year
Steve
$400 [9]
Elevations in this park range from 282 feet below sea level to the 11,049-foot high Telescope Peak
Death Valley
Steve
$400 [22]
After Hulagu overran Iran, his successors, the Il-Khans, accepted this faith
Islam
Gerardo
$400 [3]
"Zelig"(1983)
Woody Allen
Steve
$400 [24]
Among the main historical schools of this field are mercantilism & Keynesianism
Economics
Steve
$400 [14]
Adjective applied to some plastics because they disintegrate in nature
Biodegradable
Steve
$600 [16]
U.S. marshals escorted James Meredith onto the campus of this school in 1962, breaking the color barrier
University of Mississippi
Steve Laura Gerardo
$600 [10]
Acadia National Park in this state has the highest point on the USA's Atlantic coast
Maine
Steve
$800 [30]
Ogadai built the new capital of Karakorum about 200 miles SW of where this capital of Mongolia is today
Ulan Bator
Gerardo
$600 [4]
"Thelma & Louise"(1991)
Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon
Steve
$600 [25]
Now coexisting with the Roman Catholic Church there, it's the chief religion of many of the people in Haiti
Voodoo
$600 [15]
Geographically speaking, the phone cable that stretches from Newfoundland to Ireland is this
Transatlantic
Laura
$800 [17]
Opera lovers got plenty o' Gershwin when this work made its world premiere in Boston Sept. 30, 1935
Porgy and Bess
Laura
$800 [11]
This "dry" park consists of 7 low coral islands about 70 miles west of Key West, Florida
Dry Tortugas
Steve
$1,000 [28]
In 1240 Batu & his horde pillaged this "mother of Russian cities" now in the Ukraine
Kiev
Steve
$800 [5]
"Dolores Claiborne"(1995)
Kathy Bates
Laura
$800 [26]
In a now outdated term, a developed Communist country is considered a nation of this numerical "world"
Second world
Gerardo
DD $700 [19]
Kafka's title "Die Verwandlung" was changed to this
The Metamorphosis
Laura
$1,000 [18]
This author of "The Grass Harp" was born in New Orleans on Sept. 30, 1924
Truman Capote
Laura Gerardo
$1,000 [12]
Until 1980, it was known as Mount McKinley National Park
Denali
Steve
DD $3,000 [29]
Forget Xanadu--in 1294 he died a grotesquely fat, often drunk, broken old man
Kublai Khan
Steve
$1,000 [6]
"Klute"(1971)
Donald Sutherland
Steve Gerardo
$1,000 [27]
Once a variety of Provencal used by crusaders, this "lingua" is now any language used by people without a common tongue
Lingua Franca
$1,000 [20]
1 of the 2 13-letter words for a plain figure with 4 sides & 4 angles
quadrilateral (or parallelogram)
Steve Laura

Final Jeopardy!

CURRENT POLITICIANS

First elected in 1994, he's become one of the most prominent conservatives in Congress

Steve Largent

Gerardo "Who is Bradley" — wagered $1,600
Laura "Who is Fred Thompson?" — wagered $1,500
Steve "Who is Fred Thompson?" — wagered $1,200

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