Show #3688 2000-09-20 (taped 2000-08-22) Regular

Andrew Garen game 1.

Contestants

Andrew Garen — a project manager from Mamaroneck, New York

Barbara James — a freelance writer from Clifton, New Jersey

Dana Mermelstein — an international trade analyst from Washington, D.C.

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dana $1,500 $2,000 $2,000 $3,000
2nd place: a trip to Mazatlan, Mexico courtesy of Yahoo! Travel
$2,000
11 R, 3 W
Barbara $800 $600 $1,000 $2,000
3rd place: a Wingspan Bank.com debit card
$1,600
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Andrew $2,200 $3,300 $13,900 $15,000
New champion: $15,000
$12,100
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHIC SQUARES 2 BOXING NICKNAMES CELEBRITIES "TOUCH" ME IN THE MOURNING
$100 [1]
This London square is dominated by a 170-foot column topped by a statue of Horatio Nelson
Trafalgar Square
Barbara
$100 [24]
Opera & field glasses are classified as these, a pair of telescopes mounted on a single frame
Binoculars
Dana
$100 [2]
"The Greatest"
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
Andrew
$100 [18]
If it weren't for a misspelling on her birth certificate, she would have had the first name Orpah
Oprah Winfrey
Dana
$100 [3]
It's worth 6 points
Touchdown
Andrew
$100 [10]
To honor the dead, flags fly at this position
Half-staff
Barbara
$200 [6]
It's the square seen here[New York City]
Times Square
Dana
$200 [25]
In 1997 this TV show with 2 2s in its title went to 2 nights a week
20/20
$200 [11]
"The Brown Bomber"
Joe Louis
Andrew
$200 [19]
And here's to Kathleen Turner who appeared in the buff in this role, in a British stage version of "The Graduate"
Mrs. Robinson
Andrew
$200 [4]
Telephone type
Touch-tone
Andrew
$200 [12]
On December 18, 1799, hundreds of people accompanied his coffin to its grave site
George Washington
Barbara
$300 [7]
Krasnaya Ploshchad, the Russian name for this, can mean "beautiful square"
Red Square
Andrew
$300 [26]
The last time there were 2 of these at the same time was 1449 with Felix V & Nicholas V
Popes
Dana
$300 [23]
"The Manassa Mauler"
Jack Dempsey
Andrew
$300 [20]
In 1994 she was "The Next Karate Kid"; in 2000 she was the next Oscar winner for Best Actress
Hilary Swank
Andrew
$300 [5]
A practice landing & immediate takeoff for a pilot
Touch and go
Dana Andrew
$300 [13]
From an Indo-European word meaning "to separate", it's the mate of the deceased
Widow
Andrew
$400 [16]
On June 3 & 4, 1989, the People's Liberation Army killed hundreds of pro-democracy supporters here
Tiananmen Square
Barbara
$400 [27]
In "The 12 Days Of Christmas", it's the gift there are 2 of
turtle doves
Barbara Andrew
$400 [29]
"Macho"
Hector Camacho
Barbara
$400 [21]
This female TV "Friend" has a B.S. in biology from Vassar College--who knew?
Lisa Kudrow
Barbara
$400 [8]
An object to test gold, or a standard by which something is judged
Touchstone
Andrew
$400 [14]
Originally performed to protect against evil spirits, it's the all-night vigil held beside the body
Wake
Andrew
$500 [17]
Called the "Drawing Room of Europe" by Napoleon, it's been the heart of Venetian life for over 1,000 years
Piazza San Marco (St. Mark's Square)
Dana
$500 [28]
The constellation Bootes contains at least 3 of these, or at least 6 little twinklers total
Double/binary stars
Andrew
$500 [30]
"The Real Deal"
Evander Holyfield
DD $600 [22]
This actor is the son of a British poet laureate & the son-in-law of playwright Arthur Miller
Daniel Day-Lewis
Barbara
$500 [9]
Literally to make contact with a foundation, or to briefly communicate with someone
Touch base
Andrew
$500 [15]
Like St. Helena's in Jerusalem, an underground burial vault is known by this "hidden" term
Crypt
Dana

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN HOT SPOTS GARDENING SHORT STORIES 20th CENTURY AMERICANS OFF-BROADWAY 2000 "NINE" ACROSS
$200 [6]
This north African country is widely suspected in the Pan Am 103 bombing
Libya
Barbara
$200 [18]
Collect this when it falls & store it in a tank outside your greenhouse; it's just right for orchids
Rainwater
Dana
$200 [13]
Hemingway's "The Snows of" this mountain was first published in Esquire in August 1936
Kilimanjaro
Barbara
$200 [7]
Melvin Purvis of this organization ended the careers of Pretty Boy Floyd & Baby Face Nelson
FBI
Barbara
$200 [25]
"A Musical Celebration" of this singer included "All The Way" & "I've Got the World on a String"
Frank Sinatra
$200 [1]
Any dog(6)
Canine
Andrew
$400 [9]
In 1998 U.S. missiles hit a suspected chemical weapons plant in this Sudanese capital
Khartoum
Andrew
$400 [19]
One way to grow big ones of these "love apples" is to pick a variety that normally grows big, like beefsteak
Tomatoes
Andrew
$400 [14]
An old woman asks this Washington Irving character, "Why, where have you been these twenty long years?"
Rip Van Winkle
Dana Andrew
$400 [8]
This painter & farm wife lived for 40 years in the 19th century & 61 years in the 20th
Grandma Moses
Andrew
$400 [26]
4-word title of an Arthur Laurents revival; it sounds like a sequel to "Land of the Free"
"Home of the Brave"
Barbara
$400 [2]
Malaria remedy(7)
Quinine
Barbara
$600 [10]
Violence has resulted from the land reform policy of this longtime president of Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe
Andrew
$600 [23]
Thrips are types of these & gardeners don't like them
Insects (pests)
Dana Andrew
$600 [15]
In this Poe story, Mme L'Espanaye & her daughter Camille are murdered by an orangutan owned by a sailor
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Andrew
$800 [21]
This owner who brought baseball fans Satchel Paige & 3' 7" Eddie Gaedel wrote the memoir "...as in Wreck"
Bill Veeck
Barbara
$600 [27]
Todd Price produced the U.S. premiere of "Shadows in the Evening" by this witty Brit who died in 1973
Noel Coward
Dana
$600 [3]
Really silly(7)
Asinine
Andrew
$800 [11]
In 2000 Foday Sankoh's forces in this west African country took U.N. peacekeepers hostage
Sierra Leone
Andrew
$800 [24]
"Dancing" varieties of roses include Disco Dancer & this one that would feel at home in the Bolshoi
Ballerina
Dana Andrew
$800 [16]
This master of surprise endings gave us the double-suicide tale "The Furnished Room"
O. Henry
Dana Barbara
$1,000 [22]
In 1949 this 71-year-old became the only U.S. vice president ever to marry while in office
Alben Barkley
$800 [28]
Critics weren't all kind to a revival of "Arms and the Man" by this playwright & critic
George Bernard Shaw
Andrew
$1,000 [5]
Melancholy, like a planet(9)
Saturnine
Andrew
$1,000 [12]
In the Congo he's battled rebels himself since overthrowing Mobutu in 1997
Laurent Kabila
$1,000 [30]
To pollinate a bearded iris, take the anther from the first flower & wipe its pollen onto these in the second
Pistils/stigmas
Andrew
$1,000 [17]
The title of this James Thurber short story is synonymous with "an advantageous position"
"The Catbird Seat"
DD $2,000 [20]
Famous astro-returnee heard here:["I was going to be the fifth human in space & the first American to orbit"]
John Glenn
Andrew
$1,000 [29]
This group seen here has become an off-Broadway fixture
Blue Man Group
Dana Barbara
DD $1,200 [4]
Like the MGM logo(7)
Leonine
Andrew

Final Jeopardy!

NEWSPAPERS

Sime Silverman founded it in 1905 after he was fired from another paper for panning a show

Variety

Barbara "What is "Variety"?" — wagered $1,000
Dana "What is Variety?" — wagered $1,000
Andrew "What is Variety?" — wagered $1,100

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