Show #3704 2000-10-12 (taped 2000-08-30) Regular

Contestants

John Weiner — a systems analyst from New York City, New York

Ginger Greenstein — a computer consultant from Freehold, New Jersey

David Tepper — an attorney from Richmond, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $1,000 $2,600 $8,400 $10,001
2-day champion: $16,501
$6,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Ginger $800 $2,400 $2,600 $5,100
3rd place: Samsung Cameras
$2,600
14 R, 3 W
John $1,000 $2,700 $5,000 $5,201
2nd place: Trip to Tezcuco Plantation Home, Darrow, Louisiana
$6,500
20 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO MOVIE ROLES INSECTS PLACES TO LIVE THE ADAMS FAMILY -GRAMS
$100 [8]
These 2 authors were both in their 20s when they wrote the pamphlet
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Ginger
$100 [1]
In the movie "M*A*S*H", Robert Duvall played this priggish doctor; on TV it was Larry Linville
Major Frank Burns
Ginger
$100 [6]
There may be thousands of ommatidia, light-sensitive units, in an insect's compound one of these
eyes
John
$100 [22]
A day room is a recreational area in these quarters for soldiers
barracks
David
$100 [17]
In 1767 his wife gave birth to a future U.S. president
John Adams
John
$100 [14]
Term for a 3D image you might see on your credit card
hologram
John
$200 [9]
The proletarians "have nothing to lose but" these
their chains
Ginger
$200 [2]
(Hi, I'm Earl Brown.) Because we look so much alike, I was cast as Warren, this actress' brother in "There's Something About Mary"
Cameron Diaz
David John
$200 [7]
It's said that in Asia, people learned how to make this by watching wasps
paper
David John
$200 [23]
The name of this residence for ranch hands indicates its beds are stacked atop each other
a bunkhouse
John
$200 [18]
You'll have missed it by that much if you don't know this man played inept TV secret agent Maxwell Smart
Don Adams
John
$200 [27]
A trademarked delivery of sweets & a message
a Candygram
David
$300 [10]
The pamphlet was first printed in this city in 1848 in German, not English
London
David
$300 [3]
In 1996 she got to play Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo
Claire Danes
John
$300 [12]
Scientists take an EAG, an electroantennogram, to measure how a moth's antennae nerves pick up these sex odors
pheromones
David
$300 [24]
It's the French word for the type of Loire Valley home seen here; the region is famous for them
château
Ginger
$300 [19]
This European politician seenhereis often embroiled in controversy
Gerry Adams (of Sinn Fein)
Ginger
$300 [28]
A short, witty saying
an epigram
John
$400 [11]
One of the authors figured they'd do for history what this man did for biology
Charles Darwin
John
$400 [4]
This actress spent "Six Days, Seven Nights" on an island with Harrison Ford
Anne Heche
Ginger
$400 [15]
As most insects don't need to transport oxygen in their blood, they lack this protein that makes blood red
hemoglobin
Ginger
$400 [25]
2 residences with a common wall are called "semi" this
detached
David
$400 [20]
A large bear named Ben was the best friend of this Dan Haggerty TV character
Grizzly Adams
David
$400 [29]
35.28 ounces
a kilogram
Ginger John
DD $500 [13]
The manifesto applies this term, originally meaning "the inhabitants of cities", to the middle class
bourgeoisie
David
$500 [5]
(Hi, I'm Tisha Campbell-Martin.) I was Sidney in 3 installments of this series featuring Kid 'n Play
House Party
David John
$500 [16]
The whirligig beetle is one of the fastest insects at this activity; it can go 40 inches per second
swimming
Ginger
$500 [26]
Common term for a low-income development, like Detroit's Brewster one where the Supremes grew up
project
Ginger
$500 [21]
Beginning in the mid-1930s, this wilderness photographer served as a director of the Sierra Club
Ansel Adams
John
$500 [30]
An X-ray of blood vessels
an angiogram
David

Double Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL NAMES '70s SONGS THEATRICAL QUOTES FUR-BEARING CREATURES? THE MAJORS THE "MINOR"s
$200 [1]
Slovenska Republika
Slovak Republic (Slovakia)
Ginger
$200 [3]
The big hit off this group's 1973 album "Goats Head Soup" was "Angie"
The Rolling Stones
John
$200 [4]
This "Crucible" playwright suggested his epitaph should one day read "He worked awfully hard"
Arthur Miller
Ginger
$200 [10]
In 2000 he earned his stripes by becoming the first golfer since Ben Hogan to win 3 majors in 1 season
Tiger Woods
Ginger
$200 [9]
Union major Robert Anderson was asked to surrender the federal garrison at this fort in April 1861
Fort Sumter
John
$200 [21]
The ancient city of Troy was on this peninsula
Asia Minor
David John
$400 [2]
Kongeriket Norge
Norway
John
$400 [15]
His "Two Tickets to Paradise" cashed out at No. 22 in 1978
Eddie Money
$400 [7]
Thornton Wilder explained the stage directions for this play with "The less seen, the more heard"
Our Town
David John
$400 [11]
Barking dogs dash around at Crufts & he dashed around with Crofts, Dash Crofts
Jim Seals
John
$400 [19]
In 1893 this major was named curator of the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C.
Walter Reed
David
$400 [22]
In the Bible they run alphabetically from Amos to Zephaniah
the Minor Prophets
Ginger
$600 [5]
Yamaniyah
Yemen
David
$600 [28]
(Hi, I'm Kari Wuhrer.) On my album "Shiny" I cover this 1970 Badfinger hit; it was featured in the film "The Magic Christian"
"Come And Get It"
$600 [12]
(Hi, I'm Jon Lovitz.) While going through customs, this playwright proclaimed, "I have nothing to declare except my genius"
Oscar Wilde
$600 [16]
Stumpy-tailed feline who gave us an unforgettable portrayal in "Shakes the Clown"
Bobcat Goldthwait
David
$800 [26]
Major Richard Bong of the U.S. Army Air Force did this 40 times during WWII, an American record
shot down enemy planes
David
$600 [23]
From 1965 to 1973 Gerald Ford held this post in the House
House Minority Leader
John
$800 [8]
Zhongghua
(Mainland) China
David
$800 [29]
This Curtis Mayfield hit from 1972 was from "Superfly", not "Nightmare on Elm Street"
"Freddie's Dead"
$1,000 [14]
George S. Kaufman defined this type of comedy as "What closes Saturday night"
satire
$800 [17]
In 1876 he was made a deputy sheriff of the whole of Dodge City, belfries & all
Bat Masterson
Ginger John
$1,000 [27]
This surgeon who discovered insulin with Charles Best served with the Canadian army as a major in WWII
Frederick Banting
$800 [24]
The sky wouldn't be bare without this constellation that contains the Little Dipper; there are 87 others
Ursa Minor
John
$1,000 [6]
Kypriaki Dimokratia
Cyprus
John
$1,000 [30]
In 1970 this lead singer of Paul Revere & the Raiders went solo & had 2 hits, "Arizona" & "Silver Bird"
Mark Lindsay
Ginger
DD $1,500 [13]
Noel Coward quipped this Lerner & Loewe musical was "about as long as 'Parsifal', and not as funny"
Camelot
John
$1,000 [18]
After the "Roman Empire", he might have tackled "The Decline and Fall of the Planet of the Apes"
Edward Gibbon
David John
DD $3,000 [20]
In 1906 he was restored to the French army with the rank of major
Alfred Dreyfus
David
$1,000 [25]
It's the key of Beethoven's famous Fifth Symphony
C minor
Ginger John

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH WORD ORIGINS

These political party names began as negative terms for the 2 factions warring over the 1678 Meal-Tub Plot

Tories & Whigs

Ginger "What are Whigs & Tories" — wagered $2,500
John "What are Tories & Whigs?" — wagered $201
David "What are Whig & Tory?" — wagered $1,601

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