Show #3706 2000-10-16 (taped 2000-08-31) Regular

Contestants

Pat Burghardt — a computer analyst from Cincinnati, Ohio

Linda Davis — a music teacher from Fairborn, Ohio

David Tepper — an attorney from Richmond, Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $25,902)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $2,000 $700 $3,100 $3,100
3rd place: Pair of Bicycles from ebike.com
$5,100
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Linda $1,500 $1,500 $3,700 $3,700
2nd place: Trip to Palm Island Resort in the Grenadines
$3,700
13 R, 3 W
Pat $900 $3,800 $12,400 $8,400
New champion: $8,400
$11,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THEATRE TAX TIME THIS MEANS WAR! CAPITAL TOURISM 'TOON IN DROP "OUT"
$100 [21]
In 1999 comic Eddie Izzard portrayed this comic in a London production of "Lenny"
Lenny Bruce
Pat
$100 [3]
For the general public in the U.S., it was due April 17, 2000, as the 15th was on a weekend
federal tax return
Pat
$100 [2]
The USA's began in 1861, Angola's in 1975
Civil War
David
$100 [14]
On a clear day you can see the pyramids from the Ramses Hilton in this city
Cairo
David
$100 [27]
In 1937 the spinach-growing town of Crystal City, Texas erected a statue of this animated character
Popeye
Pat
$100 [1]
A rough idea of a proposed plan; H.G. Wells had one of "History"
an outline
Pat
$200 [22]
In Tony Award categories, it's the term for a new production of an old play
Revival
David
$200 [4]
This should ring a bell--it's a tax or fee charged for using a bridge or a road
a toll
Linda
$200 [12]
The Pequot, Pontiac's & the Nez Perce were 3 of these "wars"
Indian wars
David
$200 [15]
Butterflies will flutter all around you at the Spyrogyra Butterfly Garden in this Costa Rican capital
San Jose
Linda Pat
$200 [28]
A mint condition copy of the 10-cent comic book that featured this hero's 1938 debut is worth $185,000 today
Superman
David
$200 [5]
A movie scene that's filmed but not used in the final version
an outtake
Linda
$300 [24]
(Hi, I'm Andy Richter.) I've portrayed this TV patriarch in the New York & L.A. productions of "The Real Live Brady Bunch"
Mike Brady
David Pat
$300 [9]
This excise tax on things like yachts can also be found on Monopoly boards
a luxury tax
David
$300 [13]
A theory formed in the 1980s says this type of "war" would be followed by the same type of "winter"
nuclear war
Linda
$300 [16]
Wood carvings are popular souvenirs of this African capital known as Dar for short
Dar es Salaam
Linda
$300 [30]
It's the longest-running animated prime time series in the history of television
The Simpsons
Pat
$300 [6]
Beyond the designated borders of a sports playing field
out of bounds
Linda
$400 [26]
This acclaimed Broadway musical of 2000 is not an adaptation of the Jodie Foster space movie of the same name
Contact
Pat
$400 [10]
A tax on exported or imported goods; a scout pledges to do this
a duty
David
$400 [19]
(Hi, I'm Andy Summers.) The U.S. government called the Korean War this, which sounds like a lawsuit by my old band
police action
Pat
$400 [17]
Seen here, the abstract monument to Jean Sibelius is a highlight of a trip to this city
Helsinki
David
$400 [23]
This first completely computer-generated feature film was released in 1995
Toy Story
Pat
$400 [7]
A type of medical care in which the subject doesn't spend the night in the hospital
outpatient
Linda
$500 [25]
(Hi, I'm S. Epatha Merkerson.) I won a Tony nomination for playing Berneice in this playwright's 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Piano Lesson"
August Wilson
Pat
$500 [11]
You may get a refund of the VAT, this tax on goods in Europe, if they were bought for commercial use
value added tax
Pat
$500 [20]
18th c. Europe was "throne" into confusion by the War of the Austrian one & the war of the Spanish one
Succession
Pat
DD $2,000 [18]
You may get dizzy teeing off at the world's highest golf course, at Malasilla in this capital
La Paz, Bolivia
David
$500 [29]
Launched Oct. 2, 1950, it went on to achieve the largest & most devoted following of any comic strip in history
Peanuts
Pat
$500 [8]
Sydney Pollack directed this 1985 Best Picture Oscar winner
Out of Africa
David

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER A FILM ON YOUR TEETH NAMES IN NATURE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES MUSIC FELINE PHRASES
$200 [16]
This continent still has a Van Diemen Gulf, though Van Diemen's Land became Tasmania
Australia
Pat
$200 [21]
In this 1970 film dentist "Painless Pole" Waldowski "dies" to the strains of "Suicide is Painless"
M*A*S*H
Linda
$200 [9]
This legume can be "crimson", "sweet" &, occasionally, four-leafed
clover
David
$200 [3]
In Peru:Quechua, Aymara & this
Spanish
Pat
$200 [6]
A typical symphony orchestra has 32 of these instruments, but only 1 tuba
violins
David
$200 [29]
Some of our contestants are "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of" these pieces of furniture
rocking chairs
David
$400 [17]
The Archipelago de los Colorados lies in this gulf along Cuba's northwest coast
the Gulf of Mexico
Linda
$400 [28]
In this 1976 drama, Laurence Olivier checks out Dustin Hoffman's dental work
Marathon Man
Pat
$400 [27]
The wolf & this rodent both have "red" & "gray" types, but there's no flying wolf
squirrel
Pat
$400 [4]
In Haiti:Haitian Creole & this
French
Linda
$400 [11]
An 1846 Berlioz work on "The Damnation of" this man goes back to the Goethe tale
Faust
Pat
$400 [30]
This expression is used to caution someone dangerously inquisitive
curiosity killed the cat
Linda
$600 [18]
This sea is about 1,400 miles long, running from the Strait of Bab el Mandeb to Suez, Egypt
the Red Sea
David
$600 [14]
In the 1948 comedy "The Paleface" he was "Painless" Peter Potter, an inept dentist in the Old West
Bob Hope
Pat
$600 [26]
This type of "bear" is a caterpillar
woolly bear
Linda
$600 [8]
In Switzerland:German, French, Romansch & this
Italian
Pat
$600 [12]
You may want to check out the "Dumky Trio" composed by this "New World" Czech
Antonin Dvorak
Pat
$600 [24]
(Hi, I'm C.C. DeVille.) This comment on a surprise arrival is also the title of a hit album by my band Poison
look what the cat dragged in
David Linda
$1,000 [19]
"Servile" name of the fifth-largest North American lake; you'll find Yellowknife on its shores
the Great Slave Lake
Pat
$800 [10]
Steve Martin played Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. in this 1986 remake
Little Shop of Horrors
Linda
$800 [25]
Solitary type of thrush that's the state bird of Vermont
hermit thrush
$800 [7]
In Kenya:English & this
Swahili
David
$800 [13]
Vaughan Williams is among composers who wrote music for Larry Adler to play on this instrument
Harmonica
Linda Pat
$800 [23]
It's the game being played by a strong player toying with a weaker one
cat & mouse
Linda
DD $2,000 [20]
In 1898 Dewey won a great victory in this bay; now you can see lovely sunsets over it
Manila Bay
Pat
$1,000 [15]
This "L.A. Law" actor was back at the old drill in the 1998 horror sequel "The Dentist 2: Brace Yourself"
Corbin Bernsen
Pat
$1,000 [2]
Check out the hind feet on this hare & you'll see how it got its name
snowshoe hare/rabbit
Pat
DD $1,000 [1]
In Cyprus:Greek & this
Turkish
David
$1,000 [5]
One of the first composers to make records, he supervised his own "Pagliacci" for one in 1907
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pat
$1,000 [22]
Royalty is cut down to size in the expression "A cat may" do this
look at a king

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS STARS

The Warriors, the 76ers, the Lakers & the Harlem Globetrotters all retired his number

Wilt Chamberlain

David "Who knew?" — wagered $0
Linda "Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?" — wagered $0
Pat "Who is J. Erving?" — wagered $4,000

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