Show #3708 2000-10-18 (taped 2000-08-31) Regular

Contestants

Chris Dawson — a legislative consultant from Sacramento, California

Martha Temple — an attorney from Hampden, Maine

Pat Burghardt — a computer analyst from Cincinnati, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pat $1,900 $2,800 $9,400 $2,999
2nd place: a trip to the Roosevelt Hotel, New York City
$5,800
17 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Martha $600 $1,800 $1,400 $0
3rd place: Delta Air Lines luggage set
$2,200
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $500 $1,900 $7,900 $15,799
New champion: $15,799
$7,900
22 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

BEHIND BARS '90s SITCOMS NAME THE ARTIST NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS IT'S A DOG'S LIFE THAT'S SO CLICHE!
$100 [18]
Antonio Gramsci wrote classics of Marxist theory while jailed by this Italian regime in the 1930s
the Fascists
Martha
$100 [1]
The pals in this sitcom hang out & down a few brews at Cleveland's Warsaw Tavern
The Drew Carey Show
Martha
$100 [6]
1876:"Ballet Rehearsal"
Degas
Pat
$100 [24]
In 1999 Time won for Public Interest & this competitor won for News Reporting
Newsweek
Pat
$100 [16]
Lassie could tell you that the Shetland sheepdog is a miniature version of this breed
a collie
Martha Chris
$100 [8]
If you complain in vain, you may be doing this "up the wrong tree"
barking
Chris
$200 [20]
Jailed in 2000 for this crime, journalist Tim Crews said of the judge, "the feeling is... mutual"
contempt (of court)
Chris
$200 [2]
Guest telephone callers to KACL in this sitcom have included Mel Brooks, Randy Travis & Jane Pauley
Frasier
Pat
$200 [7]
1890:"Starry Night"
Vincent van Gogh
Chris
$200 [25]
It won for General Excellence in 1989, the year of its 25th anniversary swimsuit issue--coincidence?!
Sports Illustrated
Martha
$200 [17]
Yo quiero this breed whose origins are shrouded in mystery
a Chihuahua
Chris
$200 [9]
The gang that couldn't shoot straight couldn't "hit the broad side of" one of these structures
a barn
Martha
$300 [21]
For violating parole on 1996 drug & gun charges, this "Chaplin" actor got 3 years in maximum security
(Robert) Downey
Chris
$300 [3]
Viewers finally got to see Wilson's face when the cast took their bows on this sitcom's last episode
Home Improvement
Pat
$400 [11]
1911:"Nude Descending a Staircase"
Marcel Duchamp
Pat Chris
$300 [28]
1997's winner for Special Interests was this magazine from our nation's attic
Smithsonian
Pat
$300 [19]
With 49 of the 2,541 postal worker dog bite incidents reported in '98, this largest Texas city led the nation
Houston
Chris
$300 [13]
When I get nutty, people say I've "got bats in" this lofty place
the belfry
Chris
$400 [22]
Dan White, paroled in 1984 after killing the mayor & a supervisor of this city, killed himself in 1985
San Francisco
Chris
$400 [4]
This NBC series was named for the autobiographical comic strip written by its perky heroine
Caroline in the City
Pat
$500 [12]
1893:"The Scream"
(Edvard) Munch
Pat
$400 [29]
In 2000 it won for General Excellence, Public Interest & Fiction, not for its cartoons
The New Yorker
Chris
$400 [26]
An excellent watchdog, this breed is named for a town on northern Honshu island
Akita
Martha Chris
$400 [14]
By leaving a place or situation you don't like, you "vote with" these body parts
your feet
Chris
$500 [23]
In 2000 Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, once known as this black militant, was arrested after an Atlanta shooting
H. Rap Brown
$500 [5]
On "Seinfeld", it's the catalog company for which Elaine worked as a copywriter
J. Peterman
Martha
DD $800 [10]
1895:"Au Salon de la Rue des Moulins"
Toulouse-Lautrec
Martha
$500 [30]
This 1971 winner for Specialized Journalism was the subject of a 1973 song by Dr. Hook
Rolling Stone
Pat
$500 [27]
A dog named Buck lives by "the law of club and fang" in this Jack London novel
The Call of the Wild
Martha
$500 [15]
Dealing with one's obsessions is like having one of these animals "by the tail"
a tiger
Martha

Double Jeopardy! Round

BEHIND BARS ITALIAN COMPOSERS THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO AROUND THE WORLD "G" MEN 9-LETTER WORDS
$200 [2]
Wyborowa is a popular Polish brand of this liquor also associated with Russia
vodka
Martha
$200 [16]
Bertolucci's movie "1900" is about 2 men born the day this "Aida" composer died
Verdi
Martha
$200 [7]
Joseph L. Mankiewicz based his screenplay for this film on Mary Orr's story "The Wisdom of Eve"
All About Eve
Chris
$200 [12]
Prior to 1992 this country had 3 historical regions: Moravia, Bohemia & Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Chris
$200 [18]
This influential modern jazz trumpeter was born in Cheraw, South Carolina in 1917
Dizzy Gillespie
Chris
$200 [23]
From the Greek for "treasury", it's a treasury of synonyms & antonyms
thesaurus
Pat
$400 [3]
Look for the pirate on the label of the Captain Morgan brand of this
rum
Chris
$400 [17]
17th c. composer Frescobaldi was organist at this Rome basilica for about 30 years--pretty good gig
St. Peter's
Chris
$400 [8]
This Spencer Tracy-Elizabeth Taylor film was followed 1 year later with a sequel, "Father's Little Dividend"
Father of the Bride
Pat
$400 [13]
In 1905, 110 years after it was founded, this city became capital of Alberta
Edmonton
Pat
$400 [19]
In 1957 this comrade became Soviet foreign minister
(Andrei) Gromyko
Pat Martha
$400 [24]
This explosive substance originally consisted of saltpeter, charcoal & sulfur
gunpowder
Chris
$600 [4]
In the 1890s Adolphus Busch developed this superpremium beer still marketed by Anheuser-Busch
Michelob
Chris
$800 [22]
Niccolo Jommelli, "The Italian Gluck", came from this southern city known for songs like "O Sole Mio"
Naples
Chris
$600 [9]
Jose Ferrer won an Oscar for playing this 1950 title role
Cyrano de Bergerac
Chris
$600 [14]
Madrid is in the region of central Spain known as this; it even has its own language
Castille
Pat Martha
$600 [20]
He was Mary Wollstonecraft's husband & Mary Shelley's father
Godwin
Pat
$600 [26]
This term for a broad, tree-lined street comes from the Dutch for "bulwark"
a boulevard
Chris
$800 [5]
Seeing thesymbolof this German drink may induce a college flashback
Jagermeister
$1,000 [29]
Bellissima! Bellini wrote for singers in this style, Italian for "beautiful singing"
bel canto
$800 [10]
Harry James dubbed the trumpet playing for this actor in "Young Man with a Horn"
Kirk Douglas
Pat Martha Chris
$1,000 [1]
You'll find Ho Chi Minh City on this river (they didn't change its name)
the Saigon River
Chris
$800 [30]
This general skillfully led the left side of American forces at the battles of Trenton & Brandywine
Nathanael Greene
$800 [27]
Worn as a symbol of penitence, this garment is made of camel or goat hair
sackcloth (a hairshirt accepted)
Chris
$1,000 [6]
Last name of Edouard, who created a new liqueur by blending sweet & bitter orange peels
Cointreau
DD $2,500 [21]
This 19th century virtuoso wrote 24 fiendishly difficult caprices for solo violin
Paganini
Pat
$1,000 [11]
Judy Holliday reprised her stage role as Billie Dawn in this George Cukor-directed comedy classic
Born Yesterday
Chris
DD $2,500 [15]
This island is home to orangutans & the Sultan of Brunei
Borneo
Pat
$1,000 [28]
The theories of this 2nd century Greek physician influenced medical practice for centuries
Galen
Pat
$1,000 [25]
This square dance of French origin is composed of 5 formations & danced by 4 couples
the quadrille
Martha

Final Jeopardy!

ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS

It took nearly 22 hours to achieve this in 1875; in 1994 it took only 7 hours & 17 minutes

swimming across the English Channel

Martha "What is the Le Mans race?" — wagered $1,400
Chris "What is English Channel Swim" — wagered $7,899
Pat "What is Marathon" — wagered $6,401

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