Show #3711 2000-10-23 (taped 2000-09-26) Regular

Contestants

Kirsten Edwards — a college student from Chicago, Illinois

Matt Blum — a web designer from Burlington, Massachusetts

Marjorie Goldman — an actor and homemaker from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marjorie $1,200 $2,200 $2,200 $1,100
2nd place: Trip to Stockholm, Sweden courtesy of Priceline.com
$2,800
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Matt $200 $1,600 $7,400 $999
3rd place: Zenith 36" TV
$7,000
19 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Kirsten $200 $700 $6,900 $3,900
New champion: $3,900
$6,900
14 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITALS CELEBRITY RELATIVES IRISH EYES INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS THE "HALL"S OF MONTEZUMA
$100 [6]
In the old railway line it fell between Atchison & Santa Fe
Topeka, Kansas
Matt
$100 [10]
"Postcards from the Edge" is loosely based on her life & her relationship with mom, Debbie Reynolds
Carrie Fisher
Matt
$100 [16]
This Boomtown Rat organized Band Aid
Bob Geldof
$100 [17]
GB
Great Britain
Marjorie
$100 [1]
Noted for its rich acoustics, it's located on NYC's West 57th Street
Carnegie Hall
Marjorie
$100 [22]
From 1502 to 1520 Montezuma II ruled these people
Aztecs
Matt
$200 [7]
Capitals named for women include the capital of Maryland & this Maine capital
Augusta
Kirsten
$200 [11]
"Peggy Sue Got Married" is one of the movies he directed that featured nephew Nicolas Cage
Francis Ford Coppola
Matt
$200 [27]
This man with a grandmother from Cork played an Irish-American boxer in 1952's "The Quiet Man"
John Wayne
Matt
$200 [18]
BR
Brazil
Matt
$200 [2]
Once a popular talk show host, he's now the 1-800-COLLECT Man
Arsenio Hall
Marjorie Matt
$200 [23]
One of these works entitled "Montezuma" was composed by Roger Sessions in 1964
an opera
$300 [8]
It's the capital of the state nicknamed "Heart of Dixie"
Montgomery, Alabama
Marjorie
$300 [13]
Between the 2 of them, Dionne Warwick & this cousin have had more than 50 Top 40 hits
Whitney Houston
$300 [28]
Hey, 20 bucks says that you know this president's father was from County Antrim & his mother was Irish, too
Andrew Jackson
Matt
$300 [19]
DK
Denmark
Matt
$300 [3]
1996's "Brain Candy" was this troupe's big screen debut
Kids in the Hall
Marjorie
$300 [24]
This defeater of Montezuma reached Mexico in 1519 & some historians believe he was mistaken for a god
Hernando Cortez
Matt
$500 [12]
A synonym for this New England state capital could be what's symbolized by the sign here[Deer Crossing]
Hartford, Connecticut
$400 [14]
She's mum to actresses Joely & Natasha Richardson
Vanessa Redgrave
Marjorie Kirsten
$400 [29]
The record says in 1759 he opened his brewery at St. James Gate
Arthur Guinness
Marjorie
$400 [20]
KZ
Kazakhstan
$400 [4]
Specific term for the place where Jehovah's Witnesses meet to practice their faith
Kingdom Hall
Kirsten
$400 [25]
Reputedly, Montezuma drank as many as 50 cups a day of this drink which the Spanish made sweeter
chocolate
Matt
DD $600 [9]
In 1999 the team once known as the Houston Oilers made a slick move to this capital
Nashville (Tennessee Titans)
Marjorie
$500 [15]
(Hi, I'm Candice Bergen.) My father Edgar Bergen created 2 of the world's most beloved ventriloquist dummies... Charlie McCarthy & this goofy sidekick
Mortimer Snerd
Marjorie
$500 [30]
Everyone knew when it was windy, but not how windy until this Irishman came up with his scale in 1805
Sir Francis Beaufort
Kirsten
$500 [21]
SGP
Singapore
Marjorie
$500 [5]
It's the former name of the college football bowl game now known as the Outback Bowl
the Hall of Fame Bowl
$500 [26]
With some of the USA's best-preserved cliff dwellings, Montezuma Castle National Monument is in this state
Arizona

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART FOR ART'S SAKE ONCE THEY WERE ANGELS WEIGHTS & MEASURES DEAD POETS SOCIETY MAKE-UP TEST PHRENCH PHRASES
$200 [6]
Now at the Huntington Gallery, it's the "colorful" Sir Thomas Lawrence work seen here
"Pinkie"
$200 [23]
The December 1995 & July 1997 editions of Playboy featured revealing photo spreads of this ex-Angel
Farrah Fawcett
Kirsten
$200 [11]
Term for 1/36 of a yard
an inch
Kirsten
$200 [1]
In an Ernest Thayer poem, Cooney, Burrows, Flynn & Blake preceded this man to the plate
Casey
Matt
$200 [21]
Ballerina Julie Kent told Vogue she wears lots of the waterproof type of this instead of false eyelashes
mascara
Kirsten
$200 [16]
Sam Goldwyn stood on the deck of a departing ship & shouted this to his friends on shore
Bon voyage !
Marjorie
$400 [7]
Edouard Manet painted his portrait of this American author seen here from a daguerreotype
Edgar Allan Poe
Kirsten
$400 [27]
She's had a clothing line at K-Mart since 1985
Jaclyn Smith
Marjorie
$400 [12]
The Greek letter lambda, which stood for 30, was adopted by the Romans as this value
50 (L)
Kirsten
$400 [2]
In "Sea Fever" all John Masefield asked for "is a tall ship and a star to" do this
steer her by
Matt
$400 [22]
This shy Disney dwarf shares his name with a shade of Club Monaco's Cheek Dew
Bashful
Matt
$400 [17]
A volte-face is the French equivalent of this military maneuver
an about-face
Matt
$600 [8]
This innovative painter & print maker seen here passed on to his surrealistic reward in 1989
Salvador Dali
Kirsten
$600 [28]
She's Midge Pinciotti on "That '70s Show"
Tanya Roberts
$600 [13]
To get the paper size known as an octavo, you fold the paper this many times, creating 8 parts
3 times
Marjorie Matt
$800 [4]
This Harlem Renaissance poet wondered, "What happens to a dream deferred?"
Langston Hughes
Kirsten
$600 [24]
Madame Curie would like this shade of Urban Decay eyeliner named for a radioactive element
Radium
Matt
$600 [18]
This severe epileptic seizure, literally "great illness", involves a wide area of the brain
a grand mal seizure
Kirsten
$800 [9]
He's the masterful German composer seenherein a 1746 portrait by Haussmann
J.S. Bach
Kirsten
$800 [29]
A star of the 1973 TV movie "Satan's School for Girls", she was back in the 2000 remake
Kate Jackson
$800 [14]
To figure out your latitude you need the exact time & this instrument that replaced the octant
a sextant
Matt
DD $1,000 [3]
Whitman's "When Lilies Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" was an elegy for this man
Abraham Lincoln
Matt
$800 [25]
The Max Factor make-up inspired by this 1999 Shakespeare film features colors like Cob Web & Mustard Seed
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Matt
$800 [19]
An impressive display of power or skill; you might say Lance Armstrong put one on in 1999 & in 2000
a tour de force
Matt
$1,000 [10]
The clouds tell you why this work by Giorgione shares its name with a Shakespeare play
The Tempest
Kirsten
$1,000 [30]
Kris Munroe as an Angel, she later set up shop at TV's "One West Waikiki"
Cheryl Ladd
$1,000 [15]
Quick, it's the term for 1 billionth of a second
a nanosecond
Marjorie
$1,000 [5]
By the title, it's what Keats' "La Belle Dame" was "Sans"
Merci
Kirsten
DD $1,000 [26]
The name of this Cristina Carlino cosmetics line is from the Greek for "love of wisdom"
philosophy
Matt
$1,000 [20]
(Hi, I'm Mick Jones of Foreigner.) In French, this title of a Foreigner album means someone who incites others to civil unrest
Agent Provocateur
Marjorie

Final Jeopardy!

ANATOMY

The petrous temporal bone, the hardest in the body, encases the delicate structures of this organ

Inner ear

Marjorie "What is the brain? (brain)" — wagered $1,100
Kirsten "What is the brain?" — wagered $3,000
Matt "What is the Brain?" — wagered $6,401

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