Show #3197 1998-06-23 (taped 1998-03-09) Regular

Contestants

Pat Murphy — a foreign service officer from Arlington, Virginia

Gary Vey — a prosecuting attorney from Lawrenceville, Georgia

P.D. Wadler — a psychotherapist from Chicago, Illinois

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
P.D. $1,600 $2,100 $9,200 $9,200
New champion: $9,200
$7,700
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Gary $1,000 $2,600 $4,300 $1,900
2nd place: a trip to Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque, Tenerife, Canary Islands
$5,700
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Pat $500 $1,700 $900 $100
3rd place: a pair of Festina Watches
$900
8 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY CULTURED CELEBRITIES BARBS FROM THE BARD A CHOIR OF ANGELS THE 1970s FASHION STATEMENTS
$100 [28]
Barbie accounts for about 40% of this toymaker's revenue
Mattel
P.D.
$100 [10]
This "X-Files" star has expressed his admiration for the complex modern poetry of John Ashbery
David Duchovny
P.D.
$100 [6]
Othello calls her a "lewd minx"
Desdemona
P.D.
$100 [18]
In 1981 Juice Newton revived this 1968 song
"Angel of the Morning"
Gary
$100 [23]
In October 1979 he became the first pope to visit a president at the White House
Pope John Paul II
Gary
$100 [24]
A person with 2 jobs is said to wear 2 of these, even if he has just one head
Hats
Gary
$200 [29]
It's said this soft drink's name is the most recognized commercial symbol in the world
Coca-Cola
Pat
$200 [13]
TV's Felix Unger, he founded the National Actors Theatre to educate Americans in the classic plays
Tony Randall
P.D.
$200 [7]
He calls Claudius "Treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!"--but not to his face
Hamlet
Gary Pat
$200 [19]
In a J. Geils Band song, it's the reason "My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold"
my angel is a centerfold
Gary
$200 [22]
East & West Germany & the Bahamas were admitted to this international organization September 18, 1973
United Nations
Pat
$200 [25]
Uncomfortable as it sounds, it's where a highly emotional person wears his heart
On his sleeve
Gary
$300 [14]
In 1994 this retailer transferred its ownership in the world's then tallest building to a trust
Sears
P.D.
$300 [16]
Yo, Adrian! This actor says that what "separates us from being totally bestial is...a sense of the aesthetic"
Sylvester Stallone
$300 [5]
Called a wasp by her wooer she says, "If I be waspish, best beware my sting"
Kate
Pat
$300 [4]
This FOX TV show band had a hit with "How Do You Talk to an Angel"
The Heights
$300 [1]
Name given to the U.S.-USSR weapons negotiations; the first ended in 1972, the second in 1979
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
Gary
$300 [17]
Here's a footnote: many cowboys were said to die this way, as in the title of an Errol Flynn film
With their boots on
Pat
$400 [12]
This London news agency was founded in 1851 & named for a German baron
Reuters
Pat
$400 [11]
This crooner whose career was renewed on MTV in the '90s is also a painter influenced by the Impressionists
Tony Bennett
P.D.
DD $500 [8]
The queen calls him "That bottled spider, that foul bunch-backed toad!"
Richard III
Gary
$400 [20]
Singer heard here:("You must be an angel...")
Madonna
P.D.
$400 [2]
In 1975 New Zealand's John Walker ran the mile in 3:49.4, beating this man's 1954 mark by 10 seconds
Roger Bannister
$400 [26]
A pompous person is one of these, which sounds like it was made by a tailor moonlighting as a taxidermist
Stuffed shirt
Gary
$500 [30]
The corporation whose logo is seen here was created in 1971:(AKA the National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
Amtrak
Pat
$500 [15]
This actress & sister of actress Jennifer made her debut as a novelist with 1994's "Singing Songs"
Meg Tilly
$500 [9]
Beatrice calls him "A very dull fool", then agrees to marry him
Benedick
$500 [21]
This group's "Angel of Harlem" is a tribute to Billie Holiday
U2
$500 [3]
The first baby conceived outside a woman's body was born in this country
England (Louise Brown)
P.D.
$500 [27]
Someone with a single obsession "buzzing" in his head figuratively has this, an apiarist's nightmare
Bee in his bonnet
Gary

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BOOK OF REVELATION LOCUST POTPOURRI U.S. GEOGRAPHY "G" MOVIES PERRY THE PUNDIT WORD WORDS
$200 [3]
The book is also called this, from the Greek word for Revelation
Apocalypse
Gary
$200 [1]
Some locusts make noise by rubbing their legs on these to vibrate them
Wings
Pat
$200 [8]
At 14,433 feet, Mt. Elbert in this state is a real Rocky Mountain high; it's the highest peak in the range
Colorado
P.D.
$200 [16]
Lucky Walter Matthau got to romance Sophia Loren in this 1995 sequel to "Grumpy Old Men"
Grumpier Old Men
P.D.
$200 [27]
When Perry holds forth, he is often accused of doing this, from Latin for "A high cleric"
Pontificating
$200 [19]
Term for a word with a similiar meaning to another, Roget's lists "Roget's" for "thesaurus"
Synonym
P.D.
$400 [4]
This author of Revelation mentions his own name 4 times in the book
John
Gary
$400 [2]
Natives in Guyana make canoes out of this part of the locust tree
Bark
Gary Pat
$400 [12]
In 1937 the government set aside this Georgia swamp as a national wildlife refuge
Okefenokee Swamp
P.D. Gary
$400 [15]
In titles of '90s films, this word precedes "As Sin", "As Charged" & "By Suspicion"
Guilty
Gary
$400 [24]
Friends call Perry the "Cokie Monster" for his crush on this ABC & NPR journalist
Cokie Roberts
P.D. Pat
$400 [20]
These terms are, you know, the 2 examples of embololalia in this clue that, like, stall for time
You know & like
P.D.
$600 [5]
It's Revelation's place in order of books in the New Testament
Last
Gary
$600 [28]
The singer heard here, she was born in Locust Ridge, Tennessee:
Dolly Parton
P.D.
$800 [9]
This Great Lake's deepest point, 1330 feet, lies about 50 miles north of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Lake Superior
P.D.
$600 [10]
Dennis Quaid marries a 13-year-old in the movie bio named for this 1957 song
Great Balls of Fire!
$600 [11]
Perry earned a Ph.D. in this "science", like Woodrow Wilson, who was the subject of Perry's thesis
Political science
Gary
$600 [21]
A speaker's use & choice of words; with the suffix "ary", it's a list of all the words & their meanings
Diction
P.D. Gary
$800 [6]
Satan is cast into a lake of these 2 things, & "shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever"
Fire & brimstone
P.D.
$1,000 [14]
This 6,684-foot peak in western North Carolina is the highest U.S. point east of the Mississippi River
Mount Mitchell
P.D. Gary
$800 [25]
"Hey There!" It's the 1966 film that made Lynn Redgrave a star
Georgy Girl
Pat
$800 [17]
Perry starts the day with decaf & David Broder's column in this "Capital" newspaper
The Washington Post
Gary
$800 [22]
To tell the truth, mendaciloquence, is the art of doing this--artfully
Lying
P.D.
$1,000 [7]
This Mesopotamian city is destroyed in Chapter 18
Babylon
Gary
DD $1,500 [13]
This large Connecticut city was named after a structure spanning the Pequonnock
Bridgeport
Gary
$1,000 [26]
Angela Lansbury was in her teens when she made her film debut in this 1944 Charles Boyer-Ingrid Bergman classic
Gaslight
P.D.
$1,000 [18]
Perry opens many columns with a deep-sounding quote, like this poet's "April is the cruellest month"
T.S. Eliot
Pat
DD $2,500 [23]
From French for a stencil--something used over again--it's a too oft-repeated phrase
Cliche
P.D.

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS POEMS

1913 poem that includes the line "A nest of robins in her hair"

"Trees" (by Joyce Kilmer)

Pat "What is Ode to Spring?" — wagered $800
Gary "What is" — wagered $2,400
P.D. "What is Evangeline?" — wagered $0

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