Show #3184 1998-06-04 Regular

Contestants

Dan Emberley — an internet project manager from Washington, D.C.

Joe Mecca — a state trooper from Allegheny, New York

Pam Tyler — a professor of history from Raleigh, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pam $800 $2,100 $5,900 $7,900
2nd place: Broadway-themed trip to New York City
$5,900
14 R, 1 W
Joe $3,800 $4,700 $7,000 $12,000
New champion: $12,000
$7,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Dan $0 $1,700 $1,700 $3,399
3rd place: Zenith 32" TV
$4,700
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MARCH OF TIME IN THE SPIRIT CROSSWORD CLUES "M" MEL BROOKS MOVIES THE REAL LAND OF OZ THE FICTIONAL LAND OF OZ
$100 [16]
Once home to Al Capone & a birdman, it closed its cell doors March 21, 1963
Alcatraz
Joe
$100 [11]
French for "a sitting", it's a meeting at which a medium tries to communicate with the dead
Seance
Joe
$100 [1]
A coffee container, or your face(3)
Mug
Pam
$100 [6]
According to the title of Mel's 1995 film, this vampire is "Dead and Loving It"
Dracula
Joe
$100 [21]
Australia boasts the only all black type of this often white & graceful aquatic bird
Swan
Dan
$100 [22]
This paving material of the road to the Emerald City is in need of repairs
Yellow brick
Joe
$200 [17]
On March 25, 1957 6 countries signed the Treaty of Rome to form this, the EEC
European Economic Community
Pam
$200 [12]
This Sherlock Holmes creator became an advocate of spiritualism after his son died in WWI
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Joe
$200 [2]
Potatoes' partner(4)
Meat
Joe
$200 [7]
It's twue! It's twue! Madeline Kahn played singer Lili Von Shtupp in this uproarious western
Blazing Saddles
Joe
$200 [24]
In Australian idiom a "station" is one of these places where sheep are often found
Ranch
Dan
$200 [23]
The "Wizard" of Oz is from Omaha, Nebraska, not far from this state where Dorothy lives
Kansas
Joe
$300 [18]
This city's Bakerloo subway line opened March 10, 1906
London
Pam
$300 [13]
Constance Bennett & Cary Grant appeared & disappeared in this 1937 film classic
Topper
Pam
$300 [3]
Perhaps(5)
Maybe
Joe
$300 [8]
"The Producers" concerns the production of an outrageous musical called "Springtime for" this person
Hitler
Joe
$300 [28]
It's played on a field up to 200 yards long with 4 posts at each end
Australian Rules Football
Joe
$300 [25]
As seen in Chapter 2, they're about as tall as Dorothy & wear foot-high pointed hats
Munchkins
Pam
$400 [19]
The U.S. voted against joining this organization March 19, 1920; today we're here & it isn't
League of Nations
Joe
$400 [14]
Roseanne & Madonna are among the stars who've studied this Jewish mystical tradition
Kabbalah
Pam
$400 [4]
Food "From Heaven"(5)
Manna
Joe
DD $500 [9]
(Hi, I'm Teri Garr.) I got to romance Gene Wilder when I played a sexy blonde named Inga in this Mel Brooks film
Young Frankenstein
Joe
$400 [29]
This party led Australia from 1983 to 1996, while a party of the same name was Britain's opposition
Labor
Dan
$400 [26]
Part of Oz is populated by breakable people made of this, also the name of a real country
China
Joe
$500 [20]
On March 1, 1954 the U.S. conducted the first of a series of hydrogen bomb tests on this Pacific atoll
Bikini Atoll
Pam
$500 [15]
Possibly inhabited by a piano-playing ghost, the Stanley Hotel in Colorado inspired this Stephen King tale
"The Shining"
Joe
$500 [5]
Nonvegetarian side whiskers(11)
Muttonchops
Joe
$500 [10]
"History of the World--Part I" featured Mel as Moses, Torquemada & the waiter at this Biblical dinner
The Last Supper
Joe
$500 [30]
5-letter name of the capital of Western Australia, named for a county in Scotland
Perth
Dan
$500 [27]
In the book, this evil personage has only one eye & her slaves are called Winkies
Wicked Witch of the West
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCULPTURE BOTTOMS UP! HOW SUITE IT IS BUCHANAN... JAMES BUCHANAN TOUGH TV BEFORE & AFTER
$200 [1]
This artist's "The Thinker" was originally intended to crown his "Gates of Hell" monument
Auguste Rodin
Joe
$200 [13]
It's the base in the liqueur Irish Mint
Irish whiskey
$200 [20]
Around 1725 this great Baroque composer wrote 6 "English Suites" for harpsichord
J.S. Bach
Dan
$200 [6]
A good friend of Buchanan's was this man who went on to be president--of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Joe
$200 [7]
Arte Johnson was the only performer to win an Emmy for his work on this comedy-variety series
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Pam
$200 [12]
Breakfast cereal spokescat who's a Gr-r-reat! golfer
Tony the Tiger Woods
Dan
$400 [2]
Alexander Calder called these creations "four-dimensional drawings"
Mobiles
Joe
$400 [14]
A man in a sombrero sits under a Moorish archway on the label of this coffee liqueur
Kahlua
Pam
$400 [21]
When you listen to this French composer's "Mother Goose" suite, wear a "Bolero"
Maurice Ravel
Joe
$400 [8]
Buchanan was born in the town of Stony Batter in this state; he died & was buried in Lancaster there
Pennsylvania
Pam
$400 [15]
Nantucket Memorial Airport doubled for the fictional Tom Nevers Field on this sitcom
Wings
Joe
$400 [18]
Superman's girlfriend who pigs out & hits this shop for new duds
Lois Lane Bryant
Pam
$600 [3]
This country's renowned sculptor, Unkei, is known for his wooden statues carved for Buddhist temples
Japan
Dan
$600 [27]
Sauza is a brand of this liquor which is also the title of the song heard here:
"Tequila"
Dan
DD $500 [26]
Title of the 1931 suite heard here, a landmark in American music:
Grand Canyon Suite (by Ferde Grofe)
Joe
$600 [9]
Buchanan was on both sides of the fence for this proposed boundary of Oregon that Polk wanted
54 40
Pam
$600 [16]
This action show starring Richard Dean Anderson is a favorite of Marge Simpson's sisters
MacGyver
Joe
$600 [19]
The name of this band, heard here, combines a type of recreational vehicle & a composer:"Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling..."
Camper Van Beethoven
$800 [4]
A statue of this cowboy painter & sculptor represents Montana in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall
Charles Marion Russell
Joe
$800 [28]
Alex Marnier Lapostolle mixed cognac & this fruit's peel & Voila! Grand Marnier was born
Orange peel
Dan
$600 [23]
This composer's "Peer Gynt" suites began life as incidental music for a play by Henrik Ibsen
Edvard Grieg
Joe
$800 [10]
In the 1856 election, Buchanan beat this former president who ran as a Know-Nothing
Millard Fillmore
Pam
$800 [17]
2 of the 3 spinoffs from "The Mary Tyler Moore" show
Lou Grant , Phyllis and/or Rhoda
Pam
$800 [24]
A speech from "As You Like It" compares our planet to a New York restaurant at 7th & 54th
"All the World's a Stage Delicatessen"
$1,000 [5]
In this type of sculpture, an image is slightly raised above a flat surface
High relief
Dan
DD $3,000 [29]
In 1832 the founding family of this famed French champagne house hired a son-in-law named Chandon
Moet
Dan
$1,000 [11]
Buchanan didn't like this senator from Illinois though he may have given money to Buchanan's campaign
Stephen Douglas
Pam
$1,000 [22]
Monica Evans & Carole Shelley played the Pigeon sisters on this sitcom, as well as in the stage & film versions
The Odd Couple
Joe
$1,000 [25]
That despicable former leader of Cambodia saying "You devastated your country!"
Pol Pot calling the kettle black
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

1998 BESTSELLERS

35 years after her death, she's the subject of a new collection of poems by her husband

Sylvia Plath (husband is Ted Hughes)

Dan "Who is Sylvia Plath?" — wagered $1,699
Pam "Who is Sylvia Plath?" — wagered $2,000
Joe "Who is Sylvia Plath?" — wagered $5,000

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