Show #3548 2000-01-26 (taped 1999-11-16) Regular

Lee Lassiter game 2.

Contestants

Veronica Russell — a costume designer from New Orleans, Louisiana

Leslie McRae — an administrative assistant from Jersey City, New Jersey

Lee Lassiter — a computer programmer from Topeka, Kansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lee $1,700 $4,500 $5,100 $10,200
2-day champion: $21,400
$3,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Leslie $1,200 $1,600 $4,000 $1,000
2nd place: a trip to Wyndham Palace Resort & Spa, Walt Disney World, Florida
$4,000
13 R, 6 W
Veronica $1,400 $1,900 $4,900 $100
3rd place: Panasonic 27" TV/VCR/DVD Combo
$7,100
25 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

THE 1960s COLORS WATERY NAMES "GUN" CONTROL HYMNS HERS
$100 [3]
In April 1964 the U.S. & Colombia agreed to a study about building a new one of these through Colombia
Canal
Veronica
$100 [1]
A shade of orange, or what you carve to make a jack-o'-lantern
Pumpkin
Lee
$100 [23]
His No. 1 hits include "Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car" & "Caribbean Queen"
Billy Ocean
Veronica
$100 [6]
Their only No. 1 Top 40 hit was 1988's "Sweet Child O' Mine"
Guns N' Roses
Veronica
$100 [9]
Charles Wesley's "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" is a hymn for this holiday
Easter
Leslie
$100 [19]
Camryn Manheim of "The Practice" shares sometimes painful memories in her book "Wake Up, I'm" this
Fat
Veronica
$200 [16]
The Coinage Act of 1965 eliminated this from dimes & quarters
Silver
Lee
$200 [4]
A young deer, or its color
fawn
Veronica
$300 [24]
Harrison Ford's son in "The Mosquito Coast", he was a young Harrison Ford in the third Indiana Jones movie
River Phoenix
Veronica
$200 [8]
This Kipling poem about a native water carrier appears in his collection "Barrack Room Ballads"
"Gunga Din"
Lee
$200 [11]
Thishymn was a Victorian favorite:
"Rock Of Ages"
Veronica
$200 [21]
Before 1995's "Jagged Little Pill", an early '90s album by her won a Juno, Canada's Grammy
Alanis Morissette
Veronica
$300 [20]
In 1960 this then-Democrat was reelected as senator from South Carolina
Strom Thurmond
Leslie
$300 [2]
Apple, beryl & absinthe are shades of this color
Green
Leslie
$400 [25]
A co-creator of "Get Smart", his movie parodies include "Spaceballs" & "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"
Mel Brooks
Veronica
$300 [10]
This type of diplomacy might require a cruiser & a destroyer
Gunboat diplomacy
Lee
$300 [13]
Do this "with me; fast falls the eventide; the darkness deepens"
Abide
Veronica
$300 [27]
A teenage icon in "Pretty in Pink" & "Sixteen Candles", she spent the early '90s in Paris
Molly Ringwald
Veronica
$400 [22]
The 1961 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded posthumously to this U.N. secretary-general
Dag Hammarskjold
Lee Leslie
$400 [5]
In names of colors, it follows aqua & ultra
Marine
Leslie
$500 [26]
The Rolling Stones got their name from a song by this legendary blues musician
Muddy Waters
Leslie
$400 [12]
In the Marine Corps it's above staff sergeant & below master sergeant
Gunnery sergeant
Lee
$400 [15]
This 16th century reformer wrote the German hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
Martin Luther
Leslie
$400 [28]
In 1997 harpist Anna Lelkes became the first woman member of this European city's 150-year-old Philharmonic
Vienna
Lee Veronica
$500 [30]
The Louvre sent his "Mother" to St. Louis for an exhibition
James Whistler
Veronica
$500 [7]
It's the color of the great horned owl's eyes
Yellow
Veronica
DD $1,500 [18]
She was in 2 John Waters films & on the TV show "China Beach" before hosting her own talk show
Ricki Lake
Lee
$500 [14]
This motto of U.S. forces in WWII Asia means "work together" in Chinese
Gung-ho
Lee
$500 [17]
Line that follows "All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful..."
"The Lord God made them all"
Lee Veronica
$500 [29]
Mary Ellen, or what she has made as a renowned photojournalist
Mark
Veronica

Double Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE U.S.A. COUNTRY MUSIC LEGENDS PRESIDENTIAL HUNKS FEASTS & FESTIVALS AUTHOR! AUTHOR! QUASI-RELATED PAIRS
$200 [12]
Away down yonder in Louisiana you'll be drawn & French Quartered to this, its largest city in population
New Orleans
Veronica
$200 [26]
His first No. 1 country hit, "I Walk the Line", was released by Sun Records of Memphis in 1956
Johnny Cash
Veronica
$200 [1]
Seen here, he was "tricky" enough to be something of a hunk playing football for Whittier College:
Richard Nixon
Veronica
$200 [2]
The Virgin Islands celebrate Thanksgiving in October to give thanks to the end of this weather season
hurricane season
Lee Leslie Veronica
$200 [5]
1990:"The Witching Hour"
Anne Rice
Veronica
$200 [17]
Supreme Court judge Hugo & distance runner Mary all tooled up
Black & Decker
Leslie
$400 [13]
The only state without an adult seatbelt use law; hey, it goes with its motto, "Live Free or Die"
New Hampshire
Leslie
$400 [27]
She had 8 Top 10 country hits with George Jones, 4 of them after the D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Tammy Wynette
Lee
$400 [14]
Seen here, he didn't just look good in a uniform, he was also an MVP & an All-Star:
Gerald Ford
Veronica
$400 [3]
You may toast "Skull", not "Skoal" on this November 2 holiday in Mexico
Day of the Dead
Veronica
$400 [6]
1990:"A Life on the Road"
Charles Kuralt
Lee Leslie
$400 [18]
British breakfast of same-named cities in Maine, California & Michigan & an Alan Alda series
Bangors & M*A*S*H
Leslie
$600 [15]
The first U.S. presidential oath was taken in this state
New York
Lee
$600 [28]
3 years before "King of the Road" sold a million, he was a drummer in Faron Young's band
Roger Miller
Leslie
$600 [16]
Degrees from Princeton & Johns Hopkins aren't the only attractive features of this man seen here:
Woodrow Wilson
Leslie
$600 [4]
Hello, the pageantry of these festivals can be seen in Hawaii during October, goodbye
Aloha Festivals
Leslie
$600 [7]
1992:"Waiting to Exhale"
Terry McMillan
Lee Leslie Veronica
$600 [19]
Cooking herb & laundry detergent pair that "wait for no man"
thyme & Tide
Leslie Veronica
DD $1,000 [22]
This nickname of Virginia came from Charles II ranking it with England, Ireland, France & Scotland
"Old Dominion"
Veronica
$800 [29]
His success with "Lovesick Blues" led to his Opry debut in 1949; he was called back for 6 encores that first night
Hank Williams, Sr.
$800 [24]
"Mister, we could use a man like" this one, seen here, "again":
Herbert Hoover
Leslie
$800 [10]
On June 15 Denmark celebrates this item, considered to be the oldest national one in use today
Flag
$800 [8]
1992:"The Bridges of Madison County"
Robert James Waller
Veronica
$800 [20]
Magazine published by singer Vikki & actress Minnie
Carr & Driver
Veronica
$1,000 [23]
The U.S. Coast Guard grounded its academy in this Connecticut city
New London
Leslie
$1,000 [30]
With 1952's "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", she became the first female to have a No. 1 country hit
Kitty Wells
Veronica
$1,000 [25]
Even wife "Lemonade Lucy" could have gotten drunk from gazing at this babe, seen here:
Rutherford B. Hayes
DD $1,200 [11]
Louis I of Bavaria did this October 12, 1810 & an Oktoberfest now celebrates it annually
got married
Veronica
$1,000 [9]
"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
John Berendt
Veronica
$1,000 [21]
Country singing team of an "Iliad" author & the father-in-law of Moses
Homer & Jethro
Veronica

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

In area, it's the largest country that does not belong to the United Nations

Switzerland

Leslie "What is Cuba?" — wagered $3,000
Veronica "What is the Ukraine?" — wagered $4,800
Lee "What is Switzerland" — wagered $5,100

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