Show #3555 2000-02-04 (taped 1999-11-17) Regular

Jeremy Bate game 1.

Contestants

Jeremy Bate — a writer from Los Angeles, California

Brian Siegel — a director of Internet development from Northridge, California

Kathy Holden — an attorney from Chula Vista, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kathy $400 $1,800 $5,200 $6,401
2nd place: Trip to Merv Griffin's Resort Hotel & Givenchy Spa, Palm Springs, California
$5,100
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Brian $800 $700 $2,900 $3,900
3rd place: Edge Corporation Catalog Gift Certificate
$2,900
8 R, 2 W
Jeremy $1,100 $1,600 $6,400 $10,500
New champion: $10,500
$6,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT VILLAGES NAME THAT STOOGE LITERARY HODGEPODGE GIVE "P"s A CHANCE
$100 [1]
In 1969 she graduated from Wellesley College where she was president of the student government
Hillary Clinton
Kathy
$100 [16]
In bridge, if east is the dummy that means the declarer is this position
West (opposites)
Jeremy
$100 [21]
Washington Square Park is the hub of this area of New York City
Greenwich Village
Jeremy
$100 [6]
No one made malice funnier than this second-oldest Stooge:
Moe Howard
Jeremy
$100 [5]
"Eight Cousins" is a later work by this author who wrote about four "Little Women"
Louisa May Alcott
Kathy
$200 [26]
It means to sound a bell
Peal
Kathy
$200 [2]
In the late 1930s, she taught typing & shorthand at Whittier High School in California
Pat Nixon
Jeremy
$200 [17]
It's the lowest total that makes you go bust in blackjack
22
Kathy
$200 [22]
A famous hard cheese is named for this Somerset, England village in which it was first developed
Cheddar
Kathy
$200 [7]
Many appreciate the subtle hilarity of this Philly-born Stooge seen here:
Larry Fine
Brian
$200 [12]
As this novel begins, Jonathan Harker writes of visiting the British Museum in search of books on Transylvania
"Dracula"
Brian
$300 [27]
This slang term for a jail shares its name with Gumby's buddy
Pokey
Kathy
$300 [3]
She's buried in Abilene, Kansas beside her husband
Mamie Eisenhower
Kathy Jeremy
$300 [18]
In the "Black Lady" version of this game, the queen of spades is to be dreaded also
Hearts
Kathy Jeremy
DD $400 [23]
The name of this California village near Monterey goes back to a group of monks, not a candy
Carmel (Carmelite monks)
Kathy
$300 [8]
Born Samuel Horowitz, this Stooge's gruff & mindless persona earned him his own core of fans:
Shemp Howard
Jeremy
$300 [13]
She's the title character of an 1822 novel by Thomas Love Peacock (Robin Hood's in it, too)
Maid Marian
Jeremy
$400 [28]
From the Latin for "boxer", it's a synonym for boxing
Pugilism
Brian
$400 [4]
In November 1800 she wrote to her daughter that "The principal stairs are not up" in the White House
Abigail Adams
$400 [19]
In the poker variation Spit in the Ocean, each player is initially dealt this many cards
4
$400 [24]
Jacques Cartier gave this name to the hill behind the village of Hochelaga
Montreal (Mount Royal)
$400 [9]
This Stooge seen here was often "A victim of soicumstance":
Curly Howard
Brian
$400 [14]
Helen Hunt Jackson's novel "Mercy Philbrick's Choice" may be a fictional portrait of this reclusive poet, her friend
Emily Dickinson
Kathy
$500 [11]
In 1992 she became the 1st first lady to deliver a major address at a national political convention
Barbara Bush
Jeremy
$500 [20]
Back in the 1850s this card was added to the deck to be the highest trump in the game of Euchre
Joker
Jeremy
$500 [25]
At the start of the play, Macbeth is the thane of this Scottish village & lives in its castle
Glams & Cawdor
$500 [10]
This final new Stooge had made his own series of comedy shorts for Columbia in the 1940s:
"Curly Joe" DeRita
Kathy
$500 [15]
This Kafka novel was published posthumously under the German title "Das Schloss"
"The Castle"
Brian Jeremy

Double Jeopardy! Round

INVENTORS MUSIC ON TV AROUND THE WORLD A WEEK AT CLUB MEDIEVAL GO JUMP IN A LAKE THE END OF THE WORD
$200 [1]
Denis Papin's 1679 steam digester developed into this quick "cooker" that prepares custards & vegetables
Pressure cooker
Brian
$200 [6]
After this British quintet's October 1964 appearance, Ed Sullivan announced they'd never be back on his show
Rolling Stones
Jeremy
$200 [21]
In 1953 the CIA helped expel Mohammad Mossadegh & restore this Iranian leader
Shah of Iran
Kathy
$200 [9]
As a lord, you'll exercise jus primae noctis & spend this night with the brides of your serfs
The serfs' wedding night
Kathy
$200 [26]
On the Nevada-Arizona border:233 square miles
Lake Mead
Jeremy
$200 [16]
William Safire writes that this suffix for a female poet or priest "has come to be thought of as an insult"
-ess
Jeremy
$400 [2]
Joseph Bramah invented one of these in 1784 that no one was able to pick until 1851
Lock
Jeremy
$400 [7]
(I'm James McDaniel) Before "NYPD Blue", I appeared in this Steven Bochco series in which policemen burst into song
Cop Rock
Jeremy
$400 [22]
In 1976 soccer's Diego Maradona joined this country's national team when he was only 16 years old
Argentina
Jeremy
$400 [10]
Like a king, you'll get to put your own picture on these wax impressions
Seals
Brian Jeremy
$400 [27]
On the Israel-Jordan border:394 square miles
Dead Sea
$400 [17]
It's the usual suffix that forms the present participle of verbs
-ing
Kathy
$600 [3]
John Fleming invented this in 1904 & fought in court with Lee de Forest, who invented the triode in 1906
Diode
Brian
$600 [8]
Bryan Adams & the Wallflowers have recently gone acoustic for this MTV concert series
MTV Unplugged
Kathy
$600 [23]
In June Bulgaria holds an annual harvest festival of these blossoms, the month's traditional flower
Rose
$600 [13]
You'll hear a lecture at Germany's oldest of these institutions, founded in 1386 in Heidelberg
University
Kathy
$600 [28]
Southern Florida:663 square miles
Lake Okeechobee
Jeremy
$600 [18]
This suffix denoting direction, found after back- & up-, could end with or without an "S"
-ward
Jeremy
$800 [4]
Charles Wheatstone invented the stereoscope & this accordion-like musical instrument
Concertina
$800 [11]
One of the 7 Vondas of the world is this singer featured on "Ally McBeal"
Vonda Shepard
Brian
$800 [24]
Many Indian foods are accompanied by these popular relishes of spices & fruits often made from mangoes
Chutneys
Kathy
$800 [14]
You'll hand out gold to mendicant friars, mendicant referring to this activity
Begging
Jeremy
DD $600 [29]
Southern Egypt:1,550 square miles
Lake Nasser
Jeremy
DD $1,000 [19]
You add this suffix to denote multiplying by the stem word, like two-, ten- or mani-
-fold
Jeremy
$1,000 [5]
In 1851 Frederick Scott Archer developed a wet-plate process, the first practical way to produce copies of these
Photographs
Kathy
$1,000 [12]
In a '70s series, PBS was "In Performance At" this Virginia site
Wolf Trap
Kathy
$1,000 [25]
The "Mabinogion" is a collection of Celtic lore from this United Kingdom division
Wales
Jeremy
$1,000 [15]
It's the spiced ale you'll raise at an English Christmas feast, or the toast that accompanies it
Wassail
Kathy Jeremy
$1,000 [30]
Southern Siberia:about 12,200 square miles
Lake Baikal
Jeremy
$1,000 [20]
This 5-letter suffix follows "Roman" or "Arab" to indicate style or resemblance
-esque
Brian

Final Jeopardy!

FILMS OF THE '80s

The one-word title of this 1985 film refers to Samuel Lapp, a Penn. farm boy who makes his first visit to a city

Witness

Brian "What is Witness?" — wagered $1,000
Kathy "What is Witness" — wagered $1,201
Jeremy "What is Witness?" — wagered $4,100

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