Show #3454 1999-09-16 (taped 1999-07-13) Regular

Contestants

John Hill — a farmer from Ashton, Illinois

Robin Black — a legal assistant from Washington, D.C.

Victor Aguilar — an electrical engineer originally from McAllen, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Victor $300 $1,000 $1,800 $3,300
2nd place: Trip to Couples Resorts, Jamaica
$2,100
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Robin $800 $1,900 $5,000 $100
3rd place: Meade ETS Telescope
$4,900
16 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
John $600 $2,900 $5,100 $10,100
New champion: $10,100
$5,100
16 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

JAZZ TAKE A SEAT! SCENIC ROUTES THEY USED TO BE IN CHARGE POTPOURRI "RO" IS ME
$100 [8]
Known as the "First Lady of Song", she won 13 Grammy Awards, the most by any jazz artist
Ella Fitzgerald
Victor Robin
$100 [2]
Seat seen here, possibly preferred by Spielberg or Welles:
Director's chair
John
$100 [6]
You might see antelope when you travel Happy Jack Road between Laramie & Cheyenne in this state
Wyoming
Victor
$100 [16]
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel
John
$100 [22]
22 Jermyn Street, The Savoy & The Covent Garden are all hotels in this city
London
John
$100 [1]
He's the sculptor whose grave near Paris is marked by a copy of "The Thinker"
Auguste Rodin
Robin
$200 [10]
In the title of the album "Diz 'N' Bird In Concert", Diz is Dizzy Gillespie & Bird is this saxophonist
Charlie Parker
Victor
$200 [5]
Proverbially, you don't want to be the one rearranging this kind of chair on the Titanic:
Deck chair
John
$200 [7]
Don't miss walking through the Thurston Lava Tube when you drive around this state's Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii
Robin
$200 [17]
Helmut Schmidt
West Germany
Robin John
$200 [25]
Miss Piggy knows this Muppeteer's original last name was Oznowicz
Frank Oz
Victor
$200 [3]
The first British pilot to die in a flying accident was this business partner of Henry Royce
Charles Rolls
Victor
$300 [11]
In 1964 this jazz great reached the top of the pop charts with his vocal recording of "Hello, Dolly!"
Louis Armstrong
John
$300 [15]
Famous boy whose royal seat is seen here:
King Tutankhamun
John
$300 [12]
If you like to gaze at glaciers, you'll enjoy driving the Seward Highway in this state
Alaska
Robin
$300 [18]
Olof Palme
Sweden
John
$300 [26]
"Common Sense" guy who wrote, "Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, in defense of our liberty tree"
Thomas Paine
John
$300 [4]
In a word, he helped found a medical school at Manchester but he's better known for his thesaurus
Peter Roget
Robin
$400 [13]
Induction into the Jazz Hall of Fame in Orlando is determined by a poll conducted by this leading jazz publication
Down Beat
$400 [29]
Late 19th & early 20th century French master who painted the seat seen here:
Pierre Auguste Renoir
$400 [23]
The Skyline Drive provides spectacular views of this state's Shenandoah National Park
Virginia
Robin John
$400 [19]
Bob Hawke
Australia
John
$400 [27]
Male sea spiders carry the eggs on a special pair of these until they hatch
Legs
Robin
DD $300 [9]
On May 26, 1793 he called on the French people to rise in insurrection
Robespierre
Victor
$500 [14]
On April 7, 1986 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame--nearly 27 years after her death
Billie Holiday
$500 [30]
The chairs seen here are examples of this popular 18th century style named for a designer:
Chippendale
John
$500 [24]
The Centennial Trail covers 111 miles in these hills, from Bear Butte State Park to Wind Cave Naional Park
South Dakota
John
$500 [20]
Fidel Ramos
Philippines
$500 [28]
These bivalves are the main ingredient in the French dish moules mariniere
Mussels
Robin
$500 [21]
Italian composer who was born on Leap Day, 1792 & died on Friday the 13th, 1868; no wonder he was superstitious
Gioachino Rossini
Victor

Double Jeopardy! Round

HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? U.S. FIRSTS BIG SCREEN COWBOYS NOTHING NEW HERE FLOWER GIRLS FROM Z TO A
$200 [1]
Fortnightly
Every 2 weeks
Robin
$200 [11]
The first U.S. spacecraft to hit the visible side of the moon landed in this waterless "sea" in 1964
Sea of Tranquility
Victor
$200 [17]
In "A Fistful of Dollars", Clint Eastwood is listed in the credits as "The Man With" this
No Name
John
$200 [18]
A city once the capital of Roman Britain, or Richard III's royal house
York
Robin
$200 [5]
She gave birth to 3 20th century U.S. senators, one of whom became president
Rose Kennedy
Victor
$200 [6]
An embarrassed one of these may be black & white & red all over
Zebra
Victor
$400 [2]
Biennially
Every 2 years
Victor
$400 [12]
He was the first Pope to pop into the White House for a visit
John Paul II
Victor
$400 [19]
This cowpuncher was a star of westerns & music & has 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:
Gene Autry
Victor
$400 [20]
We doubt that this French city, from whom Joan of Arc drove the English in 1429, has a French Quarter
Orleans
Robin
$400 [23]
On the "Cosby Show" spinoff "A Different World", she played wealthy dormmate Whitley Gilbert
Jasmine Guy
Robin
$400 [7]
A common variety of this flower is seen here:
Zinnia
Robin
$600 [3]
Semidiurnally
twice a day
Robin
$600 [13]
The USA's first major fully-enclosed baseball stadium, it opened April 9, 1965
Houston Astrodome
John
$600 [26]
It's the original last name of the Western legend who starred as the Ringo Kid in 1939's "Stagecoach"
Marion Michael Morrison (John Wayne)
DD $800 [21]
The 4 main (English) Channel Islands are Sark, Alderney, Guernsey & this one
Jersey
Robin
$600 [24]
Judge Roy Bean claimed that the frontier town where he laid down the law was named for this English actress
Lillie Langtry
John
DD $500 [8]
It comes between epsilon & eta or, pronounced differently, between Catherine & Jones
Zeta
Robin
$800 [4]
Semimillennially
every 500 years (or twice every 1,000 years)
Victor Robin
$800 [14]
On Aug. 2, 1962 the U.S. submarines Skate & Seadragon made a historic joint surfacing here
North Pole
John
$800 [22]
The English name for the German area of Braunschweig; it's also a big name in bowling equipment
Brunswick
Victor
$800 [9]
Its capital is Lusaka
Zambia
$1,000 [16]
Sesquicentennially
Every 150 years
Victor Robin
$1,000 [15]
In 1964 this legendary couple of the stage became the first husband & wife awarded the Medal of Freedom
Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne
Robin
$1,000 [25]
Conakry is the capital of this African country northwest of the gulf that shares its name
Guinea
$1,000 [10]
Zoroaster's nom-de-Persian
Zarathustra

Final Jeopardy!

ROCK MUSIC

This term for a rock genre came into popular usage from a line in Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild"

Heavy metal

Victor "What is heavy metal?" — wagered $1,500
Robin "What is hard rock?" — wagered $4,900
John "What is heavy metal" — wagered $5,000

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