Show #3444 1999-07-22 Regular

Contestants

Jason Scupine — an attorney from Woodland Hills, California

Jackie Wollner — an actress and comedienne from Van Nuys, California

Martha Raphelson — a homemaker from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Martha $1,300 $2,500 $6,900 $0
3rd place: a DirecTV satellite system
$6,300
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Jackie $400 $4,100 $7,100 $6,800
New champion: $6,800
$6,300
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jason $2,100 $1,900 $5,700 $2,400
2nd place: a trip to International House, New Orleans
$5,700
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE USA CELEBRITY HODGEPODGE I DON'T KNOW COLLEGIATE SPORTS NICKNAMES LAUNDRY DAY IN THE DICTIONARY
$100 [10]
It's the one-word title of Wyoming's state song
"Wyoming"
$100 [1]
Verna Felton was the voice of the nice fairy godmother in "Cinderella" & the mean Queen of Hearts in this film
Alice in Wonderland
Martha
$100 [26]
It's how the 1995 film with Alicia Silverstone as a girl named Cher should leave you
Clueless
Martha
$100 [6]
University of Oklahoma
Sooners
Jason
$100 [8]
Try washing these paired items, the most notorious for vanishing on laundry day, in mesh bags
Socks
Martha
$100 [18]
Look up the name of this Dickens character, & you'll find it can mean any miserly person
Scrooge
Jackie
$200 [11]
This Calif. city's Transamerica Pyramid stands on the site of the Exchange Saloon where Mark Twain once imbibed
San Francisco
Jackie
$200 [2]
This aunt of George Clooney divorced Jose Ferrer the same day Dinah Shore divorced George Montgomery
Rosemary Clooney
Martha
$200 [27]
Common translation of the Latin graecum est (to which is added non potest legi, "It cannot be read")
"It's Greek to me"
$200 [7]
Texas A&M
Aggies
Martha
$200 [9]
The symbol seenheretells you not to use whitening agents containing this:
bleach (or chlorine)
Jackie
$200 [19]
Used in medical terms, the prefix derma- refers to this part of the body
Skin
Jackie
$300 [12]
When it's October, it's time for the World Dairy Expo in this state capital
Madison, Wisconsin
Jason
$300 [3]
Kenneth Branagh was born in this capital of Northern Ireland in 1960
Belfast
Martha
$300 [28]
"Reply hazy try again" seems to be this globular future predictor's way of saying "I don't know"
Magic 8-Ball
Jason
$300 [14]
Georgia Tech
Yellow Jackets/Ramblin' Wreck/Engineers
Jason
$300 [23]
You can do this to flowers; or to the flesh; or to laundry, with an iron
Press
Martha
$400 [21]
It's the 3-letter word for a sphere, the globe or an eyeball
Orb
Jackie
$400 [16]
Confusingly, this state has a Charles Town & a Charleston (Charleston is the state capital)
West Virginia
Jackie
$400 [4]
This Roy Rogers co-star once stunned his fans by entering a NYC hotel lobby & signing the register himself
Trigger
Martha
$400 [29]
If something is puzzling you & you can't "make" this out "of it", maybe it's a pushmi-pullyu
Heads or tails
Martha
$400 [13]
Florida State
Seminoles
Jason
$400 [24]
It can store dirty laundry or picnic food (the same word, perhaps not the same article)
Hamper
Martha
$500 [22]
I'm especially "partial" to this word for a line cut diagonally across the grain of a cloth
Bias
Jackie
$500 [17]
This Alabama city is nicknamed the "Football Capital of the South"
Birmingham
Jason
$500 [5]
No wonder Kiri Te Kanawa became an opera singer; she's a descendant of this noted partner of W.S. Gilbert
Arthur Sullivan
Jason
$500 [30]
It's that French "I don't know what" expression for an indescribable quality
Je ne sais quoi
Jackie
$500 [15]
Michigan State
Spartans
Jason
$500 [25]
5 decades of design "waves" haven't much changed this detergent's box, with orange & yellow circles
Tide
Jackie
DD $1,100 [20]
Rubricate means to write or paint in this color
Red (ruby)
Jackie

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE WILLIE NELSON, THESPIAN ARTISTIC MASTERS CITY SOBRIQUETS DRAMA ALLITERATION ALL AROUND
$200 [2]
In 70-degree air, a plane traveling at about 1,130 feet per second breaks it
Sound barrier
Jason
$200 [25]
Willie laid down the law as legendary marshal Elias Burch on episodes of this frontier medical series
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Martha
$200 [1]
The young man seenhereis one of many portraits by this Dutchman:
Rembrandt
Jackie
$200 [12]
"The Mardi Gras City"
New Orleans
Jackie
$200 [9]
It's the play where you'll find the line "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio"
Hamlet
Martha
$200 [19]
This brand of frozen concentrate orange juice was introduced in the 1940s
Minute Maid
Jackie
$400 [5]
Scientists say the Earth has warmed about 9 degrees since the last of these frigid ages
Ice Age
Martha
$400 [27]
Willie played a convict on furlough to help catch a crook on a 1997 episode of this Don Johnson series
Nash Bridges
Martha
$400 [3]
An example of this 16th & 17th century master's distinctive distortion of figures is seen here:
El Greco
Martha
$400 [13]
"The City Without Clocks" & "The Gambler's Mecca"
Las Vegas
Martha
$400 [10]
This character asks, "Do you believe in fairies?...if you believe, clap your hands!"
"Peter Pan"
Jackie
$400 [20]
In 1992 k.d. lang had a Top 40 hit with this song
"Constant Craving"
Martha
$600 [7]
In 1987 the Smithsonian celebrated the 300th anniversary of this scientist's "Principia"
Sir Isaac Newton
Jackie
$600 [28]
It wasn't a stretch for Willie to be the voice of Willie Nelson on an episode of this cartoon about a Texas family
King of the Hill
Jason
$600 [4]
It's his neck-bending depiction of the prophet Jeremiah seen here:
Michelangelo
Jackie
$800 [15]
"The Marine Metropolis of Virginia" & "Vacationland, U.S.A."
Norfolk
Jason
DD $500 [23]
She says, "I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of sellin at the corner of Tottenham Court Road"
Eliza Doolittle
Martha
$600 [18]
(Hi, I'm Robin Roberts) In a basketball game, bouncing the ball with both hands simultaneously is this violation
Double dribbling
Martha
$800 [8]
It was this part of his wife's body that Wilhelm Roentgen X-rayed first
Hand
Martha
$800 [29]
As country music star Buck Bonham, Willie is torn between Dyan Cannon & Amy Irving in this 1980 movie
Honeysuckle Rose
Jason
$800 [6]
This artist's Virgin seenhereis similar to a more famous painting by him:
Leonardo da Vinci
Jackie
$1,000 [16]
"The Home of 'Ole Miss'"
Oxford
Martha Jason
$800 [24]
He's the playwright who wrote, "I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!"
Arthur Miller
Jackie
$800 [21]
Sisters Marianne & Elinor Dashwood get married at the end of this novel by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Martha Jackie
$1,000 [11]
In 1995 scientists in Switzerland created atoms of this substance that may not exist naturally in our universe
Antimatter
$1,000 [30]
Willie Nelson made his movie debut as Robert Redford's manager in this 1979 movie
The Electric Horseman
Martha Jason
$1,000 [17]
"Arresting" 19th century landscape master whose work is seen here:
John Constable
DD $1,300 [14]
"Georgia's Second Oldest City" & "The Golf Capital of America"
Augusta
Martha
$1,000 [26]
Experimental play containing the line "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!"
Waiting for Godot
Jason
$1,000 [22]
E.M. Forster got the title "A Passage to India" from one of his poems
Walt Whitman

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD LEADERS

This country's leaders have included Yusof Bin Ishak, Benjamin Sheares & Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore

Jason "What is Hong Kong" — wagered $3,300
Martha "What is Pakistan" — wagered $6,900
Jackie "What Taiwan, ROC" — wagered $300

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