Show #3478 1999-10-20 (taped 1999-08-03) Regular

Eddie Timanus game 1.

Contestants

Becky Benjamin — a law student from Miami, Florida

Eddie Timanus — a sportswriter from Reston, Virginia

Keith Lorasch — a music educator from Eau Claire, Wisconsin (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,002)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Keith $1,500 $3,000 $7,000 $10,000
2nd place: a Las Vegas trip
$5,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Eddie $1,400 $4,000 $7,400 $14,400
New champion: $14,400
$6,500
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Becky $500 $1,400 $2,600 $5,000
3rd place: 1-800-GIFT-CERTIFICATE gift certificate
$3,600
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS BASEBALL NICKNAMES HEALTH & MEDICINE BRIAN THE BABY BOOMER CLASSIC MOVIE LINES HOWDY, "BUSTER"
$100 [1]
Baptized Joannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, he commonly called himself Wolfgang Amade
Mozart
Becky
$100 [2]
"Charlie Hustle"
Pete Rose
Eddie
$100 [11]
Now hear this! One of the most common causes of hearing loss is a buildup of this substance
earwax
Keith
$100 [20]
Brian learned to read with the repetitive activities of this boy & girl developed by William Gray
Dick & Jane
Keith
$100 [14]
1976:"Yo, Adrian"
Rocky
Eddie
$100 [13]
This video chain began in Dallas in 1985; it now has more than 4,000 U.S. stores & 2,000 overseas
Blockbuster
Becky
$200 [6]
He dedicated his "Moonlight Sonata" to the countess Giulietta Guicciardi
Beethoven
Keith
$200 [3]
"The Strawman"
Darryl Strawberry
Eddie
$200 [12]
Of forceps, biceps, or triceps, the one that's a surgical instrument
forceps
Eddie
$200 [25]
Teenage Brian strummed this song, asking "How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?"
"Blowin' In The Wind"
Eddie
$300 [17]
1980:"Heeeeere's Johnny!"
The Shining
Becky
$200 [15]
Who ya gonna call? Well, in this 1984 film it was Bill Murray & his cohorts
Ghostbusters
Eddie
$300 [7]
His "1812 Overture" premiered in Moscow in 1882--not 1812
Tchaikovsky
Keith
$300 [4]
"Dr. K"
Dwight Gooden
Eddie Becky
$300 [21]
Like lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by one of these arachnids
a tick
Becky
$300 [26]
Brian chickened out when girlfriend Suzie asked him to join the October 1967 "March On" this building
the Pentagon
$400 [18]
1964:"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room"
Dr. Strangelove
Keith
$300 [22]
This commercial spokeskid of the 1950s lived in a shoe with his dog Tige, who lived there too
Buster Brown
Becky
$400 [8]
This "Aida" composer was a deputy in the first Italian parliament in Turin in 1860
Giuseppe Verdi
Eddie
$400 [5]
"The Iron Horse"
Lou Gehrig
Keith
$400 [28]
The AMA now advises women to have this breast cancer screening annually beginning at age 40
a mammogram
Eddie
$400 [27]
In the '80s, Brian took a job with this defense contractor whose name means "light from the gods"
Raytheon
$500 [19]
1987:"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"
The Princess Bride
Eddie
$400 [23]
In 1964 Russell Long & other senators led one that lasted a record 74 days against a civil rights bill
a filibuster
Eddie
$500 [10]
He composed several works based on poems by Paul Verlaine, including "Ariettes Oubliees" & "Clair De Lune"
Claude Debussy
Keith
$500 [9]
"The Splendid Splinter"
Ted Williams
Eddie
$500 [29]
It's estimated that 1 in 12 African-Americans has the trait for this blood disease
sickle cell anemia
Keith
$500 [30]
In the '90s Brian took up this game, like his boyhood idol Cary Middlecoff
golf
DD $1,100 [16]
1975:"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
Jaws
Eddie
$500 [24]
This 1895 sculpture was the first of 25 Western art bronzes by Frederic Remington
Bronco Buster
Keith

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY FORGOTTEN MUSICALS FICTIONAL HEROES TOUGH GEOGRAPHY QUICK BIOS CROSSWORD CLUES "S"
$200 [13]
After a German blitzkrieg, this country's King Leopold III surrendered on May 28, 1940
Belgium
Keith Eddie
$200 [11]
He hadn't moved to Mayberry yet when he played the Jimmy Stewart role in the 1959 musical "Destry Rides Again"
Andy Griffith
Becky
$200 [3]
This Mickey Spillane P.I. made his first appearance in 1947's "I, The Jury"
Mike Hammer
Becky
$200 [2]
The 200,000-square-mile Libyan Erg is the largest area of sand dunes in this desert
Sahara
Eddie
$200 [19]
Born in Porbandar in 1869; fasted, iconoclasted; died in New Delhi, 1948
Mahatma Gandhi
Eddie
$200 [1]
Hitchcock was the "Master of" it(8)
Suspense
Eddie
$400 [18]
Her son Willem-Alexander is the first male heir in the Netherlands' House of Orange since 1890
Queen Beatrix
Eddie
$400 [14]
Critics didn't "fawn" over the musical based on this Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings novel, so yes, deer, it flopped
The Yearling
Keith
$400 [27]
At age 18 in 1625 he set out from Gascony to join the king's musketeers
d'Artagnan
Becky
$400 [8]
The economic center of this river's basin is the city of Manaus, Brazil
Amazon
Becky
$400 [20]
Born c. 470 B.C.; taught a bit, tried & died c. 399 B.C.; met Bill & Ted in 1989
Socrates
Eddie
$400 [4]
The "fishy" part of your shoe(4)
sole
Becky
$600 [23]
This British lord was killed off Ireland in 1979 by IRA terrorists who placed a bomb in his boat
Lord Louis Mountbatten
$600 [15]
Exiting after only 19 performances, "Ari" wasn't based on Onassis, but on this Leon Uris novel
Exodus
$600 [28]
Collective name of Julie, Pete, & Linc
"The Mod Squad"
Keith
$800 [10]
The Little Minch, a Scottish strait, separates this group's "Inner" & "Outer" islands
The Hebrides
Keith
$600 [21]
Born 1557 in Temple Grafton, England; married a Stratford boy, 1582; died 1623
Anne Hathaway
Eddie
$600 [5]
Male deer who's a "party" animal(4)
stag
Becky
$800 [24]
This ancient Greek war named for a peninsula had 3 parts: Archidamian, Peace of Nicias, & Ionian
Peloponnesian War
Eddie
$1,000 [17]
Even Lillian Gish as the Dowager Empress couldn't save "Anya", a musical based on this play
Anastasia
$800 [29]
He's been portrayed by Ralph Fiennes & Patrick Macnee
John Steed
DD $1,000 [9]
Lake Scutari on the border of Albania & Montenegro is the largest lake on this peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Becky
$800 [22]
Born near Gzhatsk in 1934; promoted to major in 1961 shortly before liftoff, just in case; died 1968
Yuri Gagarin
$800 [6]
"Wise" seasoning(4)
sage
Eddie
$1,000 [25]
This grandfather of Charlemagne nailed the Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732, checking their advance
Charles Martel
Eddie
DD $2,000 [16]
"Grovers Corners" musicalized this prize-winning play
"Our Town"
Keith
$1,000 [12]
Only Russia & this former Soviet republic stretch from China to Europe
Kazakhstan
Eddie Becky
$1,000 [26]
Born in Scotland c. 1645; kicked booty for booty on the high seas; hanged in London in 1701
Captain Kidd
$1,000 [7]
It precedes beauty, bag or sickness(8)
sleeping
Becky

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY NEWSMAKERS

Due to police irregularities, this man's Arizona conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966

Ernesto Miranda

Becky "Who is Miranda?" — wagered $2,400
Keith "Who is Miranda?" — wagered $3,000
Eddie "WHO WAS MIRANDA?" — wagered $7,000

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