Show #3606 2000-04-17 Regular

Contestants

Chris Meding — a lawyer from New York City, New York

Erich Steinbergs — an entrepreneur from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jason Karpf — a realtor from Thousand Oaks, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $1,300 $4,900 $9,700 $8,999
2-day champion: $19,999
$9,700
28 R, 3 W
Erich $-400 $-100 $2,700 $5,299
2nd place: Intel Any Point Home Network Software
$2,700
10 R, 4 W
Chris $-400 $400 $5,200 $0
3rd place: American Historic Society Gift Certificate
$4,900
12 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

'ROUND THE WORLD HIGH SCHOOL TV BEASTLY COMMON BONDS FILE UNDER "B" STATE OF THE UNION A DRESS
$100 [8]
The Sam McGuire Football Cup is awarded to a league champion in this island country
Ireland
Jason Erich
$100 [4]
John Travolta & Gabe Kaplan starred in this series about a classroom of remedial students
Welcome Back, Kotter
Chris
$100 [18]
Bufflehead, eider, teal
Ducks
$100 [13]
It's a British bottom or an American tramp
Bum
Chris
$100 [1]
You'll find the USA's tallest building in this state
Illinois (Sears Tower)
Jason Erich
$100 [23]
This diminuitive dress style seen here was introduced by Mary Quant in the 1960s:
Mini dress/skirt
Jason
$200 [9]
Even at 5.4 million square miles, it's the world's smallest ocean
Arctic
Jason
$200 [5]
Robin Givens & Howard Hesseman were featured in this series about a classroom of honors students
Head of the Class
Jason
$200 [19]
Bushmaster, coral, hognose
Snakes
Jason
$200 [14]
A chance spectator; one may be innocent
Bystander
Jason
$200 [2]
More breakfast cereal is produced in this state's city of Battle Creek than any other place on Earth
Michigan
Jason Chris
$200 [24]
Often used as a dressing robe, it's the Asian style of dress seen here:
Kimono
Erich
$300 [10]
A manufacturing powerhouse since the Industrial Revolution, this city is England's 2nd largest in population
Birmingham
Erich Chris
$300 [28]
You might want to hang with this title high school teacher played by Mark Curry
Mr. Cooper
Chris
$300 [20]
Tucuxi, bottle-nosed, spinner
Dolphins
Jason
$300 [15]
The Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans has a webcam aimed at this famous street
Bourbon Street
Erich
$300 [3]
The light bulb & the phonograph were invented in this state
New Jersey
Chris
$300 [25]
"Canine" favorite of the 1950s seen here:
Poodle skirt
Jason
$400 [11]
Of Brazil, India or Australia, the one that's largest in area
Brazil
Jason Erich
DD $500 [29]
This series that debuted in the '70s was set in the '50s & featured students of Jefferson High
Happy Days
Chris
$400 [21]
White-tailed, harpy, golden
Eagles
Jason Erich
$400 [16]
Sport seen here as it looked way back in 1932:(Winter Olympics mainstay)
Bobsledding
Jason
$400 [6]
This state's "Crater of Diamonds" near Murfreesboro is the only diamond mine in the U.S.
Arkansas
Jason Chris
$400 [26]
Don't apologize, it's the popular Hindu style of garment seen here:
Sari
Jason
$500 [12]
You'll find the Dolomite Alps rising to nearly 11,000 feet in this European country
Italy
Jason
$500 [30]
In 1952 Wally Cox was this title science teacher
Mister Peepers
Jason
$500 [22]
Harbor, northern fur, bearded
Seals
Jason
$500 [17]
From the Latin for "projecting", it's a rich silk cloth with a raised pattern in gold or silver
Brocade
Jason
$500 [7]
This state gets fewer inches of rain each year than any other
Nevada
$500 [27]
This term for the dress seen here could also apply to its Roaring '20s wearers:
Flapper
Erich

Double Jeopardy! Round

POETS & POETRY WORD ORIGINS FILL IN THE BIBLICAL BLANK "IN" THE MOVIES YOU DO THE MATH ROYAL WOMEN
$200 [6]
"The Coming of Arthur" & "Gareth and Lynette" are parts of his "Idylls of the King"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Chris
$200 [1]
This nickname for a potato comes from the sharp spade used to dig it up
Spud
Jason
$200 [26]
Isaiah 53:7--"He is brought as a lamb to the ____"
Slaughter
Erich
$200 [14]
This 1996 blockbuster showed humanity fighting for freedom from enslaving aliens on July 4
Independence Day
Erich
$200 [19]
The number of loaves in a baker's dozen plus the number of months in a year
25 (13 + 12)
Erich
$200 [9]
As a princess, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark studied philosophy at this Danish capital's university
Copenhagen
Jason
$400 [7]
This romantic poet's name gave us an adjective for the type of hero he created--a brooding young man
Lord Byron
Erich
$400 [2]
Meaning "light bringer", it refers to Venus when appearing as the morning star, or to Satan
Lucifer
Chris
$400 [30]
1 John 4:8--"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is ____"
Love
$400 [15]
A skyscraper burns, baby, burns in this all-star 1974 disaster flick
The Towering Inferno
Jason
$400 [20]
The traditional number of wise men of the East times the number of Ali Baba's thieves
120 (3 x 40)
Jason
$400 [10]
She doesn't look amused in the portrait seen here:
Queen Victoria
Jason
$600 [8]
"Resolution and Independence" is found in this lake poet's 1807 "Poems in Two Volumes"
William Wordsworth
$600 [3]
From Latin for "cuttlefish", it's the brown color of the cuttlefish ink once used to make a brown dye
Sepia
Chris
$600 [29]
Genesis 4:15--"And the Lord set a mark upon ____"
Cain
Jason
$600 [16]
Miniaturized Navy test pilot Dennis Quaid is accidentally injected into Martin Short in this 1987 comedy
Innerspace
Jason
$600 [21]
Number of "Days of Christmas" in the carol divided by its number of French hens
4 (12/3)
Jason
$600 [11]
Queen Liliuokalani was born in 1838 in what is now this state capital
Honolulu
Jason
DD $1,000 [24]
The leaves of grass at this poet's grave surround a tomb of his own design in Harleigh Cemetery
Walt Whitman
Chris
DD $800 [4]
Today it simply means a sailing race; in the Venetian dialect, it meant a gondola race
Regatta
Chris
$800 [28]
Mark 2:9--"Arise, and take up thy bed, and ____"
Walk
$800 [17]
Matthew Perry & Salma Hayek hurry into marriage in this 1997 romance
Fools Rush In
Chris
$800 [22]
The original title number of Disney dalmatians minus the number of Snow White's dwarfs
94 (101 - 7)
Jason
$800 [12]
Alix was the original name of this German-born empress of Russia
Alexandra
Erich
$1,000 [25]
Last name of poet Wystan Hugh, who wrote, "A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere"
W.H. Auden
Jason
$1,000 [5]
Chiefly used in Louisiana, it's Creole for a gift given a customer by a shopkeeper at the time of purchase
Lagniappe
$1,000 [27]
1 Corinthians 15:26--"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is ____"
Death
$1,000 [18]
In this loopy film, Peter Falk involves dentist Alan Arkin in a possible CIA plot before their kids' wedding
The In-Laws
Jason
$1,000 [23]
The number of pounds in a ton multiplied by the number of feet in a yard
6000 (2000 x 3)
Chris
$1,000 [13]
Maria Cristina ruled as queen regent of this country during the childhood of her son Alfonso XIII
Spain
Erich

Final Jeopardy!

BRAND NAME PEOPLE

Immigrating to the U.S. at age 17, he cooked at the Plaza in New York & catered Pres. Wilson's wedding reception in 1915

Chef Boyardee (real name Ettore Boiardi)

Erich "Who was Chef Boyaredi" — wagered $2,599
Chris "Who is Delmonico?" — wagered $5,200
Jason "Who is Stouffer?" — wagered $701

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