Show #3609 2000-04-20 Regular

Contestants

Joe Bellas — a high school teacher from Troy, Ohio

Darren Millam — a customer service representative from Kansas City, Missouri

Jason Karpf — a realtor from Thousand Oaks, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $46,499)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $1,300 $3,100 $3,000 $6,000
3rd place: Vtech Cordless Phones
$5,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 1 DD)
Darren $-100 $1,700 $4,800 $7,500
New champion: $7,500
$4,900
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Joe $-500 $-500 $3,700 $6,001
2nd place: Intel Any Point Home Network Software
$3,700
14 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

FOREIGN NATIONAL PARKS TEXTILES THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS DIRIGIBLES, BLIMPS & ZEPPELINS "O" YES! NAMED FOR THE STAR
$100 [4]
Cooloola & Goongarrie
Australia
Darren
$100 [18]
Panne, cut & crushed are types of this thick pile fabric
velvet
Darren
$100 [9]
This star of the 1952 movie "Million Dollar Mermaid" called her 1999 memoir "The Million Dollar Mermaid"
Esther Williams
Jason
$100 [1]
In 1925 this Ohio company unveiled its first blimp, the Pilgrim
Goodyear
Jason
$100 [11]
A synonym for scent, this noun is from the Latin for "smell"
odor
Jason Joe
$300 [27]
(Hi, I'm Danny Masterson of That '70s Show.) For 2 seasons I played Christine Baranski's son & Alicia Witt's love interest on this show
Cybill
Jason
$200 [5]
Gran Paradiso
Italy
Jason Darren Joe
$200 [19]
Ancient Egyptian priests wore this textile made from flax; so did mummies
linen
Jason
$200 [10]
"King of the World" chronicles "The Rise of an American Hero", this legendary boxer & minister of Islam
Muhammad Ali
Joe
$200 [2]
In 1925 Amundsen, Ellsworth & Nobile made news when they flew over this point in a blimp
North Pole
Jason
$200 [12]
Impenetrable to light, like some glass
opaque
Joe
$400 [26]
Led Zeppelin appeared on U.S. TV in 1976 on this impresario's "Rock Concert"
Don Kirshner
Jason
$300 [6]
Cali Headlands
Colombia
Jason Joe
$300 [23]
Pashmina is a fashionable type of this luxurious fabric made from the hair of a wild goat native to India & Tibet
cashmere
Jason Darren
$300 [20]
No surprise, this lead singer of Jefferson Airplane talks about sex, drugs & rock & roll in "Somebody to Love?"
Grace Slick
Jason
$300 [3]
The U.S. Navy's ZR1, Shenandoah, was its first filled with this gas
helium
Joe
$300 [13]
It's a single performance by a band in a single locale, or the title of a Wesley Snipes film
One Night Stand
Jason
$500 [25]
"Eye to Eye With" this newswoman made news for a 1995 interview with Newt Gingrich's mom
Connie Chung
Darren
$400 [7]
Great Gobi Desert
Mongolia
Jason Joe
$400 [24]
This textile with a printed design is named for the Indian city where it was created
Madras/calico
Jason
$400 [21]
"Lost in the Funhouse" explores "The Life and Mind" of this comic & world champ of inter-gender wrestling
Andy Kaufman
Darren
$400 [15]
Of the Bucs, Broncos or Bills, the one whose NFL stadium you'll never see the Fujifilm blimp fly over
Broncos (that blimp has an altitude limit of 5000 feet)
Jason Joe
$400 [14]
A temporary suspension of operation; of electrical power, for example
outage
Jason
$500 [8]
Granma Landing
Cuba
$500 [28]
From the French for "caterpillar", this tufted fabric makes cozy robes & bedspreads
chenille
Jason
$500 [22]
"'Tis" is the sequel to "Angela's Ashes", his memoir of an Irish Catholic childhood
Frank McCourt
DD $1,000 [16]
L.A. & this N.J. city were the only U.S. stops the Graf Zeppelin made during its round-the-world trip in 1929
Lakehurst
Jason
$500 [17]
From the Old Norse for "manager", it's a non-governmental investigator who resolves complaints
ombudsman
Darren

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ARCHER THE GOAT THE BULL THE "RAM" THE CRAB THE TWINS
$200 [16]
It's William Tell's famous familial feat of archery
shooting the apple off his son's head
Joe
$200 [1]
Many blamed France's financial problems just before the revolution on this queen's spending
Marie Antoinette
Joe
$200 [6]
At 1999's end, this internet bookseller had seen its stock rise 6,000% without showing a profit
Amazon.com
Jason
$200 [11]
An episode of violent, destructive behavior
rampage
Joe
$600 [22]
A crab that's sold as "soft-shelled" is one that has just done this, so its shell is soft
molted
Joe
$400 [21]
The Twins' web site says the highlight of their losing 1999 season was this feat on September 11 by pitcher Eric Milton
No-hitter
Joe
$400 [18]
This "diminutive" companion of Robin Hood was a skillful archer too
Little John
Jason
$400 [2]
In 1999 this U.S. city's police chief quit after riots disrupted the World Trade Organization meetings
Seattle
Joe
$400 [7]
In January 2000 Alan Greenspan was nominated to a fourth term as chairman of this agency
Federal Reserve
Joe
$400 [12]
If there's no room at this company's inn, try one of its Limiteds or Plaza Hotels
Ramada
Jason
$800 [23]
This rhesus monkey of southeast Asia likes to "craque" open a crab for lunch
macaque
Darren
$600 [20]
This Twins Hall of Famer seenheremade a run at a .400 average in 1977:
Rod Carew
Joe
$600 [19]
This Homeric hero shot the suitors of his wife Penelope "till the dead lay in piles"
Odysseus
Joe
$600 [3]
In May 1988 Ed Meese, facing calls to quit this cabinet post, instead fired his spokesman
Attorney General
Joe
$600 [8]
It set a trading volume record on December 17, 1999 at 1,349,711,000 shares
New York Stock Exchange
Darren
$600 [13]
"Aimless" name for the type of roses seen here:
rambling roses
Jason
$1,000 [24]
Want really long crab legs for dinner? Try this crab's which can span over 10 feet (just check their "web" site)
spider crab
Jason Darren
$800 [26]
In '65, in their first World Series, the Twins lost game 7 to this Dodger lefty
Sandy Koufax
Jason
$800 [17]
This rock star says his hero is Michigan bow hunter Claude Pollington
Ted Nugent
Jason
$800 [4]
In 1998 Japanese premier Hashimoto quit after leading this party, the LDP, to defeat
Liberal Democratic Party
Joe
DD $700 [9]
In November 1999 this 93-year-old delivery company brought home $5.47 billion in its initial public offering
UPS (United Parcel Service)
Darren
$800 [14]
Harpsichordist Robert Veyron-Lacroix was a longtime musical partner of this celebrated flutist
Jean-Pierre Rampal
DD $3,300 [27]
An organization called CRAB does research into this disease by using biostatistics
cancer
Jason
$1,000 [25]
From 1901 to 1960, the franchise represented the nation's capital as this team
Washington Senators
Darren
$1,000 [5]
Nixon's personal secretary, she took the blame for an 18-minute gap on one of the Watergate tapes
Rose Mary Woods
Jason
$1,000 [10]
Founded by Bill Porter in 1982, this online brokerage launched its own web site in 1996
E*TRADE
Jason
$1,000 [15]
Heraldic pose of the creature seen here:
rampant
Jason Darren

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS AMERICANS

The first person selected to the Intl. Swimming Hall of Fame, his last starring film role was in 1955's "Devil Goddess"

Johnny Weissmuller

Jason "Who is Johnny Weismuller" — wagered $3,000
Joe "Who is Johnny Weismuller" — wagered $2,301
Darren "Who was Johnny Weismuller" — wagered $2,700

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