Show #3611 2000-04-24 Regular

Contestants

Greg Dwyer — a software developer from Houston, Texas

Ann Kupitz — a CPA and stay-at-home mom from Vernon Hills, Illinois

Kate Lowe — an Internet copywriter from Shoreview, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kate $-500 $700 $3,600 $0
3rd place: 1-800-Gift Certificate
$3,100
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Ann $-200 $-100 $2,900 $2,199
2nd place: Gear.com Online Shopping Spree
$2,300
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Greg $2,200 $3,500 $5,300 $7,300
New champion: $7,300
$5,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ROCK 'N' POP SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES THE BODY LEGAL BRIEFS THEY'RE BA-A-CK!
$100 [2]
Until 1897, the Library of Congress was housed in this building, seen here:
U.S. Capitol
Greg
$100 [1]
Their debut album, "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.", contained an acoustic version of "The Sound of Silence"
Simon and Garfunkel
Greg
$100 [11]
South America's most populous city, it was founded by Jesuit missionaries from Portugal in 1554
Sao Paulo
Kate Greg
$100 [15]
The retina is the light-sensitive layer lining the inside rear of this organ
Eye
Greg
$100 [17]
It's what the V stands for in Katzenbach v. McClung
Versus
Greg
$100 [22]
Amid the revivals of these in 1999 & 2000, we're still waiting for "Dr. IQ" & "Earn Your Vacation"
Game shows
Kate
$200 [3]
Registered in 1893 by Thomas Edison, "...Record of a Sneeze" is the earliest known copyright for one of these
Motion picture
Kate Ann Greg
$200 [7]
He co-wrote "Only the Lonely" & offered it to Elvis before recording it himself
Roy Orbison
Kate
$200 [12]
This Uruguayan capital's name is Portuguese for "I see a hill"
Montevideo
Greg
$500 [27]
Between the trachea & the lungs are these tubes
Bronchial tubes
Kate Ann
$200 [18]
It's the crime abbreviated B. & E.
Breaking and entering
Kate
$200 [23]
Colorful term for foods like beef & lamb, making a comeback due to the low-carb craze
Red meats
Kate
$300 [4]
The Library's copy of this 15th century book is one of 3 perfect editions printed on vellum
Gutenberg Bible
Greg
$300 [8]
Stevie Nicks' highest chart hit was "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", which she recorded with him
Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers)
$300 [13]
In the 1980s this city became the center for Colombia's most powerful cocaine cartel
Medellin
Greg
$300 [19]
It's an A.D.A.; Jill Hennessy played one on TV
Assistant District Attorney
Kate
$300 [24]
For 2001, Ford is bringing back this model, with more than a touch of 1955 styling:
Thunderbird
Ann
$400 [5]
The Library building named for this "Father of the Constitution" is the USA's official memorial to him
James Madison
Kate Greg
$400 [9]
This Bruce Springsteen album spawned 7 Top 10 hits, including "My Hometown" & "Glory Days"
"Born in the U.S.A."
Greg
$400 [14]
At an altitude of 12,001 feet, it's the world's highest capital city; co-capital Sucre lies about 3,000 feet lower
La Paz, Bolivia
Ann
$400 [20]
Not the P.D. that arrests people, but the P.D. who may act as their counsel
Public Defender
Kate
$400 [25]
The latest of her several comebacks came in 1999 with the smash hit song "Believe"
Cher
Greg
$500 [6]
Consulting poets to the Library of Congress have included Gwendolyn Brooks & this "Road Not Taken" poet
Robert Frost
Greg
$500 [10]
Don't get "Nervous"; it's the only numerical Rolling Stones Top 10 hit
"19th Nervous Breakdown"
DD $700 [16]
Pachacamac, an ancient site for Incan & other Indian cultures, lies just outside this capital
Lima, Peru
Greg
$500 [21]
A young do-gooder may be in the Jaycees; a young ne'er-do-well, in the J.C.
Juvenile Court
Ann
$500 [26]
These calf-length pants named for an Italian island had a vogue in the '50s & are back in style today
Capri pants
Kate

Double Jeopardy! Round

POLITICALLY CORRECT ANDRES & ANDREAS THE 1980s RITA HAYWORTH LET'S GET BIBLICAL PLANETARY NAMES
$200 [11]
Carolyn McCarthy, widowed by a commuter train gunman, supports gun control as a congresswoman from this state
New York
Kate
$200 [23]
In 1999 he won a total of $4,002,598 just by hitting a few tennis balls
Andre Agassi
Greg
$200 [17]
He made news April 13, 1986 when he visited Rome's main synagogue
Pope John Paul II
Greg
$200 [20]
Born Margarita Cansino, Rita shared her middle name with this Bizet opera temptress
Carmen
Ann
$200 [1]
The total number of Hebrew patriarchs or the number of times Peter denied knowing the Messiah
3
Ann
$200 [5]
In the '90s video game competitors ran rings around this Sega console
Saturn
Greg
$400 [12]
To "empower people", in 1998 this Republican Calif. governor abolished affirmative action in state contracts
Pete Wilson
Greg
$400 [24]
In the 1999 TV movie of "Annie", she played the role of "Star to Be" (she was too old to be Annie again)
Andrea McArdle
Ann
$400 [18]
Released July 9, 1986, the Meese Commission's 1,950-page report on this didn't have a centerfold
Pornography
Ann
$400 [19]
At age 17 in 1935, Rita was billed under her real name in the film about this Chinese detective "in Egypt"
Charlie Chan
Kate
$400 [2]
One of the 2 gospels in which the Beatitudes appear
Matthew or Luke
Ann
$600 [8]
Phoenix' team in the WNBA
Mercury
Greg
$600 [13]
This imaginary structure was Bill Clinton's main metaphor in the 1996 campaign
"A Bridge to the 21st Century"
Kate
$600 [25]
Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra, his relative was music director for Universal Studios
Andre Previn
Kate
$600 [21]
This group, the ATC in PATCO, made labor news in 1981
Air traffic controllers
Greg
$600 [26]
Rita's mother, Volga Haworth, at one time performed as a showgirl with these famous "Follies"
Ziegfeld Follies
Ann
$600 [3]
This prophet is first alphabetically of the Bible's "minor prophets"
Amos
$800 [9]
In 1911 he founded the company that makes M&M's
Frank Mars
Kate
$1,000 [15]
In 1999 the president & Senate battled over the vital post of ambassador to this grand duchy
Luxembourg
Ann
$800 [22]
This country's president Milton Obote was obooted out of office in a 1985 coup
Uganda
$800 [4]
This Biblical prophet parted the River Jordan with his cloak & then followed a "chariot of fire" into heaven
Elijah
Ann
DD $1,000 [7]
General term for a zaftig female statuette from Paleolithic times
Venus
Ann
DD $1,300 [14]
Eleanor Holmes Norton is a Georgetown prof as well as the congresswoman for this place
District of Columbia
Kate
$1,000 [16]
Commercial fishing ceased in this shrunken Russian sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake
Aral Sea
Ann
$1,000 [6]
Samson was a member of this group that didn't drink booze, didn't cut their hair & never touched dead bodies
Nazarites
Ann
$1,000 [10]
Lighthouse town just north of Palm Beach, Florida
Jupiter
Kate

Final Jeopardy!

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS

Playwright who wrote the historical dramas "Erik XIV", "Gustav Adolf" & "Gustav Vasa"

August Strindberg

Ann "Who is Ibsen?" — wagered $701
Kate "Who is Ibsen?" — wagered $3,600
Greg "Who is Strindberg?" — wagered $2,000

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