Show #3613 2000-04-26 Regular

Contestants

Gigi Lehman — a home schooling mom from Miami, Florida

Alan Taber — a mechanical engineer from Lancaster, California

Greg Dwyer — a software developer from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $10,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Greg $1,000 $2,900 $3,900 $3,800
3rd place: TicketsNow.com Gift Certificate
$3,500
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Alan $800 $2,000 $11,600 $19,801
New champion: $19,801
$10,800
29 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Gigi $500 $1,500 $9,900 $12,000
2nd place: Trip to L'Auberge de Sedona, Arizona
$6,300
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

LINCOLN SPEAKS! UNION LABELS THE COOL '70s LITERARY TOURISM TITLE FILM FOLK "SUB" CATEGORY
$100 [8]
Lincoln's line "A house divided by itself cannot stand" is a paraphrase from this second gospel
Mark
Alan
$100 [9]
The DGA, this guild, gives awards for achievement in commercials as well as feature films
Directors Guild of America
Alan
$100 [1]
In 1970 these beds began to flood the market, sometimes literally
Waterbeds
Alan
$100 [21]
NYC's White Horse Tavern is the spot where this Welsh poet imbibed his last before his untimely death in 1953
Dylan Thomas
Alan
$100 [26]
"The Hurricane"(1999)
Denzel Washington
Greg
$100 [2]
A smaller residential community, like Scarsdale, New York or Greenwich, Connecticut
Suburb
Alan
$200 [13]
It's what "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not" do
Perish from the Earth
Gigi
$200 [17]
Arturo Rodriguez heads the UFW, this union once led by Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers
Alan
$200 [4]
We've uncovered the fact that Burt Reynolds was a nude centerfold in this magazine
Cosmopolitan
Greg
$200 [22]
Theatre fans know the home seen here is this playwright's birthplace:(in Stratford-upon-Avon)
William Shakespeare
Gigi
$200 [27]
"The Talented Mr. Ripley"(1999)
Matt Damon
Greg Alan
$200 [3]
The one associated with "Oliver Twist" is "The Parish Boy's Progress"
Subtitle
Greg
$300 [14]
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't" do this
Fool all of the people all of the time
Greg
$300 [18]
The NALC, National Association of these, says its members each deliver 41.5 tons of mail a year
Letter Carriers
Alan
$300 [5]
She trounced Bobby Riggs in a 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match
Billie Jean King
Greg
$300 [23]
This poet's birthplace in Alloway, Scotland is adjacent to a museum devoted to him
Robert Burns
Greg
$300 [28]
"Doctor Zhivago"(1965)
Omar Sharif
Gigi
$300 [10]
The voices of John, Paul, George & Ringo were dubbed by actors for most of this film
Yellow Submarine
Gigi
$400 [15]
In an 1856 speech Lincoln told the crowd, this "is stronger than the bullet"
The ballot
Greg
$400 [19]
1.3 million strong, the AFSCME is the American Federation of State, County & these employees
Municipal
Alan
$400 [6]
In 1978 this TV series based on a James Michener book ran for only 26 hours, not 100 years
Centennial
Greg
$500 [25]
A St. Helena, California museum displays the toy soldiers he wrote about in "A Child's Garden of Verses"
Robert Louis Stevenson
Greg
$400 [29]
"Emma"(1996)
Gwyneth Paltrow
Alan
$400 [11]
Examples of these are protons & neutrons
Subatomic particles
Alan
$500 [16]
"With malice toward none; with" this "for all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in"
Charity
Alan
$500 [20]
The ILA, the union of these "men", is headquartered near the Hudson on NYC's Battery Place
Longshoremen
Alan
$500 [7]
This doctor's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask" was really talked about
David Reuben
Alan
DD $800 [24]
A statue of this writer who died in 1849 graces the capitol grounds in Richmond, VA.--appropriately, near the bell tower
Edgar Allan Poe
Greg
$500 [30]
"Anna and the King"(1999)
Jodie Foster & Chow Yun-fat
Alan Gigi
$500 [12]
Bob Dylan was no longer "underground" with this song, his first Top 40 hit
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORATION MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES FIRST NAME'S THE SAME THE PLAY'S THE THING THE HISTORY OF RAP SUB CATEGORY
$200 [11]
In 1513 he took one of the first Florida cruises, starting near what's now St. Augustine
Ponce de Leon
Alan
$200 [5]
Traditionally, this container that held all the world's evil was a jar or vase
Pandora's Box
Gigi
$200 [16]
Gooden, Moody, Eisenhower
Dwight
Greg
$200 [25]
The Creature is a character in the 1974 Tim Kelly play based on this Mary Shelley tale
"Frankenstein"
Alan
$200 [26]
Reggae-rap gained popularity with this Lauren Hill band's album "The Score"
Fugees
Alan
$200 [6]
The USA's WWII-era Gato class could launch 24 of these; today's Seawolf class carries twice as many
Torpedoes
Greg Alan
$400 [12]
On a trip in this country in 1860 Henri Mouhot set angkor, finding Wat & Thom
Cambodia
Greg
$400 [4]
This verb meaning to tease is from Tantalus, who was forced to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink
Tantalize
Alan
$400 [17]
Bronte, Dickinson, Post
Emily
Alan
$600 [21]
According to a 1957 William Inge title, it's where you'd find "the dark"
At the top of the stairs
$400 [27]
After being shot 4 times, this rapper tragically died in Las Vegas on September 13, 1996
Tupac Shakur
Gigi
$400 [7]
In the term U-boat, the U stands for a word meaning this--logical enough for a submarine
Undersea
Alan
$600 [13]
Not quite Robert Peary, Edward Parry did set a record for this in 1827, reaching over 82 degrees latitude
Coming closest to the North Pole
Alan Gigi
$600 [1]
This Titan, whose name refers to a type of book, supported the sky on his shoulders, not the Earth
Atlas
Gigi
$600 [18]
Kun, Fleck, Lugosi
Bela
Greg
$800 [22]
In 1970 Louis Nye played this title character's aunt, who was from Brazil, where the nuts come from
Charley
Gigi
$600 [28]
In the title of Ice-T's album, it's what "O.G." stands for
"Original Gangster"
Alan
$600 [8]
The Nazis solved the problem of surfacing for air with a tube called this, like one used by swimmers
Snorkel
Alan
$800 [14]
Exploring from Mombasa, Ludwig Krapf sighted this mountain that shares its name with an African country
Mount Kenya
Alan
$800 [2]
Worshiped by farmers & the average Roman, this goddess of agriculture lent her name to the word cereal
Ceres
Alan
$800 [19]
Dore, Eiffel, Flaubert
Gustave
Alan
$1,000 [23]
It was Stanley Webber's birthday party in this playwright's "The Birthday Party"
Harold Pinter
Alan
$800 [29]
This trio helped bring rap music to middle America when they teamed up with Aerosmith on a version of "Walk This Way"
Run-D.M.C.
Alan
$800 [9]
Submarines dive by flooding these tanks
Ballast tanks
Alan
$1,000 [15]
Diego de Ordaz was the first European to see this Aztec capital on the site of modern Mexico City
Tenochtitlan
Gigi
DD $1,800 [3]
Derived from the name of the god of wine, it's a drunken or riotous celebration
Bacchanalia
Alan
$1,000 [20]
Evans, Head, Piaf
Edith
Gigi
DD $4,000 [24]
In a Neil Simon play, Paul was thought stuffy since he wouldn't go walking this title way when it was freezing
"Barefoot in the Park"
Gigi
$1,000 [30]
From Staten Island, this rap "clan" of 9 MCs is named after a mythical kung fu sword
Wu-Tang Clan
Gigi
$1,000 [10]
This tower seen here sounds like it's a place from which to conduct a swindle:
Conning tower
Alan

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CITIES

The 34 peaks of the roof of this city's airport represent mountains that are about 30 miles away

Denver

Greg "What is Seattle?" — wagered $100
Gigi "What is Denver?" — wagered $2,100
Alan "What is Denver?" — wagered $8,201

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