Show #3640 2000-06-02 (taped 2000-02-28) Regular

Contestants

Rob Lewis — a systems analyst from Arlington, Virginia

Rick Magee — a college instructor from the Bronx, New York

Kevin Glaccum — an actor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $2,600 $4,300 $8,100 $6,500
2-day champion: $15,400
$8,100
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Rick $300 $1,500 $3,700 $2,100
3rd place: Polaroid Photomax Digital Camera Creative Kit
$3,700
15 R, 2 W
Rob $1,000 $2,000 $2,600 $4,600
2nd place: Trip to Wyndham El Conquistador Resort, Puerto Rico
$4,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY A JOLLY CATEGORY WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN HITS OF 1964 POT LUCK CROSSWORD CLUES "L"
$100 [7]
This river's drainage area covers about 1.25 million square miles in 31 states
Mississippi
Kevin
$100 [16]
Jolly Time was the first brand name of this snack food
Popcorn
Rick
$100 [18]
If you can't make any of your programs run, you can take out a deck of cards & play this game, aka patience
solitaire
Rick
$100 [1]
The Beatles' first No. 1 song in America, it's one of the biggest-selling British singles of all time
"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
Kevin Rick
$100 [26]
This British prime minister lived in his home of Chartwell in Westerham, Kent for the last 41 years of his life
Winston Churchill
Kevin
$100 [2]
Grand or petty crime(7)
Larceny
Rick
$200 [8]
The highest peaks in this colorful mountain range of the Appalachian system lie in North Carolina
Blue Ridge Mountains
Rick
$200 [17]
"Frosty the Snowman was a jolly, happy soul, with a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of" this
Coal
Rob
$200 [19]
Downloading off the net may have infected your system with one of these programs, Latin for "poison"
Virus
Rick
$200 [12]
Mary Wells told us that "Nothing you could say can tear me away from" him
"My Guy"
Kevin
$200 [27]
The Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, bestows memorial scholarships named for this woman
Amelia Earhart
Kevin
$200 [3]
Where Henry Cabot might bunk(5)
Lodge
Kevin
$300 [9]
Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County is the westernmost point of this state
California
Kevin
$300 [23]
(Hi, I'm Katherine Kelly Lang from The Bold and the Beautiful.) On TV, my dad Keith Wegeman played this "jolly" advertising icon first used in canned peas
the Jolly Green Giant
Rick
$300 [20]
One of the signs that things aren't working correctly is when you get one of these "exceptions"
a fatal exception (or a Windows exception)
Rob
$300 [13]
This hit whose intro is heardheretopped the charts in both England & the U.S. in the fall of 1964:
"Oh, Pretty Woman"
Kevin
$300 [28]
In international message flags, a red one stands for danger; a yellow one means this
Quarantine/disease
Rob
$300 [4]
Philosophically, it makes sense(5)
Logic
Kevin
$400 [10]
The 2 main branches of this inlet in Washington state are Hood Canal & Admiralty Inlet
Puget Sound
Rick
$400 [24]
This poem calls Santa "A right jolly old elf"
"The Night Before Christmas"
Rob
$400 [21]
If your E-mail crashes, you may have to use this rhyming 2-word term for letters delivered the old way
Snail mail
Rob
$400 [14]
The Detergents' "Leader of the Laundromat" was a parody of this Shangri-Las hit
"Leader of the Pack"
Kevin
$400 [29]
From 1849 to 1956, a drawing by Richard Doyle graced the cover of every issue of this satiric British humor magazine
Punch
Kevin
$400 [5]
Numbers game(7)
Lottery
Kevin
$500 [11]
Haleakala on this "Valley Island" of Hawaii has the world's largest dormant volcanic crater
Maui
Rick Rob
$500 [25]
This Australian song says, "Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, under the shade of a coolibah tree"
"Waltzing Matilda"
Kevin
$500 [22]
Difficulty clicking on icons to enter commands might indicate trouble with your GUI, this kind of interface
Graphical User Interface
Rick
DD $500 [15]
Billboard says this Louis Armstrong hit was the first song from a Broadway show to hit No. 1 in the rock era
"Hello, Dolly!"
Kevin
$500 [30]
French term for a thickener of soups & white sauces, made from flour & butter heated to form a paste
Roux
Kevin
$500 [6]
Parsifal was his pop(9)
Lohengrin
Rob

Double Jeopardy! Round

'70s LIT AN ACTOR'S LIFE FOR ME WAR! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SAY IT AGAIN
$200 [1]
This fictional doctor was listed as "author" of "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution"; Nicholas Meyer was "editor"
Dr. Watson
Kevin
$200 [2]
Later a "rebel", he was playing a wicked Arab boy on Broadway in 1954 when "discovered" by Elia Kazan
James Dean
Rick
$200 [8]
One cause of the 1956 Arab-Israeli War was the nationalization of this by Egypt
Suez Canal
Kevin
$200 [26]
Made from benzene, lidocaine is a "local" one of these
Anesthetic
Rick
$200 [17]
Without an "E", it comes before "squat"; with an "E", it comes after music legend "Bo"
Diddly/Diddley
Rob
$200 [12]
Interjection of annoyance aimed at a boy pharaoh
Tut, tut
Rick Rob
$400 [3]
This Jack Higgins novel of 1975 isn't about the Apollo 11 moon touchdown, it's a WWII tale
"The Eagle Has Landed"
Rick
$400 [7]
(Hi, I'm Carol Burnett.) This hilarious actor won 4 Emmys for his work on "The Carol Burnett Show"
Harvey Korman
Kevin Rob
$400 [18]
The First through Fourth Macedonian Wars pitted Macedonia against this republic
Rome
Kevin Rick
$400 [27]
Milk thistle reportedly lowers fat deposits in this organ as well as acting against cirrhosis in it
Liver
Kevin
$400 [22]
This word follows "nothing" in an expression meaning "the shortest possible time"
Flat
Kevin
$400 [13]
A form of Louise, it's used to describe something remarkable
Lulu
Kevin
$600 [4]
Super-selling '77 saga set on a sheep station
"The Thorn Birds"
Kevin
$600 [9]
Sean Connery's introduction to show biz was as a sailor in a British production of this musical
"South Pacific"
Kevin
$600 [19]
Between 1019 & 1919 there were at least 10 wars between Poland & this eastern neighbor
Russia
Rob
$600 [28]
Vitamin D speeds the body's production of this mineral
Calcium
Rob
$600 [23]
Mary Richards can take one of these "and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile"
A nothing day
Rob
$600 [14]
In a popular kids' game, this phrase precedes "Send Richard right over"
Red Rover, Red Rover
Rick
$800 [5]
In 1978 he came up with "The Holcroft Covenant"
Robert Ludlum
Kevin
$800 [10]
(Hi, I'm Nathan Lane.) In my (sad little) career I've played a priest, a gangster, a Roman slave & a wisecracking one of these in the film "The Lion King"
a meerkat
Rob
$1,000 [21]
In 1790 Cornwallis was leading this company's campaigns to annex Mysore
British East India Company
Rob
$800 [30]
Used to treat headaches, this mint family member's name may come from the Latin lavare, "to wash"
Lavender
$1,000 [25]
In math, a set containing no elements is called an empty set or this type
Null set
Rick
$800 [15]
Fleischer's cartoon clown who grew "out of the inkwell", his name sounds like a chocolate drink
Koko the Clown
$1,000 [6]
As this Gore Vidal novel came out in 1976, it has to wait until 2076 to celebrate its centennial
1876
Kevin Rob
$1,000 [11]
World drama was changed forever in 1898 when this director & acting teacher opened the Moscow Art Theater
Constantin Stanislavski
Kevin
DD $1,200 [20]
It was a cat fight when the Burmese went to war against these people in 1764
Siamese
Rob
$1,000 [29]
These seeds of the carum carvi plant are used to stimulate the appetite
Caraway seeds
DD $2,000 [24]
It can mean zero; something of no value; or a coded message
Cypher
Rob
$1,000 [16]
A 1930s hit told about the "Flat Foot Floogie with" this
Floy, floy
Kevin

Final Jeopardy!

'90s OLYMPIC NAMES

She told Women's Sports & Fitness, "Strangers, fans, people on the street... always want to pick me up and carry me"

Kerri Strug

Rob "Who is Strug" — wagered $2,000
Rick "Who is Moceanu?" — wagered $1,600
Kevin "Who is Mary Lou Retton" — wagered $1,600

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