Show #3649 2000-06-15 (taped 2000-03-01) Regular

Contestants

Meg Smath — a geologic editor from Nicholasville, Kentucky

Scott Myre — a marketing director from Thousand Oaks, California

Steven Silver — a technical writer from Northbrook, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $1,700 $3,200 $4,400 $4,410
2nd place: Konka 30" HDTV & DirecTV Satellite System
$4,400
17 R, 6 W
Scott $100 $500 $6,700 $2,999
3rd place: Samsung Hi-Fi Stereo VCR
$6,300
17 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Meg $1,300 $2,800 $5,200 $5,200
New champion: $5,200
$5,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICANS COMFORT FOOD U.S. "CITY"s SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS BIBLICAL PAINTINGS BEFORE & AFTER
$100 [6]
In February 1865 he became chief of all Confederate armies
Robert E. Lee
Meg
$100 [16]
Ketchup is baked right into this main dish that shares its name with a pop music star
Meat Loaf
Steven
$100 [11]
In 1990 Donald Trump took a gamble & opened his Taj Mahal Casino in this city
Atlantic City
Meg
$100 [1]
"Part of Your World" & "Under the Sea"
The Little Mermaid
Meg
$100 [19]
Old Testament leader depicted here by Philippe de Champaigne:(holding Ten Commandments)
Moses
Scott
$100 [26]
"Paradise Lost" poet considered by some to be TV's 1st male comedy star
John Milton Berle
Steven Meg
$200 [7]
Before joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he led the NCAA in overall yards gained as a football player at UCLA
Jackie Robinson
Scott
$200 [17]
With the Kraft product of this pasta & cheese, kids can now bite into the Rugrats & swallow Bugs Bunny
Macaroni
Scott
$200 [12]
At Christmas, a dazzling light display lights up Temple Square in this city
Salt Lake City
Meg
$200 [2]
"Belle" & "Be Our Guest"
Beauty and the Beast
Steven
$200 [20]
Object placed on Christ's head in the Bosch work seen here:
Crown of thorns
Scott
$200 [27]
San Antonio Spurs "Admiral" marooned by Daniel Defoe
David Robinson Crusoe
Meg
$300 [8]
In 1836 this artist unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York City: a year later he invented the telegraph
Samuel Morse
Steven
$300 [18]
It's hot breakfast cereal made from & named for the most nutritious of the cereal grains
Oatmeal
Steven
$300 [13]
In the 1870s Wyatt Earp was a lawman in this "Wickedest Little City in America"
Dodge City
Steven
$300 [3]
"I'm Late" & "March of the Cards"
Alice in Wonderland
Meg
$300 [21]
Object of worship in the Poussin painting seen here:
the golden calf
Steven Meg
$300 [28]
14th U.S. president who changed careers & became a big-screen James Bond
Franklin Pierce Brosnan
Steven Scott
$400 [9]
For 4 years during the American Revolution, this future Treasury Secretary served as Washington's private secretary
Alexander Hamilton
Steven
$400 [24]
Cheese & blueberries are popular fillings for these Jewish crepes
Blintzes
Steven Scott
$400 [14]
It's been publishing Nevada's oldest newspaper, The Nevada Appeal, since 1865
Carson City
Scott
DD $500 [4]
"The Second Star to the Right" & "A Pirate's Life"
Peter Pan
Meg
$400 [22]
"Vain" glorious structure shown here in a Peter Bruegel work:
Tower of Babel
Steven
$400 [29]
Orbiting Buckeye senator with a "Fatal Attraction" for Michael Douglas
John Glenn Close
Steven
$500 [10]
The first first lady who was a college graduate, she banned all alcoholic beverages from state functions
"Lemonade Lucy" Hayes
Scott Meg
$500 [25]
South America's Tupi Indians named this cassava starch that we use in pudding
Tapioca
Meg
$500 [15]
A monument in this Iowa city honors Sgt. Charles Floyd, who died during the Lewis & Clark expedition
Sioux City
Meg
$500 [5]
"Bella Notte" & "The Siamese Cat Song"
Lady and the Tramp
Steven
$500 [23]
He's returning in Rembrandt's illustration of a parable:
Prodigal Son
Meg
$500 [30]
"Pulp Fiction" star who might have his royale drip all over a canvas as an artist in the late 1940s
Samuel L. Jackson Pollock
Meg

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN LIT MOVIE QUOTES THAT 1870s SHOW HIGH SCHOOL NAMES THE MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA HAPPY TALK
$200 [11]
Chapter 3 of this Mark Twain novel introduces us to the "Knights of the Table Round"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Meg
$200 [6]
1988:"My dad lets me drive slow on the driveway. I'm an excellent driver"
Rain Man
Scott
$200 [1]
In a wacky episode, Clovis spills acid, prompting this inventor to make his call to Watson on March 10, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
Scott
$200 [21]
L.A.'s Alain Leroy Locke High is named for the first black student to get this scholarship to Oxford
Rhodes Scholarship
Meg
$200 [14]
Sailing down the Orinoco, you'll wind up in this ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Steven Scott Meg
$200 [26]
If you're really happy, you may be "pleased as" this highly emotional puppet
Punch
Meg
$400 [12]
A minor character from "Breakfast of Champions" became the hero of his 1987 novel "Bluebeard"
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Steven
$400 [7]
1986:"I feel the need--the need for speed"
Top Gun
Scott
$400 [2]
Bo pays his sister to do a book report on this 1872 Jules Verne novel & gets almost 3 months in detention
Around the World in Eighty Days
$400 [22]
Many schools are named for Lincoln; one in Orland Park, Illinois is named for this poet & Lincoln biographer
Carl Sandburg
Steven
$400 [17]
Captain Cook "rounded" it with little difficulty in early 1769
Cape Horn
Scott
$400 [27]
Title adjective for mistresses Ford & Page, Shakespeare's "Wives of Windsor"
Merry
Steven Scott
$600 [13]
In 1912 Zane Grey published this "colorful" classic of the American West
Riders of the Purple Sage
Steven
$600 [8]
1981:"...Wanna dance, or would you rather just suck face?"
On Golden Pond
Meg
$600 [3]
In a special episode, Marcy finds out her boyfriend Jerry was killed in this June 25, 1876 battle
Little Big Horn
Scott
$600 [23]
In 1999 a school was named for Governor Lawton Chiles in this state capital
Tallahassee, Florida
Steven
$600 [18]
Georgetown is capital of this country, once a British colony
Guyana
Scott
$600 [28]
An unaccented unit of musical time that may begin a piece
Upbeat
$800 [15]
In a 1989 novel by E.L. Doctorow, gangster Dutch Schultz takes this title teen under his wing
Billy Bathgate
Scott
$800 [9]
1988:"The dingo's got my baby!"
A Cry in the Dark
$800 [4]
The gang holds a buggy wash to raise a million dollars' bail for this Tammany "Boss" when he's arrested in 1871
Boss Tweed
Steven
$800 [24]
A Washington-area high school bears the name of this Senators pitcher, "The Big Train"
Walter Johnson
Scott
DD $1,000 [19]
Country named for the person who became president of Gran Colombia in 1819
Bolivia (for Simon Bolivar)
Scott
DD $1,000 [29]
This English word comes from Latin for "under the influence of Jupiter"
jovial
Scott
$1,000 [16]
Old Ben, not Gentle Ben, is the title character in this William Faulkner novelette
The Bear
$1,000 [10]
1976:"Follow the money"
All the President's Men
Meg
$1,000 [5]
Larry tries to get a job with this New York Tribune founder, who tells him to get out of his office & go west:
Horace Greeley
Steven
$1,000 [25]
(Hi, I'm Kevin Garnett) My high school was named after this man for whom the rank of full admiral was created in 1866
David Farragut
Steven
$1,000 [20]
They're the 2 South American countries that don't border Brazil
Chile & Ecuador
Steven

Final Jeopardy!

THE SUPREME COURT

These 2 justices who graduated at the top of their classes were both first offered jobs as typists by the top law firms

Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Sandra Day O'Connor

Steven "Who are O'Connor & Ginsburg?" — wagered $10
Meg "Who are O'Conner and Ginsburg?" — wagered $0
Scott "Who were Frankfurter" — wagered $3,701

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