Show #3658 2000-06-28 (taped 2000-03-29) Regular

Contestants

Brady Bellis — a former stockbroker from Encinitas, California

Mary Cox — a homemaker from Olathe, Kansas

Marci Schwartz — an office manager from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marci $1,000 $2,900 $8,000 $8,000
2nd place: Trip to Devon, England
$9,500
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Mary $700 $1,900 $2,900 $73
3rd place: Lobster Gram Gift Certificate
$2,900
11 R, 5 W
Brady $1,000 $3,500 $5,100 $10,100
New champion: $10,100
$4,500
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL MUSIC 20th CENTURY SPORTS THEY NAMED IT FOR ME THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HYPHEN KIDDY LIT HINTS FROM HELOISE
$100 [12]
His son Carl Philipp Emanuel served as court harpsichordist to Prussia's King Frederick II for over 20 years
J.S. Bach
Brady
$100 [11]
He said, "I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to...shake hands with the president, either"
Jesse Owens
Marci
$100 [7]
They named a poll after this man born in Iowa in 1901
George Gallup
Marci
$100 [17]
To betray:double-
Cross
Marci
$100 [1]
These brothers have delved into "The Secret of the Old Mill" & "The Tower Treasure"
The Hardy Boys
Brady
$100 [30]
Heloise likes to sprinkle taco seasoning or dry salad dressing over this cinema snack
Popcorn
Marci
$200 [13]
In this fairy tale by Prokofiev, the title boy is represented by strings, his grandfather by a bassoon
"Peter and the Wolf"
Brady
$200 [10]
(Hi, I'm Freddie Jones of the San Diego Chargers) When the Chargers joined the AFL in 1960, they were based in this city to rival the Rams
Los Angeles
Mary Brady
$200 [18]
They named a fort near Dallas for this hero of the Mexican War
William Worth
Marci
$200 [20]
To throw overboard:deep-
Six
Marci
$200 [3]
His "Wind in the Willows" relates the adventures of Toad, Rat, Mole & Badger
Kenneth Grahame
Mary
$200 [29]
Need a Christmas ornament hook? Unbend the middle bend of one of these desktop items & use it as a substitute
Paper clip
Marci
$300 [14]
The 1815 death of his brother Caspar led to a long struggle for custody of Caspar's son Karl
Ludwig van Beethoven
$300 [9]
When Suzanne Lenglen played this sport in 1919 without her corset, she loosened things up for women
Tennis
Mary
$300 [19]
They named a knot for this Duke who was briefly king of England
Duke of Windsor
Mary Brady
$300 [21]
Short-circuit the ignition:hot-
Wire
Marci
$300 [4]
A mother & daughter find their personalities have switched one strange day in this classic book by Mary Rodgers
"Freaky Friday"
Marci
$300 [28]
On April 1, Heloise sometimes adds cooked ground beef to these treats that share their name with little Girl Scouts
Brownies
Brady
$500 [16]
While visiting Iowa in 1893, this Czech composed his "String Quartet No. 12 in F Major", or the "American Quartet"
Antonin Dvorak
Brady
$400 [8]
His 1968 long jump record of 8.90 meters stood for over 20 years
Bob Beamon
Brady
$400 [24]
They named a smear after a Greek-American doctor & shortened the name to this
Pap
Marci
$400 [22]
A 4-dimensional continuum:space-
Time
Brady
$400 [5]
The spunky Ramona Quimby first appeared in "Henry Huggins", the first book by this woman
Beverly Cleary
Mary
$400 [27]
The clear type of this is Heloise's "all-time favorite repair" for runs in her stockings
Nail polish
Marci
DD $1,000 [15]
This 1928 work heard here was written on a commission from Ida Rubenstein
"Bolero"
Brady
$500 [2]
He managed the Cincinnati Reds to 2 World Series titles in the 1970s & Detroit to 1 in the 1980s
Sparky Anderson
Marci
$500 [25]
They named the (horse) breed seen here after the man who owns the progenitor:
Justin Morgan (Morgan Horse)
Mary
$500 [23]
Rustic or homespun:cracker-
Barrel
Mary
$500 [6]
This photographer dressed his Weimaraners in fairy tale garb for a new version of "Cinderella"
William Wegman
$500 [26]
Heloise suggests squeezing lemons with this device found in the name of a Tchaikovsky ballet
Nutcracker
Mary

Double Jeopardy! Round

1850s AMERICA ED TV SMALLER THAN ALBUQUERQUE ELEMENT NAMES FAMILIAR PHRASES HINTS FROM ABELARD
$200 [4]
Gold was found in Colorado, silver in the Comstock & this new resource in a Titusville, Pennsylvania well
Oil
Mary
$200 [3]
Western star Allan "Rocky" Lane was the voice behind this TV horse, of course
Mr. Ed
Marci
$200 [1]
This principality is surrounded by the French department of Alpes-Maritimes
Monaco
Mary
$200 [13]
Aktis, Greek for "ray", gave us actinium; radius, Latin for "ray", gave us this
Radium/radon
Brady
$200 [25]
To be impatient is to do this "at the bit"
Chomp
Brady
$800 [27]
Metaphorically, "Care must be taken also lest through the absence of" these "the flock be imperiled"
the shepherds
Brady
$400 [20]
As the USA's rail capital, its population went from about 30,000 to about 110,000 in the decade
Chicago
Marci
$400 [9]
In 1969 he did double duty as the host of "Concentration" & sidekick on "The Tonight Show"
Ed McMahon
Marci
$400 [2]
This tiny Alpine principality is represented diplomatically by Switzerland
Liechtenstein
Brady
$400 [14]
In 1828 a Norse god thundered onto the periodic table in the name of this element, No. 90
Thorium
Marci
$400 [8]
To put your foot in your mouth means "Oops!"; to put this "in it" means to shut up
A sock
Brady
$1,000 [26]
Abelard cites this sister of Moses to show women's importance in religion
Miriam
Marci
$600 [21]
Pioneers heading west sang, "O don't you remember Sweet Betsy from" this place
Pike
Marci
$600 [10]
This one-time pro football player scored as officer Joe Coffey on "Hill Street Blues"
Ed Marinaro
Mary
$600 [5]
According to tradition this republic east of Florence, Italy was founded in 301 A.D. by a stonecutter named Marinus
San Marino
Marci Mary
$600 [15]
This metal's name comes from the Latin calx, meaning "lime", not bone
Calcium
Marci
$600 [18]
You can "cast stones" or "throw straws against" this, but it ain't worth the effort
The wind
Mary Brady
$1,000 [23]
To the "Dred" of abolitionists, this man from a slaveholding family was chief justice of the U.S.
Roger Taney
Marci
$800 [11]
Played by Martin Short, he's the nerdy character seen here:
Ed Grimley
Marci
$800 [6]
Kwajalein, Bikini & Enewetak are atolls in this north Pacific island nation
Marshall Islands
Mary
DD $900 [16]
The names of neodymium & this element are both traced back to the Greek neo, "new"
Neon
Marci
$800 [19]
"You always have to take" this "with the sweet"
The bitter
Marci
DD $1,600 [22]
This poet wrote to Emerson of his intent to confront people with "an American rude tongue"
Walt Whitman
Marci
$1,000 [12]
On "Homicide: The Movie", he reprised his "St. Elsewhere" role of Dr. Victor Ehrlich
Ed Begley, Jr.
Marci
$1,000 [7]
In 1530 Holy Roman emperor Charles V gave this island nation to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem
Malta
Mary
$1,000 [17]
Found by Carl Gustav Mosander, terbium is named for Ytterby, a village in this country
Sweden
Mary Brady
$1,000 [24]
This phrase for protecting yourself against anything that may cause you a loss comes from baseball
Cover all the bases

Final Jeopardy!

THE PULITZER PRIZES

The first man to win the Pulitzer Prize for his film criticism, he's lobbied for a Pulitzer Prize for the movies

Roger Ebert

Mary "Who is Rex Reed?" — wagered $2,827
Brady "Who is Ebert?" — wagered $5,000
Marci "Who is Ebert?" — wagered $0

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