Show #3124 1998-03-12 Regular

Contestants

Billy Mason-Dennis — a data conversion operator from Berryville, Virginia

Andrew Hoenig — an attorney originally from Radnor, Pennsylvania

Bob Ryffel — a computer expert from Fairfield, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
BobCat $2,100 $4,500 $11,700 $22,001
2-day champion: $28,601
$10,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Andrew $1,100 $3,000 $11,000 $22,000
2nd place: a trip to Kauai Coconut Beach Hotel, Hawaii
$7,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Billy $500 $800 $1,200 $2,000
3rd place: a Ducane 2004SS gas grill
$1,200
9 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SUPERSTITIONS BUDDY THE BEEKEEPER THE 1970s HANNA-BARBERA CATS BATTLE CRIES BODY LANGUAGE
$100 [2]
Do this on a Monday, you do it "for danger"; bless you
sneeze
Billy
$100 [8]
Buddy mixes equal parts of this & hot water to feed a new colony with no honey to eat
sugar
Andrew
$100 [15]
From Calvin Klein & others this piece of denim apparel became "designer", i.e. tight & expensive
blue jeans
BobCat
$100 [1]
Hanna-Barbera's first network show featured this cat with the dog Reddy
Ruff
Billy
$100 [24]
Despite Captain Lawrence's final orders, it's what the crew of the Chesapeake did on June 1, 1813
give up the ship
Andrew
$100 [20]
A person who acts rashly & harms himself is said to "cut off" this "to spite his face"
his nose
BobCat
$200 [3]
An 1831 book said as you pass under one of these you must spit through it, or spit 3 times afterwards
a ladder
BobCat
$200 [9]
Buddy doesn't like being asked "Who's the lucky fella?" when he wears this between his hat & collar
a beekeeper's veil
BobCat
$200 [16]
Danny Zuko & Sandy Dumbrowski end up together in this musical that opened Valentine's Day, 1972
Grease
Billy
$200 [6]
Close friends get to call him "T.C."
Top Cat
Andrew
$200 [25]
American paratroopers were the first to use this man's name as a battle cry
Geronimo
Andrew
$200 [21]
It's the type of predictable automatic action some liberals are accused of having
knee jerk
BobCat
$300 [4]
These grotesque stone figures acted as drain spouts as well as sentinels to frighten away evil spirits
gargoyles
Billy
$300 [10]
Buddy makes people mad when he blows this in elevators, but he blows it at bees to calm them down
smoke
Andrew
$300 [17]
A toy skycycle named for this daredevil was introduced before his 1974 Snake River Canyon jump
Evel Knievel
BobCat
$300 [12]
"Yogi Bear Show" lion who might "exit stage left"
Snagglepuss
BobCat
$300 [26]
This warning appeared on a revolutionary-era flag with an ill-tempered rattlesnake
"Dont Tread On Me"
Andrew
$300 [22]
This word may refer to part of your foot, the end of a loaf of bread, or a despicable cad
heel
Andrew
$400 [5]
If you lose an eyelash, put it on your finger, do this, then blow it away
make a wish
BobCat
$400 [11]
Buddy might say "None of your business" if asked about harvesting this product used in candles & polishes
beeswax
BobCat
$500 [19]
A deadly disease was identified after an outbreak at this group's 1976 convention in Philadelphia
the American Legion
Billy
$400 [13]
These were the 2 "Meeces" Mr. Jinks hated to pieces
Pixie & Dixie
$400 [27]
Title of the song here:
The Battle Cry Of Freedom
Andrew Billy
$400 [29]
This term for strenuous extra effort sounds like it means "arm joint lubricant"
elbow grease
Andrew
$500 [7]
The Carpenters sang about one of these "for luck and we're on our way"
a kiss
Andrew
$500 [23]
In spring Buddy gets ready for these masses of bees to fly from their hives & form new colonies
swarms
Andrew
DD $1,300 [18]
In 1972 Mujibur Rahman became the first PM of this new Asian nation for which a concert was held in 1971
Bangladesh
BobCat
$500 [14]
Her back-up group was The Pussycats
Josie
BobCat
$500 [28]
It's said this slogan came from a cartoon that appeared in the Washington Post on April 3, 1898
"Remember the Maine"
BobCat
$500 [30]
When you inadvertently give someone else the advantage, you "play into" these
their hands
Andrew

Double Jeopardy! Round

1980s LIT WHAT CITY ARE WE IN? 1930s TV WISDOM OF THE AGES EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT... PSYCHOBABBLE
$200 [2]
"From Bauhaus to Our House" is Tom Wolfe's derisive attack on the modernist movement in this field
architecture
Billy
$200 [1]
Regent's Park, St. James's Park, Hyde Park
London
Andrew
$200 [6]
This Cincinnati-based soap company has been advertising on TV since 1939
Procter & Gamble
Billy
$200 [20]
An Aesop moral says "familiarity breeds" this
contempt
Andrew
$200 [27]
It's the only U.S. state whose recorded temperature has never dropped below 0 degrees Fahrenheit
Hawaii
Andrew
$200 [16]
According to a popular saying, this defense mechanism "ain't just a river in Egypt"
denial
BobCat
$400 [5]
The stories of Raymond Carver typified this style whose name indicates it does the most with the "least"
minimalist
BobCat
$400 [3]
The Hofborg, Freud's Apartment, St. Stephen's Cathedral
Vienna
Billy
$400 [8]
In September 1939 NBC had its transmitter on this building; CBS had its on the Chrysler Building later
the Empire State Building
Billy
$400 [21]
A Lao-Tzu line is traditionally quoted as "a journey of 1,000 miles must begin with" this
a single step
Andrew
$400 [26]
In 1849 Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian received the first weather report via this new invention
the telegraph
BobCat
$400 [17]
Researcher Elizabeth Loftus has found that she can invent these & have subjects take them as their own
memories
BobCat
$600 [10]
He wrote the 1987 novel "Alnilam" over a period of 30 years, publishing "Deliverance" in the meantime
James Dickey
$600 [4]
The Mauritshuis, The International Institute for Social Studies, The International Court of Justice
The Hague
Andrew
$600 [13]
TV covered this PM's arrival from Munich September 30, 1938 live; the "Peace For Our Time" speech came later
Neville Chamberlain
BobCat
$800 [23]
A fragment from Euripides has the line "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he" first does this
makes mad
Billy
$600 [28]
Talk about dry! In 1971, after 400 years, parts of this Chilean desert finally got some rain
the Atacama Desert
$600 [18]
"Getting over it" is a nontechnical equivalent of this late stage of grieving
acceptance (or closure)
BobCat
$800 [11]
Type of machine referred to in the title of Tracy Kidder's nonfiction work "The Soul of a New Machine"
a computer
BobCat
$800 [7]
Lake Gardens, The Rubber Research Institute, The National Museum of Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
BobCat
$800 [14]
This Dodger manager was interviewed by Red Barber before an August 1939 game telecast
Leo Durocher
$1,000 [24]
Heraclitus said "All is flux, nothing stays still" & "nothing endures but" this
Change
BobCat
$800 [29]
U.S. bomber pilots in World War II discovered this "river" flowing through the upper troposphere
the jet stream
Andrew
$800 [19]
If your family resists change, keeps secrets & ignores conflict, it may qualify for this adjective
dysfunctional
Andrew
$1,000 [12]
Stevens works as a butler of Darlington Hall in this 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
$1,000 [9]
Place Ville-Marie, Place Jacques Cartier, Beaver Lake
Montreal
Andrew
$1,000 [15]
Joseph Goebbels had his hands in the telecast of this August 1936 event
the Summer Olympics (from Berlin)
BobCat
DD $5,000 [22]
Pindar knew these "have a longer life than deeds"
words
Andrew
DD $1,200 [30]
Meaning of the meteorological symbol seen here:
partly cloudy
Andrew
$1,000 [25]
"No more" says author Melody Beattie of this state of being affected & trying to control another's acts
co-dependency
BobCat

Final Jeopardy!

MEDIEVAL DRAMA

The name of this title character of a morality play has become a synonym for the average, ordinary person

Everyman

Billy "What is Everyman?" — wagered $800
Andrew "What is every man" — wagered $11,000
BobCat "What is Everyman?" — wagered $10,301

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