Show #3484 1999-10-28 (taped 1999-08-04) Regular

Contestants

Jon Muir — a lawyer originally from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

Patti Sturr — a collection agent from Tempe, Arizona

Janet Leach — a production control specialist from Greenland, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Janet $300 $1,200 $5,800 $10,800
2-day champion: $25,800
$5,800
16 R, 0 W
Patti $1,200 $2,800 $5,200 $2,700
2nd place: Trip to Delta Chelsea Inn, Toronto, Canada
$5,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jon $1,300 $3,700 $5,300 $300
3rd place: Polaroid Photomax Digital Camera Creative Kit
$6,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICA MOVIE SERIES NATURE NOTORIOUS WAR STORIES BEGINS & ENDS WITH "K"
$100 [2]
The last execution for this offense in Salem, Massachusetts took place September 22, 1692
Witchcraft
Janet
$100 [6]
John Gavin was signed to play him in "Diamonds Are Forever", but then Sean Connery was lured back
James Bond
Patti
$100 [26]
Male mosquitos usually feed on nectar; it's the female mosquitos who usually feed on this substance
Blood
Janet
$100 [17]
This pair were killed in an ambush set up by ex-Texas Ranger Frank Hamer May 23, 1934
Bonnie & Clyde
Jon
$100 [11]
"Andersonville","Cold Mountain"
Civil War
Jon
$100 [1]
Whitewater & touring are the most common types of this vessel
Kayak
Jon
$200 [3]
This large entertainment complex opened near Kissimmee October 1, 1971
Walt Disney World
Jon
$200 [7]
Films in this series include "Dream Warriors", "The Dream Master" & "Freddy's Revenge"
Nightmare on Elm Street
Janet
$200 [28]
The red-gilled nudibranch is a snail that, unlike the periwinkle or limpet, lacks one of these
Shell
Janet
$200 [18]
A 1934 headline read, he "used wooden gun to escape"
John Dillinger
Jon
$200 [12]
"Catch-22","Baa Baa Black Sheep"
World War II
Jon
$200 [22]
In 1979 this rock group topped the charts with "My Sharona"
The Knack
Janet
$300 [4]
In 1951 this man commuted the sentence of his would-be assassin Oscar Collazo to life in prison
Harry S. Truman
Jon
$300 [8]
In a series of 14 films in the 1930s & 1940s Nigel Bruce was Watson to his Sherlock Holmes
Sir Basil Rathbone
Patti
$300 [29]
This green fruit's juice, which has a high level of citric acid, was used by the British navy to prevent scurvy
Limes
Jon
$300 [19]
Arthur Bremer stalked Richard Nixon before stalking & shooting this Alabama governor
George Wallace
Patti
$300 [13]
"The Enormous Room","All Quiet on the Western Front"
World War I
Jon
$300 [23]
This Scottish word for church dates back over 800 years
Kirk
Patti
$400 [5]
In 1848 a shipping canal completed through an old Indian portage linked Chicago with this mighty river system
Mississippi River
Patti Jon
$400 [9]
William Boyd was 40 when he began playing this hero in a series of 66 low-budget westerns
Hopalong Cassidy
Patti
$400 [30]
These airborne grains from trees, grass or weeds may produce hay fever attacks
Pollen
Jon
$400 [20]
New England criminal seen here in 1973 with some of the jewelry, including chokers, he made in prison:
Albert DeSalvo ("The Boston Strangler")
Jon
DD $500 [14]
"The Bridges at Toko-Ri","Retreat, Hell!"
The Korean War
Jon
$400 [24]
In England, it's a telephone booth; in the U.S., a small multi-sided structure such as a newsstand
Kiosk
Janet
$500 [16]
Williamsburg & this last Revolutionary War battle site are part of Virginia's "Historic Triangle"
Yorktown
Jon
$500 [10]
Occupation of Andy Hardy's long-suffering father
Judge
$500 [27]
This legless lizard is named for its fragility
Glass snake
$500 [21]
Arrested over 30 times, she paid her fines with profits from selling souvenir hatchets with her name on them
Carrie Nation
Patti
$500 [15]
"A Bright Shining Lie","Flight of the Intruder"
The Vietnam War
Jon
$500 [25]
This coin is 1/100th of a ruble
Kopek
Patti

Double Jeopardy! Round

SUFFRAGETTE CITY LET'S DANCE BLUE JEAN MODERN LOVE CHANGES DAVID BOWIE
$200 [13]
Her middle intial B. stood for Brownell
Susan B. Anthony
Jon
$200 [6]
Proverbially, "It Takes Two" to perform this Latin dance
Tango
Janet
$200 [22]
This '60s style was named for the flared shape of the jeans' lower portion
Bell bottoms
Jon
$200 [18]
Since marrying Broadway actress Rachel Miner, he's no longer "Home Alone"
Macaulay Culkin
Janet
$200 [8]
To change dollars into pesos, or Christians into Jews
Conversion
Janet
$200 [1]
A 1972 Bowie album chronicled "The Rise and Fall of" this glam-rock persona "and the Spiders from Mars"
Ziggy Stardust
Janet
$400 [14]
When she married Henry Stanton in 1840, she insisted on omitting the word "obey" from the marriage vows
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jon
$400 [7]
An old debate asks how many of these beings could dance on the head of a pin
Angels
Jon
$400 [23]
Jeans were originally called "waist-high" these, as distinguished from "bib" ones
Overalls
Jon
$400 [19]
Nelson Mandela's 1998 wedding was officiated by a team of clerics led by this Anglican archbishop
Desmond Tutu
Patti
$400 [9]
From Latin for "change", this type of change in DNA causes sickle cell anemia
Mutation
Janet
$400 [2]
The film "2001" inspired this song heard here:
"Space Oddity"
Janet
$600 [15]
It's the number of the U.S. Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
Janet
$600 [28]
A gandy dancer works on this all the livelong day
Railroad
Janet
$600 [24]
Levi's first famous line, it was probably the item number Levi Strauss assigned in his wholesale catalog
501
Jon
DD $400 [20]
560 guests (& 200 million TV viewers) watched Sophie Rhys-Jones marry this charming prince
Prince Edward
Patti
$600 [10]
The movement of starlight toward the long end of the spectrum is called the "Red" this
Shift
$600 [3]
In 1985 he & David Bowie recorded a duet of "Dancing in the Street" to benefit Live Aid
Mick Jagger
Patti
$800 [16]
A utilitarian philosopher who worked with suffrage societies, he wrote 1869's "The Subjection of Women"
John Stuart Mill
Patti
$800 [29]
Game show that featured the dance seen here:("Gene, Gene the Dancing Machine")
The Gong Show
Janet
$800 [25]
In the disco era many said, "Uh-oh, Sergio" as they squeezed into this brand of designer jeans
Sergio Valente
Jon
$800 [21]
Bryant Gumbel served as Best Man in 1998 when this "Today" co-host married model Annette Roque
Matt Lauer
Jon
$800 [11]
"Directional" change the Supreme Court makes when it takes the opposite view from a lower court
Reversal
Jon
$800 [4]
This ex-Beatle co-wrote & sang back-up on "Fame", Bowie's first song to hit No. 1 in the U.S.
John Lennon
Patti
$1,000 [17]
The first woman to run for president, she was a proponent of free love as well as suffrage
Victoria Woodhull
DD $1,400 [26]
Introduced in 1947, this brand was designed by Philadelphia tailor "Rodeo Ben" Lichtenstein
Wrangler
Jon
$1,000 [27]
Daughter Laura Dern was Maid of Honor when she wed a businessman on Valentine's Day, 1999
Diane Ladd (her mother)
$1,000 [12]
This 6-syllable word refers specifically to the changing of bread & wine into the body & blood of Christ
Transubstantiation
Patti
$1,000 [5]
In 1980 David Bowie made his Broadway debut playing John Merrick in this drama
"The Elephant Man"
Janet

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CAPITALS

This capital's name is from the Greek for "Three Towns"

Tripoli, Libya

Patti "What is Athens?" — wagered $2,500
Jon "What is Trieste?" — wagered $5,000
Janet "What is Tripoli?" — wagered $5,000

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