Show #3502 1999-11-23 (taped 1999-08-24) Regular

Contestants

Laura Sternberg — a software engineer from Parkland, Florida

Dave Adler — an astronomer from Columbia, Maryland

Dan McNamee — a microbiologist from Temecula, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $900 $2,400 $5,100 $4,100
2nd place: Trip to Club Med, Mexico
$5,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Dave $900 $1,600 $3,000 $5,500
New champion: $5,500
$3,900
11 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Laura $-200 $300 $2,700 $1,200
3rd place: Polaroid Photomax Digital Camera Creative Kit
$2,700
10 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

GENERAL SCIENCE SINGER-SONGWRITERS DOG STARS U.S. STATES POETS & POETRY STUFF
$100 [4]
In weather forecasting, the UV index refers to the intensity of this type of radiation
Ultraviolet
Dan Dave
$100 [9]
"Beat It"
Michael Jackson
Dan
$100 [16]
Astro is this 21st century family's dog
The Jetsons
Laura
$100 [1]
It consists of 8 major & 124 minor islands
Hawaii
Laura
$100 [17]
Published in 1866, "Battle-Pieces" was Herman Melville's unappreciated book of poetry about this event
Civil War
Dan
$100 [20]
The lawyer who made famous the line "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"
Johnnie Cochran
Dave
$200 [5]
Whether alternating or direct, it's a flow of electricity
Current
Dave
$200 [10]
"Put Your Head On My Shoulder"
Paul Anka
$200 [27]
It's the comic strip in which you'll find the Bumsteads' dog Daisy
"Blondie"
Dan
$200 [2]
This state has more ethnic Norwegians than any other state, most of them in the Twin Cities area
Minnesota
Dan
$200 [18]
Poet who wrote the immortal, "when the world is mud-luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee"
E.E. Cummings
Dan
$200 [21]
This airport is located at 5757 Wayne Newton Blvd.
McCarran (Las Vegas) International Airport
Dan
$300 [6]
The Babylonians kept abreast of the times using a form of this instrument seen here:
Sundial
Dave Laura
$300 [11]
"That Don't Impress Me Much"
Shania Twain
Dan
$300 [28]
Eddie is the Jack Russell Terrier who often steals the show on this sitcom
Frasier
Dave
$300 [3]
Reflecting its Catholic heritage, this state has 64 parishes & no counties
Louisiana
Dan Dave
$300 [19]
With 6 children, this poet was well-equipped to write "The Children's Hour"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
$300 [22]
Owners of Giants Stadium were stunned in 1997 when the grass field began to "die", especially as it was this
Astroturf
Dave
$500 [8]
"For every action there's an equal & opposite reaction" is Newton's third law of this
Motion
Dan
$400 [12]
"I Walk the Line"
Johnny Cash
Dave
$400 [29]
A miniature bulldog named Bandit belongs to this adventurous TV cartoon boy
Jonny Quest
Dan
$400 [14]
Its license plates bear a flag depicting the Big Dipper & the North Star
Alaska
Dan
$400 [25]
William O'Connor's pamphlet in defense of this poet was titled "The Good Gray Poet", hence his nickname
Walt Whitman
$400 [23]
In 1969 Dalsey, Hillblom & Lynn founded this type of company
Delivery/courier service (DHL)
Laura
DD $900 [7]
Since limestone undergoes changes to become marble, marble is classified as this type of rock
Metamorphic
Dave
$500 [13]
"Short People"
Randy Newman
Dave
$500 [30]
One of Hercules' labors was to fetch this monstrous watchdog
Cerberus
Laura
$500 [15]
Its highest point is 5,344-foot Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks
New York
Dan
$500 [26]
He wrote "To His Coy Mistress", "Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime"
Andrew Marvell
Dan Laura
$500 [24]
In a Grimm tale, a bunch of naked elves make these
Shoes

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY QUOTABLE CINEMA HOMERIC CHARACTERS THE 1939 WORLD'S FAIR BETTER KNOWN AS... WORDS WITHIN WORDS
$200 [8]
In 1689 William III & this queen ascended the British throne & accepted Parliament's Bill of Rights
Mary II
Laura
$200 [7]
1974:"See, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that...they're capable of anything"
Chinatown
$200 [10]
The son of Peleus who was the leading warrior for the Greeks
Achilles
Dan
$200 [6]
The fair was held in this NYC borough, in a former ash dump called Flushing Meadow
Queens
Dan
$200 [1]
Pop star Francis Thomas Avallone
Frankie Avalon
Laura
$200 [24]
Even a functional illiterate knows it's equal to 1.057 quarts
liter (in il liter ate)
Laura
$400 [9]
In 1415 Czech religious reformer John Hus was condemned & burned at the stake for this crime
Heresy
Dan
$400 [15]
1975:"We are the knights who say Ni!"
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dan Dave
DD $300 [20]
He was the judge of a divine beauty contest
Paris
Dan
$400 [12]
The theme was "World of" this, & there was also a "Road of" it & a "Town of" it
Tomorrow
$400 [2]
Terpsichorean Georgi Balanchivadze
George Balanchine
Laura
$800 [25]
To defame the players on the NHL's New York Islanders
slander (in I slander s)
Dan
$600 [13]
In 1862 this Prussian said that "The great questions of the day" would be decided "by iron and blood"
Otto von Bismarck
Dan
$600 [16]
1986:"That's not a knife. That's a knife"
Crocodile Dundee
Dan
$400 [11]
Originally, she was Menelaus' wife
Helen
Dan
$600 [21]
The TV set seen here was brought to the fair by this company with "Radio" in its full name:
RCA (Radio Corporation of America)
Dan
$600 [3]
"Silent" comedian Adolph Marx
Harpo Marx
Laura
$1,000 [26]
It's the fear & unease a gangster might have about his criminal ways
angst (in g angst er)
Dave
DD $800 [14]
In 1946 Vojvodina & this province were made autonomous within Serbia in Yugoslavia
Kosovo
Dan
$800 [17]
A 1968 George Romero film:"Kill the brain and you kill the ghoul"
Night of the Living Dead
$800 [22]
Pavilions included French, Japanese & one for this international organization that first met in 1920
League of Nations
Dan
$800 [4]
Choreographer William Berkeley Enos
Busby Berkeley
Laura
$1,000 [19]
In 338 B.C. this Macedonian king ended Greece's independence with victory in the Battle of Chaeronea
Philip of Macedon
$1,000 [18]
A 1987 Glenn Close film:"I'm not going to be ignored, Dan"
Fatal Attraction
Dan
$1,000 [23]
Name for the over-600-foot-high three-sided structure seen here next to the Perisphere:
Trylon
$1,000 [5]
Singer Shahnour Aznavourian
Charles Aznavour
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

MONUMENTS

Over 90% of the sculpting on Mount Rushmore was done with this

Dynamite

Laura "What is TNT?" — wagered $1,500
Dave "What is dynamite?" — wagered $2,500
Dan "What is a chisel" — wagered $1,000

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