Show #3510 1999-12-03 (taped 1999-08-25) Regular

Contestants

Liz Colker — a middle school teacher from Los Angeles, California

Todd O'Bryan — a graduate student originally from Louisville, Kentucky

Steven Wyatt — a locomotive engineer from Fort Wayne, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $600 $1,800 $6,000 $9,300
2nd place: Gateway 466C Desktop Computer & Broyhill Computer Home Office Cabinet
$4,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 8 W
Todd $2,600 $3,400 $7,800 $12,001
New champion: $12,001
$7,100
20 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Liz $200 $800 $4,600 $9,199
3rd place: Yahoo! Shopping Gift Certificate/Shopping Spree
$4,600
14 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES BY AREA CARIBBEAN CUISINE FICTIONAL BIG & LITTLE MUSIC APPRECIATION INVENTORS & INVENTIONS "FF"
$100 [21]
Southampton Island, Prince Charles Island, Baffin Island
Canada
Steven
$100 [26]
Grenadans love to eat ice cream made from this main guacamole ingredient
Avocado
Todd
$100 [8]
In a popular cartoon series, he was Natasha's diminutive partner
Boris Badenov
Steven
$100 [3]
Handel wrote a 1743 oratorio about this Biblical guy who got a famous haircut
Samson
Todd
$100 [1]
In 1930 this automaker co-wrote a book on Thomas Edison titled "Edison As I Know Him"
Henry Ford
Steven
$100 [16]
You won't sleep soundly with this in your coffee
Caffeine
Steven
$200 [22]
Abu Muharrik Dunes, Al-Ajmah Mountains, Sinai Peninsula
Egypt
Steven Todd
$200 [27]
Puerto Ricans make mofongo by frying & mashing these "cooking bananas"
Plantains
Steven
$200 [9]
Boys greased this legendary figure's frying pan by skating across it with hams on the bottom of their feet
Paul Bunyan
Steven
$200 [4]
A Haydn symphony bears the name of this British university that gave Haydn an honorary degree
Oxford
Todd
$200 [2]
In 1816 Johann Nepomuk Maelzel patented this device used by musicians to keep correct tempo
Metronome
Liz
$200 [17]
Area bared here:
Midriff
Liz
$300 [23]
Carinthia, Tyrol, Styria
Austria
Steven Todd
$300 [28]
In the Dominican Republic, la bandera ("the flag") is made with red beans, meat & this white grain
Rice
Todd
$300 [10]
This character's "Da Plane! Da Plane!" quickly became a TV catchphrase
Tattoo
Todd
$300 [5]
In 1842 Mendelssohn completed his "Scottish Symphony" & dedicated it to this queen
Victoria
Steven
$300 [13]
In 1929 this wireless communications pioneer was made an Italian marquis
Guglielmo Marconi
Todd
$300 [18]
Variety might report this, abbreviated "B.O.", as boffo
Box office
Liz
$400 [24]
Cheju, South Kyongsang, Kangwon
South Korea
Steven Liz
$400 [29]
In Haiti, lambi is this big spiral-shelled sea snail (If I eat it, can I hear the ocean?)
Conch
Steven
$400 [11]
Ted Cassidy played this towering butler for 2 seasons in the '60s
Lurch
Todd
$400 [6]
This Russian turned some of the music he wrote for the ballet "Petrushka" into a suite
Igor Stravinsky
Todd
$400 [14]
In 1807 he wrote, "The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved"
Robert Fulton
Todd
$400 [19]
During threshing you separate the wheat from it
Chaff
Todd
$500 [25]
Punjab, Baluchistan, Sind
Pakistan
Todd Liz
$500 [30]
In Barbados, you'll go cuckoo for cou-coo, a mix of cornmeal & this essential gumbo veggie
okra
Steven
$500 [12]
On "Taxi" Danny DeVito played this menacing dispatcher
Louie De Palma
Steven
$500 [7]
Charles T. Griffes' tone poem "The Pleasure Dome of" this man is based on a Coleridge poem
Kublai Khan
Todd
$500 [15]
The cabin of this inventor of the Cherokee syllabary is a national historic landmark in Oklahoma
Sequoyah
DD $1,000 [20]
This Arizona city was named for an object created there in 1876 for a Fourth of July fair
Flagstaff
Todd

Double Jeopardy! Round

RIVER CROSSINGS WHO PLAYED 'EM? ROYAL LITERATURE 1960 BETTER KNOWN AS... "F.F."
$200 [21]
In December 1776 Washington crossed this river to safety, then recrossed it to attack
Delaware River
Liz
$200 [6]
Dr. Evil, who's plotting world domination but can't get along with his son Scott Evil
Mike Myers
Liz
$200 [26]
Sophocles' first play about this Theban king marked the summit of formal Greek drama
Oedipus
Steven Liz
$200 [11]
In July King Phumiphon of Thailand joined this king of swing in a jam session
Benny Goodman
Steven Todd
$200 [16]
TV character Theodore Cleaver
The Beaver
Todd
$200 [1]
Its hosts were Richard Dawson & Ray Combs; now it's--survey says--Louie Anderson
Family Feud
Liz
$400 [22]
Three Island Crossing on the Snake River, was a pivotal point on this pioneer trail
Oregon Trail
Steven Todd
$400 [7]
Factory owner Oskar Schindler
Liam Neeson
Liz
$400 [27]
This O'Neill play about former Pullman porter Brutus Jones was based on a real event in Haitian history
"The Emperor Jones"
Todd
$400 [12]
(Hi, I'm Jeff Greenfield.) In 1960 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. wrote of these 2 candidates, "Does it make any difference?"
John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon
Steven
$400 [17]
Cookie magnate Wally Amos
"Famous" Amos
Liz
$400 [2]
They were listed in a January 6, 1941 speech by FDR
Four Freedoms
$600 [23]
In 335 B.C., at about 21, he crossed the Danube to get at the Getae
Alexander the Great
Liz
$600 [8]
Struggling Notting Hill bookstore owner William Thacker
Hugh Grant
Todd
$600 [28]
One of the first African adventure stories, this 1885 novel chronicled the search for legendary diamond mines
"King Solomon's Mines"
Steven
$600 [13]
Wealthy playboy Tommy Manville made news in January when he did this for the 13th time
Got married
Liz
$600 [18]
TV heartthrob Coy Luther Perry III
Luke Perry
Steven
$600 [3]
Deposits like petroleum or coal that were formed from living matter
Fossil fuels
Todd
$800 [24]
Fatally shot near the Rappahannock, this general's last words asked to "cross over the river"
Stonewall Jackson
Steven
DD $1,000 [9]
Viola De Lesseps, who pretended to be Thomas Kent to play Romeo, but played Juliet instead
Gwyneth Paltrow
Todd
$800 [29]
A pair of comic adventurers become the godlike leaders of an Afghan tribe in this Kipling story
"The Man Who Would Be King"
Steven
$800 [14]
This hockey team won its fifth Stanley Cup in a row
Montreal Canadiens
Steven
$800 [19]
Big screen Bond girl Maud Solveig Wikstrom
Maud Adams
$800 [4]
He was a Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1962
Felix Frankfurter
DD $2,200 [25]
Crossing the Sabarmati River was part of this leader's 1930 protest march to the sea
Mahatma Gandhi
Steven
$1,000 [10]
Game show contestant Charles Van Doren
Ralph Fiennes
Liz
$1,000 [30]
Spenser reworked Elizabethan court chivalry along allegorical lines in this epic poem
The Faerie Queene
Liz
$1,000 [15]
In a Moscow trial, he pleaded guilty to having flown an intelligence mission over the Soviet Union
Francis Gary Powers
Steven
$1,000 [20]
Baseball's Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy
Connie Mack
Steven
$1,000 [5]
He won the 13 1/2-inch Oscar for his "8 1/2"
Federico Fellini
Todd Liz

Final Jeopardy!

POLITICS

In 1999 the Bushes became the first brothers to serve as governor at the same time since these 2 brothers in 1971

Nelson & Winthrop Rockefeller

Liz "Who were the Rockefellers?" — wagered $4,599
Steven "Who were the Rockefellers?" — wagered $3,300
Todd "Who were the Rockefellers?" — wagered $4,201

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