Show #3512 1999-12-07 (taped 1999-09-14) Regular

Contestants

Suzanne Doran — a middle school teacher from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Logan Beckwith — a payroll accountant from Atlanta, Georgia

Sam Raman — a telecom consultant from Boca Raton, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sam $-100 $2,600 $7,900 $6,800
2-day champion: $8,000
$7,500
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Logan $800 $2,000 $3,300 $6,400
2nd place: Trip to Regal International East Asia Hotel, Shanghai, China
$3,800
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Suzanne $1,000 $2,400 $3,200 $0
3rd place: High Sierra Sport Company Gift Certificate
$3,200
15 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE FACTS NEW YEAR'S EVE GRAMMY-WINNING COMEDY ALBUMS SHARK! FONDUE "A.M."
$100 [17]
Mormons make up about 70% of this state's population
Utah
Suzanne
$100 [1]
Tickets for her MGM Grand concert range from $500 to $2500 each
Barbra Streisand
Logan
$100 [2]
"A Wild and Crazy Guy"
Steve Martin
Sam
$100 [21]
Sharks were the first vertebrates with a fully functioning set of these, also the title of a famous novel
Jaws
Sam
$100 [4]
"Fondue" comes from the French fondre, meaning this action that's done to the cheese
Melting
Sam
$100 [5]
When Phonemate introduced the first commercially successful one in 1971, it weighed 10 pounds
Answering machine
Suzanne
$200 [18]
Until surpassed by California & Texas, it was the most populous state
New York
Suzanne
$200 [3]
Plans are to turn this Seattle landmark into a 605-foot Roman candle
Space Needle
Suzanne
$200 [9]
"No Respect"
Rodney Dangerfield
Sam
$200 [27]
Most of the shark fossils found have been of this body part & they've even been found in the Midwestern U.S.
Teeth
Suzanne
$200 [6]
In the classic Fondue Bourguignonne, cubes of this are dipped in hot oil, then in a savory sauce
Beef
Logan
$200 [7]
At age 9 Ben Stiller made his TV acting debut on "Kate McShane" starring this actress, his mom
Anne Meara
Logan
$300 [19]
(Hi, I"m Joshua Morrow from The Young and the Restless.) "North to the Future" is the official motto of this state, my birthplace
Alaska
Logan
$300 [14]
At the Pasadena Civic Auditorium 2000 guests will see Disney's Y2K update of this 1940 animated classic
Fantasia
Suzanne
$300 [11]
"To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With"
Bill Cosby
Sam
$300 [28]
Shark hide was once used by cabinetmakers as this abrasive
Sandpaper
Sam
$300 [8]
Legend says fondue was invented in this largest Swiss city when winter left only cheese, bread & wine
Zurich
Sam Logan Suzanne
$300 [10]
Hail Schubert who came up with this composition so "full of grace" in 1825
"Ave Maria"
Suzanne
$400 [25]
The geographic center of the 48 contiguous states is in Smith County in this state
Kansas
Suzanne
$400 [20]
This pop star's set to do her last show before taking her sabbatical in Montreal
Celine Dion
Logan
DD $500 [12]
"The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress"
Flip Wilson
Sam
$400 [29]
This shark, which produces litters of 30 to 50 at a time, has stripes that fade as it ages
Tiger shark
Sam
$400 [23]
According to "Joy of Cooking", fresh fruit served with this sauce for dipping "never disappoints"
Chocolate
Sam
$400 [13]
Marilyn Monroe's last movie, "The Misfits", was written by this playwright, her then-husband
Arthur Miller
Suzanne
$500 [26]
The 5-pointed star on this state's seal displays symbols of the Five Civilized Tribes
Oklahoma
Sam
$500 [22]
You can waltz in the year 2000 at the Imperial Ball in this city's Hofburg Palace
Vienna
Sam
$500 [16]
"This Is A Recording"
Lily Tomlin
$500 [30]
The shark with this 4-letter name, also called the bonito shark, has been clocked at 20 miles per hour
Mako
Suzanne
$500 [24]
This brandy whose name is from German for "cherry" is a popular fondue ingredient & accompaniment
Kirsch
Sam
$500 [15]
Once home to the Hittites, today this region is occupied by Turkey
Asia Minor
Logan

Double Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE IN HISTORY MOVIE TAGLINES LITERARY HODGEPODGE THE MENORAH THAT SINKING FEELING "P.M."
$200 [11]
Thomas Conway was involved in a 1777 plot to replace this American commander-in-chief with Horatio Gates
George Washington
Sam
$200 [1]
1993:"A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins."
The Fugitive
Sam
$200 [16]
Famous tale that contains the line "If he be Mr. Hyde...I shall be Mr. Seek"
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
Suzanne
$200 [25]
Technically, a menorah has 7 branches, the one with this many is a hanukkiyah
8
Suzanne
$200 [18]
The sinking of this British liner in May 1915 indirectly influenced the U.S. to enter WWI
Lusitania
Sam
$200 [6]
Sir Robert Walpole is usually considered Britain's first one, though the title wasn't official at the time
Prime minister
Sam
$400 [12]
She was almost 6 feet tall & strong as an ox (she could have smashed saloons without her famous hatchet)
Carrie Nation
Sam Suzanne
$400 [2]
1995:"A little pig goes a long way"
Babe
Sam
$400 [17]
Martha Grimes is from Pittsburgh, but she sets her mystery novels in this country & names them for pubs
England
Logan
$400 [28]
A menorah by sculptor Benno Elkan stands before this Israeli parliament building
Knesset
Suzanne
$400 [22]
One legend mentioned by Plato says that this island was swallowed by the sea as a result of earthquakes
Atlantis
Sam
$400 [7]
In a familiar old song, it's "sailing over a cardboard sea"
"Paper Moon"
Sam
$600 [13]
In the 11th century Anawratha became the first ruler to politically unite this country that's also known as Myanmar
Burma
Sam
$600 [3]
1993:"An adventure 65 million years in the making"
Jurassic Park
Sam
$800 [20]
Ann Radcliffe's 1794 novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho" is a fine example of this "architectural" genre
Gothic
DD $500 [30]
When the second temple was destroyed in 70 A.D., its menorah was carried off to this city
Rome
Logan
$600 [23]
A 1976 Gordon Lightfoot song told the true story of the sinking of this ore vessel in Lake Superior
Edmund Fitzgerald
Logan
$600 [8]
Sinanthropus pekinensis is another name for this Homo erectus whose remains were discovered in the 1920s
Peking Man
Sam Suzanne
$800 [14]
As chancellor of this country in the 1930s, Kurt von Schuschnigg favored restoring the Hapsburgs to the throne
Austria
Logan
$800 [4]
1973:"Where were you in '62?"
American Graffiti
Logan
$1,000 [21]
This "I, Claudius" novelist's memoir "Good-Bye to All That" is noted for its vivid depiction of WWI
Robert Graves
$600 [27]
Per Exodus 25, "The tongs and the snuff-dishes" of the temple menorah shall be of this material
Gold
Sam
$800 [24]
In 1997 "Nova" went under the sea to look at this ship, the Titanic's lost sister:
HMS Britannic
$800 [9]
Blasted, it's the weapon of war seen here:
a Patriot missile
Sam Suzanne
$1,000 [15]
The father of this Danish astronomer was the governor of Halsingborg Castle
Tycho Brahe
Sam Suzanne
$1,000 [5]
1990:"You will believe"
Ghost
Logan
DD $1,500 [19]
In a poem about this city, Bret Harte wrote, "Wrap her, o fog, in gown and hood of her Franciscan brotherhood"
San Francisco
Sam
$800 [29]
According to a prayer, Jews light the menorah "Al Ha-Nissim", meaning "for" these wondrous events
Miracles
Logan
$1,000 [26]
A 1999 TV movie portrayed the torpedoing & sinking of the federal sloop Housatonic by this Confederate sub
Hunley
$1,000 [10]
While at LSU he became college basketball's first point-a-minute scorer
Pete Maravich
Logan

Final Jeopardy!

ROCK PERFORMERS

2 of 4 performing duos inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

(2 of) The Everly Brothers, Ike & Tina Turner, Sam & Dave, and Simon & Garfunkel

Suzanne "Who are Simon and Garfunkel and Ever" — wagered $3,200
Logan "Who are Simon and Garfunkel and the Everly Bros." — wagered $3,100
Sam "Who are Captain & Tenille and Hall & Oates" — wagered $1,100

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