Show #3514 1999-12-09 (taped 1999-09-14) Regular

Contestants

Clif Bailey — a peace officer and firefighter from Euless, Texas

Catherine Smythe Zajc — a director of prospect development from Cleveland, Ohio

Amanda Folk — a paralegal from Columbia, South Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amanda $-100 $1,400 $3,600 $3,600
3rd place: VTech Cordless Phones
$3,600
13 R, 2 W
Catherine $500 $1,500 $3,300 $6,600
2nd place: Trip to Thistle Selfridge Hotel, London, England
$3,900
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Clif $1,000 $1,100 $6,085 $7,585
New champion: $7,585
$6,600
24 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY MOBILE HOMES KIDDY LIT FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD THE 1999 EMMY AWARDS CROSSWORD CLUES "K"
$100 [7]
The Continental Congress approved this "game" to raise money for the army; it never hit $250 million (dollars)
Lottery
Clif
$100 [12]
A mobile home used for camping is often called an RV, short for this
Recreational vehicle
Clif
$100 [26]
He kills the character who says, "Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum"
Jack (in "Jack and the Beanstalk")
Clif
$100 [17]
It precedes "food cake" & "hair pasta"
Angel
Clif
$100 [1]
He picked up his 3rd rock, er... statue for his acting on "3rd Rock"
John Lithgow
Clif
$100 [2]
Lip-lock(4)
Kiss
Clif
$200 [8]
After 3 previous acquittals, this reputed crime family boss was finally convicted in New York City on April 2, 1992
John Gotti
Clif
$200 [13]
"Manufactured Housing Community" is preferred over this 2-word term with seedier connotations
Trailer park
Amanda
$200 [27]
One version has this creature turning back into a prince after sleeping with the girl for 3 nights (no smooching)
"The Frog Prince"
Amanda
$200 [18]
Many enjoy these "love apples" sun-dried
Tomatoes
Catherine
$200 [22]
The Best Variety, Music or Comedy Special Emmy went to this well "staged" awards show
Tony Awards
Amanda
$200 [3]
Bluesman B.B.(4)
King
Amanda
$400 [10]
He shook up society in the 1960s & later published "Revolution for the Hell of It" & "Steal This Book"
Abbie Hoffman
$300 [14]
Headquartered in Forest City, Iowa, it's "The Most Recognized Name" among builders of mobile homes
Winnebago
Clif
$300 [28]
"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" was a 1972 sequel to this 1964 story
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Clif
$300 [19]
This round cut of meat from the small end of the tenderloin is usually 1 to 2 inches thick
Filet mignon
Catherine
$300 [23]
This HBO series with 16 nominations only hit on 4
The Sopranos
Amanda Clif
$300 [4]
German ruler, or his bread roll(6)
Kaiser
Clif
DD $500 [9]
Due to expansive pork processing facilities, this city on the Ohio River was once known as "Porkopolis"
Cincinnati
Clif
$400 [15]
HUD revised its wind standards for mobile homes after this disaster devastated Florida in 1992
Hurricane Andrew
Clif
$400 [29]
As a lad, A.A. Milne wore his hair in the style of this Frances Hodgson Burnett character
Little Lord Fauntleroy
$400 [20]
In 1965 Tyson Farms created a new game hen by crossing the white rock & this breed
Cornish
Amanda
$400 [24]
He made Emmy history as the first producer to win for both Best Comedy & Drama Series in the same year
David E. Kelley
Amanda
$400 [5]
"Addams Family" adjective, in song(5)
Kooky
Clif
$500 [11]
This Spanish explorer, not Ponce de Leon, claimed Florida for Spain in June of 1539
Hernando de Soto
Amanda Clif
$500 [16]
Distinctive brand of mobile home seen here:
Airstream
Catherine
$500 [30]
This J.K. Rowling hero has run up against "The Sorcerer's Stone" & "The Chamber of Secrets"
Harry Potter
Amanda Clif
$500 [21]
Only well-trained sushi chefs can clean & prepare this poisonous puffer fish
fugu (blowfish accepted)
Amanda
$500 [25]
A husband & wife Emmy-winning pair; he for guesting on "Mad About You" & she for the movie "Deep in My Heart"
Mel Brooks & Anne Bancroft
$500 [6]
Designing Donna(5)
Karan
Catherine

Double Jeopardy! Round

VARMINTS THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH DANCE! SAY YOUR PRAYERS DRAW! WILD WEST TALK
$200 [9]
This close relative of the lynx lives in North America & is named for its stumpy tail
Bobcat
Clif
$200 [4]
This French town of 17,000, the home of St. Bernadette, gets about 2 million visitors a year
Lourdes
Amanda
$200 [20]
Dancer Ahmed Best provided the voice & movements for this controversial "Phantom Menace" character
Jar Jar Binks
Clif
$200 [21]
After Darius' men caught Daniel praying, they had him thrown into this place
The lion's den
Amanda
$200 [15]
After Dik Browne retired in 1988, his son Chris took over this Viking strip
"Hagar the Horrible"
Clif
$200 [1]
A cowgirl in this condition was said to be wearing the bustle wrong
Pregnant
Clif
$400 [10]
This wily "brush wolf", long a nuisance to ranchers, can be found in more populous areas like suburban L.A.
Coyote
Clif
$400 [5]
In 1899 Eddy, New Mexico, located near vast caverns, was renamed this
Carlsbad
Clif
$400 [27]
From 1991 to 1995 & again in 1999 she was responsible for the choreography on the Oscars
Debbie Allen
Amanda Catherine
$400 [22]
At the end of his life, this man prayed for the strength to avenge himself on the Philistines
Samson
Clif
$400 [16]
This comic strip is named for the commandant of a desert post of the French Foreign Legion
"Crock"
Clif
$400 [2]
Cowboys often intensified this Spanish word for "crazy" with "plumb"
Loco
Catherine
DD $585 [11]
A member of the squirrel family, this rodent gets its name from its bark-like warning call
Prairie dog
Clif
$600 [6]
This lovely Vermont town of 12,000 was named for preacher, doctor & soldier William Brattle
Brattleboro
Amanda
$600 [28]
The co-founder of the White Oak Dance Project in 1990, he is the company's most famous dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Catherine
$600 [23]
This first Christian martyr's dying words were "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge"
St. Stephen
$600 [17]
It's where you find sports fans, or the title of Steve Moore's sports-related comic
"In the Bleachers"
DD $600 [3]
A stagecoach guard with this double-barreled job title often sat up front with the driver
riding shotgun
Catherine
$800 [12]
There's a "hairy" as well as a "spiny" type of this porcupine-like critter that rolls itself into a ball as a defense
Hedgehog
Clif
$800 [7]
These "springs" with a female name, population about 25,000, are the center of Australia's vast "Red Centre"
Alice Springs
Clif
$800 [29]
Agnes De Mille wrote the book on the "Life and Work of" this doyenne of modern dance
Martha Graham
Amanda
$800 [25]
At the opening of the first temple, he prayed to God "that thine eyes may be open toward this house"
Solomon
$800 [18]
Don't be misled by the cat; the pair seen here appear in this Patrick McDonnell strip:
"Mutts"
$800 [14]
A shepherd's bible was one of these; probably not the one from L.L. Bean
Catalog
Catherine
$1,000 [13]
The long-tailed is the common U.S. species of this mammal that kills more chickens than it can eat immediately
Weasel
$1,000 [8]
The town of Manhattan, home of this state university, has about 1/40 the population of Manhattan in NYC
Kansas State
Clif
$1,000 [26]
Isaac entreated the Lord on behalf of his wife Rebekah & she became pregnant with these twins
Jacob & Esau
Catherine
$1,000 [19]
Urban kids Huey & Riley Freeman suffer in the suburbs in this Aaron McGruder strip
"The Boondocks"
$1,000 [24]
Missing cowboys looking to start over were often described as "G.T.T.": Gone to this state
Texas
Clif

Final Jeopardy!

HONORS

To remain "Free to blast and bollock Blairite Britain" Tony Harrison declined this post in 1999

Poet Laureate of England

Catherine "What is Poet Laureate" — wagered $3,300
Amanda "What is Prime min of Scotland" — wagered $0
Clif "What is Poet Laureate" — wagered $1,500

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