Show #3520 1999-12-17 (taped 1999-10-26) Regular

Contestants

Roy Flynn — a public television producer from Centerville, Ohio

Maureen Madison — a Ph.D. candidate from Washington, D.C.

John Trzaska — a fleet service clerk from Chicago, Illinois

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $900 $800 $2,200 $1
3rd place: a Meade ETX90 telescope
$2,200
10 R, 4 W
Maureen $0 $400 $5,400 $5,300
New champion: $5,300
$5,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Roy $1,400 $1,700 $2,700 $100
2nd place: a Princess cruise to Bermuda
$3,300
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BEASTLY GEOGRAPHY TELEVISION HOLIDAY SONGS SANE SCIENTISTS WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? BEING PUNCTUAL
$100 [2]
Cities in this nation include Iskenderun, Islahiye & Istanbul
Turkey
Roy
$100 [7]
Roz Doyle, a character on this sitcom, is named for a late producer of the NBC sitcom "Wings"
Frasier
Maureen
$100 [1]
"Sleep in heavenly peace" is a line from this carol
"Silent Night"
Roy
$100 [19]
Radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden, holder of 500 patents, once worked in this man's New Jersey lab
Thomas Edison
John
$100 [13]
The Federal Aviation Administration
Transportation
Maureen
$100 [12]
In abbreviations of 3 or more capital letters, like NCAA, these marks are often omitted
Periods
Roy
$200 [3]
By population, it's the second-largest city in New York
Buffalo
Maureen Roy
$200 [8]
This Emmy-winning drama series features the opening heard here:("In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate & equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, & the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.")
Law & Order
Maureen
$200 [20]
"Oh" this, this, this, "I made it out of clay...and when it's dry and ready then" this "I shall play"
Dreidel
Maureen
$200 [15]
(OSHA) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Labor
John Maureen Roy
$200 [14]
Shorter than a dash, it came between the Angles & Saxons
Hyphen
Roy
$300 [4]
In 1903 Wilbur & Orville flew to new heights near this city
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
John
$300 [9]
Robert Pastorelli was the star of "Cracker", but he's best-known for playing Eldin the Painter on this sitcom
Murphy Brown
John
$300 [21]
(Hi, I'm Art Alexakis of the rock group Everclear.) In a 1998 holiday ad for The Gap, my band did a rendition of this song about an alienated animal
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
John
$300 [16]
The Bureau of Prisons
Justice Department
$300 [24]
3-letter word commonly replaced in a sentence by a semicolon
And
Maureen
$400 [5]
Saddle up! These high pressure belts are located on either side of the Doldrums
Horse Latitudes
$400 [10]
Diane Keaton directed an episode of this David Lynch series about a strange town in the Northwest
Twin Peaks
Roy
$400 [22]
"Put on your yarmulke, it's time for Chanukah" is a line from his "Chanukah Song"
Adam Sandler
Roy
$400 [17]
The Fish & Wildlife Service
Interior
Roy
$500 [26]
If 1 of these takes 3 paragraphs, the marks go at the start of each paragraph & at the end of only the third
Quotation
Roy
$500 [6]
These Spanish islands were named for a breed of large dog Romans found there, not a yellow songbird
Canary Islands
Roy
$500 [11]
In the mid-'80s Barbara Bel Geddes left this series & Donna Reed stepped in briefly as Miss Ellie
Dallas
John
$500 [23]
Bobby Helms charted (several times) with this song that mentions "glidin' in a one-horse sleigh"
"Jingle Bell Rock"
Maureen
$500 [18]
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Treasury
John
DD $600 [25]
It turned the 46th state into the title of a musical
an exclamation point
Maureen

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AUTHORS NAME THE MOVIE HEDGEHOG HODGEPODGE JANES ADDICTION "R"RRRRR! A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME
$200 [1]
It wasn't until 7 years after publishing "Lord of the Flies" that he retired from teaching in England
William Golding
Maureen
$200 [6]
1937:"Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Roy
$200 [23]
Hedgehogs make themselves at home in flower beds, in compost heaps &, obviously under these
hedges
John
$200 [16]
Now in prime time, she was an original "Not Ready for Prime Time Player"
Jane Curtin
Maureen
$200 [11]
It's the creature from which hats like the one seen here were originally made:
Raccoon
John
$200 [21]
Around 405 A.D. this future patron saint was captured by pirates & sold as a slave in Ireland
Saint Patrick
Roy
$600 [3]
Mrs. Morel in "Sons and Lovers" is based in part on his own mom
D.H. Lawrence
Maureen
$400 [7]
1982:"God didn't make Rambo. I made him"
First Blood
$400 [27]
Folk belief has it that hedgehogs do this to sleeping cows
Drink their milk
Roy
$400 [17]
She was nominated for a 1993 Best Director Oscar
Jane Campion
Maureen
$400 [12]
A man with the head of a hawk crowned with a solar disk represents this ancient Egyptian sun god
Ra
Roy
$400 [22]
Together they wrote "The Pirates of Penzance" in 1879
Gilbert & Sullivan
Roy
$800 [4]
Let the trumpets sound! Bang "The Tin Drum"! He won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature
Gunter Grass
DD $600 [8]
1998:"I'll see you on the beach"
Saving Private Ryan
Roy
$1,000 [28]
The hedgehog genus Hemiechinus is notable for the length of these sensory appendages
ears
John Roy
$600 [18]
She's an Agatha Christie detective
Miss Jane Marple
$600 [13]
Frank Gorshin played him on the small screen, Jim Carrey on the big
The Riddler
Maureen
$600 [24]
The ruins of ancient Carthage lie just outside this capital city enriched by pirating in the 1600s & 1700s
Tunis
John Maureen
DD $1,000 [2]
In 1974 this Brit turned out another novel like clockwork, "The Clockwork Testament"
Anthony Burgess
Maureen
$800 [9]
1940:"Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there"
The Grapes of Wrath
Maureen
$800 [19]
Ronald Reagan's ex-wife
Jane Wyman
Maureen
$800 [14]
It's a stream of particles or waves emitted as the result of nuclear decay
Radiation
John
$800 [25]
This name for a swift pirate ship comes from the Latin cursus, meaning "plunder"
Corsair
John
$1,000 [5]
Barbara Vine is a pseudonym of this leading British mystery writer of today
Ruth Rendell
$1,000 [10]
1967:"We rob banks"
Bonnie and Clyde
Roy
$1,000 [20]
French director Roger Vadim was this American actress' first husband
Jane Fonda
John
$1,000 [15]
An 11-letter word meaning extreme conservative opponent of progress or liberalism
Reactionary
Maureen
$1,000 [26]
Celebrating his victory over the Barbary Pirates, this naval hero toasted "Our country, right or wrong!"
Stephen Decatur

Final Jeopardy!

NAME'S THE SAME

Name shared by a British film company & an American who made millions in oil & pharmaceuticals

Hammer (Hammer Films/Armand Hammer)

John "What is Du Pont?" — wagered $2,199
Roy "What is Getty?" — wagered $2,600
Maureen "What is Pinewood?" — wagered $100

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