Show #3521 1999-12-20 (taped 1999-10-27) Regular

Contestants

Bridget Bue — a high school teacher originally from Chelmsford, Massachusetts

Mike Gardner — a stock analyst from Denver, Colorado

Maureen Madison — a Ph.D. candidate from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,300)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Maureen	$2,000	$3,100	$8,100	$7,900 2-day champion: $13,200	$7,900 20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Mike	$400	$1,000	$2,600	$100 2nd place: Intel PC Camera Pro Pack & Compaq Presario Desktop PC	$2,600 11 R, 2 W
Bridget	$2,300	$3,900	$3,900	$0 3rd place: Yahoo! Shopping Spree	$4,900 19 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AREAS	BEFORE THEY WON OSCARS	FAMOUS AMERICANS	ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY	SIMPLE THINGS	DOUBLE TALK
$100 [21] A frigid state capital:3,248 square miles Juneau, Alaska Mike	$100 [1] Kevin Spacey played this evangelist in a TV movie (Bernadette Peters co-starred as Tammy Faye) Jim Bakker Bridget	$100 [2] This president disapproved of slavery but approved of his slave Sally Hemings Thomas Jefferson Maureen	$100 [26] Ratatosk, a messenger of Norse myth, was one of these animals & ran up & down Yggdrasil, a giant tree Squirrel	$100 [7] After meeting the pieman, this nursery rhyme character goes fishing for a whale Simple Simon Mike	$100 [16] You'll find this "big top" casino in Las Vegas Circus Circus Bridget
$200 [22] An Austin campus:over 410 acres University of Texas Mike Bridget	$200 [3] She starred as a rookie cop in the 1977 TV series "Dog and Cat" 20 years before "L.A. Confidential" Kim Basinger Maureen	$200 [9] On October 16, 1859 this man & his followers seized a U.S. arsenal in what is now West Virginia John Brown Bridget	$200 [27] If Romulus did a "Got Milk?" ad, he'd talk about this animal who suckled him & Remus Wolf Maureen Bridget	$200 [8] One of these ratios is simple if both its numerator & denominator are whole numbers Fraction Bridget	$200 [17] It was the nickname of designer Chanel Coco Maureen
$300 [23] An independent European country:109 acres Vatican City Maureen Mike	$400 [5] She played a teenage vamp on "As The World Turns" before "My Cousin Vinny" won her an Oscar Marisa Tomei Bridget	$300 [10] He founded a "City of Little Men" on December 12, 1917 in Omaha, Nebraska Father Flanagan Mike	$300 [28] In Incan myth, it was this South American camel relative that warned man about the impending flood Llama Bridget	$300 [13] The simple type of this is computed on only the principal of a loan Interest Maureen	$300 [18] This city of southeast Washington state was founded in 1856 at the site of an old Army fort Walla Walla Bridget
$400 [24] The region seen here:345,000 square miles(in northern Europe) Scandinavia Bridget	DD $500 [4] His "Glory" days were yet to come when he played Dr. Philip Chandler on "St. Elsewhere" Denzel Washington Maureen	$400 [11] "The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune", said this aviator in 1928 Amelia Earhart Bridget	$400 [29] The Zuni believe that when the kachina Paiyatemu played the flute, these insects fluttered into existence Butterflies Bridget	$400 [14] This grammatical unit can be simple, compound or complex Sentence Maureen	$400 [19] It's the third name in Idi Amin's full name Dada Maureen
$500 [25] An Asian desert:500,000 square miles Gobi Desert Maureen	$500 [6] In 1985 this future "Howards End" star was starring onstage in London in the musical "Me and My Girl" Emma Thompson Bridget	$500 [12] Later a Clinton cabinet member, he was the mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 1981 to 1989 Henry Cisneros Bridget	$500 [30] Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur Crete Bridget	$500 [15] This 1984 homage to film noir was the Coen Brothers' first film Blood Simple Maureen	$500 [20] This singer's only No. 1 hit in the U.S. was "To Sir With Love" in 1967 Lulu Maureen

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARIAS	LITERATURE	TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER	I'LL "C" TO IT	THE KNIGHT	B.C.
$200 [26] This Seville strumpet seduces her soldier by singing a seguidilla Carmen Maureen Bridget	$200 [8] This 1897 novel contains the line "At sunrise the Count could appear in his own form" Dracula Bridget	$200 [1] Laverne De Fazio Laverne & Shirley Mike	$200 [3] "Gay" or not, it's Spanish for gentleman Caballero Bridget	$200 [21] Organized combat between 2 mounted knights trying to unseat each other with blunted lances Jousting Mike	$200 [14] It was built before 2400 B.C. & rose to a height of 481 feet Great Pyramid of Cheops Maureen
$400 [27] Mephistopheles celebrates human greed in the "Song of the Golden Calf" from this Gounod opera "Faust" Maureen	$400 [16] This 14th century work is divided into 3 sections: "Inferno", "Purgatorio" & "Paradiso" The Divine Comedy Maureen	$400 [2] Agent 99 Get Smart Bridget	$400 [4] It's the droning organism seen here:(locust relative) Cicada Mike	$400 [22] Painted on his shield & surcoat, it was a knight's only recognizable feature when his face was covered Coat of arms Maureen Mike	$400 [15] It was the "gift" given to the Trojans by the "retreating" Greeks around 1240 B.C. Trojan Horse Maureen
$600 [28] He composed the following song sung by Siegmund: Richard Wagner Bridget	$600 [17] Dickens said this title character was "born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk" as a "posthumous child" David Copperfield Maureen	$600 [5] Martin Crane Frasier Bridget	$600 [11] The ability of blood to clot or become semisolid is known as this Coagulation Mike Bridget	$600 [23] A favorite of medieval knights, it's the armor-breaking weapon seen here: Mace Bridget	DD $600 [18] This religious figure began teaching his new doctrines in the Ganges River Valley around 528 B.C. Buddha Maureen
$800 [29] The title of this famed aria from "Rigoletto" is translated as "woman is fickle" "La Dona e Mobile"	DD $1,000 [9] This 1861 George Eliot novel is subtitled "The Weaver of Raveloe" Silas Marner Bridget	$800 [6] Erica Kane All My Children Mike	$800 [12] Used as an artificial diamond, it's made from the element symbolized Zr Cubic zirconia Mike Bridget	$800 [24] Serious military training as a knight began when a page became one of these in his teens Squire	$800 [19] In 60 B.C. the Triumvirate was formed by Crassus, Pompey & this man Julius Caesar Maureen
$1,000 [30] An aria in "H.M.S. Pinafore" declares, "I'm called Little" this, "though I could never tell why" Buttercup	$1,000 [10] At the beginning of Orwell's "Animal Farm", Major Snowball & Napoleon are pigs who live on this farm Manor Farm	$1,000 [7] Carlton the Doorman Rhoda Maureen	$1,000 [13] According to yoga philosophy, they are the "wheels" of spiritual energy in the human body Chakras	$1,000 [25] From French for "to compose", it's the name of the poet-musicians who sang of the adventures of heroic knights Troubadours Mike	$1,000 [20] This "father" began his influential "history" around 443 B.C. Herodotus

Final Jeopardy!

POLITICIANS

This politician adopted his last name from a southern California beach & surfing community

Governor Jesse Ventura

Mike "Who is Malibu?" — wagered $2,500

Bridget "Who is Malibu" — wagered $3,900

Maureen "Who is Venice?" — wagered $200

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