Show #3736 2000-11-27 (taped 2000-10-03) Regular

Contestants

Scott Reed — a bartender from Grand Terrace, California

Jackie Kaufman — an attorney from Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Matt Myers — a network engineer originally from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $1,800 $3,400 $4,000 $1,900
2nd place: Forever Resorts Houseboat Trip in Northern California
$4,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jackie $1,200 $2,300 $6,000 $2,999
New champion: $2,999
$6,300
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Scott $700 $700 $4,500 $0
3rd place: Yahoo! Shopping Spree
$4,500
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SPACE EXPLORATION COLLECTIBLES U.S. CITY NICKNAMES BASEBALL'S GREATEST HITTERS MILK "EYE" SEE
$100 [19]
In February 1972 a Soviet spacecraft soft-landed here & then returned rock samples to the Earth
Moon
Scott
$100 [2]
A snowglobe inspired by this film features the Darling children tied to the mast near a hungry crocodile
Peter Pan
Matt
$100 [12]
"Baghdad by the Bay","Golden Gate City"
San Francisco
Scott
$100 [1]
From 1996 through 1999, he averaged 61.25 home runs per season
Mark McGwire
Jackie
$100 [17]
Milk's content of this may be 2%, 1% or as close to "Non" as they can get it
Fat
Matt
$100 [5]
"It is easier for a camel to go" through this "than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"
The eye of a needle
Scott
$200 [20]
In March 1986 5 spacecraft made fly-bys of this comet
Halley's Comet
Jackie
$200 [23]
(Hi, I'm Vanna White at Christian Dior in New York City) In 1997 Mattel celebrated the 50th anniversary of Dior's "New Look" with a "New Look" version of this doll
Barbie
Matt
$200 [13]
"The Disney City","The Very Heart of Florida"
Orlando
Jackie
$200 [3]
Only Babe Ruth & this former Braves outfielder finished their careers with over 2,000 RBIs
Hank Aaron
Matt
$200 [18]
Milk flash-heated to at least 161 degrees for 15 seconds is labeled this
Pasteurized
Scott
$200 [8]
A shocking revelation, or that mug of coffee when you first wake up
Eye opener
Matt
$300 [27]
On February 14, 1990, it took its final photo from 3.7 billion miles: of the sun & 6 planets, including the Earth
Voyager
Scott
$300 [24]
"The Man in Black" collector plate from the Franklin Mint was the first musical plate authorized by this country icon
Johnny Cash
Matt
$300 [14]
"The Witch City","The Witchcraft City"
Salem, Massachusetts
Jackie
$300 [4]
In 1998 this Cub was named the National League's MVP with a .308 average & 66 home runs
Sammy Sosa
Jackie
$300 [21]
3-letter term for a type of milk often banned
Raw milk
$300 [9]
This confidential expression is the title of a James Bond flick
For Your Eyes Only
Jackie
$400 [28]
This country's Nozomi, or "Hope", spacecraft is due to go into orbit around Mars in December 2003
Japan
Jackie
$400 [25]
To be authentic, a figurine such as the one seen here must bear the signature of this nun on whose art it was based
Hummel
$400 [15]
"The Gateway of the South","The Big Peach"
Atlanta
Matt
$400 [6]
In 1997 this Boston shortstop led the American League on hits with 209 & was named its Rookie of the Year
Nomar Garciaparra
Matt Jackie
$400 [22]
This term on milk labels often means it's enriched with vitamins A & D & protein-rich solids
Fortified
Scott
$400 [10]
It's the title of the song heard here:(hit for Survivor)
"Eye of the Tiger"
Jackie
$500 [30]
In 1958 Explorer I discovered these radiation bands surrounding the Earth
Van Allen Belts
DD $500 [26]
This crystal company's literary collection includes an Oscar Wilde bowl & a James Joyce vase
Waterford
Matt
$500 [16]
"The Crescent City","The Paris of America"
New Orleans
Jackie
$500 [7]
Over the past 50 years only Tony Gwynn & this K.C. Royals player had a .390 or better batting average for a season
George Brett
Matt
$500 [29]
Bovine somatotropin is one of these given to cows to increase their milk output
Hormone
Matt
$500 [11]
It's a Western name for what Hindus call the ajna-chakra, located between the eyebrows
Third eye
Scott

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS FRENCHMEN MTM PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS INSECT, ARACHNID OR CRUSTACEAN SWISS WATCHING FLORAL QUOTES
$200 [1]
While living in exile on the island of Guernsey, he published "Les Miserables"
Victor Hugo
Scott
$200 [6]
He starred on MTM shows as Dick Loudon & Bob Hartley
Bob Newhart
Scott
$200 [12]
In 1896 Woodrow Wilson published a book on this man who was president in 1796
George Washington
Matt Scott
$200 [11]
The spider crab
Crustacean
Matt
$200 [14]
On most menus you'll find rosti, a hash-brown potato dish, & this, melted cheese & wine for dipping
Fondue
Scott
$200 [27]
Edmund Spenser wrote, these are "Red and violets blue, and all the sweetest flowers, that in the forest grew"
Roses
Scott
$400 [2]
In 1957 he became director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Jacques Cousteau
Jackie
$400 [7]
He bonded with viewers as Remington Steele
Pierce Brosnan
Scott
$400 [13]
In a book by Nixon, the Alger Hiss case & Ike's heart attack were 2 of the "Six" these
Crises
Jackie
$400 [15]
The brown recluse
Arachnid
Scott
$400 [22]
In 1993 & 1999, like clockwork, NASA sent Swiss Claude Nicollier on missions to repair this, launched in 1990
Hubble Space Telescope
Matt
$400 [28]
British poet Philip Larkin once said, "Deprivation is for me what" these flowers "were for Wordsworth"
Daffodils
DD $500 [4]
Here's an IQ test: He was responsible for the first French psychology journal
Alfred Binet
Jackie
$600 [8]
The stories in this series may all have been figments of the imagination of Donald Westphall's son, Tommy
St. Elsewhere
$600 [19]
He wrote "A World Transformed" with his national security advisor Brent Scowcroft
George H.W. Bush
$600 [16]
The katydid
Insect
Scott
$600 [23]
The Kapellbrucke, the symbol of Lucerne, is wooden covered one of these
Bridge
$600 [26]
"In the beauty of" these "Christ was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me"
The lilies
$600 [3]
This "La Mer" composer once planned an opera based on "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Claude Debussy
Jackie
$800 [9]
Episodes of this show ended with the cat in the MTM logo dribbling a basketball
The White Shadow
Jackie
$800 [20]
He got "Doctrinaire" in "View of the Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States"
James Monroe
Matt
$800 [17]
The earwig
Insect
Scott
DD $800 [24]
The Swiss Embassy's website history of this food product begins in 1528 with Hernando Cortez
Chocolate
Matt
$800 [29]
"In Flanders Fields" they "blow between the crosses, row on row"
poppies
Matt
$1,000 [5]
In 1950 he adapted his novel "Les Enfants Terribles" for the screen
Jean Cocteau
$1,000 [10]
(Hi, I'm Tyler Christopher of "General Hospital") In 1984 as D.L. Brock he married Bobbie on "G.H.", in 1974 as Joe Gerard he married Rhoda on "Rhoda"
David Groh
Jackie
$1,000 [21]
This future president must have made Dad proud with 1804's "Letters on Silesia"
John Quincy Adams
Scott
$1,000 [18]
Krill
Crustacean
Matt
$1,000 [25]
Graduate of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who won the first Nobel Physics Prize
Wilhelm Roentgen

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

Used in the '40s for a sudden loss of power in a jet engine, Herbert Freudenberger applied it in 1974 to spent people

burnout

Matt "What is throttled down?" — wagered $2,100
Scott "What is coffee?" — wagered $4,500
Jackie "What is tired engine" — wagered $3,001

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