Show #3739 2000-11-30 (taped 2000-10-03) Regular

Contestants

Seana Rasco — a sign language scheduler from Silver Spring, Maryland

Pat Grady — a computer analyst from Palatine, Illinois

Tim Morton — a military analyst from Stevensville, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,099)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tim $-300 $1,600 $1,800 $3,599
2nd place: Trip to Wyndham Morgan Bay Resort, St. Lucia, West Indies
$1,800
10 R, 3 W
Pat $900 $2,800 $14,400 $8,800
New champion: $8,800
$11,400
30 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Seana $300 $-300 $2,700 $700
3rd place: TicketsNow.com Gift Certificate
$2,700
8 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

DALLAS BLOSSOM FAMILY TIES CHEERS GOLDEN GIRLS THE "A"-TEAM
$100 [1]
One of Dallas' oldest, this university was founded by the United Methodist Church in 1911
SMU (Southern Methodist University)
Tim
$100 [21]
Showy flowers "betray" this tree, named for the man who supposedly hanged himself on one
Judas tree
$100 [7]
An "Insider" told us New Zealand cricket greats Jeff & Martin Crowe are cousins of this actor
Russell Crowe
Pat
$100 [12]
Tequila & lime juice go into this cocktail that's served in a salt-rimmed glass
Margarita
Pat
$100 [22]
Sonja Henie won a 3rd straight gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics, held, like the '36 summer games, in this country
Germany
Tim
$100 [6]
This Greek defined a friend as "A single soul dwelling in two bodies"
Aristotle
Pat Seana
$200 [2]
In February 2000 this great NFL coach was laid to rest at a Dallas cemetery
Tom Landry
Tim
$200 [27]
Change 1 letter in the name of Blondie's husband to get this flowering tree seen here:
Dogwood (from Dagwood)
Pat
$200 [8]
She's Warren Beatty's big sister
Shirley MacLaine
Pat
$200 [13]
Equal parts of champagne & this juice make up a mimosa
Orange juice
Pat
$200 [23]
In 2000 this sprinter who was going for 5 golds finished with a respectable 3, plus 2 bronzes
Marion Jones
Pat
$200 [15]
Both this country & the Rio de la Plata, its major river estuary, were named for silver
Argentina
Tim
$300 [3]
This Dallas landmark is infamous as the last place to employ Lee Harvey Oswald
Texas School Book Depository
Tim Pat
$300 [28]
In a classic song, "I'll be with you in" this "blossom time"--that'd be late spring
Apple blossom time
Tim
$300 [9]
Last name of actress Olympia, & her politician cousin Michael, whom she campaigned for in 1988
Dukakis
Pat
$300 [14]
It's what a martini is called when the olive is replaced by a pearl onion
Gibson
Tim Pat Seana
$300 [24]
The "Heptathlon Cat", seen here; she came out of retirement in 2000
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Pat
$300 [16]
Sometimes junk from the attic turns out to be worth a fortune on this show, PBS' top-rated series
Antiques Roadshow
Pat
$400 [4]
This Mexican-American golfer born in Dallas Dec. 1, 1939 won the U.S., British & Canadian Opens in 1971
Lee Trevino
Pat Seana
$400 [29]
Trees grown for their blossoms rather than their fruit are usually called this synonym of "decorative"
Ornamental
Tim
$500 [11]
Cuban hero Jose Marti was the grandfather of this actor who played the Joker on TV's "Batman"
Cesar Romero
Pat
$400 [19]
Swing by southeast Asia for this cocktail; cherry-flavored brandy, gin, lemon, powdered sugar & carbonated water
Singapore sling
Tim
$400 [25]
She paired with Sergei Grinkov to win figure skating gold in 1988 & 1994
Ekaterina Gordeeva
Pat
$400 [17]
On March 25, 1972 this group's song "A Horse With No Name" began a 3-week stay at the top of the pop charts
America
Seana
$500 [5]
TXN on the New York Stock Exchange, this Dallas electronics firm employs over 38,000 people worldwide
Texas Instruments
Seana
$500 [30]
Dumas wrote about a courtesan who always wore this flower, perhaps the Japonica variety
Camellia
DD $1,000 [10]
She's Virginia senator Charles Robb's famous mother-in-law
Lady Bird Johnson
Pat
$500 [20]
This almond-flavored liqueur & creme de cacao are ingredients of a silver cloud cocktail
Amaretto
Pat
$500 [26]
Last name of unrelated tennis players Gigi & Mary Joe, 1992 doubles gold medalists
Fernandez
Seana
$500 [18]
After Brezhnev's death in 1982, he became the general secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee
Yuri Andropov
Tim Seana

Double Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL WAR LITERATURE THE MOVIES MAGAZINES HEY MR. WILSON! SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER
$200 [1]
MacKinley Kantor's 1956 novel takes place in this notorious prison
Andersonville
Tim
$200 [3]
This simian-themed film series was released on DVD in 2000 in a boxed set subtitled "The Evolution"
Planet of the Apes
Tim
$200 [11]
She was on the cover of the premiere issue of O Magazine (it is her magazine, after all)
Oprah Winfrey
Pat
$200 [16]
In June 2000 this Beach Boy surfed his way into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame
Brian Wilson
Tim Pat
$200 [21]
On stage, he says "Abopbopaloomop", right before he says "My kingdom for a horse"
Little Richard III
Pat
$400 [2]
The last line of this novel is "After all, tomorrow is another day."
"Gone With The Wind"
Pat
$400 [5]
(Hello, I'm Greg Proops) I provided several voices, including that of a harlequin dragon, for this animated Tim Burton film, a holiday classic
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pat
$400 [12]
In "The Big Chill" Jeff Goldblum played a reporter for this weekly
People Magazine
Pat
$400 [17]
On '70s TV he often exclaimed, "The Devil made me do it!"
Flip Wilson
Pat
$400 [22]
A former 10,000 Maniacs lead singer, she owes Shylock a pound of flesh
Natalie Merchant of Venice
Seana
$600 [4]
According to the title of an Allan Gurganus novel, Lucy Marsden, the "Oldest Living" one of these, "Tells All"
Confederate widow
Pat
$600 [6]
Graying playboy Richard Gere falls for wispy waif Winona Ryder in this 2000 tearjerker
Autumn in New York
Pat
$600 [13]
Her name precedes the word "Weddings" in the name of a quarterly magazine & "Living" in a monthly
Martha Stewart
Pat
$800 [19]
This singing drummer is best remembered for playing Sam the piano man in "Casablanca"
Dooley Wilson
$600 [23]
Song standard heard here if performed by Valentine & Proteus, a duo from a town in Italy:
Tea for Two Gentlemen of Verona
Pat Seana
$800 [9]
In Thomas Dyja's 1997 novel "Play for A Kingdom", soldiers from both sides take a break to play this sport
Baseball
Seana
$800 [7]
Because of a new 2000 documentary, all "eyes" are once again on this woman, seen here:
Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner
Pat Seana
$800 [14]
This Conde Nast "Digest" takes you to the fabulous homes of the rich & famous
Architectural Digest
$1,000 [20]
Many of his plays, including "Joe Turner's Come & Gone", are set in Pittsburgh, where he was born
August Wilson
$800 [24]
A Roman statesman desires the ear of a female martial artist from a blaxploitation film
Antony and Cleopatra Jones
Pat
$1,000 [10]
This verse narrative of the Civil War won Stephen Vincent Benet a Pulitzer Prize
"John Brown's Body"
Seana
$1,000 [8]
Thandie Newton played the mysterious title role in this 1998 film based on a Toni Morrison novel
Beloved
Seana
DD $3,200 [15]
John H. Johnson founded Ebony in 1945, Tan in 1950 & this magazine in 1951
Jet
Pat
DD $2,400 [18]
Dressed in formal university robes, he's the president of Princeton seen here in 1903:
Woodrow Wilson
Pat
$1,000 [25]
Hero of Agincourt who goes solo on a date with 2 other couples
Henry V Wheel
Pat

Final Jeopardy!

CONTEMPORARY AMERICANS

This software billionaire, Bill Gates' rival, got his last name from his family's port of entry into the U.S.

Larry Ellison

Tim "Who is Ellison?" — wagered $1,799
Seana "Who is Steve Jobs?" — wagered $2,000
Pat "Who is Steve Jobs?" — wagered $5,600

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