Show #3751 2000-12-18 (taped 2000-10-25) Regular

Contestants

Ben Merritt — a computer consultant from Trophy Club, Texas

Vicky Kaufman — an operations manager from Newington, Connecticut

John Draz — a culinary school instructor from Chicago, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $26,002)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $300 $1,000 $4,000 $100
2nd place: Trip to El Cid Resort, Mazatlan, Mexico
$3,700
12 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Vicky $2,100 $1,300 $1,500 $0
3rd place: Discovery Channel Store Gift Certificate
$3,500
15 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Ben $700 $2,900 $6,100 $8,001
New champion: $8,001
$6,100
18 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

ROYAL FEMALE NICKNAMES TV ACTORS & ROLES TRAVEL & TOURISM "I" LADS FOREWORDS BACKWORDS
$100 [2]
Prime Minister Tony Blair dubbed her "The People's Princess"
Princess Diana
John
$100 [8]
Once Tommy Mullaney on "L.A. Law", John Spencer now plays White House chief of staff Leo McGarry on this series
The West Wing
John
$100 [1]
The Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour is a highlight of this Asian city's Disneyland
Tokyo
Ben
$100 [13]
This punk rock hitmaker heard here has had numerous hits on both sides of the Atlantic
Billy Idol
John
$100 [23]
"Conrad begins (and ends) Marlow's journey... on the Thames, on the yawl, Nellie", says the foreword to this novel
Heart of Darkness
Vicky
$100 [17]
We'll look smart in these vehicles that returned to London in 1999
Trams (smart)
Vicky
$200 [4]
She was "The Untamed Heifer" & "The Virgin Queen"
Elizabeth I
Ben
$200 [9]
Barbra Streisand knows he played Lt. Col. Bill "Raider" Kelly on "Pensacola: Wings of Gold"
James Brolin
Ben
$200 [3]
The home of silk merchant Jim Thompson, who disappeared in 1967, is a tourist attraction in this Thai city
Bangkok
Ben
$200 [14]
Czar at 17, he was famous for extraordinary sadism & cruelty, even as a boy
Ivan the Terrible
Vicky
$200 [24]
Part 2 "is Lilliput in reverse, but...also offers some of" his "fiercest assaults upon the behavior of" his countrymen
Jonathan Swift
Vicky
$200 [19]
Ed leaves pools of water on the carpet when he comes in from sailing this boat
Sloop (pools)
Ben
$300 [5]
Mark Antony called her "The Queen of Queens"
Cleopatra
Vicky
$300 [10]
(Hi, I'm Wallace Langham) I played Don Kirshner in VH1's TV movie about this quartet who sang "Daydream Believer"
The Monkees
Vicky
$300 [27]
We're not stringing you along: this capital of the Czech Republic is famous for its puppet theatres
Prague
John
$300 [15]
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink! This man seen here starred on a classic British comedy show
Eric Idle
John
$300 [25]
She said that her husband Frank O'Connor was the fuel that kept her spirited while she wrote "The Fountainhead"
Ayn Rand
Ben
$300 [20]
You'd be naive to think you can make bottled water that's more popular than this
Evian (naive)
Ben
$400 [6]
The 19th century's "Widow of Windsor"
Queen Victoria
Vicky
$400 [11]
Teri Hatcher looked "shipshape" as one of the singing "mermaids" who jumped on board this cruisin' series in 1985
The Love Boat
Vicky
DD $500 [28]
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport serves this world capital
Nairobi, Kenya
John
$400 [16]
His is the first & longest book of the Bible's major prophets
Isaiah
Ben
$400 [26]
One edition calls this Darwin opus one of "the most readable and approachable" of revolutionary scientific works
The Origin of Species
John Vicky
$400 [21]
Aye, lass, I'll wed thee ere this has dried on the fields
Dew (wed)
Vicky
$500 [7]
"The Catholic" of 15th century Spain
Queen Isabella
$500 [12]
On "Saturday Night Live", he's famous for playing Craig the Cheerleader, Janet Reno & moi
Will Ferrell
Vicky
$500 [29]
Andrea Palladio's 1554 book on "The Antiquities of" this city was the standard guidebook for some 200 years
Rome
$500 [18]
This auto exec's autobiography is one of the bestselling nonfiction works in publishing history
Lee Iacocca
Ben
$500 [22]
You know so much about policy, you qualify as this
Wonk (know)
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE IN HISTORY CINEMATIC DICTIONARY IT'S OURS! BRITISH FASHION ANDY WARHOL THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M"
$200 [10]
After a 15-year stay in England, this proprietor of Pennsylvania returned to his colony in 1699
William Penn
Ben
$200 [1]
SFX is the standard abbreviation for these, from the rustling of trees to cannon fire
Sound effects
Vicky Ben
$200 [17]
Saint-Pierre & Miquelon
France
Ben
$200 [3]
Designer Vivienne Westwood ran a shop with Malcolm McLaren, who launched this Johnny Rotten band
The Sex Pistols
Vicky
$200 [23]
Because he had the same thing for lunch every day for 20 years, Andy Warhol painted these, beginning in 1962
Campbell's Soup cans
Ben
$200 [2]
Lerner & Loewe's "Lusty Month"(3)
May
Vicky
$400 [11]
This young man put his savings into a small Cleveland refinery in 1862 & eventually had an oil monopoly
John D. Rockefeller
Ben
$400 [5]
Term for the flow of a film, maintained by keeping details consistent throughout a scene
Continuity
Ben
$400 [18]
Montserrat
Great Britain (United Kingdom)
John
$400 [4]
Star designer John Galliano was born Juan Carlos Galliano in this British possession at the tip of Spain
Gibraltar
John
$400 [24]
Warhol went against his Capitalist tendencies with his portrait of this man, seen here
Mao Tse-tung
Vicky
$400 [6]
Patrick Dennis' "Auntie"(4)
Mame
John
$600 [12]
First Lady Helen Taft led a fund-raising drive for a memorial to this 1912 marine disaster
Sinking of the Titanic
Vicky
$600 [7]
Garland Jeffreys sang of having star-studded "dreams" of this size, like movie film
35mm
$600 [19]
Cook Islands
New Zealand
Ben
$600 [28]
Katharine Hamnett created the '80s T-shirt telling us to "choose" this
Life
$600 [25]
Andy's "15 minutes of fame" quote was once the motto of this magazine
Interview
Vicky
$600 [14]
It "Becomes Electra"(8)
Mourning
Vicky
$800 [13]
This Chiricahua Apache was a popular attraction at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis
Geronimo
DD $1,000 [8]
The inventors of this camera-stabilizing device won a special 1977 Oscar
Steadicam
John
$800 [20]
Madeira Islands
Portugal
John
$1,000 [27]
Warhol became the manager of this Lou Reed rock group in 1965 & produced their first album
Velvet Underground
John
$800 [15]
Colchian jilted by Jason(5)
Medea
Vicky
$1,000 [22]
In 1801 this onetime VP compiled "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice" still used in the U.S. Senate
Thomas Jefferson
John
$1,000 [9]
Near the end of the credits comes the "cutter" of this, the exposed but unfinished film
Negative cutter
$1,000 [21]
Northern Mariana Islands
USA
DD $2,000 [26]
Andy's loft on East 47th Street got this nickname from its former use & Andy's mass-production techniques
The Factory
Vicky
$1,000 [16]
Faust's fiendish foe(14)
Mephistopheles
Vicky Ben

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS LEGENDS

If Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak had gone one more game in 1941, this company would have given him a $10,000 contract

H.J. Heinz (Heinz 57 Varieties)

Vicky "What is Mr. Coffee?" — wagered $1,500
John "What is Mr. Coffee?" — wagered $3,900
Ben "What is Heinz?" — wagered $1,901

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