Show #3754 2000-12-21 (taped 2000-10-25) Regular

Contestants

Joe Maravillas — a software engineer from Richmond, California

Greg Sondern — an investment portfolio manager from San Francisco, California

Robin Jones — a technical editor and writer from Urbana, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robin $2,000 $2,500 $5,500 $5,000
2-day champion: $15,401
$5,400
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Greg $900 $2,500 $2,500 $2
2nd place: Trip to Palm Island Resort, the Grenadines
$4,500
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Joe $500 $500 $2,300 $1
3rd place: CompUSA Gift Certificate
$2,300
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE SILVER STATE HOMOPHONES IT'S A SEQUEL LET'S PLAY DOCTOR WISH YOU WERE HERE! AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
$100 [4]
Reportedly, this now booming Nevada city was once known to the railroad as Waterhole No. 25
Las Vegas
Joe
$100 [1]
A frothy French dessert, or Bullwinkle, for instance
mousse/moose
Joe
$100 [13]
The third "Star Wars" movie released (sixth in the lore)
Return of the Jedi
Joe
$100 [18]
What's called a break of this joint, common in the elderly, is actually a break in the top of the femur
the hip
Joe
$100 [25]
Dear Gary, California's a lot of fun. Today we visited this "Happiest Place on Earth"--wish you were here!
Disneyland
Greg
$100 [5]
Thisfruit is high in carbohydrates & rich in vitamin C
a banana
Robin Greg
$200 [8]
Flashing lights of this color are the universal sign of legal prostitution in Nevada's rural areas
red
Robin
$200 [2]
An artist's set of colors, or the roof of the mouth
palette/palate
Robin
$200 [14]
The second "Mad Max" movie was sometimes titled "Mad Max 2" & sometimes this
The Road Warrior
Robin Greg
$200 [19]
The PSA test, given yearly to men starting at around age 50, detects this type of cancer
prostate cancer
Robin
$200 [26]
Dear Harry, finally made it to this city. Saw the Van Gogh Museum & the Anne Frank House--wish you were here!
Amsterdam
Greg
$200 [9]
The ancient Greeks believed that the soul left the body after death in the form of this insect
a butterfly
Joe
$300 [22]
On Dec. 5, 1916 in Jarbidge Canyon, the last Nevada robbery of one of these conveyances took place
Stagecoach
Greg Joe
$300 [3]
Closing an envelope, or the overhead part of a room
sealing/ceiling
Greg
$300 [15]
The champ hit rock bottom yet again in this last of the "Rocky" sequels so far
Rocky V
Greg
$300 [20]
Tapping your chest to listen to your lungs is called this, also a section of an orchestra
percussion
Robin Joe
$300 [27]
Dear Teri, what a monumental day. Saw this tomb of Shah Jahan & his wife--wish you were here!
the Taj Mahal
Greg
$300 [10]
Thisbulb is related to the lily
an onion
Robin Greg
$400 [23]
This decade wasn't all depressing--gambling became legal in Nevada
1930s
Greg Joe
DD $500 [6]
A poem of praise, or was indebted to
ode/owed
Robin
$400 [16]
Robert Hays & Julie Hagerty returned for this 1982 comedy sequel
Airplane II
Greg
$400 [21]
"White coat syndrome" usually refers to the elevation of this measurement by anxiety in the doctor's presence
blood pressure
Joe
$400 [28]
Dear Shari, did some shopping in this famous Tokyo district. Reminds me of Fifth Avenue--wish you were here!
The Ginza
$400 [11]
About 4 million of these live in Canada, most are pets
cats
Robin
$500 [24]
In 1870 a Liberty silver dollar was the first coin struck with the mint mark "C.C." in this city
Carson City
Greg
$500 [7]
A portion, or a state of harmony
piece/peace
Greg
$500 [17]
"A Nightmare on Elm Street 3" was appropriately about these title "Warriors"
the Dream Warriors
Joe
$500 [12]
Kermit the Frog made a "Connection" with this phenomenon
a rainbow
Robin

Double Jeopardy! Round

GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING QUICK AS A FLASH ATTORNEY AUTHORS TELEVISION "CHAT" ROOM BARRE TENDERS
$200 [21]
c. 1028Falaise, Normandy
William the Conqueror
Joe
$200 [16]
This futuristic hero "In the Caverns of Mongo" was a 1937 novel based on the comic strip
Flash Gordon
Joe
$200 [6]
In 2000 he published "The Brethren" about 3 imprisoned ex-judges
John Grisham
$200 [1]
Amy Brenneman's real-life relationship with her mom inspired this TV legal drama
Judging Amy
Robin
$200 [8]
This port of southeastern Tennessee was a key city during the Civil War
Chattanooga
Greg
$400 [26]
He received an Oscar nomination for his role as a ballet superstar in "The Turning Point", his film debut
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Robin
$400 [22]
November 14, 1935Amman, Jordan
King Hussein
Greg
$400 [17]
It's the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid will ignite in the air
the flash point
Robin
$400 [7]
He published his first Perry Mason book in 1933, 22 years after he was admitted to the bar
Erle Stanley Gardner
$400 [2]
It gave us the catchphrase "The tribe has spoken"
Survivor
Joe
$400 [9]
Slang for an incessant talker, it sounds like a container for gossip
chatterbox
Joe
$600 [27]
Born Margaret Hookham, she was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956
Dame Margot Fonteyn
$800 [24]
June 4, 1738London
George III
Greg
$600 [18]
This term refers to sheet metal that's used to reinforce the joints & angles of a roof
flashing
Joe
DD $600 [13]
(Former Jeopardy!College Champion Tom Cubbage delivers the clue.) This Harvard law professor wrote the novel "The Advocate's Devil"
Alan Dershowitz
Robin
$600 [3]
In 2000 Mary Tyler Moore & this actress reunited for the TV movie "Mary and Rhoda"
Valerie Harper
Robin
$600 [10]
Following one's natural instincts to passionate love is the main thrust of this controversial D.H. Lawrence novel
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Greg
$800 [28]
In 1936 he staged the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" sequence for the Rodgers & Hart musical "On Your Toes"
George Balanchine
$1,000 [25]
February 11, 1920Cairo
King Farouk
$800 [19]
Raymond Larkin, the Fernwood Flasher, was the grandfather of this TV title character
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
$800 [14]
For his first mystery, "The Trials of Nikki Hill", this O.J. prosecutor collaborated with Dick Lochte
Christopher Darden
Robin
$800 [4]
(Hi, I'm Katie Wagner.) One of the highlights of hosting this "Live" music show for TBS was that I got to flirt with Tom Jones
Live from the House of Blues
$800 [11]
It forms about half the border between Alabama & Georgia
Chattahoochee River
DD $2,000 [23]
September 5, 1638Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Louis XIV
Greg
$1,000 [20]
This lead singer & his Continental Kids appeared as the prom band in "American Graffiti"
Flash Cadillac
Robin
$1,000 [15]
This attorney wrote about the prosecution of Charles Manson in "Helter Skelter"
Vincent Bugliosi
$1,000 [5]
Fran Drescher was "The Nanny" & she was the nanny of "Nanny and the Professor"
Juliet Mills
$1,000 [12]
It's a legal term for moveable property
chattel
Robin

Final Jeopardy!

PLANTS & FLOWERS

Named for a U.S. statesman, it was known in Central America as the "Flower of the Holy Night"

Poinsettia

Joe "What is ?" — wagered $2,299
Greg "What is the Roosevelt Rose" — wagered $2,498
Robin "What was ?" — wagered $500

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