Show #3346 1999-03-08 Regular

Contestants

Dave Hampton — a student from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Laura Bowen — an upper-school history teacher from Wilmington, North Carolina

Nathan Childs — a reporter from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Nathan $1,000 $1,300 $3,600 $6,900
2nd place: Trip to Hotel Melia Victoria, Palma de Majorca, Spain
$2,700
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Laura $300 $-300 $1,500 $500
3rd place: Coleman Camping Equipment
$2,000
7 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Dave $600 $1,000 $4,100 $7,300
New champion: $7,300
$3,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 7 W

Jeopardy! Round

1991 COMMON BONDS CLASSIC MUSICALS TO A "T" LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
$100 [17]
With the 35-pound "Empathy Belly" in the news in 1991, men could experience the feeling of this
Pregnancy
Nathan
$100 [1]
Corn, cowards, business phone directory pages
Things that are yellow
Laura
$100 [4]
In other words, this musical would be "The 46th State!"
"Oklahoma!"
Dave
$100 [9]
The kind of appendages found in the title of a Shelley Winters film about a giant octopus
Tentacles
Laura
$100 [14]
Noted residents of this type of little house include a young Abraham Lincoln & Tom, a slave in literature
Log cabin
Laura
$400 [26]
A pioneer wagon with a sail-like top, or a literary magazine at the University of Nebraska
Schooner
Laura
$200 [18]
The largest oil spill ever occured during this war (it was on purpose)
The Persian Gulf War
Dave
$200 [2]
Elephants, autos, trees
things that have trunks
Nathan Dave
$200 [5]
Nell Carter played the orphan-hating Miss Hannigan in a 1997 revival of this musical
"Annie"
Dave
$200 [10]
Name shared by a European region famous for vampires & a Kentucky university that isn't
Transylvania
Nathan
$200 [15]
This term refers to the dwellings of farm workers under the feudal system; Anne Hathaway's is in Shottery
cottage
Dave
$500 [25]
The bird called the "prairie" this is really a type of grouse
Prairie chicken
$300 [19]
In September 1991 Macedonians voted for independence from this country
Yugoslavia
Nathan Laura Dave
$300 [3]
Helicopters, lumberjacks, teeth
choppers
Dave
$300 [6]
It's the modern musical classic that features the song heard here
"Phantom of the Opera" (with Michael Crawford)
Dave
$300 [11]
This cowboy hat could hold a lot of liquor, even if its wearer couldn't
Ten-gallon hat
Dave
$400 [24]
The word for this little house is from Canadian French; a "town" of them is a poor or depressed area
Shanty
DD $500 [20]
The restoration of this Roman landmark was finished in 1991; many of the statues had been chipped by coins
the Trevi Fountain
Laura
$400 [16]
Wilbur, Jerusalem, hitching
Posts
$400 [7]
Joey Heatherton was 15 going on 16, not 16 going on 17, when she understudied the role of Liesl in this musical
"The Sound of Music"
Nathan
$400 [12]
"Furniture" term for wine that contains not more than 14 percent alcohol & is usually served with food
table wine
Nathan
$500 [23]
It can be a herdsman's little house in the Swiss Alps, or a ski lodge built in that style
Chalet
$500 [21]
8 people in Arizona were sealed into this in September 1991, hoping to live inside it for 2 years
Biosphere
Nathan
$500 [22]
Volapuk, Interlingua, Esperanto
Artificial languages
Dave
$500 [8]
In 1994, at the age of 73, Carol Channing took off on a 30th anniversary tour of this musical
"Hello, Dolly!"
Nathan
$500 [13]
Lautrec could have told you it was the Visigoths' capital from 419 to 507
Toulouse
Nathan

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORING AFRICA FILM BIOGRAPHIES I HAVEN'T READ POE, BUT... A FEW GOOD DOGS TIME SAY CHEESE!
$200 [23]
In the late 1790s Friedrich Hornemann became the first modern European to cross this desert
Sahara
Nathan
$200 [3]
"Rasputin and the Empress" was the only joint film appearance of siblings Lionel, Ethel & John of this family
Barrymore
Nathan
$200 [8]
I know, it's a poem about the inventor of the telephone & his family
"The Bells"
Dave
$200 [1]
8 generations of male collies have played this legendary film & TV female
Lassie
Dave
$200 [13]
In most cases, if a year can be divided by this number, it'll be a leap year
4
Nathan
$200 [18]
In this Neil Simon play, Oscar tells Murray that the green sandwiches are "either very new cheese or very old meat"
"The Odd Couple"
Dave
$400 [24]
Stanley wanted him to return to England, but he decided to keep searching for the Nile's source
Dr. David Livingstone
Laura
$400 [4]
"Lust for Life", starring Kirk Douglas, was based on Irving Stone's book about this Dutch artist
Vincent Van Gogh
Dave
$400 [9]
Sure, it's a tale about a peach stone & a clock
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
$400 [2]
This fictional dog is based on one named Spike that was Charles Schulz' childhood pet
Snoopy
Dave
$400 [14]
Nothing in the sky has a cycle of this duration; it came from the Jews observing a day of rest
a week
Dave
$400 [19]
Novelist Richard Condon said that cheese is "the adult form of" this beverage
milk
Nathan Laura
$600 [25]
On Christmas Day, 1497 this Portuguese navigator sighted & named Natal in South Africa
Vasco da Gama
Dave
$600 [5]
Nightclub comic played by Dustin Hoffman in a 1974 biopic
Lenny Bruce
Dave
$600 [10]
In this story an earthquake takes down a Broadway theater... right?
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
Dave
$600 [20]
Rescued from an animal shelter, this shaggy hero has starred in 4 movies including "Oh, Heavenly Dog!"
Benji
Nathan
$800 [16]
A 1945 Sartre novel set in 1938, or a nickname for the 18th century
The Age of Reason
Dave
$800 [26]
John Hanning Speke accompanied him twice on explorations into Africa's interior, reaching Lake Tanganyika
Sir Richard Burton
Nathan Dave
$1,000 [7]
Among the film portrayals of Beethoven are Ewald Balser's in 1949's "Eroica" & Gary Oldman's in this 1994 film
Immortal Beloved
Dave
$800 [11]
In this story, it's the woman's magazine Poe "found in a bottle"
"MS. Found in a Bottle"
$800 [21]
This German Shepherd star of films like "Where the North Begins" could scale walls
Rin Tin Tin
Nathan
$1,000 [17]
Called "time's arrow", it's a measure of disorder in a system
Entropy
$1,000 [27]
The first European to round Africa's southern tip, he found Cape Agulhas, Africa's southernmost point
Bartolomeu Dias
Laura
DD $1,300 [6]
James Mason portrayed this German in both "The Desert Fox" & "The Desert Rats"
Erwin Rommel
Dave
$1,000 [12]
It's a valentine that contains the story of a Swiss archer
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
$1,000 [22]
A 1961 Disney classic was based on the true story of this Skye Terrier's 14-year vigil at his master's grave
Greyfriars Bobby
DD $1,500 [15]
(Hi, I'm Vanessa Marcil) It's the length of my stay on "General Hospital", or a senator's term
6 years
Nathan

Final Jeopardy!

SHOW BIZ

In 1997 this singer & her husband opened a restaurant at Disney World called Bongo's Cuban Cafe

Gloria Estefan

Laura "Who is Ani Scuteri?" — wagered $1,000
Nathan "Who is Gloria Estefan" — wagered $3,300
Dave "Who is Gloria Estefan" — wagered $3,200

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