Show #3352 1999-03-16 Regular

Contestants

Lee Diveley — a geographic information systems analyst from Columbia, South Carolina

Betsy Mills — a homemaker from Monticello, Illinois

Robin McCreery — a claims representative from Coos Bay, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robin $2,600 $3,700 $6,500 $500
2nd place: Trip to Ireland, with airline service provided by Aer Lingus
$6,500
20 R, 2 W
Betsy $400 $1,400 $7,600 $2,199
New champion: $2,199
$8,200
24 R (including 2 DDs), 8 W (including 1 DD)
Lee $-800 $-200 $200 $1
3rd place: Pair of Jaguar Watches
$200
6 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

LIBRARIES '50s TV WHAT'S IN A NAME? ANIMAL GROUPS TROUBLE RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY
$100 [21]
It's the central library of the Roman Catholic Church
the Vatican Library
Betsy
$100 [16]
Before debuting in this series, Jerry Mathers had appeared in 2 Bob Hope movies
Leave it to Beaver
Betsy
$100 [4]
Meaning "settlement by a bridge", it's the first name of a man who settled Utah
Brigham
Robin Lee
$100 [7]
It's a "cumulus" word for an accumulation of gnats
Cloud
Robin
$100 [1]
1775's "Shot Heard Round the World" was shot at the battle of this town
Concord
Lee
$100 [23]
Its 3,400-square-mile metropolitan area extends over 8 administrative units known as parishes
New Orleans
Betsy
$200 [22]
Developer of the decimal classification system, he directed the New York State Library, 1889-1906
Melvil Dewey
Lee
$200 [17]
Word that completes the line sung by Jimmy Nelson "N-e-s-t-l-e-s, Nestle's makes the very best..."
Chocolate
Robin
$200 [9]
Using the meanings of their names, they become Farmer & Watchful Gershwin
Ira & George
Robin
$200 [8]
Just thinking about a "grist" of these insects gives me hives
Bees
Betsy
$200 [2]
Back in 1964 Surgeon General Luther L. Terry labeled this habit a "health hazard"
smoking
Robin
$200 [27]
The area between this city's Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers is called the Golden Triangle
Pittsburgh
Betsy
$300 [24]
Only 2 presidential libraries are not administered by the National Archives: Hayes' in Ohio & his in Yorba Linda, CA.
Richard Nixon
Betsy
$300 [18]
Dum de dum dum. This cop show won an Emmy as Best Mystery, Action or Adventure Program of 1952
Dragnet
Betsy
$300 [10]
Edgar means "rich spear" & this name, stifled a lot in the '70s, means "rich war"
Edith
Robin
$300 [13]
If a drift of these mammals drifts into your yard, don't cast pearls before them
swine (or pigs)
Robin Lee
$300 [3]
The Supreme Court held that blacks couldn't claim U.S. citizenship in the 1857 decision named for this man
Dred Scott
Betsy
$400 [29]
Northwest Airlines & The 3M Corp. are headquartered in suburbs of this capital on both banks of the Mississippi
St. Paul
Lee
$400 [25]
The life & career of this female senator from Maine is on display at a library in Skowhegan
Margaret Chase Smith
Robin
$400 [19]
In the 1950s this western was the top-rated series of the season 3 times
Gunsmoke
Betsy
$400 [11]
To explain it all, this name from a 1740s novel was made novel by Melissa Joan Hart
Clarissa
Robin
$400 [14]
A sedge is a group of these birds, perhaps the sandhill type seen here
cranes
Betsy
$400 [5]
In 1894 riots broke out during a railroad strike targeting this company
Pullman
DD $800 [28]
The Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition of 1905 brought 3 million visitors to this city on the Willamette River
Portland, Oregon
Betsy
$500 [26]
The Lilly Library at Indiana University has one of this man's 1,453 printings of the New Testament
Johannes Gutenberg
Robin
$500 [20]
A future Oscar winner for "Charly", he played Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers
Cliff Robertson
Betsy
$500 [12]
First name of actress Miles, this 4-letter feminine name is from the Russian for "faith"
Vera
Robin Betsy
$500 [15]
In the evening you might watch for a watch of these nocturnal avian singers
nightingales
Betsy Lee
$500 [6]
In 1797 3 French agents later known by these 3 letters asked U.S. trade representatives for a bribe
"X", "Y" & "Z"
Robin Betsy

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY FIVE GUYS NAMED JOE HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS I REALLY DIG YOU (UP) LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "M" RELIGION
$200 [1]
Of this country's hundreds of islands, Crete & Euboea are the 2 largest
Greece
Robin
$200 [16]
In 1914 he married Rose Fitzgerald, a daughter of Boston's mayor
Joseph Kennedy
Betsy
$200 [11]
George Kennedy won an Oscar in part for beating the heck out of Paul Newman in this movie
Cool Hand Luke
Betsy
$200 [21]
In 1997 a made-up war record helped get M. Larry Lawrence buried at this Virginia cemetery--briefly
Arlington National Cemetery
Robin
$200 [4]
Jo's older sister(3)
Meg
Robin
$800 [27]
Some images of this "Enlightened One" show a top-knot which symbolizes his supreme wisdom
Buddha
Betsy
$400 [2]
A 7-mile tunnel through Mont Blanc connects Chamonix, France to this country
Italy
Robin Betsy Lee
$400 [17]
In 1998, using his persona from "My Cousin Vinny", he cut the album "Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You"
Joe Pesci
Robin
$400 [12]
A brutal murder is solved in this 1967 Oscar winner
In the Heat of the Night
Robin Betsy
$400 [22]
Per his widow's wishes, this architect was moved from his native Wisconsin to Taliesin West in Arizona
Frank Lloyd Wright
Betsy
$400 [5]
Noted novelist Norman(6)
Mailer
Lee
$1,000 [26]
The beliefs of this religion appear in books like the "Lao-Tzu" & the "Chuang-Tzu"
Taoism
Betsy Lee
$600 [3]
A German valley renowned for its coal deposits is named for this tributary of the Rhine
the Ruhr
Robin Betsy
$600 [18]
He was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1989 & the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990
Joe Frazier
Lee
$600 [13]
Judith Anderson played Big Mama Pollitt, the matriarch of a greedy Southern family, in this film
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Betsy
$800 [24]
Carl Weiss was exhumed to investigate his alleged 1935 assassination of this former Louisiana gov.
Huey Long
Robin
$600 [8]
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, for example(8)
Mongoose
Betsy
$800 [6]
This river flows through Toledo, Spain on its westerly trip to the sea
Tagus
$800 [19]
He uses his muscle to oversee a $400 million health & fitness empire based in Woodland Hills, California
Joe Weider
Robin
DD $600 [14]
After "Body Heat" steamed up the screen, Lawrence Kasdan cooled down & directed this movie next
The Big Chill
Betsy
DD $1,000 [23]
Imre Nagy, this country's leader during the 1956 uprising, was reburied with honors in 1989
Hungary
Betsy
$800 [9]
Dastardly deed "in the Cathedral"(6)
Murder
Robin
$1,000 [7]
The name of this waterfall on the Brazil-Argentina border comes from a Guarani word for "great water"
Iguazu Falls
Betsy
$1,000 [20]
This Democrat from Delaware served as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995
Joe Biden
Betsy
$1,000 [15]
As Rev. Clayton Brooks, Dick Van Dyke led a townwide effort to quit smoking in this 1971 film
Cold Turkey
Betsy
$1,000 [25]
In 1991 this 12th president was exhumed to see if he'd been poisoned by pro-slavers
Zachary Taylor
Betsy
$1,000 [10]
Wilkie Collins' gem(9)
Moonstone
Betsy

Final Jeopardy!

SINGERS & THEIR MUSIC

6 of his albums landed on Billboard's Top Pop Catalog Chart for May 30, 1998, including 3 in the Top 10

Frank Sinatra

Lee "Who is Michael Jackson?" — wagered $199
Robin "Who is Garth Brooks?" — wagered $6,000
Betsy "Who is Garth Brooks?" — wagered $5,401

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