Show #3357 1999-03-23 Regular

Contestants

Robin LeMaster — a graduate student from Laguna Beach, California

Eric Brown — an engineering student from Blacksburg, Virginia

Jeff Grimes — a history teacher from Paris, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $8,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $600 $1,000 $6,700 $1,100
3rd place: pair of Jaguar watches
$5,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Eric $1,100 $1,600 $3,800 $1,101
2nd place: a trip to Camino Real Zaashila Hotel, Huatulco, Mexico
$3,800
17 R, 3 W
Robin $500 $3,800 $5,600 $1,300
New champion: $1,300
$5,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CITIZENSHIP TEST NAME THE MUSICAL INTERNATIONAL CUISINE IN OTHER WORDS... CELEBRITIES DON'T LISTEN TO THEM!
$100 [2]
The stars on the U.S. flag represent these
the 50 states
Eric
$100 [1]
King Arthur, Merlin, Morgan Le Fey
Camelot
Eric
$100 [3]
Gazpacho, a soup often flavored with garlic, was created in this country
Spain
Eric
$100 [6]
Simple, like plunging from one felled tree trunk
as easy as falling off a log
Robin
$100 [7]
Of Kukla, Fran or Ollie, the nickname preferred by the celebrity seen here
Ollie (Oliver North)
Eric
$100 [13]
Rejecting this band in 1962, Decca Records said, "We don't like their sound & guitar music is on the way out"
The Beatles
Eric
$200 [4]
It's how the president rejects legislation passed by Congress
veto
Eric
$200 [12]
Nancy, Workhouse Boys, Fagin's Gang
Oliver!
Eric
$200 [14]
Jambonneaux doesn't mean beautiful jam; it's a fancy French word for this animal's knuckles
pig's knuckles
Eric
$200 [5]
Resemble a feline who ingested a yellow bird
look like the cat that swallowed the canary
Jeff Eric
$200 [8]
Coy ishisreal first name, but he's hardly coy: his real-life high school voted him "Biggest Flirt"
Luke Perry
Eric
$200 [20]
An 1876 Western Union internal memo said this device has "many shortcomings" & "is in here ntly of no value to us"
telephone
Jeff Eric
$300 [9]
Before Al Gore, he was the last president of the Senate
Dan Quayle
Jeff
DD $200 [22]
Rabbi, Fruma-Sarah, Grandma Tzeitel
Fiddler on the Roof
Robin
$300 [18]
This nutritious tissue found in bones can be made into balls that the Germans call markklosschen
marrow
Robin
$300 [17]
An ancient alma mater attempt
the old college try
Eric
$300 [15]
It's the full first name of the star seen here; she shares it with another comedienne/talk show host
Roseann
Robin
$300 [25]
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" asked one of these Hollywood "Brothers" in 1927
the Warner Brothers
Jeff Robin
$400 [10]
Title given most of the people in the president's Cabinet
Secretary
Robin
$300 [21]
Magaldi, Peron's mistress, People of Argentina
Evita
Robin
$400 [24]
In India ghee, a semi-fluid butter, is often made from the milk of this animal
water buffalo
Jeff
$400 [28]
Beam from ear to ear, during an appearance before a clandestine Kodak
"Smile! You're on Candid Camera! "
Robin
$400 [16]
It was the original first name of the actor seen here, & of his famous father
Lloyd
Eric
$400 [26]
In 1929 a Yale economics professor said these "have reached... a permanently high plateau"
stocks
Jeff
$500 [11]
Prior to 1913 senators were chosen by these bodies, not the voters
state legislatures
Jeff
$500 [23]
Minnie Fay, Waiters, Horace Vandergelder
Hello, Dolly!
$500 [30]
Some Canadians cook this reindeer relative whose name is from the Algonquin for "pawer"
caribou
Robin
$500 [29]
Uncurbed kissers scuttle scows
loose lips sink ships
Robin
$500 [19]
It's the name the astronaut seenheregoes by; his real first name is Edwin
"Buzz" Aldrin
Robin
$500 [27]
In 1899 Charles Duell, the head of this U.S. "Office" said, "Everything that can be invented has been invented"
the U.S. Patent Office
Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GOVERNORS MUSEUMS DOWN WITH THE SHIP SPECIAL FORCES THE KING "I"
$200 [10]
Now New York's governor, he was once Peekskill's youngest mayor ever
George Pataki
Eric
$200 [11]
A Hall of Fame in Waco tells the story of this law enforcement agency via a 20-minute slide show
Texas Rangers
Jeff
$200 [16]
On Columbus' first voyage, this flagship was wrecked while a cabin boy was at the helm
Santa Maria
Jeff
$200 [3]
The Army initially refused to authorize these hats now synonymous with U.S. Special Forces
Green Berets
Jeff
$200 [1]
This other musical icon called Elvis "deplorable" in the 1950s & "A tremendous asset to the business" after his death
Frank Sinatra
Jeff
$200 [5]
Blow up a balloon or a beach ball
inflate
Jeff
$400 [12]
Bob, a member of this best-known Ohio political family, won the governorship in 1998
Taft
Jeff
$400 [23]
This Amsterdam museum was first called the Great Royal Museum
the Rijksmuseum
$400 [17]
After this captain began to fight, he won the Serapis but lost his own ship, the Bonhomme Richard
John Paul Jones
$400 [26]
"The Legion is our Fatherland" is a motto of this specialized overseas corps
the French Foreign Legion
Jeff
$400 [2]
The title of this Elvis boxing movie includes the name of a chaste Round Tabler
Kid Galahad
Eric
$400 [8]
In geometry, it's the term for a triangle with 2 equal sides
isosceles
Eric
$600 [13]
Nickname of Joseph Graham Davis Jr., elected California's governor in 1998
Gray
Robin
$600 [24]
A hut from this admiral's Antarctic expedition is on display at the Navy Museum in Washington, D.C.
Richard Byrd
Jeff
DD $500 [22]
(Alex: I'm at the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit at the World Trade Center, Boston.) A megaphone like this one might have been used during the sinking by this captain to shout commands
Captain Edward Smith
Jeff
$600 [27]
The GSG 9, or Grenzschutz-Gruppe 9, is an elite anti-terrorist unit from this country
Germany
Robin
$600 [4]
Any way you spell it, this name was Elvis' middle name
Aaron
Robin
$600 [9]
These lizards are the largest in the Americas
iguanas
Eric
$800 [18]
In 1995 this state's voters went bananas for Mike Foster, who succeeded 4-termer Edwin Edwards
Louisiana
Jeff
$800 [25]
The Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson has a replica of this 1903 Wright Brothers airplane
the Flyer
$600 [20]
In 1997 one of Benedict Arnold's gunboats was found on the floor of this Vermont-New York lake
Lake Champlain
Jeff
$800 [28]
This U.S. Navy Special Force takes its name from its 3 areas of operation
Navy SEALs (Sea, Air & Land)
Eric
$800 [6]
An illegal Dutch immigrant, this man who was Elvis' manager was once the Tampa, Florida dogcatcher
Colonel Tom Parker
Jeff
$800 [14]
It's the scientific study of fish
ichthyology
Jeff Eric
$1,000 [19]
In 1997 he quit as Massachusetts governor only to be denied the ambassadorship to Mexico
William Weld
$1,000 [30]
The Museo Stradivariano in this Italian city exhibits the plans & models Stradivarius used for his violins
Cremona
Robin
$800 [21]
This book by Sebastian Junger details the loss of a fishing boat, the Andrea Gail, to bad weather
The Perfect Storm
$1,000 [29]
"By way of deception, thou shalt do war" is the motto of this agency that captured Eichmann in Argentina
the Mossad (from Israel)
Eric
DD $2,400 [7]
In 1973 viewers all over the world enjoyed Elvis' live TV special broadcast by satellite from this U.S. state
Hawaii
Jeff
$1,000 [15]
Once the capital of the Picts, today it's the capital of the Scottish Highlands
Inverness
Robin

Final Jeopardy!

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

A 1993 anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction is titled this character "is Dead"

Charlie Chan

Eric "Who is Suzie Wong?" — wagered $2,699
Robin "Who is Elvis?" — wagered $4,300
Jeff "Who is Mao?" — wagered $5,600

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