Show #3369 1999-04-08 Regular

Contestants

Bill Jacobs — a doctor from Wellington, Florida

Lynn McAleece — a program buyer originally from Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Mary Katz — a lawyer from Macon, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mary $800 $1,300 $3,800 $1,800
3rd place: Daewoo Entertainment Package
$4,300
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Lynn $2,300 $2,700 $5,700 $3,800
2nd place: Trip to Regal Kowloon Hotel, Hong Kong
$5,700
19 R, 2 W
Bill $1,100 $2,000 $8,800 $6,195
New champion: $6,195
$9,100
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

POP MUSIC U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS CHARLES DARWIN "RED", "WHITE" BLUE & THE GRAY REGIS PHILBIN'S NY
$100 [3]
1969's Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year was this "King of Rock & Roll"
Elvis Presley
Bill
$100 [26]
1968
Richard Nixon
Mary
$100 [1]
Charles & this American president were born on the same day, February 12, 1809; Charles lived much longer
Abraham Lincoln
Bill
$100 [11]
You'll find it at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
the White House
Lynn
$100 [19]
Daniel Hough, the Civil War's first fatality, died not in battle but in an accident at this fort
Fort Sumter
Mary
$100 [16]
I'm at Gray's Papaya, a stand that advertises hot dogs tastier than this cut of steak with a French name
filet mignon
Lynn
$200 [4]
This band with an "Appetite for Destruction" is known as G N' R
Guns N' Roses
Lynn
$200 [27]
1960
John F. Kennedy
Lynn
$200 [2]
Young Charles had John Edmonstone teach him this art whose motto may be "Get Stuffed"
taxidermy
Lynn
$200 [12]
When waved in the air, it's a universal sign of surrender
white flag
Lynn
$200 [20]
The siege of Vicksburg in 1863 gave the Union control of this river
Mississippi River
Lynn
$200 [17]
Have I got a deal for you! Name this engineering triumph of the 19th century
Brooklyn Bridge
Bill
$300 [5]
This "Fly" group's latest CD "14:59" plays on their so-called 15 minutes of fame
Sugar Ray
$300 [28]
1944
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lynn
$300 [8]
It was Darwin's favorite professor who recommended him for the naturalist post aboard this ship
the HMS Beagle
Mary
$300 [13]
With possible political aspirations, Elizabeth Dole resigned as head of this in January 1999
American Red Cross
Lynn
$300 [23]
Less than a month after graduating last in his class from West Point, he made his first stand at Bull Run
George Custer
Lynn Bill
$300 [18]
This home for our furry & feathered friends is named for the borough where I grew up
The Bronx Zoo
Mary
$400 [6]
When INXS went home, they went to this country
Australia
Lynn
$400 [29]
1976
Jimmy Carter
Lynn
$400 [9]
A Galapagos governor told Darwin he could look at one of these giant creatures & identify its island
a turtle (or a tortoise)
Lynn
$400 [14]
St. Basil's Cathedral stands at one end of it
Red Square
Bill
DD $500 [24]
Robert E. Lee lost nearly a quarter of his troops in this bloody Maryland battle of 1862
Antietam (or Sharpsburg)
Bill
$400 [21]
Theatergoers know that Times Square is formed by the intersection of 7th Avenue & this street
Broadway
Bill
$500 [7]
Before recording their own songs in 1969, he & Bernie Taupin wrote for other artists
Elton John
Mary
$500 [30]
1808
James Madison
Bill
$500 [10]
The grandfather of this "Brave New World" author was known as "Darwin's Bulldog"
Aldous Huxley
Lynn
$500 [15]
3-time Super Bowl champs, they won in 1983, 1988 & 1992
Washington Redskins
Bill
$500 [25]
Though relieved as Union Army chief in March 1862, he continued to lead the Army of the Potomac until November
George McClellan
Lynn Bill
$500 [22]
This man hit a harmless single here (Yankee Stadium) on May 15, 1941 & he wasn't held hitless in a game until July 17
Joe DiMaggio
Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 1930s MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES MEDICAL ABBREV. BRIT LIT VANS MINIVANS
$200 [10]
A 6-day fast by this man in 1932 changed the way the untouchables in India were treated
Mohandas Gandhi
Bill
$200 [26]
Jean Marsh of "Upstairs/Downstairs" played Antony's wife Octavia in this Taylor-&-Burton epic
Cleopatra
Bill
$200 [2]
It can save someone's life:CPR
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Bill
$200 [1]
She dedicated her book "The Mirror Crack'd" to Margaret Rutherford, who played Miss Marple in several films
Agatha Christie
Lynn
$200 [16]
Columnist Abigail, who opposes smoking, or president Martin, who opposed the annexation of Texas
Van Buren
Lynn
$200 [21]
In the words of The New York Times, the minivan "dethroned" this "as the preferred utility vehicle of American families"
the station wagon
Bill
$400 [11]
The first factory to make these cars was dedicated in Wolfsburg, Germany May 26, 1938
Volkswagen
Mary
$400 [27]
He wasn't an Oscar winner yet when his uncle Francis Ford Coppola directed him in "Rumble Fish" in 1983
Nicolas Cage
Lynn
$400 [3]
A type of managed care plan:HMO
Health maintenance organization
Mary
$400 [4]
When this heroine shrinks, she falls into a pool of tears she'd shed when she was 9 feet tall
Alice in Wonderland
Mary
$400 [17]
Game show producers once quaked at the name of this 1950s Columbia University instructor
Charles Van Doren
Bill
$400 [22]
This number, the usual minivan capacity, would have been enough for TV's Bradford children
8
Lynn
DD $500 [14]
Pope Pius XI's "Casti Connubii" encyclical of 1930 was largely a condemnation of this practice
birth control
Mary
$600 [28]
Shirley Eaton played the gilded glamour gal in this 1964 spy classic
Goldfinger
Bill
$600 [7]
It records brain waves:EEG
Electroencephalogram
Bill
$600 [5]
This playwright, a "Blithe Spirit", wrote his "Chelsea Buns" poems under the pen name Hernia Whittlebot
Noel Coward
Mary Bill
$600 [18]
This "Moondance" singer was once married to a woman named Janet Planet
Van Morrison
Mary
$600 [23]
The '96 Dodge Caravan was the first minivan to be this "Trend"y magazine's Car of the Year
Motor Trend
Bill
$600 [13]
In 1931 chemists discovered a growth hormone in this gland
Pituitary gland
Mary
$800 [29]
Originally named Susan Stockard, she found fame & fortune when she co-starred in "The Fortune" in 1975
Stockard Channing
Bill
$800 [8]
One who takes care of the sick:LPN
Licensed practical nurse
Bill
$800 [6]
Cherry Pecksniff, Paul Sweedlepipe & Jonas Chuzzlewit are all characters in this novel
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mary Bill
$800 [19]
Last name of "Watermelon Man" director Melvin & his son, "New Jack City" director Mario
Van Peebles
Lynn
DD $1,000 [24]
On Nov. 2, 1983 this man drove the first modern minivan off a Chrysler assembly line
Lee Iacocca
Bill
$1,000 [15]
Tops in country music in the '30s were this family's A.P., Sara & Maybelle
Carter family
Mary
$1,000 [30]
This leading man of "Speed II" was first seen onscreen in the futuristic flick "Solarbabies"
Jason Patric
Bill
$1,000 [9]
A vaccination:DPT
Diphtheria, pertussis & tetanus
Bill
$1,000 [12]
Published in 1928, "All the Conspirators" was the first novel by this British author of "The Berlin Stories"
Christopher Isherwood
Mary
$1,000 [20]
She set an American record in 1996 by swimming the 50-meter freestyle in 24.87 seconds
Amy Van Dyken
Lynn
$1,000 [25]
Perhaps you can sail the dark emerald seas in this Honda minivan that comes in dark emerald pearl
Odyssey
Bill

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. GEOLOGY

This 800-mile-long feature was discovered & named by Andrew Lawson

San Andreas Fault

Mary "What is the [Grand Canyon] Sierra Nevada" — wagered $2,000
Lynn "What is the Continental Divide?" — wagered $1,900
Bill "What is the Continental Divide?" — wagered $2,605

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