Show #3415 1999-06-11 Regular

Contestants

Jerry Dynes — a physician from Westlake, Ohio

Michelle Arthington — a customs house broker from Mount Vernon, Washington

Ryan Thiel — a sign language interpreter from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $3,800 $6,300 $11,900 $12,300
3-day champion: $34,702
$11,200
33 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Michelle $-200 $0 $800 $1
3rd place: Daewoo Video System
$800
6 R, 2 W
Jerry $700 $2,000 $5,700 $4,000
2nd place: Trip to Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada
$9,200
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WESTERN EUROPE HOME COOKIN' JOE DiMAGGIO NAME THE DECADE POETS & POETRY GOOD PROVERBS
$100 [17]
The Frisian Islands in this sea are divided among Germany, Denmark & the Netherlands
North Sea
Jerry
$100 [12]
Make this Creole dish with Spam & voila! You've got Spambalaya!
jambalaya
Ryan
$100 [6]
From 1974 to 1985, DiMaggio served as the spokesman for this line of automatic drip coffeemakers
Mr. Coffee
Ryan
$100 [26]
Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the New World
1490s
Ryan
$100 [11]
Much of this Longfellow poem takes place "by the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water"
"Hiawatha"
Michelle
$100 [1]
Oh, shoot! This is "as good as a mile"
Miss
Ryan
$200 [18]
This 270-mile mountain chain once forced Spain & France to trade by sea
the Pyrenees
Michelle
$200 [13]
I need lots of "elbow" room when I cook up a big pot of these elbow-shaped noodles "and cheese"
Macaroni
Ryan
$200 [7]
"Joltin' Joe" was immortalized in this song that hit No. 1 in 1968
"Mrs. Robinson"
Jerry
$200 [27]
Paul Revere takes a midnight ride & warns that "The British are coming"
1770s
Ryan
$200 [22]
In 1630 John Milton wrote a sonnet honoring this other famous sonneteer
William Shakespeare
Ryan
$200 [2]
"All good things must" do this
Come to an end
Ryan
$300 [19]
We assume there are plenty of females on this isle halfway between England & Ireland
Isle of Man
Jerry
$300 [14]
By gosh, this singer seenhereis famous for her By Gosh beef stew
Naomi Judd
Ryan Michelle
$300 [8]
DiMaggio earned this nautical nickname with his graceful outfield play
"The Yankee Clipper"
Ryan
$300 [28]
The 19th Amendment is ratified; women can now vote!
1920s
Ryan
$300 [23]
Voltaire's mock heroic "La Pucelle" features this medieval warrior maid
Joan of Arc
Ryan
$300 [3]
Not blacktop or yellow brick, "the road to Hell is paved with" these
Good intentions
Ryan
$400 [20]
City southwest of Paris where you'll find the landmark shown here
Versailles
Jerry
$400 [15]
"Orange" you a gorgeous tart? I'm not being rude, that's a favorite treat of this celebrity seen here
Richard Simmons
Ryan
$500 [10]
1 of 2 DiMaggio brothers to play major league baseball at the same time as Joe
Dom or Vince
Jerry
$400 [29]
Good heavens! Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1930s
$400 [24]
Odysseus Elytis, a poet from this country, won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature
Greece
Ryan
$400 [4]
Boy Scouts should heed, "Big words seldom go with good" these
Deeds
Ryan
$500 [21]
The Celtic settlement Lausonium, on Lake Geneva, developed into this Swiss city
Lausanne
Ryan Jerry
$500 [16]
Appropriately, chicken a la King is featured in "Are You Hungry Tonight?", a book of his favorite recipes
Elvis Presley
Ryan
DD $900 [9]
DiMaggio's last hit, a double, came in his last at-bat in the 1951 World Series when the Yankees played this NYC team
New York Giants
Ryan
$500 [30]
The Maine mysteriously blows up in Havana Harbor
1890s
Ryan
$500 [25]
"Crossing the Water" & "Winter Trees" are 2 posthumous collections by this "Bell Jar" author
Sylvia Plath
Ryan
$500 [5]
"A good start is half" this
the race (the battle accepted)
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN CITIES GREEN STUFF FILM NARRATORS THEY REST IN RHODE ISLAND HUMANITARIANS "G" WHIZ!
$200 [16]
In a 1940 film Sabu was "The Thief of" this city
Baghdad
Ryan
$200 [6]
They are the 2 primary colors of paint that are mixed to produce green
Yellow & blue
Ryan
$200 [11]
1994's"Forrest Gump"
Tom Hanks
Jerry
$200 [21]
Swan Point Cemetery is home to Elisha Hunt Rhodes, whose diary Ken Burns used in a show on this subject
Civil War
Jerry
$200 [26]
Her parents asked Alexander Graham Bell about a teacher for their daughter; Anne Sullivan was soon hired
Helen Keller
Ryan
$200 [1]
To grumble, perhaps about the ruffed bird of the same name
Grouse
Michelle
$400 [17]
You could call Benazir Bhutto, born in this country's largest city, the Karachi Kid
Pakistan
Michelle
$400 [7]
After "Louie, Louie", the Kingsmen's next biggest hit was about ho, ho, him
the Jolly Green Giant
Ryan Jerry
$400 [12]
1970's"Little Big Man"
Dustin Hoffman
Ryan
$400 [22]
Nicholas Colasanto, who was behind the bar as Coach on this sitcom, is in a Cranston, R.I. cemetery
Cheers
Ryan
$400 [27]
He used some of his enormous wealth to build a New York City concert hall & over 2,500 public libraries
Andrew Carnegie
Michelle
$400 [2]
Things aren't always "peachy" in this former Soviet republic
Georgia
Ryan
$600 [18]
It hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics & lends its name to one of Japan's oldest brands of beer
Sapporo
Ryan
$600 [8]
It's what's green in Vermont's nickname
Green Mountains
Ryan
$600 [13]
1950's"Sunset Boulevard"
William Holden
Jerry
$600 [23]
This founder of Rhode Island has his own memorial in Providence
Roger Williams
Jerry
$600 [28]
In 1931 this social reformer & Hull House founder was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Jane Addams
Jerry
$600 [3]
This word can refer to any impregnable standard, not just the famous rock
Gibraltar
Jerry
DD $1,000 [19]
In this city you can visit an uplifting museum of Khmer art, or Tuol Sleng, a museum of torture & murder
Phnom Penh
Ryan
$800 [9]
In 1983 it became the first country in Europe to have Green Party members in its national legislature
West Germany
Michelle
$800 [14]
1987's"Radio Days"
Woody Allen
Jerry
$800 [24]
Last name of the 2 brothers, both 19th century U.S. Naval officers, who lie in Island Cemetery
Perry (Matthew & Oliver)
$1,000 [30]
He began studying yellow fever in 1897, 3 years prior to being appointed to a commission to find its cause
Walter Reed
Jerry
$800 [4]
It's a terrestrial rodent such as a marmot or chipmunk--not one who's been through a meat grinder
a ground squirrel
Ryan
$1,000 [20]
Uh, just one more thing...it's Sri Lanka's most important port
Colombo
Jerry
$1,000 [10]
Resembling "Home Improvement", this Canadian show set at the Possum Lodge can be seen on PBS
The Red Green Show
Ryan
$1,000 [15]
1979's"Apocalypse Now"
Martin Sheen
Michelle Jerry
$1,000 [25]
This Cthulhu creator was born, bred & buried in Rhode Island
H.P. Lovecraft
Jerry
DD $3,500 [29]
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian has provided $100 million for an airlift to this country
Armenia
Jerry
$1,000 [5]
A needlefish, or a Scottish verb that means to force
Gar
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

ART

This technique, from Latin for "to look through", began in Western painting in works like the one seen here

Perspective

Michelle "What is panorama?" — wagered $799
Jerry "What is Chioroscuro" — wagered $1,700
Ryan "What is Perspective" — wagered $400

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