Show #3418 1999-06-16 Regular

Contestants

Tim Lynch — a science teacher from Van Nuys, California

Wendi Harrell — a secretary and bookkeeper from Carthage, Illinois

Mike Scott — an organic farmer from Janesville, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $1,500 $2,900 $4,100 $8,100
2-day champion: $12,000
$5,700
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Wendi $-100 $1,600 $3,200 $3,200
2nd place: Trip to Radisson Jakarta, Indonesia
$3,200
13 R, 5 W
Tim $1,900 $1,000 $4,000 $500
3rd place: His & Her Jaguar Watches
$3,700
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE WORLD WHO THOUGHT OF THAT? AMERICAN HISTORY HINTS FROM HELOISE TV THROUGH THE YEARS ANAGRAMMED MUSICALS
$100 [22]
Boomtown 1910 is a recreated frontier street at a museum in Saskatoon in this Canadian province
Saskatchewan
Wendi
$100 [9]
This country is thought to have invented gunpowder, as well as soy sauce
China
Wendi
$100 [14]
In January 1935 she became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland
Amelia Earhart
Mike
$100 [21]
A marshmallow placed inside the bottom of the cone will help keep this treat from dripping through
ice cream cone
Mike
$100 [1]
In a 1956 episode of "I Love Lucy", the Ricardos visited this country, Ricky's birthplace
Cuba
Tim
$100 [2]
"Or Live!"
Oliver!
Wendi
$200 [23]
The Efik people of this continent are closely related to the Ibibio
Africa
$200 [10]
Clement Ader created this type of sound system that used 2 mikes feeding separate headphones
stereo
Mike Wendi
$200 [15]
His final regret was "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"
Nathan Hale
Wendi
$200 [27]
Heloise hints that you can add a scrambled egg to the classic sandwich of peanut butter & this
jelly
Mike
$200 [3]
Ray Walston played an inventive alien stranded on Earth in this 1960s TV sitcom hit
My Favorite Martian
Mike
$200 [7]
"Tern"
Rent
Mike
$300 [24]
Costa Rica's name translates to this in English
"Rich Coast"
Wendi
$300 [11]
The German Heinkel He-280 of 1941 was the first jet fighter to have one of these in case of emergency
ejection seat
Wendi Tim
$300 [16]
On April 22, 1889 "Sooners" staked claims hours ahead of schedule in Guthrie City in this territory's land grab
Oklahoma
Wendi
$300 [28]
Some of Heloise's readers remove these items from old compacts & hang them on fruit trees to scare birds away
mirrors
Mike
$300 [4]
With a bit o' luck, squire, you'll know he played Corporal Peter Newkirk on "Hogan's Heroes"
Richard Dawson
Mike
$300 [8]
"Inane"
Annie
Tim
$400 [25]
This Scandinavian country is quite flat: its highest point, Yding Skovhoj, is just 568 feet high
Denmark
Tim
$500 [13]
In 1965 Stephanie Kwolek developed this material used in bulletproof vests
Kevlar
Tim
$400 [17]
This 1,500-mile-long mountain system divided the Civil War into the eastern & western theaters
Appalachians
Mike
$400 [29]
Heloise recycles these by taking them out of old dresses & inserting them in her bras as "enhancers"
shoulder pads
Mike
$400 [5]
"JAG"'s David James Elliott starred in the TV series version of this 1987 film that starred Kevin Costner
The Untouchables
$400 [19]
"Repent Pa"
Peter Pan
$500 [26]
If you're a native Maldivian, you hail from an island country in this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Mike Tim
DD $700 [12]
He first determined that energy equals mass times the velocity of light squared
Albert Einstein
Tim
$500 [18]
In 1910 Victor Berger of Wisconsin became the first of this party of Eugene Debs elected to Congress
Socialist
Mike
$500 [30]
To make your laundry soft & fluffy, add the "white" type of this salad dressing liquid to the final rinse
vinegar
Wendi
$500 [6]
Gung-ho Major John D. MacGillis was the spit-shined head of the family in this comedy favorite
Major Dad
Mike
$500 [20]
"Go Sin Amiss"
Miss Saigon
Wendi

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW YORK BUILDINGS "GREAT" MOVIES V.P.s BY MIDDLE NAME WHICH CAME FIRST? THE CORNER DRUGSTORE QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS
$200 [22]
Its architect, William Van Allen, was "driven" to create the world's tallest building at that time
Chrysler Building
Wendi Tim
$200 [8]
This Dickens novel has been filmed several times, most recently in 1998
Great Expectations
Tim
$200 [3]
Danforth
(James) Dan(forth) Quayle
Tim
$200 [21]
Texas statehood, North Dakota statehood, Michigan statehood
Michigan statehood
Mike
$200 [20]
Ergotamine, introduced in the 1920s, helps control the migraine & vascular types of these
headaches
Mike
$200 [6]
Sept. 20, 1999 is the 15th anniversary of the premiere of this TV show with Tony Danza as a domestic
Who's the Boss?
Mike
$400 [23]
This building, John Lennon's last residence, was so named because 72nd St. seemed like the Far West
the Dakota
Wendi
$400 [9]
John Barrymore spoofed himself in this 1940 movie whose title reflected his nickname
The Great Profile
Mike
$400 [4]
Herbert Walker
George Bush (Sr.)
Tim
$400 [17]
Hadrian's Wall, the Wailing Wall, the Berlin Wall
the Wailing Wall
Wendi Tim
$400 [25]
Best-known brand name of diazepam, an anti-anxiety drug introduced in 1963
Valium
Mike
$400 [7]
This title musical question asked by Elvis Presley & Donny Osmond has been around since the '20s
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
Wendi Tim
$600 [24]
The old RCA building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza is now called this "building", one initial shorter
GE Building
Mike
$600 [10]
Robert Duvall is an authoritarian Marine at war with his family in this film based on Pat Conroy's novel
The Great Santini
Wendi
$600 [1]
Horatio
Hubert Humphrey
Tim
$600 [16]
"The Tempest","Romeo and Juliet","Macbeth"
Romeo and Juliet
Wendi
DD $400 [30]
Prescriptions for this drug, also called methylphenidate, "A.D.D." up to a 700% increase in the '90s
Ritalin
Mike
$600 [13]
Cops ask this of someone in a hurry; in 1871 a good answer would have been "Chicago"
Where's the fire?
Tim
DD $1,000 [26]
The building named for this retailer includes a sculpture of him counting nickels & dimes
F.W. Woolworth
Mike
$800 [11]
Simon Ward played James Herriot as a young apprentice to an eccentric veterinarian in this 1974 film
All Creatures Great and Small
Tim
$800 [2]
Nance
John Nance Garner
Mike
$800 [18]
Taft-Hartley Act, Voting Rights Act, Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Mike
$600 [28]
Available as a liquid & a tablet, it maakes the claim "No. 1 Heartburn Brand in Hospitals"
Maalox
Mike
$800 [14]
Freud called it the great question he couldn't answer "despite 30 years of research into the feminine soul"
What do women really want?
Wendi
$1,000 [27]
Named for its developer, this Midtown tower has an atrium with a waterfall instead of a mere lobby
Trump Tower
$1,000 [12]
Charlie Chaplin played on the physical resemblance of Hitler & the Little Tramp in this 1940 satire
The Great Dictator
Tim
$1,000 [5]
Ewing
Adlai Stevenson
$1,000 [19]
Byzantium falls to the Turks, Saladin captures Jerusalem, Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
Saladin captures Jerusalem
Wendi Tim
$800 [29]
This "colorful" herb, Hydrastis canadensis, is combined with echinacea to boost the immune system
Goldenseal
$1,000 [15]
It's the Latin phrase of St. Peter's traditional question to Jesus, "Whither goest thou?"
"Domine, Quo Vadis"

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS WOMEN

During WWI this American showed off her talents in a play called "The Western Girl"

Annie Oakley

Wendi "Who Mae West?" — wagered $0
Tim "Who was Bernhardt??" — wagered $3,500
Mike "Who is [Mary Pickford] Annie Oakley" — wagered $4,000

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