Show #3421 1999-06-21 Regular

Terry Currin game 1.

Contestants

Terry Currin — a systems analyst from White Lake, Michigan

Sarah Simson — a computer training consultant from Niskayuna, New York

Joe Padavic — an international freight forwarder from Roselle, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $300 $1,900 $8,700 $3,999
2nd place: a trip to International House Hotel, New Orleans
$8,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Sarah $200 $2,200 $2,800 $900
3rd place: Motorola Tracfone & 6 months of airtime
$2,800
12 R, 3 W
Terry $900 $1,700 $6,700 $4,699
New champion: $4,699
$6,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE WEAPONS ENTERTAINING CANADIANS CHESS MANIA FOOD & DRINK CROSSWORD CLUES "A"
$100 [21]
He's heard here"Ranting Again""Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, except, of course, for the Doc Martens & the purple hair; of course, that's my opinion, I could be wrong."
Dennis Miller
Joe
$100 [6]
A person whose reckless behavior puts others in danger is a "loose" one of these
cannon
Joe
$100 [1]
Last name of Canadian-born actress Meg, Jennifer's sister
Tilly
Sarah
$100 [22]
Before becoming a legend, this star of "The Maltese Falcon" hustled strangers at chess in NYC
Humphrey Bogart
Terry
$100 [11]
Always offer your guests their choice of cream or lemon at the afternoon party named for this beverage
tea
Terry
$100 [16]
Felonious fire starter(8)
arsonist
Sarah
$200 [27]
This sitcom star reads his own "Dirty Jokes and Beer", subjects he might have learned about in Cleveland
Drew Carey
Joe
$200 [7]
The word howitzer may go back to the Czech word houfnice, this weapon carried by Dennis the Menace
slingshot
Terry
$200 [2]
Most know William Shatner is Canadian, but so is James Doohan, who played this "Star Trek" engineer
Scotty
Joe
$200 [23]
In some Asian countries the chess piece we call a bishop shares its name with this desert animal
a camel
Terry
$200 [12]
It's no fish story: Cioppino is a fish stew from this city's Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco
Terry
$200 [17]
"I'm sorry"(7)
apology
Joe
$300 [28]
"Comical" candidate heard here"I've decided to take a humorous look at my campaign for president of the United States & my subsequent 144 days in office..."
Al Franken
Joe Sarah
$300 [8]
Belgian Noel Godin masterminded a February 1998 hit on Bill Gates with one of these
custard pie
Joe
$300 [3]
Joshua Jackson, a star of this Massachusetts-set WB series, is a Vancouver native
Dawson's Creek
Joe
$300 [24]
In 1997, at the age of 14 years, 2 months, France's Etienne Bacrot became the youngest one of these ever
grandmaster
Joe
$300 [13]
Beurre Bercy is made with white wine, shallots, diced beef marrow, parsley &, of course, this spread
butter
Joe
$300 [18]
Extra dry, like a desert(4)
arid
Sarah
$400 [29]
He tells you all about Fern, Wilbur & a certain spider when he reads his own "Charlotte's Web"
E.B. White
Sarah
$400 [9]
Anthony Hopkins said he got so good with this weapon doing "Zorro" he could snap a twig off a tree with it
a whip
Joe Sarah Terry
$400 [4]
On screen he's been Studio 54 founder Steve Rubell & would-be world dominator Dr. Evil
Mike Myers
Joe
$400 [25]
As late as the 16th century this special move involving the king was 2 turns, not just 1
castling
Joe
$400 [14]
This tart, yellowish lime that's native to Florida is the main ingredient in a popular pie
Key lime
Sarah
$400 [19]
"Delicious" fruit(5)
apple
Joe
$500 [10]
A key issue of the 1998 attorney general's race in California was the ban on these semi-automatic weapons
assault rifles
Sarah
DD $900 [5]
It's no longer news that this current "60 Minutes" correspondent hails from north of the border
Morley Safer
Joe
$500 [26]
In the U.S. Chess Open at Columbus, Ohio in 1977, one of these named "Sneaky Pete" played
a computer
Terry
$500 [15]
In Scotland these "colorful" berries are called brambles, & Scots make bramble wine from them
blackberries
Joe
$500 [20]
Adjective for the Church of England(8)
Anglican
Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION ACTORS & ACTRESSES PENINSULAS IT'S A GROUP THING "RAIN"Y SONGS 5-LETTER WORDS
$200 [26]
The Articles were in effect from 1781 until replaced by this 1787 document
Constitution
Terry
$200 [6]
Irish actress Roma Downey is downright "heavenly" as Monica on this CBS series
Touched by an Angel
Sarah
$200 [1]
The region of Apulia occupies the "heel" of this peninsula
Italy
Terry
$200 [11]
Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore & Jim Morrison
The Doors
Sarah
$200 [16]
It's where "bluebirds fly"
"Over The Rainbow"
Joe
$200 [21]
Meaning elegant or fancy, it's from the name of a hotel chain
ritzy
Joe
$400 [27]
Richard Henry Lee proposed drafting the Articles on June 7 of this year
1776
$400 [7]
Before he became TV's "Beaver", he appeared in Hitchcock's film "The Trouble with Harry"
Jerry Mathers
Terry
$400 [2]
Colombia & Venezuela share the Guajira Peninsula, which juts into this sea
Caribbean Sea
Terry
$400 [12]
Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner, Jr. & 8 other show biz notables
"Hollywood 10"
$400 [17]
The 2 items that make up the title of James Taylor's first Top 10 hit
"Fire And Rain"
Terry
$400 [22]
It can precede comb, suckle & moon
honey
Terry
$600 [28]
Under Article XI this present-day country could have joined the confederation just by signing
Canada
Terry
$600 [8]
She won her first Oscar, as Best Supporting Actress of 1979, for playing Joanna Kramer
Meryl Streep
Joe
$800 [4]
Mention the east side of Australia's Cape York Peninsula & you're "reef"erring to this sea
Coral Sea
Sarah
$600 [13]
Aykroyd, Belushi, Curtin, Morris, Chase, Radner & Newman
the original Saturday Night Live cast
Joe
$600 [18]
The Carpenters had "nothing to do but frown", these 2 things "always get me down"
"Rainy Days And Mondays"
Terry
$600 [23]
The name of this hooded fur jacket is probably derived from the Russian for "pelt"
parka
Joe Sarah
$800 [29]
The Articles' lack of national taxation is criticized in No. 21 of these essays
the Federalist Papers
Terry
$1,000 [10]
In 1978 she played Brooke Shields' mother in 2 different films, "Pretty Baby" & "King of the Gypsies"
Susan Sarandon
DD $1,000 [3]
The peninsula at the northwestern edge of this continent has been claimed by England, Chile & Argentina
Antarctica
Terry
$800 [14]
Bingo, Drooper, Fleegle & Snorky
The Banana Splits
Joe
$800 [19]
In this 1970 song Brook Benton sang, "It seems like it's rainin' all over the world"
"Rainy Night In Georgia"
$800 [24]
"The Star-Spangled Banner" ends with this "valiant" word
brave
Joe
$1,000 [30]
The "Rebellion" he led in 1786 showed many that the Articles didn't include a strong enough central government
Daniel Shays
Joe
DD $2,000 [9]
"Autumn Sonata" was not only this actress' last feature film but her last film in her native language, Swedish
Ingrid Bergman
Joe
$1,000 [5]
The Ramones sang about this beach in Queens that's on a peninsula of the same name
Rockaway
Joe
$1,000 [15]
To the ancient Greeks: Lachesis, Clotho & Atropos
Fates
Sarah
$1,000 [20]
Neil Sedaka heard this while "walking hand in hand with the one I love"
"Laughter In The Rain"
Sarah
$1,000 [25]
As a verb, it means to add territory to an existing country; as a noun, it's a building added to a larger one
annex
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

AFRICA

1 of the 3 African countries that are still kingdoms

Lesotho, Morocco or Swaziland

Sarah "What is Ethiopia" — wagered $1,900
Terry "What is Chad?" — wagered $2,001
Joe "What is Namibia" — wagered $4,701

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