Show #3434 1999-07-08 Regular

Contestants

Terry Anderson — a production assistant from Los Angeles, California

Suzy Fletcher — a homemaker from Newport Beach, California

Paul Risner — a lawyer from Sarasota, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Paul $100 $700 $6,800 $6,800
2nd place: Trip to Fantasyland Hotel in the West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Alberta
$6,900
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Suzy $700 $1,600 $4,000 $4,000
3rd place: Samsung 28" Stereo TV
$4,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Terry $1,100 $3,600 $12,100 $10,100
New champion: $10,100
$11,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

OPERA KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS BILL TO LAW HILLARY & JACKIE SPORTS 1998 THE FORGOTTEN MARX BROTHERS
$100 [6]
"Master Peter's Puppet Show"--a puppet opera (?!)--is based on a passage from this Cervantes work
Don Quixote
Terry
$100 [1]
Singer kathryn dawn...
k.d. lang
Terry
$100 [21]
For the first reading, the representative or senator gives the bill to the person in this post
Clerk
Paul
$100 [11]
Their maiden names
Rodham & Bouvier
Suzy
$100 [26]
Denying he lost his temper at a licensing hearing, he said, "I was just expressing my hurt"
Mike Tyson
Terry
$100 [16]
We won't be surprised if "it takes two to" name this brother who loved a certain Latin-American dance
Tango
Suzy
$200 [7]
The composition of this German's "Ring" cycle spanned over 20 years
Richard Wagner
Paul
$200 [2]
Maine retailer Leon Leonwood...
L.L. Bean
Suzy
$200 [22]
After the first reading, the bill is sent to one of these that may table it
Committee
Terry
$200 [12]
Hillary first dated Bill while a law student & Jackie first dated John while she was the "inquiring" one of these for a paper
a photographer
Suzy
$200 [27]
A First Division team in this sport in Romania traded player Ion Radu for 2 tons of meat
Soccer
Suzy
$200 [17]
You might find this brother in the cellar swigging from a bottle of Muscatel
Wino
Terry
$300 [8]
An Ethiopian slave girl is torn between love & patriotism in the Egypt of the Pharaohs in this Verdi opera
Aida
Paul Suzy
$300 [3]
Journalist & essayist Henry Louis...
H.L. Mencken
Suzy
$300 [23]
On the third reading, the bill is put either to a voice vote or this alphabetical vote
Roll call
Terry
$300 [13]
Hillary had Chelsea in 1980 & Jackie had this child in 1957
Caroline
Paul
DD $300 [28]
(Hi, I'm Ilia Kulik) I won the gold in Nagano in 1998 skating to this colorful George Gershwin classic
"Rhapsody in Blue"
Suzy
$300 [18]
This brother whose nickname included "Maniac" was named for his irresistable impulse to steal
Klepto
Suzy
$400 [9]
Operas by this composer include "Cosi fan tutte" & "The Magic Flute"
W.A. Mozart
Suzy
$400 [4]
NFL All-Pro Yelberton Abraham...
Y.A. Tittle
Paul
$400 [24]
This fraction of the House needs to vote yes to overturn a presidential veto
2/3
Terry
$400 [14]
Jackie earned her B.A. from George Washington University & Hillary graduated from this college in 1969
Wellesley
Suzy Terry
$400 [29]
Marques Haynes, the former dribbling wizard of this team, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame
the Harlem Globetrotters
Terry
$400 [19]
This brother's name, a trademark, comes from always carrying a can of flammable jelly to heat up food
Sterno
Terry
$500 [10]
It's the English title of the opera "I Pagliacci" & the name of a ballet that juxtaposes terror & buffoonery
"The Clowns"
$500 [5]
Social reformer William Edward Burghardt...
W.E.B. Du Bois
Terry
$500 [25]
If Congress adjourns, a president can veto a bill by not signing it within this many days (Sundays excluded)
10
Paul
$500 [15]
Hillary's "It Takes a Village" was published by Simon & Schuster; Jackie worked for this other NYC book publisher
Doubleday
Paul
$500 [20]
Few remember this brother who got his name by practicing the same kind of journalism as Hunter Thompson
Gonzo
Terry

Double Jeopardy! Round

MONGOLIA THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR ASTRONOMERS SAVE THE PRINCE OF WALES 1900 BE MY "PAL"
$200 [3]
One of Mongolia's main occupations is raising these animals to produce cashmere
Goats
Suzy
$200 [8]
"Crimes and Misdemeanors","Hannah and Her Sisters"
Woody Allen
Paul
$200 [1]
Galileo's first discovery in 1609 was that the surface of this is not smooth, but pitted
Moon
Paul
$200 [21]
At Cambridge Charles got his university colors in this sport
polo
Paul Suzy Terry
$200 [16]
He published "The Interpretation of Dreams"
Sigmund Freud
Terry
$200 [26]
Under a League of Nations mandate, the British oversaw the affairs of this region from 1920 to 1948
Palestine
Suzy
$400 [4]
The name of Mongolia's Communist Party newspaper Unen, like Russia's Pravda, means this
Truth
Terry
$400 [9]
"THX 1138","American Graffiti"
George Lucas
Terry
$400 [2]
He predicted a comet he observed in 1682 would return in 1758 (he was right)
Edmond Halley
Suzy
$400 [22]
On January 28, 1999 Prince Charles made his first public appearance with this woman; it was at a party for her sister
Camilla Parker Bowles
Terry
$400 [17]
His first airship took flight near Friedrichshafen, Germany on July 2, 1900
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Terry
$400 [30]
It can mean the roof of the mouth, or more generally the sense of taste
Palate
Paul
$600 [5]
The 1996 election was won using a platform called this, in imitation of the USA's Republicans in 1994
"Contract with Mongolia"
Paul
$600 [10]
"Robo Cop","Basic Instinct","Starship Troopers"
Paul Verhoeven
Terry
$600 [13]
Edwin Hubble was the first to say the Andromeda nebula was one of these, separate from ours
Galaxy
Paul
$600 [23]
As president of the RSC, this group, Charles probably knows not to say the name of "the Scottish play"
Royal Shakespeare Company
Terry
$600 [18]
The Boxers were rebelling in China & the British were fighting this group in South Africa
Boers
Terry
$600 [27]
A board on which a painter mixes colors, or the range of colors he uses
Palette
Paul
$800 [6]
The ruined city of Karakorum is where this conqueror established his headquarters in 1220
Genghis Khan
Suzy
$800 [11]
"Crimewave","The Quick and the Dead","Evil Dead II"
Sam Raimi
Terry
$800 [14]
Aristarchos proposed a heliocentric theory about 1,700 years before this famous Pole
Nicolaus Copernicus
Terry
$1,000 [25]
The prince gets no money from the state; he earns about 5 million pounds yearly from the duchy of this
Cornwall
Suzy
$800 [19]
In February Dwight F. Davis donated a silver cup to this sport
Tennis
Paul
$800 [28]
A fence of stakes forming a defensive barrier or fortification
Palisade
Paul
$1,000 [7]
Like Native Americans, many Mongolians follow this type of mystic healer whose name means "he who knows"
Shaman
Terry
$1,000 [12]
"Badlands","Days of Heaven","The Thin Red Line"
Terrence Malick
Paul
$1,000 [15]
In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered this new type of star that emits regular bursts of radio waves
Pulsar
Paul
DD $1,500 [24]
Charles honeymooned on this royal yacht that no longer rules the waves; it's been retired
Britannia
Terry
DD $900 [20]
The Populists met in May 1900 in South Dakota to nominate this man for president
William Jennings Bryan
Paul
$1,000 [29]
These heroic champions of chivalry share their name with a 1950s Richard Boone TV character
Paladins
Terry

Final Jeopardy!

U.S.A.

In 1999 several counties around Cape Canaveral, Florida were assigned this new telephone area code

321

Suzy "What is 747?" — wagered $0
Paul "What is 351" — wagered $0
Terry "What is 813?" — wagered $2,000

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