Show #3435 1999-07-09 Regular

Contestants

Doug Bennett — a software engineer from San Diego, California

Laura Miller — a writer from Los Angeles, California

Terry Anderson — a production assistant from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Terry $700 $2,700 $13,100 $8,100
2nd place: Trip to Presidente Inter-Continental Hotel, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$10,500
24 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Laura $1,900 $2,500 $4,700 $9,399
New champion: $9,399
$4,700
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Doug $400 $2,800 $6,800 $0
3rd place: His & Hers Croton Watches
$6,800
15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BESTSELLERS I DO KNOW JACK A WORLD OF SOUP & A BIBLE PERSON TO BE NAMED LATER 40 YEARS OF BARBIE COMMON BONDS
$100 [6]
Neale Donald Walsch, author of "Conversations with" this being, says that anybody can have them
God
Laura
$100 [10]
The personification of freezing weather, he might nip at your nose
Jack Frost
Laura
$100 [15]
In Italian minestrina is a thin soup; this related word describes a thick vegetable soup
Minestrone
Terry
$100 [20]
Oscar Wilde made a veiled reference to this woman, unnamed in the Bible when she danced before Herod
Salome
Terry
$100 [1]
Mattel introduced Barbie in 1959; this boyfriend came along 2 years later
Ken
Terry
$100 [26]
Your legs, your T's, the Rubicon
Things you cross
Terry
$200 [7]
In the crime tale "Pretend You Don't See Her", a woman leaves NYC for Minneapolis in this federal "program"
Witness Protection Program
Laura
$200 [11]
This first modern black major leaguer was also the first black player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
Jackie Robinson
Laura
$200 [17]
The Mexican soup menudo, like the "hair of the dog", is supposedly a cure for this condition
Hangover
Laura
$200 [21]
Unnamed in the Bible, this queen is called Balkis or Bilqis in other places; Solomon didn't ask
Queen of Sheba
Terry Laura
$200 [2]
Barbie's shoulder-length flip style hair cut of the 1960s was inspired by this star of TV's "That Girl"
Marlo Thomas
Laura
$200 [27]
The sun, kids with measles, Dalmatians
Spotted things
Laura
$300 [8]
In 1999 David Reuben published an updated version of this "sex"y, long-titled bestseller of 1970
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Terry
$300 [12]
It's the tool heard here
Jackhammer
Terry
$300 [18]
The lamb lies down with the barley in the "Scotch" type of this liquid food
broth
$300 [22]
"The Prince of Egypt" says Seti gave the order to kill the newborn Hebrews & adopted this Hebrew boy
Moses
Doug
$300 [3]
In the early '70s this Barbie with the name of a California beach community sported a tan & had fun in the sun
Malibu Barbie
Laura
$300 [28]
A player at bat, your dog, the plank
Things you walk
Doug
$400 [9]
Leon Uris had a 1976 bestseller with "Trinity", a novel of this country
Ireland
Doug
$400 [13]
Term for someone who tries anything & everything but is not an expert in any one field
Jack of all trades
Laura
$400 [19]
We'll take the "risque" that you can name this creamy French soup usually made with seafood
Bisque
Doug
$400 [23]
Latin for "wise men", they were later named Melchior, Gaspar & Balthazar
Magi
Doug
DD $400 [4]
In celebration of Barbie's 40th anniversary, this "costumer to the stars" designed the doll seen here("Papillon Barbie")
Bob Mackie
Laura
$400 [29]
A sword, a bitter pill, your words
Things you swallow
Laura
$500 [16]
Richard Carlson counsels stress cases in "Don't Sweat" this "...and it's all" this
The Small Stuff
Terry
$500 [14]
The 2 "Odd Couple" stars from the big & small screen who fit the category
Jack Lemmon & Jack Klugman
Terry
$500 [25]
Sopa de frijol negro translates as this traditional Cuban fare
Black bean soup
Terry
$500 [24]
Dismas, the penitent one of these, & Gestas, the impenitent one, died by crucifixion & acquired their names much later
thieves
Doug
$500 [5]
This creator of Barbie named the doll after her daughter Barbara
Ruth Handler
$500 [30]
Trout, loose change in your pockets, compliments
Things you fish for
Doug

Double Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE IN HISTORY "GAY"IETY REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS '50s POP MUSIC EGAD! MORE POET-TREE! BEFORE & AFTER
$200 [11]
Letizia Ramolino Buonaparte was just 18 when she gave birth to him in 1769
Napoleon
Terry
$200 [20]
Term for the decade just before the turn of the 19th to the 20th century
"The Gay '90s"
Terry
$200 [6]
In southwestern Asia:Kabul
Afghanistan
Doug
$200 [25]
As he first recorded it, "Tutti-Frutti" was a bit risque, so it was toned down when released as a single in 1955
Little Richard
Laura
$200 [1]
"The trees are white with dust" in this "Hiawatha" author's poem "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Terry
$200 [15]
18th U.S. president who painted "American Gothic"
Ulysses S. Grant Wood
Terry
$400 [12]
This king of Aragon was so consummate a politician he was a model for Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Ferdinand
Laura
$400 [21]
In August 1945 the B-29 named this dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Enola Gay
Doug
$400 [7]
North of Iran:Baku
Azerbaijan
Doug
$400 [26]
Title men on the charts in 1958 included the Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" & his "Johnny B. Goode"
Chuck Berry
Terry
$400 [2]
"The Haunted Tree" is a haunting poem by this Lake poet
William Wordsworth
Laura
$400 [16]
Australian golfing great "Stormin'" the Iraqi desert in 1991
Greg Norman Schwarzkopf
Terry
$600 [13]
This suffragist from Adams, Mass. was an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society from 1856 to 1861
Susan B. Anthony
$600 [22]
This 1934 Astaire-Rogers film featured the Oscar-winning song "The Continental"
The Gay Divorcee
Terry
$600 [8]
In northeastern Africa:Djibouti
Djibouti
Laura Doug
$800 [28]
Having sold Elvis to RCA, this label had a new star in 1956--Johnny Cash
Sun Records
Terry
$600 [3]
"My apple tree will never get across and eat the cones under his pines", he wrote in "Mending Wall"
Robert Frost
Terry
$600 [17]
Female "Grease" star leading "The Green Berets" into battle
Olivia Newton-John Wayne
Laura
$800 [14]
Elected governor of Oaxaca in 1847, by the end of the 1850s he was the provisional president of Mexico
Benito Juárez
Doug
$1,000 [24]
His "Beggar's Opera" was turned into "The Threepenny Opera"
John Gay
Terry
$800 [9]
On the Arabian Peninsula:Doha
Qatar
Doug
$1,000 [29]
Dave White, Frank Maffei & Joe Terranova made up this backup group of Danny Rapp
The Juniors
Laura
$800 [4]
His poem "The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa" was published by his wife Mary after his death
Percy Shelley
Terry Doug
$800 [18]
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" author who leads his big band in playing "Champagne Music"
D.H. Lawrence Welk
Doug
$1,000 [19]
In 1791 John Rutledge left the U.S. Supreme Court to be chief justice of this feisty Southern state, his home
South Carolina
Doug
DD $2,000 [23]
This N.Y. Times journalist has written celebrity profiles for Esquire & novels like "Thy Neighbor's Wife"
Gay Talese
Terry
$1,000 [10]
In south central Africa:Lusaka
Zambia
Doug
DD $2,000 [27]
In 1950 Patti Page had a No. 1 hit with this, later a state song
"Tennessee Waltz"
Terry
$1,000 [5]
Harlem poet who wrote "Rest at pale evening... a tall slim tree... night coming tenderly black like me"
Langston Hughes
Laura
$1,000 [30]
"Make Room for Daddy" star who chronicled "Jude the Obscure"
Danny Thomas Hardy
Terry

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSIC CINEMA

This 1957 film opens with the judge's instructions to the jury in a murder trial

12 Angry Men

Laura "What is 12 Angry Men?" — wagered $4,699
Doug "What is Double Indemnity?" — wagered $6,800
Terry "What is Mr. Arkadi" — wagered $5,000

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