Show #3497 1999-11-16 (taped 1999-10-08) Celebrity

1999-BCelebrity Jeopardy!game 2.From the Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

Contestants

Andy Richter — from NBC'sLate Night With Conan O'Brien

S. Epatha Merkerson — fromLaw & Order

Brian Dennehy — from the playDeath of a Salesman

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brian $200 $600 $5,000 $10,000
2nd place: $10,000 to the New York Foundling Hospital
$5,000
11 R, 1 W
Epatha $1,500 $2,000 $4,000 $7,500
3rd place: $10,000 to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
$4,000
14 R, 3 W
Andy $2,800 $4,600 $12,200 $24,400
Winner: $29,400 to the Southern Poverty Law Center
$11,400
24 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LAST NAME'S THE SAME AROUND NEW YORK STATE WHILE YOU'RE ON HOLD LET'S GO SHOPPING! THAT'S SO CLICHE!
$100 [1]
Kurt, Rosalind, Nipsey
Russell
Epatha
$100 [21]
Legend says that "The love of those who honeymoon here will last as long as the falls themselves"
Niagara Falls
Brian
$100 [16]
On hold with a dating service, you might hear this Sinatra classic
"Strangers In The Night"
Epatha
$100 [11]
The Donald knows this "Tower" at 725 Fifth Avenue boasts a six-story shopping atrium
Trump Tower
Andy
$100 [6]
Someone's in a bad way seriously ill if he has "one foot" here
In the grave
Andy
$200 [2]
Eddie, Dinah, Pauly
Shore
Brian
$200 [22]
Just 25 miles N. of Manhattan, this "Sleepy" village is the place "where the Headless Horseman rode"
Sleepy Hollow
Andy
$200 [17]
A bad gardener's hold music could be this song
"Where Have All The Flowers Gone?"
Brian
$200 [12]
Murder Ink doesn't sell poison for your poison pen; it's this kind of store
Bookstore
Epatha
$200 [7]
If you depart in defeat it's "with your tail" here
Between your legs
Andy
$300 [3]
Glen, Naomi, Neve
Campbell
Epatha
$300 [23]
It's believed that blazes lit to lure ships gave this resort island its name
Fire Island
Andy
$300 [18]
Worry if your cardiologist's hold music is this song
"Achy Breaky Heart"
Andy
$300 [13]
The initials in the name of this world-famous toy store stand for Frederick August Otto
FAO Schwarz
Andy
$300 [8]
You're consuming more than I can sustain if "you're eating me out of" these 2 things
House and home
Andy
$400 [4]
Don, Abigail, Ansel
Adams
Epatha
$500 [25]
Now at Elmira College, this author's study was made to look like a Mississippi riverboat's pilothouse
Mark Twain
Epatha
$400 [19]
Hearing this song while on hold might give you a mysterious itch
"Poison Ivy"
Brian Epatha
$400 [14]
This famous food shop at Broadway & 80th Street is perfect for a file under "Z" category
Zabar's
Andy
$400 [9]
Like a colt or calf, those who are innocent & naive are said to be "wet" here
Behind the ears
Andy
$500 [5]
Michael, Cindy, Christina
Crawford
Andy
DD $1,000 [24]
The Bisons of baseball's International League play their home games in this city
Buffalo
Andy
$500 [20]
Maybe you'll hear this song if you call after business hours
"It's Too Late"
Brian Epatha
$500 [15]
This department store takes up an entire city block on 59th Street between Lexington & 3rd
Bloomingdale's
Epatha
$500 [10]
If you match the desired of quality, you're "up to" this tobacco product
Snuff
Andy

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY MANHATTAN CRIMINAL NICKNAMES POTPOURRI "B" YOURSELF THE 900s A.D. WISH I'D SEEN THAT MUSICAL!
$200 [1]
This bard's plays are performed "In the Park" near a garden named for him
Shakespeare
Brian
$200 [4]
Syndicate leader Charles Luciano
"Lucky"
Brian
$200 [16]
A special flower for April, it can be oxeye or shasta
Daisy
$200 [11]
In 1944 Allied soldiers & some of their heavy friends fought "The Battle of" this type of protrusion
the Bulge
Andy
$400 [22]
It's the colorful nickname of the Viking Eric, who established a colony on Greenland in 985
"the Red"
Andy
$600 [25]
Thismulti-talented entertainer wrote the songs for "Sophie", a musical bio of Sophie Tucker
Steve Allen
Andy
$400 [2]
Hope you were invited to the famous Black & White Ball this "In Cold Blood" author gave at the Plaza Hotel
Truman Capote
Epatha
$400 [5]
1930s bank robber George Kelly
"Machine Gun"
Epatha
$400 [17]
(Hi, I'm Vanna White at Christian Dior in New York City.) This actress was wearing a Dior gown when she won her first Oscar for "BUtterfield 8"
Elizabeth Taylor
Andy
$600 [13]
11-letter word for one who supports a family, perhaps with whole wheat or sourdough
breadwinner
Andy
$600 [23]
During the 900s the Chinese added these "key" devices to canals
locks
Epatha
$800 [24]
Of Toad, Rat or Mole, the one Nathan Lane played in "Wind in the Willows"
Toad
Brian Epatha
$600 [3]
This suicidal poet once stayed at the Barbizon, which she fictionalized as the Amazon in "The Bell Jar"
Sylvia Plath
Andy
$600 [10]
Public enemy Charles Floyd
"Pretty Boy"
Epatha
$600 [18]
If your computer has this kind of "base", you should know it's the plural of "datum"
data
Brian
$800 [14]
Georgiana Drew was the maiden name of the mother of John, Ethel & Lionel of this acting family
Barrymore
Brian
DD $3,000 [26]
Around 957 English king Edgar made the monk Dunstan bishop of London; in 959 he made him archbishop of this
Canterbury
Andy
$1,000 [21]
This future first lady made her Broadway debut in 1946's "Lute Song" with Mary Martin
Nancy Reagan
Andy
$800 [6]
This "Moby Dick" author wrote "Billy Budd" while living at 104 East 26th Street
Melville
Epatha
$800 [9]
1920s racketeer Jack Diamond
"Legs"
Brian
$800 [19]
The original "Calamity" in her life may have been her parents' death while settling Salt Lake City
Calamity Jane
Andy
$1,000 [15]
Tick-Licker was the favorite rifle of this 18th century Kentucky frontiersman
Daniel Boone
Andy
$1,000 [7]
This "Blithe Spirit" playwright is among the artistes who resided at the Hotel des Artistes
Noël Coward
Epatha
$1,000 [8]
Underworld boss Arthur Flegenheimer (aka Schultz)
Dutch
Epatha Andy
$1,000 [20]
His Ninth Symphony includes the "Ode to Joy"; his opera "Fidelio" includes "O Nameless Joy"
Beethoven
Brian
DD $2,000 [12]
(Yo-Yo Ma gives the clue and performs a cello solo.) Are you ready? This "B" of classical music wrote the piece I'm about to perform
Johann Sebastian Bach
Andy

Final Jeopardy!

DIRECTORS

Appropriately, the 100th anniversary of this director's birth was on a Friday the 13th--August 13, 1999

Alfred Hitchcock

Epatha "WhoWes CravenHitchcock" — wagered $3,500
Brian "Who was Alfred Hitchcock" — wagered $5,000
Andy "Who is Hitchcock?" — wagered $12,200

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