Show #3385 1999-04-30 (taped 1999-02-23) Regular

Michael Rooney game 3.

Contestants

Cindy Jacques — a school librarian from Franklin, North Carolina

Brien Wholey — a graduate student from Farmington, Connecticut

Michael Rooney — a college instructor from Pasadena, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $1,300 $1,900 $8,300 $13,201
3-day champion: $33,801
$7,100
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Brien $1,500 $2,600 $6,600 $13,200
2nd place: TechMedia Desktop Computer
$6,500
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Cindy $1,500 $2,400 $5,800 $11,600
3rd place: Vivitar Sport Travel Kit
$5,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

COMMUNISM REDS THE RUSHIN' REVOLUTION THE COLD WAR LITTLE-READ BOOKS MARXISMS
$100 [1]
The policies of a group of Communists, or the phone connection of a group of households
party line
Brien
$100 [6]
His variety show ran for 20 years, 17 on CBS
Red Skelton
Cindy
$100 [16]
In March 1861 it delivered the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento in a record 7 days, 17 hours
the Pony Express
Michael
$100 [17]
In the 1970s Linus Pauling advocated huge doses of this to battle the common cold
vitamin C
Brien
$100 [7]
This early sci-fi writer tackled polar exploration (from his study) in the 1860s with "Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras"
Jules Verne
Michael
$100 [21]
In "The Cocoanuts" Groucho told Margaret Dumont, hers "shine like the pants of a blue serge suit"
eyes
Michael
$200 [2]
"The Communist Manifesto" declares that the history of all society is the history of these struggles
class struggles
Michael
$200 [9]
Born Aaron Chwatt, he won an Oscar for "Sayonara" under this name
Red Buttons
Cindy
$200 [25]
In 1990 Arie Luyendyk set a track record at this Memorial Day race with an average speed of 185.984 MPH
Indianapolis 500
Brien
$200 [18]
Over 100 kinds of viruses cause colds, infections of the upper part of this tract
respiratory tract
Michael
$200 [8]
You might have to be on a desert island before you get around to his 1722 novel "Colonel Jack"
Daniel Defoe
Michael
$200 [23]
Asked "Are you a man or a mouse?", Groucho replied, "Put a piece of" this "down there and you'll find out"
cheese
Michael
$300 [3]
2-word name for the Communist army that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s
Khmer Rouge
Michael
$300 [10]
He died October 11, 1991 after collapsing at a rehearsal of his new TV series, "The Royal Family"
Redd Foxx
Brien
$300 [26]
This supersonic airliner can shuttle you from Paris to New York City in less than 4 hours
the Concorde
Brien
$300 [19]
Quigley & this Chicago company have come up with a bubble gum cold treatment for kids
Wrigley
Brien
$300 [13]
This author of "An American Tragedy" also wrote a little-read treatise called "Tragic America"
Theodore Dreiser
Cindy
$300 [24]
"The tusks... were imbedded so firmly we couldn't budge them, of course in Alabama..."
"The Tusks A Loosa"
Brien
$400 [4]
Elected with both Communist & Socialist support, he was Chile's president from 1970-1973
Salvador Allende
Brien
$400 [11]
From 1934 to 1938 he was the voice of the Cincinnati Reds
Red Barber
Brien
DD $500 [27]
The name of this sled without runners is from a Micmac Indian word for "instrument for dragging"
toboggan
Brien
$400 [20]
Of stress, enlarged tonsils or wet feet, the one which experts say would most likely lead to a cold
stress
Cindy
$400 [14]
Many readers don't get through the Slough of Despond in this 1678 John Bunyan work
The Pilgrim's Progress
Cindy
$500 [5]
Shortened from 2 Russian words, it was the supreme policy-making body in the USSR
Politburo
Brien
$500 [12]
In 1995 Lenny Wilkins broke this man's record as the NBA's winningest coach
Red Auerbach
Cindy
$500 [22]
Its "Plus" version for colds comes in sparkling original, orange & cherry flavors
Alka-Seltzer
Cindy
$500 [15]
Kant strained brains with this type of analysis "Of Pure Reason" & "Of Judgement"
Critique
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

ISLANDS MICHELLE PFEIFFER PFILMS THEORIES FAMOUS NAMES CANADIAN HODGEPODGE RHYMES WITH RAIN
$200 [3]
Despite its location near the Arctic Circle in the N. Atlantic, it has more hot springs than any other country
Iceland
Michael
$200 [10]
Tzipporah, the future bride of Moses, was voiced by Michelle in this 1998 animated film
The Prince of Egypt
Cindy
$200 [16]
The theory that led to Reaganomics got this name by opposing the traditional focus on demand
supply-side
Brien
$200 [21]
He was the first U.S. president born in Missouri--Lamar, Missouri, to be exact
Harry S. Truman
Cindy
$200 [26]
2 lions & 2 of these mythical horned beasts represent Great Britain on Newfoundland's coat of arms
unicorns
Cindy
$200 [11]
When working out, many follow the old saying, "No pain, no" this
gain
Michael
$400 [4]
Tobacco used in its famous cigars is grown in the Vuelta Abajo region in the northwest
Cuba
Cindy
$400 [1]
One of Michelle's 2 films with "Dangerous" in the title
Dangerous Liaisons (or Dangerous Minds )
Michael
$400 [17]
Theory that's cariactured in the 19th c. cartoon seen here:
evolution
Michael
$400 [22]
Newstead Abbey, Lord Byron's family estate, was given to his ancestors by this Tudor king
Henry VIII
Michael
$400 [27]
British Columbia's floral emblem is the Pacific type of this--you could say its "bark" is worse than its "bite"
Dogwood
Michael Cindy
$400 [12]
As Carly Simon could tell you, it's a synonym for narcissistic
vain
Cindy
$600 [5]
This country's Ionian islands are sometimes called the Heptanesos because there are 7 main islands
Greece
Brien
$600 [2]
Michelle livened up the lounge act of piano-playing brothers Beau & Jeff Bridges in this film
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Brien Cindy
$600 [18]
In 1905 he came up with a "special" theory; his "general" theory took until 1916
Albert Einstein
Brien
$600 [23]
This producing partner of James Ivory was born Ismail Noormohamed Abdul Rehman in Bombay
Merchant
Michael
DD $600 [28]
Mount Logan in this territory is the highest peak in Canada
Yukon Territory
Cindy
$600 [13]
World Book describes it as a "grayish-pink, jellylike ball with many ridges and grooves"
brain
$800 [6]
In 1906 the territory of Papua was established on this island as a protectorate under Australian control
New Guinea
Michael
$1,000 [9]
Book editor Jack Nicholson gets into some "hairy" situations with Michelle in this 1994 thriller
Wolf
Michael
$800 [19]
Opposed to the Big Bang Theory, Sir Fred Hoyle developed this theory of a consistent universe
steady-state
Michael
$800 [24]
His wife Edith served time in Swiss & U.S. jails for helping him with his fake Howard Hughes autobiography
Clifford Irving
$800 [29]
Benedict Arnold visited this island long before FDR made a habit of summering there
Campobello
Cindy
$800 [14]
A coil of yarn
skein
Cindy
$1,000 [7]
War in the Pacific National Historical Park on this U.S. territory honors Americans who fought in the Pacific in WWII
Guam
Brien
DD $2,000 [8]
Michelle tries to escape from the Mafia after the death of her hit-man husband in this 1988 comedy
Married to the Mob
Michael
$1,000 [20]
Thorsten Veblen coined "conspicuous consumption" in "the theory of" this "class"
leisure class
Michael Brien
$1,000 [25]
This Frenchman was born 7 months after his friend & fellow developer of Cubism, Pablo Picasso
Georges Braque
Brien
$1,000 [30]
If you can bear it, the grizzly house in Banff in this province will serve you buffalo fondue
Alberta
Brien
$1,000 [15]
In early Scotland, it was a person of rank; Macbeth was one of Glamis, then Cawdor
Thane
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

BRAND NAMES

This office supply product caught on in the Depression because it made worn & tattered items last longer

Scotch Tape

Cindy "What is Scotch tape?" — wagered $5,800
Brien "What is Scotch Tape" — wagered $6,600
Michael "What is Scotchtape?" — wagered $4,901

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