Show #2989 1997-09-04 Regular

Dan Melia game 5.

Contestants

Hap Erstein — a theater critic from West Palm Beach, Florida

Barbara Findley — a math teacher from Hurley, New York

Dan Melia — a professor from San Francisco, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $51,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $2,400 $5,600 $20,600 $24,000
5-day champion: $75,600
$16,800
34 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Barbara $100 $300 $1,300 $100
3rd place: Aroma Spa
$1,300
7 R, 1 W
Hap $1,000 $2,400 $4,000 $2,700
2nd place: Trip to Amsterdam
$3,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTIES TELEVISION FRUITS & VEGETABLES BEFORE & AFTER RUBBER SHOPPING U.S.A.
$100 [1]
According to Leviticus 20:10, it's death to both parties involved who committeth this
Adultery
Dan
$100 [10]
The owner of the stud farm where this "talking" horse was bred is seeking landmark status for the site
Mr. Ed
Hap
$100 [9]
The usual color of the flesh of a honeydew melon
Green
Barbara Hap
$100 [21]
"Superstition" singer that builds strong bodies 12 ways
Stevie Wonder Bread
Barbara
$100 [6]
During World War II, the Russian species of this yellow lawn weed was used as a source of rubber
Dandelion
Hap
$200 [29]
Elvis Presley Enterprises owns several gift shops in this city; they're all close to Graceland
Memphis
Hap
$200 [2]
Blasphemeth his name & it's bye-bye you
The Lord
Dan
$200 [13]
"Men Are Pigs", Tim Allen's Showtime special about men's love for hardware, inspired this series
Home Improvement
Hap
$200 [12]
The scallion is also known as this "onion"
Green Onion
Hap
$200 [22]
Outdoor magazine that says "You like me....you really like me"
"Sally Field And Stream"
Barbara
$200 [15]
This U.S. city has been called "The Rubber Capital of the World"
Akron, Ohio
Hap
$300 [20]
This Las Vegas hotel-casino is known for its Appian Way plaza shops as well as its Forum shops
Caesars Palace
Barbara
$300 [3]
Exodus 21:12 says if you smiteth a man so much that he does this, so do you
Die
Dan
$400 [8]
"Laverne & Shirley" was the top show of 1977-78; this series from which it was spun off was No. 2
Happy Days
Dan
$300 [17]
It's also called a snap bean from the sound it makes when broken in half
Green Bean
Dan
$300 [14]
Walt Whitman poem about Mr. Green Jeans' buddy
"O Captain! My Captain Kangaroo"
Dan Hap
$300 [28]
In the 1830s this inventor bought the rights to a process for treating rubber with sulfur
Charles Goodyear
Hap
$400 [24]
Now a trendy shopping area, this marketplace near Boston's Faneuil Hall dates from 1826
Quincy Market
Dan
$400 [4]
St. Stephen became the first Christian martyr after being killed by this method
Stoning
Dan
DD $500 [7]
(Hi, I'm Chris Hardwick.) In 1985 MTV launched this sister channel to play adult contemporary & soft-rock videos for an older generation
VH1
Hap
$400 [18]
Term for the edible leaves of the turnip, beet & collard
Greens
Dan
$400 [16]
Daily newspaper of the group founded by Mary Baker Eddy's Komodo dragon
The Christian Science Monitor Lizard
Dan Barbara
$400 [26]
In 1823 he cemented 2 pieces of wool with a rubber compound to create the garment now named for him
Mackintosh
Dan
$500 [25]
This L.A. street noted for its Mexican handicrafts is named for Los Angeles' first county judge
Olvera Street
Dan
$500 [5]
According to Exodus, "Thou shalt not suffer" one of these "to live"
witch
Dan
$500 [11]
In "Newhart"'s final episode, Bob Newhart woke up with this former TV wife by his side
Suzanne Pleshette
Dan
$500 [19]
A mature Rome beauty apple has skin of this color
Red
Hap
$500 [23]
"Atlas Shrugged" atlas maker
Ayn Rand McNally
Hap
$500 [27]
In 1770 this oxygen discoverer found that rubber could be used to erase pencil marks
Joseph Priestley
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

TINSELTOWN TERMS BIG DATES HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? NAME THAT NOVEL 19th CENTURY SPORTS "ITZ" AT THE END
$200 [15]
The camera might travel on this wheeled platform to track a character down Madison Ave.
a dolly
Dan
$200 [12]
On August 2, 1964 a U.S. destroyer was attacked by the North Vietnamese in this gulf
the Gulf of Tonkin
Hap
$200 [19]
Wind 12-18" of it around your index fingers, slip it between 2 teeth to the gum & scrape both sides
dental floss
Hap
$200 [1]
"Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there un-dead."
Dracula
Hap
$200 [11]
Big ones first held in the 1860s include Canada's Queen's Plate & the Belmont Stakes
horse races
Barbara
$200 [7]
In this football play, linebackers rush a quarterback to sack him
a blitz
Dan
$400 [21]
The best man attends the groom & this person assists the head electrician
best boy
Dan
$400 [27]
On Oct. 30, 1995 voters in this Canadian province narrowly rejected a proposal for independence
Quebec
Dan
$400 [23]
Put the point at the center of the desired circle & swing the pencil around it
a compass
Barbara Hap
$400 [3]
"Four legs good, two legs bad!"
Animal Farm
Dan
$400 [14]
1890s outfielder Louis Sockalexis of the Penobscot tribe inspired this name of Cleveland's baseball team
the Indians
Barbara
$600 [2]
Skiers who fall on their derrieres leave this German "mark" in the snow
a sitz mark
Dan
$600 [13]
This term for a handler of animals on the set can also mean a cowboy
wrangler
Dan
$600 [28]
On April 6, 1909 he & his assistant Matthew Henson reached 90 degrees N. latitude
Robert Peary
Hap
$600 [24]
To add 14 to another number, shift 4 beads on the 1s wire & 1 bead on the 10s wire
an abacus
Dan
$600 [4]
"I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now"
Jane Eyre
Dan
$600 [16]
In 1875 the All England Croquet Club added this other lawn sport to its activities
tennis
Dan
$800 [9]
John F. Kennedy's maternal grandfather sported this "sweet" nickname
"Honey Fitz"
Dan
$800 [20]
Medical term for one who revises a script without credit; writer Robert Towne is a "specialist"
a script doctor
Dan
$800 [25]
Hammer it into a crack in the rock & clip a carabiner to its eye through which to run rope
a piton
Dan
$800 [5]
"Lennie said, 'I might jus' as well go away. George ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits now.'"
Of Mice and Men
Hap
$1,000 [18]
Jackson Haines, previously a teacher of this art, introduced its moves to figure skating
ballet
Dan
$1,000 [10]
Synonymous with "meddle" or "snoop", this Yiddish word means to offer unsolicited advice
kibitz
Dan
$1,000 [22]
A jump one is an abrupt transition; a rough one is a stage in editing
cut
Dan
$1,000 [26]
Place the electric pads to the chest, press down, yell "Clear!" & hit the button
defibrillator
Dan
$1,000 [6]
"'What a pretty little Nell!' cried Quilp."
The Old Curiosity Shop
Dan
DD $3,000 [17]
They were successively stuffed with feathers, molded of gutta-percha & wound with rubber
golf balls
Dan
DD $2,000 [8]
Song title that follows the line heard here:"If you're blue and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits..."
"Puttin' On The Ritz"
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

REPUBLICANS

He died in Topeka October 12, 1987, a month after his 100th birthday

Alf Landon

Barbara "Who is Taft?" — wagered $1,200
Hap "Who is Eisenhower?" — wagered $1,300
Dan "Who was Alf Landon?" — wagered $3,400

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