Show #3402 1999-05-25 (taped 1999-02-23) Regular

Michael Rooney game 5.

Contestants

Elena McFann — a vice president of network management from Long Beach, California

Andy Miller — a foreign service officer from Tel Aviv, Israel

Michael Rooney — a college instructor from Pasadena, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $40,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $600 $1,900 $7,900 $10,200
5-day champion: $50,201
$6,900
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Andy $500 $1,300 $5,100 $0
3rd place: Marantz Stereo Combo
$3,500
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Elena $600 $800 $2,800 $2,800
2nd place: Techmedia Desktop PC system
$2,900
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BALLET FAMOUS NAMES THE 1840s SITCOMS CHANGE A DRIVING TOUR ONE WORD OFF
$100 [24]
The Black Swan Pas De Deux is one of the most famous dances in this ballet
Swan Lake
Michael Elena
$100 [15]
"Little Red Riding Hood", a film he animated in 1922, was found in London around 20 years ago
Walt Disney
Michael
$100 [2]
In October 1845 the U.S. opened its naval academy at Fort Severn in this city
Annapolis
Elena
$100 [3]
On this sitcom in 1998, Tim Taylor's son Randy ran off to work in a Costa Rican rainforest
Home Improvement
Elena
$100 [12]
Drive by the cops when you put the pedal to the metal on most of these high-speed German highways
autobahns
Michael
$100 [1]
Oh, to be in Yonkers,/now that April's there
Yonkers (for England)
Michael Andy
$200 [16]
Famous nickname of John Birks Gillespie
"Dizzy"
Andy
$200 [8]
On August 19, 1848 the New York Herald reported the discovery of this, 7 months after the event
California Gold Rush
Michael
$200 [4]
On her self-titled sitcom, she worked at a plastics factory & a beauty salon before opening her own diner
Roseanne
Elena
$200 [13]
Krasnaya Ploshchad is the local name for this square you can drive by, but not across
Red Square
Andy
$200 [22]
Had we but world enough, and time,/This coyness, baby, were no crime
baby (for lady)
Andy
$300 [19]
This famous U-2 reconnaissance pilot later became a helicopter traffic reporter
Francis Gary Powers
Andy
$300 [9]
Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton got the idea to fight for women's rights at an 1840 convention against this
slavery
Michael
DD $200 [5]
(Hi, I'm Jon Lovitz. The answer is:) In 1998 I joined the cast of this sitcom as Max Lewis, a man with a few insecurities
NewsRadio
Elena
$300 [14]
High degree Freemasons know it can be hard to drive by this L.A. auditorium on Jefferson Blvd. on Oscar night
the Shrine Auditorium
Michael
$300 [25]
An earnest man's the noblest work of God
earnest (for honest)
Michael
$400 [20]
This cartoonist famous for his "Family" published "Drawn and Quartered" in 1942
Charles Addams
$400 [10]
It wasn't Providence that gave this state 2 differently elected & feuding governors at one time in 1842
Rhode Island
Andy
$400 [6]
On "The Cosby Show", daughter Denise left for Hillman College & this spin-off
A Different World
$400 [17]
You'll reach the president's office in this country driving to the union buildings on Government Ave. in Pretoria
South Africa
Elena
$400 [23]
I should have been a pair of ragged jaws/scuttling across the floors of silent seas
jaws (for claws)
Elena
$500 [21]
It's what the "D" stands for in the names of all those John D. Rockefellers
Davison
Elena
$500 [11]
A March 1845 act gave government subsidies to steamships that carried this
the mail
$500 [7]
In 1979 when its main setting moved to a bar, "All In The Family" took this new title
Archie Bunker's Place
Michael
$500 [18]
Drive down Obala Vojvode Stepe in this city & relive the street's most famous moment of June 28, 1914
Sarajevo
Michael
$500 [26]
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/to strive, to seek, to dive and not to yield
dive (for find)
Andy

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS WEDDINGS HISSSTORY BIG SCREEN BADDIES THE VICE PREZ SEZ THE "UN"CATEGORY
$200 [6]
During the Middle Ages, this capital was mostly confined to Stadsholmen & Riddarholmen islands
Stockholm
Michael
$200 [1]
For your renewal ceremony in Vegas, Pete Willcox will officiate dressed as this man, "The King!"
Elvis Presley
Elena
$200 [21]
Tradition says that in August 30 B.C., she committed suicide with the bite of an asp, a symbol of divine royalty
Cleopatra
Michael
$200 [26]
Daniel Stern & Joe Pesci played the burglars who tormented this young actor when he was "Home Alone"
Macaulay Culkin
Michael Andy
$200 [11]
He declared in 1992 that if Clinton & Gore were moderates, "I'm a world champion speller"
Dan Quayle
Andy
$200 [16]
It's the "unspeakable" term for underwear such as teddies, thongs & Wonderbras
unmentionables
Elena
$400 [7]
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the center of this Bulgarian city celebrates its liberation from the Turks
Sofia
Michael
$400 [2]
In a Protestant wedding, it's the role of the father of the bride
person who gives the bride away
Elena
$400 [22]
In Genesis 3:13 Eve said, this creature "beguiled me, and I did eat"
the serpent
Elena
$400 [27]
In 1978 Gene Hackman planned to destroy the West Coast of the U.S. as this superhero-fighting villain
Lex Luthor
Andy
$400 [12]
Appropriately, this "silent" president's VP, Charles Dawes, criticized the Senate for filibustering
Calvin Coolidge
Michael
$400 [17]
It's the kind of bread in Exodus 12:15
unleavened
Elena
$600 [8]
In this capital you can watch the sun turn the Tagus' estuary into Mar de Palha, the "sea of straw"
Lisbon
Michael Elena
$600 [3]
(Hi, I'm Ingo Rademacher from General Hospital.) Luke & Laura's 1981 wedding was crashed by Scotty, played by Kin Shriner, & Helena Cassadine, played by this superstar
Elizabeth Taylor
Michael
$600 [23]
Patriotic flags of the American Revolution depicted a coiled timber rattlesnake & this motto
"Dont Tread on Me"
Andy
$800 [28]
A perennial good guy now, in Bruce Lee's "Return of the Dragon" this American TV star played a martial arts villain
Chuck Norris
Michael
$600 [13]
John Nance Garner called the vice presidency this object "on the automobile of government"
spare tire
Michael
$600 [18]
From the Latin for "small wave", it describes a sinuous, rippling wavelike motion
undulation
Andy
$800 [9]
Diplomats live in the Chanakyapuri section of this capital designed by Edwin Lutyens & Herbert Baker
New Delhi
Michael
$800 [4]
The 2-month salary benchmark for a ring-buying budget was set by this diamond mining company in the 1980s
De Beers
Andy
$1,000 [25]
This ancient winged staff featuring 2 intertwined snakes is now the symbol of the U.S. Army Medical Corps
caduceus
Michael Elena
$800 [14]
In 1978 Walter Mondale called this earlier VP, Mondale's mentor, "His country's conscience"
Hubert Humphrey
Michael
$800 [19]
Carl Jung often spoke of the "collective" one
unconscious
Michael
DD $2,000 [10]
From 1936 to 1961 this Caribbean capital was known as Ciudad Trujillo in honor of dictator Rafael Trujillo
Santo Domingo
Michael
$1,000 [5]
This composer was 17, a legal age for men in Mississippi to marry, when he began work on the following:
Felix Mendelssohn ("The Wedding March")
Andy
DD $2,400 [24]
Reptilian nickname used for Union Democrats who opposed Lincoln's efforts to free the slaves during the Civil War
"Copperheads"
Andy
$1,000 [15]
As FDR's VP, this future Progressive candidate hailed "The century of the common man"
Henry Wallace
$1,000 [20]
This Percy Shelley work about a mythical fire-stealer opens in "a ravine of icy rocks"
"Prometheus Unbound"
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

ROMAN EMPERORS

The 2 Roman emperors during the time that Jesus Christ walked the Earth

Augustus Caesar & Tiberius

Elena "Who are Pontius Pilate & Herod" — wagered $0
Andy "Who were Caesar & Herod" — wagered $5,100
Michael "Who were Augustus & Tiberius" — wagered $2,300

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