Show #2807 1996-11-12 (taped 1996-09-29) Celebrity

1996 CelebrityJeopardy!game 2.

Contestants

Sandra Bernhard — a comedienne from Los Angeles

Isaac Mizrahi — a fashion designer from New York City

Melissa Gilbert — an actress from the movieHarvest of Lies

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Melissa $500 $900 $2,100 $4,200
3rd place: $10,000 to the March of Dimes
$2,100
8 R, 1 W
Isaac $1,300 $2,100 $8,900 $10,900
Winner: $10,900 to the Pediatric AIDS Foundation
$8,500
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Sandra $700 $1,600 $3,850 $6,350
2nd place: $10,000 to Haven House and Vista del Mar
$4,700
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE COSTUMES EVILDOERS FAMILIAR PHRASES FIRST LADIES HODGEPODGE
$100 [1]
He got all dolled up in Chanel & Dior in "To Wong Foo...", a far cry from his "Dirty Dancing" duds
Patrick Swayze
Isaac
$100 [12]
When the eastern Roman Empire refused to pay his tribute demands, this Hun attacked
Attila
Sandra
$100 [8]
When a situation goes from bad to worse, it's the time "push comes to" this
shove
Isaac
$100 [4]
She was 26 when she joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1974
Hillary Clinton
Melissa
$100 [20]
In 1996 the Winchell's chain began selling a cologne that smells like these breakfast goodies
doughnuts
Melissa
$200 [2]
She slunk across a piano in a slinky red dress in "The Fabulous Baker Boys"
Michelle Pfeiffer
Melissa
$200 [13]
Gessler was the despotic governor of Uri, a Swiss canton, until this archer bested him
William Tell
Melissa
$200 [9]
Go over something with a fine tooth comb & you'll "leave no stone" this way
unturned
Isaac
$200 [7]
This first lady born in 1768 was a real "cupcake" who liked to wear turbans & low-cut dresses
Dolley Madison
Melissa
$200 [21]
This early type of Ford was nicknamed the "Tin Lizzie"
Model T
Sandra
$300 [3]
She wore dozens of trendy costumes in "Clueless" but says she looks goofy offscreen--as if!
Alicia Silverstone
Isaac Sandra
$300 [17]
In July 1881 Pat Garrett caught up with this young outlaw in Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Billy the Kid
Sandra
$300 [10]
Something on good authority is "straight from" this neigh sayer
the horse's mouth
Isaac
$300 [14]
"The World Almanac of First Ladies" says this "Silver Fox" loves mystery novels & tacos
Barbara Bush
Isaac
$400 [5]
Theodor Pistek won a Costume Design Oscar for this Tom Hulce film; Mozart was so well-dressed
Amadeus
Isaac
$400 [18]
This "Mad Monk" convinced Alexandra of Russia he had mystical powers
Rasputin
Sandra
$400 [11]
Number of the attempt that's "the charm"
the third
Sandra
$400 [16]
Her sister Lee was maid of honor at her 1953 wedding in Newport, Rhode Island
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Sandra
$500 [6]
Theadora Van Runkle designed the gun moll getups Faye Dunaway wore in this 1967 film
Bonnie and Clyde
Isaac
$500 [19]
Mary Mallon was immune to this disease that she carried & spread from 1904 to 1915
typhoid
Melissa
$500 [15]
The origin of this phrase is unknown, since chickens don't seem to get angry in the rain
mad as a wet hen
Isaac
DD $500 [22]
She did some modeling at Bullock's Wilshire in the 1930s while she was a student at USC
Pat Nixon
Sandra

Double Jeopardy! Round

"DOUBLE" JEOPARDY 18th CENTURY LITERATURE TRAVEL U.S.A. ART INTERNATIONAL CUISINE SINGERS
$200 [9]
In 1914 Wrigley introduced this new chewing gum packaged in a green wrapper
Doublemint
Isaac Sandra
$200 [23]
Beaumarchais' plays included "The Barber of Seville" & "The Marriage of" this man
Figaro
Isaac
$200 [7]
Sea World & the zoo are two highlights of this California city
San Diego
Sandra
$200 [2]
His first important painting was of his niece, but his most famous is his 1871 portrait of his mother
James M. Whistler
Melissa
$200 [14]
This Russian beet soup can be spelled with or without a T at the end
borsch/borscht
Sandra
$200 [1]
"Chaos and Disorder" is a 1996 album by The Artist Formerly Known as this
Prince
Isaac
$400 [19]
In golf it's a score of 2 strokes over par on a hole
double bogey
$400 [24]
In 1713 Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea, wrote a poem to this bird, 106 years before John Keats' ode
nightingale
Isaac
$400 [8]
In St. Louis you can tour the headquarters of this Budweiser brewer
Anheuser-Busch
Melissa
$400 [10]
This "Mona Lisa" artist is noted for the sfumato, or smoky, quality of his paintings
Leonardo da Vinci
Isaac
$400 [15]
The name of this pasta popular with clam sauce is Italian for "little tongues"
linguine
Isaac Sandra
DD $250 [4]
This singer-songwriter won a 1988 Oscar for the song heard here
Carly Simon
Sandra
$600 [20]
This clause in an insurance policy provides for the payment of twice the face value in the event of accidental death
double indemnity
Melissa
$600 [25]
"It's Not Unusual" to just "Help Yourself" to this 1749 Henry Fielding classic
"Tom Jones"
$600 [11]
He slashed his ear before Christmas in 1888 & painted a "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear" soon after
Vincent Van Gogh
Isaac
$800 [17]
This Spanish dish literally means "rice with chicken"
arroz con pollo
Isaac
$400 [3]
In late 1967 this group opened the Apple Clothes Boutique in London; it closed about 7 months later
the Beatles
Sandra
$800 [21]
An oboe is an example of this type of wind instrument
double reed
Isaac
$800 [26]
1720's "The Adventures of Captain Singleton" was his next novel after "Robinson Crusoe"
Daniel Defoe
$800 [12]
Appropriately, this grandmother of American folk art painted "Over the River to Grandma's House"
Grandma Moses
Isaac
DD $1,000 [16]
A fish called rascasse is essential to this celebrated seafood stew from Provence
bouillabaisse
Isaac
$800 [5]
This folk artist wrote "Lay Lady Lay" for his wife Sarah Lowndes
Bob Dylan
Sandra
$1,000 [22]
It's the spiral arrangement of the 2 complementary strands of DNA
double helix
Isaac
$1,000 [27]
He'd only been in America for 2 years when he published his "Common Sense" pamphlet in 1776
Thomas Paine
Isaac
$1,000 [13]
This Englishman painted a "Girl with Pigs" as well as "The Blue Boy"
Thomas Gainsborough
$1,000 [18]
A popular Thai dish, it's meat or chicken on a skewer served with a spicy peanut sauce
satay
Isaac
$1,000 [6]
This group's 1977 hit "Hotel California" spent 15 weeks in the Top 40, the longest of their singles
the Eagles
Sandra

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

Lincoln said it was "the central act of my administration & the greatest event of the 19th century"

the Emancipation Proclamation

Melissa "What is TheEmancipationProclamation" — wagered $2,100
Sandra "What is Emancipation Freeing The Slaves" — wagered $2,500
Isaac "What is The Emancipation of Slaves" — wagered $2,000

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