Show #2809 1996-11-14 (taped 1996-09-29) Celebrity

1996 CelebrityJeopardy!game 4.

Contestants

Eartha Kitt — an actress and singer from New York City

Buzz Aldrin — a retired astronaut and author from the bookEncounter with Tiber

Brett Butler — an actress fromGrace Under Fire

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Brett	$1,000	$3,400	$0	$2,000 Winner: $10,000 to charity	$7,400 21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Buzz	$900	$2,200	$4,200	$1,200 2nd place: $10,000 to charity	$4,200 12 R, 1 W
Eartha	$200	$300	$-2,500	$0 3rd place: $10,000 to the March of Dimes	$-2,500 2 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

BEETHOVEN	SCHOOLS	BOOKS BY THE NUMBERS	NATURE	THEY USED TO BE TRUCK DRIVERS
$100 [14] In English, this first name of Beethoven would be Lewis Ludwig Eartha	$100 [4] This university near South Bend, Indiana awards the Laetare Medal to a leading Roman Catholic Notre Dame Buzz	$100 [13] The number of Snow White's dwarfs or T.E. Lawrence's "Pillars of Wisdom" 7 Brett	$100 [3] Most insects have 2 pairs of these attached to their backs wings Buzz	$100 [1] He was a Marine, a truck driver & a soda jerk before he starred in "The French Connection" Gene Hackman Brett Eartha
$200 [22] World Book says Beethoven was somewhat odd before he lost this sense & irritable after hearing Brett	$200 [7] Father Flanagan High School is operated by this facility just west of Omaha Boys Town Buzz	$200 [18] In this George Orwell classic, Big Brother is the dictator of Oceania "1984" Brett	$200 [11] Eagles usually kill their prey with these body parts talons Brett	$200 [2] This handsome leading man was a truck driver before he shared "Pillow Talk" with Doris Day Rock Hudson Buzz
—	$300 [6] At this Washington, D.C. college, Bill Clinton served as class president in his freshman & sophomore years Georgetown Eartha	$300 [19] This 1844 Dumas novel relates the adventures of Athos, Porthos, Aramis & D'Artagnan "The Three Musketeers" Brett	$300 [5] A lack of this green pigment is one thing that separates fungi from other plants chlorophyll Buzz	$400 [10] He drove a truck for an oil company long before he starred in "To Kill A Mockingbird" Gregory Peck Buzz
—	$400 [15] Douglass College, the USA's largest women's college, is affiliated with this state university of New Jersey Rutgers Buzz	$400 [20] The title of this Joseph Heller novel has come to mean an impossible situation "Catch-22" Brett	$400 [8] A chameleon can use this organ, almost as long as its body, to catch birds tongue Brett	DD $500 [9] This current monarch drove a 3-ton truck & serviced motor engines during WWII1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. Whereas, one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an Annus horribilis Queen Elizabeth II Brett
—	$500 [16] Laszlo Moholy-Nagy founded the Chicago Institute of Design on the principles of this Berlin design school the Bauhaus	$500 [21] The "firemen" in this Ray Bradbury work don't put out fires, they set them by burning books Fahrenheit 451 Brett	$500 [17] The beak-to-tail measurement of the leatherback species of this sea creature can run about 7 feet turtle Buzz	$500 [12] This British star of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was formerly a truck driver, a steeplejack & a fire eater Bob Hoskins Brett

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER	U.S. HISTORY	AWARDS	LANGUAGES	MUSICAL THEATRE	POTPOURRI
$200 [18] This largest ocean supplies about half of the world's yearly supply of fish & shellfish the Pacific Ocean Brett	$400 [9] The "New Frontier" was the domestic program of his 1961-63 administration John F. Kennedy Brett	$600 [19] In 1994 this "Far Side" creator won a Reuben Award as Best Cartoonist of the Year Gary Larson Brett	$600 [3] Of Hindi, Hungarian or Hebrew, the one spoken by more than 350 million people Hindi Brett	$800 [15] Emily Loesser sang the part of Sarah Brown in a recent recording of this musical written by her father Guys and Dolls	$600 [20] At the 1996 burial of Larry LaPrise, this song's author, we guess they put his right foot in, put his right foot out... the Hokey Pokey
$400 [17] Chief ports on this gulf include Kuwait City & Al Basrah, Iraq the Persian Gulf Buzz	$800 [4] On April 19, 1993 the Branch Davidian compound near this Texas city burned to the ground after a 51-day siege Waco Buzz	$800 [13] In 1993 Frederik W. De Klerk & Nelson Mandela shared this award Nobel Peace Prize Brett	$800 [16] It was Greta Garbo's native language Swedish Buzz	$1,000 [12] This Tony-winning 1992 musical starring Chita Rivera is based on a book by Manuel Puig Kiss of the Spider Woman Brett	$800 [14] He joined the Boston Symphony as a violinist in 1915 & began conducting in the '20s Arthur Fiedler Brett Eartha
$600 [5] The Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal connects this Great Lake with the Mississippi River Lake Michigan Brett	$1,000 [6] In January 1946 this former first lady was the only woman on the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Eleanor Roosevelt Buzz	$1,000 [10] In 1993 this retired black Supreme Court justice received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom Thurgood Marshall Brett	$1,000 [11] The Khoisan languages of this continent are noted for their clicking sounds Africa Brett Buzz Eartha	DD $3,200 [21] Act one of this show features the songs "Belle", "Be Our Guest" & "If I Can't Love Her" Beauty and the Beast Brett	$1,000 [1] New ones of these in 1996 include 847 for Illinois & 330 for Ohio area codes Brett
$800 [8] The German name for this lake on the border of Switzerland & France is Genfersee Lake Geneva Brett	DD $4,400 [2] In 1898, as a result of this war, the U.S. paid $20 million for the Philippines the Spanish-American War Brett	—	—	—	—
$1,000 [7] Relax, have a rum & enjoy the sun on Walter Fletcher Beach on this Jamaican bay Montego Bay Brett Eartha	—	—	—	—	—

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NAMES

In a 1935 poem this leader wrote, "The Red Army fears not the trials of the Long March"

Mao Tse-tung

Eartha "Who is" — wagered $1,000

Brett "Who is Mao Tse Tung" — wagered $1,000

Buzz "Who is Napoleon" — wagered $3,000

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