Show #3356 1999-03-22 Celebrity

1999 CelebrityJeopardy!Sports Anchors Night.

Contestants

Keith Olbermann — an anchorman from Fox Sports News

Robin Roberts — an anchorwoman from ESPN

Bob Costas — a commentator and anchorman from NBC Sports

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $2,600 $4,800 $15,000 $20,000
Winner: $20,000 for Bob Costas Cancer Center
$15,600
33 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Robin $800 $1,300 $4,600 $0
3rd place: $10,000 for The Genesis Foundation
$4,000
9 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Keith $300 $1,400 $3,400 $5,900
2nd place: $10,000 for Jesuit Jamshedpur Mission
$3,400
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHERE WERE YOU IN '62? SPORTS STATS TRUCK STOP POP MUSIC AROUND THE USA ATHLETE'S RHYME TIME
$100 [1]
Steel companies that raised prices $6 a ton were forced to roll them back by this president
John F. Kennedy
Bob
$100 [6]
In 1997, his first full year on the PGA Tour, he became the first to exceed $2 million in earnings for a season
Tiger Woods
Bob
$100 [21]
A 4-wheel drive vehicle that tows planes into gates is called this, like a boat that tows ships
tug
Keith
$100 [11]
Ladies' Home Journal named this "Like A Virgin" singer one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century
Madonna
Bob
$100 [16]
This city is the home of Golden Gate University's main campus
San Francisco
Bob
$100 [22]
A spotless putting area
clean green
Bob
$200 [2]
This Warrior scored 100 points in one game
Wilt Chamberlain
Bob
$200 [7]
In June 1998 he set a major league record by slugging 20 home runs in a month
Sammy Sosa
Bob
$400 [28]
A folding weapon gave us this term for a rig's dangerous "bending" when it stops abruptly
jackknife
Keith
$200 [12]
Their rock opera albums "Tommy" & "Quadrophenia" were both turned into films
The Who
Bob
$200 [17]
It's Tennessee's state flower, not its state part of the eye
Iris
Keith
$200 [23]
An aquamarine rod for billiards
blue cue
Keith
$300 [3]
It wasn't until almost 2 months after his coverage of John Glenn's flight he got the CBS Evening News anchor seat
Walter Cronkite
Keith
$300 [8]
From 1952 to 1955 this Phillie led the National League in wins, complete games & innings pitched
Robin Roberts
Robin
$500 [27]
Appropriately, Bigfoot is a famous one of these "scary" trucks whose tires are 5 1/2 feet across
monster trucks
Bob
$300 [13]
The group that finished the '80s as Starship first took off in the '60s under this name
Jefferson Airplane
Bob
$300 [18]
The National Museum of American Art is in this city's Old Patent Office Building
Washington, D.C.
Keith
$300 [24]
A boxing arena monarch
ring king
Keith
$400 [4]
This Space Age animated family made their network debut in the fall of '62
The Jetsons
Bob
DD $500 [9]
In 1973 he became the first & only horse to break the 2-minute barrier in the Kentucky Derby
Secretariat
Robin
$400 [14]
This '60s singer-guitarist called "Foxy Lady" "about the only happy song" he'd ever written
Jimi Hendrix
Keith
$400 [19]
The name of this island near Martha's Vineyard may mean "sandy, sterile soil tempting no one"
Nantucket
$400 [25]
Your father's protective football gear
dad's pads
Keith
$500 [5]
In June 1962 the Supreme Court ruled that this in schools violated the First Amendment
prayer
Bob
$500 [10]
In his 26 years in pro football, this quarterback-kicker scored a record 2,002 points
George Blanda
Bob
$500 [15]
This group was reeling in the '70s with hits like "Reeling in the Years", "Peg" & "Do It Again"
Steely Dan
Bob
$500 [20]
Founded in 1850, The Deseret News is the oldest continuously operating business in this U.S. state
Utah
Bob
$500 [26]
A plump Louisville Slugger
fat bat
Bob Robin

Double Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD THE SPORTS BIZ BEHIND THE MIKE OPERA JOCKS ON FILM CHAUVINISTIC TERMS FOR WOMEN
$200 [14]
In April 1960 Rio de Janeiro was replaced as capital of this country
Brazil
Robin
$200 [9]
This NBA player's $33 million for 1997-98 was the highest single-season salary in sports history
Michael Jordan
Bob
$200 [4]
If you find John maddening his partner, this ex-placekicker, may calm you down
Pat Summerall
Keith
$200 [22]
Rossini's "William Tell" Overture was used as the theme for this classic TV western
The Lone Ranger
Bob
$200 [1]
In 1940 Pat O'Brien played this "All American" Notre Dame coach
Knute Rockne
Robin
$200 [21]
Barbie, for example
doll
Keith
$400 [15]
Muammar al-Qaddafi is this country's head of state but has no official title
Libya
Bob
$400 [10]
In 1997 Paul Allen, who made billions as co-founder of this software giant, bought the Seattle Seahawks for $200 million
Microsoft
Bob
$400 [5]
After a time out for some legal troubles, this play-by-play man returned to the Knicks in 1998
Marv Albert
Robin
$400 [27]
In this opera based on a Grimm fairy tale, the witch lures 2 kids into her gingerbread house
Hansel and Gretel
Bob
$400 [2]
In 1969, the same year he played the Sundance Kid, he played an egotistical skier in "Downhill Racer"
Robert Redford
Bob
$400 [23]
An infant
babe
Bob
$600 [16]
Country in the name of the species seen here
India
Robin
$600 [11]
On 2/23/94 more U.S. households tuned in to watch Nancy & Tonya in this sport than any other Olympic sportscast ever
figure skating
Bob
$600 [6]
He gained fame doing sports on radio station WHO Des Moines, moved into actng & later tried politics
Ronald Reagan
Robin
DD $600 [28]
Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" takes place in the early 1900s in this country
Japan
Bob
$600 [3]
James Caan had a "ball" as the champ of a violent future sport in this 1975 flick
Rollerball
Keith
$600 [24]
A little bird, or sportscaster Hearn
Chick
Bob
$1,000 [18]
This cradle of civilization was conquered by Macedonia in 338 B.C. & wasn't independent again until 1830
Greece
Bob
$800 [12]
Once upon a midnight dreary, Art Modell moved this NFL team to Baltimore & gave it this new nickname
the Ravens
Bob
$800 [7]
From 1965 to 1984 this annnouncer & avid fisherman was the host of TV's "The American Sportsman"
Curt Gowdy
Bob
$800 [19]
This film's title is the second half of an old boxing expression
The Harder They Fall
Bob
$800 [25]
A knight's wife; there's "Nothing Like" one
dame
Bob
DD $1,300 [17]
The island of Corsica belongs to France; Sardinia, 7 miles away, belongs to this country
Italy
Robin
$1,000 [13]
In July 1998, after serving as acting baseball commissioner for 6 years, he was officially given the job by owners
Bud Selig
Bob
$1,000 [8]
She won 2 Olympic gold medals in swimming in 1964 & has covered the games for ABC
Donna de Varona
Bob
$1,000 [20]
This 1957 biopic told of the Red Sox' Jimmy Piersall & his bout with mental illness
Fear Strikes Out
Bob
$1,000 [26]
Not narrow
broad
Keith

Final Jeopardy!

THE OLYMPICS

Before the first winter games in 1924, this sport was played in the summer games; Canada won gold in 1920

ice hockey

Keith "What is ice hockey?" — wagered $2,500
Robin "What is "Bob"sledding" — wagered $4,600
Bob "What is hockey?" — wagered $5,000

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