Show #3090 1998-01-23 Celebrity

1998 CelebrityJeopardy!Sportscasters Show.Set turns red in the Double Jeopardy! Round for last time.

Contestants

Al Michaels — a sportscaster from ABC'sMonday Night Football

Jim Lampley — a sportscaster from TNT Sports

Greg Gumbel — a sportscaster from NBC Sports

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Greg $0 $900 $5,300 $10,600
2nd place: $10,600 for the March of Dimes
$5,300
8 R, 0 W
Jim $1,500 $4,100 $10,200 $14,200
Winner: $15,000 for the Happy Hairston Youth Foundation
$12,300
29 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Al $900 $1,900 $2,700 $200
3rd place: $10,000 for the Starlight Children's Foundation & the Make-a-Wish Foundation
$2,500
8 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAST WOMEN FILM DIRECTORS THE BASEBALL HALL OF SHAME TEAMMATES MAKE A "WISH" GEOGRAPHY ZOO
$100 [10]
She left the ball so fast she lost one of her glass slippers
Cinderella
Al
$100 [5]
Before "Men in Black", Barry Sonnenfeld directed 2 movies about this altogether ooky family
The Addams Family
Jim
$100 [11]
"Georgia Peach" didn't describe his personality--he once charged into the stands & attacked a handicapped fan
Ty Cobb
Jim
$100 [1]
Before marrying Bill, Hillary worked with the congressional team that investigated this '70s scandal
Watergate
Al
$300 [18]
This phrase could mean indecisive, or it might mean wimpy, or perhaps even namby-pamby
wishy-washy
Al
$400 [19]
Saskatchewan's third-largest city, it sounds like it was named for Bullwinkle's mandible
Moose Jaw
Greg
$200 [12]
Guinness says Mary Jane Sorgel can twirl one of these majorette items while her dog Muffy sits on her head
a baton
Jim
$200 [6]
Antoine Doinel is the hero of this late French director's autobiographical film "The 400 Blows"
François Truffaut
Jim
$500 [22]
In 1918 Hal Chase was suspended for allegedly paying pitcher Jimmy Ring, a teammate, to do this
throw a game
Jim
$200 [2]
From 1917 to 1932 he & his sister Adele were a famous dancing team on Broadway
Fred Astaire
Al
$400 [17]
People who constantly put themselves in life-threatening situations are said to have them
death wishes
Jim
$500 [14]
A peak in Colorado is named for these bunny features that resemble the antennae on your old TV set
rabbit ears
Jim
$300 [13]
Her incredible track record includes her long, successful marriage to her coach, Bob Kersee
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Al
$300 [7]
The recent film from Mira Nair, the director of "Salaam Bombay!", takes its title from this Hindu love manual
the Kama Sutra
Jim
$400 [4]
This team of surveyors really knew where to draw the line--between Maryland & Pennsylvania
Mason & Dixon
Jim
$500 [16]
Nothing but net
swish
Greg
$400 [21]
A competitive speed skater since the tender age of 4, she won her first Olympic gold medal in 1988
Bonnie Blair
Al
$400 [8]
Vittorio De Sica directed a classic 1948 film about Antonio, who steals one of these vehicles
a bicycle
Jim
DD $500 [3]
Rhyming nickname of this man's teams of investigating lawyers, students & consumer specialists:
"Nader's Raiders"
Al
$500 [20]
She did her own skating when she played roller derby star "K.C." Carr in "Kansas City Bomber"
Raquel Welch
Jim
$500 [9]
This Japanese crime organization attacked Juzo Itami after he made a 1992 film satirizing them
the yakuza
$500 [15]
On May 14, 1804 their team of soldiers, French boatmen & a servant started up the Missouri
Lewis & Clark
Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

'60s ROCK '60s ROLES BESTSELLING AUTHORS "C"OMMON BONDS SPORTS MEDICINE MARCH OF DIMES
$200 [1]
His guitar-burning act was a highlight of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival
Jimi Hendrix
Jim
$200 [11]
Though listed as Joe or Blondie, this character is the "Man with No Name" in "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly"
Clint Eastwood
Jim
$200 [16]
As of 1996 he had 5 of the 15 bestselling children's books ever, led by "Green Eggs and Ham"
Dr. Seuss
Jim
$200 [21]
Dr. Niles, Dr. Frasier, whooping
Cranes
Jim
$200 [6]
Specialists say it's the joint most likely to suffer a major sports injury
knee
Jim
$200 [26]
Proverbial cost of things that are very common or in a surplus
a dime a dozen
Jim Al
$400 [2]
In a 1966 hit this group wanted you to "Paint It, Black"
The Rolling Stones
Jim
$400 [12]
When Patty Duke won her Oscar for this 1962 role, she was the youngest person to win a regular Oscar
Helen Keller
Jim
$400 [17]
In "Worse Than He Says He Is", ex-wife Anicka writes of her life with this "Worm"
Dennis Rodman
Jim
$400 [22]
Horseshoe, fiddler, hermit
crabs
Jim
$400 [7]
C21 H28 O5 isn't a football play but the formula for this hormone injected to treat inflammation
cortisone
Jim
$400 [27]
The book "All in Color for a Dime" covers the early history of these publications
comic books
Jim
$800 [4]
Gladys Knight & the Pips had a hit with "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" before he took it to No. 1
Marvin Gaye
Greg
$800 [14]
Nickname of Dustin Hoffman's Enrico Rizzo
Ratso
Jim
$600 [18]
This author who gave us the giant reptiles of "Jurassic Park" stands 6'9"
Michael Crichton
Greg
$600 [23]
Buffalo, micro, potato
chips
Greg
$600 [8]
An abrasion for scraping a hard surface is also called by the name of this fruit
strawberry
Jim
$600 [28]
Title of the E.Y. Harburg song that includes the line "Once I built a railroad, now it's done"
"Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?"
Jim
$1,000 [5]
Their "Age of Aquarius" album featured a medley from "Hair" as well as "Wedding Bell Blues"
The 5th Dimension
Jim
$1,000 [15]
Title profession of Rod Steiger's 1965 character Sol Nazerman
The Pawnbroker
Jim
$800 [19]
Before playing "Patriot Games", all his military experience was in ROTC at Loyola College in Baltimore
Tom Clancy
Greg
$800 [24]
Punch, cue, trading
cards
Greg
$800 [9]
A contusion of the iliac crest, aka a "hip", one of these, is treated with ice &, above all, rest
pointer
Greg
$800 [29]
Cher starred in it on Broadway & in film
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
DD $1,500 [3]
Group heardherein their very first hit:
The Mamas & the Papas
Jim
DD $3,000 [13]
1964 film that included the characters seen here:
Dr. Strangelove
Jim
$1,000 [20]
Reviewers might have said "Someday all this will be" this author of "Exodus" & "Mila 18"
Leon Uris
Jim
$1,000 [25]
Ice, cold, Devonshire
cream
Al
$1,000 [10]
In 1974 torn tissue in pitcher Tommy John's left arm was replaced with a tendon from this part of his body
his right arm
$1,000 [30]
Ned Buntline, Edward S. Ellis & Ann S. Stephens were famous authors of this genre
dime novels
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

LIBRARIES

The millionth visitor to this library received a signed copy of "My Turn", some jelly beans & a weekend getaway

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Al "What is the N.Y. Public Library?" — wagered $2,500
Greg "What is the Reagan Library?" — wagered $5,300
Jim "What is the Ronald Reagan Library?" — wagered $4,000

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