Show #2573 1995-11-08 Celebrity

1995 CelebrityJeopardy!game 3.

Contestants

Charles Shaughnessy — an actor fromThe Nanny

Shawntel Smith — a Miss America from Muldrow, Oklahoma

Noah Wyle — an actor fromER

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Noah	$900	$2,200	$7,600	$10,100 2nd place: $10,100 for the John Wayne Cancer Institute + Race to Erase MS	$7,600 21 R, 3 W
Shawntel	$-300	$-500	$-500	$250 3rd place: $10,000 to the Miss America Foundation	$-500 2 R, 2 W
Charles	$1,800	$1,700	$10,900	$15,900 Winner: (At least) $15,900 for the Sunshine Mission Church in Santa Monica, California	$9,400 21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH LIT	LIBATIONS	QUOTATIONS	HISTORIC BANDS	TAKE FIVE	PIGS ON FILM
$100 [3] Frances Hodgson Burnett planted "The Secret Garden" in 1911 & has this "Little Lord" grow up in 1886 Little Lord Fauntleroy Charles	$100 [10] Recipes for a Cuban cocktail call for the Puerto Rican, Jamaican or Cuban type of this rum Noah	$100 [1] "A boy's best friend is his mother" is a line from this 1960 Anthony Perkins movie Psycho Noah	$100 [8] His brother Pierre Lafitte disposed of the booty his band of pirates plundered Jean Lafitte	$100 [16] Michael, Jackie, Tito, Marlon & Jermaine The Jackson 5 Shawntel	$100 [13] He made his debut in 1935's "I Haven't Got a Hat" & is famous for the line "That's all folks" Porky (Pig) Noah
$200 [4] About a "bisy" lawyer this Canterbury Tales man wrote, "And yet he semed bisier than he was" Chaucer Charles	$200 [11] Vodka & this juice combine to make a screwdriver; add the juice to champagne for a mimosa orange juice Noah	$200 [2] "Don't get mad, get" this is attributed to Joseph P. Kennedy "even" Charles	$200 [22] The first recorded raid by a band of these Norsemen was 793 on the island of Lindisfarne, off England the Vikings Noah	$200 [17] In journalism they're the five W's what, when, where, why & who Noah Shawntel	$200 [14] Roger Ebert describes her water ballet number in "The Great Muppet Caper" as Busby Berkeley-like Miss Piggy Noah
$300 [5] This "Vanity Fair" author's middle name was Makepeace (William Makepeace) Thackeray Charles	$300 [20] In wine tasting, after looking at the color of the wine in your glass, do this next smell it Noah	$300 [9] "Nice Guys" do this was the title of a 1975 book by Leo Durocher Finish Last Shawntel Charles	—	$300 [21] "HOMES" is a word used to remember these, the five Great Lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie & Superior	$300 [15] This 1995 film tells the tale of a piglet who dreams of being a sheepdog Babe Noah
$500 [7] Title schoolteacher to whom James Hilton wrote a touching "Goodbye" Mr. Chips Noah	—	$400 [12] Noel Coward wrote that they "and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" "Mad dogs" Charles	—	—	$400 [18] Maurice Denham voiced barnyard revolt leader Napoleon the Pig in a 1955 version of this Orwell classic Animal Farm Noah
DD $700 [6] His "Barrack-Room Ballads" include "Mandalay" & "Gunga Din" (Rudyard) Kipling Charles	—	—	—	—	$500 [19] The 1973 cartoon adaptation of this E.B. White book featured the number "Zuckerman's Famous Pig" Charlotte's Web Shawntel Charles

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEDICINE	U.S. GEOGRAPHY	TV ACTORS & ROLES	WORLD HISTORY	COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	OPERA
$200 [11] Arrhythmia refers to an abnormal one of these; it may be too fast, too slow or erratic a heartbeat Noah	$200 [16] Texas' Brazos & Colorado rivers empty into this gulf the Gulf of Mexico Noah	$200 [1] On "The Andy Griffith Show", George Lindsey played Goober, this Jim Nabors character's cousin Gomer Noah	$200 [2] From 841-845 Buddhists were persecuted by this country's Tang Dynasty China Charles	$200 [23] This state-supported school has campuses in Kearney, Omaha & Lincoln Nebraska Noah	$200 [18] Camille Saint-Saens wrote a Biblical opera about Samson & this Philistine phloozy Delilah Charles
$400 [12] Duck embryos are used to make one of the vaccines for this disease transmitted by a dog bite rabies Noah	$400 [17] In the late 1800s Florida began draining this 4000-square-mile marsh to provide farmland the Everglades Charles	$400 [7] She appeared as Murray's daughter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" before co-starring on "Mad About You" Helen Hunt Charles	$400 [3] This exiled religious leader returned to Iran on Feb. 1, 1979 & the government soon collapsed the Ayatollah Khomeini Charles	$400 [24] This institution is called UNLV for short the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Noah Charles	$400 [19] The Budapest State Opera is this country's principal opera company Hungary Noah
$600 [13] This antiseptic with the formula H2O2can be used as a bleaching agent, to clean wounds & as a mouthwash hydrogen peroxide Charles	$600 [25] Virtually no trees grow in this 1100-mile-long Alaskan island chain, but there are grasses & flowering plants the Aleutians Charles	$600 [8] Dabney Coleman was up for this role on "Gilligan's Island" but Russell Johnson got the part the Professor Noah	$600 [4] About a century after Iceland was colonized, Eric the Red colonized this larger island Greenland Charles	$600 [27] This English university's Balliol College is named for John Balliol, the father of a king of Scotland Oxford University Charles	$600 [20] The di sortita type of this operatic solo is performed just before a singer leaves the stage an aria Noah
$800 [14] A person with this blood type is considered a universal donor O type Noah	$800 [26] In 1857 it replaced Iowa City as Iowa's capital Des Moines Noah	$800 [9] Hugh Beaumont played detective Michael Shayne on film but is best remembered for playing Ward on this TV show Leave it to Beaver Noah	$1,000 [6] From 1937 to 1979 a Somoza was president of this Central American country for all but 9 years Nicaragua Charles	—	$800 [21] Napoli composed an opera based on this French playwright's 1673 comedy "The Imaginary Invalid" Molière Charles
$1,000 [15] Found in poultry & eggs, this genus of bacteria is the most prevalent cause of food poisoning Salmonella Noah	—	$1,000 [10] In 1949 this "60 Minutes" reporter was an actor; he played Lt. Kidd on "Stand By for Crime" Mike Wallace	DD $2,000 [5] In 1815 Holland, Luxembourg & this neighbor united as the Kingdom of the Netherlands Belgium Charles	—	$1,000 [22] This Greek-American diva made her La Scala debut in 1951 in "I vespri siciliani" Maria Callas Charles

Final Jeopardy!

VOCABULARY

This term for the ludicrous misuse of a word is from the name of a character in an 18th century play

malapropism

Shawntel "What [scribble] ?" — wagered $250

Noah "What is a malapropism" — wagered $2,500

Charles "What is a malapropism" — wagered $5,000

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