Show #2995 1997-09-12 Regular

Pam Mifflin game 1.

Contestants

Vartan Merjanian — an actor and musician from Encino, California

Pablo del Real — a substitute teacher originally from Acton, Massachusetts

Pam Mifflin — a computer trainer from Brookfield, Wisconsin

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pam $1,100 $1,100 $8,700 $17,300
New champion: $17,300
$7,500
20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Pablo $300 $600 $-1,200 $-1,200
3rd place: Wittnauer International watches
$-700
8 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Vartan $-200 $1,900 $8,100 $14,900
2nd place: a Zenith 35" big screen TV + a Bose Lifestyle home theater system
$8,100
20 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE MONSTERS DEER DIARY EARLY IN THEIR CAREERS THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION "POP" THE QUESTION NURSERY RHYME FOOD
$100 [21]
Footage of Raymond Burr was added to this 1954 Japanese classic, maybe to make it scarier
"Godzilla"
Vartan
$100 [16]
Deer flesh, commonly known by this term, is so lean that experts advise inserting fat before cooking
Venison
Pam
$100 [11]
Rhea Perlman fell for him when she saw him play a demented stableboy in a play called "The Shrinking Bride"
Danny DeVito
Vartan
$100 [6]
In what may be a forensic first, Paul Revere used these records to help identify Joseph Warren's body
Dental records
Pam
$100 [1]
Dreaded by students, it follows the order, "Books under your desk, take out a pencil & paper"
Pop Quiz
Pablo
$300 [27]
Some say it's best after it's been aged in a pot for 9 days
pease porridge
Vartan
$200 [22]
A documentary film crew in the Amazon encounters a giant snake in this 1997 film
"Anaconda"
Pam
$200 [17]
When a deer ruminates, it's not thinking but chewing this mass of food
Cud
Pablo
$200 [12]
Rent "Psycho II" & you'll see Dennis Franz as Toomey, who runs this infamous establishment as an "adult" motel
The Bates Motel
Pam
$200 [7]
Col. Lewis Nicola led a movement to make this man king of America
George Washington
Vartan
$300 [3]
Mr. Owl says it's "3"; a study done at Swarthmore claims it's an average of 142.18
The number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop
Pablo
$500 [26]
Not a chicken, but this lay in the house that Jack built
Malt
Pam Pablo
$300 [23]
Improbably, in 1958 Steve McQueen played a teenager being chased by this improbable giant amoeba-like mass
the Blob
Pam Vartan
$300 [18]
Term for a female red deer, or for 2 of her legs
Hind
Pablo
$300 [13]
While a student at Oxford, Hugh Grant tried out for this role in the film "Greystoke"
Tarzan
Pablo
$300 [8]
In 1832 he became the last American general of the war to die; a Civil War fort was named for him
Thomas Sumter
Pam
$400 [4]
It's the Pillsbury Doughboy's given name
"Poppin' Fresh"
Pam Pablo
$400 [24]
In 1935 Elsa Lanchester played this doctor's hair-raising second creation & was meant to wed the first
Dr. Frankenstein
Pam
$400 [19]
Deer range in shoulder height from 1' in the pudu to 6' 6" in this, the largest
Moose
Pam
$400 [14]
George Cukor directed Meg Ryan's 1981 film debut & this actress' 1932 debut, "A Bill of Divorcement"
Katharine Hepburn
Vartan
$400 [9]
A June 14, 1777 Congressional resolution determined what should be on this, but didn't set the design
The American Flag
Pam
DD $500 [2]
Song associated with the followingobject:
"Pop Goes The Weasel"
Pablo
$500 [25]
George Clooney & Quentin Tarantino wound up in a bar full of these creatures in 1996's "From Dusk Till Dawn"
Vampires
Vartan
$500 [20]
This name for the male of a small, nimble Eurasian deer has appeared on many catalogs, after "Sears"
Roebuck
Vartan
$500 [15]
Alan Ladd appeared as a reporter in this 1941 Orson Welles masterpiece
"Citizen Kane"
Pam
$500 [10]
It's unclear whether Israel Putnam or William Prescott commanded this June 17, 1775 battle
Bunker Hill
Vartan
$500 [5]
This cartoon trio was named for what milk makes Rice Krispies do
"Snap! Crackle! Pop!"
Pam

Double Jeopardy! Round

VICE PRESIDENTS 20th CENTURY AUTHORS WOMEN ON THE MAP THE EMMYS 30 YEARS AGO: SEPTEMBER 1967 CROSSWORD CLUES "D"
$200 [12]
This Hoosier, elected to Congress at age 29, was put on the vice-presidential ticket in 1988
Dan Quayle
Vartan
$200 [26]
Danish writer Peter Hoeg had a bestseller about her "Sense of Snow"
Smilla
Vartan
$200 [8]
We heard it through the grapevine that it's the largest island in Massachusetts
Martha's Vineyard
Pablo
$200 [19]
Bob Mackie sewed up a Costume Design Emmy for her variety special "Men, Movies and Carol"
Carol Burnett
Vartan
$200 [2]
Like a rock this dependency voted to remain solidly under British control
Gibraltar
Pam
$200 [1]
"There is nothin' like" one(4)
a dame
Vartan
$400 [13]
These 2 unelected vice presidents follow each other in the sequence of vice presidents
Gerald Ford & Nelson Rockefeller
Pam
$400 [27]
Active as a lawyer from age 21, he used a dictating machine to write his Perry Mason novels
Erle Stanley Gardner
Vartan
$400 [10]
Formerly known as St. Thomas, this capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands had a sex change
Charlotte Amalie
Pam
$400 [20]
The Christopher Lloyd who won for writing "Frasier" is not the man who won for playing Jim on this sitcom
Taxi
Vartan
$600 [4]
On Sept. 6 this French president arrived in Poland on one of his first visits to an east European communist nation
Charles de Gaulle
Vartan
$400 [7]
Oven or uncle preceder(5)
Dutch
Pam
$600 [14]
He was the last vice president to act as president of the Senate over 4 congresses: 97, 98, 99 & 100
George Bush
Pam Pablo
$600 [24]
In this Ray Bradbury novel, fireman Guy Montag doesn't put out fires, he starts them
Fahrenheit 451
Pam
$600 [11]
Famous for its large parks & lush landscapes, it's Canada's "Garden City"
Victoria, British Columbia
Vartan
$600 [21]
Kathy Bates & Ray Walston picked up Emmys in 1996 for their work on this series cancelled in 1996
Picket Fences
Vartan
$800 [5]
On September 10 the White House announced the engagement of Lynda Bird Johnson & this future senator
Charles Robb
Pam Pablo
$600 [9]
Wealthy widow(7)
dowager
Pam
$800 [17]
Prior to becoming a Republican in the 1850s, Schuyler Colfax belonged to this party
Whigs
Pam Pablo
$1,000 [28]
The British born & bred Evelyn Waugh set this satirical 1948 novel in California
The Loved One
Pam
$800 [22]
Andrea Martin & Martin Short were among winners in 1983 for writing for this comic "network"
SCTV
Vartan
DD $1,000 [3]
In September they reached the Top 40 with the song heard here:"I dig rock & roll music and I love to get the chance to play..."
Peter, Paul & Mary
Pam
$800 [15]
Off with their heads!(10)
decapitate
$1,000 [18]
He was the only vice president between Millard Fillmore & Chester Arthur to become president
Andrew Johnson
Vartan
DD $3,000 [25]
This "Humboldt's Gift" author won both the Pulitzer & Nobel Prizes in 1976
Saul Bellow
Pam
$1,000 [23]
Michael Lembeck won a 1996 Directing Emmy for this sitcom's "The One After the Superbowl" episode
Friends
Pablo Vartan
$1,000 [6]
Michigan governor George Romney charged that during a trip to this country he was brainwashed by officials
Vietnam
$1,000 [16]
German's Germany(11)
Deutschland
Pam

Final Jeopardy!

LAW ENFORCEMENT

This police force developed from bands of Indian fighters who protected American settlers in Mexico

the Texas Rangers

Vartan "Who were the Texas Rangers" — wagered $6,800
Pam "Who Are The Texas Rangers? Hi Jeff!" — wagered $8,600

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