Show #3217 1998-09-08 (taped 1998-07-14) Regular

David Bagley game 3.

Contestants

Tom Gould — a defense analyst from Stafford, Virginia

Barbara Bink — an editor from Fairfax, Virginia

David Bagley — an attorney from San Diego, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $1,100 $3,100 $12,500 $15,000
3-day champion: $40,900
$12,100
25 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Barbara $300 $1,500 $2,700 $500
3rd place: Ducane Par-T-Grill
$3,700
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Tom $2,500 $3,800 $7,400 $12,501
2nd place: Trip to Almond Beach Resort, Barbados
$7,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN MTV SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE WELL, EXHUME ME! IT'S MILLER TIME ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES
$100 [1]
The sea's deepest point, over 16,000 feet down, is in the Hellenic trough, nearest to this country
Greece
David
$100 [26]
The campaign "Choose or Lose '96" urged MTV viewers to do this
Register to/and vote
Barbara
$100 [6]
This comedy opens on a Venetian street
The Merchant of Venice
Barbara Tom
$100 [11]
In June 1996 an appeals court turned down a request to exhume this presidential assassin & actor
John Wilkes Booth
Tom
$100 [16]
This writer has been married to Ingeborg Morath & Marilyn Monroe
Arthur Miller
David
$100 [21]
BOIL EM, Alabama
Mobile
David
$200 [2]
This island where Napoleon was first exiled lies between Corsica & the Italian mainland
Elba
Barbara
$200 [27]
2-letter word that precedes "MTV Raps" in the name of a show title
"Yo!"
Tom
$200 [7]
This play's last line is "'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so"
The Taming of the Shrew
Barbara
$200 [12]
In 1997, after a 19-month search, this man's remains were found in Bolivia, dug up & sent to Cuba
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Tom
$200 [17]
Pardon me boy, this bandleader's plane was reported missing December 15, 1944
Glenn Miller
Tom
$200 [22]
A LUST, Oklahoma
Tulsa
David
$300 [3]
In this Egyptian city, you're a little late to see the lighthouse, but you can still check out Pompey's Pillar
Alexandria
David
$300 [28]
In a 1996 film these 2 MTV characters came into the possession of a deadly biological weapon
Beavis & Butt-Head
David
$300 [8]
"All the world's a stage" is from "As You Like It", the first comedy Shakespeare wrote for this theater
the Globe Theater
David
$300 [13]
Time asked in 1985 "Is this the Nazi doctor?" when bones dug up in South America were suspected to be his
Josef Mengele
Tom
$300 [18]
Now a hot-shooting guard with the Indiana Pacers, he majored in history & played ball at UCLA
Reggie Miller
Barbara
$300 [23]
CANNOT, Ohio
Canton
Barbara
$400 [4]
Going clockwise around the Mediterranean, it's the next national capital after Tunis
Algiers
Tom
$400 [29]
In 1997 this "Singled Out" hostess published her auto biography, "Jen-X"
Jenny McCarthy
David
$400 [9]
This play ends less one Moor as he dies "upon a kiss"
Othello
Tom
$400 [14]
Some want this Louisiana Territory explorer exhumed to prove he didn't commit suicide
Meriwether Lewis
David
$400 [19]
This Tony Award winner had hits with "Do-Wacka-Do" & "King of the Road"
Roger Miller
Tom
$400 [24]
SAVE SLAG, Nevada
Las Vegas
David
DD $500 [5]
British diplomat William Hamilton pioneered the study of volcanoes while posted in this Italian city
Naples
Tom
$500 [30]
In this series an empaneled group of MTV viewers chooses the top new video of the week
Twelve Angry Viewers
$500 [10]
After this ruler's death, Cinna cries, "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!"
Julius Caesar
Tom
$500 [15]
This star of "Z" & "Jean de Florette" was exhumed in 1998 to get his DNA for a paternity test
Yves Montand
David
$500 [20]
The works of this writer, born in 1891, have been banned numerous times for their sexual content
Henry Miller
Barbara
$500 [25]
LATE SET, Washington
Seattle
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK WHO'S THE ARTIST? BEFORE & AFTER MOVIE TITLES INTELLIGENCE "FOOL"ISHNESS
$200 [16]
The spring 1998 issue covered the first of these stellar explosions seen in both birth & death
Supernovas/novas
Tom
$200 [11]
Austrian schlosserbuben are these wrinkled fruits baked in dough & rolled in sugar & chocolate
Prunes
David
$200 [1]
In the 1640s he painted his young son, Titus
Rembrandt
David
$200 [6]
Lion-lover Joy Adamson adopts then liberates a whale
Born Free Willy
Barbara
$200 [17]
John Le Carre popularized the name of this burrowing mammal to mean a spy in enemy ranks
Mole
Tom
$200 [22]
It comes exactly 2 weeks before federal income taxes are due
April Fools Day
Tom
$400 [27]
The second word in the acronym AIDS points to this medical specialty that studies the disease
immunology
Barbara
$400 [12]
In this largest South American country, Romeu e Julieta is a slice of fresh cheese topped with guava jelly
Brazil
Tom
$400 [2]
Perceptive analysis of movement was a hallmark of this artist
Edgar Degas
David
$400 [7]
This 1952 Gene Kelly film is on at 8 o'clock; it's 102 minutes; Gene Kelly on at 8 o'clock; 102 minutes
Singin' in the Rain Man
$400 [18]
Knowing he'd need more than a slingshot, he spied on King Saul in the wilderness of Ziph
David
David
$400 [23]
Rash, reckless, or what Stan Laurel might do if he played a trick
Foolhardy
David
$800 [29]
Unselfishly, carbon generally forms these bonds in which atoms share their electrons
Covalent bonds
David
$600 [13]
Many Russians love to pick these fungi, known as griby, & cook them in sour cream
Mushrooms
David
$600 [3]
Come straight to the point & name this artist
Georges Seurat
David
$600 [8]
Disney's feline film featuring Hayley Mills & Dean Jones as Maggie & Big Daddy
That Darn Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
$600 [19]
German military communications of WWII were a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside this coding machine
Enigma
Barbara
$600 [24]
According to Merriam-Webster, it's "a state of fatuous complacency based on unreal conditions"
a fool's paradise
DD $1,000 [28]
His uncertainty principle says a particle's position & momentum can't be known simultaneously
Werner Heisenberg
Barbara
$800 [14]
Eaten in the British Isles, the "black" or "blood" type of this is really a sausage, not a dessert
Pudding
David
$1,000 [5]
A neo-classicist, this artist often painted the high & mighty
Jacques-Louis David
David
$800 [9]
George Hamilton dons the black mask & goes after androids in the future
Zorro the Gay Blade Runner
Tom
$800 [20]
It was during her reign that Her Majesty's Secret Service was 1st organized
Elizabeth I
David
$800 [25]
Someone with little patience for stupidity is said not to do this "gladly"
Suffer fools
Tom
$1,000 [30]
General term for cells that translate stimuli, like those of drugs, into nerve impulses
Receptors
David
$1,000 [15]
Egri Bikaver, or "Bull's Blood From Eger", is a red wine from this country, also known for its white tokay
Hungary
David
DD $1,200 [4]
Thisartistburned brightly as a poet as well
William Blake
David
$1,000 [10]
Charles Bronson & 6 other gunslingers save a town & then all get married
The Magnificent Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Barbara Tom
$1,000 [21]
In the 1960s the FBI targeted radical groups with COINTELPRO, which was short for this
Counter Intelligence Program
Tom
$1,000 [26]
This word for paper about 13 X 16 inches comes from the watermark once seen on it
Fool's cap
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY GREATS

His last published work, an 1898 poem, was first issued under his cell number

Oscar Wilde ("The Ballad of Reading Gaol")

Barbara "Who was Bearce?" — wagered $2,200
Tom "Who is Oscar Wilde?" — wagered $5,101
David "Who is Oscar Wilde?" — wagered $2,500

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