Show #3280 1998-12-04 (taped 1998-10-07) Regular

Andrew Maly game 5.

Contestants

Brendan McTaggart — a communications director from Los Angeles, California

Diane Wakefield — a high school Spanish teacher originally from Titusville, Pennsylvania

Andrew Maly — an environmental engineer from Bel Air, Maryland (whose 4-day cash winnings total $33,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andrew $1,600 $2,800 $10,300 $10,300
5-day champion: $44,100
$9,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Diane $200 $600 $3,200 $3,200
2nd place: Trip to Hotel Melia Castilla, Madrid, Spain
$4,200
10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Brendan $800 $1,700 $4,900 $1,900
3rd place: Trip to Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California
$6,900
21 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT'S MY LINE? WHERE ARE WE? WHO'S LAUGHING NOW? WHEN WAS THAT, PIERRE? HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? "Y" ME?
$100 [6]
As a noun, it's the person who is in charge of the money; as a verb, it means to dismiss from service
cashier
$100 [8]
It's not the rent-a-car company, it's the historic landmark seen here
the Alamo
Brendan
$100 [18]
He's the happy headbanger heard here
Woody Woodpecker
Andrew
$100 [23]
Tres tragique was this year when France was first occupied in World War II
1940
Andrew
$100 [16]
Put it tightly in place over the drain, release any trapped air & ram the handle up & down
a plunger
Brendan
$100 [1]
You're one of these if you're young, live in the city & are a professional
a yuppie
Brendan
$200 [7]
Mickey D's doesn't have a maitre d', which is short for this
maitre d'hotel
Diane
$200 [9]
Over 700 feet high, this dam is the largest of its type in the United States
Hoover Dam
Brendan
$200 [19]
He's the brother heard here:"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!"
Curly (of the Three Stooges)
Andrew
$200 [26]
C'est tout! The armistice ending "La Grande Guerre" was signed in the Compiegne Forest in this year
1918 (World War I)
Andrew Diane
$200 [17]
Connect the 2 positive posts; connect the charged battery's negative post to metal on the dead car
jumper cables
Diane
$200 [2]
You were "happy" if you were a member of this '60s radical group that included Abbie Hoffman & Jerry Rubin
Yippies
Brendan
$300 [13]
The builder of a ship's water heater, especially if he played for Purdue
a boilermaker
Brendan
$300 [10]
The column seenherehonors this sailor, who died in 1805
Lord Horatio Nelson
$300 [20]
This African native is a true carnivore
a hyena
Andrew
$300 [28]
Alors! In this year France lost the battle of Dien Bien Phu & saw revolution begin in Algeria
1954
Andrew
$300 [24]
Cross long end over short, pass it through loop, double short end into loop, give up, get a clip-on
a bow tie
Diane Brendan
$300 [3]
You're one of these little deer if you're an animal between 365 & 730 days old
Yearling
Andrew
$400 [14]
The "barb" in barber is from the Latin for this
Beard
Brendan
$400 [11]
A historic place of pilgrimage, this English cathedral dates from the 11th century
Canterbury
Andrew
$400 [21]
She's the sitcom star heard laughing here
Fran Drescher
Diane
$400 [29]
Vive la Revolution Francaise! which began in this year
1789
Diane
$400 [25]
Set it in motion with your feet, then wet your fingers before centering the clay
throwing a pot on a potter's wheel
Diane
$400 [4]
You're this if you're a convict or a recruit or a member of an early Eric Clapton band
a yardbird
Andrew
$500 [15]
Even though it's about a doctor, this 1925 Sinclair Lewis book could be called "Fletcher"
Arrowsmith
Andrew Brendan
$500 [12]
Thiscataract was discovered in 1935 from the air
Angel Falls
Andrew
$500 [22]
This Australian native, heard here, is also known as the laughing jackass bird
a kookaburra
Diane
DD $1,000 [30]
Une annee horrible was this year of Napoleon's death, 6 years after Waterloo
1821
Diane
$500 [27]
Shackle, then gradually pay out the line; snub the line to get a bite into the bottom; move fast
anchor
Brendan
$500 [5]
Hoot, mon! If you're an old Scot you know this food's name is a Scottish word for potato
yam
Andrew

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEDIEVAL PEOPLE TV ON TV AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNIE OPERA HODGEPODGE TOUGH BEFORE & AFTER
$200 [11]
Roger II, king of this large island off Italy, was one of the 12th century's intellectual dynamos
Sicily
Andrew
$200 [6]
Kent Brockman is the local Emmy-winning anchor of the "Springfield Action News" on this show
The Simpsons
Brendan
$200 [15]
The literary prize named for this creator of "Don Quixote" is awarded to authors who write in Spanish
Cervantes
Brendan
$200 [1]
Seen here earlier in his career, he recently appeared on TV's "The Single Guy"
Ernest Borgnine
Brendan
$200 [26]
His ever-popular novel "The Brothers Karamazov" inspired an opera by Otakar Jeremias
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brendan
$200 [20]
Russian empress who admires the idol of Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway
Catherine the Great Gatsby
Brendan
$400 [12]
Appropriately, the third Pope of this name was a city boy, born in & later archbishop of Milan
Urban
Brendan
$400 [7]
He played innkeeper Dick Loudon, who hosted the talk show "Vermont Today"
Bob Newhart
Brendan
$400 [16]
Cywydd, a verse form featuring rhyming couplets, comes from this British Isles country
Wales
Diane
$400 [2]
This zany TV comedian's antics began with shows like "Deadline For Dinner" & "It's Time For Ernie"
Ernie Kovacs
$400 [28]
In Germany this Gounod opera based on a play by Goethe is called "Margarethe", for its heroine
Faust
Brendan
$400 [22]
Little Bighorn event in an Edward James Olmos East L.A. movie
Custer's Last Stand and Deliver
Diane
$600 [13]
Margery Kempe's "Book Of Margery Kempe" is one of the first examples of this genre in English
an autobiography
Andrew Brendan
$600 [8]
Shows within this show were the local news & "The Happy Homemaker Show" on WJM-TV, channel 12
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Andrew
$600 [17]
It was the native country of Benito Lynch, a master of the gaucho novel
Argentina
Andrew
$600 [3]
Few know that this revolutionary's real first name is Ernesto
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Andrew
$1,000 [27]
It's the native country of opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who sang at Princess Diana's wedding
New Zealand
Diane
$600 [23]
Brooding '50s movie star who heads the college's entrance department
James Dean of Admissions
Brendan
$800 [14]
Andrei Rublev was Russia's greatest painter of these, meaning "images"
icons
Diane
$1,000 [10]
Jim Carrey played an animator for the TV cartoon "Dippy Duck" on this short-lived sitcom
The Duck Factory
$800 [18]
This "Exodus" novelist's last name is derived from Yerushalmi, which means man of Jerusalem
Leon Uris
Andrew
$800 [4]
The Cubs' first black player, he was also the first National Leaguer to be named MVP 2 years in a row
Ernie Banks
Brendan
DD $2,000 [29]
This1847 opera by an Italian composer features singing witches
Macbeth
Brendan
$800 [24]
Garry Moore's game show about those who protect the president
I've Got a Secret Service
Andrew
$1,000 [21]
Mondino de' Luzzi revived this medical study; some found his dissections "gross"
anatomy
Andrew
DD $1,500 [9]
(Hi, I'm Wallace Langham.) I quipped with the best of the late night world as Phil, the head writer, on this HBO show
The Larry Sanders Show
Andrew
$1,000 [19]
This Russian published more than 300 short stories before he wrote his play "The Seagull"
Anton Chekhov
Brendan
$1,000 [5]
Killed by Japanese machine gun fire, this reporter won a Pulitzer for his wartime reporting
Ernie Pyle
Andrew
$1,000 [25]
Late Kung Fu "dragon" who was crowned the 1955 Miss America
Bruce Lee Meriwether
Andrew

Final Jeopardy!

AWARDS

In 1927 Cedric Gibbons designed this award that he went on to win 11 times

The Academy Award (Oscar)

Diane "What is" — wagered $0
Brendan "What is the Golden Globe Award?" — wagered $3,000
Andrew "What is the Academy Award? (Oscar)" — wagered $0

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