Show #3929 2001-10-04 (taped 2001-08-14) Regular

Contestants

Mike Nassir — a physics and astronomy instructor from Honolulu, Hawaii

Diane Rohan — an event planner and full-time mom from New York, New York

Rod Sanders — a master control operator from Corpus Christi, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rod $2,500 $3,000 $12,200 $12,200
2-day champion: $17,200
$11,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Diane $1,800 $1,500 $2,900 $0
3rd place: Trip to Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa, Hot Springs, Arkansas
$2,900
13 R, 4 W
Mike $200 $500 $5,900 $5,999
2nd place: Trip to El Cid Resort, Mazatlan, Mexico
$6,900
15 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HEAVY METAL NEW YORK POSTHEADLINES CLASSIC ADS & JINGLES DIALECTS FIRST LADY FIRSTS WHEEL OF JEOPARDY!
$100 [6]
The greatest metal heroes aren't singers but these, like Randy Rhoads & Eddie Van Halen
guitarists
Diane
$100 [16]
About his entry into the "Monday Night Football" booth in 2000, the Post asked, "Are You Ready for Some Goofball?"
Dennis Miller
Diane
$100 [1]
"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is"
Alka-Seltzer
Rod
$100 [17]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew gives the clue in a tongue foreign to us but familiar to her.) The standard written form of the language I'm speaking is closely related to the dialects of Uppsala & other nearby towns
Swedish
Rod Diane
$100 [24]
In 1945 she became the first former first lady to serve as a delegate to the U.N.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mike
$100 [7]
A group of outdoor bargain stalls_ L E __ _ R _ E T
flea market
Diane
$200 [12]
This band, a member of which is seen here, attracted an "Army" of fans
Kiss
Rod
$200 [18]
In 1999 a possible strike by this group, baseball's "men in blue", led to "Go Ahead and Walk, You Porky Chumps"
the umpires
Rod Diane
$200 [2]
"The best part of waking up is" this "in your cup"
Folgers
Diane
$200 [20]
Of all this language's dialects, Tuscan is the closest to classical Latin
Italian
Diane
$300 [26]
The consummate hostess, in 1809 she was first to host an official inaugural ball
Dolley Madison
Rod
$200 [8]
Nasty, low & viciousD _ _ N_ N _D _ _ _ Y
down and dirty
Mike
$300 [13]
(Hi, I'm Geoff Tate of Queensryche.) A good heavy metal band spells its name with this mark over a vowel--my band has one over the "Y"
an umlaut
Diane
$300 [19]
After a refusal to help NYC in a 1975 fiscal crisis, a Post banner trumpeted, this president "To City: Drop Dead"
Gerald Ford
Mike
$300 [3]
"Have it your way"
Burger King
Diane
$300 [21]
This dialect of Chinese is widely spoken in Hong Kong
Cantonese
Rod Diane
$400 [27]
Taking up residence in the White House in 1921, she was the first divorcee to become first lady
Florence Harding
$300 [9]
A final irritationT _ E_ _ S TS T _ _ W
the last straw
Rod
$400 [14]
This band's drummer Lars Ulrich has crusaded against song-sharing websites
Metallica
Rod
$400 [4]
"...Tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox love" these
Armour hot dogs
Diane
$400 [22]
Dialects of this language include Biscayan & Navarrese in Spain & Labourdin & Navarrais in France
Basque
Mike
$500 [28]
The first first lady to live past the age of 90, she was 97 when she died in 1982
Bess Truman
$400 [10]
To perform a superfluous action_ _ L _T _ EL _ L Y
gild the lily
Diane
$500 [15]
(Hi, I'm C.C. DeVille.) My band Samantha 7 debuted on the "Behind the Music" episode of this old band of mine
Poison
Rod
$500 [5]
"Something special in the air"
American Airlines
Rod
$500 [23]
This Baltic country has 2 main dialects: Tallinn, spoken in the north, & Tartu, spoken in the south
Estonia
Mike
DD $1,000 [25]
She was the first first lady to live in the White House
Abigail Adams
Mike
$500 [11]
Backup players to relieve the startersS _ _ O N _S _ _ _ N _
second string
Rod

Double Jeopardy! Round

HEAVY METALLURGY MOVIE SEQUELS THE LAND OF OZ MORE OF "DE" BEST PEOPLE LITERATURE QUASI-RELATED PAIRS
$200 [1]
Symbolized Pb, it's been mined & smelted for 8,000 years
lead
Mike
$200 [4]
"Hannibal"(2001)
The Silence of the Lambs
Diane
$200 [12]
(Hi, I'm Elisabeth Filarski from Survivor.) If you watched "Survivor", you know that this sparsely settled interior is known by this 7-letter word
the Outback
Mike
$200 [11]
On the 2001 Oscar telecast Steve Martin gave this former "Taxi" star some dip for his veggies
Danny DeVito
Rod
$200 [17]
The Bermoothes, where Prospero's brother was shipwrecked in this play, might have been named for Bermuda
The Tempest
Mike
$200 [26]
Singer-songwriter Carole & Freddie Mercury's band
King & Queen
Mike
$400 [2]
This type of furnace used to smelt iron ore is named for the stream of air it sends through the fuel
blast furnace
$400 [5]
"The Lost World"(1997)
Jurassic Park
Mike
$400 [20]
This island state is sometimes called the "Apple Isle" because it once produced most of Australia's apples
Tasmania
Rod
$400 [13]
While visiting Expo '67 this French president advocated liberation for Quebec
Charles de Gaulle
Rod
$400 [18]
This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford & a lodger
House of the Seven Gables
Diane
$400 [27]
Squeaky-clean actress Doris & singer Gladys
Day & Knight
Mike
$600 [3]
Physical metallurgy generally deals with these, defined as metals made of several elements
alloys
Rod
$600 [6]
"The Color of Money"(1986)
The Hustler
Rod
$600 [21]
This constellation is depicted on Australia's flag
Southern Cross
Rod
$600 [14]
This existential pal of Jean-Paul Sartre wrote "The Second Sex"
Simone de Beauvoir
$600 [19]
A dog named Jip chews up the cookbook belonging to this Dickens title character's wife Dora
David Copperfield
Rod
$600 [28]
Country legend Johnny & film legend Grant
Cash & Cary
Diane
$800 [9]
Metal can be recovered from a solution by this process, also the name of a hair-removal method
electrolysis
Diane
$800 [7]
"Staying Alive"(1983)
Saturday Night Fever
Rod
$800 [22]
In the second verse of this Australian song, a jumbuck, or sheep, comes to drink at a water hole
Waltzing Matilda
Mike
DD $1,000 [15]
In 1537 he was told that to keep his job as governor of Cuba and Florida, he'd have to conquer & colonize Florida
Hernando de Soto
Rod
$800 [24]
The wife of this Sinclair Lewis research scientist dies during an epidemic in the West Indies
Arrowsmith
Rod
$800 [29]
Former Democratic Colorado senator Gary & the largest city in South Korea
Hart & Seoul
Rod
$1,000 [10]
A heap of this metallurgical waste is seen here
slag
Mike
DD $1,400 [8]
"The Jewel of the Nile"(1985)
Romancing the Stone
Rod
$1,000 [23]
(Hi, I'm Colby Donaldson from Survivor2.) It's a 1971 movie, or a return to Australian Aboriginal life, including survival in the bush
Walkabout
Mike
$1,000 [16]
Among the films he's produced are "Conan the Barbarian" & the 1976 version of "King Kong"
Dino De Laurentiis
Mike
$1,000 [25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a water theme park.) Hey, we can be this title duo from a Lewis Carroll poem
the Walrus and the Carpenter
Rod
$1,000 [30]
Boxer Liston & your part of the loot
Sonny & share
Diane

Final Jeopardy!

EXPLORATION

In February 1962 he said, "The sunset was beautiful. It went down very rapidly"

John Glenn

Diane "Who is BIRD?" — wagered $2,900
Mike "Who is John Glenn?" — wagered $99
Rod "Who is John Glenn?" — wagered $0

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