Show #3636 - Monday, May 29, 2000

Contestants

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Ginny Reynolds, a writer and production coordinator from Patterson, New York

Greg Giles, an actor from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Steve Throneberry, a first-year law student from Santa Ana, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,601)

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Jeopardy! Round

MYTH
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME
SONGS' OPENING LINES
(Alex: You have to give the song title.)
1989
FIRE
EVERYTHING'S COMING UP "ROSE"S
    $100 26
For Remus looking at him must have been like looking in a mirror
    $100 3
Swanson, Steinem, Vanderbilt
    $100 21
Barry Manilow: "Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl"
    $100 1
On November 10, 1989 it was attacked with hammers, chisels, picks & graffiti
    $100 10
A spotlight placed too closse to a curtain ignited the 1992 fire that damaged St. George's Hall at this royal castle
    $100 4
One who has an optimistic view of things is said to be seeing life through these
    $200 27
This group led by Jason sailed on a ship with 50 oars
    $200 17
Coogan, Cooper, Joyner-Kersee
    $200 22
Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day"
    $200 2
In March 1989 the Soviets lost contact with Phobos 2, a craft sent to check out this planet, sound familiar
    $200 13
Rock star who sang the 1967 No. 1 hit "Light My Fire"
    $200 6
In "Citizen Kane", it was the last word uttered by Charles Foster Kane before he died
    $300 28
Amalthea was the nurse who secretly brought up this kid so his father Cronus wouldn't eat him
    $300 18
Williams, Fawkes, Lombardo
    $300 23
The Village People: "Body, body, wanna feel my body, body, baby"
    $300 5
He died 4 months after putting a sentence of death on Salman Rushdie, who was still alive a decade later
    $300 14
In 1988 fires swept through nearly 1 million acres of this national park, almost half its territory
    $300 7
In 1978 he hit in 44 straight games, second only to Joe DiMaggio's record 56-game streak
    $400 29
Iris, the daughter of Thaumas & Electra, was the goddess of this colorful effect
    $400 19
Hayes, Newton, Stern
    $400 24
The Beatles: "There are places I'll remember"
    DD: $500 11
In July this country celebrated a historic bicentennial
    $400 15
Tragically in 47 B.C. a fire that destroyed the Egyptian fleet spread through this library
    $400 8
It's "the sweetest flow'r that grows"
    $500 30
One version says she got the gift of prophecy after her ears were licked by a serpent in Apollo's temple
    $500 20
Basil, Braxton, Morrison
    $500 25
Aretha Franklin: "Looking out on the morning rain, I used to feel uninspired"
    $500 12
Baseball fans in this stadium ready to watch game 3 of the World Series in 1989 were shaken by an earthquake
    $500 16
A sacred flame was kept burning at a temple in the Roman forum honoring this goddess of the hearth
    $500 9
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that marriage "is a field of battle, and not" this

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Steve Greg Ginny
$700 $1,200 $1,900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Greg Ginny
$500 $3,200 $3,500

Double Jeopardy! Round

OTTOMAN EMPERORS
"B" MOVIES
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO
MY MAINE MAN
1999 BOOKS
RHYMES WITH WORLD
    $200 15
Mehmed or Muhammad I, emperor 1413-1421, was the first to bear the name of the founder of this faith
    $200 1
Oddly, Hal David & Burt Bacharach composed the title song of this 1958 Steve McQueen sci-fi classic
    $200 10
Mobile Bay is found on this state's small stretch of Gulf coastline
    $200 6
A huge baseball fan, this author built a ballpark in Bangor that's been dubbed the "Field of Screams"
    $200 21
Her mother came out with "Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey"
    $200 8
Thrown
    $400 16
15th century Emperor Mehmed II is known to history by this epithet, like King William I of England
    $400 2
Jane Fonda is a futuristic sex kitten in this campy space classic
    $400 11
Residents of this Florida Gulf city, like residents of the city it's named for, are called Neopolitans
    $400 7
After moving to a farm in North Brooklyn, Maine, he spun such tales as "Charlotte's Web"
    $400 22
Pick up her "Joy Schtick" & enjoy "the view"
    $400 9
Spiraled, as with hair
    $600 28
Struggling as emperor from 1410 to 1413, one version of his 4-letter name is the Spanish word for table
    DD: $1,000 3
What a pain in the neck! An African prince is turned into a vampire in this 1972 blaxploitation film
    $600 12
Gulf city serenade heard here:

"I still hear your sea winds blowin'..."
    $600 17
Michelle Pfeiffer's main man is this Maine-born TV producer & writer
    $600 23
"Tara Road" was a 1999 bestseller by this "Circle of Friends" author
    $600 20
Rolled up
    $800 4
This Roger Corman classic finds gun-toting "Mama" Angie Dickinson involved with William Shatner
    $800 13
Before empyting into the Gulf, the Sabine River forms the border between Texas & this state
    $800 18
The first person from Maine to become VP, he served under Abraham Lincoln
    $800 25
"Dangerous Kiss" was her fifth Lucky Santangelo tale
    $800 24
Ridged for easy gripping
    $1000 5
This 1970 Russ Meyer movie about an all-girl rock trio was a sequel in name only
    DD: $500 14
A major Gulf port was originally "the rich city of the true cross", "Vilia Rica de la" this
    $1000 19
In 1998 Bill Gates paid a record $30 million for this Maine artist's seascape "Lost on the Grand Banks"
    $1000 26
An actor-model in Manhattan was the subject of this biting Bret Easton tale
    $1000 27
Relieved of knots

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Greg Ginny
$2,100 $4,600 $6,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CITIES
By the time it hosts the Summer Olympics in 2004, this city plans to have a car-free zone linking its ancient sites

Final scores:

Steve Greg Ginny
$3,500 $9,200 $10,000
3rd place: Samsung World Wide hi-fi stereo VCR 2nd place: trip to Puerto Vallarta and stay at Sheraton Buganvilias Resort New champion: $10,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Steve Greg Ginny
$1,700 $4,500 $6,500
10 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 21 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $12,700

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Game tape date: 2000-02-28
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