Show #3318 1999-01-27 (taped 1998-11-18) Regular

Contestants

Matt Sullivan — a teacher from Spokane, Washington

Lisa McAdam — a managing editor from Springfield, Oregon

Alex Huemer — an economics instructor from Claremont, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,050)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $-200 $-100 $-500 $-500
3rd place: Pair of Festina Tour Watches
$500
7 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Lisa $1,200 $1,200 $9,000 $4,000
New champion: $4,000
$8,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Matt $1,900 $2,000 $9,600 $1,199
2nd place: Trip to Radisson Hotel Miyako, Osaka, Japan
$9,600
21 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL FAMILIES WHO PLAYED 'EM? DAYS OF THE WEEK PRESIDENTIAL COUPLES...NOT! ALL THINGS BRITISH GIVE ME A "C"
$100 [20]
This long-haired son of Manoah was always having run-ins with Philistines
Samson
Lisa
$100 [4]
Kelly Bundy, Jesse Warner
Christina Applegate
Lisa
$100 [2]
It's NBC's "Must See TV" night of "Friends" & "Frasier"
Thursday
Lisa
$100 [9]
This "Gimme a Break" housekeeper could learn the facts of peanut farming from this president
Nell & Jimmy Carter
Alex
$100 [1]
In 1997 PM Blair swapped homes with the Chancellor of the Exchequer & now lives at No. 11 on this street
Downing Street
Matt
$100 [15]
Piece of furniture in which the president stashes his top-level advisors
Cabinet
Lisa
$200 [26]
Comparing grammars of ancient Phoenician & Hebrew shows he may have been born before Adam & Eve left Eden
Cain
Matt
$200 [5]
Colt Seavers, Col. Steve Austin
Lee Majors
Lisa
$200 [10]
For federal employees, Columbus always has his day on this one
Monday
Matt
$200 [11]
This woman's scandal involved Nancy Kerrigan, this president's involved a "teapot"
Tonya & Warren G. Harding
Matt
$200 [3]
It's the noisy landmark seen here
Big Ben
Matt
$200 [16]
When served as food, squid often goes by this Italian name
Calamari
Lisa
$300 [27]
Father & son depicted here
Abraham & Isaac
Alex Matt
$300 [6]
Dan August, Wood Newton
Burt Reynolds
Lisa
$300 [23]
Micky sang lead on this Top 10 Monkees hit while someone else played the drums
Pleasant Valley Sunday
$300 [12]
This actress' violet eyes would be dazzling next to this "Rough & Ready" president
Elizabeth & Zachary Taylor
Alex Matt
$400 [22]
The 1648 Battle of St. Ffagan was a major battle of the English Civil War fought in this principality
Wales
Matt
$300 [17]
It's the part of a car that includes the frame & the wheels
Chassis
Lisa
$400 [28]
His mother Jochebed was hired to be his nurse by Pharaoh's daughter
Moses
Alex
$400 [7]
Laurie Partridge, Grace Van Owen
Susan Dey
Lisa
$400 [24]
One of T.S. Eliot's longer poems is "Ash" this
Wednesday
Matt
$400 [13]
She was a TV "Golden Girl", he was a one-termer of the 1880s
Bea & Chester Arthur
Matt
DD $1,000 [21]
This school where a form of football originated admitted its first girls in 1975
Rugby
Lisa
$400 [18]
Isaac Newton & Gottfried Leibniz invented this branch of math independently of one another....go figure
Calculus
Lisa
$500 [25]
Joab helped David reconcile with this son
Absalom
Matt
$500 [8]
Sabrina Duncan, Amanda King
Kate Jackson
Matt
$500 [14]
She's married to Tom Hanks, he was married to Edith
Rita & Woodrow Wilson
$500 [19]
It's the (medical) symbol seen here
Caduceus
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS TRAVEL & TOURISM STATE BIRDS LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "G" SPORTS COMEBACKS GIVE ME A SEA
$200 [1]
The Sumerians, who invented cuneiform writing, date back to 5500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, in what is now this country
Iraq
Alex Lisa
$200 [7]
Once a border resort with casinos, it's the main entry port to Mexico from California for U.S. tourists
Tijuana
Lisa
$200 [26]
It comes bob bob bobbin' along as the state bird of Michigan, Wisconsin & Connecticut
Robin
Lisa
$200 [14]
Lancelot's ladylove(9)
Guinevere
Alex
$200 [6]
In the Summit Series this country kept its hockey honor with a 1972 comeback win over the USSR
Canada
Lisa
$200 [15]
This tropical sea is sometimes referred to as the "American Mediterranean"
Caribbean Sea
Lisa
$400 [2]
While conquering this ancient empire, Alexander the Great burned the buildings of Persepolis, its capitol
Persia
Alex
$400 [8]
Thousands of tourists & pilgrims visit this city each year (Dome of the Rock mosque)
Jerusalem
Alex Matt
$400 [27]
Not to knock it, but Alabama's yellowhammer is a type of this
Woodpecker
Alex
$400 [18]
Ferber's "colossal" novel(5)
Giant
Matt
$400 [9]
At the advanced age of 22, former Olympian Kim Zmeskal is making a comeback in this sport
Gymnastics
Lisa
$400 [22]
Scotland's longest river, the Tay, flows into this sea, see?
North Sea
Matt
$600 [3]
It took more than 2,000,000 2-ton blocks of stone to build the great pyramid of this man
Cheops
Lisa
$600 [10]
In this largest Swiss city, you can wet your whistle at the James Joyce Pub which Joyce described in "Ulysses"
Zurich
Matt
$800 [29]
You'll have "shear" delight using this term that describes the tail of Oklahoma's flycatcher
Scissored
Lisa
$600 [19]
Apuleius' "ass", or Henry James' "bowl"(6)
Golden
Matt
$600 [11]
This golfer famous for his comebacks lost to a Billy Casper charge on the last day of the 1966 U.S. Open
Arnold Palmer
Matt
$600 [23]
Inch on over to the port of Inchon & you'll be on this colorful sea
Yellow Sea
Lisa
$800 [4]
In 1700 B.C. this civilization's great palace at Knossos was destroyed by an earthquake
Minoans
Alex
$800 [16]
A trip to this Italian city's Lagoon Island should include a visit to Murano, famed for its glass
Venice
Lisa
DD $1,000 [28]
Add red to this state's name & you get this bird
Rhode Island
Alex
$800 [20]
Salinger family, or Williams menagerie(5)
Glass
Matt
$800 [12]
In 1989, 2 years after being accidentally shot, this American won the Tour de France on the last day
Greg LeMond
Matt
$1,000 [25]
Sydney, Australia is the largest city on this sea
Tasman Sea
Lisa
$1,000 [5]
The civilization that grew up along this Pakistani river had planned streets & houses with bathrooms
Indus
Matt
$1,000 [17]
Cowes on the northern coast of this isle in the English Channel is a famed yachting center
Isle of Wight
Alex Matt
$1,000 [30]
Some call it a pheasant & others a partridge; as a state bird Pennsylvania calls it the ruffed this
grouse
Lisa
$1,000 [21]
He brought "Dead Souls" to life(5)
Gogol
$1,000 [13]
This ex-Brave whose name means "fairness" was fairly named 1997's A.L. Comeback Player of the Year for Cleveland
David Justice
Matt
DD $2,000 [24]
It's the sea bounded by Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Siberia & the Kamchatka Peninsula
Bering Sea
Lisa

Final Jeopardy!

VITAMINS & MINERALS

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention says it's the nutrient Americans are most likely to be deficient in

Iron (Iron-deficient anemia)

Lisa "What is Calcium?" — wagered $5,000
Matt "What is Vitamin C?" — wagered $8,401

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