Show #3048 1997-11-26 Regular

Bob Harris game 4.

Contestants

Chris Taddei — a management consultant from Falls Church, Virginia

Wade Lee — a vice president of marketing from Exton, Pennsylvania

Bob Harris — a writer originally from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $31,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $900 $2,200 $11,400 $11,700
4-day champion: $43,400
$10,600
27 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Wade $1,000 $2,300 $5,500 $5,513
2nd place: Trip to Grand Case Beach Club, St. Martin
$5,500
16 R, 2 W
Chris $0 $-300 $900 $0
3rd place: Pair of Wittnauer International Watches
$1,600
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THOSE DREADED STORY PROBLEMS SURROUNDED BY WATER SOMETHING'S "FISH"Y THINK FAST SHARKS! PEOPLE IN HISTORY
$100 [21]
A 20-count book of 32c stamps costs this much
$6.40
Wade
$100 [1]
Michigan's Isle Royale is the largest island surrounded by this largest Great Lake
Lake Superior
Bob
$100 [14]
These VIPs like small ponds
Big fish
Wade
$100 [26]
A person moving quickly is going by leaps & these
bounds
Chris
$100 [6]
All sharks have at least one dorsal fin & one caudal fin, better known as this
Tail
Bob
$100 [8]
This president was nicknamed the "Sage of the Hermitage"
Andrew Jackson
Wade
$200 [22]
If Cowboy Bob has 3,200 "feet" of cattle in his herd, he has this many head
800
Wade
$200 [2]
When this canal opened in 1869, suddenly Africa was completely surrounded by water
Suez Canal
Bob
$200 [15]
Someone removed from his usual environment, who may lung to return there
A fish out of water
Bob
$200 [27]
Floor it, or "put the pedal to" this
The metal
Bob
$200 [7]
The smallest of the 9 species of this shark actually looks more like a shovel up front
Hammerhead
Chris
$200 [9]
The Duke of Medina Sidonia commanded this famous fleet that the English defeated in 1588
Spanish Armada
Chris
$300 [23]
It's the number of degrees the minute hand moves when going from 12 to 3
90
Wade
$300 [3]
It's the ocean that surrounds Mauritius
Indian Ocean
Bob
$300 [16]
It's a place without privacy
a fishbowl
Wade
$300 [28]
People go like a blue one of these, or like one of lightning
streak
Bob Wade
$300 [19]
A new battery-powered device for divers repels sharks using this type of field
electromagnetic (or electrical)
Wade
$300 [10]
Born in 1519, this Medici queen of France was the great-niece of Pope Leo X
Catherine de' Medici
Chris
$400 [24]
If Tom's picket fence used 3"-wide pickets, he'd need this many edge to edge to cover a 12' length
48
Wade Chris
$400 [4]
New Zealand is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the east & this sea to the west
the Tasman Sea
Chris
$400 [17]
It's the process of reeling in praise for yourself
Fishing for compliments
Bob
$400 [29]
A dictionary defines it as "The instant's duration of a wink"; little stars & eyes do it
Twinkle
Bob
$400 [20]
This term for a mass descent of sharks on prey is also applied to massive media interest
Feeding frenzy
Wade
$400 [11]
Enrico Dandalo was in his 80s when he was elected Doge of this city in 1192
Venice
Chris
$500 [25]
If a dieting 2-ton elephant lost 10 pounds a week for a year he'd weigh this much
3,480 pounds
Bob
$500 [5]
The Gulf of Batabano separates the Isle of Pines from the rest of this island country
Cuba
$500 [18]
It means to do one thing or another, but stop stalling
Fish or cut bait
Wade
$500 [30]
The material that people are "hellbent for" when moving quickly
Leather
Bob
$500 [13]
It's said that black wetsuits attract great white sharks because swimmers resemble these animals
Seals
Wade
DD $700 [12]
He was the first Scandinavian to serve as Secretary-General of the U.N.
Trygve Lie (Norway)
Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS LONDON'S CITY GUILDS ACTORS & ROLE THE BIBLE 19th CENTURY OPERA 9-LETTER WORDS
$200 [11]
Mickey Spillane's 1996 novel "Black Alley" is the first to feature this detective in 7 years
Mike Hammer
Wade
$200 [16]
Bowyers make bows & coopers make these
Barrels
Bob
$200 [21]
Mom role shared by Barbara Billingsley & Janine Turner
June Cleaver
Wade
$200 [1]
"Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up" this man
Jonah
Bob
$200 [6]
Sadly, most of this "Carmen" composer's opera "Clarissa Harlowe" is lost
Georges Bizet
Bob
$200 [26]
It's any of the first known inhabitants of a region, especially one from Australia
an aborigine
Bob
$400 [12]
Della & Jim Young are the impoverished couple of his 1906 short story "The Gift Of The Magi"
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Wade
$400 [17]
Loriners make hardware for this genteel sport a little "bit" at a time
Polo (or anything to do with horses)
Bob
$400 [22]
Fess Parker & John Wayne have both played this king of the wild frontier
Davy Crockett
Bob Chris
$400 [2]
6 days before Passover Jesus had a supper with this man whom he had raised from the dead
Lazarus
Bob
$400 [7]
The title clowns of this Leoncavallo work arrive in a parade led by a donkey, not in a tiny car
Pagliacci
Chris
DD $200 [30]
This brilliant shade of red derives its name from a Latin word for "little worm"
Vermilion
Bob
$600 [13]
Jake Barnes & Robert Cohn vie for the affection of Lady Brett Ashley in this Hemingway novel
The Sun Also Rises
Bob
$600 [18]
"If I were" one of these "And you were a lady", I'd report to their hall at 1 Throgmorton Avenue
Carpenters
Bob
$800 [25]
In 1994 Rosie O'Donnell was cast in this role in the stage version of "Grease"; in 1997 Lucy Lawless was
Rizzo
Wade
$600 [3]
In the book of Luke, this angel announces the births of both John the Baptist & Jesus Christ
Gabriel
Bob
$600 [8]
This composer's adopted niece, Johanna, created the role of Elisabeth in his opera "Tannhauser"
Richard Wagner
Bob
$400 [27]
A collection of stories, or a collection of Beatles songs
Anthology
Chris
$800 [14]
This shy officer in "Catch-22" was "promoted by an I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor"
Major Major
Bob
$800 [19]
One of the oldest guilds is the group of seafood sellers known as this
Fishmongers
Bob
$1,000 [23]
In a 1996 Fox TV movie based on a British series, the 2 actors seenhereboth played this time lord:
Doctor Who
Bob
$800 [4]
This future king of Israel was summoned to soothe King Saul with his harp playing
David
Wade
$800 [9]
The ghost of Nino is a bass role in "Semiramide" by this composer of "William Tell"
Gioacchino Rossini
Wade
$600 [29]
It's another name for the femur
the thighbone
Bob
$1,000 [15]
This protagonist of a Virginia Woolf novel changes from man to woman through 4 centuries
Orlando
Chris
$1,000 [20]
If Melville's Bartleby moved from New York to London, he'd join the company of these
Scriveners
Bob
DD $2,000 [24]
Anne Parillaud role that led to the other 2 seen here:
La Femme Nikita
Bob
$1,000 [5]
This king cast Shedrach, Meshach & Abednego into a fiery furnace
Nebuchadnezzar
Chris
$1,000 [10]
"Un ballo in maschera" dramatizes the assassination of this country's King Gustavus III at a masked ball
Sweden
Bob
$1,000 [28]
It describes a 2-House legislature
Bicameral
Bob

Final Jeopardy!

CANDY

Created in 1912, they were originally marketed with the slogan "For That Stormy Breath"

Life Savers

Chris "What are Certs" — wagered $900
Wade "What are Life Savers? (Jess & Trav)" — wagered $13
Bob "What are Life Savers?" — wagered $300

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