Show #3107 1998-02-17 Regular

J.J. Todor game 1.

Contestants

Holly Hughes — an editor from New York City, New York

J.J. Todor — a law student from Pataskala, Ohio

Corey Burke — a stage carpenter originally from Goshen, Connecticut (whose 3-day cash winnings total $24,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Corey $0 $-100 $3,900 $10
3rd place: Sears Gift Certificates
$4,400
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
J.J. $400 $400 $3,000 $2,089
New champion: $2,089
$5,000
16 R, 8 W (including 2 DDs)
Holly $300 $300 $3,700 $100
2nd place: Sears Gift Certificates
$3,700
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CHINESE THEATRE FEMALE FIRSTS U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD TV CAST CHANGES ALL ABOUT CORN HOMONYMS
$100 [16]
The imprints seenherebelong to a star of this 1977 film:
Star Wars
Corey
$100 [6]
Bill Clinton thought of making Zoe Baird the first female attorney general but in the end it was this woman
Janet Reno
Corey
$100 [4]
It's the "Camellia Capital Of The World", but it's better known as California's capital
Sacramento
J.J.
$100 [1]
In 1983 6' 2" Christopher Hewitt replaced the 3' 10" Herve Villechaize on this series
Fantasy Island
J.J.
$100 [2]
Derived from corn, it's used to thicken soups, puddings & sauces
corn starch
Corey
$100 [21]
Where newlyweds might walk on their wedding day & on the day after
aisle/isle
Corey
$200 [17]
When this star left his handprints on August 8, 1984 he wrote, "You made my day"
Clint Eastwood
J.J.
$200 [10]
Kelly Flinn is better known for the way she left the Air Force than for being the 1st woman to fly this bomber
B-52
Corey J.J.
$200 [11]
Fans of these freshwater crustaceans know that Breaux Bridge, Louisiana is their capital
crayfish/crawfish
Holly
$200 [3]
NBC revamped this series in 1997 by replacing Ron Eldard & Justine Bateman
Men Behaving Badly
J.J. Holly
$500 [22]
Copied on paper by memory
wrote/rote
Holly
$300 [18]
Cartoon character whose footprints are seen here:
Donald Duck
J.J.
$300 [12]
In 1932 Hattie Caraway planted the seed for Dianne Feinstein as the first woman elected to this body
the U.S. Senate
J.J.
$300 [13]
Down-Easters know that Farmington in this state was once the "Earmuff Capital Of The World"
Maine
Corey
$300 [5]
George Carlin replaced this ex-Beatle as Mr. Conductor on PBS' "Shining Time Station"
Ringo Starr
Holly
$400 [19]
To make her imprint this partner of Fred Astaire wore her mother's size 4 1/2 shoes instead of her own 5 1/2s
Ginger Rogers
Corey
$500 [9]
The first woman president of a major movie studio, Dawn Steel took over this one in 1987, before Sony did
Columbia TriStar
J.J.
$400 [14]
Longville, Minn. is the capital for racing these reptiles, the slowest compete for the "Grand Slowpoke" title
turtles
$400 [7]
Clayton Moore, who was replaced by John Hart as this hero, got his job back after the ratings went down
the Lone Ranger
J.J.
DD $500 [20]
Silent comedian who left the lasting impression seen here:
Harold Lloyd
Corey
$500 [15]
Many telescopes around this 2nd-largest Ariz. city make it the "Astronomy Capital Of The World"
Tucson
Corey J.J. Holly
$500 [8]
Dabney Coleman played Ann Marie's neighbor on this series before Bernie Kopell
That Girl

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CHINESE THEATER NOTABLE NAMES AFRICAN HISTORY AT RANDOM FROM CLASSICAL TUNES LATIN CLASS
$200 [11]
This metal musical instrument is called the lo & when struck its sound often is
Gong
J.J.
$200 [14]
Coretta Scott King was among the speakers at the 1997 funeral of Betty Shabazz, this man's widow
Malcolm X
Corey
$200 [1]
In 1899 Sudan came under a condominium, not an apartment but joint rule by this neighbor & Britain
Egypt
J.J.
$200 [6]
It's a random sample "poll" to determine the public's opinion of hay... or anything else
a straw poll
Corey J.J.
$200 [19]
Hail, hail! The tune of Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" was used by Theodore Morse in 1917 for this tune
"Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here"
$200 [12]
A common regular verb is conjugated amo, "I love", amas, "You love" & this, "He loves"
Amat
Corey
$800 [28]
Bertolt Brecht adapted the Yuan dynasty play "The Chalk Circle" & gave it this longer title
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
$400 [15]
In 1946 the late Mother Cabrini became the first U.S. citizen to be designated this
Saint
J.J.
$400 [2]
The main natural cause of famine, it struck the Sahel region from 1968 to 1985
Drought
Holly
$400 [7]
Songs about people who move at random include this singer's "The Wanderer" & "Lovers Who Wander"
Dion
Corey
$400 [20]
1977's "Night On Disco Mountain" was a reworking of this Mussorgsky hit
Night On Bald Mountain
J.J.
$400 [13]
In carpentry it's "serra seco"; in a Caesar quote it's "Vidi"
"I saw"
J.J.
$1,000 [27]
A master of female roles, Mei Lanfang was the most famous actor in this form developed in the capital
Peking opera
Holly
$800 [17]
Chairman of the Bank of Sweden in the 1940's, in 1953 he became Secretary-General of the U.N.
Dag Hammarskjold
Holly
$600 [3]
One of the few stimulants allowed in Islam, this soft drink "nut" was a cash cow for medieval Guinea
the kola nut
Corey Holly
$600 [8]
On Dec. 1, 1969 the first of these random drawings since 1942 took place
Draft
J.J.
$800 [22]
Echoes of Mendelssohn's violin concerto haunt this song, Yvonne Elliman's hit from "Jesus Christ Superstar"
"I Don't Know How To Love Him"
Holly
$600 [25]
Descartes thought therefore he knew this first person singular form of the verb "to be"
Sum
Corey J.J.
DD $1,000 [16]
This French director's early films starred his wife, who also modeled for his father, Pierre
Jean Renoir
J.J.
$800 [4]
In 1994 Rwanda's Hutu people carried out genocidal attacks on this minority
Tutsi
J.J.
$800 [9]
This method of solving problems with a random number generator is named after the casino city of Monaco
Monte Carlo
Corey
DD $1,000 [21]
1963 novelty song that used the "Dance Of The Hours" from "La Gioconda", heard here:
"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp)"
J.J.
$800 [24]
Gender of nouns Vir & Rex
Male
J.J.
$1,000 [18]
This caustic critic & expert on "The American Language" was associated with The Baltimore Sun for over 40 years
H.L. Mencken
J.J.
$1,000 [5]
Leaders in this movement to unite the continent included Kwame Nkrumah & W.E.B. Du Bois
Pan-Africanism
J.J.
$1,000 [10]
Colorful name given the random movement of tiny particles suspended in a gas or liquid
Brownian motion
Corey
$1,000 [26]
Songs from this musical, including "Stranger In Paradise", come from Borodin pieces
Kismet
$1,000 [23]
Degrees of the word for "great" are "magnus", "maior" & this superlative applied to a circus
maximus
Holly

Final Jeopardy!

NATIVE AMERICANS

Before this great chief died in 1877, he reportedly prophesied, "I will return to you in stone"

Crazy Horse

J.J. "Who is Seattle?" — wagered $911
Holly "Who is Sitting Bull?" — wagered $3,600
Corey "Who is Geronimo?" — wagered $3,890

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