Show #3121 1998-03-09 Regular

Contestants

Donna Landry — a marketing coordinator from Chattanooga, Tennessee

Eric Prosser — an attorney from Oceanside, California

Bill Aquino — an undergraduate student from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $700 $1,800 $9,800 $1,600
2nd place: Trip to Atlantis Paradise Island Resort, Bahamas
$9,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Eric $2,400 $4,700 $8,900 $11,000
New champion: $11,000
$8,700
27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Donna $300 $1,800 $5,600 $100
3rd place: Pair of Wittnauer International Watches
$5,600
10 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION PERFECTION IN SPORTS BRAND NAMES NATURE PUNCHLINES THEY CAN'T ALL BE GEMS
$100 [1]
The promotion of Benjamin Lincoln & 4 others over him really irked this future traitor
Benedict Arnold
Donna
$100 [5]
In 1988 Italy's Alberto Tomba won both the slalom & giant slalom events in this winter Olympic sport
Skiing
Bill
$100 [2]
Name of the product invented by a GE chemist that's packaged in the container seen here: (red plastic egg)
Silly Putty
Bill
$100 [15]
A puffer is a fish & a puff adder is a poisonous type of this
Snake
Eric
$100 [4]
Character who utters the classic punchline, "What you mean we, Kemo Sabe?"
Tonto
Eric
$100 [26]
This sharp device associated with babies was used as personal decoration in the heyday of punk
Safety pin
Eric
$200 [3]
George Taylor signed this August 2, 1776 after replacing a Pennsylvania delegate who refused
Declaration of Independence
Donna
$200 [6]
On Feb. 2, 1997 Jeremy Sonnenfeld rolled a perfect 900 series in this sport in Lincoln, Nebraska
Bowling
Eric
$200 [13]
Lever Brothers rolled out this clear red gel toothpaste in the late 1960s
Close-Up
$200 [18]
Very simply, it's any plant, such as crabgrass, that grows where it's not wanted
Weed
Eric
$200 [16]
Word that inevitably follows Henny Youngman's quip, "Take my wife"
Please
Eric
$200 [27]
The "Roman" type of this mollusk gem is a glass bead filled with wax
Pearl
Eric
$300 [8]
In May 1778 British general James Grant tried to stop this Frenchman's troops at Barren Hill
Marquis de Lafayette
Eric
$400 [9]
In 1969 this Jets QB "guaranteed" victory in the Super Bowl & delivered, beating the Colts, 16-7
Joe Namath
Eric
$300 [14]
Sheet & towel maker whose name came from its owner, a Chicago department store mogul
Fieldcrest
$300 [19]
The name of these brightly colored salamanders may remind you of a certain House speaker
Newts
Eric
$300 [17]
Different punchlines to this question have been "A newspaper" & "A wounded nun"
"What's black & white & {red/read} all over?"
Bill
$300 [28]
From French for "diamond", this term for rhinestone-studded fabric is also a model of Mitsubishi
Diamante
Bill
$400 [11]
It may have been James Clinton's brigade that received the surrendered British colors at this town
Yorktown
Eric
DD $500 [7]
"(Hi, I'm Al Michaels) This center holds over 60 NHL records including career & single season marks for points, assists & goals"
Wayne Gretzky
Eric
$400 [20]
It advertises its product as "The Pfabulous Pfaucet with the Pfunny Name"
Price Pfister
Eric
$400 [24]
Botanically, a peanut isn't a nut but one of these, like a soybean
Legume
Eric
$400 [22]
"I just flew in from the coast..."
"And boy are my arms tired!"
Eric
$400 [29]
Kenneth Jay Lane gained fame for playful copies of classics by this French jewel & watch company founded in 1847
Cartier
$500 [12]
Benjamin Harrison was a member of the first one of these bodies that met for the first time in 1774
Continental Congress
Bill
$500 [10]
This Giants centerfielder hit more than 50 home runs in a season twice, in 1955 & 1965
Willie Mays
Eric
$500 [21]
This powerboat company was founded by Christopher Columbus Smith
Chris Craft
Donna
$500 [25]
These creatures, seen here, "never prosper", but they do run quickly
Cheetahs
Bill
$500 [23]
When Rodney Dangerfield told his doctor he wanted a second opinion, the doc said this
"You're ugly, too!"
Donna
$500 [30]
Named for its inventor, Pinchbeck is a zinc-copper alloy used on metal to imitate this
Gold
Donna

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY "B" GIRLS COLORS FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE THE DEVIL YOU SAY FAMILIAR PHRASES
$200 [2]
This Lebanese capital is connected by highway to Baghdad & Damascus
Beirut
Bill
$200 [5]
She's Mrs. Dagwood Bumstead
Blondie
Bill
$200 [10]
Before 1995 the last new color added to M&M's was this light brown in 1959
Tan
Eric
$200 [1]
It's a bird!It's a plane!It's Nietzsche's term for a person who has risen above his passions
Superman
Eric
$200 [23]
In the Charlie Daniels song, the devil went down to this state for a fiddle contest
Georgia
Eric
$200 [17]
Children chant that these 2 things "Will break my bones but names will never hurt me"
Sticks and stones
Donna
$400 [11]
You can use your head to figure out that Dunnet Head is this U.K. country's northernmost mainland port
Scotland
Eric
$400 [6]
She had the ba-ba-ba-Beach Boys "rockin' and a-reelin'" in a 1966 hit
Barbara Ann
Eric
$400 [19]
The "Ver" in Vermont comes from a French word for this color
Green
Bill
$400 [3]
Nietzsche befriended but later broke with this anti-Semitic opera composer
Richard Wagner
Bill
$400 [24]
Mr. Applegate agrees to an escape clause in a baseball player's contract in this Broadway musical
Damn Yankees
Eric
$400 [18]
When a confrontation gets serious this "comes to shove"
Push
Eric
$600 [12]
Magellan visited this archipelago in 1520 & gave it a Spanish name meaning "Land of Fire"
Tierra del Fuego
Bill
$600 [7]
Created by Max Fleischer, she was forced to clean up her act by the Hays office censors in the mid-'30s
Betty Boop
Bill
$600 [20]
Color in the title of the movie theme heard here:
Pink (the theme from "The Pink Panther")
Eric
$600 [4]
This 3-word Nietzschean phrase implies that man must find his own purpose without religion
"God is Dead"
Donna
$600 [25]
In a Stephen Vincent Benet story, Jabez Stone retains this lawyer to defend him from Mr. Scratch
Daniel Webster
Eric
$600 [28]
"Tiny Tubers" term for things that are terribly trivial
small potatoes
Eric
DD $1,000 [13]
A "great" pass & a "little" pass in the Alps are named for this saint
St. Bernard (the patron saint of mountain climbing)
Bill
$1,000 [9]
Scarlett O'Hara's daughter
Bonnie Blue
Donna
$800 [21]
It's the "I" in the mnemonic "ROY G. BIV"
Indigo
Bill
$800 [15]
"Thus spoke" this man, also called Zoroaster, the hero of one of Nietzsche's greatest books
Zarathustra
Bill Eric
$800 [26]
In an early version of his "Mysterious Stranger", a young Satan goes by the name Philip Traum
Mark Twain
$800 [29]
French for "fatal woman", it often refers to a sexy seductress in mystery novels
Femme fatale
Bill
$1,000 [14]
This Croat capital was formerly Yugoslavia's second largest city
Zagreb
DD $1,200 [8]
Jane Fonda's weightless striptease in the opening credits ensured this film's cult status
Barbarella
Bill
$1,000 [22]
From Greek for "pale yellow", this earthy yellow is an iron oxide
Ochre
Donna
$1,000 [16]
In "Twilight of the Idols" Nietzsche wrote, "What does not kill me" does this
Makes me stronger
Donna
$1,000 [27]
Mephistopheles got this ambitious doctor to sign on the bottom line
Dr. Faustus
Eric
$1,000 [30]
Some believe this exclamation of surprise or wonder originally referred to General Winfield
"Great Scott!"
Bill

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

These 2 words, for a political plan of attack & a drink used to celebrate a win, come from the same root

Campaign & champagne

Donna "What are g" — wagered $5,500
Eric "What are campaign & champagne" — wagered $2,100
Bill "What" — wagered $8,200

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