Show #3172 1998-05-19 Regular

Contestants

Whitney Babash — a human resource specialist from Reston, Virginia

Jesse Lewis — a copy editor from Fanwood, New Jersey

Trudy Ring — an editor and writer from Burbank, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $32,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Trudy $1,500 $2,200 $8,800 $4,799
2nd place: Trip to Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque, Tenerife, Canary Islands
$8,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Jesse $1,500 $2,900 $6,300 $12,600
New champion: $12,600
$6,300
18 R, 1 W
Whitney $1,100 $1,600 $6,400 $0
3rd place: Nordic Track Ellipse Exercise Machine
$7,200
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SHORT STORY WRITERS CATS ROCK ARTISTS GUINNESS RECORDS TOOL TIME THE "FIFTH"
$100 [1]
He wrote "The Murders In The Rue Morgue" shortly after becoming editor of Graham's Magazine
Edgar Allan Poe
Jesse
$100 [6]
After Charles Dickens' cat William did this, Dickens renamed it Williamina
Had kittens
Whitney
$100 [11]
In addition to his own bands, this guitarist has played with The Yardbirds, Cream, & Derek & The Dominos
Eric Clapton
Jesse
$100 [21]
Theodore Pomeroy had the shortest term as this, one day; Sam Rayburn, the longest, 17 years
Speaker of the House
Jesse
$100 [30]
Henry F. Phillips invented a popular type of this hand tool
Screwdriver
Whitney
$100 [17]
Constitutional right that protects you from self-incrimination
Fifth Amendment
Trudy
$200 [2]
It's thought that this "Gift Of The Magi" author partly took his pen name from a prison guard
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Trudy
$200 [7]
To an Englishman, stroking one of these means good luck
Black cat
Whitney
$200 [12]
B.B. King made a guest appearance on this Irish group's "Rattle And Hum" album
U2
Jesse
$200 [22]
The late Jeanne Calment holds this record but now it's up for grabs again
the oldest person in the world
Jesse
$200 [29]
It can wear down metal, shape plastic or be baked in a cake for a prison inmate
File
Trudy
$200 [18]
Catherine Howard was this for Henry VIII, but not for long
Fifth wife
Jesse
$300 [3]
"The Celestial Railroad" from his "Twice-Told Tales" is a parody of John Bunyan's works
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whitney
$300 [8]
Desmond Morris reports that a 1987 study found cats outnumbering these in the U.S. for the first time
Dogs
Jesse
$300 [13]
2 years before "Take It Easy" was released, they backed Linda Ronstadt on her "Silk Purse" LP in 1970
The Eagles
Jesse
$300 [23]
How low can Dennis Walston go in this dance? 6 inches in 1991
The limbo
Whitney
$400 [27]
A brace & bit is a simple type of this hand tool
drill
Trudy
$300 [19]
Jupiter
Fifth planet from the sun
Trudy
$400 [4]
Sunnyside, the old Dutch home he remodeled in Tarrytown, N.Y., was made a public shrine in 1947
Washington Irving
Trudy
$400 [9]
A homeless orphan in 1990, this cat now lives the high life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Socks
Jesse
$400 [14]
Jim Seals & this partner toured with The Champs in 1958, but didn't have a hit as a duo until 1972
Dash Crofts
Trudy Jesse
$400 [24]
Nick Vermeulen has a collection of over 2,100 of these from hundreds of airlines, we hope none are used
Airsick bags
Whitney
$500 [26]
The carpenter & torpedo types of this measuring tool use bubbles as indicators
Level
Whitney
$400 [20]
A group of spies or traitors within your own defensive lines
Fifth column
Jesse
$500 [5]
Of this author of "The Necklace", Flaubert said, "He's my disciple and I love him like a son"
Guy de Maupassant
Whitney
$500 [10]
This English scientist didn't need a cat to fall on him to inspire the cat flap, a swinging door
Sir Isaac Newton
Trudy
$500 [15]
"I Heard It Through The Grapevine" that he was once a session drummer for Smokey Robinson
Marvin Gaye
Jesse
$500 [25]
1 of the 3 men who've been the farthest from Earth; they were all on Apollo 13
(1 of) Fred Haise, James Lovell or John Swigart
Jesse
DD $800 [28]
(Hi, I'm Debbe Dunning.) The head of this type of hammer has one side to drive nails & another to pull them out
a claw hammer
Whitney
$500 [16]
Term for the French government's current incarnation
The Fifth Republic
Trudy

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEN IN BLACK MEN IN GREY MEN IN WHITE MEN IN BLUE MEN IN RED NO MEN ALLOWED
$200 [16]
This star of the film sang the theme song
Will Smith
Whitney
$200 [6]
This author & steamboat pilot's Civil War experience was serving about a month in the Missouri militia
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Whitney
$200 [18]
This novelist & medical school graduate (Harvard '69) created the TV show "ER"
Michael Crichton
Trudy
$200 [11]
Sir Robert Peel organized this city's police force in 1829 & they've been nicknamed for him ever since
London
Trudy
$200 [24]
In 1935, in one of this red-caped hero's first adventures, he finds the real killer of Jack Kennedy
Superman
Jesse
$200 [1]
Founded in 1874, Gamma Phi Beta was the first Greek-letter society for women to be called this
Sorority
Jesse
$400 [17]
The film was based on a comic from this conglomerate whose aliens include the Silver Surfer
Marvel
Trudy
$400 [7]
This nickname that General Barnard Bee gave Thomas Jackson may have been an insult
"Stonewall"
Whitney
$400 [19]
In the 1980s Robert Gallo identified this virus but called it HTLV
HIV
Whitney
$400 [12]
This word for a French policeman comes from an older word meaning people-at-arms
Gendarme
Whitney
$400 [30]
A redcap is one of these, usually in a railroad station
Porter
Trudy
$400 [2]
This talk show host used to get big laughs with her comedy act for women, "Girls' Night Out"
Jenny Jones
Whitney
$600 [23]
J's little weapon is named for this "noisy" insect
cricket
Whitney
$600 [8]
Pierre G.T. Beauregard was known as "The Little" this from his admiration of the French leader
Napoleon
Jesse
DD $400 [21]
A type of chorea, a nerve disease, is named for this physician, who died in 1916
Dr. George Huntington
Trudy
$600 [13]
This organization is the only police force serving the Northwest & Yukon Territories
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Whitney
$600 [29]
Someone raised by committed Communists may be called this kind of "baby"
a red diaper baby
Trudy
$600 [3]
Once called water ballet, this women's sport officially joined the Olympics in 1984
Synchronized swimming
Whitney
$800 [25]
An alien on "Star Trek: Voyager", Jennifer Lien is the voice of this human MIB agent in the cartoon series
"L"
$800 [9]
This tank-commanding general was a III; his grandfather was a Confederate colonel
George S. Patton
Trudy
$600 [20]
Dr. Stanley Prusiner's theory of protein bits called prions may explain this degenerative bovine disease
Mad Cow Disease
Trudy
$800 [14]
This country's Carabinieri evolved from a military group that served the Savoyard states
Italy
Jesse
$800 [27]
On "My Aim Is True", Elvis Costello claimed "The angels wanna wear" these
My red shoes
Jesse
$800 [4]
These dancers seen here first gained "exposure" with female audiences in 1978
Chippendales
Jesse
$1,000 [26]
Last, but not least, he's the head of MIB
Chief Zed (played by Rip Torn)
Whitney
DD $2,000 [10]
He never forgave Lee for having him send his men on that doomed charge at Gettysburg
George Edward Pickett
Trudy
$1,000 [22]
This English discoverer of blood circulation studied at Padua with the great anatomist Aquapendente
William Harvey
$1,000 [15]
The national police forces of 171 countries are members of this cooperative organization
Interpol
Whitney
$1,000 [28]
Red Schoendienst wore red for 3 decades as a player & manager with this National League team
St. Louis Cardinals
Trudy
$1,000 [5]
In mythology these warrior women tolerated men only in a servile capacity
Amazons
Whitney

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

In 1765 this city was named in honor of the peaceful resolution of a boundary dispute

Concord, New Hampshire

Jesse "What is Concord" — wagered $6,300
Whitney "What is Providence, RI" — wagered $6,400
Trudy "What is Philadelp" — wagered $4,001

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