Show #3180 1998-05-29 Regular

Lara Robillard game 4.

Contestants

Lo Bonfadini — an administrative assistant from Fort Lewis, Washington

Mark Johnson — a social studies teacher from Woodland Hills, California

Lara Robillard — a director of health policy from Arlington, Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $38,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lara $900 $5,100 $15,300 $10,300
4-day champion: $49,100
$15,100
31 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Mark $1,000 $1,200 $3,000 $500
3rd place: NordicTrack Ellipse Exercise Machine
$3,000
15 R, 3 W
Lo $1,000 $1,000 $3,600 $1,100
2nd place: Trip to Loew's Coronado Bay Resort, Coronado, California
$3,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL BURIAL PLACES ROCK AROUND THE SOLAR SYSTEM SCHOOL DAZE INDY 500 FLAGS BRAIN MAUL! "G" WHIZ!
$100 [1]
Independence, Missouri
Harry S. Truman
Lara
$100 [6]
Group heard here with a 1979 song: ("Walking On The Moon")
The Police
Mark
$100 [11]
In 1997 Evanston, Illinois briefly banned these 15-minute breaks in its elementary schools
Recess
Lo
$100 [13]
It means one lap left, not truce
White flag
Lo
$100 [26]
Donald Duck's middle nephew alphabetically
Huey
Lara
$100 [14]
If you order a G & T in a bar, you'll probably get this drink
Gin & Tonic
Lo
$200 [2]
Quincy, Massachusetts
John Quincy Adams
Lo
$200 [7]
In "Space Oddity" he sang, "Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do"
David Bowie
Lo
$200 [12]
In 1993 NYC's schools opened 11 days late after emergency inspection of this building material
Asbestos
Mark
$200 [16]
A red flag is a sure sign to do this
Stop
Mark
$200 [27]
It's the tallest land mammal north of Antarctica
Giraffe
Mark
$200 [15]
Figuratively speaking, a deceived person is led "down" this "path", or perhaps "up" it
Garden path
Mark
$300 [3]
West Branch, Iowa
Herbert Hoover
$300 [8]
In 1992 members of Queen held a tribute concert for this late lead singer
Freddie Mercury
Lo
$300 [18]
As their name indicates, these schools were established to "attract" students from across the city
Magnet schools
Lara
$300 [17]
A flag of this color doesn't tell the drivers to play chicken, it's just a caution flag
Yellow
Lara
$300 [28]
He was Liz Taylor's first husband
Nicky Hilton
Lara
$300 [21]
The perfect plaid for singer Campbell
Glen
Mark
$400 [4]
Plymouth Notch, Vermont
Calvin Coolidge
Lara
$400 [9]
Appropriately named English drummer heard singing here: "When you wish upon a star..."
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
Lara
$400 [19]
From Latin for "summon", they're certificates giving public funds to send kids to private schools
Vouchers
Lara
$400 [22]
Get this flag & you have finished the race
Checkered flag
Lara
$400 [29]
Number of yards in a mile times the number of feet in a yard
5,280
$400 [23]
Butt of course: this kind of muscle may be minimus, medius or maximus
Gluteus
Lara
$500 [5]
Greeneville, Tennessee
Andrew Johnson
Lara Mark
$500 [10]
The Dead Kennedys sang "One-Way Ticket To" this smallest planet
Pluto
Lara
DD $500 [20]
"Catholic" means broadminded, but Catholic schools are this type, which also means narrowminded
Parochial
Lara
$500 [25]
When waved, a flag of this color lets you begin mile 1
Green flag
Lara
$500 [30]
The 4 U.S. states that begin with the word "New"
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico & New York
Lara Mark
$500 [24]
A coarse material made from jute, or the kind of sack made from it
Gunny
Lara

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CARIBBEAN BOND GIRLS SCIENCE & NATURE GETTING A"HEAD" TALES TO TELL AT GREAT LENGTHS
$200 [5]
In 1992 Santo Domingo's Quinto Centenario celebration honored this explorer's discovery
Christopher Columbus
Mark
$200 [1]
The color Shirley Eaton was painted all over her body
gold (in Goldfinger )
Lara
$200 [26]
These dark patches on the sun's surface appear & disappear in regular cycles
sunspots
Mark
$200 [8]
They "scream" & TV movies are "ripped" from them
headlines
Lara
$200 [16]
Arthur C. Clarke followed his book "The Nine Billion Names of God" with this other numerically titled tale
2001: A Space Odyssey
Mark
$200 [21]
Length in yards you have to dash to cover an American football field goal line to goal line
100 yards
Mark
$400 [6]
Every August this country is home to the Reggae Sunsplash
Jamaica
Lo
$400 [2]
James Bond's old flame, Teri Hatcher, was put out in this 1997 film
Tomorrow Never Dies
Lo
$400 [27]
From the Greek for "yoke", it's a cell formed by the union of 2 gametes
a zygote
Lara
$400 [9]
Look it up; it's the total of the fixed costs of running a business
overhead
Lara
$400 [17]
Her 1997 book "Violin" features a phantom violinist
Anne Rice
Lara
$400 [22]
The Olympic record for tossing one of these is 73 feet, 8 3/4 inches in 1988
a shot put
Mark
$600 [11]
El Yunque, the only truly tropical rain forest in the U.S. national forest system, is on this island possession
Puerto Rico
Lara Mark
$600 [3]
This "License To Kill" co-star seenherenow has a license to practice "Law & Order":
Carey Lowell
Lara
$600 [28]
Creature seen here, in full bloom
a sea anemone
Lara
$600 [10]
Shark with the know-how to "tool around" the sea
a hammerhead
Mark
$600 [18]
Be thankful we're not going to list all the characters in his "Gravity's Rainbow"; there are over 400
Thomas Pynchon
Lara
$600 [23]
The greatest length of the Jewish one of these is 385 days
a year
Lara
$800 [12]
It's T&T to the natives but Desmond Tutu called this nation the rainbow country
Trinidad & Tobago
Lara
$800 [4]
She set the style for girls to come with her body of work as Honey Ryder in "Dr. No"
Ursula Andress
Mark
$800 [29]
Son of a gun! This female seed-bearing part of a flower consists of a stigma, a style & an ovary
the pistil
Lara
$800 [14]
Acrobatic phrase meaning "hopelessly"; it describes someone who's hopelessly "in love"
"head over heels in love"
Mark
DD $1,000 [19]
This 1993 Robert Altman film was based on a few tales of Raymond Carver
Shortcuts
Lara
$800 [24]
You're at sea if you know this length is 1 mean minute of arc on the meridian
a knot (or nautical mile)
Lo
$1,000 [13]
The Dutch side of this island uses 110 volts, the French side, 220
St. Martin (or St. Maarten)
Lara Mark Lo
$1,000 [7]
Natalie's sister, she was Plenty O'Toole in "Diamonds Are Forever"
Lana Wood
Lo
$1,000 [30]
Announced on February 14, 1946, this first electronic digital computer had 18,000 vacuum tubes
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)
$1,000 [15]
Lots of people look up to these... well, okay, lots of dead people
headstones
Lara
$1,000 [20]
The upshot is he won the Howell's Medal for his "Wapshot Scandal"
John Cheever
Lara
DD $1,000 [25]
This distance used in astronomy is abbreviated pc & is equal to 19.2 trillion miles
a parsec
Lo

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD LEADERS

Name shared by the leaders of 2 nations that remain in a mutual state of war in 1998

Kim (Kim Dae Jung of South Korea & Kim Jong-il of North Korea)

Mark "What is Hussein" — wagered $2,500
Lo "What is Saddam?" — wagered $2,500
Lara "What is Hussein?" — wagered $5,000

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