Show #3063 1997-12-17 (taped 1997-09-30) Regular

Contestants

Chris Koehler — a substitute teacher from Medford, Oregon

Zinie Chen — a journalist from Richmond, Virginia

Tim Surdyk — an undergraduate student from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tim $900 $2,500 $9,400 $8,900
2-day champion: $18,700
$9,900
21 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Zinie $1,200 $3,000 $4,200 $200
3rd place: Trip on Amtrak
$4,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Chris $1,600 $2,900 $4,200 $3,000
2nd place: Trip to Kauai Coconut Beach Hotel, Hawaii
$5,700
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FRUIT PAIRS JACK LEMMON FILMS THE BIG APPLE HISTORIC DATES PLUMBING
$100 [21]
When buying this fruit, the pina in a pina colada, don't judge it by its color
Pineapple
Zinie
$100 [5]
About this title pair, Sammy Cahn wrote, "You can't have one without the other"
Love And Marriage
Tim
$100 [7]
Lemmon made his directorial debut with 1971's "Kotch", starring this man, his "Out To Sea" co-star
Walter Matthau
Chris
$100 [4]
Home to the Knicks & Rangers, it's NYC's largest indoor sports arena
Madison Square Garden
Zinie
$100 [1]
In 1945 May 7 was called V-E Day & September 2 was called this
V-J Day
Zinie
$100 [23]
When you do this, the stopper ball lifts to allow water from the tank to flow into the bowl
Flush the toilet
Zinie
$200 [22]
Its seeds can be roasted, salted & eaten as snacks, & have been spit for a Guinness record
Watermelon
Chris
$200 [10]
In "Hey! Diddle, Diddle", these 2 left the scene together
Dish & spoon
Tim Zinie
$200 [8]
In 1996's "My Fellow Americans", Lemmon, James Garner & Dan Aykroyd played men who held this office
President of the U.S.
Zinie
$200 [6]
Both located in Queens, they're NYC's 2 major airports
John F. Kennedy & LaGuardia
Chris
$200 [2]
On the French Revolutionary calendar, this 1789 date of the Bastille's fall might have been 25 Messidor
July 14
Tim
$200 [24]
Doing this to a pipe, unlike doing it to a needle, involves special cutting tools
Threading
Zinie
$300 [28]
Ounce for ounce it has more potassium than any other fruit except the avocado
Banana
Tim
$300 [18]
After this singing duo split, she won an Oscar & he was elected to Congress....& the beat goes on
Sonny & Cher
Chris
$300 [12]
In "The China Syndrome", Lemmon played the executive of this type of plant
Nuclear power plant
Zinie
DD $400 [9]
"(Hi, I'm Sharon Lawrence) At 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue you'll find this great institution, guarded by 2 lions"
NYC Public Library
Zinie
$300 [3]
The thousand-year Byzantine Empire ended May 29, 1453 when this city fell to the Turks
Constantinople
Zinie
$300 [25]
You may run your dishwasher's drain line under the sink into this other labor-saving device
Garbage disposal
Chris
$400 [29]
The pink seedless & ruby red seedless types of this citrus fruit were developed from the marsh seedless
Grapefruit
Tim
$400 [19]
An April 1997 auction of Clyde Barrow's belongings raised money to fund moving his grave next to hers
Bonnie Parker
Tim
$400 [14]
In "Some Like It Hot", Lemmon & this actor joined an all-girl band to escape the mob
Tony Curtis
Tim
$400 [13]
The answer is "Practice, Practice, Practice"
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Chris
$400 [11]
He had a historic date with Nora Barnacle June 16, 1904, the day on which "Ulysses" is set
James Joyce
Chris
$400 [26]
This rhyming device sucks up water to prevent basement flooding
Sump pump
Zinie
$500 [30]
This fruit's name may be from the Greek word for a "Drink of the Gods"
Nectarine
Zinie
$500 [20]
These Siamese twins, last name Bunker, married sisters in 1843 & fathered a total of 22 children
Chang & Eng
Tim
$500 [16]
In this 1992 film based on a David Mamet play, Lemmon portrayed a loser of a real-estate salesman
Glengarry Glen Ross
Tim
$500 [17]
Named for a Danish settler, it's the only borough on the mainland
The Bronx
Chris
$500 [15]
The Russian Revolution began Nov. 7, 1917, or Oct. 25 on this calendar named for Caesar
Julian calendar
Chris
$500 [27]
This L-shaped "hex" wrench was named for a Hartford, Connecticut manufacturer
Allen wrench
Tim Zinie

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE NAME THAT FAMOUS MOTHER CLASSICAL COMPOSERS OLD MAN HOMER HAD A FARM BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 3-LETTER WORDS
$200 [1]
From the surface of this innermost planet, the sun appears 2.5 times as large as it does from Earth
Mercury
Zinie
$200 [11]
Cody, Cassidy
Kathie Lee Gifford
Chris
$200 [20]
This "Lullaby" composer was instrumental in getting Dvorak's "Moravian Duets" published
Johannes Brahms
Tim
$200 [16]
This one-eyed monster had some sheep, E-I-E-I-O, but he preferred to dine on Odysseus' men
Cyclops (Polyphemus)
Chris
$200 [6]
In the late 1940s, this firm began the practice of selling underwear in cellophane bags, 3 to a bag
Fruit of the Loom
Zinie
$200 [24]
A baby bear, or a novice reporter
Cub
Chris
$400 [2]
The name of this element comes from iris, "rainbow", & refers to its multi-hued compounds
iridium
Tim Chris
$400 [12]
Rumer, Scout, Tallulah Belle
Demi Moore
Chris
$400 [21]
3 of his most famous works, "Rigoletto", "Il Trovatore" & "La Traviata", were published between 1851-1853
Giuseppe Verdi
Chris
$400 [17]
E-I-E-I-Ouch! On a hunting trip, young Odysseus was scarred by one of these tusked terrors
a boar
Chris
$400 [7]
On July 19, 1970, after 70 years of business, this chocolate company ran its first consumer ad
Hershey's
Tim
$400 [25]
A cat might take this short sleep
nap
Tim
$600 [3]
In computers or audio amplifiers, it's the process in which part of the output returns to the input
Feedback
$600 [13]
David, Ricky(whose real name was Eric)
Harriet Nelson
Chris
$600 [22]
This "Rite Of Spring" composer was commissioned to write the "Circus Polka" to be danced by circus elephants
Igor Stravinsky
Chris
$600 [18]
Old King Priam had this wooden animal, E-I-E-I-O, & it was full of trouble
Trojan Horse
Tim
DD $500 [10]
This athletic shoe company was named for an African gazelle admired for its swiftness
Reebok
Tim
$600 [26]
Mimic, simian style
Ape
Tim
$800 [4]
This basic aerodynamic force acts on a wing, putting greater pressure on its lower surface than on its upper
Lift
Tim
$800 [14]
Beatrice Elizabeth Mary, Eugenie Victoria Helena
Sarah Ferguson
Tim
$800 [29]
When this composer's opera "La boheme" premiered in Turin, Arturo Toscanini conducted the orchestra
Giacomo Puccini
Tim
$800 [19]
Soldiers couldn't see the heron this wise goddess sent for luck, but heard it squawk here & squawk there
Athena
$600 [8]
In 1992 Playskool overhauled this toy by replacing its wooden rods & spools with plastic parts
Tinkertoys
Tim
$800 [27]
A tarboosh resembles this tall, red brimless cap
Fez
Zinie
$1,000 [5]
The 3 basic bacterial types are the coccus, the spirillum & this type that causes TB
Bacillus
$1,000 [15]
Christina, Christopher, Cynthia, Cathy
Joan Crawford
Chris
$1,000 [30]
From 1835 to 1863 this "Symphonie Fantastique" composer wrote music criticism for "Journal des Debats" ("Journal of Debates")
Hector Berlioz
DD $1,500 [23]
On this sorceress' island, Aeaea, it was here a pig, there a pig, everywhere a pig, pig
Circe (turned all the men into swine)
Chris
$800 [9]
In 1949 this German small appliance firm introduced the world's first electric foil shaver
Braun
Tim
$1,000 [28]
It's a lyric poem usually addressed to a person or thing
Ode
Tim

Final Jeopardy!

PATRON SAINTS

Legend says Saint Rule brought this saint's relics to the coast of Fife in 368

St. Andrew

Zinie "Who was St. Patrick?" — wagered $4,000
Chris "Who was St. George?" — wagered $1,200
Tim "Who is St. George?" — wagered $500

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