Show #2621 1996-01-15 Regular

Barbara Walker game 4.

Contestants

Nick Lamelza — a telephone operator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

John Zappacosta — a teacher from Springfield, Pennsylvania

Barbara Walker — an elementary school principal from Westminster, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $27,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Barbara $1,300 $3,600 $10,400 $18,400
4-day champion: $46,100
$9,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
John $2,400 $3,300 $9,100 $16,100
2nd place: a Counterpoint CD player & a Klipsch stereo speaker system
$8,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Nick $700 $1,600 $800 $1,600
3rd place: his & hers Daniel Mink wood watches
$4,800
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE U.S.A. FOOD & DRINK TAX TIME THE 1840s MUSIC IN "BLACK" & "WHITE"
$100 [1]
In "The Brass Bottle", Horace Ventimore buys an antique brass bottle that contains one of these beings
a genie
John
$100 [2]
In 1978, this New Jersey city hit the jackpot with the opening of its first casino
Atlantic City
John
$100 [16]
The raw milk sold in health-food stores hasn't gone through this sterilization process
pasteurization
John
$100 [26]
It's the dreaded IRS double-check of your return to ascertain its validity
an audit
John
$100 [7]
In 1846, about 4,000 U.S. soldiers were posted on alert near this North American country
Mexico
John Nick
$100 [17]
Marty Robbins wore it with "a pink carnation"
a white sport coat
Barbara
$200 [12]
Not only could this nursery rhyme character "eat no fat", he had a cat with only one hair
Jack Sprat
Nick
$200 [3]
The Wadsworth Athenium, America's oldest public art museum, is located in this Conn. capital
Hartford
Nick
$200 [18]
The cake called a baba is sometimes soaked in kirsch instead of this liquor
rum
Barbara
$200 [27]
In reference to taxes, IRA stands for one of these
an individual retirement account
Nick
$200 [8]
In January 1840, Charles Wilkes first sighted this continent
Antarctica
John
$200 [20]
In a 1942 hit, this "has me in its spell"
that old black magic
Barbara
$300 [13]
Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew Cubbins finds that every time he removes one of these, another appears
hats
$300 [4]
The visitor center at this fort offers a film of the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Fort McHenry
Barbara
$300 [19]
A chimichanga is one of these Mexican food items that's been fried, filling & all
a burrito
Nick
$300 [28]
Your TIN or taxpayer identification number is usually this 9-digit number
your social security number
John
$300 [9]
In his 1849 essay on civil disobedience, he said citizens should protest unjust government needs
Henry David Thoreau
John
$300 [23]
In 1965, pianist Horst Jankowski took a walk up the charts with "A Walk In" this German location
the Black Forest
Nick
$400 [14]
A series of dreams he had about lions helped inspire his Narnia books
C.S. Lewis
Nick
$400 [5]
A formation known as Half Dome rises more than 4,700 feet in this California national park
Yosemite
John
$400 [21]
In veal oscar the cutlets are traditionally topped with crayfish or this seafood
crabmeat
Barbara Nick
$400 [29]
It's the form of your employer files at year's end showing your compensation & withheld taxes
a W-2
John
$500 [11]
Completed in 1849, the Chain Bridge over this river linked the cities of Buda and Pest
Danube
Barbara
$400 [24]
Completes "The moon was all aglow and heaven was in your eyes, the night that you told me those..."
little white lies
Barbara
$500 [15]
She was an invalid during the years it took her to write "Black Beauty"
Anna Sewell
Barbara
$500 [6]
What's thought to be the oldest log cabin in the U.S. is located on Vermont's Grand Isle in this lake
Lake Champlain
John
$500 [22]
The bigarade is one of the oldest known varieties of this citrus fruit
an orange
Nick
$500 [30]
Self-employed? If so, you may have to file estimated tax forms this often
quarterly
Barbara
DD $700 [10]
Established in 1849, as the state of Deseret, it's known as this state today
Utah
John
$500 [25]
1966 order from the Rolling Stones to an artist
paint it black
Barbara

Double Jeopardy! Round

HENRY VIII ZOOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS WORLD GEOGRAPHY MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE
$200 [7]
Henry captured Boulogne-sur-Mer in this country in 1534
France
John
$200 [6]
Komodo dragons, which belong to the monitor family of these, have been known to kill human beings
lizards
John
$200 [26]
In 1990, Germany replaced West Germany as a member of this defense alliance founded in 1949
NATO
John
$200 [13]
In 1808, Antonio Canova sculpted this emperor’s sister as a seminude, reclining Venus
Napoleon
Barbara
$200 [18]
Callao, the port of Lima, handles about 3/4 of this country's imports
Peru
John
$200 [1]
Peter Boyle played the monster assembled by Gene Wilder in this Mel Brooks B&W classic
Young Frankenstein
Barbara Nick
$400 [8]
She married Henry in January 1533 and gave birth to Elizabeth in September
Anne Boleyn
Barbara
$400 [12]
The Indian is the largest Asian species of this "nose-horned" land mammal
the rhino
Barbara
$400 [27]
Ecuador joined this "well-oiled" group in 1973 but left in 1992
OPEC
John
$400 [14]
In 1874, Manet painted this artist with a similar name "Working on His Boat in Argenteuil"
Monet
Barbara
$400 [19]
The Kamchatka Peninsula separates the Sea of Okhotsk from this sea named for a Dane
the Bering Sea
Barbara
$400 [2]
Premiere magazine called this 1994 B&W film "the story of a transvestite schlockmeister"
Ed Wood
Nick
$600 [9]
Henry destroyed the Canterbury Cathedral Tomb of this saint & chancellor of Henry II
Becket
Barbara
$600 [23]
These tallest mammals can gallop at a speed of 30 miles per hour
giraffe
John
$600 [28]
Created within the AFL in 1935, it later spilt from it then merged back
the CIO
Nick
$600 [15]
He painted ladies of the evening "at the Salon of the Rue des Moulins" in 1894
Toulouse-Lautrec
Barbara
$600 [20]
The administrative capital of South Africa was the capital of the former province of Transvaal
Pretoria
John
$600 [3]
This 1979 Woody Allen film featured Tisa Farrow, Mia's sister
Manhattan
John Nick
$1,000 [11]
This son of Henry VIII succeeded him in 1547
Edward VI
John
$800 [24]
Both hairy-nosed species of this marsupial live on Australian grasslands
wombats
Barbara
$800 [29]
It was formed in 1964 by refugee groups & Fedayeen, or commando forces, in Jerusalem
the PLO
Nick
$800 [16]
Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais painted this "Hamlet" heroine afloat in a pond
Ophelia
Barbara
$800 [21]
Much of this range that begins in the Arctic & divides Asia & Europe is less than 1,000 meters in height
the Urals
John
$800 [4]
In Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", these creatures saw the world in B&W
angels
Nick
DD $2,000 [10]
After Henry's death, this woman, his sixth wife, married a baron
Catherine Parr
Barbara
$1,000 [25]
2 of the 3 breeds of dogs called setters
(2 of) Irish, English, & Gordon
Barbara
DD $4,000 [30]
It was founded April 30, 1948 by 21 nations at a conference in Bogota, Colombia
the Organization of American States
Nick
$1,000 [17]
Constantin Brancusi was noted for his stark sculptures of this kind of animal "in Space"
a bird
John
$1,000 [22]
There’s a museum dedicated to this author of “The Red and the Black” in Grenoble, his birthplace
Stendhal
Barbara
$1,000 [5]
This 1980 film about Jake LaMotta should ring a bell with you
Raging Bull
Nick

Final Jeopardy!

POLITICIANS

In 1961, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as vice president by this mentor

Sam Rayburn

Nick "Who is Sam Rayburn" — wagered $800
John "Who is Sam Rayburn?" — wagered $7,000
Barbara "Who is Sam Rayburn?" — wagered $8,000

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