Show #3022 1997-10-21 Regular

Contestants

Heather Harvey — a university student from Lilburn, Georgia

Rich Greene — a third grade teacher from West Sparta, New York

Betty Altruda — an English professor from Manalapan, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Betty $2,000 $4,200 $11,300 $11,201
2-day champion: $25,001
$8,900
24 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Rich $800 $1,200 $5,600 $6,700
2nd place: trip to Spice Island Beach Resort in Grenada + Jeopardy! Challenger
$5,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Heather $800 $800 $2,200 $4,400
3rd place: Daniel Mink his & her watches + Jeopardy! Challenger
$2,200
17 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAMES HAND SIGNALS WORLD RELIGION SCIENCE NUMBERS TV SIDEKICKS WORDS THAT START & END WITH "L"
$100 [26]
This "Dear" woman has lots of advice
(Abigail) van Buren
Betty
$100 [15]
Churchill's 2-finger salute meant "victory"; in the '60s, it meant this state that follows victory
Peace
Betty
$100 [11]
In Arabic, this pillar of Islam is called salat & must be performed 5 times a day
Prayer
Heather
$100 [21]
Smallest number of cells a living organism can have
1
Betty
$100 [6]
Sarcastic Vicki helps her co-worker Susan struggle through single life on this Brooke Shields sitcom
Suddenly Susan
Rich
$100 [1]
Type of wreath given for a crowning achievement
Laurel
Heather
$200 [27]
He won a Tony & an Oscar for playing Henry Higgins
Rex Harrison
Betty
$200 [17]
This Siskel & Ebert gesture of approval dates back to Roman spectators determining a gladiator's fate
thumbs-up
Betty
$200 [12]
This oval building in Salt Lake City's Temple Square is famous for its choir
Mormon Tabernacle
Heather
$200 [22]
37° Celsius equals this average human temperature on the Fahrenheit scale
98.6
Betty
$200 [7]
Gabrielle, a young villager, left home to follow this warrior princess on her journeys
Xena
Betty
$200 [2]
Boutonniere site
Lapel
Heather
$300 [28]
16 tons & what do you get? This singer, we bet
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Betty Heather
$300 [18]
People from this state map it on one hand with Mackinaw City at the top of the middle finger
Michigan
Betty
$300 [13]
In Christian churches, Ascension Day is observed 40 days after this holiday
Easter
Heather
$300 [23]
This isn't hard, it's the highest number on the Mohs scale
10
Heather
$400 [9]
Although Fox Mulder may think she was sent to be his sidekick, she was actually assigned to keep an eye on him
Dana Scully
Heather
$300 [3]
Maliciously try to damage a person's reputation by publishing a false report
Libel
Rich
$400 [29]
For Lens Express she says, "I don't trust these baby blues to just anyone"
Lynda Carter
Betty
$400 [19]
This gesture seen on posters of Uncle Sam is considered rude by Emily Post
pointing at someone
Betty
$400 [14]
Gen represents the ideal relationship between individuals in this Chinese sage's philosophy
Confucius
Rich
$400 [24]
A tarantula in a conga line would take 3 steps then kick out this many legs to one side
4
Rich
$500 [10]
Some consider the work of this Conan O'Brien sidekick worthy of a true second banana
Andy Richter
Heather
$400 [4]
When expressing yourself about trains, it's the opposite of express
Local
Betty
$500 [30]
He played the Sam famous for playing it again
Dooley Wilson
Heather
$500 [20]
When a referee's hands circle each other in a forward motion, a basketball player is guilty of this violation
traveling
Betty
$500 [16]
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob & their wives are buried in a cave in this city near Jerusalem
Hebron
$500 [25]
A gold ring has this many karats if it contains 6 parts of another metal
18
Betty Heather
DD $800 [8]
Arthur, the one dressed like a moth, helps this big blue superhero seen here:
The Tick
Betty
$500 [5]
Instrument to show if a carpenter's flat-out correct
Level
Betty

Double Jeopardy! Round

MARTIAN CINEMA ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS "FOR" WORDS THEY LIVE THERE PROSE KHANS
$200 [5]
Slim Whitman's music saves the world from a Martian invasion in this 1996 Tim Burton film
Mars Attacks!
Heather
$200 [1]
The young ladies in this Frenchman's 1874 painting "The Dance Lesson" are wearing tutus
Degas
Heather
$200 [4]
A public square in ancient Rome where other than "funny things" happened
forum
Betty
$200 [16]
The city of the Muscovites
Moscow
Heather
$200 [21]
Mr. Wickfield got in a "heap" of trouble when this "David Copperfield" villain embezzled funds from him
Uriah Heep
$200 [26]
As a child, this world conqueror was known as Temujin & was reputedly timid around dogs
Genghis Khan
Heather
$400 [10]
In a 1964 classic this holiday figure "Conquers the Martians"
Santa Claus
Betty
$400 [2]
Historian Thomas Carlyle is the subject of his "Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 2": mom was "No. 1"
Whistler
Betty
$400 [8]
This surgical instrument is sometimes used to help deliver babies in distress
forceps
Heather
$400 [17]
The city of the Liverpudlians
Liverpool
Rich
$400 [22]
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that they were inhabitants of the same body
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Betty
$400 [27]
In "The Jungle Book" the wolves protect Mowgli from this hungry tiger
Shere Khan
Rich
$800 [12]
An ancient machine that gives Mars an atmosphere is activated in this Schwarzenegger film of 1990
Total Recall
Betty
$600 [3]
Welsh artist Augustus John is known for his portrait of this Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas
Betty
$600 [9]
VHS or Beta, for example
format
Rich
$600 [18]
The country of the Nipponese
Japan
Rich
$600 [23]
At the conclusion of this Tolstoy novel, Pierre Bezuhov marries Natasha Rostova, whom he was secretly loved
War and Peace
Heather
$600 [28]
This admiral was the object of the bulk of Khan's wrath in the 1982 film "The Wrath of Khan"
Admiral (James) Kirk
Rich
$1,000 [13]
Jimmy Hunt, who played the boy in this 1953 classic, was the police chief in the 1986 remake
Invaders From Mars
Betty
$800 [6]
Sidney Nolan, a native of this continent created a series of paintings inspired by outlaw Ned Kelly
Australia
Heather
$800 [14]
It's the old Portuguese name for Taiwan
Formosa
Betty
DD $1,000 [19]
The city of the Neopolitans
Naples
Rich
$800 [24]
Jules Verne described it as 232 feet long, displacing 50,000 cubic feet & powered by electricity
Nautilus
Rich
$800 [29]
Architect Fazlur Khan rose to new heights with his design for this Chicago landmark completed in 1974
Sears Tower
Heather
DD $2,500 [11]
He wrote the novel that inspired the film seen here:
H.G. Wells
Betty
$1,000 [7]
The man in his surreal painting "The Therapeutist" has no head but still manages to wear a hat
René Magritte
Heather
$1,000 [15]
It's another term for an anthill or ant's nest
formicarium
$1,000 [20]
The city of the Glaswegians
Glasgow
Heather
$1,000 [25]
Alexandre Dumas based this title character on a shoemaker described in the Paris police archives
The Count of Monte Cristo
Heather
$1,000 [30]
Prince Aly Khan's father & son have carried this title as imams of a sect of Shiite Muslims
Aga Khan
Heather

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. JUSTICE

This state carries out the most executions by far

Texas

Heather "What is Texas" — wagered $2,200
Rich "What is Texas" — wagered $1,100
Betty "What is Florida?" — wagered $99

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