Show #3024 1997-10-23 Regular

Contestants

Chris Hackett — a computer graphic designer from New York City, New York

Eileen Heckel — a homemaker from Whittier, California

Laura Hansen — a political consultant from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Laura $200 $1,300 $3,700 $3,700
2nd place: Trip to Mount Airy Lodge in the Pennsylvania Poconos
$4,100
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Eileen $500 $1,300 $6,100 $8,400
New champion: $8,400
$5,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Chris $700 $2,000 $6,400 $400
3rd place: Monorail Desktop PC
$6,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

MYTHS & LEGENDS SPORTS THE MODEL T UNREAL ESTATE WHERE THERE'S A WILL... THERE'S A "WAY"
$100 [1]
When Sir Kay needed a sword, this young man, his foster brother, fetched him the sword in the stone
Arthur
Laura
$100 [7]
On April 13, 1997 this 21-year-old golfer became the youngest to win the Masters
Tiger Woods
Laura
$100 [27]
This man designed it in 1908
Henry Ford
Laura
$100 [12]
It's the land where the Emerald City is located
Oz
Chris
$100 [6]
This "Sultan of Swat" left 10% of his estate to a foundation he created for needy children
Babe Ruth
Eileen
$100 [21]
Named for the Roman who began its construction, it stretched 350 miles from Rome to Brindisi on Italy's "heel"
The Appian Way
Chris
$200 [2]
The children of Izanagi & Izanami include the islands of Japan & deities of this religion
Shinto
Laura
$300 [17]
Gordie Howe's 1,687 games with this team is the most by a player on one team in the NHL
Detroit Red Wings
$300 [29]
In 1927 this model replaced the T
the Model A
Chris
$200 [13]
Mildendo, a metropolis in this country in "Gulliver's Travels" was only 500 feet square
Lilliput
Chris
$200 [8]
He appointed "Beloved Wife, Yoko Ono" to act as executor of his last will & testament
John Lennon
Chris
$200 [22]
Scientists estimate that it's 588 quadrillion miles across
Milky Way
Chris
$300 [3]
This Texas legend was raised by coyotes after falling out of the family wagon
Pecos Bill
Laura
$400 [18]
The Johnny Petraglia Open & the AMF Dick Weber Classic have been major tournaments in this sport
Bowling
Eileen
$400 [26]
In other words, this nickname is Sn Elizabeth
"Tin Lizzie"
Eileen
$300 [14]
J.R.R. Tolkien created Middle Earth; this author created Middlemarch
George Eliot
$300 [9]
In his will he called himself a "printer" & "late minister plenipotentiary" to the court of France
Benjamin Franklin
Chris
$300 [23]
Paul Anka song that includes "I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and every highway"
"My Way"
Chris
$400 [4]
This evil Norse trickster god became blood brother to Odin
Loki
Chris
DD $500 [16]
"(Hi, I'm Nick Van Exel) After winning 5 NBA championships, the Lakers moved to Los Angeles in 1960 from this city"
Minneapolis
Eileen
$500 [28]
The 1910 T featured a rear seat nicknamed for this relative acquired through marriage
"Mother-In-Law Seat"
Laura
$400 [15]
In Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street", Main Street is in the town of Gopher Prairie in this state
Minnesota
Laura Eileen
$400 [10]
She bequeathed a friend a copy of her husband's inaugural address signed by Robert Frost
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Laura
$400 [24]
This House committee is charged with raising revenues to run the government
Ways and Means Committee
Chris
$500 [5]
In Greek myth this 3-headed snake-tailed dog guarded the gates of Hades
Cerberus
$500 [19]
This winter Olympic sport is contested in 2-man & 4-man events
bobsled
Laura Eileen
$500 [20]
In a Samuel Butler novel, the hero & his girlfriend escape from this land via hot-air balloon
Erewhon
$500 [11]
This former Chief Justice's self-written will of 1994 made no provisions for estate taxes
Warren Burger
Laura Chris
$500 [25]
"Paul Revere's Ride" is one of these collected "tales" by Longfellow
Tales of a Wayside Inn

Double Jeopardy! Round

SMALL CAPITALS THE "I"s HAVE IT BURT REYNOLDS INSURRECTIONS GONE TO THE DOGS TREES
$200 [2]
This capital of Seychelles shares its name with the capitals of British Columbia & Hong Kong
Victoria
Laura
$200 [8]
A Babylonian goddess of love & fertility, or a movie bomb for Warren Beatty & Dustin Hoffman
Ishtar
Eileen
$200 [26]
Burt attended college on a scholarship for this sport
football
Chris
$200 [21]
Gabriel Prosser & Nat Turner led slave insurrections in this state
Virginia
Chris
$200 [16]
The hot dog takes its name from a 1906 cartoon depicting this dog on a long bun
Dachshund
Chris
$200 [1]
The pine & fir are among trees bearing pointed leaves called these
needles
Eileen
$400 [3]
The Grimaldis rule over this country's capital, nicknamed "The Rock" due to its position on a rocky promontory
Monaco
Eileen
$400 [9]
It'll get your motor running, your car's motor, that is
Ignition
Eileen
$400 [29]
In the April 1972 issue of this magazine, Burt filled out the foldout
Cosmopolitan
Eileen Chris
$400 [22]
Robert Wilcox led a revolt against the 1887 "Bayonet Constitution" U.S. businessmen forced on these islands
Hawaii
Chris
$400 [17]
Reaching 34" in height, the tallest dog is the Irish variety of this
Wolfhound
Laura
$400 [7]
The processed fruit of the plum tree, it also means to cut back branches to aid growth
Prune
Chris
$600 [4]
This Trinidadian capital was called Puerto de Espana by the Spanish; the British anglicized the name in 1797
Port-of-Spain
Laura
$600 [10]
This legal term describes a person who leaves no will at the time of death
Intestate
Chris
DD $400 [28]
This 1972 film set in the South is considered Burt's dramatic breakthrough film
Deliverance
Laura
$600 [23]
On April 24, 1916 Michael Collins participated in this Dublin insurrection
Easter Rebellion
$600 [18]
Though barkless, this African dog does make a sound resembling a yodel
Basenji
Eileen
$800 [14]
A tree of the magnolia family is named for the resemblance of its yellow flowers to this bulb flower
Tulip tree
Chris
$800 [5]
With a population of 2,300 the capital of this republic lying within Italy is one of the world's smallest
San Marino
Eileen Chris
$800 [11]
Pressing your hands palm-to-palm is an example of this form of exercise in which there's no movement
Isometric
Chris
$600 [27]
Burt appeared in 2 "Cannonball Run" films & in 3 installments of this car chase series
Smokey And The Bandit
Laura
$800 [24]
After Dewey defeated the Spanish in these islands, the islanders there rebelled against U.S. rule
Philippines
Eileen
$800 [19]
An excellent guard dog, it's the national dog of Japan
Akita
Eileen
DD $1,000 [13]
Its resemblance to a Biblical person gave this tree, seen here, its name: [video clue]
Joshua tree
Chris
$1,000 [6]
Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands, lies on this island, a WWII battle site
Guadalcanal
Chris
$1,000 [12]
In a proverb, it's "no excuse" for breaking the law
Ignorance
Chris
$800 [30]
Burt's musicals include "At Long Last Love" with Cybill Shepherd & this 1982 one with Dolly Parton
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Eileen
$1,000 [25]
McKeesport, Penn. was home to dissidents in this 1794 insurrection against excise taxes on liquor
Whiskey Rebellion
Chris
$1,000 [20]
You shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you, but in 1991 one of these pets bit Queen Elizabeth II
Corgi
Laura
$1,000 [15]
The Latin sempervirens, found in the scientific name of the redwood, means this kind of tree
Evergreen
Eileen

Final Jeopardy!

MILITARY NEWS

On June 11, 1997 the Army deactivated the 43rd Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, its last, in this country

(South) Korea

Laura "What is Kuwait?" — wagered $0
Eileen "What is Korea" — wagered $2,300
Chris "What is Japan" — wagered $6,000

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