Show #2898 1997-03-19 (taped 1996-12-04) Regular

Contestants

Carole Smith — a regulations writer from Washington, D.C.

Martin Smith — a new home sales assistant originally from Leeds, Yorkshire England

Steve Douches — a high school math teacher from Fairfax, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $2,600 $4,000 $8,600 $14,601
2-day champion: $19,200
$10,800
30 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Martin $600 $1,700 $7,300 $5,200
2nd place: Trip to the Tryall Club Resort & Villas, Jamaica
$4,500
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Carole $900 $2,000 $2,400 $4,400
3rd place: Meade Model 395 Telescope
$2,400
11 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD SONGS THE THIRD SPORTS FASHION SCIENCE
$100 [7]
Prince Edward & Marion, 2 small islands of this country, lie about 1200 miles southeast of Cape Town
South Africa
Steve
$100 [12]
Bob Dylan asked him to "Play a song for me, in the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you"
Mr. Tambourine Man
Steve
$100 [17]
Charles Conrad, Jr. was the third man to walk here
The Moon
Martin
$100 [1]
Tommy Lasorda managed this team to 4 National League pennants & 2 World Series championships
Los Angeles Dodgers
Steve
$100 [6]
In ads, Jamie Lee Curtis has found "Nothing beats a great pair of" these
Leggs
Steve
$100 [22]
These respiratory organs of aquatic animals occur in oysters & some insect larvae as well as in fish
Gills
Carole
$200 [8]
Numerous dikes cover the coast of Ijsselmeer in this country
The Netherlands/Holland
Martin
$200 [13]
The title of a 1942 Frank Loesser song said to "Praise the Lord and" do this
Pass the ammunition
Steve
$200 [18]
Our third president, for 4 years he had a Burr in his side
Thomas Jefferson
Steve
$200 [2]
The Vancouver Grizzlies & the Toronto Raptors are the newest franchises in this professional sport
Basketball
Steve
$200 [25]
His rugged casual wear line, The Double RL, is named for his Colorado ranch
Ralph Lauren
Carole
$200 [23]
Used to control glaucoma, a trabeculectomy is a procedure that reduces pressure in this organ
Eye
Martin
$300 [9]
A cedar tree is featured on this country's coat of arms
Lebanon
Steve
$300 [14]
"You could have told me yourself that you loved someone else, instead I heard it" here
Through the grapevine
Steve
$300 [19]
The third reindeer named in "A Visit From St. Nicholas", he follows Dancer & precedes Vixen
Prancer
Carole
$300 [3]
NHL teams that have moved to new, luxury box-filled arenas include the Boston Bruins & this city's Sabres
Buffalo
Steve
$300 [26]
Claudia Schiffer is featured in ads for this lingerie store & catalogue's new "Underware" line
Victoria's Secret
Steve
$300 [24]
The number of these dark patches visible on the sun's surface varies from a few to several hundred
Sunspots
Martin
$400 [10]
Bratislava, capital of this eastern neighbor of the Czech Republic, was known as Pressburg until 1919
Slovakia
Martin
$400 [15]
2 words following "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky..."
stormy weather
Carole
$400 [20]
Based on an Erich Maria Remarque novel, it was the third film to win a Best Picture Oscar
All Quiet On The Western Front
Steve
$400 [4]
On November 19, 1996, he announced his retirement as Notre Dame football coach after an 11-year stint
Lou Holtz
Steve
$400 [27]
Hard Candy is a trendy new company making colorful types of this cosmetic
Lipstick/nail polish
Steve
$400 [29]
A phrase used to remember this planet's main moons is "Met Dr. Thip"; Titan is the second T
Saturn
Steve
$500 [11]
This country's territory on Borneo is over 50% larger than its territory on the Asian mainland
Malaysia
Steve
$500 [16]
This Beatles song begins, "Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, tomorrow I'll miss you"
"All My Loving"
Martin
DD $800 [21]
He was the last king of the House of York
Richard III
Steve
$500 [5]
This golfing cup was presented by & named for a British seed merchant & was first awarded in 1927
Ryder Cup
Carole
$500 [28]
This menswear designer has launched a Tommy line for women along with a new Tommy Girl fragrance
Tommy Hilfiger
Carole
$500 [30]
This drug marketed as Motrin was patented in Great Britain in 1964
Ibuprofen
Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY HOSPITALS 9-LETTER WORDS LITERARY HODGEPODGE ENDINGS ART
$200 [17]
In November 1620 John Carver was elected the first governor of this colony
Plymouth Colony
Steve Martin
$200 [8]
The Cleveland Clinic tops U.S. News' 1996 ranking of hospitals in this, the study of the heart
Cardiology
Steve
$200 [3]
A vortex or a jacuzzi
Whirlpool
Steve
$200 [1]
The protagonist of this H.G. Wells novel is known only as the Time Traveller
The Time Machine
Martin
$200 [22]
Some observers say this decade ended with the shootings at Kent State
1960s
Steve
$400 [27]
Grime darkened the daytime setting of this artist's work, causing it to be misnamed "The Night Watch"
Rembrandt
Steve
$400 [18]
In 1933 this Republican began serving the first of his 2 terms as governor of Kansas
Alf Landon
Martin
$400 [9]
In 1860 she founded her nursing school at London's St. Thomas's Hospital with funds raised by the public
Florence Nightingale
Steve
$400 [4]
It's a place such as a tank or artificial lake where water is stored
a reservoir
Carole
$400 [2]
"The Castle Of Otranto", a tale of evil, was the 1st English novel of this "architectural" genre
Gothic
Steve
$400 [23]
An underage partner can be grounds for this ending of a marriage, which usually happens within a year
Annulment
Steve Martin
$600 [28]
This Venetian master was born Tiziano Vecellio
Titian
Steve
$600 [19]
While serving in this cabinet post, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. signed the U.N. charter for the U.S. June 26, 1945
Secretary of State
Steve
$600 [10]
In 1978 Louise Brown, the first of these, was born in the UK's Oldham General Hospital
Test-tube baby
Steve
$600 [5]
Trees that shed their leaves annually are described by this adjective
Deciduous
Carole
$600 [13]
Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, this "To The Lighthouse" author was a leader of the Bloomsbury Group
Virginia Woolf
Carole
$1,000 [24]
Eschatology is the theology of this event, which T.S. Eliot said would happen with a whimper
The end of the world
Martin
$800 [16]
This French impressionist's 1893 "Trapeze Artist At The Medrano Circus" was painted on cardboard
Toulouse Lautrec
Steve
$800 [20]
In June 1967 LBJ met with this Soviet premier in Glassboro, N.J. to discuss world problems
Alexei Kosygin
Martin Carole
$800 [11]
Children's Hospital in Boston is the primary pediatric teaching hospital of this university
Harvard
Steve
$800 [6]
Named for a scientist, it means to coat metal with zinc
Galvanize
Carole
$800 [14]
He wrote "A Little Tractate In Praise Of Dante" after finishing the "Decameron"
Giovanni Boccaccio
Carole
DD $3,600 [26]
Ending being celebrated in the Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph seen here:[video clue]
End of the Second World War
Martin
$1,000 [25]
While serving as art director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater, he painted murals & designed sets
Marc Chagall
Martin
$1,000 [21]
On September 14, 1847, this general led the American army into Mexico City
Winfield Scott
Martin Carole
DD $1,400 [12]
The Knights Hospitalers trace their origin back to an 11th century hospital in this city
Jerusalem
Steve
$1,000 [7]
It's the derivation of a word, or the study of it
Etymology
Steve
$1,000 [15]
This Scotsman's 19th century novel "The Master Of Ballantrae" is subtitled "A Winter's Tale"
Robert Louis Stevenson
Martin Carole

Final Jeopardy!

OSCAR WINNERS

The only person--male or female--to win Oscars in acting & screenwriting categories

Emma Thompson

Carole "[What] Who is Emma Thompson?" — wagered $2,000
Martin "Who is Orson Welles?" — wagered $2,100
Steve "What is Emma Thompson?" — wagered $6,001

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