Show #2925 1997-04-25 (taped 1997-01-14) Regular

Contestants

Courtney Conrad — a business owner from Orlando, Florida

Doug Antoniazzi — a test systems analyst from Hyde Park, Massachusetts

Roger Bauman — a financial analyst from St. Paul, Minnesota (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Roger $1,500 $2,100 $2,100 $100
3rd place: Motorola StarTac Cellular Phone
$4,100
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Doug $1,300 $1,900 $6,500 $12,999
New champion: $12,999
$5,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Courtney $0 $1,400 $9,800 $6,499
2nd place: Temptress Adventures Trip/Cruise in Costa Rica
$10,500
22 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE FEMALE SINGERS CINCO DE MAYO PEOPLE & PLACES TEAM SPORTS NOUNS OR VERBS
$100 [8]
Friar Lawrence laments that this pair's "stol'n marriage day was Tybalt's doomsday"
Romeo and Juliet
Doug
$100 [22]
This "Material Girl" was paid $100 to appear in "A Certain Sacrifice", her film debut
Madonna
Roger
$100 [6]
The first robbery of one of these occurred May 5, 1865; first the crooks derailed it
Train
Roger
$100 [16]
A Gothamite is a resident of this U.S. city
New York City
Doug
$100 [1]
In football's shotgun formation, this player stands several yards behind the center to take the snap
Quarterback
Roger
$100 [21]
A cod, or to catch a cod
Fish
Courtney
$200 [9]
"She has light by her continually, 'tis her command", & she sleepwalks carrying a taper
Lady Macbeth
Courtney
$200 [23]
Her 1996 album "Stardust" features another duet with her late dad on "When I Fall In Love"
Natalie Cole
Courtney
$200 [7]
Signed into law May 5, 1961, the Fair Labor Standards Act raised this to $1.15
Minimum wage
Courtney
$200 [17]
The Mbuti of Zaire's Ituri Forest may be the best known of these people noted for their short stature
Pygmies
Doug
$200 [2]
In this sport it may be a foul to hold either the ball or an opponent's head underwater
Water polo
Roger Doug
$200 [27]
What belongs to the victor, or what food does when left out
spoils
Roger Doug
$400 [11]
Act I, scene 1 of this play is set in front of Priam's palace in Troy
"Troilus and Cressida"
Doug
$300 [24]
A few months after her October 4, 1970 death, "Me And Bobbie McGee" topped the charts
Janis Joplin
Courtney
$300 [13]
Tchaikovsky conducted this New York City landmark's opening concert May 5, 1891
Carnegie Hall
Roger
$300 [18]
The name of these Eastenders comes from a middle English word that meant "cock's egg"
Cockneys
Roger
$300 [3]
It's said this game using little padding originated when a schoolboy grabbed a soccer ball & ran
Rugby
Courtney
$300 [28]
A jester, or to hoodwink
Fool
Courtney
$500 [12]
After stabbing him, Hamlet cries, "This incestuous, murderous, damned Dane...follow my mother"
Claudius
Doug
$400 [25]
This gospel artist hit No. 1 on the pop charts in 1991 with "Baby Baby"
Amy Grant
Courtney
$400 [14]
Founded in the 13th century by the Kirghiz, it adopted its constitution May 5, 1993
Kyrgyzstan
Roger
$400 [19]
The 2 Scandinavian countries with the largest population of Lapps
Norway & Sweden
Roger Doug Courtney
$400 [4]
Hockey's Colorado Avalanche once played for this city, birthplace of their star Patrick Roy
Quebec City
Roger
$400 [29]
A jewelry setting, or to get on a horse
Mount
Roger
DD $700 [10]
Some scholars think this bawdy comedy was based on a ballad, "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife..."
The Taming of the Shrew
Courtney
$500 [26]
"Love Is", her duet with Brian McKnight, was featured on the "Beverly Hills 90210" soundtrack
Vanessa Williams
$500 [15]
Italian forces took this African capital city May 5, 1936
Addis Ababa
Doug
$500 [20]
Some people in St. Barthelemy, an island in this sea, still speak the Norman dialect of their ancestors
Caribbean Sea
Doug
$500 [5]
Using a frisbee & combining football & other games, it's the "last" word in team sports
Ultimate frisbee
$500 [30]
Home to a smithy, or to make counterfeit bills
Forge
Courtney

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL CUISINE PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORIC AMERICANS SILENT MOVIES AUTHORS' NICKNAMES
$200 [12]
Proxima Centauri is the second-closest star to the Earth; this is the closest
The sun
Roger
$200 [20]
This bright green fruit is featured in pavlova, a dessert from New Zealand
Kiwi fruit
Courtney
$200 [11]
When selling its box camera, this company used the slogan, "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest"
Kodak
Courtney
$200 [1]
At the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, you can see this Indian princess as she really appeared
Pocahontas
Roger
$200 [2]
Lon Chaney wore a 70-pound rubber hump & harness for this 1923 film
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Doug
$200 [15]
"The Pilgrim From Hannibal"
Mark Twain
Courtney
$400 [13]
The constellation Taurus, not Cancer, contains this famous nebula
Crab Nebula
Courtney
$400 [21]
One cookbook says "There are as many varieties of" this Hungarian stew "as there are cooks in Hungary"
Goulash
Doug
$400 [23]
At the outbreak of the Civil War, he hired a staff of about 20 photographers to cover every phase of the conflict
Mathew Brady
Courtney
$400 [7]
This leader of the Green Mountain Boys was born in Litchfield, Connecticut
Ethan Allen
Doug
$400 [3]
This 1925 film set in the Klondike was Charlie Chaplin's first starring vehicle for United Artists
The Gold Rush
Doug
$400 [16]
"The Fourth Musketeer"
Alexandre Dumas (pere)
Courtney
$600 [14]
Arteries branch off into arterioles & these join to form veins
venules
Doug
$600 [22]
A famous dish from Germany is this peppery rabbit stew
Hassenpfeffer
Roger
$600 [28]
Aperture size is measured in these numbers which usually range from 2 to 16
F-stops
$800 [9]
This founder of the Mormon church was murdered by a mob in 1844
Joseph Smith
Courtney
$600 [4]
William Wellman, who directed this first Oscar winner, about WWI, was a veteran of aerial combat
Wings
Roger
$600 [17]
"The Chronicler of Main Street"
Sinclair Lewis
Roger
$1,000 [19]
This gray metal is used in spark plugs & x-ray tubes as well as filaments
Tungsten
Courtney
$800 [24]
A popular Chinese dish, it consists of stir fried shredded meat & vegetables served in thin pancakes
Mu Shu Pork
$800 [29]
In this type of photography, auras are seen surrounding the photographic subject
Kirlian photography
Courtney
$1,000 [10]
At 80 she stepped down as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900
Susan B. Anthony
Doug
$800 [5]
In 1926 John Barrymore romanced Mary Astor as this swashbuckling Spanish lover
Don Juan
Roger
$800 [25]
"The Father of English Poetry"
Geoffrey Chaucer
Doug
DD $2,000 [18]
Often quite expensive, it's considered the strongest natural fiber
silk
Roger
$1,000 [27]
This salad of bulgur wheat, onions, tomatoes, parsley & mint is a classic dish of the Middle East
Tabbouleh
Courtney
$1,000 [30]
This photographer & her husband Erskine Caldwell published the 1937 work "You Have Seen Their Faces"
Margaret Bourke-White
Roger Courtney
DD $2,000 [8]
He was sworn in as vice president December 19, 1974
Nelson Rockefeller
Doug
$1,000 [6]
"The Torrent", released in 1926, was this Swedish actress' first American film
Greta Garbo
Courtney
$1,000 [26]
Italy's "Poet of the Damned"
Dante Alighieri
Courtney

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

2 of the 5 presidents in the 20th century who were former U.S. senators

(2 of) Warren Harding, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson & Richard Nixon

Roger "Who were Kennedy & Taft" — wagered $2,000
Doug "Who were Harding & JFK?" — wagered $6,499
Courtney "Who are Kennedy & Bush" — wagered $3,301

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