Show #3050 1997-11-28 Regular

Contestants

Heather O'Neill — a program assistant from Tarboro, North Carolina

Claire Guthrie Gastanaga — a management consultant from Richmond, Virginia

Steven Jupiter — a lawyer from New York City, New York

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $500 $1,500 $5,300 $9,300
2nd place: a trip to Almond Beach Resort, Barbados
$5,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Claire $1,500 $2,500 $2,900 $5,400
3rd place: a Panasonic LCD Palmcorder
$2,900
10 R, 2 W
Heather $1,300 $4,200 $7,400 $10,601
New champion: $10,601
$8,900
28 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE TELL-TALE HEART THE GOLD BUG THE BELLS QUOTH THE RAVEN NEVERMORE
$100 [6]
This largest artery begins in the lower left chamber & gives rise to the coronary arteries
Aorta
Claire
$100 [5]
Name this little man who spun straw into gold or he'll take your first-born child
Rumpelstiltskin
Heather
$100 [4]
This city's second-most famous bell was cast in 1926 for Wanamaker's Department Store
Philadelphia
Heather
$100 [16]
Poe's maiden who lived "Many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea"
Annabel Lee
Heather
$100 [1]
In 1959 Glen Raven Mills introduced these waist-high nylons that don't need garters or corsets
Panty hose
Steven
$100 [3]
The Skyway to Fantasyland closed down in this Calif. theme park in 1994, so now it's just a fantasy
Disneyland
Steven Heather
$200 [7]
In 1984, in the first surgery of its kind, Baby Fae received a heart transplant from this mammal
Baboon
Steven
$200 [9]
Greek sailors after the Golden Fleece, or another name given to Forty-Niners after California gold
Argonauts
Heather
$200 [15]
The bells in this 12th century Italian tower are no longer rung; we just hope they don't fall out
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Heather
$200 [17]
On March 5, 1946 Winston Churchill remarked that this had "descended across the continent"
Iron Curtain
Heather
$200 [2]
The ravens that sit on this Norse god's shoulders are Hugin & Munin, meaning thought & memory
Odin
Heather
$200 [24]
Since 1974, you can't be voted "Miss" this in the Miss America pageant, no matter how much you smile
Miss Congeniality
Steven
$300 [8]
The heart has 4 of these to regulate the flow of blood, including the mitral
valves
Steven Heather
$300 [10]
In 1996 he asked to run the 400m relay to try for a record tenth Olympic gold, but was turned down
Carl Lewis
Heather
$300 [21]
The world's largest bell, which has never rung, is in this walled area of Moscow
The Kremlin
Claire
$300 [18]
On Nov. 27, 1963 he told Congress, "All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today"
Lyndon B. Johnson
Heather
$300 [28]
Sharon Gabet played Raven on this ABC soap that drifted off into the twilight December 28, 1984
The Edge of Night
Claire
$300 [25]
In 1996, at age 64, she told People magazine, "I'm through with marriage", but "I'm not through with men"
Elizabeth Taylor
Heather
$400 [13]
This term for an irregular heartbeat is from the Greek for "without measure"
Arrhythmia
Steven
$400 [11]
In 1995 Mel Fisher recovered silver & gold from a Spanish galleon sunk off the coast of this state in 1622
Florida
Claire
$400 [22]
Big Ben hangs over Parliament & a rival, Great Tom, hangs over Christ Church College at this university
Oxford
Steven
$400 [19]
Dramatist who wrote that a salesman is "way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine"
Arthur Miller ( Death of a Salesman )
Steven
$400 [29]
Drama with the line "The Raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements"
"Macbeth"
Claire
$400 [26]
Jean Arthur's last feature film was this 1953 Alan Ladd classic; she never made a "come back"
Shane
$500 [14]
The atria make up the upper, smaller part of the heart & these chambers form the lower portion
Ventricles
Claire
$500 [12]
The Incan ruler Atahualpa offered this conquistador a roomful of gold for his freedom
Francisco Pizarro
Claire
$500 [23]
One of this city's Temple Bells, which Kipling heard calling him back, weighs 90 tons
Mandalay
$500 [20]
In the 12th of these letters, Alexander Hamilton wrote, "A nation cannot long exist without revenues"
The Federalist Papers
Heather
$500 [30]
This Biblical prophet is known for being fed by ravens & flying to heaven in a chariot of fire
Elijah
Heather
DD $1,000 [27]
This sitcom's last episode, which aired on May 20, 1993, was titled "One for the Road"
Cheers
Heather

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 1960s RELIGION THEIR FIRST FILMS SOUTHERN FOOD BABIES "IF" ONLY...
$200 [14]
Up to 400,000 fans attended this August 1969 folk-rock festival on Max Yasgur's farm near Bethel, N.Y.
Woodstock
Heather
$200 [11]
His letter to the Thessalonians, written about 51 A.D., is considered the earliest New Testament writing
Paul
Steven
$200 [1]
Juliette Lewis was first seen onscreen in the 1988 comedy "My Stepmother Is" one of these
An Alien
Heather
$200 [2]
Trim the green skin & pink flesh from this melon's rind before pickling it
Watermelon
Heather
$200 [20]
This game of hiding the face & reappearing helps babies define themselves as separate entities
Peek-a-boo
Heather
$200 [19]
In "Clueless" Alicia Silverstone responds to male advances with this 2-word phrase
"As If"
Steven
$400 [15]
On July 30, 1965 this bill providing health care for the aged was signed into law
Medicare
Heather
$400 [12]
The name of this Japanese religion means "The way of the gods"
Shinto
Heather
$400 [7]
"Born on the Fourth of July" was the 1st film for this Baldwin brother born 5 years after Alec
William Baldwin
Steven
$400 [3]
In 1942 Neil Fletcher introduced this battered frankfurter at the Texas State Fair
Corn dog
Heather
$400 [22]
In a 2-week-old, it's been estimated at about 20/400
Eyesight/vision
Heather
$400 [21]
Start of a Sting lyric that continues, "Set them free"
If you love somebody
Steven Heather
$600 [16]
On August 2, 1964 North Vietnamese PT boats attacked the U.S. destroyer Maddox in this gulf
the Gulf of Tonkin
Claire Heather
$600 [13]
During this Jewish holiday, it is customary to greet neighbors with "May You Be Inscribed for a Good Year"
Rosh Hashanah
Heather
$600 [8]
In 1961 she made her film debut in the Charles Bronson movie "X-15" & began playing Laura Petrie on TV
Mary Tyler Moore
Steven
$600 [4]
Green food coloring often brightens the filling of this pie named for a Florida fruit
Key lime pie
Claire
$600 [23]
Many of small babies' actions are these, including the grasping & startle types
Reflexes
Heather
$600 [26]
A phrase spoken by Longfellow's Paul Revere gave us this title of a 1996 Sandra Bullock film
Two if by Sea
Heather
$800 [17]
Direct commercial flights between the USA & the USSR began July 15, 1968 when this Soviet airline landed at JFK
Aeroflot
Heather
$800 [29]
The Golden Temple in Amritsar, India is the holiest shrine in this religion
Sikhism
Steven Claire Heather
DD $1,000 [9]
[Hi, I'm Joseph Gordon-Levitt] I made my feature film debut in this '92 movie directed by Robert Redford; if you want to know the title, "Go Fish"
A River Runs Through It
Steven
$800 [5]
This type of salad can be made by adding hot red-eye gravy or pork drippings to the greens
wilted salad
Claire
$800 [24]
This pain that makes infants cry gets its name from the intestinal area where it may start
colic
Claire
$800 [27]
Harry Truman had this to say to people who don't bear up under criticism
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"
Steven
DD $2,000 [18]
On June 1, 1967, 4 days before the beginning of the 6-Day War, he was named defense minister of Israel
Moshe Dayan
Heather
$1,000 [10]
Kevin Kline chose to debut in this 1982 Meryl Streep film based on a novel
Sophie's Choice
Steven
$1,000 [6]
Most agree this stew once made with squirrel meat originated in a Virginia county of the same name
Brunswick stew
Heather
$1,000 [25]
2-word term for fear & discomfort felt by a 1-year-old when Mommy leaves the room
Separation anxiety
$1,000 [28]
Proverbial condition under which "beggars might ride"
"If wishes were horses"
Heather

Final Jeopardy!

TELEVISION

TV's No. 1 show for the 1979-80 season, it was also tops 13 years later for the 1992-93 season

60 Minutes

Claire "What was [Cheers] 60 Minutes?" — wagered $2,500
Steven "What is 60 Minutes?" — wagered $4,000
Heather "What is 60 Minutes?" — wagered $3,201

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