Show #3052 1997-12-02 Regular

Contestants

Kathy Giddens — an instructional coordinator from Warner Robins, Georgia

Tom Castelazo — a middle school teacher originally from Fresno, California

Heather O'Neill — a program assistant from Tarboro, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $12,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Heather $1,200 $3,400 $2,800 $100
3rd place: Pair of Franchi-Menotti Sports Watches
$2,800
15 R, 4 W
Tom $1,000 $2,400 $6,300 $2,801
New champion: $2,801
$7,800
20 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Kathy $800 $2,600 $4,400 $100
2nd place: Panasonic 31" Superflat System TV & Bush Home Theatre
$4,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

REEL MEN OF THE CLOTH ADVICE THE PRESIDENT'S DOG BASKETBALL EASTERN EUROPE BODY LANGUAGE
$100 [3]
In 1997 this Blues Brother was collared to play Mike Weber, a free-wheeling minister on "Soul Man"
Dan Aykroyd
Heather
$100 [9]
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties" was the moral of his "The Fox and the Goat"
Aesop
Kathy
$100 [18]
The press corps called this Scottie "The Informer"; when they saw him they knew FDR was near
Fala
Tom
$100 [13]
In 1968 the St. Louis Hawks flew the coop & landed in this city
Atlanta
Heather
$100 [1]
Unlike other major Polish cities like Warsaw, this former capital escaped WWII devastation
Krakow
Heather
$100 [23]
It's said to be "The way to a man's heart"
Through his stomach
Heather
$200 [5]
This 1944 Bing Crosby film won more than "Two-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra" Oscars, it won 7
Going My Way
Kathy
$200 [10]
Heloise says if you're wearing these & are going to make a splash in the water, at least squint
contact lenses
Heather Kathy
$200 [19]
Edgar was the beagle named after this man, who gave him to LBJ
J. Edgar Hoover
Tom
$200 [14]
It was Kerr-tains for this team when the Bulls' Steve Kerr made the title-winning shot in the 1997 NBA Finals
Utah Jazz
Tom
$200 [2]
The Bulgarians are famous for this dairy product, which they claimed to have invented
yogurt
Heather Kathy
$200 [24]
A digital phrase meaning to hitchhike
Thumb a ride
Kathy
$300 [6]
In this 1964 film Richard Burton was an alcoholic, philandering ex-clergyman in Mexico
Night of the Iguana
Kathy
$300 [30]
"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home", wrote this author of "The Color Purple"
Alice Walker
Tom
$300 [20]
His golden retriever Liberty gave birth to 9 pups in the White House, giving him even more to trip over
Gerald Ford
Tom
$300 [15]
In May 1997 this former Celtics star returned to his home state to become coach of the Indiana Pacers
Larry Bird
Tom
$300 [4]
Nicu Ceausescu, a playboy who was groomed to lead this country, was jailed in 1990 & died in 1996
Romania
Kathy
$300 [25]
When you're charged a great deal of money for something, you "pay through" this
The nose
Heather
$400 [7]
1973 film that gave Jason Miller a real workout as the priest Father Karras
The Exorcist
Kathy
$400 [29]
Advice of John Soule later picked up by Horace Greeley
"Go West, Young Man"
Kathy
$400 [21]
He gave the Kennedys Pushinka, a pup of Strelka, the first Soviet dog in space
Nikita Khrushchev
Kathy
$400 [16]
John Wooden, the legendary "Wizard of Westwood", coached this school to 10 NCAA titles
UCLA
Heather
$400 [11]
Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia & Ljubljana is the capital of this former Yugoslav republic
Slovenia
Heather
$400 [26]
It means too close to tell, especially in horse racing
Neck and neck
Heather
$500 [8]
In 1947 David Niven was in "The Bishop's Wife"; in 1996 Denzel Washington starred in this remake
The Preacher's Wife
Tom
$500 [28]
Satchel Paige & this actor's 2,000-Year-Old Man say to avoid fried foods for longevity
Mel Brooks
Heather
DD $800 [22]
This bestselling author died in May 1997 at age 12
Millie (President Bush's dog)
Kathy
$500 [17]
While at Princeton, this future U.S. Senator set the record for points in a Final Four game with 58
Bill Bradley
Heather
$500 [12]
You can "spot" Croatia's tourist cities Split & Dubrovnik in this coastal region for which a dog breed is named
Dalmatia
Heather Kathy
$500 [27]
Derived from the Bible, it immediately follows "An eye for an eye"
"A tooth for a tooth"
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

REAL MEN OF THE CLOTH THE NEW WORLD ZOOLOGY CLASSICAL COMPOSERS BUSINESS & INDUSTRY "A" PLUS
$200 [2]
Some believe that Lubavitch Rabbi Schneerson, who died in 1994, was Mashiah, meaning this
Messiah
Tom
$200 [9]
In 1513 Martin Waldseemuller updated his 1507 map, taking this name off the new continent
America
$200 [8]
Some spiders have a special organ called a cribellum that enables them to do this; how artistic
spin a web (spin silk, weave accepted)
Heather Kathy
$200 [1]
His period of work between "Eroica" & Symphony No. 8 is known as his heroic decade
Ludwig van Beethoven
Heather
$200 [7]
In May 1997 this cereal company introduced new Cocoa Frosted Flakes
Kellogg's
Tom Kathy
$200 [15]
Some think this long-snouted mammal's scientific name, Orycteropus afer, is haard to pronounce
an aardvark
Heather Tom
$400 [14]
This soul singer of "Let's Stay Together" began his ministry after surviving an attack with boiling grits
Al Green
Heather
$400 [10]
Montezuma told him stay on the coast; he didn't listen; then, don't come into Tenochtitlan; he didn't listen
Hernando Cortes
Tom
$400 [22]
Wasps are noted for this "slim" feature, which helps the abdomen move freely & makes stinging easier
the waist
Tom
$400 [3]
A Freemason, this Austrian sprinkled references to Masonry in his "Masonic Cantata" & "The Magic Flute"
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Tom
$400 [16]
In 1989 Ruth M. Owades launched Calyx & Corolla, a mail order company that sells these
flowers
Tom
$400 [19]
It's what Lauren Bacall heard when she took her bow after the musical of the same name
applause
Kathy
$600 [24]
In 1995 he was chosen to head a commission investigating apartheid-era crimes
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Heather Tom Kathy
$600 [11]
Columbus carried a letter from Ferdinand to the Grand Khan not knowing this dynasty was now in power
Ming dynasty
Kathy
$600 [23]
Found in Africa, the caffre, or Felis libyca, may have been the first wild one of these animals domesticated
(Wild) Cat
Heather Tom
$600 [4]
When his "Madama Butterfly" opened at La Scala in 1904, it was greeted with hisses
Giacomo Puccini
Tom
$600 [17]
This leading textbook publisher was formed in 1864 as a partnership, Hurd & Houghton
Houghton Mifflin
Tom
$600 [20]
"The Left Handed Dictionary" defines this as "a man you can shut up by closing a book"
author
Tom
$800 [12]
He stowed away with his dog Leoncico & went on to view the Pacific
Vasco de Balboa
Tom
$800 [5]
For the 1910 season, Sergei Diaghilev commissioned him to score a ballet based on "The Firebird"
Igor Stravinsky
Tom
DD $1,500 [18]
In 1997 this parent company of CBS acquired The Nashville Network
Westinghouse
Tom
$800 [21]
A type of marbles or agricultural college students who might have played with them
Aggies
Tom
$1,000 [13]
In 1541 he crossed the Mississippi & came within 400 miles of running into Coronado
Hernando de Soto
Kathy
$1,000 [6]
This Venetian's first works date from the early 18th C. during his years as violin master of a girls' orphanage
Antonio Vivaldi
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

17th CENTURY LITERATURE

Part one of this English allegory ends, "So I awoke, and behold it was a dream"

"Pilgrim's Progress"

Heather "What is something I've never read?" — wagered $2,700
Kathy "What is "The Divine Comedy"" — wagered $4,300
Tom "What is Paradise Lost" — wagered $3,499

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