Show #3056 1997-12-08 Regular

Contestants

Michael Noonan — a finance manager from Washington, D.C.

Marilyn Cuca — a homemaker from Arlington Heights, Illinois

Ron Seide — a general manager from Aliso Viejo, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ron $600 $1,700 $8,100 $0
3rd place: Samsung 8mm Compact Hi-Fi Stereo Camcorder
$5,300
12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Marilyn $200 $1,500 $6,900 $11,900
2nd place: 7-Night Caribbean Cruise on Costa Cruise Lines
$6,900
18 R, 3 W
Michael $2,000 $4,800 $13,000 $16,201
New champion: $16,201
$9,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY CITY TV DRIVING ON THE GO PARK IT HERE THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH
$100 [1]
Marseille, this country's main seaport, is on its Mediterranean coast
France
Ron
$100 [14]
Hector Elizondo is chief of staff at this title hospital
Chicago Hope
Michael
$100 [30]
This type of transmission has been making stop-and-go driving easier since 1904
Automatic transmission
Marilyn
$100 [12]
In 1783 two Frenchmen became the first to get a rise out of this Montgolfier invention
Hot air balloon
Michael
$100 [3]
Year after year tourists faithfully turn out to see Old Faithful Geyser at this national park
Yellowstone
Ron
$100 [7]
In England, a "cuppa" is a cup of this
Tea
Ron
$200 [2]
The Casa Rosada, residence of this country's president, stands on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires
Argentina
Michael
$200 [13]
Title of a '70s series, it's what Michael Douglas as inspector Steve Keller used to "hit"
The Streets of San Francisco
Marilyn
$200 [16]
If you can read this clue, you can name this station wagon part that means to follow too closely
Tailgate
Ron
$200 [22]
Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote its "wheels are yeller, the upholstery's brown"
"The Surrey With the Fringe On Top"
Marilyn
$200 [26]
People were jazzed when a park named for Louis Armstrong was dedicated in this city of his birth
New Orleans
Marilyn
$200 [8]
The British call a tire a tire, but they spell it this way
T-Y-R-E
Michael
$300 [4]
Natives of this largest island call it Kalaallit Nunaat
Greenland
Ron
$300 [15]
Art Garfunkel sang the theme to this series that featured Marion Ross as a Jewish grandmother
Brooklyn Bridge
Marilyn
$300 [17]
Alliterative term for anticipating & avoiding dangers while on the road
Defensive driving
Marilyn
$300 [23]
The "RR" logo on this auto's radiator plate changed from red to black in 1933 after one of the founders died
Rolls-Royce
Marilyn
$300 [27]
You need a doctor's okay to enjoy some of the baths at this Arkansas national park
Hot Springs
Michael
$300 [9]
If you got a new brolly as a gift on Boxing Day, you received one of these
Umbrella
Marilyn
$400 [5]
The Kuril Islands separate the Sea of Okhotsk from this ocean
Pacific
$400 [20]
Howard Hesseman & Loni Anderson returned for cameos on the '90s revival of this 1978-1982 series
WKRP in Cincinnati
Marilyn
$400 [18]
Term for the type of skidding in which a car rides on a film of water, losing traction
Hydroplaning
Ron
$400 [24]
Models of this motorcycle have included the Hydra-Glide, Duo-Glide, Electra-Glide & Super Glide
Harley-Davidson
Marilyn
$500 [29]
This 48-acre tract in Massachusetts was set aside in 1634 as a "cow pasture & training field"
Boston Common
$400 [10]
On a road map the M in M1 or M2 stands for this
Motorway
Michael
$500 [6]
Uzbekistan shares the inland Aral Sea with this neighboring "Stan" to the north
Kazakhstan
Michael
$500 [21]
Hammer--Jan, not M.C.--hit No. 1 with the theme to this cop series
Miami Vice
Ron
$500 [19]
Modern convex side-view mirrors give wider angles of vision, but need this caution printed on them
Objects Are Closer Than They Appear
Michael
$500 [25]
As well as kayaks, Eskimos use these open vessels whose name means "woman's boat"
Umiaks
DD $2,000 [28]
A line of cannon once used to defend Manhattan's shoreline gave this New York park its name
Battery Park
Michael
$500 [11]
It's a military officer's servant, not a caped crusader
Batman
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN IN HISTORY ASTRONAUT LINGO PHYSICS SPORTS NICKNAMES FOOLISH FASHION FADS BIG "SHOT"s
$200 [8]
"Burning Times" refers to the 15th-18th century persecution of women for this crime
Witchcraft
Michael
$200 [29]
It's the return of a spaceship into the Earth's atmosphere
Re-entry
Michael
$200 [30]
It's impossible to create a perfect one of these, a volume of space with no matter in it
Vacuum
Michael
$200 [1]
Muhammad Ali used this superlative as the title of his 1975 autobiography
"The Greatest"
Marilyn
$200 [10]
In the early 1800s these were so high & starched the points might cut a man's ears if he moved too quickly
Collars
Marilyn
$200 [27]
This container holds about 1 1/2 ounces of fluid
Shot glass
Marilyn
$400 [24]
Lise Meitner made atomic energy possible with her 1938 co-discovery of this nuclear process
Nuclear fission
Michael
$400 [25]
For a doctor it means to prepare for an operation; for an astronaut it means to cancel the operation
Scrub
Ron
$400 [22]
The uncertainty principle states that a particle's momentum & this cannot be known at the same time
Position
$400 [2]
Country boy Joe Jackson got this nickname by playing barefoot, not even wearing black sox
"Shoeless Joe"
Michael
$400 [11]
Worn in the 1500s, chopines, an exaggerated style of these, could make the wearer 18 inches taller
(Platform) shoes
Marilyn
$400 [9]
Common phrase for a ceremony implying that a soon-to-be grampa is packing heat at the altar
Shotgun wedding
Michael
$600 [18]
The wife of TV's Starsky, she devoted her last 6 years to fighting pediatric AIDS
Elizabeth Glaser
Ron
$600 [6]
It's the chamber between the outer hull & an inner door; it can be pressurized & depressurized
Airlock
Ron Marilyn
$600 [23]
In 1864 James Clerk Maxwell showed light travels in these waves that combine 2 types of fields
electromagnetic waves
$800 [4]
ESPN broadcaster known for giving out impromptu nicknames like Bert "Be Home" Blyleven
Chris Berman
Michael
$600 [12]
These 18th century dandies "noodled" around in extremely high wigs topped with tiny little hats
Macaronis
$600 [15]
In a very real sense it's a "put-down", but it's also an Olympic event
Shot put
Marilyn
$800 [21]
Beatrice Webb was a leader of this Socialist society to which G.B. Shaw also belonged
The Fabian Society
Michael
$800 [7]
An instrument-filled, unmanned spacecraft; its name means to search into
Probe
Marilyn
$800 [26]
It can mean to transmit heat, electricity or an orchestra's directions
Conduct
Michael
$1,000 [5]
Fair-haired 235-pound linebacker Karl Mecklenburg was rhymingly dubbed "The Albino" this
Rhino
Ron
$800 [13]
The bustle noted for this "Jersey Lily" collapsed when a lady sat down & sprang back when she stood up
Lillie Langtry
Marilyn
$800 [16]
It's the only one of Peter Sellers' 5 "Pink Panther" films without "Pink Panther" in the title
A Shot in the Dark
Marilyn
DD $3,800 [19]
In a 1973 landmark Supreme Court case, 25-year-old Norma McCorvey was known by this name
"Roe" (from Roe v. Wade in 1973)
Ron
$1,000 [20]
It "panes" us to tell you it's the limited period during which a craft can take off to accomplish its mission
Window
Michael
$1,000 [28]
A recent theory says fundamental particles aren't points but these extended objects you might want to save
Strings
DD $3,000 [3]
Best-known nickname of the player seen here:[Karl Malone]
"The Mailman"
Michael
$1,000 [14]
Talk about fashion risks: she wore a scarf so long it actually strangled her in 1927
Isadora Duncan
Marilyn
$1,000 [17]
Emerson's line following "Here once the embattled farmers stood"
"Shot heard 'round the world"
Marilyn

Final Jeopardy!

ACTORS & THEIR ROLES

Name shared by characters that Derek Jacobi played in a PBS miniseries & in Kenneth Branagh's film of "Hamlet"

Claudius

Marilyn "What is Claudius?" — wagered $5,000
Ron "What is Polonius" — wagered $8,100
Michael "What is Claudius" — wagered $3,201

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