Show #3079 1998-01-08 Regular

Contestants

Bonnie Gluhanich — a homemaker from Muskegon, Michigan

Debbie Lander — a middle school science teacher originally from Atlanta, Georgia

Larry Blair — a software engineer from Palo Alto, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Larry $1,000 $3,500 $2,100 $3,101
3rd place: Pair of Eilesse Sports Watches
$3,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Debbie $1,000 $1,900 $3,100 $4,300
2nd place: Trip to Kauai Coconut Beach Hotel, Hawaii
$3,100
12 R, 3 W
Bonnie $1,600 $2,300 $9,300 $8,600
New champion: $8,600
$9,100
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HODGEPODGE THE KING'S MUSIC ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS ARROWS ADVENTURE HEROES CROSSWORD CLUES "B"
$100 [1]
The White House's Diplomatic Reception Room was the site of his famous "Fireside Chats"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bonnie
$100 [3]
"Well since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell..."
"Heartbreak Hotel"
Debbie Bonnie
$100 [18]
His 1930 book "Little America" is an account of his flight to the South Pole
Richard Byrd
Larry
$100 [10]
On the Great Seal of the U.S., the eagle holds this many arrows in its left talon
13
Larry
$100 [17]
In March 1997 he got a new costume: hot white & blue, no cape & an S like a lightning bolt
Superman
Larry
$100 [2]
Hubbard's cupboard condition(4)
bare
Debbie
$200 [11]
Amos Alonzo Stagg was no dummy; he invented the football tackling dummy at this New Haven university
Yale
Larry
$200 [5]
"You know I can be found, sitting home all alone..."
"Don't Be Cruel"
Bonnie
$200 [19]
On Dec. 17, 1911 he left the South Pole, leaving behind a tent & the Norwegian flag
Roald Amundsen
Larry
$200 [27]
As a "Wild & Crazy Guy", he used props such as bunny ears & an arrow through the head
Steve Martin
Larry
$200 [22]
Simon Templar's initials give you an abbreviation for this, his nickname
The Saint
Larry
$200 [4]
Bell tower for bats(6)
belfry
Debbie
$300 [12]
This memorial that proves that 4 heads are better than one is also called the Shrine of Democracy
Mount Rushmore
Larry
$300 [7]
"Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone, Little Joe was blowin' on the slide trombone..."
"Jailhouse Rock"
Bonnie
$300 [20]
An Antarctic sea & ice shelf are named for this man who discovered the North Magnetic Pole
James Ross
Larry
$300 [28]
This 1992 event began in July with a flaming arrow igniting its symbolic flame
Summer Olympics in Barcelona
Bonnie
$300 [24]
This Dumas hero who left home at age 16 to be a Musketeer was based on a real person
d'Artagnan
$300 [6]
He'll "meat" you anywhere(7)
butcher
Debbie
$400 [13]
It's the reason Kansas has 34 stars on its state seal
the number of states at the time it came into the Union
Larry
$400 [15]
"A-well-a bless my soul what's wrong with me..."
"All Shook Up"
Bonnie
$400 [21]
In the 1950s this New Zealand mountaineer blazed a trail for Sir Vivian Fuchs, the first to cross Antarctica
Sir Edmund Hillary
Debbie
$400 [25]
Trapped by a cave-in after World War I, gases preserved him & he awoke in the 25th century
Buck Rogers
Larry
$400 [8]
Girl or quail group(4)
bevy
Bonnie
$500 [14]
The eastern part of this "Palmetto State" is the Low Country, & the western part is the Up Country
South Carolina
Debbie
$500 [16]
"I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack..."
"Return To Sender"
Debbie
DD $1,000 [23]
The last entry in this Briton's diary, dated March 29, 1912, ended, "For God's sake look after our people"
Robert Scott
Larry
$500 [26]
First names of detective Fenton Hardy's adventurous sons
Frank & Joe
$500 [9]
To surprise attack with shrubbery(9)
bushwhack
Bonnie

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH HODGEPODGE 19th CENTURY BIGWIGS THE 1997 TONY AWARDS GEOGRAPHY POETS NAME ANAGRAMS
$200 [22]
Formed in 1918, it's the newest of the 3 British armed services
RAF (Royal Air Force)
Larry
$200 [16]
He not only developed the first practical telegraph, he also devised the "code" to go with it
Samuel Morse
Debbie
$200 [1]
This ex-"Grease"r hosted the 1997 Tonys 3 weeks after winning her first Emmy, for her talk show
Rosie O'Donnell
Bonnie
$200 [17]
The tiny nation of Andorra is located in the Pyrenees Mountains between France & this country
Spain
Debbie
$200 [6]
He began a correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 & a year later they were married
Robert Browning
Bonnie
$200 [11]
For luck Kate will only knock on this wood
Teak
Bonnie
$1,000 [23]
In celebration of George III's birthday in 1805, the horse guards performed this ceremony for the first time
Trooping the Colour
$600 [26]
He came from Scotland to the U.S. in 1842 & in 1850 became the first detective on the Chicago police force
Allan Pinkerton
Larry
$400 [2]
1997's best play, "The Last Night of Ballyhoo", opens in Atlanta on the eve of this 1939 film's premiere
Gone With the Wind
Debbie
$400 [18]
Lake Disappointment is a dry salt lake on the edge of this country's Gibson Desert
Australia
Debbie
$400 [7]
He must have had a "Howl"ing good time performing on one of the Clash's albums
Allen Ginsberg
Bonnie
$400 [12]
Stewart pulls one out when a fly goes by
Swatter
Debbie
DD $2,000 [27]
The first Jewish member of the British Parliament was a member of this banking family
the Rothschilds
Larry
$800 [25]
He revolutionized breakfast with his creation of a coffee substitute & Grape Nuts cereal
Charles William Post
Bonnie
$600 [3]
Christopher Plummer won for his magnificent portrayal of this actor known as the "Great Profile"
John Barrymore
Bonnie
$600 [19]
The name of this area of the Pacific is from the Greek for "many islands"
Polynesia
Larry Debbie
$600 [8]
He completed a sonnet "On His Blindness" circa 1655 & one "On His Deceased Wife" in 1658
John Milton
Debbie Bonnie
$600 [13]
Carole consults one of these each time she visits Greece
Oracle
Bonnie
$1,000 [24]
This woman from Nantucket is often cited as America's first female astronomer
Maria Mitchell
DD $1,000 [4]
Proving it was no disaster, this show won 1997's Best Musical Tony; it features the song heard here:["I Must Be On That Ship"]
Titanic
Bonnie
$800 [20]
Sharing its name with a seaport in Yemen, this gulf provides a link between the Red Sea & the Arabian Sea
Gulf of Aden
Debbie
$800 [9]
A bit of an eccentric, this poet & sister of astronomer Percival was often seen smoking cigars
Amy Lowell
Larry Bonnie
$800 [14]
For a question to this answer, Gustave doesn't even have this kind of idea
Vaguest
Bonnie
$1,000 [5]
11 nominations but no wins for "Steel Pier", which dramatized a 1930s dance marathon in this city
Atlantic City
Bonnie
$1,000 [21]
The city of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia was formerly known by this name, after a famous Communist writer
Gorky
$1,000 [10]
"Double Persephone" was the first book of poetry by this Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale"
Margaret Atwood
Bonnie
$1,000 [15]
Rosaline adjusts these before landing her Cessna
Ailerons

Final Jeopardy!

ECONOMISTS

In 1980 he hosted a 10-part PBS series & co-authored the companion book, both titled "Free to Choose"

Milton Friedman

Larry "Who is Freedman" — wagered $1,001
Debbie "Who is Friedman?" — wagered $1,200
Bonnie "Who is Rukheyser?" — wagered $700

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