Show #3112 1998-02-24 Regular

Chris Ward game 1.

Contestants

Chris Ward — a foreign service officer from Lima, Peru

Jane Jessell — a travel agent from Bozeman, Montana

Michelle Covert — a Navy wife originally from Fort Lewis, Washington

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Michelle	$100	$100	$2,200	$2,200 3rd place: Sears gift certificates	$2,700 8 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jane	$800	$1,100	$6,300	$7,300 2nd place: Sears gift certificates	$6,300 14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Chris	$2,000	$3,600	$9,000	$12,601 New champion: $12,601	$9,000 24 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS	PLACES	"LIGHT"s	CAMERA	ACTION!	WHERE'S MY COFFEE?
$100 [3] "I never believed in anything before I believed in movies", said this "E.T." director Spielberg Chris	$100 [18] A small & informal restaurant, or one who eats there diner Jane	$100 [8] Famous ones include Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini & Roberto "Hands of Stone" Duran lightweights Jane	$100 [24] The names of TV cameras & videocassette recorders are combined in this device a camcorder Michelle Jane	$100 [10] This hero made his comic book debut in & on the cover of Action Comics No. 1 Superman Chris	$100 [1] Once Yemen's chief coffee port, its name now refers to a flavor of chocolate & coffee Mocha Michelle
$200 [4] "Everybody denies I am a genius--but nobody ever called me one!" noted this man who raised "Kane" Orson Welles Chris	$200 [19] A building for religious veneration, or the L.A. auditorium that hosted 1997's Academy Awards shrine	$200 [9] To do this to someone's plight, you could trivialize it, or just take the P away make light of it Jane Chris	$200 [25] Aptly, underwater photography may require these widest wide-angle lenses fisheye lenses	$200 [11] In a 1965 speech this president put out a call for "affirmative action" in hiring by federal contractors Johnson Chris	$200 [2] The flavorful coffee beans from this country are grown at high altitudes near Nairobi Kenya Chris
$300 [5] When an actress in his "Lifeboat" asked him what her best side was, he said, "My dear, you're sitting on it" Hitchcock Chris	$300 [20] Libraries & the Christian Science Church maintain these areas; the British Museum built a big one in 1857 reading rooms Jane	$300 [15] Ben Franklin invented this device & would have been shocked if it hadn't worked the lightning rod	$300 [27] In 1986 Kodak left the instant camera business after a judge found it had violated this company's patents Polaroid Chris	$300 [12] You may not give a fig, but according to Newton, there's one of these for every action an equal & opposite reaction Chris	$300 [23] Java is a synonym for coffee; a high-grade bean also comes from this next most populous Indonesian island Sumatra
$400 [6] "Manhattan"ite who said, "Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable"--sounds "Bananas" to us Woody Allen Jane	$400 [21] A place where a river is shallow enough to cross on foot, alone or with an "escort" a ford Michelle	$400 [16] A joking question asked about many groups is "How many does it take to" do this screw in a light bulb Chris	—	$400 [13] The action of a boy can ring a girl's bell, & the action of these can ring a buoy's bell a wave Chris	$400 [26] Mexico's best coffee comes from Chiapas, a state that borders this noted coffee-growing nation Guatemala Chris
$500 [7] "The best director is the one you don't see", observed this director of "Some Like It Hot" Billy Wilder Jane	$500 [22] This term for a house's entrance hall also refers to the space between cars on a train the vestibule Michelle	$500 [17] "I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine" this little light of mine Chris	—	$500 [14] Dutch-American artist about whose work the term "action painting" was coined Willem de Kooning	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS	BACKWARDS	CARTOONS	19th CENTURY AMERICA	MEN OF THE WORLD	WORD ORIGINS
$200 [15] It's the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn's opera "Le Marchand de Venise" The Merchant of Venice Michelle	$200 [2] In T minus 5 seconds, you'll say this word for the inverted series used before a rocket launch a countdown Chris	$200 [27] Mel Blanc said he created this character's voice by combining Brooklyn & Bronx accents Bugs Bunny Chris	$200 [1] The discovery of this in 1896 turned Seward's Folly into Seward's Good Fortune gold Jane Chris	$200 [21] Armando Munoz Garcia sculpted a 55' statue of a nude woman & lived in it in this Mexican city near San Diego Tijuana Michelle	$200 [9] This state's name is from the Sioux for "sky-tinted waters"; maybe they meant the 10,000 lakes Minnesota Chris
$400 [16] The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers Romeo & Juliet Chris	$400 [3] In psychology it's the process of reverting to an earlier, childlike form of behavior regression Jane	$400 [14] I say there, son, this Warner Bros. cartoon rooster is sometimes pursued by a chicken hawk Foghorn Leghorn Jane	$400 [7] The 1866 Civil Rights Act was passed over this president's veto Johnson Chris	$400 [22] The U.S. statesman seenherewas born in 1923 in this country: Germany Michelle Jane	$400 [10] The Old Norse word "vindauga" gave us this pane-ful word for an opening in a wall window Chris
DD $500 [19] Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet Othello Michelle	$600 [4] Field Marshal Barclay used this maneuver associated with defeat to lure Napoleon deep into Russia a retreat Chris	$600 [11] On screen, he's a "tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff" Winnie the Pooh Chris	$600 [8] Kansas homesteader Bewster Higley's poem "The Western Home" was retitled this when set to music "Home On The Range" Jane	$600 [25] This media mogul from Melbourne has been called a real-life Citizen Kane Rupert Murdoch Jane	$600 [23] Derived from the Latin for "salted vegetables", this cold dish might be enhanced with a little oil & vinegar salad
$600 [17] You'll need some long-winded singers to star in "Stormen", a Swedish opera based on this play The Tempest Jane	$800 [5] In competitive rowing, this is the only person in the boat whose back is not to the finish line the coxswain Chris	$800 [12] Ted Cassidy, who played Thing on "The Addams Family", was also the voice of The Thing of this superhero group The Fantastic 4 Chris	$800 [20] To avoid Boss Tweed's graft, Alfred Beach secretly built one of these under Broadway in 1869-70 a subway	—	$800 [24] This number can be traced back to the Sankrit "Shunya", or empty zero Michelle
$800 [18] Verdi wrote an aria called "La Luce Langue"--The Light Fails--for this bloodthirsty villainess Lady Macbeth Michelle	$1,000 [6] Called "Bojangles", he was renowned for tap dancing on stairs & running backwards at high speed (Bill) Robinson Jane	$1,000 [13] Sylvester believes Hippety Hopper, a baby one of these, to be a gigantic mouse a kangaroo Chris	—	—	DD $1,000 [26] The -sex suffix on British placenames refers to this Germanic people the Saxons Jane

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS VOYAGES

Capt. Robert FitzRoy of this ship argued that its scientific discoveries supported the Bible

the Beagle

Michelle "What is the USS Nautilus?" — wagered $0

Jane "What is the Beagle?" — wagered $1,000

Chris "What is the Beagle?" — wagered $3,601

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