Show #3087 1998-01-20 Regular

Contestants

Kevin Perry — a shipping supervisor and college student from Fredericksburg, Virginia

Sam Thompson — an executive assistant from Seattle, Washington

Drew Reid — a musician and songwriter from Franklin, Tennessee (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,095)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Drew	$900	$3,200	$8,400	$7,100 2nd place: Intel Create & Share Camera Pack, Desktop PC & Bush Computer Desk	$8,800 23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Sam	$1,900	$2,300	$2,500	$5,000 3rd place: Pair of Wittnauer Montego Watches	$2,200 13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Kevin	$900	$800	$4,800	$9,500 New champion: $9,500	$4,800 15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SOUTHERN TALK	SCIENCE & NATURE	FAMOUS AMYS	TASTES LIKE CHICKEN	GOLF	"W"ORDS
$100 [1] This place is sometimes called 'Bam, 'Bama or 'Bammy Alabama Sam	$100 [16] The leaves of a fern are commonly called this, from the Latin for "foliage" Fronds Sam	$100 [2] She guided fans through gracious living with etiquette books, columns & radio & TV shows Amy Vanderbilt Drew	$100 [19] Some feel deep-frying the legs of this amphibian in cornmeal overpowers their subtle flavor frog legs Drew	$100 [6] Titleist makes these with a pink ribbon logo for breast cancer awareness golf balls Kevin	$100 [10] It's the part of a candle that you kindle wick Drew
$200 [3] The book "Whistlin' Dixie" calls this plural of "you" "The ne plus ultra of Southern dialect" you-all Sam	$200 [25] The "fire" type of this insect builds large mounds that interfere with harvesting hay fire ants Kevin	$300 [5] She married Barbra Streisand in "Yentl" & Steven Spielberg in real life Amy Irving Drew	$200 [20] These desert reptiles are good for stew, but save the tip of the tail for a fun & handy noisemaker rattlesnake Kevin	$200 [8] "The Yips" is a term for jitters that can destroy a stroke, especially this one on the green putt Kevin	$200 [11] Yodel, or sing melodiously like a bird warble Sam
$300 [7] 19th century event referred to in the South as the "Unpleasantness" Civil War/War Between the States Drew	$300 [26] A perihelion is the point in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body when it's closest to this sun Drew	$400 [12] Her No. 1 hit "Baby Baby" was written for a real babe, her daughter Millie Amy Grant Sam	$300 [21] At the big game, the tail of this Florida mascot has been seen on grills at the Georgia Bulldogs' tailgate parties gator (alligators) Sam	$300 [9] A fade is a controlled type of this shot that flies to the right of a right-handed golfer slice Drew Kevin	$300 [14] It can mean to exercise power, or to handle & use a weapon wield Kevin
$400 [18] A corruption of "ordinary", it means mean ornery Drew	$400 [27] Mildews, smuts & morels belong to this group of organisms incapable of making their own food Fungi Drew Sam	DD $500 [4] (Hi, I'm Kirsten Dunst) In "Little Women" Amy is the youngest of 4 sisters with this last name March Sam	$400 [22] Their habit of playing dead makes them easy to catch, roast & serve with sweet 'taters possums Sam	$400 [28] Australian-born "Shark" who won the 1986 British Open & narrowly lost the '86 & '96 Masters Greg Norman Drew	$400 [15] Doggone it, this type of stereo speaker is used for reproducing low frequency sounds woofer Drew
$500 [24] Feeling fair to a little better is feeling "fair to" this middlin' Kevin	$500 [30] This phylum of sea animals named for their spiny skin includes sea urchins & sea cucumbers echinoderms Kevin	$500 [13] Film director who captured teen America in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" & "Clueless" Amy Heckerling Sam	$500 [23] One main reason this North American bird was hunted to extinction by 1914 was that it was good eating passenger pigeon Drew Kevin	$500 [29] A golfer's last name gave us this term for a free shot not counted against your score mulligan Drew	$500 [17] Phascolomis ursinus, this burrowing marsupial of Australia, resembles a small bear wombat Drew

Double Jeopardy! Round

RELIGION	THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BEER	POETS & POETRY	AFRICAN AMERICANS	BITS	PEACES
$200 [1] This common name for the Society of Friends may come from the saying "Tremble at the word of the Lord" Quakers Drew	$200 [16] There are about 150 in a 12-ounce bottle, or 95 in the light type calories Kevin	$200 [12] Type of event celebrated by an "Epithalamion", like the one Spenser wrote about his own to Elizabeth Boyle wedding Sam	$200 [7] Spike Lee chronicled the life of this black activist in a 1992 film Malcolm X Kevin	$200 [6] Comedian Denis Leary insists people would use these even if they were called "tumors" cigarettes Drew	$200 [2] The July 1953 armistice ending this war has never led to a formal peace treaty Korean War Drew
$400 [4] Muslims in Uzbekistan are reclaiming these buildings that were put to secular use by the Soviets mosques Kevin	$400 [18] Slang term for beer overexposed to light & smelling like traces of a striped mammal skunky Kevin	$400 [13] Taslima Nasrin left Bangladesh after incurring a 1994 Islamic death sentence, like this British author Salman Rushdie Kevin	$400 [8] Of the Underground Railroad, she said she never ran a train off the track & never lost a passenger Harriet Tubman Drew	$400 [22] On 1995's Oscar telecast, David Letterman repeatedly introduced these 2 stars to each other Uma & Oprah Sam	$400 [3] In a fanciful James Thurber story, a hung-over General Grant surrenders to this man at Appomattox Robert E. Lee Drew
$600 [10] Mahayanists label other schools of this religion "Hinayana" or "lesser vehicle" Buddhism Drew	$600 [19] This Spanish word for beer is derived from Ceres, the goddess of agriculture cerveza Kevin	$600 [14] In 1811 this poet was expelled from Oxford for writing the pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism" Percy Shelley	$600 [9] The late Ron Brown was the first black American to head this cabinet department Commerce Sam	$600 [28] Troubles on "Sanford and Son" made this comic clutch his heart & tell his dead wife, "I'm Coming!" Redd Foxx Drew	$600 [5] 53 years before the Trail of Tears, this tribe signed the Hopewell Treaty with the U.S. Cherokee Drew
$1,000 [23] The Bhagavad-Gita records a dialogue between a warrior named Arjuna & this avatar of Vishnu Krishna	$800 [20] Slosberg is the last name of this creator of a craft-brewed "Wicked Ale" Pete (Pete's Wicked Ale) Kevin	$800 [15] HE WROTE, "since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things" E.E. Cummings Drew	$800 [26] This actress featured in "Executive Decision" was formerly married to outfielder David Justice Halle Berry Drew	DD $800 [29] (Hi, I'm Al Franken) As this character, I insist that, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me" Stuart Smalley Drew	$800 [24] After arranging a truce with this republic, Aleksandr Lebed was fired by Boris Yeltsin as security chief Chechnya
DD $1,200 [11] Guadalupe, where Juan Diego twice saw the Virgin Mary in 1531, is now a part of this world capital Mexico City Drew	$1,000 [21] This rich type of stout "carries" the name of the London market workers who guzzled it Porters	$1,000 [17] He was actually in the slammer--London's Gatehouse, to be precise--when he wrote "To Althea, from Prison" Richard Lovelace	$1,000 [27] Noted for his Gulf War coverage, he's the principal Washington anchor for CNN Bernard Shaw Sam	$1,000 [30] The Minister of Silly Walks was a memorable portrayal by this gangly member of the Monty Python troupe John Cleese Sam	$1,000 [25] By the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt, France gave Germany Alsace & part of this quiche-making province Lorraine Sam Kevin

Final Jeopardy!

PLACE NAME ORIGINS

Site of a famous leader's exile, it was named for the mother of Constantine the Great

Saint Helena (where Napoleon was exiled in 1815)

Sam "What is St. Helena?" — wagered $2,500

Kevin "What is St. Helena?" — wagered $4,700

Drew "What is Elba?" — wagered $1,300

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