Show #3088 1998-01-21 Regular

Contestants

Kate Ricci — a statistician from Deep River, Connecticut

Ron Hankey — an operations research analyst from Falls Church, Virginia

Kevin Perry — a shipping supervisor and college student from Fredericksburg, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $1,300 $2,500 $3,700 $7,350
3rd place: Monorail Desktop PC
$3,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Ron $2,000 $2,400 $4,900 $7,401
New champion: $7,401
$5,400
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Kate $500 $1,500 $3,700 $7,399
2nd place: Trip to Kauai Coconut Beach Hotel, Hawaii
$3,700
11 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

NEW YORK CITIES ACTOR-DIRECTORS BRITISH ROYAL LOVE AFFAIRS COUNTRY COOKING THE SUMMER OLYMPICS FILE UNDER "J"
$100 [3]
Of Rye, White or Pumpernickel, it's the city where chief justice John Jay is buried
Rye
Ron
$100 [9]
When his 1972 film "Beware! The Blob" was reissued, it was subtitled "The Movie J.R. Shot"
Larry Hagman
Kevin
$100 [15]
This king romanced Mary Boleyn before her sister Anne lost her head over him
Henry VIII
Ron
$100 [24]
A national Philippine dish, adobo contains chicken & pork, & the "milk" of this palm fruit
Coconut
Ron
$100 [4]
1 of 2 Spinks brothers to win boxing gold medals at the 1976 games
Leon or Michael
Kevin
$100 [1]
A deep shade of black, or a 747
Jet
Kevin
$200 [11]
Appropriately, it was once known as "The Cataract City"
Niagara Falls
Ron
$200 [10]
He directed himself, dad Lloyd & brother Jeff in the TV movie "The Thanksgiving Promise"
Beau Bridges
Ron
$200 [16]
A tall, thin mistress of George I was nicknamed this, for a tall, thin thing folks dance around on May 1
Maypole
Kate
$200 [27]
A German specialty, braunschweiger is a smoked sausage traditionally made from this organ meat
Liver
Kate
$200 [5]
On July 28, 1996 the USA's Charles Austin set the Olympic record in this event with a leap of 7' 10"
High jump
Kevin
$200 [2]
In 1882 Prof. Jigaro Kano opened the first school for this in Japan
Judo
Ron
$300 [12]
Once the site of a Utopian community, today it's famous for its flatware
Oneida
Ron
$300 [20]
"A Bronx Tale", the first film directed by this "Taxi Driver" star, earned critical praise, not Bronx cheers
Robert De Niro
Kevin Kate
$300 [17]
She blamed Prince Albert's early death in part on anxiety over their son Bertie's fling with an actress
Queen Victoria
Ron
$300 [28]
Watch out for the hot peppers when partaking of this Szechwan Chinese dish made with chicken & peanuts
Kung Pao Chicken
DD $400 [6]
In 1976 Hungary's Miklos Nemeth threw this farther than any field apparatus in Olympic history--310' 4"
Javelin
Kevin
$300 [21]
Bette Davis picked up her second Oscar for this film
Jezebel
$400 [13]
It's home to the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, as well as to a famous glass works
Corning
Kevin
$400 [25]
This daughter of director John made her own directing debut with the TV movie "Bastard Out of Carolina"
Anjelica Huston
Kevin
$400 [18]
This king nicknamed Lackland didn't lack a love life; he had at least 7 children out of wedlock
John
Kate
$400 [29]
It's the traditional meat in souvlaki, a popular Greek dish
Lamb
Kevin
$400 [7]
Then with the Phoenix Suns, he was a member of the USA's "Dream Team" in both 1992 & 1996
Charles Barkley
Ron
$400 [22]
Slang for electric current
Juice
Kevin
$500 [14]
Ulysses could tell you it's where Cornell University is located
Ithaca
Ron
$500 [26]
Peter Ustinov directed the 1962 film version of this Herman Melville novel & played Captain Vere in it
Billy Budd
Kate
$500 [19]
This famous diarist's wife called King Charles II's mistress 'Moll' Davis "The Most Impertinent Slut"
Samuel Pepys
$500 [30]
Rad Na & pad woon sen are popular noodle dishes from this country
Thailand
Ron
$500 [8]
In 1984 he became the first man in 56 years to win the springboard & platform diving events in one Olympics
Greg Louganis
Kate
$500 [23]
To put together in a makeshift fashion is to jury-rig or to "build" this way
Jerry-build
Kevin Ron

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY PLAYS CATHEDRALS & CHURCHES FEELIN' GOUTY RAP WORD
$200 [1]
When Henry Luce & Briton Hadden founded this magazine in 1923, they almost called it "Facts"
Time
Kevin Ron
$200 [11]
The "American Buffalo" in David Mamet's play is one of these that would interest a numismatist
Nickel
Kate
$200 [2]
Victor Hugo described it as "A vast symphony in stone"--Quasimodo would agree
Notre Dame Cathedral
Kate
$200 [12]
A joint in this part of the body is the most likely spot to be hit by gout
Toe
Kevin Ron Kate
$200 [19]
"Cool" rappers include LL Cool J & this single-named "Gangsta's Paradise" artist
Coolio
Kevin
$200 [22]
From the Greek for "to leave out", it's an obscuring of one celestial body by another
Eclipse
Ron
$400 [7]
Zita, who died in 1989, was the last empress of this house that ruled Austria-Hungary
Hapsburg
Ron
$400 [17]
Walter Matthau & Art Carney starred in this play when it debuted on Broadway in 1965
"The Odd Couple"
Kate
$400 [3]
James Renwick designed this Fifth Avenue cathedral in the Gothic Revival style
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Kevin
$400 [13]
In 1997 the journal Nature reported this giant meat-eating dinosaur may have been a gout sufferer
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Kevin
$400 [20]
They showed white "boys" can rap with the 1986 album "Licensed to Ill"
The Beastie Boys
Ron
$400 [23]
Put the pieces together & you'll see the name of this artwork means it's "of the Muses"
Mosaic
Ron
DD $500 [8]
In 1931 she was the blonde gentlemen preferred:
Jean Harlow (in "Platinum Blonde")
Ron
$600 [18]
Feydeau's "La Puce a L'Oreille" translates to one of these "in her ear"
Flea
$600 [4]
The Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges in this country contains a relic believed to be drops of Christ's blood
Belgium
$600 [14]
Gout didn't stop this reformer from nailing his 95 Theses to a Wittenberg church door
Martin Luther
Kevin
$600 [27]
Originally rhythmic backing music, it now refers to all of rap culture, including dress & dance
Hip-Hop
Kate
$600 [24]
From a Latin word meaning "to hang" comes this word for an ornament that hangs from a necklace
Pendant
Kate
$800 [9]
This program was grounded from January 28, 1986 to September 29, 1988
Space shuttle program
Kevin
$800 [21]
1958's "The Birthday Party" was the first full-length play by this author of "The Homecoming"
Harold Pinter
Kevin
$800 [5]
This English city's modern cathedral, built in 1962, stands next to the bombed-out ruins of the old one
Coventry
Kevin Ron
$800 [15]
This resort city, once a haven for British gout victims, gave its name to a type of wheelchair
Bath
$800 [28]
Ed Lover & Fab 5 Freddy were among the hosts of this MTV show that helped bring rap to suburbia
Yo! MTV Raps
Kevin
$800 [25]
The word spider comes from an Old English form of this verb, referring to its web-weaving
Spin
Ron
$1,000 [10]
Anthropologists "gorged" themselves on the discoveries the Leakeys made at this African gorge in 1959
Olduvai Gorge
$1,000 [6]
The cathedral of this northern Italian city looks quite fashionable with its 135 marble spires
Milan
$1,000 [16]
This author was crippled by gout; Blifil's mother dies of it in his novel "Tom Jones"
Henry Fielding
Kevin
$1,000 [26]
The name of this ancient & elaborate coffin is from the Greek for "flesh-eating"; how gruesome
Sarcophagus
Kevin

Final Jeopardy!

THE POST OFFICE

Due to demand Bugs Bunny's U.S. commemorative stamp was the first to have a second printing since this one

the Elvis Presley stamp

Kevin "What is the Elvis stamp?" — wagered $3,650
Kate "What is the Elvis stamp?" — wagered $3,699
Ron "What is Elvis Presley?" — wagered $2,501

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