Show #3198 1998-06-24 (taped 1998-03-09) Regular

Contestants

Dan Kennedy — a systems analyst from Alberta, New York

Tricia Schroyer — a housewife and freelance seamstress from Pensacola, Florida

P.D. Wadler — a psychotherapist from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
P.D. $100 $1,300 $6,300 $9,400
3rd place: Trip on Amtrak's Coast Starlight between Los Angeles & Seattle
$5,900
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Tricia $1,500 $2,800 $7,200 $12,200
2nd place: Trip to Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island, Bahamas
$7,200
17 R, 1 W
Dan $1,900 $4,500 $11,900 $14,900
New champion: $14,900
$10,400
26 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

FOOD & DRINK A THAILAND FLING TRIPLE FEATURES STRANGE BUT TRUE A LITTLE KNIGHT MUSIC "F" WORDS
$100 [7]
It's popularly referred to as "Chicken of the Sea"
Tuna
Dan
$100 [12]
In Muay Thai, the Thai form of this western sport, kicking is allowed
Boxing
Tricia
$100 [24]
In various versions of this film, Gene Kelly, Don Ameche & Chris O'Donnell have been d'Artagnan
The Three Musketeers
Dan
$100 [13]
A French scientist suggested using wood as a paper source after watching these insects make it
Wasps
P.D.
$100 [6]
It's not stolen money, my Lord, this instrument heard here is an old relative of the guitar:
Lute
Dan
$100 [2]
Mr. Gifford, or his hot dog
Frank
Dan
$200 [8]
It's the traditional meat for a gyro sandwich
Lamb
Dan
$300 [23]
At a Thai restaurant you may wimp out & say, "Mai phet, farang", meaning "Not" this, "I'm a foreigner"
Spicy
$200 [25]
What a rip-off! Joanne Woodward won only one Oscar for this 1957 film
Three Faces of Eve
Dan
$200 [14]
Lily pads must have made une impression on him, as this man painted over 200 versions of them
Claude Monet
Tricia
$200 [16]
The chevalier must have brought this instrument; its name is Old French for "small drum":
Tambourine
Tricia
$200 [3]
It's also called the crazy bone, which sounds "humerus" to us
Funny bone
Dan
$300 [9]
In 1998 Barq's, a brand of this beverage, celebrates its 100th birthday
Root beer
Dan
$400 [29]
The tuk-tuk, a motorized transport, costs less than a taxi, maybe because it only has this many wheels
3
Tricia Dan
$300 [26]
Rene Russo is Mel Gibson's love interest in this 1992 sequel
Lethal Weapon 3
Tricia
$300 [15]
Everything was shipshape, but no one was home when this ghost ship was boarded in 1872
The Mary Celeste
$300 [17]
Apprentice, wake thy knight, these instruments being struck announce the day:
Bells
P.D. Tricia
$300 [1]
Any Quaker, whether or not he's your buddy
Friend
Tricia
$400 [10]
Of Turkish origin, the confection called halvah is made from these seeds & honey
Sesame seeds
Dan
DD $500 [22]
The largest land mammal in Thailand, the shape of the country looks like its head, in profile
Elephant
Dan
$400 [27]
This 1954 film set in Rome featured a Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn title song
Three Coins in the Fountain
Tricia
$400 [20]
Some members of these Melanesian "cults" await consumer goods that will be sent by supernatural forces
Cargo cults
Dan
$400 [18]
I'll announce your arrival at the joust, my liege, with a coiled one of the instruments heard here:
Trumpet
P.D.
$400 [4]
To struggle helplessly, like a certain flatfish
Flounder
Tricia
$500 [11]
This popular coffee liqueur is produced in the Mexican town of Ramos Arizpe
Kahlua
Dan
$500 [30]
First name of the famous Western governess of King Rama IV's son
Anna
Dan
$500 [28]
Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall & Janice Rule were this 1977 Robert Altman title trio
Three Women
P.D.
$500 [21]
This lieutenant colonel led the British forces in the battle that began the French & Indian War
George Washington
Dan
$500 [19]
Drink some mead, young squire, & sing along with this rhyme time instrument heard here:
Hurdy gurdy
Tricia
$500 [5]
Some guitarists "worry" about these ridges on their fingerboards
Frets
Tricia

Double Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY WRITE ON, SISTER! COMPUTER LITERACY FAMOUS AMERICANS LEAP DAY IN SPORTS REVOLUTIONARY QUOTES
$200 [30]
These wingless bloodsuckers often infest sleeping quarters; don't let 'em bite!
Bedbugs
Dan
$200 [4]
This "Little House on the Prairie" chick once served as poultry editor for the St. Louis Star
Laura Ingalls Wilder
P.D.
$200 [8]
This synonym for "fundamental" is the name of a common beginner's programming language
Basic
Tricia
$200 [9]
In 1918 this automaker bought the Dearborn Independent, calling it the "chronicler of neglected truth"
Henry Ford
Dan
$200 [23]
On Feb. 29, 1932 this Manassa Mauler KOed 2 men in less than 3 minutes in an exhibition match
Jack Dempsey
Dan
$200 [20]
The original draft for this read, "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable"
Declaration of Independence
P.D.
$400 [29]
The woolly bear caterpillar grows up to be the Isabella tiger species of this insect
Moth
P.D. Tricia
$400 [3]
In her 1995 memoir "Angels Don't Die", she paid tribute to her father, Ronald Reagan
Patti Davis
P.D.
$400 [10]
Digital computers use this number system in which the decimal number 12 becomes 1100
Binary
Dan
$400 [12]
Ralph Capone was an important figure in organized crime, like this brother whom he survived
Al Capone
Dan
$400 [25]
Named 1971's best amateur athlete in the U.S. on Feb. 29, 1972, he went on to win 7 Olympic gold medals
Mark Spitz
P.D.
$400 [21]
In a 1774 letter this king wrote, "The die is now cast, the colonies must either submit or triumph"
George III
Dan
$800 [6]
The "straw-necked" type of this wading bird isn't as well-known as the "sacred" or the "scarlet"
Ibis
P.D.
$600 [1]
Like her "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", her 1997 novel "Perfidia" was inspired by a real murder case
Judith Rossner
$600 [11]
From Greek for "to hide", it's putting a message in secret code
Encrypting
Tricia
$600 [15]
In her lifetime, this dollar coin suffragette's autograph was traded much like baseball cards today
Susan B. Anthony
Tricia
$600 [27]
On Feb. 29, 1972 he signed a new contract with Atlanta making him the highest paid player in baseball
Hank Aaron
P.D.
$600 [19]
In 1783 Benjamin Franklin wrote to Josiah Quincy, "There never was a good war or a bad" one of these
Peace
Dan
DD $1,000 [5]
This African mammal is named for the distinctive features seen here in close-up:
Warthog
P.D.
$800 [2]
The name of this late "Petals on the Wind" author is now a registered trademark
V.C. Andrews
$800 [13]
This term for diplomatic procedure also refers to an agreed format for data to be communicated
Protocol
P.D.
$800 [16]
Losing sight in the eye meant she couldn't perform surgery, but she became the USA's first woman doctor
Elizabeth Blackwell
Tricia
$800 [26]
Dick Button won the world figure skating title Feb. 29, 1952, 8 days after his Olympic gold in this Norway city
Oslo
Tricia
$1,000 [22]
Defending British soldiers for the Boston Massacre, he said, "Facts are stubborn things"
John Adams
Dan
$1,000 [7]
Sadly, the black-footed type of this small member of the weasel family is endangered
Ferret
Dan
$1,000 [18]
In a 1916 story this "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author revealed "The Way to the House of Santa Claus"
Frances Hodgson Burnett
$1,000 [14]
This powerful operating system from Bell Labs replaced an earlier system called Multics
Unix
Tricia
$1,000 [17]
A famous Broadway theater & the alley it's on bear the name of these producer brothers
Shubert
P.D.
$1,000 [28]
On Feb. 29, 1980 this 51-year-old ex-Red Wing scored his 800th NHL goal
Gordie Howe
Dan
DD $2,000 [24]
In "The American Crisis", he wrote, "A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men"
Thomas Paine
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

ENTERTAINMENT

It began in the early 1980s as Club des Talons Hauts, a stilt-walking troupe

Cirque du Soleil

P.D. "What is the Cireque de Soleil?" — wagered $3,100
Tricia "What is Cirque du Soleil?" — wagered $5,000
Dan "What is Cirque de Soliel?" — wagered $3,000

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