Show #3194 1998-06-18 (taped 1998-03-04) Regular

Dave Abbott game 3.

Contestants

Tom Wrosch — a legislation and outreach coordinator from Salem, Oregon

Ginny Morey — a writer originally from Ketchikan, Alaska

Dave Abbott — a musician and contract manager from Cincinnati, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $1,200 $3,800 $12,300 $13,600
3-day champion: $39,400
$11,600
29 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Ginny $1,300 $2,000 $6,800 $3,800
3rd place: Jeep Electronics Boom Box
$4,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Tom $2,000 $1,900 $4,700 $3,850
2nd place: Trip to Sheraton San Marcos Golf Resort, Chandler, Arizona
$5,200
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE IN HISTORY INVESTING YOUR JEOPARDY! WINNINGS TELEVISION FAMILIAR PHRASES LET'S GO TO FLORIDA WHO "M I"?
$100 [1]
One of the signers of Israel's Declaration of Independence, she became prime minister in 1969
Golda Meir
Dave
$100 [11]
Now that you're flush, consider the "whole life" type of this, unless you're planning to die soon
insurance
Dave
$100 [26]
The apartment complex located at 4616 on this title L.A. street is home to some "Fox"y ladies
Melrose Place
$100 [6]
It's "the shortest distance between two points"
a straight line
Tom
$100 [18]
You can see a miniature replica of this city's Forbidden City at Splendid China, a park in Kissimmee
Peking/Beijing
Tom
$100 [16]
During my long relationship with Woody Allen, I starred in 13 of his films
Mia Farrow
Ginny
$200 [2]
Before designing the first successful steamboat, he worked as a portrait painter
Robert Fulton
Ginny
$200 [12]
To minimize your risk, buy these "colorful" stocks in established, reliable companies
blue chips
Dave
$200 [27]
"Promised Land" with Gerald McRaney is a spinoff of this heavenly CBS series
Touched by an Angel
Dave
$200 [7]
It's where something embarrassing is swept
under the rug/carpet
Dave
$200 [19]
The "Terrors of the Deep" attraction at this park might even scare Shamu
Sea World
Ginny
$200 [17]
From 1961 to 1964, I invited TV home viewers to "Sing Along with" me
Mitch Miller
Dave
$300 [3]
This "Nine Days' Queen" of England was a granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary
Lady Jane Grey
Ginny
$300 [13]
Don't blow your money on Hanson CDs (compact discs), put it in one of these bank CDs
certificates of deposit
Dave
$300 [28]
He's played Pete Ryan, Alexander Mundy & Jonathan Hart
Robert Wagner
Tom
$300 [8]
Pool table piece you don't want to be "behind"
the 8 ball
Dave
$300 [20]
The Cypress Roots Museum traces the history of this famous floral site
Cypress Gardens
$300 [23]
In 1505 I was summoned by Pope Julius II to create his tomb
Michelangelo
Dave
$400 [4]
This Redshirts leader led his final campaign when he fought for France in the Franco-Prussian War
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ginny
$400 [14]
The new Roth type of this "account" allows tax-free withdrawals when you're in your 60s
IRA (individual retirement account)
Tom
DD $500 [29]
(Hi, I'm Julie Pinson.) "Port Charles" is a spin-off from this soap that's also set in Port Charles
General Hospital
Tom
$400 [9]
Shifting your debts is "robbing Peter to pay" this saint
Paul
Ginny
$400 [21]
For years Gomek the giant crocodile was the big attraction at this oldest Florida city's alligator farm
St. Augustine
Dave
$400 [24]
Since leaving Czechoslovakia, I've directed films like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" & "Amadeus"
Milos Forman
Ginny
$500 [5]
Guess what? This Cherokee who devised an alphabet took the English name George Guess
Sequoya
Tom
$500 [15]
If buying corporate mutual bonds, you should know this is Moody's highest rating
AAA
Tom
$500 [30]
After NBC canceled this Sam Waterston series in 1993, PBS produced a movie to wrap up its loose ends
I'll Fly Away
Dave
$500 [10]
Alexander Pope criticized these who claimed to be authorities with "Fools rush in where angels" do this
fear to tread
Tom
$500 [22]
The Wallendas' poles, rigging & costumes are on view at the Circus Museum in this Florida city
Sarasota
Dave
$500 [25]
You can hear me doing what I did best in the following:
Miles Davis
Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FICTIONAL FOLKS 1980s FILM FACTS THE COSSACKS ARE COMING! LEGENDARY HOTTIES ANT-ONYMS
$200 [3]
The mouthpiece of an oboe contains a double one
a reed
Dave
$200 [16]
Huck, as in Huck Finn, is short for this
Huckleberry Finn
Tom
$200 [21]
Leonard Maltin said this '84 mermaid film was "a bit too long, but... I really don't want to carp"
Splash
Tom
$200 [8]
For his books on the Cossacks of the Don River Mikhail Sholokhov won this top prize in 1965
the Nobel Prize for Literature
Ginny
$200 [26]
After this bird rose up from its ashes, it would gather them into a ball & fly them to Egypt
the phoenix
Dave
$200 [1]
Most members of an ant colony are these, as opposed to resters
workers
Ginny
$400 [4]
A flamenco dancer should also be accomplished on these percussion instruments
castanets
Dave
$400 [17]
He gave Charlie a tour of his chocolate factory
Willy Wonka
Dave
$400 [22]
As Eliot Ness, Kevin Costner cleaned up the mess in Chicago in this 1987 film
The Untouchables
Ginny
$400 [9]
While there were a few mechanized units, the Cossacks in WWII mainly served in these units
cavalry
Dave
$400 [27]
The name of Agni, the Hindi fire god, gave us this word meaning "to start a fire"
ignite (or ignition)
Dave
$400 [2]
Like termites, ants are this type of insect, not solitary
social
Dave
$600 [5]
Heard here& in a 1997 film, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band is this type of "heavy metal" band:
a brass band
Dave
$600 [18]
1938 Daphne Du Maurier novel in which you find the second Mrs. De Winter of our discontent
Rebecca
Dave
$600 [23]
Robin Williams "sail"ed into movie stardom as this title character in a Robert Altman film
Popeye
Dave Ginny
$600 [10]
For a while the city of Kharkiv, founded as a Cossack outpost, replaced Kiev as capital of this republic
Ukraine
Tom
$600 [28]
When Phaeton borrowed his dad Helios' chariot, he was joy-riding on this heavenly body
the Sun
Dave
$600 [13]
If you want a mound built to damage farm machinery, "hire" these ants
fire ants
Dave
$800 [6]
It's played tilted back on the right shoulder; the shortest of the 47 strings are closest to the body
the harp
Dave Ginny
$1,000 [20]
Where's Mr. Waldo? In this Welsh poet's "Under Milk Wood"
Dylan Thomas
Dave
$1,000 [25]
This offbeat director cast himself as a nutty psychiatrist in his own film "Hairspray"
John Waters
Dave
$800 [11]
In 1992 this Russian president granted the Cossacks the status of an ethnic group
Boris Yeltsin
Tom
$800 [29]
Siegfried discovered this woman asleep in a ring of fire
Brunhilde
Dave
$800 [14]
Amazon ants become masters when they steal the young from other nests & make them these
slaves
Ginny
$1,000 [7]
Popularized by Lionel Hampton, you have to plug it in first
a vibraphone (or vibes)
Dave
DD $1,500 [19]
This author felt he had no choice but to create Sophie Zawistowska
William Styron
Dave
DD $3,000 [24]
It's the last name of the politician played by Paul Newman in the clip seen here:
(Earl) Long (from the movie Blaze )
Ginny
$1,000 [12]
The name Cossack comes from "Kazak", a word in this language that also gave us the word yogurt
Turkish
Dave
$1,000 [30]
Apollo tells this Roman blacksmith god that Venus is cheating on him, in the painting seen here:
Vulcan
Tom
$1,000 [15]
The extinct passenger pigeon & this African army ant are both known for moving in huge swarms
driver ants

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. STATESMEN

In 1814 & 1815, before he was president, he served simultaneously as Secretary of State & Secretary of War

James Monroe (under President Madison)

Tom "Who was John Q. Adams?" — wagered $850
Ginny "Who is Andrew Jackson" — wagered $3,000
Dave "Who was Monroe?" — wagered $1,300

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