Show #3115 1998-02-27 Regular

Chris Ward game 4.

Contestants

John Fedoryn — an advertising advisor from Chicago, Illinois

Stephanie Thomas — an attorney from Decatur, Georgia

Chris Ward — a foreign service officer from Lima, Peru (whose 3-day cash winnings total $41,102)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chris $1,500 $2,400 $7,600 $12,601
4-day champion: $53,703
$7,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Stephanie $400 $900 $6,300 $1,100
2nd place: Sears Gift Certificates
$6,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
John $600 $-300 $1,100 $1,000
3rd place: Sears Gift Certificates
$1,100
9 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

CREATURES OF THE WILD WORLD CAPITALS THE 1980s THE TONYS HELL-O JELL-O CROSSWORD CLUES "F"
$100 [22]
Although this mammal's neck may exceed 6 feet in length, it has only 7 bones--the same as humans
a giraffe
Chris John
$100 [2]
This capital of Cuba has a colonial museum & not surprisingly, a Museum of the Revolution
Havana
Chris
$100 [3]
You might want to take this news sitting down: Radio Shack introduced the first laptop type of this in 1983
a computer
Chris
$100 [1]
At a 1977 concerthestunned Dawn and the crowd by announcing his (short-lived) retirement:
Tony Orlando
Stephanie
$100 [11]
In 1997 Jell-O celebrated this anniversary with a special edition white grape "Champagne of Jell-O" flavor
100th
Chris Stephanie
$100 [14]
Snow pixie Jack, or TV host David(5)
Frost
Stephanie
$200 [23]
When the Spanish invaded the New World, they gave this mammal a name meaning "armored one"
an armadillo
John
$200 [5]
In 1561 King Philip II chose this city as the capital of Spain, perhaps because he was born in the area
Madrid
John
$200 [4]
On March 16, 1984 this country signed its first peace treaty with a black-ruled nation, Mozambique
South Africa
Stephanie
$200 [19]
He's led the National League in batting 8 times, with averages like .394 in '94
Tony Gwynn
$200 [12]
In 1974 he began his long stint as Jell-O Pudding's spokesman
Bill Cosby
Stephanie
$200 [15]
Thrifty, like a certain "Gourmet"(6)
frugal
Stephanie
$300 [25]
The yapock, a species of this marsupial, has webbed hind feet for swimming
a possum
$300 [6]
It "reigns" as Jamaica's chief port
Kingston
Chris
$400 [8]
Panamanians voted to oust him May 7, 1989, but he didn't pay any attention
(General) Noriega
John
$300 [20]
This founder of a chain has been giving diners a good ribbing since 1972
Tony Roma
Chris
$300 [16]
Tiny tabby tormentor(4)
flea
Stephanie
$400 [26]
About 1/3" long, the dwarf species of this fish, with a name like a desert, is the smallest vertebrate
the dwarf gobi
$400 [9]
The Temple of the Reclining Buddha is the largest temple in this capital of Thailand
Bangkok
Chris
DD $500 [7]
Group heardherein a 1985 hit:
Tears for Fears
Chris
$400 [21]
Friends call Antonin Scalia Nino; this Supreme Court colleague appointed in 1988 is Tony
(Anthony) Kennedy
Stephanie
$400 [17]
Captivating, or a doggie duty(8)
fetching
$500 [27]
Europe's only wild monkey, it's found on the Rock of Gibraltar & the southern tip of Spain
the Barbary ape
John
$500 [13]
A revolving restaurant spins atop the hot water storage tanks on this northern capital's Oskjuhlid Hill
Reykjavik
Chris Stephanie John
$500 [10]
We found out in 1980 that this Yippie leader had had plastic surgery & become Barry Freed
Abbie Hoffman
$500 [24]
In 1997 National Security Advisor Tony Lake got spooked & withdrew his nomination to head this agency
the CIA
Chris
$500 [18]
A hippie, or an orchid offspring(6,5)
flower child
Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

INTERNATIONAL STARS AMERICAN LITERATURE ISLANDS WOMEN'S FIRSTS GOOD SPORTS CITY QUOTES
$200 [2]
In 1995 People Magazine devoted an entire commemorative issue to this late Tejano singer
Selena
Chris
$200 [3]
This Stephen Crane classic is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War"
The Red Badge of Courage
John
$200 [1]
It's the "Emerald Isle"
Ireland
Chris
$200 [13]
In 1996 Sgt. Heather Johnsen became the first woman to stand guard at this cemetery's Tomb of the Unknowns
Arlington National Cemetery
Chris
$200 [26]
In 1980, at age 19, he became the youngest player in NHL history named MVP
Wayne Gretzky
Stephanie
$200 [17]
Thomas Carlyle described this British capital as a "monstrous tuberosity of civilized life"
London
John
$400 [10]
This beautiful daughter of Ingrid Bergman shared some of her thoughts in her 1997 memoir "Some of Me"
Isabella Rossellini
Stephanie
$400 [6]
This John Steinbeck novel centers on Adam Trask & his twin sons Aron & Caleb
East of Eden
Chris
$400 [4]
The mysterious stone statues on this Chilean island vary in height from about 10 to 40 feet
Easter Island
Stephanie
$400 [22]
In 1968 in Mexico City, Enriqueta Basilo carried a torch to light this fire
the Olympic torch (or flame)
Chris
$400 [27]
In 1992 this NBA team chose LSU's Shaquille O'Neal as its first round draft pick
the Orlando Magic
John
$400 [18]
To Pope Innocent II, it was "the capital of the world"; to us, it's a world capital
Rome
Chris
$600 [14]
We assume Baryshnikov took his first graceful steps in this capital of Latvia, his birthplace
Riga
John
$600 [7]
The title character of this Bernard Malamud novel is Roy Hobbs of the New York Knights
The Natural
Chris
$600 [5]
Haiti occupies the western third of this island
Hispaniola
Chris
$600 [23]
Shewas the first American woman to be pictured on a U.S. stamp & on U.S. paper currency:
Martha Washington
Chris John
$600 [28]
Receiver Max McGee of this Vince Lombardi-coached team scored the first Super Bowl touchdown
the Packers
John
$600 [19]
Metternich said, "The emperor is everything," this city "is nothing"--nice waltzes, though
Vienna
Chris Stephanie
$800 [15]
Jan Troell's 1971 film "The Emigrants" earned this Norwegian her first Oscar nomination
Liv Ullmann
Chris
$800 [8]
In this 1985 novel, E.L. Doctorow recalled life & the Expo in NYC during the 1930s
World's Fair
Chris
DD $1,000 [11]
This Greek island is perhaps best known as the birthplace of poet Sappho
Lesbos
Stephanie
$800 [24]
This Kansan was the first woman elected to the Senate who didn't succeed her husband
(Nancy) Kassebaum
Chris
$800 [20]
Joris K. Huysmans held a dark view of this "City of Light": he called it "a sinister Chicago"
Paris
Stephanie
$1,000 [16]
Her film "Never on Sunday" was set in Piraeus & she later represented Piraeus in the Greek parliament
Melina Mercouri
Chris
$1,000 [9]
After he becomes wealthy, this Horatio Alger title character uses the name Richard Hunter, Esq.
Ragged Dick
$1,000 [12]
The most southerly of Japan's 4 main islands, it's where Nagasaki is located
Kyushu
Stephanie
$1,000 [25]
Serving from 1992 to 1994, shemade news as the White House's first female press secretary:
Dee Dee Myers
Stephanie John
$1,000 [21]
"I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin", he wrote in "Dubliners"
James Joyce
John

Final Jeopardy!

TELEVISION BIOGRAPHIES

The biography of this man on PBS' "American Masters" was subtitled "Submitted for Your Approval"

Rod Serling

John "Who is Laurence Welk?" — wagered $100
Stephanie "Who is me?" — wagered $5,200
Chris "Who is Rod Serling?" — wagered $5,001

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