Show #3209 1998-07-09 (taped 1998-04-13) Regular

Dan Girard game 5.

Contestants

Jeremy Anderson — a Ph.D. candidate from Costa Mesa, California

Lore Guilmartin — a residence hall director from College Station, Texas

Dan Girard — a landscape artist from Altadena, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $28,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $2,300 $3,700 $9,200 $9,200
5-day co-champion: $37,800
$11,700
30 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Lore $500 $1,800 $4,600 $9,200
New co-champion: $9,200
$4,600
13 R, 2 W
Jeremy $1,200 $2,000 $4,500 $9,000
2nd place: Monorail Desktop PC & Broyhill Home Theater
$3,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS STUDYING ABROAD SHOP TALK THE TITANIC POP MUSIC ENDS IN, LIKE, "LIKE"
$100 [1]
His 1976 campaign plane was called Peanut One
Jimmy Carter
Dan
$100 [9]
State universities in this country include ones in Bari & Bologna
Italy
Jeremy
$100 [15]
Under-wearers & self-wrappers are 2 types of these retail criminals
shoplifters
Dan
$100 [5]
The radio operators used Morse code to send out the CQD distress call, as well as this newer one
SOS
Lore
$100 [22]
It's the "Fab" group heard here:
The Beatles
Dan
$100 [14]
It's the type of innocence demonstrated by a 6-year-old
childlike
Dan
$200 [2]
The Profile in Courage Award is presented on or near the anniv. of his birth; he would have been 80 May 29, 1997
John F. Kennedy
Dan
$200 [10]
College towns in this country include Goteborg, Lund &, of course, Uppsala
Sweden
Dan
$200 [16]
A new bride might seek out this colorful event that features discounted sheets & pillowcases
a white sale
Dan
$200 [6]
Unlike the Titanic, when sister ship the Britannic sank in 1916, it had enough of these for all aboard
lifeboats
Jeremy
$200 [25]
No whats or whys about it; it's the band heard here:
The Who
Lore
$200 [23]
Devoted to combat, like the ancient Spartans
warlike
Dan
$300 [3]
His administration created a tempest in a teapot--whoops! Make that Teapot Dome
Warren G. Harding
Dan
$300 [11]
Learn all about Islam at Al-Azhar University in this Egyptian city
Cairo
Dan
$300 [17]
In 1997 U2 announced their Popmart tour at an outlet of this "mart" in Manhattan
Kmart
Dan
$300 [7]
Frederick Fleet was here when he was first to spot the iceberg; he had a bird's eye view
the crow's nest
Dan
$300 [26]
A Tennessee native, this singer heardherewas born Anna Mae Bullock:
Tina Turner
Lore
$300 [24]
It's the word for bad conduct on the football field, like hiding the ball in your jersey
unsportsmanlike
Lore
$400 [4]
Long before he was president, he taught debate & public speaking at Sam Houston High School from 1930 to 1931
Lyndon Johnson
Lore
$400 [12]
Soak up the Bohemian culture in Prague when you study at Charles University in this country
the Czech Republic
Jeremy
$400 [18]
Term for any food that decays fast; it's placed at the back of the store to pull shoppers there
perishables
Jeremy
$400 [20]
The Titanic had 4 of these; 3 were functional, the fourth was mostly there for aesthetics
smokestacks
Jeremy
$400 [27]
Daughter of an opera singer heard here with a 1992 No. 1 hit:
Mariah Carey
$400 [29]
Grandma knows when wearing a skirt, keeping one's knees together is more this
ladylike
Dan
DD $900 [8]
He wrote an article "About Man-Eating Lions" for the November 1913 issue of Boy's Life
Theodore Roosevelt
Dan
$500 [13]
LSE doesn't mean "Let's See Europe"; it's this city's school of economics & political science
London
Jeremy
$500 [19]
P.O.S. stands for this type of display cleverly placed near a store's counters
point of sale
Dan
$500 [21]
This American financier who owned the Titanic cancelled his trip on it before it sailed
J.P. Morgan
Lore
$500 [28]
Group that flew up the charts with the song heard here:
Counting Crows
Lore
$500 [30]
It's a high level of proficiency or precision, like that of a Swiss watchmaker
clocklike
Dan Lore

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLAYWRIGHTS HOT TOPICS ALEXANDER HAMILTON DUMB TV TOUGH HODGEPODGE LITERARY TERMS
$200 [30]
This 19th century Norwegian is considered the father of modern realistic drama
Henrik Ibsen
Dan
$200 [13]
Literally a "hot" topic, it's partly caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide
global warming
Jeremy
$200 [2]
As the first holder of this office, Hamilton created the First Bank of the United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Dan
$200 [1]
NBC may ask you to pardon their French--French Stewart, that is--as the not too wise Solomon on this sitcom
3rd Rock from the Sun
Dan
$200 [29]
You can visit the boyhood home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in this city, Maine's largest
Portland
Lore
$200 [7]
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see" is written in heroic verse, which is this meter
iambic pentameter
Dan
$400 [28]
"Tender Offer" is a one-act play by this author of "The Heidi Chronicles"
Wendy Wasserstein
Dan
$600 [15]
Wisconsin studies have found higher crime near these fun palaces on tribal lands
casinos
Jeremy
$400 [3]
In the 11th of these "papers", Hamilton says the U.S. Navy should use southern wood & northern sailors
the Federalist Papers
Dan
$400 [18]
On this series Peg & Kelly once entered a talent contest as a singing duo--the Juggs
Married... with Children
Jeremy
$400 [24]
This Italian outlived Mozart by 34 years, but the rumor that he poisoned him probably isn't true
Antonio Salieri
Lore
$400 [8]
Pathos evokes sympathy; this rhyming word is an unsuccessful attempt at pathos
bathos
Dan
$600 [27]
This "Glengarry Glen Ross" playwright co-wrote the screenplay for "Wag the Dog"
David Mamet
Lore
$800 [16]
In 1998 Richard Seed planted doubts when he announced he would open a clinic for this procedure
cloning
Jeremy
$600 [4]
As a NYC lawyer in the 1780s, Hamilton lived on this street associated with the stock market
Wall Street
Dan
$600 [10]
He was the first mate & only crewman of the S.S. Minnow
Gilligan
Dan
$600 [23]
The South American bug seenhereis of a longhorn species of this insect & grows 4 inches long:
a beetle
Dan
$600 [9]
In "Reality Bites" Ethan Hawke says it's when the actual meaning is different from the literal meaning
irony
Lore
$800 [26]
Famous Terrence who wrote the Tony-winning plays "Master Class" & "Love! Valour! Compassion!"
Terrence McNally
Lore
$1,000 [17]
This word comes from Greek for good or easy death
euthanasia
Dan
$800 [5]
Hamilton led an attack in this 1781 siege that ended the Revolutionary War
Yorktown
Dan
$800 [19]
On "Saved by the Bell", Dustin Diamond played Samuel Powers, who had this nickname
"Screech"
Lore
$800 [22]
TV newsman Peter Arnett was once the editor of Vientiane World, a newspaper in this country
Laos
Dan
$1,000 [12]
The pathetic fallacy is a type of this, attributing human traits to inanimate objects
anthropomorphism
Dan
$1,000 [25]
Born in Zlin, Czechoslovakia in 1937, his original surname was Straussler, not Rosencrantz or Guildenstern
Tom Stoppard
Jeremy
DD $1,500 [14]
On Jan. 22, 1998 demonstrators on both sides marked the 25th anniversary of this Supreme Court ruling
Roe v. Wade
Jeremy
$1,000 [6]
In colonial times, this Ivy League school was called King's College when Hamilton went there
Columbia
$1,000 [20]
He played Luther Van Dam, assistant to the coach on "Coach"
Jerry Van Dyke
Dan
$1,000 [21]
In Sweden, young girls wear crowns of candles on December 13, this saint's day
Saint Lucia
Lore
DD $2,900 [11]
From Greek for "beyond opinion", this kind of statement's truth lies in its contradiction
a paradox
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

THE EARTH

On the line of latitude known as this, the Sun doesn't rise on the winter solstice or set on the summer

Arctic Circle (or for people in the Southern Hemisphere, the Antarctic Circle)

Jeremy "What is the Arctic Circle?" — wagered $4,500
Lore "What is the arctic Circle?" — wagered $4,600
Dan "What is the Arctic Circle?" — wagered $0

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