Show #3214 1998-07-16 (taped 1998-04-14) Regular

Contestants

Blaine Faulkner — a chief financial officer from Escondido, California

Susan Fisher — an administrative assistant from Seattle, Washington

William Toren — a copy editor from Northridge, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $6,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
William	$700	$400	$5,600	$5 3rd place: Pair of Jaguar Sport Watches	$5,600 18 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Susan	$1,200	$2,300	$5,300	$10,500 2nd place: Trip to Lake Arrowhead Resort, California	$5,600 17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Blaine	$400	$1,700	$5,900	$11,300 New champion: $11,300	$4,900 16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

5-LETTER CAPITALS	SPORTS	PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES	20th CENTURY INVENTION	ON THE MOVE	DOUBLE TALK
$100 [1] 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city Paris Blaine	$100 [22] This Florida-born women's great who retired in 1989 wrote the World Book Encyclopedia article on tennis Chris Evert Blaine	$100 [26] Probably the biggest big game the Clovis culture went after 11,200 years ago, it was woolly mammoth William	$100 [10] 3M's Richard Drew invented it in 1930 to have something to seal the cellophane of food products Scotch tape William	$100 [12] Long, flat-bottomed & painted a somber black, they're the traditional taxis of Venice gondolas William	$100 [7] In the familiar jokes, it precedes "Who's there?" knock knock Blaine
$200 [3] Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a & El Giza Cairo Susan	$200 [18] In 1984 this quarterback became the first Boston College player to win the Heisman Trophy Doug Flutie Blaine	$200 [27] The Folsom culture about 10,900 years ago had a fluted type of this weapon & a "thrower" for it a spear Susan	$200 [11] Newsweek reports Westinghouse made one in 1952 that played "How Dry I Am" at the end of each cycle a clothes dryer Susan	$200 [17] In 1980 the U.S. government loaned this auto company $1.5 billion; the loans were repaid within 3 years Chrysler William	$200 [13] It's a sailor's way of saying to a superior "I understand & will obey" aye-aye Blaine
DD $300 [4] Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port Hanoi Susan	$300 [2] Babe Ruth's father once operated a saloon on what is now center field in this Baltimore ballpark Oriole Park at Camden Yards Susan	$300 [28] The Anasazi, a word from this Indian language for "ancient ones", lived in what's now the 4 Corners area Navajo Blaine	$300 [15] In 1939 the Hydra-Matic system made this automatic in the Oldsmobile a transmission Susan	$300 [19] This U.S. city has more miles of subway than any other subway system in the Western Hemisphere New York City Blaine	$300 [14] This full, loose women's garment with a bright print is traditional attire in Hawaii a muumuu Susan
$400 [5] The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia Amman William	$400 [8] In the 1997 Belmont Stakes, Touch Gold dashed this "charmed" horse's Triple Crown bid Silver Charm William	$400 [29] The Adena-Hopewell culture in the Ohio area was known for building these, both the burial & effigy types mounds William	$400 [16] In 1983 the first U.S. commercial call on one of these was from Chicago to a descendant of Bell in Germany a cellular phone William	$400 [20] In Britain, it's a kitchen on a ship's deck; in the U.S., it's traditionally the last car on a freight train a caboose William Susan	$400 [23] It's a hand-beaten drum used by American Indians a tom-tom Blaine
$500 [6] In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital Quito Susan	$500 [9] National Hockey League team whose logo is seen here: the Buffalo Sabres William	$500 [30] Warriors of this Yucatan civilization battle in the computer-enhanced mural seen here: the Mayans William Susan	$500 [25] They were invented in 1947 & by the 1990s millions were being placed on a single chip transistors William Blaine	$500 [21] When it opened, it cut the distance from London to Bombay by 5,100 miles the Suez Canal Blaine	$500 [24] He's Barney & Betty Rubble's noisy son Bamm-Bamm Susan

Double Jeopardy! Round

DIARIES	TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA	"O" YOU ANIMAL!	INTERIOR DESIGN	NAME THE OPERA	PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS
$200 [23] The diary of this woman, wife of a famous aviator, describes the kidnapping of her son Anne Morrow Lindbergh William	$200 [10] Kurt Russell, who later played Elvis, was in the 1963 Elvis film "It Happened" here at the World's Fair Susan	$200 [1] The Pacific species of this has an arm span of up to 33 feet octopus Blaine	$200 [26] The barrel species of this spiny plant can bring a touch of the desert into your home a cactus William	$200 [2] ["Habanera"] Carmen Blaine	$200 [8] Don't lose your head trying to name this execution device named after a French doctor the guillotine Blaine
$400 [19] Fittingly, Samuel Pepys began keeping his famous diary on this date in 1660 January 1 Susan	$400 [15] It's what you wear to protect yourself against the effects of the device seen here: sunglasses William	$400 [4] "Cool" cat seen here: an ocelot Susan	$400 [27] Some 18th c. chairs had footrests to accommodate the swollen feet of sufferers from this disease gout William	$400 [3] [Audio clip in Italian from opera about clowns] Pagliacci Susan	$400 [11] Up on the highwire you might wear this bodysuit named for a famous 19th century trapeze artist a leotard Susan
$600 [20] "My Name Escapes Me" is "The Diary of a Retiring Actor" by this portrayer of Obi-Wan Kenobi Sir Alec Guinness Susan	$600 [16] Actor in common to the coming-to-California films "True Romance" & "Kalifornia" Brad Pitt William Blaine	$600 [5] It "coughs" out sediment by clapping its shell shut oyster Susan	$600 [24] China & India provide many of the "imports" in the name of this Texas-based home furnishings retailer Pier 1 Imports Blaine	$600 [9] ["La donna è mobile"] Rigoletto Susan	$600 [12] This term for artillery fragments is named for a British officer who invented a new kind of shell shrapnel William Susan
$800 [21] This creator of Peter Rabbit devised a private code for the journals she kept in her youth Beatrix Potter Blaine	$800 [17] 1996's "Trainspotting" was about the underground drug life in this city Edinburgh William	$800 [6] They might swing through the trees asking "What's Sumatra? Nothing, what's Sumatra with you?" an orangutan William	$800 [28] Type of chair seenherenamed for its 20th c. designer: an Eames chair	$800 [25] ["Triumph March"] Aida	$800 [13] This food poisoning bacteria is named after the scientist who identified it, not a fish Salmonella Blaine
DD $2,000 [22] The anonymous author of this diary took her title from the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit" Go Ask Alice Blaine	$1,000 [18] In this 1989 film, Eddie Murphy was the adopted son of a 1930s nightclub owner played by Richard Pryor Harlem Nights William	$1,000 [7] When the giraffe invites all its taxonomic "family" to a party, this is the only animal that shows up okapi William	DD $1,000 [29] In 1991 Charles Hall sued Aqua Queen & other companies for infringing his patent on this furniture item the waterbed William	—	$1,000 [14] She must have been hairy, as this hairstyle is named for the big-haired mistress of a French emperor Pompadour William

Final Jeopardy!

TELEVISION & HISTORY

When "60 Minutes" premiered, this man was U.S. president

Lyndon B. Johnson (show premiered Sept. 24, 1968)

Susan "Who is Johnson?" — wagered $5,200

William "Who was Kennedy?" — wagered $5,595

Blaine "Who was LBJ?" — wagered $5,400

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