Show #3150 1998-04-17 Regular

Includes winners of the Play & Win! contest.

Contestants

Kathy Hennington — a banking vice president from Decatur, Georgia

Greg Sorenson — a document control manager from Evanston, Illinois

Don Wright — a Ph.D. candidate from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Don $2,200 $3,500 $6,300 $500
2nd place: Trip to Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, Longboat Key, Florida
$6,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Greg $300 $500 $4,700 $10
3rd place: VTech 900mhz Cordless Telephone
$4,500
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Kathy $1,100 $1,700 $5,700 $9,700
New champion: $9,700
$5,700
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE EAST COAST BRIT LIT BETTER KNOWN AS... SKIN DEEP KNOW BEANS ABOUT "___IT___"
$100 [1]
The original of this painting seen here hangs in Abbot Hall in Marblehead, Massachusetts
"Spirit of 1776"
Kathy
$100 [4]
She had her lover & future husband Percy edit her first novel, "Frankenstein"
Mary Shelley
Kathy
$100 [11]
She's Winona Horowitz
Winona Ryder
Greg
$100 [16]
Wrinkles at the corner of the eye, perhaps caused by squinting while bird watching
Crow's feet
Don
$100 [21]
To make the popular Mexican dish frijoles negros, begin with these beans
Black beans
Don
$100 [26]
On TV, you can find "Caroline in" it
City
Kathy
$200 [2]
Thanks to Du Pont, this state's Wilmington is the "Chemical Capital of the World"
Delaware
Don
$200 [5]
His own disastrous trip to the Congo in 1890 was the basis for his "Heart of Darkness"
Joseph Conrad
Greg
$200 [12]
His birth name, Michael Douglas, was in use, so this Batman chose this stage name
Michael Keaton
Greg
$200 [17]
Contact dermatitis can be the result of contact with this plant, Rhus radicans
Poison Ivy
Kathy
$200 [22]
It's the bean whose "milk" is used to make tofu
Soybean
Greg
$200 [27]
A catcher's catcher
Mitt
Greg
$300 [3]
This largest Maine city has been destroyed by the Abnaki Indians, the French, the British & by a fire
Portland
Greg
$300 [6]
He wrote about Gunga Dass as well as Gunga Din
Rudyard Kipling
Don
$300 [13]
The Wizard could tell you she was Frances Gumm
Judy Garland
Don
$300 [18]
The little sections of dead epidermis around your fingernails
Cuticles
Kathy
$300 [23]
When making a homemade pot of pork & beans, you'll be at sea without these beans
Navy beans
Don
$300 [28]
"Quick" ones are fast with a joke; "half" ones don't get the joke
Wits
Greg
DD $500 [9]
(Hi, I'm Ian Ziering) On TV I live in "Beverly Hills 90210", but I was born in West Orange 07052 in this state
New Jersey
Don
$400 [7]
In 1914's "The World Set Free", he wrote of a war in 1958 involving atomic bombs
H.G. Wells
Kathy
$400 [14]
Doris Day knows:Roy Fitzgerald
Rock Hudson
Don
$400 [19]
This term for a balm for the skin or the conscience goes back to the Sanskrit sarpis, "melted butter"
Salve
$400 [24]
Like contracts, runner beans should have none of these attached; remove them before cooking
Strings
Don
$400 [29]
You won't find "Caroline in" this medium-sized Italian tubular pasta
Ziti
Don
$500 [10]
This gin-making city on the east bank of the Hudson is named for Dutch trader Jan Peek
Peekskill
Kathy
$500 [8]
In 1816 she revised her "Northanger Abbey"; she originally planned to publish it in 1803
Jane Austen
Don
$500 [15]
They were that funny comedy team of Crocetti & Levitch
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
Greg
$500 [20]
The skin's 2 exocrine types of glands are sweat & these, which produce oils
Sebaceous glands
Greg
$500 [25]
Also known as a broad bean, it should be de-podded & skinned before cooking
Fava bean
Kathy
$500 [30]
Something moving in irregular bursts goes in these "and starts"
Fits
Kathy

Double Jeopardy! Round

500 YEARS AGO MAGNETS CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS FLAG-WAVING SYMPHONIES TOM SWIFTIES
$200 [17]
Louis XII became its king & was soon known as the "Father of His People" due to legal reforms
France
Kathy
$200 [26]
On this home appliance, magnets are used to keep the door shut & hold messages
Refrigerator
Kathy
$200 [1]
The uncut version of this Russian epic based on a Tolstoy novel is more than 8 hours long
War and Peace
Greg
$200 [6]
The green field on the flag of Bangladesh represents this religion
Islam
Don
$200 [11]
The "Pathetic" Symphony is by this Russian who also gave us the celebratory "1812 Overture"
Tchaikovsky
Greg
$200 [12]
It's the satirical way Tom said, "I like to press my own clothes"
Ironically
Greg
$400 [18]
In 1498 Michelangelo began this statue of Mary holding the body of Christ; he finished it in 1500
"Pieta"
Don
$400 [27]
By the 12th century the Chinese made one of these using a magnetized needle
Compass
Don
$400 [2]
This film also known as "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" is the perfect rental for a rainy day
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Greg
$400 [7]
Albania's flag features a double-headed one of these birds; Austria's has just one head
Eagle
Greg
$400 [22]
Composer Carl Stalling used Grieg's "March of the Dwarfs" in the first of these Disney "Symphonies"
Silly Symphonies
Greg
$400 [13]
It's the secret or enigmatic way Tom said, "Let's go look at those tombs"
Cryptically
Greg
$600 [19]
On Columbus' third voyage, he made his first landing on this island that he named for the Holy Trinity
Trinidad
Don
$600 [30]
Better than a CAT scanner, this technique is used to see the brain
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
Greg
DD $800 [3]
(Hi, I'm Richard Simmons) When I was living in Italy, I appeared in the food orgy scene of this director's film "Satyricon"
Federico Fellini
Greg
$600 [8]
Constellation depicted with 5 stars on the flag of Western Samoa & 4 on the flag of New Zealand
Southern Cross
Kathy
$600 [23]
Mahler's massive 8th is the "Symphony of" this many musicians, equal to 250 quartets
1,000
Kathy
$600 [14]
"I sent a food package overseas" said Tom this way; it's also how porcupines make love
Carefully
Kathy
$800 [20]
On May 20, 1498 this Portuguese navigator reached Calicut on the Malibar coast of India
Vasco da Gama
Kathy
$800 [28]
Used by some trains, "Maglev" is short for this
Magnetic levitation
Don
$800 [4]
Toshiro Mifune starred in this director's epic "Throne of Blood", sort of a samurai version of "Macbeth"
Akira Kurosawa
Kathy
$800 [9]
Want to know what's depicted on this country's flag? Angkor Wat, that's wat!
Cambodia
Don Greg
$800 [24]
The first thing you hear in Haydn's 103rd is this; it gives the symphony its nickname
a drumroll
Don Kathy
$800 [15]
Tom talks about gloves intermittenly; the way he talks about magazines is this synonym
Periodically
Greg
DD $1,000 [21]
On Sept. 16, 1498 this Grand Inquisitor of Spain, who burned about 2,000 at the stake, died at Castile
Tomas de Torquemada
Kathy
$1,000 [29]
Magnetic materials may be diamagnetic, paramagnetic or this, from the Latin for iron
Ferromagnetic
Greg Kathy
$1,000 [5]
"Soldier of Orange", a 1977 film from this country, made Rutger Hauer an international star
the Netherlands/Holland
Greg
$1,000 [10]
Canadian province whose flag is seen here(with four fleur-de-lis)
Quebec
Don
$1,000 [25]
One of the movements of Holst's "The Planets", or the nickname of Mozart's Symphony No. 41
"Jupiter"
Don
$1,000 [16]
If you think doggedly about his hoarse voice, you'll know it's how Tom said "Mush!"
Huskily
Greg Kathy

Final Jeopardy!

VOLCANOES

The 5 highest volcanoes on Earth are located in these mountains

Andes

Greg "What are the Rockies?" — wagered $4,690
Kathy "What are the Andes?" — wagered $4,000
Don "What are the Himalayas" — wagered $5,800

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