Show #3528 1999-12-29 (taped 1999-11-02) Regular

Jack Archey game 1.

Contestants

Jack Archey — a C.P.A. and comedian from Los Angeles, California

Terri Jones — an auditor from Columbus, Ohio

Judith Martin Straw — a writer and bookseller from Santa Monica, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Judith $1,300 $3,600 $8,800 $16,800
2nd place: Sony Home Entertainment System with Web TV
$8,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Terri $900 $1,400 $1,800 $3,600
3rd place: Zenith 36" Stereo TV
$1,800
9 R, 2 W
Jack $2,300 $3,700 $10,900 $17,601
New champion: $17,601
$10,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE FRENCH & INDIAN WARS FUNNY LADIES CLOSE TO "HOME" COLOMBIA AT THE MOVIES KING ME
$100 [21]
In the 1763 Treaty of Paris France ceded to England all its land east of the Mississippi, except for this city
New Orleans
Judith
$100 [1]
She's not only the center square on "Hollywood Squares", she's the show's executive producer
Whoopi Goldberg
Jack
$100 [16]
In baseball, it's also known as a round-tripper
Home run
Jack
$100 [26]
The red on the flag stands for this spilled by the patriots
Blood
Terri
$100 [11]
Dan Aykroyd played Mack Sennett in this 1992 biopic starring Robert Downey, Jr.
Chaplin
Terri
$100 [6]
Victor Emmanuel II, Umberto I, Victor Emmanuel III
Italy
Judith
$200 [22]
The August 1857 Indian Massacre of surrendered American & English troops is in this 1826 Cooper novel
"The Last of the Mohicans"
Jack
$200 [2]
She's the stand-up comic seen here:
Paula Poundstone
Jack
$200 [17]
This Tim Allen show premiered on September 17, 1991
Home Improvement
Judith
$200 [27]
It stands to reason Colombia's highest peak is named for this explorer
Christopher Columbus
$200 [12]
Of "Bingo!", "Birdy" or "Bugsy", the one that starred an animal
Bingo! (dog)
Judith
$200 [7]
Olaf I Tryggvason, Olaf II Haraldsson, Olaf IV Haakonsson
Norway
Jack
$300 [23]
In 1753, concerned over French fort-building in the Ohio Valley, Virginia sent this 21-year-old to check things out
George Washington
Judith
$300 [3]
She didn't become a zany redhead until MGM dyed her hair that color for a movie
Lucille Ball
Judith
$300 [18]
It's the classic American song heard here:
"Home on the Range"
Judith
$300 [28]
Lying in a basin high in the Andes, it's Colombia's largest city
Bogota
Jack
$300 [13]
The cover of the video to this 1997 comedy features Jack Nicholson & a dog
As Good as it Gets
Terri
$300 [8]
Albert I, Leopold III, Baudouin
Belgium
Judith
$400 [24]
In 1692 a 14-year-old girl defended a Canadian fort against warriors from this 5-nation Indian group
Iroquois
Judith
$400 [4]
(Hi, I'm Kathy Griffin from "Suddenly Susan") This funny lady, my TV mom, had the first show on the Fox network when it premiered in 1986
Joan Rivers
Jack
$400 [19]
Incorporated in 1978, this company claims to be the largest do-it-yourself retailer in the U.S.A.
Home Depot
Terri
DD $300 [29]
Unable to conclude a treaty with Colombia in 1903, the U.S. helped this country secede & made one with it
Panama
Jack
$400 [14]
First name of the former first lady guarded by Nicolas Cage as Doug Chesnic
Tess
Judith
$400 [9]
Talal, Hussein, Abdullah II
Jordan
Jack
$500 [25]
On May 9, 1712, during Queen Anne's War, this American colony split into 2 parts
Carolina
Judith
$500 [5]
She "takes on" such characters as spinster Kay Clark & airport security guard Sheneesha Turner
Tracey Ullman
Jack
$500 [20]
Many Yanks know "The Kids in the Hall" first aired in the U.S. on this cable channel in the late 1980s
Home Box Office
Jack
$500 [30]
It may not be the gem of the ocean, but this gem is the "green gold" natives once threw into Lake Guatavita
Emeralds
Judith
$500 [15]
This actress has played Shelby Eatenton Latcherie & Mary Reilly
Julia Roberts
Terri
$500 [10]
Ferdinand VII, Juan Carlos
Spain
Jack

Double Jeopardy! Round

GRAND OL' OPERA COLUMNISTS NOVEL TRILOGIES SMALL SCREEN ADDRESSES TRAVEL U.S.A. LITTLE-KNOWN ELEMENTS
$200 [1]
Familiar songs in this opera include Don Jose's "Flower Song" & Escamillo's "Toreador Song"
Carmen
Jack
$200 [13]
This industry is the subject of Robert Cringely's column & of his PBS documentary, "Triumph of the Nerds"
Computer industry
Judith
$200 [4]
Ford Madox Ford's trilogy "The Fifth Queen" centers on Catherine Howard, this king's fifth wife
Henry VIII
Jack
$200 [2]
322 Maple Road, Mayberry, N.C.
The Andy Griffith Show
Judith
$200 [8]
Of the Haunted Mansion, the Jungle Cruise or the monorail, the one that's been at Disneyland since opening day
Jungle Cruise
Judith Terri
$200 [23]
Orchestra conductors & public speakers often have this element under their feet
Podium
Jack
$400 [18]
Cio-Cio-San's better-known name
Madame Butterfly
Terri
$400 [14]
This humorist writes for The Miami Herald & plays lead guitar in an all-author band, The Rock Bottom Remainders
Dave Barry
Jack
$600 [21]
Books titled "The Town" are part of trilogies by Conrad Richter & by this Mississippian
William Faulkner
Jack
$400 [3]
Paradise Cove Trailer Colony, Malibu Beach, Calif.
The Rockford Files
Terri Jack
$400 [9]
A contest for blowing these shells is a highlight of Old Island Days in Key West, Florida
Conch shells
Judith
$400 [24]
This element has the distinctive aroma of high school assemblies & basketball games
Gymnasium
Terri
$600 [19]
This Ethiopian princess was captured by the Egyptians & made a slave to Princess Amneris
Aida
Judith
$600 [15]
(Hi, I'm Wendi Malick from "Just Shoot Me!") I played both of these columnists in a 1999 TV movie titled "Take My Advice"
"Dear Abby" (Abigail Van Buren) & Ann Landers
Judith
$800 [22]
Olivia Manning's "Balkan Trilogy" depicts a British couple living in the Balkans during this war
World War II
Terri
$600 [5]
1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, USA
The Munsters
Terri
$600 [10]
The International Rose Test Gardens may be the most fragrant attraction in this, Oregon's "City of Roses"
Portland
Jack
$600 [25]
You buy, not rent, units of this element
a condominium
Jack
$800 [27]
Its 4 musical dramas are "Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", "Siegfried" & "Gotterdammerung"
The Ring of the Nibelung
Judith
$800 [16]
The Chicago Tribune filled his empty column with tributes from readers the day after his April 1997 death
Mike Royko
Judith
DD $1,000 [20]
It's the first book in a historical trilogy that continues with "Men Against the Sea" & "Pitcairn's Island"
Mutiny on the Bounty
Judith
$800 [6]
1619 Pine Street, Boulder, Colo.
Mork and Mindy
Jack
DD $1,000 [11]
Ape Cave in this state is named for the St. Helen's Apes, the local Boy Scout troop who first explored it
Washington
Jack
$800 [26]
This "element" comes in red & white types, seen here:
Geranium
Judith
$1,000 [29]
In this opera Violetta bids farewell to the past by singing "Addio del passato"
La traviata
Judith
$1,000 [17]
She quit her New York Times column in 1994, the same year she published her novel "One True Thing"
Anna Quindlen
Judith
$1,000 [28]
"Coningsby, or the New Generation" is the 1st book in a trilogy he wrote before becoming a Victorian prime minister
Benjamin Disraeli
$1,000 [7]
148 Bonnie Meadow Road, New Rochelle, N.Y.
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Jack
$1,000 [12]
This Tennessee city boasts a 32-story pyramid with a base the size of 6 football fields
Memphis
Jack
$1,000 [30]
A large store selling a variety of articles might be built from this element
Emporium
Jack

Final Jeopardy!

THE 1970s

A change of procedure in 1979 led to 3 of these being named Bob, David & Frederic

Hurricanes

Terri "What are hurricanes?" — wagered $1,800
Judith "What are hurricanes" — wagered $8,000
Jack "What were hurricanes?" — wagered $6,701

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