Show #3445 1999-07-23 Regular

Last game of Season 15.

Contestants

Peter Senkbeil — a college theater professor from Irvine, California

Geoff Morley — an attorney originally from Jefferson City, Missouri

Jackie Wollner — an actress and comedienne from Van Nuys, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jackie $2,100 $4,800 $7,400 $6,300
2-day champion: $13,100
$11,500
26 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Geoff $1,200 $1,300 $1,900 $0
3rd place: a Bushnell/Bausch & Lomb Professional Series astronomical reflector telescope
$1,900
9 R, 0 W
Peter $100 $700 $2,900 $1,999
2nd place: a trip to Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Crustacean Restaurant, Beverly Hills, California
$2,900
11 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MISCELLANY THE FARMER IN THE DELL MINIMUM AGES RIVER CITIES FILE UNDER "Q"
$100 [26]
Was Pope Catholic? No, he led a 1690 revolt against colonizers from this European country
Spain
Peter
$100 [16]
It's the largest denomination of paper currency currently issued in the U.S.
$100 bill
Geoff
$100 [21]
This bovine that's mentioned could star in "Farmer in the Dell: The Moovie"
Cow
Jackie
$100 [6]
To legally buy alcohol across the U.S.
21
Geoff
$100 [1]
The sacred Hindu city of Benares is located on the left bank of this river
Ganges
Jackie
$100 [11]
Ship seen here, it was launched in 1967, the successor to one launched in 1938
QE2
Peter
$200 [27]
Once defined as most of the U.S. west of the Mississippi, it shrank to most of present-day Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Peter
$200 [17]
In the King James Version of the New Testament, it's the last word
Amen
Peter
$200 [22]
At the end of the song, it "stands alone"
The cheese
Jackie
$200 [7]
To see an R-rated movie unaccompanied by an adult
17
Geoff
$200 [2]
This large & commercially important U.S. river begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ohio
Jackie
$200 [12]
Homophone illustrated here:
Quayle/quail
Geoff
$300 [28]
In 1791 Little Turtle won a great victory over white forces on the banks of this Indiana river
Wabash
$300 [18]
Eva's sister, she won the 1936 Miss Hungary contest as a teenager
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Jackie
$300 [23]
The smallest creature in the rhyme; I'm beginning to smell one...
Rat
Jackie
$300 [8]
To vote in Canadian national elections
18
$300 [3]
This international river flows past Alamosa, Colorado & Brownsville, Texas on its way to the Gulf of Mexico
Rio Grande
Jackie
$300 [13]
The Society of Friends tried to stop a breakfast food firm from using this name as a trademark
Quaker Oats
Geoff
$400 [29]
What may be the USA's oldest continuously inhabited town, Old Oraibi, was settled c. 1150 by these Arizona Indians
the Hopi
Jackie Peter
$400 [19]
After throwing a gutterball on your first throw, the number of pins in the back row in tenpin bowling
4
Jackie
$400 [24]
Hi-ho the derry-o, it takes the cat
the dog
$400 [9]
To play on the Senior PGA Tour
50
Jackie
$400 [4]
Baghdad, Iraq lies on this Fertile Crescent river
the Tigris
Geoff Peter
$400 [14]
(Hi, I'm Ilia Kulik) In 1998 I became the first man to win the skating gold at the Olympics with one of these in my routine
Quadruple jump
Peter
$500 [30]
In 1649 the Iroquois, armed with Dutch guns, decimated this tribe that shares its name with a Great Lake
Huron
Peter
$500 [20]
In Roman numerals, it's an M with a bar over it
One million
Jackie
$500 [25]
Of a flat plain, a small valley or the morning, what "the dell" is
A small valley
Jackie
DD $600 [10]
To serve as a Congressman
25
Jackie
$500 [5]
1 of the 2 rivers at whose confluence the city of Montreal lies
Ottawa or St. Lawrence
Jackie
$500 [15]
This band known as the "Pre-Fab Five" has re-formed, though without John, Paul or George
The Quarrymen

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WRITTEN WORD WHERE IN THE WORLD? OCCUPATIONS ELEMENT SYMBOL SPELLING THE GRAND OLE OPRY BEFORE & AFTER
$200 [1]
He wrote, "When what to my wondering eyes should appear but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer"
Clement Clarke Moore
Peter
$200 [4]
Washington, D.C. museum complex where you'll find Judy Garland's magic slippers from "The Wizard of Oz"
Smithsonian
Geoff
$200 [9]
These restaurant workers share their name with an appliance that does the same job
Dishwashers
Peter
$200 [15]
Nobelium, selenium
Nose (No Se)
Jackie
$200 [25]
In 1985 the "Grand Ole Opry" began broadcasting live on this cable network
TNN (The Nashville Network)
Geoff
$200 [20]
Well-traveled airline passenger rewards that go to a legendary jazz trumpeter
frequent flyer Miles Davis
Geoff
$400 [2]
It's been said that Thoreau was the "American Scholar" that this transcendentalist called for in "The American Scholar"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peter
$400 [5]
Don't be starstruck, it's the city of 3.5 million where you'll find this sign:
Los Angeles
Jackie Peter
$400 [10]
If you're a paparazzo, you have this "p"rofession
Photographer
Jackie
$400 [16]
Radium, iodine, nitrogen
Rain (Ra I N)
$400 [21]
Historic Virginia college that "Can turn the world on with her smile"
William and Mary Tyler Moore
Jackie
$600 [3]
Neil Klugman & Radcliffe girl Brenda Patimkin have a summer love affair in this Philip Roth novella
Goodbye, Columbus
Jackie
$600 [6]
You'll find Boardwalk, Park Place & other Monopoly streets in this coastal New Jersey city
Atlantic City
Jackie
$600 [11]
Rene Lalique gained fame as a glassmaker as well as one of these people who are never out of the "loupe"
jewelers (they check out the quality of the stone)
Jackie
$600 [17]
Scandium, Americium
Scam (Sc Am)
Jackie
$600 [22]
PBS talk show master who becomes an annual Pasadena football classic
Charlie Rose Bowl
Jackie
$800 [14]
"Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" Keats wrote in the "Ode to" this feathered friend
Nightingale
Jackie
$1,000 [8]
The region ruled by the Queen of Sheba is in this small nation on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula
Yemen
$800 [12]
"Fractional" term for an officer charged with providing shelter, clothing, etc. for troops
Quartermaster
Peter
$1,000 [19]
Sodium, sulfur, aluminum
Nasal (Na S Al)
Jackie
$800 [23]
Key to Egyptian hieroglyphics translated by NBC's "Dateline" co-host
Rosetta Stone Phillips
Jackie
$1,000 [26]
"Omoo" was Herman Melville's sequel to this 1846 narrative about captive life with a tribe of cannibals
Typee
Jackie
DD $3,000 [7]
It's the "shire" where you'll find the storied Sherwood Forest
Nottinghamshire
Jackie
$1,000 [13]
Manipulative healers include chiropractors & these physicians whose name is from Latin for "bone"
Osteopaths
Peter
DD $1,200 [18]
Nickel, carbon, potassium
Nick (Ni C K)
Jackie
$1,000 [24]
A result of pregnancy on the tummy that can be covered by clothing from a British department store
Stretch Marks and Spencer

Final Jeopardy!

PUBLICATIONS

Henry Nichols' "Four Seasons" engraving has appeared on the cover of this publication each year since 1851

Farmers' Almanac

Geoff "What is the Sears Catalog?" — wagered $1,900
Peter "What is the London Times?" — wagered $901
Jackie "What is the New Yorker?" — wagered $1,100

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