Show #3123 1998-03-11 Regular

Contestants

Bob Ryffel — a computer expert from Fairfield, Connecticut

Jennifer Abbots — a salesperson from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Eric Prosser — an attorney from Oceanside, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eric $1,800 $3,700 $6,500 $0
3rd place: Pair of Daniel Mink Elegance Watches
$7,500
23 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Jennifer $500 $1,100 $6,500 $3,300
2nd place: Trip to Couples Resort, Jamaica
$5,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
BobCat $600 $1,800 $4,000 $6,600
New champion: $6,600
$4,000
16 R, 7 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 5 "W"s WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN WHY
$100 [1]
According to the rhyme, it's what Simple Simon wanted to taste of the pieman's
Wares
BobCat
$100 [6]
"New York Rock", an opera by this widow of John Lennon, is a love story ending in a murder
Yoko Ono
Eric
$100 [10]
If it drops from the compartment above your seat, put your own on before helping others
an oxygen mask
Eric Jennifer
$100 [16]
In area, it's the largest country in both Europe & Asia
Russia
Eric Jennifer BobCat
$100 [21]
On Aug. 28, 1963 he told a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. "I have a dream"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jennifer
$100 [26]
"Because it is there" was climber George Leigh Mallory's response to this query
Why do you climb Mount Everest?
Jennifer BobCat
$200 [2]
It's the unit of power equal to one joule per second
Watt
Eric
$200 [7]
This Whitewater prosecutor was born in North Texas a month before Bill Clinton was born in Arkansas
Kenneth Starr
Jennifer
$200 [12]
This dagger gives its name to a high heel that rests on a tiny base
Stiletto
BobCat
$200 [17]
To vacation in this Caribbean paradise, you may fly into Sangster Intl. Airport in Montego Bay
Jamaica
Eric
$200 [22]
On Jan. 20, 1981 Iran released its hostages & this president was inaugurated
Ronald Reagan
Eric
$200 [27]
Because it was slow, clumsy, flightless, & friendly to European settlers on Mauritius
Why did the dodo go extinct?
Jennifer
$400 [4]
Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima is the head of the U.N. organization known by this acronym
WHO (World Health Organization)
BobCat
$300 [8]
Born in New York City in 1927, he spent many of his childhood Day-Os in the Caribbean
Harry Belafonte
Eric
$300 [13]
Your hook & line won't do much good without one of these to keep them at the right depth
a sinker (bob accepted)
Eric Jennifer
$300 [18]
The western region of this mountain range is home to Spain's Basque population
the Pyrenees
Eric BobCat
$300 [23]
The Wright Bros. made their first powered flight on December 17, 1903, near this village
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Eric
$300 [28]
As he told Delilah, because his head had never been touched by a razor
Why did Samson have his strength?
Jennifer BobCat
DD $500 [3]
It comes between the following pronunciations:eks ____ ze
wye
Eric
$400 [9]
Once among Charlie's Angels, she celebrated her 50th birthday in 1997 by posing for Playboy
Farrah Fawcett
Jennifer
$400 [14]
In 1954 Marcello Nizzoli designed the stylish Olivetti Lettera 22 model of this machine
Typewriter
BobCat
$400 [19]
In Portugal the area south of this river that bisects the country is much warmer than the area north of it
Tagus
$400 [24]
As of April 7, 1984 it surpassed Chicago as the nation's second most populous city
Los Angeles
BobCat
$400 [29]
Because the part protruding beyond the fingertips is made of dead cells, with no nerves
Why doesn't it hurt when you clip your fingernails?
Eric
$500 [5]
It's the radio station American Movie Classics wants you to "remember"
WENN
Eric
$500 [11]
In 1961 he founded the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna to pursue his Nazi quarry
Simon Wiesenthal
Jennifer BobCat
$500 [15]
You'll find the ends of the spark plug wires under this "cap"
Distributor cap
Eric
$500 [20]
This U.S. territory in the Pacific is the southernmost of the Mariana Islands
Guam
BobCat
$500 [25]
These Americans got the right to vote on August 26, 1920
Women
BobCat
$500 [30]
Because the shorter blue light waves are scattered around the atmosphere, while longer red ones aren't
Why is the sky blue?
Eric

Double Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLES GEOGRAPHIC VOCABULARY KIDDY LIT GOLD "D" HAWN
$200 [11]
Adjective for the major eastern European ethnic group & for their languages, like Russian & Bulgarian
Slavic/Slavonic
Eric Jennifer
$200 [16]
This smallest dog breed is named for the largest Mexican state
Chihuahua
Eric
$200 [1]
In a Grimm tale, grim indeed, she pushed a witch into an oven
Gretel
BobCat
$200 [6]
Gold needles were once used in this medical treatment that uses meridian points
Acupuncture
Jennifer
$200 [21]
June 6, 1944
D-Day
Jennifer
$200 [26]
In this 1980 film Goldie winds up cleaning an Army latrine with an electric toothbrush
Private Benjamin
Eric
$400 [12]
They came from Jutland to invade Britain around the same time as the Angles & Saxons
Jutes
BobCat
$400 [17]
Mahon, the main town on the island of Minorca, gave us this name for a sandwich spread
Mayonnaise
Eric
$400 [2]
In 1937 Tolkien published "The Hobbit" & this author put out "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street"
Dr. Seuss
Jennifer
$400 [7]
In 1995 people dug around this landmark looking for Jim Bowie's gold
The Alamo
Jennifer
$400 [22]
Common 3-letter abbreviation for the Doctor of Philosophy degree
Ph.D
Eric
$400 [27]
Goldie moans in it: "In Hollywood, women have only 3 ages: babe, district attorney & driving Miss Daisy"
The First Wives Club
BobCat
$600 [13]
According to legend, Romulus invited these people of Italy to a feast & carried off their women
Sabines
BobCat
$600 [18]
The French phrase meaning "Songs of the Valley of the Vire" became this word for a type of stage entertainment
Vaudeville
BobCat
$600 [3]
Title character among Ludwig Bemelmans' "twelve little girls in two straight lines"
Madeline
Jennifer BobCat
$600 [8]
It's the emblem of the Phi Beta Kappa society
Gold key
Eric
$600 [23]
Needed for good teeth & bones, sunlight brings out the best of it in you
Vitamin D
BobCat
$600 [28]
1 of the 2 films that starred both Goldie & Warren Beatty
Dollars or Shampoo
Eric
$800 [14]
After 1 million were killed by Turkey during WWI, these people turned to the USSR for help
Armenians
Jennifer BobCat
$800 [19]
An ancient name for Sri Lanka--no, not Ceylon--gave us this word for lucky discoveries made by accident
Serendipity
Jennifer
$1,000 [5]
This letter completes the title of William Steig's classic 1968 book that was all in letters, "CD...."
B
Eric BobCat
$800 [9]
These pseudo-scientists of the Middle Ages tried to turn base metals into gold; now you can in a cyclotron
Alchemists
Eric
$800 [24]
G.W. Bitzer was the cinematographer on most of this director's silent films
D.W. Griffith
Jennifer BobCat
$1,000 [30]
This 1992 supernatural comedy featured Goldie, Meryl & Bruce
Death Becomes Her
Eric BobCat
$1,000 [15]
Dutch settlers "tot" the world this name for the Khoikhoi people of present-day Namibia
Hottentots
Jennifer
$1,000 [20]
Belgian community that made the coarse cloth for which a bag & a coat are named
Duffel
Eric
DD $2,000 [4]
The title of this 1992 children's book, seen here, is also the name of its island setting:
Dinotopia
Jennifer
$1,000 [10]
Sir Walter Raleigh was among those who searched for this city of gold, looking in the area of what's now Guyana
El Dorado
Eric
$1,000 [25]
This rapper has sung alone & with "The Boyz"
Heavy D
Eric
DD $1,200 [29]
This 1969 film, seen here, wasn't Goldie's first, but it gave her her first major film role:
Cactus Flower
Eric

Final Jeopardy!

TRANSPORTATION HISTORY

In 1807 he wrote, "The distance from New York to Albany is 150 miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours"

Robert Fulton (of the steamship Clermont )

BobCat "Who is Fulton?" — wagered $2,600
Jennifer "Who is Fuller?" — wagered $3,200
Eric "Who is Clinton?" — wagered $6,500

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