Show #3355 1999-03-19 Regular

Contestants

Linda Ferrazzara — a network administrator from Randolph, Massachusetts

Scott Tarapczynski — a writer from Niagara Falls, New York

Jeff Grimes — a history teacher from Paris, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $700)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jeff	$-100	$1,100	$4,100	$7,700 2-day champion: $8,400	$4,100 14 R, 4 W
Scott	$-100	$1,000	$1,400	$2,500 3rd place: Daewoo 25" Color TV & Advent Speaker System	$1,400 13 R, 5 W
Linda	$1,600	$2,100	$7,300	$6,300 2nd place: Trip to Mexico City & Ixtapa	$8,900 22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL TRAVELS	ON PINS & NEEDLES	THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER	WORDS	CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES	POPCORN
$100 [17] The flag might clue you in that Clinton'sspeakingto this country's parliament Japan Jeff	$100 [26] When a girl got "pinned" in college, it was one of these pins that she received fraternity pin Scott	$100 [1] The U.S. flag flies 24 hours a day over his Frederick, Maryland grave Francis Scott Key Linda	$100 [7] This device that tests drivers to see if they're sober came into use around 1960 breathalyzer Linda	$100 [12] 1961:"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool" The Hustler Scott	$100 [2] This country produces most of the popcorn consumed in the world United States Jeff
$200 [18] That's the President in the fur in this world capital Moscow Linda	$200 [27] The British call these bulletin board items drawing pins thumbtacks Jeff	$200 [3] It's the only color on the flag that's also mentioned in the song red Jeff	$200 [8] This word for a white wine & soda drink first appeared in Webster's in 1961 spritzer Linda	$200 [13] 1950:"I am big. It's the pictures that got small" Sunset Boulevard Linda	$200 [22] In 1995 some Boy Scouts in Wisconsin produced a Guinness-record 2,377-pound one of these popcorn ball Linda
$300 [19] The President is seenhereearly in a 1998 six-nation tour of this continent Africa Scott	$300 [28] You'll need over 360 needles to insert one in every meridian point on your body in this medical art acupuncture Linda	$300 [4] Mary Pickersgill's house in this city is known as "The Star-Spangled Banner House"; she made the famous flag Baltimore Linda	$300 [9] Kodak coined this word for its self-loading camera in the early '60s Instamatic Scott	$300 [14] 1981:"Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?" Raiders of the Lost Ark Jeff Linda	$300 [23] In Disneyland vendors sell this man's gourmet popping corn Orville Redenbacher Scott
$400 [20] The President's onholidayon this island about 5 miles from Cape Cod Martha's Vineyard Jeff	$400 [29] "Here's looking at" the first needles to have these stamped into them, in 1826 eyes Scott	$400 [5] At the 1996 Olympics, it was the first official event at which "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played opening ceremonies	$400 [10] A clause in a document making a condition or restriction; you may have heard of the Wilmot one proviso Jeff	$500 [16] 1974:"She's my sister. She's my daughter. My sister. My daughter... she's my sister and my daughter!" Chinatown Scott	$400 [24] Popcorn pops because this inside the kernel expands when heated moisture Linda
$500 [21] Clinton's in this countryembracingone of its legendary athletes Brazil Scott	$500 [30] It can hold a wheel on an axle or act as the piece that holds everything together linchpin Jeff Scott	$500 [6] In 1968 he "Lit a Fire" under traditionalists with his bluesy version at the World Series Jose Feliciano Jeff Scott Linda	$500 [11] A harsh expression substituted for a more neutral one is a dysphemism & this is the opposite euphemism Linda	DD $600 [15] 1941:"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper" Citizen Kane Linda	$500 [25] Legend says that in 1621 this chief's brother Quadequina brought popcorn to the first Thanksgiving Massasoit Scott

Double Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRY MUSIC STARS	FROM A TO Y	MORE MYTHOLOGICAL MISTAKES	POPES	HIGH HOPES	ISOTOPES
$200 [23] His November 18, 1998 "Double Line" NBC special was performed live 3 times to accommodate time zone differences Garth Brooks Jeff	$200 [16] Indications you may have one include a rash, sneezing & itching allergy Scott	$200 [11] Let us pause to reflect upon this vain youth who was fatally attracted to his own reflection Narcissus Scott	$200 [21] Pius IX convened the "First Vatican" one of these & it declared him infallible Council Linda	$200 [1] In Genesis 11 this structure of bricks & mortar is meant to reach heaven Tower of Babel Jeff Linda	$200 [2] Unstable thorium-230 breaks down into the 226 isotope of this Curie-ous element radium Jeff Linda
$400 [27] She had 8 Top 10 country hits with George Jones, 4 of them after their D-I-V-O-R-C-E Tammy Wynette Scott	$400 [17] Winston Churchill, as First Lord of this from 1911 to 1915, kept things shipshape Admiralty Scott	$400 [12] Oops! This famous "Heel" fell for Penthesilia the Amazon a little too late--he'd already killed her Achilles Jeff	$400 [22] Little is known of the second pope who bore this name, but we doubt he sucked his thumb & carried a blanket Linus Jeff	$400 [7] In the song "High Hopes", an ant has this type of "hope"--apple, to be specific "High apple pie in the sky hopes" Jeff	$400 [3] In 1960 the wavelength of light from krypton-86 was used to define this measurement, also 39.37" meter Jeff
$600 [26] "There's a Tear in My Beer" was a 1989 duet hit by this man & his father who had died 36 years earlier Hank Williams, Jr. Jeff	$600 [18] A really big birdcage aviary Linda	$600 [13] We often wax nostalgic about this young man who flew too close to the sun Icarus Linda	$600 [28] The photo of John Paul I seenhereshows how he earned this nickname "The Smiling Pope"	$600 [8] If you're too optimistic, you're "dreaming in" this process introduced on film around 1915 Technicolor Linda	$600 [4] Isotopes are 2 forms of an element with the same number of protons but different numbers of these particles neutrons Scott Linda
$800 [25] In 1995 this bluegrass fiddler was named the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year Alison Krauss	$800 [19] Info on the aurora australis & eclipses are included in this section of the World Almanac astronomy Scott	DD $1,000 [14] Jason's new wife Creusa shouldn't have tried on the gown this sorceress sent her: it was poisoned Medea Linda	$800 [29] Paul VI's anti-birth control encyclical was called "Humanae Vitae", or "On" this Human Life Linda	$800 [9] The Roman auspices, divination by the flight of birds, gave us this adjective meaning "promising" auspicious Linda	$800 [5] As in planetary sequence, neptunium-239 emits a beta particle & becomes isotope 239 of this element plutonium Linda
$1,000 [24] Until he was 11 years old, he wasn't aware that Mets pitcher Tug was his father Tim McGraw Jeff	$1,000 [20] Bobby Burns noted "The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft" this agley Linda	$1,000 [15] The Pierides were turned into magpies after they challenged these "artsy" sisters to a singing contest & lost Muses Scott	—	$1,000 [10] It's a pattern of runaway financial speculation, like the "South Sea" one that "burst" in 1720 bubble	DD $1,000 [6] The hydrogen isotope called this was discovered in 1932, 2 years before tritium deuterium Linda

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENTIFIC INVENTIONS

In 1608 its inventor offered it exclusively to the Dutch government for military use

telescope

Scott "What is the Telescope?" — wagered $1,100

Jeff "What is the Telescope?" — wagered $3,600

Linda "What is A windmill?" — wagered $1,000

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