Show #3378 1999-04-21 Regular

Contestants

Susan Hawks Wheeler — a communications director originally from Blackfoot, Idaho

Edgar Smith, Jr. — a math instructor from Houston, Texas

Maria Valgenti — an administrative assistant from Boston, Massachusetts

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Maria $600 $1,400 $2,600 $1
3rd place: a Bushnell Astronomical reflector telescope
$2,600
9 R, 1 W
Edgar $1,800 $3,400 $9,610 $10,000
New champion: $10,000
$8,400
22 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Susan $-300 $700 $4,500 $5,300
2nd place: a Techmedia desktop computer + a Broyhill home office armoire
$5,500
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE WORLD OH, DADDY! 1820s AMERICA ANIMAL ALBUM LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO ANAGRAMMED MUSICALS
$100 [11]
Locally, this world capital is spelled W-I-E-N
Vienna
Maria
$100 [17]
In the 20th anniversary production of "Annie", John Schuck played this billionaire
Daddy Warbucks
Susan
$100 [2]
On Oct. 26, 1825 the Seneca Chief left Buffalo on this waterway & became the first boat to travel its entire length
Erie Canal
Edgar
$100 [16]
This South American native has been domesticated for more than 4,000 years
Llama
Susan
$100 [24]
"Do not go gentle into" Vesuvio, a favorite watering hole of the Beat generation & of this Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas
Edgar
$100 [1]
"Scat"
Cats
Edgar
$200 [12]
The strategic importance of the Black Sea is not lost on this country that occupies its southern rim
Turkey
Edgar
$200 [18]
The Pollitts celebrate Big Daddy's 65th birthday & fight over inheriting his plantation in this drama
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Susan
$200 [3]
Discovered in 1806, this Colorado peak was first climbed in July 1820 by 3 members of Major Long's expedition
Pikes Peak
Edgar
$200 [21]
This shaggy load-bearer is also an important milk & food source
Yak
Susan
$200 [27]
Hey, birdbrain: John's Grill on Ellis Street is famous because Sam Spade dined there in this novel
"The Maltese Falcon"
$200 [7]
"Emma"
Mame
Maria
$300 [13]
You'll find Reindeer Lake covering over 2,400 square miles in this country
Canada
Susan
$300 [19]
"Oh Daddy" is one of the songs on this band's "Rumours" album
Fleetwood Mac
Edgar
$300 [4]
On June 17, 1825 this Frenchman laid the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument
Marquis de Lafayette
Edgar
$300 [23]
The average day of this wild canine is spent hunting & scavenging
Jackal
$300 [28]
When you visit the City Lights Bookstore, look for the nearby street named for this "On the Road" author
Jack Kerouac
Maria
$300 [8]
"Bare Act"
Cabaret
Maria
$400 [14]
Located in the southwestern part of the continent, it's the second-largest desert in Africa
Kalahari
Maria Edgar
$500 [22]
"Big Daddy from the Pedernales" is a biography of this Texan
Lyndon B. Johnson
$400 [5]
On Aug. 10, 1821 it entered the Union as a slave state with Thomas Hart Benton representing it in the Senate
Missouri
$400 [25]
"Snow" creature seen here
Leopard
Edgar
$400 [29]
Oscar Wilde & this "Gunga Din" author both stayed in the Palace Hotel--presumably not together
Rudyard Kipling
Susan
$400 [9]
"Boot Wash"
Show Boat
Maria
$500 [15]
Ukraine, Germany & the Baltic Sea all border this country
Poland
DD $800 [20]
The name of this '50s TV show came from a phrase used in Danny Thomas' house when he returned from the road
Make Room for Daddy
Edgar
$500 [6]
In 1829, in his 1st annual message to Congress, he questioned the constitutionality of the Bank of the U.S.
Andrew Jackson
Edgar
$500 [26]
Forest dweller seen here in...no...hurry
Sloth
Maria
$500 [30]
He detailed the high life in Haight-Ashbury in his '60s opus "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
Tom Wolfe
$500 [10]
"Itchy Sweater"
Sweet Charity

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCI. "FI" LET'S FLY JAI ALAI EAT THAI CRY
$200 [7]
This object in a spectrometer spreads a beam of light into separate colors
Prism
Edgar
$200 [15]
The basic pitch of this small flute is usually A-flat
Fife
Edgar
$200 [6]
In his first stories, he was able to "leap tall buildings at a single bound"; he didn't fly until later
Superman
Edgar
$200 [26]
The cancha or walled court of jai alai can have no more than this many walls
3
Edgar
$200 [21]
The staple food in the north of Thailand is the sticky or glutinous type of this
Rice
Maria
$200 [1]
She wept in 1998 when President Clinton agreed to settle her harassment lawsuit
Paula Jones
Susan
$400 [8]
The part of a tree from which quinine & aspirin's salicyclic acid are extracted
Bark
Edgar
$400 [16]
This car company was established in Turin in 1899
Fiat
Edgar
$400 [12]
A flat one needs a tail to supply drag & to keep it pointed to the sky
Kite
Edgar
$400 [27]
A popular sport in Spain & the Philippines, jai alai first became popular in the U.S. in this state
Florida
Susan
$400 [22]
Tom Kha Kai is a chicken soup flavored with the "milk" of this
Coconut
Maria
$400 [2]
Messner is now the last name of this televangelist known for putting on mascara & shedding tears
Tammy Faye (Bakker)
Susan
$600 [9]
Crowbars, nutcrackers & ice tongs are different types of this simple machine
Lever
Edgar
$600 [17]
It's the last "Jeopardy!" in the game
Final Jeopardy
Susan
$600 [13]
"He flies through the air with the greatest of ease"
"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
Maria
$600 [28]
Jai alai players know it's called the pelota
Ball
Edgar
$600 [23]
In the names of noodle dishes this word precedes "Thai", "see ew" & "woon sen"
Pad
Susan
$600 [3]
In 1961 Jimmy Stewart wept while accepting an Oscar for this terminally ill "High Noon" star
Gary Cooper
Susan
$800 [10]
This order of mammals is divided into prosimians & anthropoids
Primates
$800 [19]
This adjective denotes a certain known number of possibilities
Finite
Edgar
$800 [14]
In the 1954 World Series, this Giants center fielder made a memorable running catch of a Vic Wertz fly ball
Willie Mays
$800 [29]
Surprisingly, some historians believe jai alai was invented by this founder of the Jesuit order
Saint Ignatius Loyola
Edgar
$800 [24]
You might wish this skewer of chicken or beef served with peanut sauce was "just a little bit longer"
Satay
DD $1,000 [4]
His apparent tears during a New Hampshire campaign stop damaged his 1972 presidential bid
Edmund Muskie
Susan
DD $1,810 [11]
In a chemical process, monomers, small molecules, link in chains to form these large molecules
Polymers
Edgar
$1,000 [20]
In computer security, this device blocks unauthorized access to a LAN, a local area network
Firewall
$1,000 [18]
This "Arctic" bird, Sterna paradisaea, breeds on the coasts of North America but makes its winter home in the Antarctic
Tern
$1,000 [30]
Jai alai means "merry festival" in the language of this ethnic group of Spain
Basques
Susan
$1,000 [25]
Like Southern cooking, Thai-American cuisine features this be"whiskered" creature, deep-fried
Catfish
Susan
$1,000 [5]
The anti-pollution commercial in which an Indian sheds one tear featured actor Oscar Cody, nicknamed this
Iron Eyes Cody

Final Jeopardy!

LANDMARKS

In 1913 prima ballerina Ellen Price inspired the look of this famous statue by Edvard Eriksen

the Little Mermaid

Maria "What is the Copenhagen Mermaid?" — wagered $2,599
Susan "What is the Little Mermaid?" — wagered $800
Edgar "What is the Little Mermaid?" — wagered $390

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