Show #3379 1999-04-22 Regular

Contestants

Tony Mangaser — a purchasing assistant from Williamsville, New York

Louise Cornish — a freelance writer from Toronto, Ontario

Edgar Smith, Jr. — a math instructor from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Edgar $800 $4,000 $6,900 $11,608
2-day champion: $21,608
$7,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Louise $600 $700 $4,000 $0
3rd place: Pair of Festina Watches
$3,500
9 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Tony $700 $1,000 $5,800 $4,699
2nd place: Trip to Texcoco Plantation, Louisiana
$5,800
16 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY DISNEY FILMS BY SONGS SPORTS MEDICINE CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYONE! ICELAND COMETH "BIG" STUFF
$100 [1]
1903's Treaty of Petropolis "erased" a South American dispute over an area rich in this plant resource
Rubber
$100 [16]
"Prince Ali" & "A Whole New World"
Aladdin
Edgar
$100 [21]
The "stress" type is a hairline break caused by overuse
Fracture
Edgar
$100 [4]
"Musical" name of the tall, slender glass that's preferred for serving champagne
Flute
Tony
$100 [26]
Located in Faxa Bay, it was made the capital of Iceland in 1918
Reykjavik
Tony
$100 [9]
It theoretically happened about 10 to 20 billion years ago
Big Bang Theory
Edgar
$200 [2]
In 1931 the invading Japanese made this Chinese area a puppet state called Manchukuo
Manchuria
Tony
$200 [17]
"Spoonful of Sugar" & "Chim-Chim-Cheree"
Mary Poppins
Edgar
$200 [22]
In tendinitis & bursitis, -itis denotes this
Inflammation
Edgar Tony
$200 [5]
This sybaritic Brit is known for the phrase "Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams"
Robin Leach
Louise
$200 [27]
Iceland's nearest neighbor is this island, about 190 miles to the northwest
Greenland
Edgar
$200 [12]
A man with more than one current mother-in-law
Bigamist
Edgar
$300 [3]
The limited Irish autonomy proposed by Isaac Butt around 1870 was called this type of "rule"
Home Rule
$300 [18]
"Heigh Ho" & "Someday My Prince Will Come"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Edgar
$300 [23]
A tear to the ACL, or anterior cruciate one of these in the knee, has brought many athletes to their knees
Ligament
Edgar
$300 [6]
The name of this type of champagne made from Chardonnay grapes is French for "White of whites"
Blanc de blancs
$300 [28]
Iceland was the site of arms control talks between these 2 world leaders in October 1986
Mikhail Gorbachev & Ronald Reagan
Tony
$300 [13]
George Orwell's oppressive "sibling"
Big Brother
Tony
$400 [10]
Brugge in Flemish, this Belgian city's trade declined with the silting of the Zwyn River in the 1400s
Bruges
Tony
$400 [19]
"Baby Mine" & "Pink Elephants on Parade"
Dumbo
Tony
$400 [24]
They're the muscles that flex the knee; pigs probably don't injure theirs as often as humans do
Hamstrings
Edgar
$400 [7]
Oh, you savage! This term refers to dry champagne that's less than 1.5% sugar
Brut
Louise
$400 [29]
96% of the population is affiliated with the Church of Iceland, which is the evangelical type of this religion
Lutheran
Louise
$400 [14]
This hearty species shares its name with a river & a mountain range
Bighorn sheep
Edgar
DD $500 [11]
In 897 Pope Stephen VI had his predecessor Formosus exhumed, put on trial & thrown into this river
Tiber
Edgar
$500 [20]
"I Wanna Be Like You" & "The Bare Necessities"
The Jungle Book
Edgar
$500 [25]
To pro athletes, a "scope" may be short for this type of device to view the interior of a joint cavity
Arthroscope
Louise
$500 [8]
This legendary discoverer of champagne may have been one of the first to use a mushroom-shaped cork
Dom Perignon
Tony
$500 [30]
Like Sweden, Iceland uses currency called this
Krona/kroners
Tony
$500 [15]
A 1930 Wallace Beery movie or slang for a penintentiary, bub
Bighouse
Edgar

Double Jeopardy! Round

HER STORY COOKING WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE BETTER KNOWN AS... OPERA BEFORE & AFTER
$200 [1]
Ursula & her sister Gudrun are the title "women" of this D.H. Lawrence novel
"Women in Love"
$200 [25]
When a pie has 2 of these, the top one may be "woven" in a lattice design
Crusts
Louise
$200 [10]
A fashion boutique on west Broadway bears the name of this 19th century "Beau"
Beau Brummell
Louise
$200 [17]
Alicia Christian Foster
Jodie Foster
Edgar Tony
$200 [3]
Consumed with guilt over her affair with Boris, the heroine of "Katya Kabanova" drowns herself in this Russian river
Volga
Tony
$200 [12]
"Home of the Whopper" that fathered Cordelia, Regan & Goneril
Burger King Lear
Tony
$400 [2]
In "The Scarlet Letter", the result of her "a"dultery is her beautiful daughter Pearl
Hester Prynne
Tony
$400 [26]
Don't throw away this part of a watermelon; many cooks pickle it
Rind
Edgar
$400 [11]
Zalman Shoval is the current ambassador to the U.S. from this country
Israel
Tony
$400 [18]
Talia Coppola
Talia Shire
Edgar
$400 [4]
Ferenc Erkel's 1844 work "Hunyady Laszlo" is one of this country's most famous operas
Hungary
Louise
$400 [13]
Winnie the Pooh pal moonlighting as Howard Stern's assistant
Christopher Robin Quivers
Edgar
$600 [5]
In William Styron's book, her "Choice" is which of her children to send to death
Sophie
Tony
$600 [27]
Popular in Asia, this cooking utensil that usually has 2 handles is perfect for stir-frying
Wok
Tony
$600 [22]
It's the Cairo suburb where you'll find the landmark seen here(Great Pyramid)
Giza
Edgar
$600 [19]
Reginald Dwight
Elton John
Edgar
$600 [6]
Minnie runs a saloon in a California mining camp in this Italian composer's opera "The Girl of the Golden West"
Giacomo Puccini
Edgar
$600 [14]
Investment firm that makes money "The Old-Fashioned Way" taken over by a Flintstone neighbor
Smith Barney Rubble
Edgar
$800 [7]
The classic novel "Ulysses" ends with a 50-page monologue by this second-rate Dublin singer
Molly Bloom
$800 [28]
Mix dried, pounded meat with fat & berries to make this traditional food of Native Americans
Pemmican
Louise
$800 [23]
Ceremonial masks like the one here are used by the people of this region known as Xizang in Chinese
Tibet
$800 [20]
George Alan O'Dowd
Boy George
$800 [8]
"Die Harmonie der Welt" explores the life of this astronomer & his musical theories of planetary motion
Johannes Kepler
Louise Tony
$800 [15]
Jerusalem temple site where you can buy a copy of a leading financial newspaper
Wailing Wall Street Journal
Tony
DD $1,500 [30]
In 1878 Henry James' "flowery" prose told of this Schenectady girl traveling in Europe
Daisy Miller
Louise
$1,000 [29]
Larousse suggests cooking brill, a "flat" type of this, in champagne sauce
Fish
Louise
$1,000 [24]
Seoul, Korea straddles this river which shares its name with the main ethnic group of China
Han
DD $900 [21]
Joan de Havilland
Joan Fontaine
Edgar
$1,000 [9]
The heroine of this Czech composer's 1881 opera "Libuse" is the queen of Bohemia
Bedrich Smetana
$1,000 [16]
Greek king Menelaus' wife kidnapped by a Dallas Cowboys quarterback
Helen of Troy Aikman
Tony

Final Jeopardy!

THE ENVIRONMENT

Samples from a Swiss bog show the highest levels of this element in the past 14,000 years were from 1975 to 1982

Lead

Louise "What is sulphur?" — wagered $4,000
Tony "What is nitrogen?" — wagered $1,101
Edgar "What is lead?" — wagered $4,708

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