Show #3140 1998-04-03 Regular

Pat Healy game 4.

Contestants

Diane Fisher — an energy resources scientist from Oakland, California

Nathan Aldrich — a part-time teacher originally from Skowhegan, Maine

Pat Healy — an index editor from Concord, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $45,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pat $3,300 $6,400 $10,200 $11,001
4-day champion: $56,402
$12,200
31 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Nathan $-300 $-800 $0 $0
3rd place: Panasonic's large-color LCD Palmcorder
$0
5 R, 4 W
Diane $500 $1,700 $5,500 $2
2nd place: a trip to Hawaii
$5,500
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

IN THE COOLER THE PENN. STARS BEHIND BARS PRISON PROSE "CON"s THE ROCK
$100 [19]
On campouts, coolers keep this treat from melting before it & a hot marshmallow are made into a s'more
a chocolate bar
Diane
$100 [13]
It was this cold historic site that Von Steuben reorganized our army in February 1778
Valley Forge
Pat
$100 [1]
His high school nickname "Bruno" stayed with him while he was a "Die Hard" bartender
Bruce Willis
Pat
$100 [11]
In "Civil Disobedience", he called his night in Concord Jail "novel and interesting enough"
Thoreau
Pat
$100 [6]
Rounded, like the inside of a bowl
concave
Pat
$200 [29]
Latin for "dug up"; it's the term for ancient plants & animals that have been preserved in sedimentary rock
fossils
Pat
$200 [20]
It's the total number of ounces in a standard six-pack of Pepsi
72
Pat
$200 [18]
One of its more unimaginative nicknames is "the capital of the Keystone State"
Harrisburg
Diane
$200 [2]
He tended bar & performed in coffeehouses before getting his break in "I Spy"
Bill Cosby
Pat
$200 [12]
Title of Sister Helen Prejean's book about death row & the Susan Sarandon film based on it
Dead Man Walking
Diane
$200 [7]
The Southern states during the Civil War were banded together as one of these
a confederacy
Pat
$300 [28]
You gotta lava this rock, whose name means "foam"; it floats & makes a great abrasive
pumice
Nathan
$300 [21]
Potato & macaroni salads made with this egg-based dressing are safe when kept in the cooler
mayonnaise
Pat Nathan
$300 [24]
Pittsburgh's Civic Arena was the first public auditorium to have a retractable one of these
a dome (or roof)
Pat
$300 [3]
He was working as a bartender when he started performing with Dan Rowan
Dick Martin
Pat
$300 [14]
A work by Jean Genet stems from time at this type of "school", named for what it tries to do to youths
a reform school
Pat Diane
$300 [8]
A missionary, or a cable box
a converter
Pat Nathan
$400 [27]
It's nice to know the granite-like rock pronounced "nice" is spelled this way
G-N-E-I-S-S
Diane
$400 [22]
This sports drink's new "Frost" flavors are Whitewater Splash, Glacier Freeze, and Alpine Snow
Gatorade
Pat
$400 [15]
Philadelphia's major league teams included the Phillies, Eagles, 76ers & this hockey team
the Flyers
Pat
$400 [4]
He's gone from jobs like tennis instructor & bartender to films like "Fletch" & "Foul Play"
Chevy Chase
Pat
$400 [16]
In 1981 jailed writer Jack Henry Abbott was sprung with the help of this "Executioner's Song" author
Norman Mailer
Pat
$400 [9]
A plan you have, just in case
a contingency plan
Pat
$500 [26]
This lustrous source of radium & uranium derives its name from its tar-like appearance
pitchblende
Diane
$500 [23]
It could be called solid dihydrous monoxide
(ordinary) ice
Nathan Diane
$500 [25]
This port city displays a reconstruction of Oliver Hazard Perry's ship, the Niagara
Erie
Diane
$500 [5]
Heard here, he tended bar to earn money while he wrote songs:"You know feelin' good was good enough for me..."
Kris Kristofferson
Pat
DD $1,300 [17]
Hitler's chief architect, he wrote "Spandau: The Secret Diaries" of his time in prison for war crimes
Albert Speer
Pat
$500 [10]
His disciples collected his sayings in "Analects"
Confucius
Pat

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT TRAVEL GUIDE MOST LIKELY TO SECEDE THEY COVERED THE BEATLES FAMOUS FRIEDMANS EPONYMS ORGANIZATIONS
$200 [1]
Visit here & enjoy Mediterranean cuisine, beautiful women & a huge wooden horse donated by the Greeks
Troy
Diane
$200 [26]
Rene Levesque long led the independence movement for this province, mais tant pis, it hasn't happened yet
Quebec
Diane
$200 [4]
Tiffany was just 17 when she hit the Top 10 with a reworked version of this Beatles song
"I Saw Her Standing There"
Pat
$200 [13]
Stanford hired 18-year-old Harvey Friedman in 1967; he had earned his B.A. at MIT in 2 years & this degree in 1
Ph.D.
Nathan
$200 [2]
This bed, raised & stored into a wall, lost its popularity when sofa convertibles came into vogue
a murphy bed
Nathan Diane
$400 [18]
In 1997, this organization celebrated the 90th anniversary of its Christmas seals
The American Lung Association
$400 [3]
No bull, Crete will a-maze you as you wander through the labyrinth, this creature's lair
the Minotaur
Pat
$600 [27]
Some want this India-Pakistan border region to be independent, & some want it united with Pakistan
Kashmir
$400 [5]
This duo had only just begun when they covered "Ticket To Ride" in 1970
The Carpenters
Pat
$600 [25]
Nobel economist & author of the exciting "A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960"
Milton Friedman
Nathan
$400 [9]
Although he led the ill-fated charge of the light brigade, this earl is best known for his sweater
Cardigan
Pat
$600 [17]
In 1997, Martin Luther King III was elected president of this group, the SCLC; Dad would have been proud
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Diane
$600 [22]
Luscious gardens hanging for your pleasure await you in this city on the Euphrates
Babylon
Pat
$800 [20]
Be a prince & grant independence to Cymru, the native name for this UK division
Wales
Nathan
$600 [6]
"We Can Work It Out" worked out to be one of the songs of his 1970 album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered"
Stevie Wonder
Pat
$800 [24]
Leader of the country group The Texas Jewboys, he's also an accomplished mystery author
Kinky Friedman
Pat
$600 [10]
Named for a Turkish Empire, it's the stumbling block Dick Van Dyke frequently encountered
an ottoman
Pat
$800 [16]
An association in Annadale, Virginia is devoted to this man, Jefferson's vice-president
Aaron Burr
Pat
$800 [21]
Join us in this African hot spot & we'll supply elephants & a tour of Hannibal's birthplace
Carthage
$1,000 [19]
Despite limited indepedence in N. Spain, many in this oldest W. European group desire full autonomy
the Basques
Diane
$1,000 [8]
Written in 1966, this song was a Top 10 hit from the Beatles in 1976 & for Earth, Wind & Fire in 1978
"Got To Get You Into My Life"
Pat
$1,000 [23]
In "Steambath" this author made God a steam room attendant
Bruce Jay Friedman
Nathan
$800 [11]
A cracker is named for this dietary reformer who advocated using unsifted whole wheat flour
Dr. Sylvester Graham
$1,000 [15]
It's the organization whose logo is seen here:
the World Wildlife Fund
Diane
$1,000 [14]
Barren accommodations, but plenty of exercise & military drill in this capital of Laconia
Sparta
Diane
DD $4,000 [7]
This singer got by with a 1968 version of the Beatles song heard here:"What would you do if I sang out of tune?..."
Joe Cocker
Pat
DD $6,000 [12]
When forced into retirement, this Anglican clergyman reportedly said, "It came as a blushing crow"
(Reverend William Archibald) Spooner
Pat

Final Jeopardy!

PLAYS

Based on a myth, this 1913 play became a 1938 movie, a 1956 stage musical & a 1964 movie musical

Pygmalion

Diane "What is My Fair Lady?" — wagered $5,498
Pat "What is Pygmalion?" — wagered $801

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