Show #3407 1999-06-01 Regular

Contestants

Chris Culver — a stay-at-home dad from Scottsdale, Arizona

Susan Tull — a college instructor from Norfolk, Virginia

Frank Stokes — a financial analyst originally from Heber Springs, Arkansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Frank $1,200 $1,600 $6,000 $8,301
2-day champion: $18,102
$6,500
21 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Susan $0 $600 $600 $1,200
3rd place: a Samsung 28" stereo TV
$600
5 R, 2 W
Chris $900 $3,100 $8,300 $4,300
2nd place: a trip to St. James's Club, Antigua
$8,100
25 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

SISTER CITIES PARTS OF THE WHOLE BIOGRAPHIES FAMOUS LAST WORDS TV NOSTALGIA "WHIP"s & "CHAIN"s
$100 [1]
Though it's home to Disneyland, this California city is sister to Mito, near Tokyo, Japan
Anaheim
Frank
$100 [11]
Pinch, crown, brim
Hat
Chris
$100 [5]
Merle Miller's 1980 book "Lyndon" is "An Oral Biography" of this man
Lyndon B. Johnson
Frank
$100 [21]
An unemployed soldier, 1821:"Josephine!"
Napoleon Bonaparte
Chris
$100 [16]
He not only starred on "Charles in Charge", he was often in charge as the show's director
Scott Baio
Chris
$100 [26]
It's a series of positions in which each one has direct authority over the one immediately below
a chain of command
Frank Susan
$200 [2]
Fort Lauderdale linked up with Medellin; Miami linked with this capital of Colombia
Bogota
Chris
$200 [12]
Carriage, platen, shift key
Typewriter
Frank
$200 [6]
A 1991 book about this actor, JFK's brother-in-law, is subtitled "The Man Who Kept the Secrets"
Peter Lawford
Frank Chris
$200 [22]
A pilot, 1937:"Gas is running low...we are flying at 1,000 feet..."
Amelia Earhart
Chris
$200 [17]
Appropriate name of the animated girl on "Pee-wee's Playhouse" who had copper coins for eyes
Penny
Susan
$200 [27]
It's Nevada Democrat Harry Reid's position in the Senate
minority whip
Frank Chris
$300 [3]
These sister university cities in England & Massachusetts share a name
Cambridge
Chris
$300 [13]
Spine, coarse teeth, fine teeth
Comb
$300 [7]
Louis Harlan's biography of this Tuskegee educator won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize
Booker T. Washington
Frank
$300 [23]
A social leader, 1965:"Let's cool it, brothers!"
Malcolm X
Frank
$300 [18]
Ian Fleming came up with the name Napoleon Solo, Robert Vaughn's character on this series
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Chris
$300 [28]
This North American bird is named for its odd call, which it may repeat several hundred times without stopping
the whip-poor-will
Susan
$400 [4]
This Moroccan city is a sister to Chicago; it might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, Louis
Casablanca
Frank
$400 [14]
Cutting blade, release knob, magnetic lid lifter
Can opener
Frank
$400 [8]
The tables were turned on this biographer when she became the subject of the unauthorized book "Poison Pen"
Kitty Kelley
$400 [24]
A monarch, 1603:"All my possessions for a moment of time"
Queen Elizabeth I
Chris
$400 [19]
One of Tallulah Bankhead's last roles was as this "Batman" villainess named for a spider
Black Widow
Chris
$400 [29]
Tool preferred by Leatherface in a 1974 horror classic
Chain saw
Chris
$500 [10]
This Tibetan town is sister to Boulder, Colorado
Lhasa
Chris
$500 [15]
Band, collet, prongs, stone
Ring
DD $500 [9]
"The Man Who Presumed" tells the story of this explorer
Henry Stanley
Frank
$500 [25]
A poet, 1953:"I've had 18 straight whiskies, I think that's the record"
Dylan Thomas
Frank
$500 [20]
Dwayne Hickman's brother Darryl sometimes appeared as this character's brother Davey
Dobie Gillis
Frank
$500 [30]
"A Sandwich Just Isn't A Sandwich Without" the "tangy zip" of this Kraft salad dressing
Miracle Whip
Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

YEAR OF THE HEADLINE BRITISH ACTRESSES 7-LETTER WORDS YOU AUTO KNOW ALL THE TEA IN CHINA
$200 [2]
Orders Skyrocket as Viagra Goes on the Market!
1998
Frank
$200 [26]
In 1998 Claire Forlani got to "meet" this title character played by Brad Pitt
Joe Black
Frank
$200 [20]
The one thrown by men in track & field is metal-tipped & over 8 feet in length
Javelin
Frank
$200 [1]
Squeeze these radiator attachments & replace them if they're going soft on you
Hoses
Frank
$200 [14]
The Dutch started this country's tea industry on the island of Java
Indonesia
Chris
$200 [8]
The initial phase of this large barrier along the frontier was completed around 204 B.C.
Great Wall of China
Chris
$400 [3]
U.S. Abandons Saigon, Vietnam War Ends!
1975
Chris
$400 [27]
Not yet 25, this star of "Titanic" is a 2-time Oscar nominee
Kate Winslet
Frank
$400 [21]
Although from French for "morning", it now refers to a performance in the afternoon
Matinee
Susan
$400 [7]
The one used to check power steering fluid is shorter than the one used to check engine oil
Dipstick
Chris
$400 [15]
Over 90% of the tea grown in this country, once Ceylon, is exported
Sri Lanka
Chris
$400 [9]
One of her last books was 1972's "China Past and Present"
Pearl S. Buck
Chris
$600 [4]
Operation "Desert Storm" Begins; Iraq Invaded!
1991
Frank Susan
$600 [28]
Helena Bonham Carter used a Yank accent to play this man's wife in "Mighty Aphrodite"
Woody Allen
Chris
$600 [22]
This front side of a coin features the portrait; Jefferson on a nickel, for example
Obverse
$600 [12]
Like a comedian, a car owner may need to "adjust" this, perhaps by advancing the spark
Timing
Chris
$600 [16]
"The Flame Trees of Thika" told you about the coffee production of this country, a top tea producer
Kenya
Frank Susan
$600 [10]
The ceding of Hong Kong to Great Britain was one result of 2 wars named for this substance
Opium
Chris
$800 [5]
Mondale Nominated for U.S. President!
1984
Frank Chris
DD $1,000 [29]
In the late '70s she starred as Fontaine Khaled in "The Stud", based on a novel by her sister
Joan Collins
Chris
$800 [23]
From the Greek for "staff", it's a rod held by a sovereign as an emblem of power or authority
Scepter
Susan
$800 [18]
Also the name of a comic strip, it makes the pistons' up-&-down motion circular
a crankshaft
Frank Chris
$800 [17]
This South American country produced 55,000 tons in 1997; tea there is "like silver"
Argentina
Frank
$800 [11]
Its principal tributaries include the Jialing, the Min & the Yalong
Yangtze River
Frank
$1,000 [6]
Queen Victoria Shuffles Off This Mortal Coil!
1901
Frank Chris
$1,000 [24]
It's a member of an ethnic group native to the Philippines, or the language on which Pilipino is based
Tagalog
Chris
$1,000 [19]
Throttle-body & multiport are the 2 main types of this system of delivering gas to the engine
Fuel injection
Frank
DD $1,000 [25]
The world's greatest tea producing country, by far, is this one, not China
India
Chris
$1,000 [13]
This man led the 1911 revolutionary movement dedicated to establishing democracy in China
Sun Yat-sen
Chris

Final Jeopardy!

QUOTABLE DEFINITIONS

Ted Hughes wrote that it's where a child can sit "with the genius of the Earth"

Library

Susan "What is a library?" — wagered $600
Frank "What is a library?" — wagered $2,301
Chris "What ?" — wagered $4,000

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