Show #3429 1999-07-01 Armed Forces

Armed Forces Week game 4.

Contestants

Wayne Byron — an Air Force logistician originally from Trinidad, British West Indies, now stationed at Ramstein, Germany

Beth Sanfilippo — a Navy lab technician originally from Oceanside, California, now stationed in San Diego, California

Ben Connable — a Marine company commander originally from Roslyn, New York, now stationed at Okinawa, Japan

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ben	$2,300	$2,300	$7,500	$7,401 Winner: $7,401; week's big winner has total doubled	$6,800 18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Beth	$-100	$1,600	$4,800	$3,000 2nd place: Intel Create & Share Camera Pack & Micron Millennium Max Computer	$6,000 16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Wayne	$900	$2,900	$3,700	$0 3rd place: Panasonic 13" Color TV & VCR combo & LCD Palmcorder	$3,700 17 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH OF THE BORDER	GET INTO SHAPE	WAR STORIES	BRAND NAMES	MILITARY MOVIES	"GENERAL" KNOWLEDGE
$100 [11] Mongolia China Ben	$100 [16] To figure the ratio of its circumference to its diameter is as easy as pi circle Beth	$100 [6] Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" recounts the Italian retreat from Caporetto during this war World War I Ben	$100 [21] In 1862 Don Facundo Bacardi built a distillery in Cuba to make this rum Wayne	$100 [1] "A Few Good Men" was set partly in Cuba, & it also featured this actor named Cuba Cuba Gooding, Jr. Beth	$100 [12] Over the years, products from this manufacturer have included Buicks, Cadillacs & Oldsmobiles General Motors Beth
$200 [14] Kuwait Saudi Arabia Ben	$200 [17] From the Greek for "eight", it's the shape of the sign seen here octagon Beth	$200 [7] In this Joseph Heller novel, Captain Yossarian pleads insanity in an attempt to get grounded from flying "Catch-22" Wayne	$200 [22] It's the part of your body that Aim is made to be used on teeth Beth	$200 [2] Eileen Brennan earned an Oscar nomination for playing Captain Lewis in this Goldie Hawn comedy Private Benjamin Ben	$200 [13] In 1929 U.S. companies Postum & Birdseye combined to form this conglomerate General Foods Beth Wayne
$300 [15] Egypt Sudan Ben	$300 [18] "Promenade" & "women star right" are calls in this type of American folk dancing square dancing Wayne	$300 [8] Paul Baumer is a raw 18-year-old recruit at the beginning of this Erich Maria Remarque novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" Ben	$300 [23] In 1880 Chesebrough Manufacturing Company began marketing this petroleum jelly Vaseline Beth	$300 [3] Harve Presnell appeared as General George C. Marshall in this 1998 Spielberg epic Saving Private Ryan Beth	$300 [26] G.P. stands for this kind of doctor general practitioner Wayne
$400 [29] Andorra Spain	$400 [19] Shape or name of the most famous building in the 20301-1400 zip code the Pentagon Beth	$500 [10] In a series of novels, Richard Sharpe fights the Peninsular War under the command of this historical duke Duke of Wellington Wayne	$400 [24] Talon is a trademarked name for these hookless fasteners zippers Ben Wayne	$400 [4] Remember this film, the first one John Wayne directed--it was set in Texas in 1836 The Alamo Beth	$400 [27] "Towering" P.T. Barnum talent seen here General Tom Thumb Wayne
$500 [30] Suriname Brazil	$500 [20] It's the shape formed in the center of the sign seen here:# parallelogram Ben	DD $1,100 [9] In "Slaughterhouse Five", Billy Pilgrim survives the firebombing of this German city Dresden Ben	$500 [25] An Indian was on this suntan lotion's first bottles in 1945 with the slogan "Don't Be A Paleface" Coppertone Beth	$500 [5] Jack Warden played Sgt. Welsh in the 1964 film of this James Jones novel, Sean Penn in the 1998 remake The Thin Red Line Ben	$500 [28] Title of the chief medical officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General (of the United States) Wayne

Double Jeopardy! Round

FOREIGN COUNTRIES	4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS	COLORFUL AMERICA	ENEMY LINES	MEDICAL PEOPLE	"BOOT" CAMP
$200 [14] It took us 10 years, from 1904 to 1914, to build a canal through it Panama Wayne	$200 [24] The Fox network made it glow to attract viewers to televised hockey puck Ben	$200 [19] At 7,242 feet Harney Peak is the highest point in these South Dakota hills the Black Hills Wayne	$200 [9] In July 1990 he said of the West, "Yours is a society which cannot accept 10,000 dead in one battle" Saddam Hussein Wayne	$200 [1] Havelock Ellis' 7-volume work on "The Psychology of" this was at first considered pornographic & only for doctors sex	$200 [4] It's a common name for a Wild West cemetery Boot Hill Ben
$400 [15] The Sabor is the legislative body of Croatia, which was part of this country until it broke away in 1991 Yugoslavia Wayne	$400 [25] Whether single, double or triple, this oldest major figure skating jump is launched while moving forward axel Beth	$400 [20] Color common to the names of a mountain range of southeast Washington & a mountain range of West Virginia blue Beth	$400 [10] In 1959 he said his revolution began "With 82 men. If I had to do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith" Fidel Castro Ben	$400 [2] Before Howard Florey & Ernest Chan purified this antibiotic around 1940, it did more harm than good penicillin Wayne	$400 [5] It's an unauthorized concert recording of your favorite rock band bootleg Ben
$600 [16] Of Togo, Tonga or Tunisia, the one not in Africa Tonga Wayne	$600 [26] This basketball ploy, when a player sets a screen & then receives a pass, includes 2 4-letter words pick & roll Beth	$600 [21] One of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the U.S., it was founded as Rhode Island College in 1764 Brown University Beth	$600 [11] About the bombing of Pan Am 103 he said, "The evidence against Libya is less than a laughable piece of fingernail" Muammar Qaddafi Ben	$600 [3] "And They Shall Walk" is the autobiography of Sister Kenny, who devised treatment for kids with this disease polio Ben	$600 [6] It's what a self-made man has pulled himself up by his bootstraps Beth
$800 [17] A few islets in the Pescadores, Quemoy & Matsu & this larger island form the Republic of China Taiwan Ben	$1,000 [28] In diving & gymnastics, it's the somewhat fetal "position" with the thighs held against the chest tuck Wayne	$800 [22] Home to the N.C. Agricultural & Technical State University, this large city's main industry is textiles Greensboro Ben	$800 [12] At a reception in Moscow in 1956 he bragged to Western ambassadors, "We will bury you" Nikita Khrushchev Ben	$800 [29] During his career, goiter surgery pioneer Emil Kocher performed over 5,000 operations on these glands thyroids Beth	$800 [7] This legendary cat helped his master amass a fortune; what has yours done for you? Puss in Boots Wayne
$1,000 [18] This country with a royal embassy in Washington is ruled by Queen Margrethe II Denmark Wayne	DD $1,200 [27] (Hi, I'm wide receiver Curtis Conway of the Chicago Bears) This type of pass pattern gets its name because I head for the uprights post Beth	$1,000 [23] U2's first live album, "Under A Blood Red Sky", contains music recorded at this Colorado site Red Rocks Ben Wayne	DD $1,000 [13] In 1988 this religious figure warned, "Leave the Persian Gulf before...you drown in quagmires of death" Ayatollah Khomeini Ben	$1,000 [30] In 1873 William Osler gave us the "dish" on this third type of blood corpuscle platelet Beth Wayne	$1,000 [8] City name for the device that keeps a parked car from going anywhere Denver boot

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL FACTS

FDR called it the Sacred Cow; for Truman it was Independence; for Eisenhower, the Columbine; & from JFK on, this

Air Force One

Wayne "What is The Presidential Yacht?" — wagered $3,700

Beth "What is Peace?" — wagered $1,800

Ben "What is LIBERTY?" — wagered $99

« Back to Games