Show #2864 1997-01-30 (taped 1996-11-13) Regular

Contestants

Rick Geyer — a wine merchant from Bethesda, Maryland

Ellen Jacobs — a librarian from Somerville, Massachusetts

Davia Worthen — a teacher's aide from Lafayette, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,399)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Davia	$1,600	$2,100	$7,700	$10,599 2-day champion: $19,998	$7,700 19 R, 0 W
Ellen	$1,000	$4,200	$7,600	$4,801 2nd place: Trip to Spain on Air Europa at the Hotel Melia Victoria	$7,300 24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Rick	$100	$-100	$2,400	$2,500 3rd place: Franchi Menotti sports watch	$2,900 9 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE	TELEVISION	TRANSPORTATION	GENERAL SCIENCE	FOOTWEAR	'80s WORDS & PHRASES
$100 [5] Some say Cervantes wrote a portion of this 1605 novel in jail Don Quixote Ellen	$100 [1] His sitcom is admittedly about "nothing", just little things people experience but never see on TV Seinfeld Davia	$100 [26] These engineless aircraft have longer & narrower wings than powered aircraft gliders Ellen	$100 [12] The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet; in math it has the approximate value of 3.14 pi Davia	$100 [11] These slip-ons make "cents", as each shoe has a slot for a coin penny loafer Davia	$100 [21] Japanese for "empty orchestra", this device allows you to sing along with Mitch-san karaoke Ellen
$200 [6] This commander of the Nautilus was actually an Indian prince named Dakkar Captain Nemo Ellen	$200 [2] This Will Smith sitcom ended its 6-year run in 1996 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Rick	$200 [27] Formerly, team members on these vehicles would lean back & snap forward in unison, "bobbing" bobsled Ellen Rick	$200 [13] A lens that curves inward is concave & one that curves outward is this type convex Davia	$200 [17] It's a heavy low-heeled shoe or an Irish accent brogue Ellen	$200 [22] This term for selling goods by phone dates to the 1980s telemarketing Ellen
$300 [7] In an Edward Lear poem, the owl & the pussycat go to sea in a boat of this color pea green Davia	$300 [3] This sitcom ended the 1995-96 season with Jamie discovering she's finally pregnant Mad About You Davia	$300 [28] Term for the one-wheeled passenger carrier attached to a motorcycle sidecar Ellen	$300 [14] This wax obtained from sheep wool is composed largely of cholesterol esters lanolin Ellen	$300 [18] These racquet-shaped frames allow the wearer to walk without sinking, if you get our drift snowshoes Ellen	$300 [23] Political aides who put a positive slant on an event or the group who sang "Two Princes" Spin Doctors Ellen
$400 [9] Aunt Chloe is his wife & Arthur Shelby is his master in Kentucky Uncle Tom Rick	$400 [4] When it returned in June of '96 with Raquel Welch & Gerald McRaney, it was retitled "CPW" Central Park West Ellen	$400 [29] This, the most prestigious bicycle race, takes 25-30 days to complete Tour de France Ellen	$400 [15] Highly flammable & once used for photographic film, it was the first commercial synthetic plastic celluloid	$400 [19] This soft leather shoe's name goes back to Virginia Algonquian moccasin Ellen	$500 [25] In 1986 Americans learned 2 Russian words: glasnost, meaning "openness", & this, meaning "restructuring" perestroika Ellen
$500 [10] Harry Haller is the title character of this Herman Hesse novel Steppenwolf Rick	$500 [8] Late '60s undercover police unit made up of Pete Cochrane, Linc Hayes & Julie Barnes The Mod Squad Davia	$500 [30] These vehicles named for a Pennsylvania region had a freight capacity of about 6 metric tons Conestoga wagons Davia	$500 [16] Emeralds & aquamarines are forms of this mineral beryl Ellen Rick	$500 [20] What Witt wears when working ice skates Rick	DD $700 [24] It's the 2-word "clear barrier" keeping women from promotion into upper management glass ceiling Ellen

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS	ARCHITECTURE	POTENT POTABLES	BEST PICTURES	GEOGRAPHY	PLAYWRIGHTS
$200 [1] He not only founded the University of Virginia, he also chose its first professors Thomas Jefferson Ellen	$200 [16] Michael Graves' Dolphin Hotel at this Florida theme park is topped with 2 55'-high dolphin sculptures Walt Disney World Davia Ellen	$200 [2] Perrier-Jouet's Belle Epoque brand of this sparkling wine comes in a special painted bottle champagne Davia	$200 [7] Mel Gibson used members of the Irish army for the battle scenes in this Best Picture of 1995 Braveheart Davia	$200 [17] Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Great Britain, is located in this country Scotland Ellen Rick	$200 [18] This "Pygmalion" author wrote his 1913 play "Great Catherine" for actress Gertrude Kingston Shaw Davia
$400 [3] At 5' 6" he was nicknamed "Little Van" Van Buren Ellen	$400 [27] Eliel Saarinen moved to the U.S. after placing second in the competition to design this city's Tribune Tower Chicago Rick	$400 [12] As many as 40 herbs & flavorings go into this wine-based martini ingredient vermouth Ellen	$400 [8] This movie taught us that life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get Forrest Gump Davia	$400 [19] Of the 10 longest rivers in the world, 1 of the 3 that flow into the Atlantic Amazon, Congo, Parana	$400 [23] Plautus was the leading comic playwright of this ancient empire Roman empire Ellen
$600 [4] In 1906 he became the first president & the first American to win a Nobel Prize Teddy Roosevelt Davia	$600 [28] Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers designed this Parisian cultural center noted for its controversial industrial style Pompidou Center Rick	$600 [13] The name of mead goes back to madhu, the Sanskrit word for this mead ingredient honey Rick	DD $500 [10] "Consider yourself" smart if you know it won Best Picture of 1968 Oliver Rick	$600 [20] Bratislava, Belgrade & Budapest all lie on this river Danube Davia	$600 [24] His comedy "The Star-Spangled Girl" is set in a duplex apartment overlooking San Francisco Bay Neil Simon Davia
$800 [5] In 1849, less than a week before his death, this first "dark horse" president was baptized Polk Davia	$800 [29] Designed by Johnson & Burgee, this glass church in Calif. is higher & wider inside than Notre Dame Crystal Cathedral Rick	$800 [14] This country makes retsina as welll as mastika, a gin-like drink flavored with resin Greece Ellen	$600 [9] This 1941 Best Picture centered on a Welsh mining family How Green Was My Valley Ellen Rick	$800 [21] A breed of sheep is named for this range of hills in western England known for it beautiful villages Cotswold Ellen	$800 [25] This Swede satirized Stockholm society in his first novel, "The Red Room", published in 1879 Strindberg Davia Rick
$1,000 [6] The Cincinnati home of this President & Chief Justice is now a national historic site Taft Davia	$1,000 [30] Built in 1968, this architect's New National Gallery in West Berlin exemplifies his "less is more" style Mies van der Rohe	$1,000 [15] Alborg on the Jutland peninsula is a center for the manufacture of this spirit, Denmark's national drink aquavit Rick	$1,000 [11] Based on an Edna Ferber novel, it was the first western to win the award Cimarron	DD $1,000 [22] Swaziland is bounded on one side by Mozambique & on 3 sides by this country South Africa Ellen	$1,000 [26] "Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier", she wrote in "The Autumn Garden" Lillian Hellman

Final Jeopardy!

THE NEW TESTAMENT

Called the church's first theologian, a quarter of the books in the New Testament are credited to him

Paul

Rick "Who was Paul" — wagered $100

Ellen "Who was Peter?" — wagered $2,799

Davia "Who is Paul?" — wagered $2,899

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