Show #2622 1996-01-16 Regular

Barbara Walker game 5.Bill Dickenson game 1.

Contestants

Dan Iacobazzi — an underwriter from Bowie, Maryland

Bill Dickenson — a college instructor from Richardson, Texas

Barbara Walker — an elementary school principal from Westminster, Maryland (whose 4-day cash winnings total $46,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Barbara $1,300 $600 $1,600 $1
3rd place: Sanyo Multifunctional Fax Machine + a choice of GameTek Jeopardy! video games (First Edition, Deluxe Edition, or Sports Edition) + the Jeopardy! scorekeeper
$1,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Bill $800 $2,000 $6,200 $7,200
New champion: $7,200 + a choice of GameTek Jeopardy! video games (First Edition, Deluxe Edition, or Sports Edition) + the Jeopardy! scorekeeper
$6,200
18 R, 2 W
Dan $-100 $600 $2,400 $1
2nd place: Trip to Mexico + a choice of GameTek Jeopardy! video games (First Edition, Deluxe Edition, or Sports Edition) + the Jeopardy! scorekeeper
$3,600
11 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY ANIMAL GROUPS CALIFORNIA CITIES MONEY & FINANCE OPRYLAND USA WHAT'S THE PITCH?
$100 [1]
Some say this woman of Troy married Paris' brother Deiphobus after Paris' death
Helen
Bill
$100 [6]
A shrewdness of these large primates may be full of chimps or gorillas
Apes
Barbara
$100 [11]
At 465 square miles, it's California's largest city in area
Los Angeles
Barbara
$100 [16]
When stocks are in an upward trend, it's a bull market; as they drop, it's called this
Bear Market
Barbara
$100 [21]
With its theme park & mega-hotel, Opryland is one of this state's most popular attractions
Tennessee
Bill
$100 [26]
"We Try Harder"
Avis
Bill
$200 [2]
Poseidon's son Polyphemus was one of these one-eyed creatures
Cyclops
Dan
$200 [7]
"Nevermore" will we mention that a group of these birds is an unkindness
Ravens
Barbara
$200 [12]
This city near the U.S.-Mexico border is home to a naval base & a world famous zoo
San Diego
Barbara
$200 [17]
A company that steadily produces profits is referred to by this bovine term
Cash Cow
Bill
$200 [22]
Visitors can go rollin' on the river aboard a showboat named for this general & 7th president
Andrew Jackson
Bill Dan
$200 [27]
"I can't believe I ate the whole thing"
Alka-Seltzer
Dan
$300 [3]
The name of this river of the underworld means "hateful" or "abhorrent"
Styx
Barbara
DD $200 [10]
Gather a group of these animals in Wisconsin & you'll have a cete
Badgers
Dan
$300 [13]
This city's Moscone Center has over 500,000 square feet of exhibit & meeting space
San Francisco
Bill
$300 [18]
It's the type of tax paid on expensive items considered nonessential, such as yachts, furs & jewelry
Luxury Tax
Barbara
$300 [23]
TV's "Music City Tonight" is taped at Opryland & broadcast by this cable network located there
TNN (The Nashville Network)
Dan
$300 [28]
"Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven"
Pillsbury
Barbara Bill
$400 [4]
In Norse myth Fenris, one of these lupine animals, has jaws so huge they stretch from heaven to Earth
Wolf
Bill
$300 [8]
Watch Jeopardy! & find out how to succeed in this group of ferrets without really trying
Business
$400 [14]
This upscale community was founded in 1906 by the Rodeo Land & Water Company
Beverly Hills
Barbara
$400 [19]
Despite its name, this type of insurance payout can be made monthly or quarterly as well as yearly
Annuity
Barbara Bill
$400 [24]
Adjacent to the park are 3 museums, one of which honors this "Queen of Country Comedy"
Minnie Pearl
Bill
$400 [29]
"Because life is not a spectator sport"
Reebok
Barbara
$500 [5]
This wife of Jupiter was considered the queen of heaven
Juno
Dan
$400 [9]
When someone wishes you "good" these at Christmas, they may be referring to a group of magpies
Tidings
Dan
$500 [15]
This Silicon Valley city served as California's first capital from 1849 to 1851
San Jose
Bill
$500 [20]
Similar to Ginnie Mae, the Student Loan Marketing Association is popularly called this
Sallie Mae
Dan
$500 [25]
A historic building, this former home of the Grand Ole Opry was renovated & reopened in 1994
The Ryman Auditorium
$500 [30]
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste"
United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

OPERA WORLD HISTORY AMERICAN LITERATURE 19th CENTURY POLITICIANS ACTORS & ACTRESSES POLYNESIA
$200 [13]
After his death in 1958, Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto's opera "Juha" premiered on radio in this capital
Helsinki
Barbara
$200 [8]
In 969 the Fatimids conquered Egypt & made this city a center of the Muslim world
Cairo
Bill
$200 [1]
It's the crime for which Hester Prynne is condemned to wear "The Scarlet Letter"
Adultery
Dan
$200 [5]
Less than 3 years after his debates with Lincoln, he died of typhoid fever
Stephen Douglas
Bill
$200 [19]
We were "Speechless" when we heard this former movie Batman's real name is Michael Douglas
Michael Keaton
Bill
$200 [18]
Polynesians still use the dugout type of this vessel
Canoe
Barbara
$400 [14]
This 1791 Mozart opera is the greatest example of Zauberoper, or "Magic Opera"
"The Magic Flute"
Bill
$400 [9]
In 1776 Spain created a colony called the Viceroyalty of the Rio De La Plata on this continent
South America
Bill
$400 [2]
In a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Uncas, a young chieftain, is identified as this title character
"The Last of the Mohicans"
Barbara
$400 [6]
After retiring in 1869, this Secretary of State traveled the world, including a stop in Alaska
William Seward
Barbara
$400 [20]
Susan Lucci has played Erica Kane on this soap opera since its 1970 debut
"All My Children"
Bill
$400 [21]
Ethnological descriptions of Polynesia include this country because the Maori are Polynesian
New Zealand
Barbara
$600 [28]
Darius Milhaud wrote a 1932 opera about this Hapsburg emperor of Mexico
Maximilian
Dan
$600 [10]
In 1960 Prince Norodom Sihanouk became leader of this country, but declined the title of king
Cambodia
Dan
$600 [3]
In a John Steinbeck work, this title object found by Kino the fisherman is as big as a seagull's egg
"The Pearl"
Dan
$600 [15]
In Washington D.C.'s Statuary Hall, a sculpture of this orator represents New Hampshire
Daniel Webster
Dan
$600 [23]
On "Women of the House" she played designing woman turned congresswoman Suzanne Sugarbaker
Delta Burke
$600 [22]
The word Polynesia means this
"many islands"
Barbara Bill Dan
DD $1,000 [11]
In 1615 this explorer who has a large island & bay named for him searched for the Northwest Passage
William Baffin
Dan
$800 [4]
This 1941 Budd Schulberg novel chronicles the rise of Sammy Glick from office boy to film tycoon
"What Makes Sammy Run?"
$800 [16]
This "Great Pacificator" helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812
Henry Clay
Bill
$800 [24]
Robert Pastorelli, who starred in the comedy series "Double Rush", played Eldin on this sitcom
"Murphy Brown"
Dan
$800 [26]
Swains Island, part of this unincorporated U.S. territory, is privately owned
American Samoa
$1,000 [12]
In 1968 Marcello Caetano replaced this longtime dictator as ruler of Portugal
Antonio de Salazar
DD $1,000 [7]
Sinclair Lewis spent several months researching Midwestern Protestantism for this 1927 novel
"Elmer Gantry"
Barbara
$1,000 [17]
He served in Congress & in the New York State Senate before his arrest for fraud in 1871
Boss Tweed
Bill
$1,000 [25]
Her "so-called life" includes the role of Beth in the 1994 film "Little Women"
Claire Danes
Barbara
$1,000 [27]
This nation is ruled by a king & a 30-member legislative assembly
Tonga

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS NICKNAMES

This French tennis player born in 1905 is nicknamed "The Crocodile"

Rene Lacoste

Barbara "Who is Jean Valjean" — wagered $1,599
Dan "Who is" — wagered $2,399
Bill "Who isIzodLacoste" — wagered $1,000

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