Show #2624 1996-01-18 Regular

Bill Dickenson game 3.

Contestants

Jack Ronner — an attorney from Oakland, California

Sandy Shapiro — an urban planning lawyer from Potomac, Maryland

Bill Dickenson — a college instructor from Richardson, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $1,700 $1,600 $7,600 $11,601
3-day champion: $27,601
$7,600
21 R, 3 W
Sandy $800 $1,400 $4,000 $1
3rd place: an RCA DSS satellite system
$3,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jack $100 $600 $5,800 $7,599
2nd place: a dolphin sculpture + a wool rug
$6,500
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE WORLD TELEVISION DINING OUT SCIENCE POTPOURRI HISTORY
$100 [8]
The name of these South American mountains may be derived from anti, a Quechuan word for "east"
Andes
Bill
$100 [6]
On the November 16, 1968 episode of "Get Smart", Maxwell Smart married her
Agent 99
Bill
$100 [16]
This kind of bar may have iceberg or romaine, cold veggies & dressings on it
a salad bar
Bill
$100 [25]
Among alkaloids found in plants, this stimulant is found in coffee or tea
caffeine
Jack
$100 [21]
One of this country's shekels can be broken down into 100 agorot
Israel
Jack
$100 [1]
It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & was attacked 18 years before becoming a state
Hawaii
Jack
$200 [9]
Women of India often drape the end of this wrapped garment over their heads
sari
Sandy
$200 [7]
In 1990 Jimmy Smits won a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for his work on this NBC drama
L.A. Law
Bill Jack
$200 [17]
At this type of restaurant you really dine out--out in your automobile where you are served
drive-in
Bill
$200 [26]
You may not need a high IQ to know IQ stands for this
intelligence quotient
Jack
$200 [22]
In the basic form of this game, each player gets a card with 5 horizontal rows of numbers from 1 to 75
bingo
Bill Sandy
$200 [2]
From 1954 to 1969 he was president of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Bill
$300 [10]
Almost all Bedouins in the Middle East speak this language
Arabic
Bill
$300 [13]
This series' Flub-A-Dub had the head of a duck & the body of a dachshund
Howdy Doody
$300 [18]
You may be shown a tray for this course whose name is from the old French for "to clear the table"
dessert
Jack
$300 [27]
Name for the process a caterpillar goes through to become a moth
metamorphosis
Jack
$300 [23]
Peau de soie, a textile with good drapability & body, is woven from this fiber
silk
Bill
$300 [3]
The U.S. arsenal at this Shenandoah Valley location was raided October 16, 1859
Harper's Ferry
Jack
$400 [11]
This grain is Laos' chief agricultural product
Rice
Bill
$400 [14]
This Jane Wyman series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley in California
Falcon Crest
Bill Sandy
$400 [19]
A trattoria usually specializes in this country's cuisine
Italy
Sandy
$400 [28]
When cocci live in pairs, they're called diplococci; in clusters, staphylococci; in chains, this
streptococci
Jack
$400 [24]
Lydia & Xenia are women's names derived from this language
Greek
Jack
$400 [4]
Roman emperor, 117-138, he built walls in Germany as well as in Britain
Hadrian
Jack
$500 [12]
Queen's University, 1 of the 2 universities in Northern Ireland, is in this capital city
Belfast
Sandy
$500 [15]
In 1966 Alice Pearce won a posthumous Emmy for her role as neighbor Gladys Kravitz on this ABC sitcom
Bewitched
Jack
$500 [20]
Rhyming name given to a lobster & steak combo
surf and turf
Sandy
DD $700 [29]
Next in length on the scale of geological time: age, epoch, period, era...
eon
Jack
$500 [30]
The fad involving this type of radio followed the oil embargo of 1973-74
CB (citizens' band) radio
Bill Sandy
$500 [5]
Mode of protest used by Emmeline Pankhurst & Mohandas Gandhi while in jail
hunger strike
Sandy

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AMERICA GARDENING AUTHORS GOVERNMENT & POLITICS SEAS ON BROADWAY 1968
$200 [1]
In April 1964, Ford introduced this new sporty car with a $2,368 sticker price
the Mustang
Bill
$200 [7]
Hybrid perpetuals like the American Beauty were the main type of these in American gardens 1840-1880
roses
Jack
$200 [17]
During the Russo-Japanese War, this "Call of the Wild" author served as a reporter for Hearst
Jack London
Bill
$200 [4]
In July 1995 Ohio raised these; a passenger car traversing the state now pays $5.40, up from $4.80
turnpike tolls
Jack
$200 [22]
2 island nations lie within this sea: Cyprus & Malta
the Mediterranean Sea
Jack
$200 [8]
He played Jimmy Shine on Broadway in 1968, the year after he played "The Graduate" on film
Dustin Hoffman
Sandy
$400 [2]
On July 5, 1975 this Hawaiian volcano erupted for the first time in over 26 years
Mauna Loa
Bill
$400 [18]
This type of moss is most useful for growing acid-loving plants
peat moss
Bill
$400 [27]
As a youngster this "Billy Budd" author worked in his brother's fur store in Albany
Herman Melville
Bill
$400 [9]
In March 1995 she was removed from her South African cabinet post by her estranged husband
Winnie Mandela
Jack
$400 [23]
This sea was named for a warlike tribe of Indians that inhabited the Lesser Antilles
the Caribbean Sea
Jack
$400 [10]
Herschel Bernardi played this title Greek in a musical based on a Nikos Kazantzakis book
Zorba the Greek
Jack
$600 [3]
On April 6, 1917 America entered World War I & this composer wrote "Over There"
George M. Cohan
Bill Sandy
$600 [19]
The oscillating type of this irrigation device sprays back & forth in a rectangular pattern
a sprinkler
Bill
$600 [28]
In 1971 this novelist was named Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire
Agatha Christie
Jack
$600 [14]
In January 1995 this country's government knocked 4 zeroes off its zloty
Poland
$600 [24]
The Scheldt River flows through Antwerp before emptying into this sea
the North Sea
Bill
$600 [11]
On Broadway since 1964, this musical starred Pearl Bailey in the title role in 1968
Hello, Dolly!
$800 [5]
In March 1925 this state passed a law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools
Tennessee
Jack
$800 [20]
Scarification is a technique where hard-shelled ones of these are scratched to help them sprout
seeds
Bill
$800 [29]
From 1846 to 1849, he was surveyor of the port of Salem, Mass.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jack
DD $1,000 [15]
Heard here, it's the anthem of the European Union:
"Ode To Joy"
Sandy
$800 [25]
Vladivostok is the most important port on this north Pacific sea
the Sea of Japan
Jack
$800 [12]
James Earl Jones starred on the Great White Way in this drama set in the world of boxing
The Great White Hope
Sandy
$1,000 [6]
He served in the House for 30 years before becoming FDR's first vice president in 1933
John Nance Garner
Bill
$1,000 [21]
Compared to a tree, this type of plant produces its branches near, at or below the soil surface
a shrub
Bill
$1,000 [30]
Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippi author publish his first novel, "Soldiers' Pay"
William Faulkner
Bill
$1,000 [16]
Ex-Soviet republic ruled by Saparmurad Niyazov, who calls himself "Chief of the Turkmen"
Turkmenistan
Jack
DD $1,000 [26]
The world's largest inland body of water, its surface lies about 90 feet below sea level
the Caspian Sea
Jack
$1,000 [13]
Based on the film "The Apartment", this Burt Bacharach-Hal David musical opened in December
Promises, Promises

Final Jeopardy!

MEDICAL FIRSTS

The death of Denise Darvall in a traffic accident permitted this historic December 3, 1967 event

the first heart transplant

Sandy "What is the first organ transplant" — wagered $3,999
Jack "What is a heart transplant" — wagered $1,799
Bill "What is a heart transplant" — wagered $4,001

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