Show #2558 1995-10-18 Regular

Paul Thompson game 4.

Contestants

Allen Rudolph — a high school teacher from Los Gatos, California

Patrick Killian — a commerce director from Havertown, Pennsylvania

Paul Thompson — a personnel manager from Cheverly, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $43,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Paul $1,200 $2,900 $10,100 $10,600
4-day champion: $54,200
$10,100
29 R, 2 W
Patrick $800 $1,400 $3,800 $2,800
2nd place: La-Z-Boy American Home Collection sofa & loveseat + Carpet One carpet
$3,800
10 R, 0 W
Allen $900 $1,300 $5,200 $5
3rd place: Franchi Menotti sports watch
$6,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

BAYS & GULFS CELEBRITY CHEERLEADERS DANCE GRAVESITES ZOOLOGY RHYME TIME
$100 [7]
This country's Peter the Great Bay is an inlet of the Sea of Japan
Russia
Paul
$100 [6]
One of the L.A. stories this wild & crazy guy may tell is of cheerleading at Garden Grove High
Steve Martin
Paul
$100 [17]
Serge Lifar's abstract ballet "Suite en Blanc" is danced in costumes of this color
white
Patrick
$100 [1]
This "Believe It or Not" creator is buried in an Odd Fellows cemetery in Santa Rosa, Calif.
(Robert) Ripley
Paul
$100 [26]
Some trace the origins of this smallest dog to ones that accompanied Cortes in 1519
the Chihuahua
Paul
$100 [12]
A humorous rabbit
a funny bunny
Paul
$200 [8]
Tampa Bay is an arm of this gulf
the Gulf of Mexico
Paul
$200 [18]
We wonder what accent this "Sophie's Choice" star used when shouting her high school cheers
Meryl Streep
Allen
$200 [19]
Music for this French court dance became the standardized third movement of symphonies by Haydn & Mozart
the minuet
Paul
$200 [2]
It's true; Sojourner Truth is buried in this Michigan cereal city
Battle Creek
Paul
$200 [27]
Anthonomus grandis is the scientific name of this cotton pest
the boll weevil
Paul
$200 [13]
An intelligent Simpson
a smart Bart
Paul
$300 [9]
It was the center of naval action in the 1991 Gulf War
the Persian Gulf
Paul
$300 [23]
This comedienne was a cheerleader at Cass Tech in Detroit, & that's the truth
Lily Tomlin
$300 [20]
In 1933 Charles Weidman based a full-length modern dance work on this Voltaire novel
Candide
Paul
$300 [3]
The grave of the creator of Poor RIchard's Almanack is at this city's Christ Church
Philadelphia
Patrick
$300 [28]
The thresher type of this fish in names for its long, driving tail fin
a shark
Allen
$300 [14]
Young ladies' ringlets
girls' curls
Paul
$400 [10]
Sugar Loaf Mountain in this country rises above Guanabara Bay
Brazil
Paul Allen
$400 [24]
This "Today" show host is as perky as a cheerleader because she was one
Katie Couric
$400 [21]
The tango evolved in the Buenos Aires area during the latter part of this century
the nineteenth
Paul
$400 [4]
This American Indian woman's gravesite is in Gravesend, England; she died there in 1617
Pocohontas
Allen
$400 [29]
Reaching over 20 feet in length, this snake of the boa family is the longest snake in the Western Hemisphere
an anaconda
Allen
$400 [15]
A tiny legume
a wee pea
Allen
$500 [11]
In 1994 the U.S. reopened a refugee processing center at the naval base on this Cuban bay
Guantanamo Bay
Allen
$500 [25]
She went from cheerleading at Van Nuys High to the Laker Girls to the Top 40 charts
Paula Abdul
Patrick
$500 [22]
After he ran away with gypsies as a teenager, Vicente Escudero became famous for this type of dance
flamenco
Paul
$500 [5]
This 1930s criminal pair is buried in Dallas, but he's in one cemetery, she's in another
Bonnie & Clyde
Patrick
DD $500 [30]
Found on Madagascar, the indri is the largest surviving member of these primates
lemurs
Allen
$500 [16]
Lewis Carroll's "egg"head
Humpty Dumpty

Double Jeopardy! Round

KINGS & QUEENS MYTHS & LEGENDS U.S. GEOGRAPHY MISC. AUTHORS "ISM"s
$200 [2]
Henry V's widow, Catherine of Valois, remarried & started this line that included Henry VIII
the Tudors
Paul
$200 [12]
Nox, a daughter of Chaos, is the personification of this time of day
night
Patrick
$200 [1]
Hinds County, Mississippi has 2 seats: Raymond & this capital
Jackson
Patrick
$200 [26]
Though it's a form of this card game, spite & malice calls for 2 players, not one
solitaire
Paul
$200 [3]
This author's grandfather, Major Thomas Melville, participated in the Boston Tea Party
Herman Melville
Paul
$200 [20]
Russia's flag, adopted in 1991, no longer features the gold-edged star that stood for this
communism
Allen
$400 [13]
This current king's residence, the Palacio de la Zarzuela, is just outside Madrid
Juan Carlos
Patrick
$400 [15]
Huitzilopochtli, a god of these people, was born after his mother picked up a ball of brightly colored feathers
the Aztecs
Paul
$400 [8]
This Oregon lake occupies the base of an exploded volcano known as Mount Mazama
Crater Lake
Paul
$400 [27]
Paranoid people often have these false beliefs, which can be "of grandeur" or "of persecution"
delusions
Paul
$400 [4]
6 years before "Call of the WIld" was published, he searched for gold in the Klondike
Jack London
Patrick
$400 [21]
It's the outlook associated with rose-colored glasses
optimism
Patrick
$600 [14]
In 1881 Carol I became the first king of this country that now includes Transylvania
Romania
Paul
$600 [16]
Born brandishing a golden sword, Chrysaor was the son of Poseidon & this Gorgon
Medusa
Paul
$600 [9]
Montana's Fort Peck Dam, one of the world's largest earth-fill dams, lies on this river
the Missouri River
Allen
$800 [28]
This common term for stalling or hanging tough calls to mind a Civil War general
stonewalling
Paul
$600 [5]
In 1969 this "The Naked and the Dead" author ran for NYC mayor, proposing statehood for the city
Norman Mailer
Paul
DD $500 [25]
Used in writing, it's the attributing of human characteristic to animals or inanimate objects
anthropomorphism
Allen
$800 [19]
Fort Christina, built in North America in 1638, was named for a queen of this country
Sweden
Paul
$800 [17]
In Medieval folklore, this weasel with a white winter coat was a symbol of chastity
an ermine
Allen
DD $1,000 [10]
The Savannah River provides much of this state's boundary with Georgia
South Carolina
Allen
$1,000 [29]
Chartered in 1925, this Vermont college emphasizes individual programs of study
Bennington
Paul
$800 [6]
In 1959 this "Farewell My Lovely" author became president of the Mystery Writers of America
Raymond Chandler
Patrick
$600 [23]
Karl Jaspers & Jean-Paul Sartre were exponents of this philosophical movement
existentialism
Paul
$1,000 [22]
The full name of this county's queen is Margrethe Alexandrine Thorhildur Ingrid
Denmark
Paul
$1,000 [18]
Fish were flung into the fire during this Roman fire god's chief festival on August 23
Vulcan
$1,000 [11]
This state's Mesabi Range has produced more iron ore than any other area in the U.S.
Minnesota
Paul
$1,000 [7]
While growing up in Oxford, Mississippi, he was called Billy or "Memmie" by his family
(William) Faulkner
Allen
$800 [24]
The idea that life is suffering is the first of this religion's Four Noble Truths
Buddhism
Allen

Final Jeopardy!

THE CARIBBEAN

Its peso is symbolized R.D.$

the Dominican Republic

Patrick "What is Belize" — wagered $1,000
Allen "What is Morocco" — wagered $5,195
Paul "What is the Dominican Republic?" — wagered $500

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