Show #2843 1997-01-01 (taped 1996-10-24) Regular

Claudia Perry game 1-B.

Contestants

Jody Hart — an engineer from San Clemente, California

Claudia Perry — a pop music critic from San Jose, California

Cindy Giddle — a community college professor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cindy $400 $2,000 $5,000 $0
3rd place: Klipsch Rebel Speakers audio equipment
$5,000
14 R, 3 W
Claudia $2,300 $4,300 $9,300 $10,101
New champion: $10,101
$10,300
24 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jody $1,200 $3,200 $4,000 $5,000
2nd place: Trip to Orlando, Florida/Disney World
$5,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NOTABLE WOMEN MYTHOLOGY BANDS OF THE '80s THE KOREAN WAR GUINNESS RECORDS COMMON BONDS
$100 [12]
This first lady & her husband were distant cousins; her father was Teddy Roosevelt's younger brother
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jody
$100 [10]
The name of these creatures means "Round-Eyed"; they each had only one round eye
Cyclops
Cindy
$100 [2]
Icicle Works formed in this city more than 20 years after The Beatles
Liverpool
Cindy
$100 [26]
8,170 Americans who served in the Korean War are still listed as MIA, which stands for this
Missing in Action
Jody
$100 [21]
We cannot tell a lie: this president made the shortest inaugural speech, only 90 seconds
George Washington
Cindy
$100 [1]
Joy, broom, pogo
sticks
Claudia
$200 [13]
Ding Ling, who wrote about independent, brave women, was one of this country's most popular authors
China
Claudia
$200 [15]
In Slavic myth, Svarozic, the god of fire, is the brother of Dazhbog, god of this heavenly body
sun
Jody
$200 [5]
This group got its name by combining the names of 2 bands: Hollywood Rose & L.A. Guns
Guns N' Roses
Jody
$200 [27]
One of the war's innovations was the use of these aircraft for observation & for evacuation of the wounded
helicopters
Cindy
$200 [22]
Rosie the Ribiter, one of these amimals, leaped 21' 5 3/4" at the Calaveras County Jumping Jubilee in 1986
frog
Jody
$200 [3]
Pink, cow, Freudian
slips
Cindy
$300 [14]
Eva Crane became interested in apiculture when she received a swarm of these as a wedding present
bees
Jody
$300 [16]
During the twilight of the gods, Odin is destined to be eaten by Fenris, one of these lupine animals
wolf
Jody
$300 [6]
This Wham! singer's original name was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou
George Michael
Claudia
$300 [28]
These medical units located near the front lines were immortalized in a movie & a TV series
M*A*S*H units
Claudia
$300 [23]
Harry Drake can say, "I shot" one of these "Into the air; it fell to Earth 2,047 yards & 2 inches away"
arrow
Claudia
$300 [4]
Blossom, Free State, pekoe tea
orange
Claudia
$400 [19]
Grace Darling & her father, the keeper of one of these, saved 9 people from drowning in an 1838 shipwreck
lighthouse
Claudia
$400 [17]
A July 7 festival honoring this supreme Roman goddess featured a sham fight by maidservants
Juno
Cindy
$400 [7]
The Proclaimers hit the U.S. charts when "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" was featured in this Johnny Depp film
Benny and Joon
Claudia
$400 [29]
131 of these highest U.S. military awards for battlefield bravery were awarded in the Korean War
Congressional Medal of Honor
Jody
$400 [24]
Barber Denny Rowe did this to 1,994 men in 60 minutes, drawing blood only 4 times
shaved them
Cindy
$400 [9]
Book, inch, glow
worms
Jody
$500 [20]
It was the profession of Mrs. Siddons, the subject of one of Sir Joshua Reynolds' finest portraits
actress (Sarah Siddons)
Cindy
$500 [18]
Fearing their vengeful wrath, the Greeks called them Eumenides, which means "The Kindly Ones"
Furies
Claudia
$500 [8]
Bobby Brown left this group in 1986 & was replaced by Johnny Gill
New Edition
Claudia
DD $1,000 [30]
The amphibious invasion of this port was officially designated Operation Chromite
Inchon
Jody
$500 [25]
Bill McDaniel accumulated 10,453 of these accessories; he probably got a lot of them on Father's Day
ties
Claudia
$500 [11]
Spoon, dollar, Buffalo
bills
Claudia

Double Jeopardy! Round

THEY ALSO RAN PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD FOREST PRODUCTS PEOPLE SPEAKING HINDI
$200 [2]
James G. Birney's 1844 Liberty Party was against this practice
slavery
Jody
$200 [1]
The 1991 Tony Award for best play went to Neil Simon's "Lost In" this city
Yonkers
Claudia
$200 [3]
This country forms the northernmost part of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Claudia
$200 [21]
Ecuador is the largest producer of this light wood whose name is Spanish for "raft"
balsa
Claudia
$200 [16]
This actor's brother-in-law Robert Shriver co-executive-produced his 1994 film "True Lies"
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Cindy
$200 [26]
It's the Hindu prince next up in rank from a rajah
maharajah
Cindy Claudia
$400 [12]
This anti-liquor party that goes back to 1869 ran Earl Dodge for president in 1992
Prohibition Party
Cindy
$400 [4]
It was Edward Albee's first full-length play, & his most famous
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Claudia
$400 [8]
The Suez Canal divides the Asian & African portions of this country
Egypt
Jody
$400 [22]
This wood used for baseball bats & umbrella handles shares its name with the residue left from burning it
ash
Claudia
$400 [17]
Elected governor of Arkansas in 1978, he was defeated for reelection but later won 4 consecutive terms
Bill Clinton
Jody
$400 [27]
Physical & mental exercise system promoted by Lilias Folan on PBS
yoga
Claudia
$600 [13]
He was the 1968 presidential candidate of the American Independent Party
George Wallace
Claudia Jody
$600 [5]
In an absurdist play by Ionesco, the inhabitants of a small town are transformed into these animals
rhinoceroses
Cindy
$600 [9]
The name of this country means "Bengal Nation"
Bangladesh
Claudia
$800 [24]
The bark of the paper species of this tree was once used for canoes; its wood is now used for toothpicks
birch
Jody
$600 [18]
He skated a victory lap at the '94 Olympics holding his baby daughter Jane, named for his late sister
Dan Jansen
Cindy Claudia Jody
$600 [28]
This bluish-black bird with a yellow beak is known for its mimicry of human speech
mynah bird
$800 [14]
The Progressive Party ran this former FDR vice president in 1948
Henry Wallace
Cindy
$800 [6]
His play "Bus Stop" was revived on Broadway in 1996
William Inge
Cindy
$800 [10]
In area & population, Bremen is this country's smallest state
Germany
Jody
DD $1,000 [23]
Pulp made from the Sitka variety of this tree makes good newsprint because of its whiteness
spruce
Claudia
$800 [19]
This novelist made a music video of his own song "The Madison County Waltz"; his wife played Francesca in it
Robert James Waller
Cindy
$800 [29]
It's a cylindrical clay oven used for baking bread & roasting meat
tandoor
Claudia
$1,000 [15]
While governor of South Carolina in 1948, he ran for president as a Dixiecrat
Strom Thurmond
Jody
$1,000 [7]
He described his "Miss Julie" as the first naturalistic play in Scandinavian literature
August Strindberg
Claudia Jody
DD $1,800 [11]
Skanderbeg Square in Tirane is named for this country's national hero
Albania
Jody
$1,000 [25]
Brandy & sherry are traditionally stored in barrels made of this wood
oak
Claudia
$1,000 [20]
This little girl born March 23, 1990 is the younger sister of Princess Beatrice of York
Eugenie
Claudia
$1,000 [30]
It's clarified butter used in Indian cooking
ghee
Cindy

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client

John Grisham

Jody "Who is John Grisham" — wagered $1,000
Cindy "Who is Turow" — wagered $5,000
Claudia "Who is John Grisham?" — wagered $801

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