Show #2865 1997-01-31 (taped 1996-11-13) Regular

Contestants

Joyce Sturgill — a remedial English teacher from Fort Pierce, Florida

Chris Borglum — an English professor from Altamonte Springs, Florida

Davia Worthen — a teacher's aide from Lafayette, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,998)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Davia $1,500 $2,600 $5,600 $4,199
2nd place: a trip to Jamaica
$5,300
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Chris $1,400 $2,200 $3,500 $1,000
3rd place: Hammerman rings
$5,000
18 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Joyce $1,100 $2,300 $5,100 $7,001
New champion: $7,001
$5,100
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

VALENTINE'S DAY TRANSPORTATION FOREIGN SPORTS STARS ANIMALS PREGNANCY & CHILD CARE DOUBLE "P" WORDS
$100 [22]
On Feb. 14, 1985 the conservative Jewish movement announced its decision to accept women in this post
Rabbi
Davia
$100 [26]
This 2-wheeled east Asian cart is pulled by a runner called a shafu
Rickshaw
Davia
$100 [1]
When this German beat Martina Navratilova in the 1987 French Open, she became its youngest champ to date
Steffi Graf
Davia
$100 [15]
World Book says this type of bear has been seen on ice chunks as far south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Polar Bear
Chris
$100 [17]
Whether cloth or disposable, you'll need about 65 of these per week for baby's first year
Diapers
Davia
$100 [7]
Kukla or Ollie, but not Fran
Puppet
Davia
$200 [16]
He told the 20th Communist Party Congress Feb. 14, 1956 that war with capitalist imperialism was not inevitable
Nikita Khrushchev
Davia Joyce
$200 [27]
A 1935 act of Congress gave this agency, the ICC, authority over motor carriers & drivers
Interstate Commerce Commission
Davia Chris
$200 [2]
American baseball team with Dominican Ramon Martinez, South Korean Chan Ho Park & Japanese Hideo Nomo
Los Angeles Dodgers
Chris
$200 [14]
The largest freshwater species of this reptile in the U.S. is the alligator snapper
Turtle
Joyce
$200 [18]
Color in the term for an infant with a cyanotic complexion, often due to a heart defect
Blue baby
Chris Joyce
$200 [8]
They blow in Flanders Fields
Poppies
Davia
$300 [23]
This partner of Bob Woodward was born Feb. 14, 1944 in Washington, D.C., the city that made him famous
Carl Bernstein
Chris
$300 [28]
In terms of total passengers, this London airport is the world's busiest outside the U.S.
Heathrow
Davia
$300 [3]
This "Super Mario" from Canada is a Pittsburgh Penguin
Mario Lemieux
Davia
$300 [6]
The largest species of this American marsupial is the common or Virginia species
Possum
Davia
$300 [19]
The epidural type of this lowers blood pressure during labor as well as removing sensation
Anesthesia
Joyce
$300 [9]
Fancy "cuppa" coffee
Cappuccino
Chris
$400 [24]
New Mexico had been a state for almost 5 weeks when this neighbor joined the Union in 1912
Arizona
Joyce
$400 [29]
In 1840 this line sent its first ship, the Britannia, across the Atlantic
Cunard Line
DD $500 [4]
Shewent from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine to the top of her sport:
Oksana Baiul
Davia
$400 [12]
This ground squirrel is distinguished from others by its striped face
Chipmunk
Joyce
$400 [20]
In most cases the stump of this falls off painlessly when baby's about a week old
Umbillical Cord/Umbillicus
Chris
$400 [10]
It "knocks but once" & Arkansas is the "Land Of" it
Opportunity
Chris
$500 [25]
A young girl received the first dual transplant of the heart & this organ Feb. 14, 1984
Liver
Davia Joyce
$500 [30]
In 1954 this city opened Canada's first subway
Toronto
Joyce
$500 [5]
Born of Italian immigrant stock in Brazil, he's a 2-time Indy 500 winner
Emerson Fittipaldi
Chris
$500 [13]
The largest & heaviest New World monkey, its characteristic roar can be heard for about 2 miles
Howler Monkey
Chris Joyce
$500 [21]
This procedure used to get a picture of the developing baby is commonly called a scan
Ultrasound
Joyce
$500 [11]
Raiment
Apparel
Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

RUSSIAN WRITERS STATE CAPITALS THE OSCARS MUSIC CLASS THE 1980s GLASS
$200 [26]
He insisted "The Cherry Orchard" was "A comedy, in places even a farce"; some may disagree
Anton Chekhov
Chris
$200 [28]
From east to west, it extends 20 miles from Makapuu Point to Pearl Harbor
Honolulu
Davia
$200 [5]
Even Daddy Warbucks couldn't buy this 1982 John Huston-directed musical an Oscar; it lost both nominations
"Annie"
Davia
$200 [14]
An extended work in 3 or 4 movements, or the type of large orchestra that would play it
Symphony
Davia
$200 [27]
In April 1985 this company announced it was replacing its 99-year-old formula with a sweeter one
Coca-Cola
Joyce
$200 [21]
This type of glass is reinforced with plastic & molded into auto bodies & boat hulls
Fiberglass
Davia
$400 [9]
He completed "The Brothers Karamazov" shortly before his 1881 death in St. Petersburg
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chris
$400 [4]
An annual tulip festival in this New York capital commemorates the city's Dutch heritage
Albany
Davia
$400 [6]
Woody Allen was nominated for acting in, directing & writing this 1977 film; he won for the latter 2
"Annie Hall"
Davia
$400 [15]
On a musical score, a black rectangle on the underside of a staff line symbolizes this pause
Rest
Joyce
$600 [17]
In 1986, after months of protest, this dictator fled Haiti & settled in France
Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier
Chris
$400 [30]
The first glass making plant in America was built at this Virginia settlement in 1608
Jamestown
Joyce
$600 [1]
Boris Pasternak's only novel, it was rejected by Soviet publishers for its critical approach to communism
"Doctor Zhivago"
Chris
$600 [11]
In 1777 it replaced New Castle as the capital of Delaware
Dover
Davia
$600 [7]
Greta Garbo was nominated for this, her first MGM sound film, based on a Eugene O'Neill play
"Anna Christie"
$600 [16]
If your sheet music features no sharps or flats, just a treble clef, this is the key
C
Chris
$800 [19]
Government position held 1981-85 by David Stockman
Budget Director
Joyce
$600 [24]
This black glass named for its discoverer is formed by the high heat of a volcanic eruption
Obsidian
Davia
$800 [2]
This "Gulag Archipelago" writer taught mathematics while in exile in central Asia
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chris
DD $1,000 [12]
It's said the Christo Rey Church in this capital is the largest adobe structure in the U.S.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Davia
$800 [8]
Her supporting actress win for 1993's "The Piano" made her the 2nd-youngest winner of a competitive Oscar
Anna Paquin
Davia Chris
$800 [22]
On a piano it's sweeping a finger up the white keys; on a harp, drawing the finger across the strings
Glissando
$1,000 [20]
Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of this Central American country, won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize
Costa Rica
Chris Joyce
$800 [25]
This glassmaker & artist called his iridescent glass "Favrile Glass"
Louis Tiffany
Chris
$1,000 [3]
He began his most famous work, "Eugene Onegin", in 1823 & completed it in 1831
Aleksandr Pushkin
Chris
$1,000 [13]
Franklin Pierce is buried in the Old North Cemetery in this capital city
Concord, New Hampshire
Joyce
$1,000 [10]
She won for her starring role in her first English language film, "The Rose Tattoo"
Anna Magnani
Chris Joyce
$1,000 [23]
The 3 basic components of music are melody, harmony & this
rhythm (or beat)
Chris
DD $1,500 [18]
In 1984 he left Paramount to become chairman & chief executive of Walt Disney Productions
Michael Eisner
Chris
$1,000 [29]
This glass making city on New York's Chemung River is often called the "Crystal City"
Corning

Final Jeopardy!

THE CABINET

1 of 2 women who served in the cabinet for a total of 6 or more years

(1 of) Elizabeth Dole & Frances Perkins

Chris "Who is Janet Reno?" — wagered $2,500
Joyce "Who is Elisabeth Dole?" — wagered $1,901
Davia "Who is Janet Reno?" — wagered $1,401

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