Show #2962 1997-06-17 (taped 1997-02-04) Regular

Contestants

Scott Kearin — a congressional staff member from Washington, D.C.

Jeff Holt — an economics professor from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Laurie Kittle — an information developer originally from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Laurie $100 $1,800 $8,600 $11,600
New champion: $11,600
$7,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Jeff $2,400 $3,900 $5,100 $1,100
2nd place: a 7-night Costa Caribbean cruise
$5,100
19 R, 5 W
Scott $600 $700 $4,500 $0
3rd place: a Vivitar Sport Kit (camera & binoculars)
$4,100
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

PSYCH 101 TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES BUSINESS & INDUSTRY LAKES & RIVERS POTPOURRI "LIE"S
$100 [26]
Carl Stumpf & his student Oskar Pfungst debunked Clever Hans, one of these animals, who "counted" with its hoof
Horse
Laurie
$100 [7]
Mariska Hargitay of "Can't Hurry Love" is the daughter of Mickey Hargitay & this blonde bombshell
Jayne Mansfield
$100 [18]
This Pittsburgh-based food entrepreneur was once known as the "Pickle King"
H.J. Heinz
Laurie
$100 [1]
Centuries of overflow from this lake helped create the Everglades
Lake Okeechobee
Jeff
$100 [16]
In 1219 the Order of the Dannebrog was established; in 1671 this European country revived it
Denmark
Jeff
$100 [2]
According to a proverb, if you do this "You will get up with fleas"
Lie down with dogs
Jeff Scott
$200 [27]
Benjamin Rush, whose silhouette is seen on the seal of the APA, this group, was an advocate of bloodletting
American Psychiatric Association
Jeff
$200 [8]
Diahann Carroll played Blake Carrington's half-sister Dominique on this Aaron Spelling series
"Dynasty"
Jeff
$200 [22]
This company gets its name from the snappy carbonated apple juice it introduced in 1978
Snapple
Laurie
$200 [12]
About 70% of China's rice crop is grown in this river's basin
Yangtze River
Laurie Jeff Scott
$200 [17]
This Greek god killed Python, the serpent that guarded a shrine on the slopes of Mount Parnassus
Apollo
Laurie Jeff
$200 [3]
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to" do this
Lie down in green pastures
Laurie Scott
$300 [28]
Edwin B. Twitmyer & this Russian independently came up with "conditioned response" discoveries
Ivan Pavlov
Laurie
$300 [9]
Martha Raye appeared as Mel's mother on this Linda Lavin sitcom
"Alice"
Jeff
$300 [23]
The USA's top producer of jams, jellies & preserves, it's located on Strawberry Lane in Orrville, Ohio
Smuckers
Laurie
$300 [13]
This river's tributaries include the Koyukuk River in Alaska & the Klondike in Canada
Yukon
Scott
$300 [19]
Handsome Dan, this Ivy League university's first bulldog mascot, now resides in a glass case, stuffed
Yale
Laurie Scott
$300 [4]
Mason Locke Weems put this line in young George Washington's mouth
"I cannot tell a lie"
Jeff
$500 [30]
In 1905 he & Theodore Simon devised an intelligence test for French school children
Alfred Binet
Jeff Scott
$400 [10]
Lee J. Cobb played judge Henry Garth, 1st owner of the Shiloh ranch, on this James Drury series 1962-66
"The Virginian"
Jeff
$400 [24]
In 1926 this automaker introduced the Imperial 80; the number refers to its top speed on a straightaway
Chrysler
Scott
$400 [14]
This largest Central American lake shares its name with the country in which it's located
Lake Nicaragua
Jeff
$400 [20]
This monkey named for an arachnid is noted for its long, slender limbs & great agility
Spider monkey
Jeff
$400 [5]
A polygraph
Lie detector
Jeff
DD $600 [29]
It's an impulse-control disorder in which a person can't resist the sudden urge to steal
Kleptomania
Laurie
$500 [11]
He was the star of the 1950s TV series "Medic", so it could have been called "Have Scalpel Will Travel"
Richard Boone
Jeff
$500 [25]
Student Carolyn Davidson was paid $35 for designing this shoe company's "Swoosh" logo
Nike
Scott
$500 [15]
Great Britain's 2 longest rivers are the Severn & this one
Thames
Laurie
$500 [21]
St. Jerome prepared this Latin version of the Bible at the end of the 4th century
Vulgate Bible
Jeff
$500 [6]
A deceased statesman displayed to the general public before burial is said to do this
Lie in state
Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

1836 MUSICAL THEATRE ART COLORADO CHEMISTRY CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS
$200 [14]
After a nearly 2-week siege, it fell to Santa Anna's troops March 6
The Alamo
Laurie
$200 [25]
Part of this 1971 musical's second act is set in the Garden of Gethsemane
"Jesus Christ Superstar"
Laurie
$200 [6]
In Hieronymus Bosch's 3-panel "The Garden of Earthly Delights", it's the garden on the left
Garden of Eden
Jeff
$200 [1]
Gold prospectors & a few Indian traders founded this capital & named it for the governor of Kansas territory
Denver
Laurie
$200 [10]
Matter in this state may be crystalline, like metals, or amorphous, like glass
Solid
Jeff
$200 [19]
This Jane Smiley novel set at an agricultural college shares its title with a cow sound
"Moo"
Laurie
$400 [15]
Adelaide in this country was founded in 1836 & named for the wife of King William IV
Australia
Laurie
$400 [26]
Life is a drag for Tony Roberts, who plays an entertainer named Toddy in this Julie Andrews musical
Victor/Victoria
Scott
$400 [7]
This style of Picasso & Braque was broken into 2 phases, analytic & synthetic
Cubism
Scott
$400 [2]
Year in which Colorado was admitted to the Union
1876
Jeff Scott
$400 [11]
Because electrons spin, they be have like these objects that attract or repel
Magnets
Scott
$400 [20]
Laura Esquivel's "Like Water For Chocolate" takes place in this country
Mexico
Laurie
$600 [16]
Widowed & living with one of her daughters, this seamstress passed away in Pennsylvania January 30
Betsy Ross
Jeff
$800 [29]
Marilyn McCoo sang the classic song "Bill" when she made her Broadway debut as Julie in this revival in 1995
Show Boat
Laurie
$600 [8]
He poured & splattered paint onto the canvas to make his "Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, 1950"
Jackson Pollock
Scott
$600 [3]
You'll find the Colorado Ski Museum & Ski Hall of Fame in this resort town north of Leadville
Vail
Scott
$600 [12]
This corrosive substance, H2SO4, was once known as oil of vitriol
Sulphuric Acid
Scott
$600 [21]
This "Waiting To Exhale" author's first published novel was 1987's "Mama"
Terry McMillan
Jeff Scott
$800 [17]
Begun under Napoleon, this 165' high & 150' wide landmark was completed in 1836
Arc de Triomphe
Laurie
DD $1,000 [28]
Nominated for 5 Tonys, this 1996 musical based on a film boasted a memorable dance on a giant piano keyboard
"Big"
Scott
$800 [9]
Anthony Janson says only 2 Flemish Baroque artists achieved international status, Van Dyck & this man
Peter Paul Rubens
Laurie Jeff Scott
$800 [4]
In 1873 solid silver bricks were laid in a pavement in Central City to welcome this visiting president
Ulysses S. Grant
Jeff
$800 [13]
The main ingredients in a detergent are called surface-active agents, or these for short
Surfactants
$800 [22]
Her novel "The Shipping News" has won several awards, including the 1994 Pulitzer Prize
Anne Proulx
Laurie
DD $1,600 [18]
With support from Andrew Jackson, this New Yorker was elected president
Martin Van Buren
Laurie
$1,000 [24]
This "Younger" German's 1540 portrait of England's Henry VIII is in Rome's Galleria Nazionale
Hans Holbein
Laurie
$1,000 [5]
The Moody Blues recorded a live album in Colorado at this natural amphitheater
Red Rocks
Scott
$1,000 [27]
It's a system of small particles "hanging" in a liquid; paint, for example
Suspension
Scott
$1,000 [23]
"We Were The Mulvaneys" is one of this Princeton professor's more than 25 novels since 1964
Joyce Carol Oates
Laurie

Final Jeopardy!

1990s AFRICA

In 1994 these 2 African countries' presidents Habyarimana & Ntaryamira died in a plane crash

Rwanda & Burundi

Scott "What are Rwanda and Tanzania" — wagered $4,500
Jeff "What is Rwanda & Tanzania" — wagered $4,000
Laurie "What is Rwanda & Burindi" — wagered $3,000

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