Show #2964 1997-06-19 (taped 1997-02-04) Regular

Contestants

Brian Nafziger — a graduate student from Urbana, Illinois

Joy Luckabaugh — an index editor from Germantown, Maryland

Chris Szymanski — a farmer from Marathon, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chris $900 $2,900 $12,200 $11,400
2-day champion: $24,000
$10,100
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Joy $700 $1,800 $1,400 $11
3rd place: Panasonic 27-inch diagonal Superflat TV system
$2,400
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Brian $500 $1,100 $4,100 $8,200
2nd place: Softub Portable Spa & Lloyd/Flanders Patio Furniture
$4,900
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FLORIDA CITIES TV STARS ANNUAL EVENTS SCIENCE FURNITURE CROSSWORD CLUES "L"
$100 [4]
Tableware from the battleship Florida is a highlight of the governor's mansion in this city
Tallahassee
Brian
$100 [9]
This "Good Morning America" hostess' "Healthy Cooking" cookbook was a 1996 bestseller
Joan Lunden
Brian
$100 [19]
This Christian holiday can fall as early as March 22 or as late as April 25
Easter
Joy
$100 [12]
An EEG records the electrical activity of this organ
Brain
Joy
$100 [20]
This oblong seat without a back holds baseball players
Bench
Chris Brian
$100 [1]
They have breathing room(5)
Lungs
$200 [5]
This city, central Florida's largest, is one of the world's top tourist destinations
Orlando
Joy
$200 [10]
"3rd Rock From The Sun" is this Oscar nominee's first sitcom
John Lithgow
Brian
$200 [23]
Shelley, Idaho celebrates this tuber each September
Potato
Chris
$200 [13]
Human beings normally have 46 of these in most of their cells
Chromosomes
Brian
$200 [25]
Part of the house that precedes "clock", "chair" & "tree"
Hall
$200 [2]
Paul Bunyan, for one(10)
Lumberjack
Joy
$300 [6]
Miami is the seat of this county, which is entirely within Miami's metropolitan area
Dade County
Brian
$300 [11]
This actor who plays Dr. Mark Greene on "ER" became the first cast member to direct an episode
Anthony Edwards
Joy
$300 [24]
Each June Grand Rapids, Minnesota honors this "Wizard of Oz" star with a 4-day festival
Judy Garland
$300 [16]
This second-lightest metal, symbol K, is so soft it can be cut with a knife
Potassium
Brian
$300 [26]
The Boston type of this chair has a spindle back & arms that match the curve of the seat, & sits on curved slats
Rocking chair
Chris
$300 [3]
Bagel topper(3)
Lox
Joy
$400 [7]
John Ringling exerted major influence on the development of this city where he made his home in the 1920s
Sarasota
Brian
$400 [14]
This former "Entertainment Tonight" co-host covered gymnastics for NBC at the 1996 Olympics
John Tesh
Chris Joy
$400 [29]
Jerry Lewis' annual Labor Day telethon raises money to fight this disease
Muscular Dystrophy
Chris
$400 [18]
He's been called the "Father of Modern Rocketry"
Robert Goddard
Joy Brian
$400 [27]
Any "birdbrain" knows these are the small compartments for papers in a desk
Pigeonholes
$400 [21]
Tetanus woe(7)
Lockjaw
Joy
DD $800 [8]
Florida city in which the group seenhereis headquartered:
Pensacola
Brian
$500 [17]
Caroline on "Baywatch", she was a Johnson & Johnson baby at age 6 months
Yasmine Bleeth
Chris
$500 [30]
The Fiesta Bowl Parade & Prescott Bluegrass Festival are annual events in this state
Arizona
Joy
$500 [15]
According to his law, resistance in a DC circuit is the ratio of volts to amps
Georg Ohm
Chris
$500 [28]
This French term for a tall cupboard with doors goes back to what it originally held--weapons
Armoire
Joy
$500 [22]
Dictionary compiler(13)
Lexicographer
Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST NOVELS PEOPLE IN HISTORY ARTISTS WORLD GEOGRAPHY FATS & OILS SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES
$200 [16]
This Dane's first novel "The Improviser", was published the same year as his first book of fairy tales
Hans Christian Andersen
Joy
$200 [11]
Claiming he was innocent, Captain Kidd was hanged in 1701 in this English capital for murder & piracy
London
Brian
$200 [21]
A fine series of these paintings on fresh plaster in Assisi is tentatively attributed to Giotto
frescoes
Chris
$200 [1]
If you're out in this European mountain range you may find the Inn Valley
the Alps
Chris
$200 [25]
The inventor of this substitute named it after the Greek word for "pearly"--margarites
margarine
Joy
$200 [3]
Friar Lawrence urges her to join "a sisterhood of holy nuns" but she ignores him & kills herself
Juliet
Joy
$400 [17]
In this first Tom Clancy novel, the captain of a Soviet sub decides to defect with his ship
The Hunt for Red October
Chris
$400 [12]
This first prime minister of independent India was educated in England at Harrow & Cambridge
Jawaharlal Nehru
Joy Brian
$400 [22]
His father, Auguste Manet, worked for the Ministry of Justice & wanted him to become a lawyer
Edouard Manet
Brian
$400 [7]
Bayern is the German name of this German state known for its beer
Bavaria
Joy
$400 [26]
Ancient Greeks used this pressed oil from the fruit of the Olea Europaea for skin lotion & anointings
olive oil
Chris
$400 [4]
This comedy ends in Lucentio's house, not in Petruchio's
The Taming of the Shrew
Chris
$600 [18]
Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippian find a publisher for "Soldier's Pay", his first novel
William Faulkner
Brian
$600 [13]
For health reasons, this founder of the Boy Scouts spent his last years in Kenya
Lord Robert Baden-Powell
Brian
$600 [23]
As an art student in Madrid he met director Luis Bunuel with whom he later made the film "An Andalusian Dog"
Salvador Dali
Chris
$600 [8]
Though Bornholm is a Danish island, it's much closer to this Scandinavian country than to Denmark
Sweden
Brian
$600 [28]
This type of fat found in plum pudding can be used to make tallow candles
suet
$600 [5]
The last scene of this tragedy takes place in a pavilion in Titus' garden in Rome
Titus Andronicus
Chris
$800 [19]
He introduced intelligence agent George Smiley in 1961's "Call for the Dead"
John le Carré
Brian
$800 [14]
King Haakon I of this country was killed in battle while fighting Erik Bloodax' sons
Norway
Joy
$800 [24]
He was 24 when he first painted Spain's Philip IV who became his patron
Diego Velázquez
Chris Brian
$800 [9]
An island called the Calf of Man lies southwest of the Isle of Man in this sea
Irish Sea
Chris
$800 [29]
The name of this oil was changed from "rapeseed oil" by the Canadian oil-seed industry
canola oil
Brian
$800 [6]
This prince of Tyre discovers the wife he believed was dead has become a priestess of Diana
Pericles
Chris Joy
$1,000 [20]
Later a Bertolucci film, this first novel by Paul Bowles is considered a model of existential fiction
The Sheltering Sky
DD $1,000 [15]
William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase during this president's administration
Andrew Johnson
Joy
$1,000 [27]
In 1906 Rodin invited this Romanian sculptor to work in his studio, but he refused
Constantin Brancusi
Brian
$1,000 [10]
At 7,339 feet, Mount Orohena on this island is the highest point in the Society Islands
Tahiti
$1,000 [30]
Found in fish, omega-3 oils are thought to lower the level of this bad cholesterol
LDL (low density lipoproteins)
Chris
DD $3,100 [2]
Shortly before he dies this king laments, "And my poor fool is hang'd!"
King Lear
Chris

Final Jeopardy!

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

Last name of 2 brothers, one currently a cabinet secretary & one mayor of a city of several million

Daley (William M. & Richard M.)

Joy "What is Pena?" — wagered $1,389
Brian "What is Daley?" — wagered $4,100
Chris "What is Brown? Hi D!" — wagered $800

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