Show #2952 1997-06-03 (taped 1997-01-28) Regular

Lyn Payne game 5.

Contestants

Brad Miliauskas — a claims representative from Woodbridge, Virginia

Stephen Heuser — an editor and writer from Boston, Massachusetts

Lyn Payne — a librarian from Orlando, Florida (whose 4-day cash winnings total $55,002)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Lyn	$1,400	$3,000	$6,200	$7,200 3rd place: a Motorola Star-Tac Cellular Phone	$5,700 17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Stephen	$1,000	$2,800	$7,100	$12,401 New champion: $12,401	$8,600 20 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Brad	$1,500	$2,400	$4,600	$8,600 2nd place: a trip to Couples Resort, Jamaica	$3,600 14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS FIRSTS	U.S. GEOGRAPHY	WOMEN IN SPORTS	ROCK COLLECTING	THE 1940s	"X", "Y", "Z"
$100 [4] Arriving in 1947, Edith Ronne & Jennie Darlington were the 1st U.S. women to spend a year on this continent Antarctica Lyn	$100 [19] This state's largest cities lie within its Bluegrass Region Kentucky Brad	$100 [28] Kerri Strug & the rest of the women from this 1996 Olympic team appeared on boxes of Wheaties cereal gymnastics Brad	$100 [2] The crack, chisel & sledge types of these tools are useful in the field hammers Stephen	$100 [8] In 1942 the Selective Service Act was changed to make this the minimum draft age 18 Stephen	$100 [21] This part of an egg contains the cholesterol yolk Lyn
$200 [14] Introduced in 1832, the John Mason, New York City's first street car, was powered by these horses Lyn	$200 [12] This state's Upper Peninsula has 2 land regions: the Superior Upland & the Central Lowland Michigan Lyn	$200 [27] Some know her as "Flo Jo", others call her Dee Dee; her real name is Delorez Florence Griffith Joyner Lyn	$200 [3] It's the canine nickname for an amateur geologist rockhound Brad	$200 [7] Its New York City headquarters was dedicated October 24, 1949 United Nations Stephen	$200 [16] Tradition says an Indian monk named Bodhidharma introduced this form of Buddhism into China Zen Stephen
$300 [23] In 1907 Anna Jarvis proposed wearing a carnation on the second Sunday in May to honor these people mothers Lyn	$300 [18] Some ocean-going vessels can sail up the Connecticut River as far north as this capital Hartford Brad	$300 [9] In 1988 Golf Magazine named this Mexican-American "Woman Golfer of the Decade" Nancy Lopez Stephen	$300 [30] Diluted in water, this chemical, HCI, can be used to dissolve calcite deposits on specimens hydrochloric acid Stephen	$300 [1] A believer in Gandhi's nonviolence philosophy, A.J. Muste helped found C.O.R.E., this group Congress of Racial Equality Stephen	$300 [17] Its students are nicknamed Elis, after the school's benefactor Yale Stephen
$400 [15] He introduced his Grape-Nuts in 1897 & followed that with "Elijah's Manna", which became Toasties Charles William Post Lyn Brad	$400 [11] The parishes in this state's East Gulf Coastal Plain are called the "Florida Parishes" Louisiana Brad	$400 [10] A top-ranked tennis star, this Argentine player called it quits at 26 in October 1996 Gabriela Sabatini Lyn	$400 [26] This finishing process can be done by hand with silicon carbide or with a tumbling machine polishing	$400 [5] This PM was Time Magazine's Man of the Year for the first & last years of the 1940s, 1940 & 1949 Winston Churchill Lyn	$400 [20] In Saint-Saens' "Danse macabre", this instrument is made to sound like bones rattling xylophone Brad
$500 [24] The first continuous one of these in the Senate ran for over a week in March 1841 fillibuster Stephen	$500 [13] Cadillac Mountain, the highest peak on the Eastern Seaboard, lies in this Maine national park Acadia National Park Brad	$500 [25] In 1993 she became the first woman jockey to win the Belmont Stakes or any of the U.S. Triple Crown races Julie Krone	$500 [29] A mineral has this property if it glows under ultraviolet light fluorescence Stephen	$500 [6] On August 3, 1948 Whittaker Chambers testified before this committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) Lyn	DD $1,000 [22] About 60 miles below this river's confluence with the Linyanti River, it forms Victoria Falls Zambezi River Lyn

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY	WORD ORIGINS	MAGAZINES	ANIMALS	REGIONS OF THE WORLD	BOOKS INTO MOVIES
$200 [30] After finding this man, Henry Morton Stanley spent the next 4 months traveling with him Dr. David Livingstone Brad	$200 [29] The name of this wild horse is from the Spanish word for a stray animal, "mesteno" mustang Stephen	$200 [25] Vassar Quarterly & Trojan Family are university news magazines for these people Alumni Lyn Stephen	$200 [28] This extremely venomous snake, the largest of the mambas, is green when young black mamba	$200 [10] It's the Mideastern river whose west bank is the famous West Bank region Jordan River Brad	$200 [16] "The Bible", with George C. Scott as Abraham, restricts itself to this Biblical book Genesis Brad
$400 [12] Around 1240 this mongol's grandson Batu founded the Golden Horde Genghis Khan Lyn	$400 [18] From the Greek for "treasure", this type of book contains a trove of synonyms thesaurus Stephen	$400 [24] Founded in 1912, the magazine named for this literary genre has published Wallace Stevens & T.S. Eliot poetry Lyn	$400 [27] The Beluga type of this fish may weigh over 2,800 pounds Sturgeon Stephen Brad	$400 [8] The region once known as Alsace-Lorraine is part of these 2 countries France & Germany Stephen	$400 [3] Book 9, chapter 5 of this Fielding novel became a famous erotic eating scene in the movie Tom Jones Lyn
$600 [13] The famous regional defensive alliance treaty creating this organization was signed April 4, 1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Lyn	$600 [11] These photographers take their name from a character in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" paparazzi Brad	$600 [20] This short form of the word "magazine" refers to personal & electronic publications zine Stephen	$600 [7] Tiny crustaceans are a favorite food of this wading bird with an eating utensil in its name spoonbill Lyn	$600 [5] Mexicali & La Paz are capitals of states on this peninsula Baja California Lyn	$600 [1] This Lorenzo Carcaterra book that became a 1996 movie was published as a true story; some doubted it Sleepers Brad
$800 [14] Amsterdam was chartered as a city in 1300 & joined this confederation of cities 69 years later the Hanseatic League Brad	$800 [17] In the late 1880s Americans borrowed this title for powerful businessmen from Japanese shoguns tycoons Brad	$800 [21] National Review advocates this political attitude; Commentary Magazine stands for the "neo" type conservatism Lyn	$800 [23] This lapdog associated with a Mediterranean island was highly prized by ladies of the Elizabethan court Maltese Lyn	$800 [6] Liguria is a resort area on this country's Riviera Italy Stephen	$800 [2] Cameron Crowe returned to high school to research the book that became this 1982 Sean Penn film Fast Times at Ridgemont High Stephen
DD $2,000 [15] While Richard the Lion-Hearted was on a Crusade in the 1190s, this youngest brother tried to usurp the crown John ("John Lackland", "Poor John") Brad	DD $1,500 [19] The word for this legal defense comes from the Latin for "elsewhere" alibi Stephen	$1,000 [22] Flashy journal of cyberspace that shares its name with a biography of John Belushi Wired Stephen	$1,000 [26] Native to Asia Minor, the "golden" type of this chubby-cheeked rodent is a popular pet hamster	$1,000 [9] The Qing dynasty which ruled China until the late 19th century forbade development of this region Manchuria	$1,000 [4] Francois Truffaut based 2 films on Henri-Pierre Roche love triangle tales: "Two English Girls" & this one Jules et Jim Stephen

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN BALLET

Characters in this 1942 ballet include the head wrangler & the champion roper

Rodeo

Brad "What is Rodeo? Hi, Sara!" — wagered $4,000

Lyn "What is Rodeo?" — wagered $1,000

Stephen "What is Rodeo?" — wagered $5,301

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