Show #3220 1998-09-11 (taped 1998-07-14) Regular

Contestants

Julie Schmitt — a chiropractor from Dallas, Texas

Marc Slutzky — an M.D. and Ph.D student from Evanston, Illinois

Megan Clouser — an environmental compliance specialist from Miami, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Megan $2,100 $2,200 $1,400 $1,400
3rd place: Jaguar Friendship Watches
$3,900
14 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Marc $900 $3,200 $6,000 $6,900
2nd place: Trip to Mexico City & Ixtapa
$6,000
17 R, 1 W
Julie $1,100 $2,200 $6,800 $12,100
New champion: $12,100
$7,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR HANDWEAR THE ARABIAN NIGHTS WHAT'S UP, DUCK? THE 50th ANNUAL EMMY AWARDS "G" WHIZ!
$100 [10]
The eastern Union army came to be called the army of this river
the Army of the Potomac
Julie
$100 [20]
In a nursery rhyme, they were lost by three little kittens
mittens
Marc
$100 [22]
One tale tells of a place where these pachyderms go to die & the ivory lies around for the taking
elephants
Megan
$100 [1]
Like a duck, this monotreme has webbed feet & its snout looks like a duck's too
the duck-billed platypus
Megan
$100 [15]
On June 7, 1978 she was up for her first Emmy; on May 15, 1998 she was up for her 18th
Susan Lucci
Megan
$100 [4]
Endocrine or exocrine, for example
glands
Julie
$200 [12]
During the war this "Little Women" author served as a nurse for the Union
Louisa May Alcott
Marc
$200 [23]
It's the glove of the Golden Gloves & may deliver a K.O.
a boxing glove
Megan
$300 [29]
This character is the hero of several tales & of the movie seen here
Sinbad
$200 [2]
This team's official colors & logo were unveiled June 7, 1993
the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Megan
$200 [16]
It was a character on this show to which the actress accepting an Emmyherewas saying goodbye:"It's so sad, this is sort of my last time to say good-bye & to this character, Nancy Weston..."
thirtysomething (Patricia Wettig)
Julie
$200 [5]
It's the liquor you might drink while playing the card game of the same name
gin
Julie
$300 [13]
Most of the battles in the west took place in Tennessee, most in the east in this state
Virginia
Marc
$300 [24]
It's a set of linked metal rings slipped over the fingers of a thug who wants to rearrange your face
brass knuckles
Marc
$400 [27]
A fisherman tricks one of these creatures into letting itself be trapped in a bottle
genie
Julie
$300 [3]
To prepare this Chinese dish, first force air between the skin & the flesh
Peking duck
Julie
$300 [17]
This 1977 miniseries won a record 9 Emmys
Roots
Megan
$300 [6]
It's the waste matter left by pelicans & penguins, as well as bats
guano
Megan
$400 [14]
Bombarded with some 4,000 shells during a 34-hour stretch, this fort surrendered to the South on April 14, 1861
Fort Sumter
Julie
$400 [28]
These wood percussion instruments are fastened to the thumb & clicked together
castanets
Marc
$500 [26]
The tales of the Arabian Nights are told to the king by this woman, his wife
Scheherazade
Marc
$400 [9]
This phrase means to have all your arrangements complete
"All your ducks in a row"
Marc
DD $500 [18]
It was here comes the judge when this actor seenherewon for his role on this show in 1995:"I have 30 seconds to tell you that I've been waiting 60 years to get up on this stage..."
Picket Fences
Megan
$400 [7]
The Sanskrit word for "venerable" gave us this term for a spiritual guide
guru
Megan
$500 [21]
In 1846 this Confederate general "charged" to the bottom of his graduating class at West Point
George Pickett
Marc
$500 [25]
To treat with special consideration is to handle "with" these
kid gloves
Marc
$500 [11]
DU for short, this organization publishes Puddler Magazine for kids
Ducks Unlimited
Megan
$500 [19]
Playing Peter, she won in 1956 for Best Actress in a Single Performance
Mary Martin
Julie
$500 [8]
Isak Dinesen compared these mammals to "rare, long-stemmed speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing"
giraffes
Megan

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIFTEENTH "SEASON" TOUGH U.S. CITIES BOOKS OF THE '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI 6-LETTER WORDS
$200 [10]
Ratified in 1870, it bans denying voting rights based on race, color or previous condition of servitude
15th Amendment
Julie
$200 [19]
Winter to a baseball player, and a good time to visit a resort to avoid peak tourist times
off-season
Marc
$200 [2]
Parks in this Louisiana city include Audubon & Pontchartrain
New Orleans
Julie
$200 [22]
He published his first Rabbit novel, "Rabbit, Run", in 1960
John Updike
Marc
$200 [1]
A song from the '60s told us "A Taste Of" this "is much sweeter than wine"
honey
Julie
$200 [7]
"I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot" this assistant to him
the deputy
Megan
$400 [12]
Ptolemy XV of Egypt co-ruled with this woman, his mother
Cleopatra
Marc
$400 [21]
Herbs & spices will be these in our stew
seasonings
Megan
$400 [3]
This Michigan city, a center of Dutch culture, holds an annual tulip festival
Holland
Julie
$400 [26]
One review called his "Andromeda Strain" "Compelling and reasonably executed"
Michael Crichton
Marc
$400 [8]
Patriotic song whose fourth verse contains the line "And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust' "
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Julie
$400 [9]
From Persian for "market", it's the type of marketplace seen here
bazaar
Marc
$600 [13]
It begins "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?"
Psalm 15
Marc
$600 [23]
This Vivaldi work begins with "spring"
"The Four Seasons"
Megan
$600 [4]
Located near the Alaskan point of the same name, it's the USA's northernmost settlement
Barrow
Julie
DD $400 [28]
1966 was a bloody year with Capote's "In Cold Blood" & this Asimov tale of a trip through the bloodstream
Fantastic Voyage
Julie
$800 [17]
The giraffe, an upright type of this keyboard instrument, was shaped somewhat like a giraffe's neck
piano
Julie
$600 [11]
It can be a caption, an explanation of symbols on a map, or a myth
legend
Marc
$800 [14]
A veteran of the War of 1812, he was the fifteenth president of the United States
James Buchanan
Megan
$800 [24]
Paul Scofield won an Oscar as the "year-round" Thomas More in this 1966 film
A Man For All Seasons
Marc
$800 [5]
This largest Delaware city is sometimes called the chemical capital of the world
Wilmington
Megan Julie
$600 [27]
It seems "The Fixer" was in for him to win a Pulitzer in 1967
Bernard Malamud
Julie
DD $2,000 [16]
In 1772 he composed his Symphony No. 17 in G Minor, K-129
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Megan
$800 [15]
Knock someone off the throne, or testify under oath
depose
Marc
$1,000 [20]
The fifteenth Pope with this name reigned from 985 to 996
John
Julie
$1,000 [25]
This Jason Miller play about a basketball team's reunion was a slam-dunk with critics in 1973
That Championship Season
Julie
$1,000 [6]
This southernmost Texas city is actually about 450 miles farther south than Tijuana
Brownsville
$1,000 [18]
Place your troops in battle positions
deploy

Final Jeopardy!

MUSICAL THEATER

In France, this musical was known as "Brillantine"; in Mexico, it was "Vaselina"

Grease

Megan "What is Rent?" — wagered $0
Marc "What is Grease?" — wagered $900
Julie "What is Grease?" — wagered $5,300

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