Show #2721 1996-06-03 Regular

Contestants

Sandy Falck — a physical therapist from South Euclid, Ohio

Bonnie Monte — an editor originally from Brooklyn, New York

Helene Luce — a student teacher from Falls Church, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Helene $200 $1,700 $3,900 $3,700
2nd place: Bose home theater system
$4,400
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Bonnie $400 $1,000 $2,000 $0
3rd place: Astral crystal set
$2,000
8 R, 0 W
Sandy $1,400 $2,800 $8,200 $8,400
New champion: $8,400
$8,000
23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

MONEY ARCHITECTURE SINGERS & THEIR FILMS WWII TERMS SWEETS PROVINCES
$100 [21]
In the 1450s Johann Fust lent this printer about 1,600 guldens to build a new experimental press
Gutenberg
Bonnie
$100 [15]
It's a cupola or tower for bells or bats
a belfry
Sandy
$100 [1]
She played Frank Sinatra's daughter in the 1965 comedy "Marriage on the Rocks"—inspired casting
Nancy Sinatra
Sandy
$100 [26]
Now a term for any sudden crippling defeat, the attack on this site brought the U.S. into the war
Pearl Harbor
Sandy
$100 [2]
Tootsie Roll makes Dots, fruit-flavored gumdrops, & Crows, black gumdrops in this flavor
licorice
Helene
$100 [8]
Shansi, Shantung, Shensi
China
Bonnie
$200 [22]
Needing money to maintain his & his wife Margaret's social life, he turned traitor in 1779
Benedict Arnold
Bonnie
$200 [16]
It's a high-roofed shed in which aircraft are stored & repaired
a hangar
Sandy
$200 [3]
Wayne Newton played professor Joe Butcher in the James Bond film "Licence to" do this
to Kill
Sandy
$200 [27]
The war pitted the Allies against this group
the Axis
Helene
$200 [4]
Popular in the South, Lane cake is a layer cake that contains this shredded tropical fruit
coconut
Sandy
$200 [9]
Entre Rios, Rio Negro, La Pampa
Argentina
Sandy
$300 [23]
Proceeds from this actor's "Own" foods are a part of over $80 million he's donated to charities
Paul Newman
Bonnie
$300 [17]
Hansel or Gretel could tell you elaborate trim on a house is known by this "sweet" term
gingerbread
Sandy
$300 [12]
She starred in the film "Chastity" in 1969 & gave birth to daughter Chastity the same year
Cher
Sandy
$300 [28]
It's the term for Germany's intensive aerial bombing of Britain
the Blitz (blitzkrieg accepted)
Sandy
$300 [5]
Joy of Cooking says the unsulfured type of this sticky sweetener is the best for cooking
molasses
Bonnie
$300 [10]
Ghor, Balkh, Kabul
Afghanistan
Helene Sandy
$400 [24]
About $500,000 in illegal campaign funds helped the defense of the men arrested for this June 17, 1972 crime
Watergate
Helene
$400 [18]
Charles Bulfinch was appointed its architect in 1817 & added the rotunda & West Central Portico
the Capitol
Helene
$400 [14]
She earned a 1955 Oscar nomination for acting in "Pete Kelly's Blues" 3 years before she gave us "Fever"
Peggy Lee
$400 [29]
In North Africa Rommel was the Desert Fox & the British troops were the Desert these
Rats
$400 [6]
Coeur a la creme is a chilled dessert molded in this shape & served with berries or other fresh fruit
heart
Sandy
$400 [11]
Sind, Punjab, Baluchistan
Pakistan
Helene Sandy
DD $500 [25]
While holding this office in Lincoln's cabinet, Montgomery Blair created the idea of money orders
Postmaster General
Helene
$500 [19]
Originally a small house or pavilion on the grounds of a larger house, now it's a place to gamble
a casino
Sandy
$500 [20]
This singer & jazz pianist gave us the creeps as a maniacal murderer in the 1995 thriller "Copycat"
Harry Connick, Jr.
Helene
$500 [30]
Apparel term given to the armed gangs of Mussolini followers
the Blackshirts
Helene
$500 [7]
Kulich is a cylindrical Russian cake traditionally served on this holiday
Easter
$500 [13]
Lomza, Lublin, Bialystok
Poland

Double Jeopardy! Round

ACTIVISTS SCIENCE PEOPLE AUTHORS HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES THE PLYMOUTH COLONY
$200 [19]
Peace activist David Dellinger helped organize demonstrations at this city's 1968 Democratic Convention
Chicago
Bonnie
$200 [1]
Igneous, sedimentary & metamorphic are the 3 main types of these
rocks
Helene
$200 [2]
Desiree was the middle name of this star who married a man named Desi
Lucille Ball
Helene
$200 [13]
In his early years, this "Tom Sawyer" author used such pen names as Sergeant Fathom & Josh
Mark Twain
Sandy
$200 [8]
The phrase "to wear one's heart on one's sleeve" may have come from a practice once observed on this day
Valentine's Day
Sandy
$200 [23]
A campaign is on in England to build a 2nd replica of this Pilgrim ship; there's one here in Plymouth
the Mayflower
Helene
$400 [20]
In 1968 Cesar Chavez & his union called for a boycott of these growers
the grape growers
Sandy
$400 [4]
-459.67° F.
absolute zero
Helene
$400 [3]
He was a fiddler for Minnie Pearl before he became "King of the Road"
Roger Miller
Bonnie Sandy
$400 [17]
In 1967 his "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" received the Young Readers' Choice Award
Ian Fleming
$400 [9]
In Mexico, during the nine days of Posada, people reenact this pair's journey to Bethlehem
Mary & Joseph
Bonnie
$400 [24]
This first Stuart king ruled England when the colony was founded
James I
Helene
$600 [21]
This Black comedian & civil rights activist wrote a "Political Primer" in 1971
Dick Gregory
Helene
$600 [10]
This gas represented by the symbol F2is relatively abundant in the universe
fluorine
$600 [5]
Even though he was "President for Life", he was forced to flee Uganda in 1979
Idi Amin
Sandy
$600 [18]
This "Cimarron" author's 1963 autobiography was titled "A Kind of Magic"
Edna Ferber
$600 [14]
It was first observed nationally May 30, 1868
Memorial Day
Sandy
$600 [25]
He & John Alden founded the town of Duxbury, which he named for his ancestral home
Myles Standish
DD $1,000 [28]
Dr. Sara Josephine Baker helped track down Mary Mallon, who infected many with this disease
typhoid fever
Sandy
$800 [11]
The most lustrous of precious metals, it reflects about 95% of the light falling upon it
Silver
Helene
$800 [6]
Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of this country, now Zaire, was assassinated in 1961
the Congo
Sandy
$800 [22]
This "God's Little Acre" author served as a newspaper correspondent in Russia during World War II
Erskine Caldwell
$800 [15]
Taking place 50 days after Easter, Whitsunday is also called this
Pentecost
Sandy
$800 [26]
In 1691 the Plymouth Colony & other New England colonies were absorbed into this colony
the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Sandy
$1,000 [29]
This first president of the SDS was the second husband of Jane Fonda
Tom Hayden
Helene
$1,000 [12]
The small companion to this "Dog Star" was the first star identified as a white dwarf
Sirius
$1,000 [7]
The furor over Prince Charles' relationship with her has been dubbed "Camillagate"
Camilla Parker-Bowles
Sandy
$1,000 [30]
In 1986 this author of "Our Man in Havana" was named to Britain's Order of Merit
Graham Greene
$1,000 [16]
On Kalevala Day, February 28, the people of this northern European country celebrate their national epic
Finland
DD $1,000 [27]
The Pilgrims first sought refuge in this country before deciding to go to America
the Netherlands (Holland)
Sandy

Final Jeopardy!

CANADIAN CAPITALS

The largest city in Canada's Maritime Provinces is named for George Montagu Dunk, the 2nd Earl of this

Halifax

Bonnie "What isGeorgetown?" — wagered $2,000
Helene "What is Quebec" — wagered $200
Sandy "What is Halifax?" — wagered $200

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