Show #3234 1998-10-01 (taped 1998-07-22) Regular

Carolyn White game 3.

Contestants

Tim Appling — a high school teacher from Fort Worth, Texas

Liz Holmlund — a retail distributor originally from San Geronimo, California

Carolyn White — a retired management consultant from Tucson, Arizona (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Carolyn	$900	$2,100	$4,500	$9,000 3-day champion: $31,000	$4,500 19 R, 5 W
Liz	$400	$500	$6,300	$3,599 3rd place: Corex CardScan 300 & Palm Pilot II	$6,300 16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Tim	$1,700	$2,700	$3,900	$3,800 2nd place: Trip to Atlantis Paradise Island Resort, Bahamas	$3,600 13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE VIETNAM WAR	SECOND PLACE	POTPOURRI	AULD LANG SEINFELD	DINOSAUR LORE	"HIT" OR "MISS"
$100 [28] Hats off to JFK--he authorized the formation of the elite special forces group, known as this The Green Berets Carolyn	$100 [8] It's the second place award in an Olympic event Silver medal Tim	$100 [20] Country in which you'd find the Book of Kells Ireland Carolyn	$100 [2] "Seinfeld" catch phrase that means "blah, blah, blah" "Yada, Yada, Yada" Liz	$100 [7] The oviraptor's name means "stealer of" these, which might also apply to some fossil hunters Eggs Tim	$100 [1] If you write my last name as T-R-E-B-E-C-K, you've just done this misspelled it Liz
$300 [29] Name given to North Vietnam's main infiltration route into South Vietnam the Ho Chi Minh Trail Carolyn	$200 [9] It was the second nation to put a man in space USA Carolyn	$200 [21] In 1943 the Supreme Court said that those whose religious beliefs prohibit it don't have to recite this Pledge of Allegiance Tim	$200 [3] His crazy schemes have included a bra for men & a coffee-table coffee-table book Cosmo Kramer Tim	$200 [10] In diplodocus, these individual back bones were hollow, keeping the animal's weight to 12 tons Vertebrae Tim	$200 [5] He's hired for homicide Hit man Liz
$400 [26] 2 deltas that saw a lot of action were the Red & this river, originating in Tibet & emptying in the S. China Sea Mekong Carolyn	$400 [13] He had the second highest vote total in the 1944 U.S. presidential balloting Thomas E. Dewey	$300 [22] Colorless, flammable hydrocarbon found in gasoline; you should have its number Octane Carolyn	$300 [4] Actor Larry Thomas played this "restaurateur" as Saddam Hussein with just a dash of Hitler The "Soup Nazi" Carolyn	$300 [15] Its two longer horns each could extend more than three feet Triceratops Carolyn	$300 [18] Mary Leona Gage gave up this national title in 1957 when it was revealed she was married & had 2 children Miss USA Carolyn Liz
$500 [25] The closest the U.S. came to actually declaring it a war was this August 7, 1964 "resolution" Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Carolyn	$500 [14] This man wasn't knighted after being the second man to stand on top of Mt. Everest Tenzing Norgay (the man who was with Hillary) Carolyn	$400 [27] Manly men know it's the main androgen Testosterone Tim	$400 [6] Jerry's "Hello" to this Seinfeld-hating postal employee became a catch phrase Newman Carolyn	$400 [16] Robert Bakker "heated" up paleontology by suggesting dinosaurs were homeothermic, also called this Warm-blooded Tim	$400 [19] Even if you're not ordained, you may take a position as a "lay" one of these Missionary Liz
—	DD $600 [12] South America's second largest country in area, it borders the largest Argentina Tim	$500 [24] Deneb is the brightest star in this constellation whose name means swan Cygnus Carolyn	$500 [11] Elaine once created an "Urban Sombrero" for this mail-order company's catalog J. Peterman Tim	$500 [17] Term for a meat-eating dinosaur like the Tyrannosaurus, or the title of a 1993 Roger Corman film Carnosaur Carolyn Liz	$500 [23] Suppiluliumas was one of the greatest kings of these Indo-European people the Hittites Liz

Double Jeopardy! Round

BACK TO LITERARY BRITAIN	AROUND THE EQUATOR	WEIGHTS & MEASURES	JULY	DAVID LYNCH FILMS	"U" BETCHA!
$200 [1] In Wilmcote, near Stratford, you may visit the family home, seen here, of this author's mother William Shakespeare Liz	$200 [4] It's the latitude of any point on the equator 0 Liz	$200 [6] In 1832 the U.S. Treasury set it to the distance between the 27th & 63rd inch marks on an 82 inch brass bar a yard Liz	$200 [2] Carl "The Truth" Williams lasted 93 seconds in the ring with this "Iron" man July 21, 1989 Mike Tyson Carolyn	$200 [5] Movie in which John Hurt, as John Merrick, declares, "I am not an animal!" "The Elephant Man" Tim	$200 [15] It's also called a bumbershoot, & some say it's bad luck to open one indoors Umbrella Liz
$400 [3] Albion House in the town of Marlow is the place where she finished writing "Frankenstein" Mary Shelley Tim	$400 [19] This magazine's 1998 swimsuit issue was shot at locations around the world on the Equator Sports Illustrated Tim	$400 [7] Broadloom usually means these floor coverings are 12 feet wide Carpets/Rugs Carolyn	—	$400 [9] Lynch played an FBI man in his 1992 film prequel to this TV series "Twin Peaks" Carolyn	$400 [16] Eliot Ness & his men were nicknamed this because they couldn't be bought "The Untouchables" Carolyn
$600 [8] Fans of this Lake poet flock to Dove Cottage, his home near Grasmere in the Lake District William Wordsworth Liz	$600 [24] The Mitad del Mundo, "Middle of the Earth" monument, is near Quito in this country Ecuador Carolyn	$600 [20] With AM, the amplitude of the carrier wave is modulated; with FM, it's this that's modulated Frequency Liz	—	$600 [12] The title of this early work comes partly from the hero's exotic pompadour Eraserhead Liz	$600 [17] This word precedes "We Love Thee" in the title of a state song Utah Carolyn
$800 [10] The monument to this novelist, seen here, is one of the most famous landmarks in Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Carolyn Tim	$800 [25] These islands were named from the Spanish for "saddles", for the saddleback tortoises found there Galapagos Islands Carolyn	$800 [21] Originally French, an arpent, which is about an acre, is mainly used in these 2 places: a state & a province Louisiana & Quebec Carolyn	—	$800 [13] Isabella Rossellini is The Blue Lady, a nightclub singer, in this 1986 masterpiece "Blue Velvet" Liz	$800 [18] First name shared by a Hittite & a Heep Uriah Liz
$1,000 [11] John Donne's monument in this cathedral survived the Great Fire; he posed for it wearing a shroud St. Paul's Cathedral Carolyn Liz	$1,000 [26] 14-letter adjective for a satellite's orbit that keeps it above the same point on the equator geosynchronous Liz	$1,000 [23] People talk of a hank of hair, but a hank is a measurement of this, equal to 7 skeins Yarn/wool Liz	—	DD $1,000 [14] (Hi, I'm Alicia Witt.) Pauline Kael said I was "creepy" when I appeared in this film set 9,000 years in the future Dune Liz	$1,000 [22] Looking for the North Star? It's in the tail of this "lesser bear" Ursa Minor Tim

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTORS

Mainz, Germany celebrates the life of this inventor in an annual festival called Johannisnacht

Johannes Gutenberg

Tim "Who is... ?" — wagered $100

Carolyn "Who was Gutenberg" — wagered $4,500

Liz "Who is Kepler?" — wagered $2,701

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