Show #3235 1998-10-02 (taped 1998-07-22) Regular

Carolyn White game 4.

Contestants

Lawrence Brown — a customer service representative originally from Pass Christian, Mississippi

Jordan Lees — an internet technical support advisor from Riverside, California

Carolyn White — a retired management consultant from Tucson, Arizona (whose 3-day cash winnings total $31,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carolyn $500 $3,100 $8,300 $7,800
4-day champion: $38,800
$8,800
25 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jordan $1,100 $1,700 $3,500 $0
3rd place: Jaguar Sports Watches
$3,500
14 R, 3 W
Lawrence $300 $2,000 $4,400 $400
2nd place: Daewoo 19-inch TV with built-in VCR & Hooker Entertainment Center
$4,400
12 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

STEPHEN KING FIRESTARTER THE STAND THE "DEAD" ZONE NEEDFUL THINGS CHILDREN OF THE CORN
$100 [5]
No petting allowed! A rabid bat turns a lovable mutt into a monster in this King shaggy dog tale
Cujo
Lawrence
$100 [3]
This man who started some major fires in physics was a high school dropout
Albert Einstein
Jordan
$100 [30]
Most newspaper stands carry this financial daily paper published by Dow Jones & Co. Inc.
The Wall Street Journal
Lawrence
$100 [1]
Numbered in the 6th century by St. Gregory the Great, they include pride, envy & anger
the seven deadly sins (or vices)
Carolyn
$100 [29]
Most butterflies need them to smell; many humans use them to hear radio waves
antennae
Carolyn
$100 [24]
This black nationalist leader, born in Omaha, moved to Michigan when he was still "Little"
Malcolm X
Jordan
$200 [6]
This book, King's first published novel, hit the big screen starring Sissy Spacek in 1976
Carrie
Lawrence
$200 [4]
Depicted here in stone, this Greek was a teacher of Aristotle
Plato
Lawrence
$200 [19]
This supermarket tabloid claims "the largest circulation of any paper in America"
the National Enquirer
Lawrence
$200 [2]
Former members of this "thankful" band have begun touring again as "The Other Ones"
The Grateful Dead
Lawrence
$200 [28]
You'll need one of these for your head in most synagogues, so they're often provided
yarmulkes
Carolyn
$200 [23]
Omaha native who was a football player in "North Dallas Forty" & a coach in "The Prince of Tides"
Nick Nolte
Carolyn
$300 [7]
King published the stories "Rage", "The Long Walk" & "The Running Man" under this pseudonym
Richard Bachman
Jordan
$300 [13]
He made a "monkey" out of all of us in his 1859 book
Charles Darwin
Carolyn
$300 [18]
"The Hollywood Reporter" & this "Daily" constitute "the trades" of the TV & film industry
Variety
Carolyn
$300 [10]
A Bedouin shepherd found these priceless manuscripts in 1947
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jordan
$300 [27]
Some horsehairs & light pernambuco wood are necessary to make this musical accessory
bow
Jordan
$300 [22]
Johnny Carson grew up in Nebraska & so did this one-time talk show rival
Dick Cavett
Carolyn
$400 [8]
King's 1981 overview of the horror genre shares its name with this Saint-Saens "Dance"
Macabre
Carolyn
$400 [14]
Revolution was in the air when this man met his writing partner in the Paris of the 1840s
Karl Marx
Lawrence
$400 [17]
One of the better-selling issues of this women's magazine was the April 1972 issue featuring Burt Reynolds
Cosmopolitan
Carolyn Jordan
$400 [11]
Deceased Quasimodos, or 2 very similar-looking people
dead ringers
Jordan Lawrence
$400 [26]
Garlic & lime are found in this sauce that is essential to a classic Bloody Mary
Worcestershire sauce
Carolyn Jordan
$400 [21]
She wrote her Nebraska-set "O Pioneers!" while living in Greenwich Village
Willa Cather
Carolyn
DD $500 [9]
(Hi, I'm Stephen King, master of horror.) In the 1980s I stated, "I've seen the future of horror, and its name is" this author"
Clive Barker
Carolyn
$500 [15]
He's the reform-minded former Catholic priest seen here
Martin Luther
Jordan
$500 [16]
Josef Stalin, Newt Gingrich & Adolf Hitler have all been this magazine's "Man of the Year"
TIME
Jordan
$500 [12]
This beautiful lady seen here is extremely poisonous
deadly nightshade
Carolyn
$500 [25]
From Greek for "primary", this necessity should make up 10-11% of your caloric intake
protein
Lawrence
$500 [20]
This recipient of the Medal of Honor is Nebraska's senior senator
Bob Kerrey
Lawrence

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL BOTANY COLLEGES, HITHER & YON INAUGURAL ADDRESSES YOUNGER MEN SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS THE OSCARS
$200 [16]
Scholars have it down on paper that the bulrushes on the Nile were probably this plant
Papyrus
Carolyn
$200 [5]
You'll find the main campus of the University of Puerto Rico in this city's Rio Piedras district
San Juan
Jordan
$200 [21]
It completes the line, "Ask not what your country can do for you..."
"Ask what you can do for your country"
Carolyn
$200 [7]
This waltz king brought us the "Tales From The Vienna Woods"
Johann Strauss II (a.k.a. "The Younger")
Jordan
$200 [1]
Any sap knows it was the instrument of Cleopatra's demise
Asp (for "sap")
Jordan
$600 [27]
This star of "Elmer Gantry" earned his last Oscar nomination for Louis Malle's 1981 film "Atlantic City"
Burt Lancaster
$400 [17]
Sometimes Aaron felt like a nut, especially when his rod budded & brought forth these
Almonds
Carolyn
$400 [11]
This state university of New Jersey has campuses in New Brunswick, Newark & Camden
Rutgers
Carolyn
$400 [22]
In his fourth inaugural address, he told us, "Today we work and fight for total victory in war"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Carolyn
$400 [8]
Cato the Younger, great-grandson of Cato the Elder, supported Pompey & killed himself when this man took power
Julius Caesar
Carolyn
$400 [2]
A big "Hello To" lovers of this tragedy
"Othello" (for "Hello To")
Carolyn
$800 [26]
Liam Neeson was nominated for an Oscar for playing a man named Oskar in this 1993 film
"Schindler's List"
Jordan
$600 [18]
Esau sold his birthright for a soup made with these similar to peas
Lentils
Carolyn
$600 [14]
Lawrence of Arabia earned first-class honors in history at this university's Jesus College
Oxford
Carolyn
$600 [23]
President heard here:"We find ourselves rich in goods but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on Earth..."
Richard M. Nixon
Lawrence
$600 [9]
His uncle Sigmund, his brother Ambrosius & his father, Hans the Elder, were painters too
Hans Holbein the Younger
Carolyn
$600 [3]
Ah, the "sad cries" heard from Troilus when this tramp betrayed him!
Cressida (for "sad cries")
Jordan
$1,000 [24]
For the 1998 Oscars this nominee wore a $20 million diamond inspired by the gem in "Titanic"
Gloria Stuart
Jordan
$800 [19]
Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven to this seed
Mustard seed
Carolyn
$800 [12]
Of the schools known as the Seven Sisters, this one in Massachusetts is alphabetically last
Wellesley
Carolyn
$1,000 [25]
He was the only president to deliver 2 nonconsecutive inaugural addresses
Grover Cleveland
Carolyn Lawrence
$800 [10]
Among his letters is one to Sora about a haunted house in Athens
Pliny the Younger
Jordan
$800 [4]
An actress should have a wide range to play this second daughter of King Lear
Regan (for "range")
Lawrence
$1,000 [20]
This grain that was cheaper than wheat was used to feed cattle & in the loaves that fed 5,000
Barley
DD $1,000 [13]
Queen Elizabeth I founded this city's Trinity College in 1591
Dublin
Carolyn
DD $1,000 [15]
He was P.M. of England during the Napoleonic Wars, his father, the elder, during the Seven Years War
William Pitt
Carolyn
$1,000 [6]
He had a "real set" of gripes with Hamlet, especially after Hamlet killed his dad
Laertes (for "real set")

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS AUTHORS

Hemingway described this writer's 1961 book "Out of My League" as "The dark side of... Walter Mitty"

George Plimpton

Jordan "Who has any clue?" — wagered $3,500
Lawrence "Who is Mailer" — wagered $4,000
Carolyn "Who is Mailer" — wagered $500

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