Show #3244 1998-10-15 (taped 1998-08-12) Regular

Contestants

Elizabeth Bellas — a digital librarian from Seattle, Washington

Walter Hanig — a technical writer from San Diego, California

Diane Green — a travel consultant from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Diane $-100 $700 $5,700 $11,400
2-day champion: $24,400
$5,500
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Walter $1,300 $2,900 $9,200 $6,999
2nd place: Trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$8,700
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Elizabeth $500 $1,300 $4,700 $4,700
3rd place: Fisher 100-Watt Audio Component System
$5,600
15 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

TROPICAL FOREST CREATURES A HAIRY CATEGORY TV DEMISES MIDDLE-EARTH HUNGARY? WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
$100 [1]
You should know from the get-go that a gecko can regenerate this body part
Tail
Diane
$100 [15]
The man seen here helped add this hairy term to the English language (General Ambrose Burnside)
Sideburns
Diane
$100 [21]
This series' Det. Chin Ho Kelly was killed off in 1978, vainly waiting to hear "Book 'em, Chin Ho!"
Hawaii Five-O
Elizabeth
$100 [16]
This type of creature supplies the title of a 1937 Tolkien work; Frodo Baggins is one
Hobbit
Walter
$100 [3]
Hungary's main mineral resource is bauxite, the ore that yields this easily "foil"ed metal
Aluminum
Walter
$100 [7]
I'm taking this, the usual basis of green salads, braising it & serving it au gratin
Lettuce
Walter
$200 [2]
There are over 100 species of the poison arrow type of these amphibians
Frogs
Elizabeth
$200 [17]
An animal lends its name to this slick "tail" style popular in the 1950s
Ducktail
Walter
$200 [22]
In a 1980 revamping, the sands ran through the hourglass for 3 characters on this soap
"Days Of Our Lives"
Walter
$200 [27]
Frodo has to destroy one of these to stop Sauron from becoming "Lord Of" them
Ring
Walter
$200 [5]
It's red on top, white in the middle & green on the bottom--no, it's not goulash
Hungarian flag
Walter
$200 [8]
Beef pounded thin, dipped in batter & cooked in a skillet; it includes the name of another meat
Chicken-fried steak
Diane
$300 [4]
It's found foraging on the forest floor
Tapir
Elizabeth
$300 [18]
Louis XV might have been attracted to you if you wore this style
Pompadour
Diane
$300 [23]
Sitcom character whose fiancee Susan died from licking toxic envelope glue
George Costanza ("Seinfeld")
Elizabeth
$300 [28]
Smaug, a dreaded creature of this type, breathed not mere smog, but fire
Dragon
Elizabeth
$300 [6]
The 1956 Olympics featured a bloody water polo match between Hungary & this invader
Soviet Union
Walter
$300 [12]
Yes, we have no bananas, so we'll saute these starchier "cooking bananas"
Plantains
Walter
$400 [9]
The coat of the clouded species of this cat provides it with excellent camouflage in India's forests
Leopard
Walter
$400 [19]
It's the "court"ly cut seen here
Page boy
Walter
$500 [25]
This McLean Stevenson character perished in the last "M*A*S*H" of the 1974-75 season
Henry Blake
Walter
$400 [29]
Like Camelot's Excalibur, Middle-earth's Sting is one of these
a sword
Diane
$400 [11]
Be sure to hear music by this ethnic group called Czigany, real strolling musicians
Gypsies
Walter
$400 [13]
This is how I'll cook the cod; I hope it's not the way it was caught
poaching
Diane
$500 [10]
The "black" variety of this snake is the largest venomous snake in Africa
the mamba
Walter
$500 [20]
Your "honey" might enjoy this style
Beehive
Elizabeth
DD $900 [24]
(
Melrose Place
Elizabeth
$500 [26]
Meaning "famous ruler", it's the first name of cinematographer Kovacs & painter Moholy-Nagy
Laszlo
$500 [14]
I hope you're starving because I bought enough cornmeal to make a vat of this Italian porridge
Polenta
Elizabeth

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC WOMEN JENNIFER & DAVID CHEMISTRY ROCK GOES POSTAL MARTIN SCORSESE, ACTOR "ERE"Y WORDS
$200 [1]
Feroze, the man whom this future prime minister married in 1942, was not related to the Mahatma
Indira Gandhi
Elizabeth
$200 [11]
On "Friends" Jennifer Aniston's Rachel was involved with Ross, played by this actor
David Schwimmer
Walter
$200 [16]
5-letter term for a compound of the NO2group; with "glycerine", it's an explosive
nitro
Elizabeth
$200 [17]
A vote was held to pick which version of this singer, younger or older, would be on the stamp
Elvis Presley
Elizabeth
$200 [23]
Scorsese was one of this actor's fares in the movie "Taxi Driver"
Robert De Niro
Walter
$200 [3]
King Arthur's wife, she was known as Guanhumara in "Historia Regum Britanniae"
Guinevere
Elizabeth
$400 [2]
Berenice IV, this woman's sister, ruled Egypt from 58-55 B.C., until her father executed her
Cleopatra
Walter
$400 [12]
In a 1994 film David Gow was Round Table wit Donald Ogden Stewart; she was Dorothy Parker
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Diane
$400 [21]
K is a symbol; a designation like K2CO3is one of these
a formula
Diane
$400 [18]
He was sittin' on a 29-cent stamp as well as on "The Dock Of The Bay"
Otis Redding
Diane
$400 [27]
Scorsese played a sponsor of "Twenty-One" in this 1994 movie about a TV scandal
Quiz Show
Diane
$400 [4]
In 1808 & 1809 this silversmith made copper plates for Robert Fulton's steamship boilers
Paul Revere
Elizabeth
$600 [8]
As her nation's last monarch, she championed the Oni Pa'a or "Stand Firm" movement
Queen Lili'uokalani (of Hawaii)
Diane
$600 [13]
In "Labyrinth" the goblin king who kidnaps Jennifer Connelly's brother is played by this singer
David Bowie
Elizabeth
$600 [24]
The table of elements is "punctuated" by these horizontal rows
periods
$600 [19]
This stamp star was born Richard Valenzuela in Pacoima, California
Ritchie Valens
Elizabeth
$600 [28]
In "Guilty By Suspicion" Scorsese played a director blacklisted for refusing to help this committee
the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Walter
$600 [5]
Its surface area can be determined by using 4 pi r2
a sphere
Walter
DD $1,000 [9]
In 1997 Texas family physician Nancy Dickey became the first woman elected to head this organization
the American Medical Association (AMA)
Diane
$800 [14]
David Geffen's record company released this "Dreamgirl"'s 1983 record "Feel My Soul"
Jennifer Holliday
Diane
$800 [25]
Good news! Ilya Prigogine showed that the 2nd law of this doesn't doom the universe to a slow "heat death"
thermodynamics
Diane
$800 [20]
Asked if he was alone on his stamp, this '50s "R-O-C-K" star would have "no comet"
Bill Haley
Walter
$800 [29]
Scorsese played Van Gogh in a segment of this Japanese director's "Dreams"
Akira Kurosawa
Walter
$800 [6]
Cape Columbia on this large island is Canada's northernmost point
Ellesmere Island
Walter
$1,000 [10]
In 1923 this woman known for novels of high society became the first to get an honorary degree from Yale
Edith Wharton
Elizabeth
$1,000 [15]
"Boxing Helena" was directed by this avant-garde director's daughter Jennifer
David Lynch
Walter
$1,000 [26]
If you split this word for a solution with a pH over 7, you get a great Detroit Tigers outfielder
Alkaline/Al Kaline
Walter
$1,000 [22]
There was nothin' finer than this "queen" of the blues who partnered with Brook Benton
Dinah Washington
$1,000 [30]
Scorsese joined Ethan Hawke & this "Easy Rider" star in the cast of 1995's "Search And Destroy"
Dennis Hopper
Diane
DD $1,500 [7]
French physicist who first showed that current in 2 parallel wires causes magnetic forces between the wires
Andre-Marie Ampere
Walter

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH AUTHORS

Among the poems this British novelist wrote in the 1920s were "Men in New Mexico" & "Autumn at Taos"

D.H. Lawrence

Elizabeth "Who is Carl Sandburg" — wagered $0
Diane "Who was DH Lawrence" — wagered $5,700
Walter "Who was Waugh?" — wagered $2,201

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