Show #3245 1998-10-16 (taped 1998-08-12) Regular

Contestants

Tim DeLamatre — a multimedia engineer from Mountain View, California

Tammy Talpas — an engineering secretary originally from Austin, Texas

Diane Green — a travel consultant from Seattle, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Diane $400 $900 $400 $800
3rd place: Festina Chrono Titanium Watches
$3,100
11 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Tammy $500 $1,800 $4,000 $7,801
New champion: $7,801
$4,000
16 R, 4 W
Tim $1,000 $3,100 $3,900 $7,000
2nd place: Trip to Hotel Melia Victoria, Palmas de Majorca, Spain
$4,800
21 R, 8 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS NAME THAT COUNTRY GAMBLING RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES PARTS OF THE WHOLE HORRORS!
$100 [18]
In 1998 Israel celebrated its 50th anniversary & this Leon Uris book celebrated its 40th
Exodus
Tim
$100 [1]
It's a leading tin producer; fish fights are all the rage; it's the country formerly known as Siam
Thailand
Diane
$100 [6]
When playing the video form of this game, go for the big win, a royal flush
poker
Tammy
$100 [13]
Babushka means this relative, or the scarf she might tie under her chin
grandmother
Tammy
$100 [23]
Hole, rough, fairway, green
a golf course
Tim
$100 [11]
It's the horrific "monster" seen here
a Gila monster
Tim
$200 [19]
With "Pandora", she recently began a new series of vampire tales
Anne Rice
Tammy
$200 [2]
Alpacas are bred for wool there; Singani is a favorite drink; the National Museum of Arts is in La Paz
Bolivia
Tim
$200 [9]
In craps if you bet "pass" & throw either of these numbers on the come out roll, you win
7 or 11
Tim
$200 [14]
An apparatchik was a bureaucrat in this organization that once numbered 15 million
the Communist Party
Tim
$200 [29]
Fly, crease, cuff, waistband
pants
Tammy
$200 [24]
Seen here is the not-so-horrific star of this "tasty" horror-comedy show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Tammy
$300 [20]
In 1997 this author returned to his roots with "Wobegon Boy"
Garrison Keillor
Diane Tammy Tim
$300 [3]
It's about the same size as Washington, D.C.; it's a principality; it's next to Switzerland
Liechtenstein
Diane Tammy
$300 [10]
You can win at blackjack with this method explained by Edward Thorp; don't get caught
card counting
Tammy
$300 [15]
It's the drink most commonly tossed back with "na zdorovie", "to your health"
vodka
Tammy
$300 [28]
Shuttle, beater, weft, warp, cloth roller
a loom
Tammy
$400 [25]
They're the happy horror homemakers seen here
the Munsters (Fred Gwynne & Yvonne de Carlo)
Tammy
$400 [21]
In addition to techno-thrillers, he's also written such nonfiction works as "Submarine" & "Fighter Wing"
Tom Clancy
Diane
$400 [4]
Sandals are popular there; many of the people speak Dinka; the second largest city is Khartoum
Sudan
Tim
$400 [8]
In 1989 Iowa became the first state to legalize modern mobile casinos on these
riverboats
Tammy
$400 [16]
Soviet shoppers often spent hours in one of these, an "ochered"
a line (or a queue)
Diane Tim
$400 [27]
Screw base, inert gas, pinch, support, filament
a light bulb
Tammy
$500 [26]
This 1931 film seen here could have been called "The Two Faces of Frederic March"
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Tim
$500 [22]
E.L. Doctorow's novel "The Book of Daniel" was based on the espionage trial of this couple
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Tim
$500 [5]
Its official language is Malay; Bandar Seri Begawan is its capital; its head of state is a sultan
Brunei
Tim
$500 [7]
Term for the 2-wheeled buggy pulled by a trotter in harness racing
a sulky
Tim
$500 [17]
Meaning "union", it's the name of the spacecraft that docked with Apollo in 1975
Soyuz
Tim
$500 [30]
Crest, weights, chain, pendulum, moon dial
a grandfather clock
Tammy Tim
DD $900 [12]
(Hi, I'm Stephen King, Master of Horror.) In this 1979 film, Marlon Brando's character declares "The horror!... The horror!"
Apocalypse Now
Tim

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS WATERWORKERS SWEET GOSPEL MUSIC YOU HAVE A PET WHAT? BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS WOMEN WHO STRAYED
$200 [16]
Much of this man's 1796 farewell address was Alexander Hamilton's work
George Washington
Diane
$200 [4]
To keep his equipment safe, this Venetian "cabbie" could store it in a pole vault
Gondolier
Diane
$200 [1]
"How sweet the sound" of this song, the title of a 1972 Aretha Franklin gospel album
"Amazing Grace"
Diane Tim
$200 [7]
The pot-bellied species of these can grow to over 100 pounds, others up to 1,000
Pig
Tim
$200 [21]
"Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant"
Cary Grant
Tim
$400 [27]
She had affairs with Roberto Rossellini & harmonica player Larry Adler while married to Peter Lindstrom
Ingrid Bergman
Diane
$400 [17]
Written in the 1860s, they allow a fallen boxer 10 seconds to get up again
Marquis of Queensbury Rules
Tammy Tim
$400 [12]
The lad who serves the officers on a ship, or a 1994 film role for Chris Elliott
Cabin boy
Tammy
$400 [2]
A gospel brunch is an attraction at the various branches of this "house" that started in Cambridge, Mass.
House of Blues
$400 [8]
The reticulated one of these may live 20 years & grow to 30 feet
Python
Tim
$400 [22]
"It ain't over till it's over"
Yogi Berra
Diane
$600 [26]
Queen Catherine Howard went from headstrong to headless when she cheated on this king in 1541
Henry VIII
Tim
$600 [18]
Pope John XXIII addressed "Pacem in terris", one of these letters, "To all men of good will"
a papal encyclical
Tammy
$600 [13]
Slang for a deckhand from his use of a mop, not a Q-Tip
Swabbie
Tim
$600 [3]
A 1987 PBS series about the civil rights movement took its title from the gospel song "Keep Your Eyes On" this
The Prize
Tim
$600 [9]
This strutting bird held sacred in India makes a nice watchdog, er....watchbird
Peacock
Diane
$800 [24]
"My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat"
Will Rogers
$1,000 [28]
This diplomat was pushing 70 when his wife Emma took up with naval hero Horatio Nelson
Lord Hamilton
$800 [19]
Muhammad promulgated the constitution of this city soon after he fled there from Mecca
Medina
Tim
$800 [14]
He's the agent on a ship who's responsible for the passengers' money & valuables
Purser
Tim
$800 [5]
He made his name in '50s gospel before "twisting the night away" as a pop superstar
Sam Cooke
Diane Tim
$800 [10]
The African pigmy type of this is sold as a pet; the "Sonic" one as a video game
Hedgehog
Tammy
$1,000 [25]
"Between 2 evils, I always pick the one I've never tried before"
Mae West
Tammy
$1,000 [20]
In the 1809 treaty of this fort, the U.S. acquired 2.5 million acres from Indiana's Indians
Fort Wayne
Tim
$1,000 [15]
The grinder on a yacht doesn't make coffee, but turns the handle on one of these to trim the sails
Winch
Tim
DD $1,000 [6]
Fittingly, in 1962 this female singer won the first gospel Grammy
Mahalia Jackson
Diane
$1,000 [11]
Medieval monks dined on these flat-tailed aquatic rodents, saying as fish, they could be eaten on fast days
Beavers
Diane Tammy
DD $1,700 [23]
"You furnish the pictures & I'll furnish the war"
William Randolph Hearst
Diane

Final Jeopardy!

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Diane "What is Monday Night Football" — wagered $400
Tim "What is Monday Night Football?" — wagered $3,100
Tammy "What is Monday Night Football?" — wagered $3,801

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