Show #3247 1998-10-20 (taped 1998-09-01) Regular

Contestants

Debra Winterton — a graduate student from Seattle, Washington

Greg Sanders — a computer consultant from Springfield, Illinois

Tammy Talpas — an engineering secretary originally from Austin, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tammy $1,600 $2,800 $5,400 $2,201
2nd place: Daewoo TV/VCR Combo & Direct TV Satellite System
$5,100
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Greg $200 $200 $7,600 $4,399
New champion: $4,399
$8,600
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Debra $700 $500 $1,100 $100
3rd place: Ducane Par-T-Grill
$1,100
9 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY NOVELS TARGET SPORTS THE 19-AUGHTs YOU DO THE MATH STATE DEPT. TRAVEL WARNINGS "OO"PS
$100 [4]
In its last chapter, the hero tells his father, "Love means never having to say you're sorry"
"Love Story"
Debra
$100 [25]
Close proverbially counts in this sport, but a ringer counts the most
Horseshoes
Tammy
$100 [18]
In '06 these events devastated San Francisco in April & Valparaiso, Chile in August
Earthquakes
Debra
$100 [9]
Number of nursery rhyme blackbirds baked in a pie divided by number of nursery rhyme blind mice
8 (24÷3)
$100 [16]
The U.S. uses the Swiss embassy in Iran to conduct business & the Polish embassy in this neighboring country
Iraq
Tammy
$100 [1]
This form of billiards uses 15 red balls & 6 colored balls
Snooker
Tammy
$200 [5]
Ralph survives on the island but Piggy is less lucky in this William Golding classic
"Lord of the Flies"
Greg
$200 [26]
Justin Huish of the U.S. took a bow when he won a gold in this sport at the 1996 Olympics
Archery
Tammy
$200 [19]
Blind in one eye, Frank McGee scored 14 goals in one game to win this trophy for Ottawa in '05
The Stanley Cup (hockey)
Greg
$300 [11]
It's the square root of the square root of 81
3 (square root of 9)
Tammy Greg
$200 [17]
Say so long to Sarajevo; the U.S. has been warning people about visiting this country since 1992
Bosnia (or Yugoslavia)
Greg Debra
$200 [2]
Oscar-nominated film in which Dustin Hoffman played both Michael Dorsey & Dorothy Michaels
"Tootsie"
Debra
$300 [6]
Albert Camus' French work "L' Etranger" has been translated as "The Outsider", but more commonly as this
"The Stranger"
Tammy
$300 [27]
Now a sport that can include a 10,000 foot free fall to a target, the equipment dates back to 1797
Skydiving
$300 [20]
This barbershop favorite was a campaign song for "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald
"Sweet Adeline"
$400 [12]
Total number of U.S. representatives times total number of U.S. senators
43,500 (435 X 100)
Debra
$300 [22]
In June 1997 the U.S. closed its embassy in Brazzaville in this country & advises you not to visit
The Congo
$300 [3]
In 1967 the Rascals were doing this "Down a crowded avenue, doin' anything we'd like to do"
"Groovin'"
Greg
$400 [14]
Norman Mailer was just 25 when this 1948 bestseller, his first novel, was published
The Naked and the Dead
Tammy Greg
$400 [28]
Its center should be 5 feet, 8 inches off the tavern floor & you can stand 7 feet, 9 1/4 inches away from it
Dartboard
Tammy
$400 [21]
It began in '01 & the train of the same name began running from NYC to Chicago in '02
The 20th Century
Tammy
DD $500 [10]
Number of ounces in a standard avoirdupois pound divided by number of cups in a gallon
1 (16÷16)
Tammy
$400 [23]
If you decide to go to this country (against U.S. wishes), really avoid the city of Cali
Colombia
Tammy
$400 [7]
Meaning the lot, pack or crowd, it's often paired with kit
Kaboodle
Tammy
$500 [15]
Saul Bellow's title characters include Herzog, Humboldt & this man, "The Rain King"
Henderson
Tammy
$500 [29]
The target in this Italian sport, also known as lawn bowls, is called the jack
bocce
$500 [13]
It's the number you get when you raise 10 to the fifth power
100,000
Tammy Greg Debra
$500 [24]
With tensions between Ethiopia & this country mounting, the State Dept. warned Americans to get out
Eritrea
Greg
$500 [8]
From the Tamil language for "curl", it's a cigar with square-cut ends
Cheroot

Double Jeopardy! Round

MUSIC HISTORIC FACES GEOGRAPHICAL EXTREMES "ROCK"IN' & A-"ROLL"IN' WHO WON THE OSCAR? I FORGET
$200 [6]
Composer baptized with the given names Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Greg
$200 [16]
This man shared a Nobel Prize with his wife Marie
Pierre Curie
Debra
$200 [24]
Mizen Head, this country's southernmost mainland point, lies in County Cork & that's no blarney
Ireland
Greg
$200 [8]
Born in Norway, he coached the Fighting Irish
Knute Rockne
Tammy
$200 [1]
Al Pacino, for "Scent of a Woman"; Robert Downey Jr., for "Chaplin"; Denzel Washington, for "Malcolm X"
Al Pacino (1992)
Debra
$200 [14]
He pushed for a New Deal in 1932 & appealed to the "forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Greg
$400 [7]
Shakespeare mentioned this folk tune attributed to Henry VIII in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
"Greensleeves"
$400 [17]
He was one of the early card-carrying members (of the Communist Party) before "getting the axe"
Leon Trotsky
Greg
$400 [26]
Seixas Point, the easternmost point on the mainland of the Americas, lies in this country
Brazil
Greg
$400 [9]
You might be ticked off if you catch this disease caused by the microorganism rickettsia rickettii
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Debra
$400 [2]
Tom Cruise, for "Jerry Maguire"; Geoffrey Rush, for "Shine"; Ralph Fiennes, for "The English Patient"
Geoffrey Rush
Greg
$400 [15]
Jack Dempsey in 1926 & Ronald Reagan in 1981 quipped they "forgot to" do this
duck
Tammy Greg
$600 [13]
The stringed instrument played sitting cross-legged on the floor, sometimes with a tabla, an Indian drum
Sitar
Tammy
$600 [18]
Born in Scotland, this author spent time in the United States & the South Seas
Robert Louis Stevenson
DD $1,000 [27]
Only 4 nations lie south of 40 degrees south latitude: Australia, New Zealand, Argentina & this one
Chile
Greg
$600 [10]
The Stray Cats revived this kind of rock in 1982
rockabilly
Tammy
$600 [3]
Brad Pitt, for "12 Monkeys"; James Cromwell, for "Babe"; Kevin Spacey, for "The Usual Suspects"
Kevin Spacey
Debra
$600 [20]
In this Eagles song, "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget"
"Hotel California"
Tammy
$800 [25]
The 3 clef signs in current use are C, F & this, also known as treble
G
$800 [19]
This woman's silent films include "The Torrent" & "Flesh And The Devil"
Greta Garbo
Greg
$800 [11]
The L.A. Thunderbirds could tell you 2 bruising teams on skates lap each other to score in this sport
Roller Derby
Greg
$800 [4]
Jodie Foster, for "Nell"; Jessica Lange, for "Blue Sky"; Winona Ryder, for "Little Women"
Jessica Lange
Greg
$800 [21]
In this 1945 Hitchcock classic, Gregory Peck doesn't remember if he committed a murder
Spellbound
Greg Debra
$1,000 [22]
A victim of friendly fire, this man was born in Clarksburg in what is now West Virginia
Stonewall Jackson
Greg
$1,000 [12]
"Sow" these at breakfast, but make sure they've been hulled & steamed
Rolled oats
Greg
$1,000 [5]
Robert Loggia, for "Jagged Edge"; Eric Roberts, for "Runaway Train"; Don Ameche, for "Cocoon"
Don Ameche
Greg
$1,000 [23]
You probably forgot you knew this word was Greek for "forgetfulness"
Amnesia
Tammy

Final Jeopardy!

WORDS FROM PHYSICS

It means "relating to the motion of projectiles", or "very angry"

ballistic

Debra "What is arcane?" — wagered $1,000
Tammy "What is furious?" — wagered $3,199
Greg "What is velocity?" — wagered $3,201

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