Show #3250 1998-10-23 (taped 1998-09-01) Regular

Contestants

Nancy Di Marino — a special education teacher from Loudonville, New York

Ben Huston — a pilot from Bolivar, Texas

Jamie Phillippe — a customer service representative from Baton Rouge, Louisiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jamie $1,100 $2,500 $7,500 $12,201
2-day champion: $16,201
$7,100
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Ben $2,400 $3,300 $4,700 $1
2nd place: Trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$4,700
18 R, 4 W
Nancy $-600 $-400 $-200 $-200
3rd place: Pinseeker Golf Clubs
$300
5 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WAR TRIGGERS HOMOPHONES NORTH AMERICAN EXPLORERS TELEVISION IT'S MY PARTY I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO
$100 [1]
The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine
Spanish-American War
Jamie
$100 [6]
Entreatments that precede "Thank You"
Please & pleas
$100 [9]
In the winter (!) of 1857 Randolph Marcy led a heroic march across these Colorado mountains
Rocky Mountains
Ben
$100 [14]
She gained mass exposure on "The Tonight Show" in 1966 but had a falling-out with Johnny Carson 20 years later
Joan Rivers
Nancy
$100 [20]
"Honest Abe" was the first U.S. chief executive from this political party
Republican Party
Ben
$100 [21]
This tearful tough guy seen here finally won the big award in 1970
John Wayne (won Oscar)
Ben
$200 [2]
The attack on Fort Sumter
The Civil War
Ben
$200 [7]
Run the flag up one to take a survey on how many people would salute
pole & poll
Jamie Nancy
$200 [10]
In 1755 John Finley tempted this young wagoneer with tales of Kentucky lands he'd seen
Daniel Boone
Ben
$300 [16]
1997 ads for ABC used slogans like "Scientists say we use 10% of" this; "that's way too much"
Our brains
$200 [22]
This country's controversial new prime minister Vajpayee is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party
India
Ben Nancy
$200 [23]
It's the artistic finished product depicting a woman crying seen here
Totem pole
Nancy
$300 [3]
The abduction of Helen by Paris
Trojan War
Jamie
$300 [8]
Thick as a brick or dings in a fender
Dense & dents
Ben
$300 [11]
Nathaniel Pitt Langford explored & became the first superintendent of this first U.S. national park
Yellowstone
Ben
$400 [17]
In 1951 Milton Berle signed a 30-year contract with this network at $200,000 per annun
NBC
$300 [28]
This party took power in England after 18 years on the sidelines when Tony Blair won in 1997
Labour
Nancy
$300 [24]
A tear or two "tracked" down this man's face when his golden dream was realized
Michael Johnson
$400 [4]
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
World War I
Ben
$400 [19]
Fall back to plant again
Recede & reseed
Ben
$400 [12]
A "hole" in Wyoming is named for this 19th century explorer & mountain man
David E. Jackson
Ben
DD $500 [15]
(Hi, I'm Dan Cortese.) In 1993 I filled Martin Milner's shoes in a new version of this show about 2 guys & a Corvette"
Route 66
Nancy
$400 [29]
A Conservative Party member in Canada or a loyalist during the American Revolution
Tory
Jamie
$400 [25]
Until exposed as a fake, the Spanish statue seen here reportedly cried tears of this
Blood
Nancy
$500 [5]
The 1982 invasion of the Malvinas Islands, as the invaders called them
the Falkland Islands War
Jamie Nancy
$500 [27]
A speck of dust or the area around a castle
Mote & moat
Jamie
$500 [13]
In 1631 Luke Foxe proved Hudson Bay doesn't lead to this much-sought waterway
Northwest Passage
Ben
$500 [18]
Elizabeth Taylor voiced the first word spoken by this young Simpson: "Daddy"
Maggie
Jamie
$500 [30]
Pat Choate was Ross Perot's running mate for this party in 1996
Reform
$500 [26]
It's the sad country where the photo was taken in 1940
France
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE AFRICAN AMERICANS HISTORY ON THE SCREEN KILLER MUSICALS GEOGRAPHIC CROSSWORD CLUES "B" MINES, ALL MINES
$200 [6]
Appropriately, this stormy drama opens with a storm & a shipwreck
The Tempest
Jamie
$200 [17]
A Hanes ad says you can't have this NBA star's game, rings or fame, but you can have his underwear
Michael Jordan
Jamie
$200 [1]
Jean Stapleton played this towering American on the big screen in "Eleanor, First Lady of the World"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jamie
$200 [11]
The musical about this "Two-Faced" London killer is so popular it has its own website
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Ben Nancy
$200 [12]
Look out "B" low country(7)
Belgium
Ben
$400 [22]
Emphasize the Au in Australia, home of the Kalgoorlie Super Pit Mine for this
gold
$400 [7]
"Umabatha", a Zulu version of this play, moves the setting from Scotland to Africa
Macbeth
Jamie
$400 [18]
He became the highest-ranking American at the U.N. in 1955 when he was named undersecretary
Dr. Ralph Bunche
$400 [2]
She's the biblical seductress brought to sizzling life on the big screen here
Salome (played by Rita Hayworth)
Jamie Nancy
$800 [27]
Fairy tale characters meet dire fates in this Stephen Sondheim musical; how "Grimm"!
Into the Woods
Ben Nancy
$400 [13]
Strait through Istanbul(9)
Bosphorus
Jamie
$600 [23]
Wieliezka, Poland is famous for these, also a metaphor for toil & drudgery
Salt mines
Ben
$800 [9]
In Act V of "Pericles", this Roman goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in a vision
Diana
DD $500 [19]
In 1961 this soprano made her debut with the Metropolitan in "Il Trovatore"
Leontyne Price
Jamie
$600 [3]
Scenes from a 1972 film in which Simon Ward played this British prime minister include one in a Boer prison
Winston Churchill
Jamie Ben
$1,000 [25]
Velma & her fellow murderesses sing the "Cell Block Tango" in this Bob Fosse musical
Chicago
$600 [14]
French Frenchvolcanic volcanicisland island(4-4)
Bora-Bora
$800 [26]
Though it also produces lead, it's basically this metal "or zwim" for Alaska's Red Dog Mine
zinc
$1,000 [10]
In other words, this bawdy battle of the sexes could be called "A Termagant's Domestication"
The Taming of the Shrew
Ben
$800 [20]
This famous poet seen here was San Francisco's first female streetcar conductor
Maya Angelou
Jamie
$800 [4]
He's the 20th century risk taker whose life is dramatized here:"We must restore out Egyptian pride..."
Anwar Sadat (played by Louis Gossett Jr.)
Ben
$800 [15]
"Common" place city(6)
Boston
Jamie
$1,000 [24]
1/2 mile deep & 2 1/2 wide, the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine in this western state is busy as a "beehive"
Utah
Ben
DD $1,500 [8]
Richmond exults, "The bloody dog is dead" after killing this king at Bosworth Field
Richard III
Jamie
$1,000 [21]
Before her election to the Senate, she served 10 years in the Illinois House of Representatives
Carol Moseley Braun
Ben
$1,000 [5]
Spike Lee's film leads up to this famous "March" on Washington:"I am your father, you are my son, so let's get on the bus, okay?"
the Million Man March
Jamie
$1,000 [16]
Cream center of Germany(7)
Bavaria
Jamie

Final Jeopardy!

THE SPACE RACE

In July 1998 it became the third nation to launch an interplanetary craft

Japan (launched a probe to Mars)

Ben "What is China?" — wagered $4,699
Jamie "What is Japan?" — wagered $4,701

« Back to Games