Show #3255 1998-10-30 (taped 1998-09-03) Regular

Juliet Wiley game 5.

Contestants

Katie Clark — a choir accompanist from Gastonia, North Carolina

Michael Plank — a law student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Juliet Wiley — a stay-at-home mom from Plano, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $30,749)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Juliet $700 $1,700 $7,300 $3,300
2nd place: Trip to "Shipwreck '98" festival on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California
$8,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $500 $2,700 $5,500 $0
3rd place: Trip to "Knott's Scary Farm" in Buena Park, California
$6,100
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Katie $500 $1,400 $4,600 $7,600
New champion: $7,600
$4,600
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANNUAL EVENTS SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY MILITARY UNITS THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC
$100 [12]
Dating back at least 100 years, "drowning the shamrock", or going drinking, is a tradition on this holiday
St. Patrick's Day
Michael
$100 [25]
In 1998 the magazine told of efforts to liquify this "cleanest of fossil fuels" for use in cars
natural gas
Juliet
$100 [1]
This film about a flying elephant inspired a ride at Disneyland
Dumbo
Katie
$100 [3]
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
Julius Caesar
Michael
$100 [19]
Oliver Stone won an Oscar for his story about one of these title units in which he served in Vietnam
a platoon
Katie
$100 [2]
It's the casino game in which you'd hear someone say "Hit me"
blackjack
Michael
$200 [13]
Secretary of State William H. Seward is honored on the last Monday in March in this state
Alaska
Katie
$200 [26]
SA's website's "Ask the Experts" column answers key questions like "Why does bruised fruit turn" this color
brown
Michael
$200 [17]
Chim-Chim Cheree! This film featuring chimney sweeps swept up 13 Oscar nominations
Mary Poppins
Katie
$200 [4]
"Good-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good-night till it be morrow"
Romeo and Juliet
Michael
$200 [22]
From the medieval Latin for "army", it's a large fleet like the one Admiral Howard faced in 1588
an armada
Michael
$200 [8]
It's the creature seenherewho's particularly hard on her mate
a black widow spider
Michael
$300 [14]
Called the greatest 2 minutes in sports, it takes place on the first Saturday in May
the Kentucky Derby
Katie
$300 [28]
Magazine contributor Steven Chu won a Nobel Prize for slowing atoms with these light beams
lasers
Michael
$300 [18]
This 1961 film was the first to feature a magical substance called Flubber
The Absent-Minded Professor
Michael
$300 [5]
"Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog"
Macbeth
Juliet
$300 [23]
3 brigades under 1 headquarters, or a math function
a division
Michael
$300 [9]
The Green Hornet's car, or Anna Sewell's horse
Black Beauty
Katie
$400 [15]
An ancient symbol of abundance, the cornucopia is often attached to this American holiday
Thanksgiving
Michael
$400 [29]
A steamy 1998 issue reports on sexual attraction in the orange sulphur species of this colorful insect
butterflies
$400 [20]
Much of the music for this 1959 film, including the song "Once Upon A Dream" was adapted from an 1890 ballet
Sleeping Beauty
Katie
$400 [6]
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
Hamlet (Polonius)
Michael Katie
$400 [24]
A group of cavalry, whether A, B, or "F"
a troop
Juliet
$400 [10]
Early in his career, Burt Reynolds played Quint Asper, one of these on "Gunsmoke"
Blacksmith
Juliet
$500 [16]
This city's Mississippi River Art Fair is held in the Mark Twain Historic District
Hannibal, Missouri
Katie
$500 [30]
To physicists, SOHO isn't a neighborhood but an observatory orbiting this body
the Sun
$500 [21]
Among the babes in "Babes in Toyland" are Ann Jillian as Bo Peep & this Mouseketeer as Mary Contrary
Annette Funicello
Michael
DD $600 [7]
"The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath"
The Merchant of Venice
Michael
$500 [27]
Mod or not, it's usually 10 infantrymen headed by a staff sergeant
a squad
Juliet
$500 [11]
Yo-ho, yo-ho! His real name was believed to be Edward Teach
Blackbeard
Katie

Double Jeopardy! Round

LET'S VISIT AUSTRIA CREATION STORIES TURNING 40 IN '98 HERBS & SPICES PIANO KEYS SPOOKS
$200 [19]
Preferring to go where the rain turns to snow, he wintered in Schruns while writing "The Sun Also Rises"
Ernest Hemingway
Juliet
$200 [22]
Scholars link Egyptian creation myths to the sun apparently fertilizing this river's slime
the Nile
Juliet
$200 [1]
This pitcher's "Orel" history continued in '98 with a new team, the Giants
Orel Hershiser
Katie
$200 [6]
Though derived from the same plant as opium, these seeds are non-narcotic
poppy seeds
Katie
$200 [13]
It's the only letter in "piano" that corresponds to a piano key
A
Juliet
$200 [3]
This spy came a long way from her origins as the daughter of a Dutch hatter
Mata Hari
Michael
$400 [27]
Capital of Tyrol, it has hosted 2 Winter Olympics
Innsbruck
Juliet
$400 [23]
According to the King James Version, God's first words quoted in the book of Genesis
"Let there be light"
Michael Katie
$400 [2]
In 1998 she turned 40 & played a 40-year-old in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"
Angela Bassett
Michael
$400 [7]
The scientific name of this herb is Mentha piperita
peppermint
Katie
$400 [14]
Of the 2 types of piano keys in a Paul McCartney-Stevie Wonder hit, it's what G-flat is
ebony
Juliet
$400 [4]
Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, CIA man Kermit, kept the Shah of this country on his throne in 1953
Iran
Juliet
DD $1,000 [28]
This English king was held prisoner in 1193 in a castle above Durnstein, Austria
Richard the Lionheart (on his way back from one of the Crusades)
Juliet
$600 [24]
In some Native American myths, this animal helps a deity create the world, with no help from the Acme Co.
a coyote
Michael
DD $600 [5]
(Hi, I'm Franklin Diaz-Chang, an astronaut on board the Space Shuttle Discovery.) Oct. 1, 1998 is the 40th birthday of this government agency
NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Juliet
$600 [8]
This aromatic leaf, used to flavor meat, soups & stews, comes from a laurel tree
a bay leaf
Juliet
$600 [15]
A 6-string guitar has 2 strings tuned to this note, each corresponding to a piano key
E
Michael
$600 [16]
Cuban refugee Antonio Prohias drew this MAD Magazine comic strip for 29 years
Spy vs. Spy
Michael
$800 [25]
Africa's Fulani people, who are cattle herders, say everything came from a drop of this
milk
Michael
$800 [11]
A short called "Frankenweenie" helped launch the career of this "Edward Scissorhands" director
Tim Burton
Juliet
$800 [9]
During the Middle Ages, merchants who adulterated this expensive yellow spice were burnt at the stake
saffron
Juliet
$800 [20]
They're adjacent on the keyboard as well as in an abbreviation for a popular format of recorded music
C & D
Katie
$800 [17]
Spy Richard Sorge warned this Russian leader of Germany's WWII invasion but was ignored
Joseph Stalin
Michael
$1,000 [26]
To the ancient Greeks, it was a void from which Nyx & Erebus emerged; in English it's a disordered mess
chaos
Katie
$1,000 [12]
Damon, Marlon & Kim's big brother, he turned 40 on June 8
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Juliet
$1,000 [10]
Referring to their shape, these fragrant buds take their name from the Latin word for "nail"
cloves
Juliet
$1,000 [21]
It's the key the French call "Le do du milieu du piano"
middle C
Katie
$1,000 [18]
In the early '70s East German spy Gunter Guillaume infiltrated the office of this West German chancellor
Willy Brandt

Final Jeopardy!

HALLOWEEN ON FILM

(Happy Halloween, I'm Janet Leigh.) In a 1953 film my then husband played this man, who died on Halloween in 1926; I played his wife Bess

Harry Houdini

Katie "Who was Harry Houdini?" — wagered $3,000
Michael "Who was Smith" — wagered $5,500
Juliet "Who is Tony Curtis?" — wagered $4,000

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