Show #3075 1998-01-02 Regular

Contestants

Cathy Shambaugh — a sixth grade teacher from Berea, Ohio

Eric Swanson — a data coordinator from Washington, D.C.

Bill Unterborn — a visual merchandiser from Palmyra, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $-100 $500 $4,100 $8,200
2-day champion: $21,399
$4,900
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Eric $600 $1,700 $8,100 $7,700
2nd place: Trip to Embassy Suites Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona
$8,100
19 R, 1 W
Cathy $1,300 $1,600 $2,200 $4,395
3rd place: DuPont/Coleman Camping Equipment
$2,800
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ANIMALS LANGUAGES WHEN-THEY-WERE-YOUNG FILMS WE'RE LISBON BOUND WHAT'S TO EAT? SINONYMS
$100 [7]
Among bears, this is the best swimmer
Polar bear
Bill
$100 [1]
The Roman Catholic church translates all of its principal documents into this dead language
Latin
Bill Eric
$100 [8]
Steven Spielberg produced a 1985 film about this Conan Doyle detective's first case
Sherlock Holmes
Bill
$100 [26]
Unlike what we witnessed in Spain's arenas, we'll see these beasts wrestled into submission, but left alive
Bulls
Eric
$100 [13]
The lox that you put on a bagel is a smoked variety of this fish
Salmon
Eric
$100 [16]
"Sow" these & you may be sinning or just planting
Wild oats
Cathy
$200 [6]
The jackrabbit isn't really a rabbit but one of these relatives
Hare
Cathy
$200 [2]
This official language of Liechtenstein is spoken by about 120 million people worldwide
German
Cathy
$200 [9]
Henry Fonda played him "Young" & Raymond Massey played him young & "In Illinois"
Abraham Lincoln
Eric
$200 [27]
We'll visit the Chiado, an area famous for this activity, but our budget may restrict us to the window type
shopping
Eric
$200 [14]
The name of these Asian dumplings sounds like you'll never get them out of the pan
Pot stickers
Cathy
$200 [17]
A bad habit that can have a grip on you, the police have a squad to fight it
Vice
Bill
$300 [10]
Like this similarly named mammal, the aardwolf eats mainly termites
Aardvark
Cathy
$300 [3]
About 3/4 of the people of Singapore speak this Asian language
Chinese
$300 [18]
In a 1972 film Simon Ward played this prime minister from ages 19 to 26
Winston Churchill
Bill
$300 [15]
It's the Irish-sounding name for a diced potato dish fried with onions & peppers
Potatoes O'Brien
$300 [21]
From a word meaning "uneven", you may find "a den of" one
iniquity
Bill Eric
$400 [11]
The viceroy type of this insect is protected by its resemblance to the bad-tasting monarch
a butterfly
Bill Cathy
$400 [4]
In Belgium the Flemings speak Dutch & the Walloons speak this language
French
Eric
$400 [19]
In a 1991 TNT miniseries Julia Ormond played this woman before her empress years
Catherine the Great
Cathy
$400 [22]
Fresh broccoli & zucchini are often featured in this pasta dish served in "spring" or any time
Pasta Primavera
Cathy
$400 [24]
If you're doing this you're sinning; if you "Ain't", you're a musical
Misbehavin'
Bill
$500 [12]
There are 3 species of bluebird but over 20 of these birds, including grackles
Blackbirds
Cathy
$500 [5]
The language of this small Balkan country has 2 main dialects: Gheg & Tosk
Albania
Cathy
DD $600 [20]
1993 film seenhereabout a group of young kids that banded together:
Backbeat
Cathy
$500 [23]
We salute you if you know port-salut is a type of this
Cheese
$500 [25]
It can mean to sin or to sneak onto another's land, & you may be shot for doing it
Trespassing
Eric

Double Jeopardy! Round

HIE WE TO YON RENAISSANCE FAIRE NOVEL VOCABULARY YOUNG STARS ANCIENT HISTORY TRACK "FIELD"
$200 [1]
Among well-beloved faire fare be the leg of this fowl, also much favored in giving thanks
Turkey
Eric
$200 [26]
Emily Bronte said this title word is a "Provincial adjective, descriptive of....atmospheric tumult"
Wuthering
$200 [11]
Ariana Richards & Joseph Mazzello were the youngsters in this 1993 dinosaur spectacular
Jurassic Park
Eric
$200 [2]
Around 2600 B.C. Pharaoh Djoser was entombed in a step one, the first large stone structure
Pyramid
Eric
$200 [21]
The "anchor" for this type of event is no dead weight; he's usually the team's fastest runner
Relay race
Bill
$200 [16]
"Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to" this place; "Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about"
Strawberry Fields
Eric
$400 [7]
There be dancing about this beribboned shaft every faire day, not merely once in the year
Maypole
Eric
$1,000 [27]
Epitasis, a word found in "Tristram Shandy", is the part of a play in which this "thickens"
the plot
Eric
$400 [12]
Jason James Richter played Jesse, the 12-year-old who helped "free" this title movie character
Willy
Bill
$400 [3]
Tien, a version of this divine abode, became part of Chinese religion around 1000 B.C.
heaven
Bill
$400 [22]
This track star's authorized hats & T-shirts sold in Europe & Asia proclaim him to be "King Carl"
Carl Lewis
Bill
$400 [17]
Binoculars
Field glasses
Eric
$600 [8]
Honest knights do battle both in the joust & upon a giant board for this olde game
Chess
Bill
$600 [13]
He plays the title boy in ABC's "Boy Meets World"
Ben Savage
Cathy
$600 [4]
About 20,000 years ago, hunters crossed what's now this strait to become North American Indians
Bering Strait
Eric
$600 [23]
This 3,000-meter event consists of 28 3-foot-high hurdles & 7 12-foot-long water jumps
steeplechase
Bill
$600 [18]
Military title shared by Horatio Kitchener, Erwin Rommel & Bernard Montgomery
Field marshall
Eric
DD $1,000 [9]
Thinking themselves the elect, these fellows you see go about denouncing the faire's pleasures:
Puritans
Bill
$800 [14]
She got "Greedy" playing "Jumanji" during an "Interview With The Vampire"
Kirsten Dunst
Eric
$800 [5]
From 500 to 300 B.C. these Roman common citizens won political rights from the Patricians
Plebeians
Eric
DD $1,000 [24]
On August 16, 1995 this country's Haile Gebrselassie set the world record in the 5,000-meter run at 12:44:39
Ethiopia
Bill
$800 [19]
1963 film in which Sidney Poitier played a handyman who builds a chapel for 5 German-speaking nuns
Lilies Of The Field
Bill
$1,000 [10]
The folk who love & work at faires may well belong to the SCA, being the Society for Creative this
Anachronism
Bill Eric
$1,000 [15]
On Nickelodeon Irene Ng stars in "The Mystery Files Of" this teen detective
Shelby Woo
Bill
$1,000 [6]
In the Bible Uriah was a member of these people who conquered Babylon around 1595 B.C.
Hittites
$1,000 [25]
On June 1, 1997 Donovan Bailey defeated this sprinter in a special 150-meter match race to win $1.5 million
Michael Johnson
$1,000 [20]
With the infamous 30 pieces of silver, the chief priests bought this "To bury strangers in"
Potter's Field
Bill

Final Jeopardy!

IN THE NEWS 1997

50 years after a famous incident, this city got a new flag, seen here, featuring a mysterious dot in the sky:

Roswell, New Mexico

Cathy "What is Roswell?" — wagered $2,195
Bill "What is Roswell, New Mexico" — wagered $4,100
Eric "What is Santa Fe" — wagered $400

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