Show #3094 1998-01-29 Regular

Contestants

Corey Burke — a stage carpenter originally from Goshen, Connecticut

Diane Graft — a paralegal from Alexandria, Virginia

Vinnie Iyer — a journalism student from Ballwin, Missouri (whose 3-day cash winnings total $31,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Vinnie $1,300 $2,300 $2,100 $102
3rd place: Wittanaur his & hers watches
$2,100
18 R, 5 W
Diane $200 $1,700 $2,700 $3,700
2nd place: a trip to Kauai, Hawaii for 6 nights
$2,700
11 R, 3 W
Corey $3,100 $5,400 $16,200 $8,200
New champion: $8,200
$8,600
22 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

LITTLE MOVIES JIMMY LOVES THAT COMPUTER AMERICAN AUTHORS FISH NEW JERSEYITES METAPHORICAL INSULTS
$100 [4]
Edward G. Robinson snarled his way to stardom as Rico Bandello in this 1930 gangster classic
Little Caesar
Corey
$100 [29]
Jimmy swears by Windows, while his pal Ned sticks to this Apple system that Windows mimics
Macintosh
Vinnie
$100 [1]
He wrote amateur musical comedies at Princeton about 10 years before "The Great Gatsby"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vinnie
$100 [9]
Like humans, the lungfish has a heart with this many chambers
4
Vinnie
$100 [10]
Though he shares his name with a city in Ohio, this president was born in Caldwell, New Jersey
Cleveland
Corey
$100 [21]
Trixie has only one of these propellant devices in the water
an oar
Diane
$200 [5]
Jack Nicholson played a dental patient in this film that inspired a musical about a bloodthirsty flower
Little Shop of Horrors
Vinnie
$200 [30]
On Jimmy's monitor, this moving image that prevents burn-in is comely model Tippy Sealy
a screensaver
Diane
$200 [2]
As a war correspondant, this Tarzan creator witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Vinnie
$200 [13]
Like some gouramis, several grunts are famous for doing this when 2 of them meet
kissing
Corey
$300 [12]
Englewood would always "Welcome Back" this ex-sweathog born there February 18, 1954
John Travolta
Vinnie Diane
$200 [22]
Abner's device perfected by Otis "doesn't go to the top floor"
the elevator
Vinnie
$300 [6]
She played "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" before she directed "Little Man Tate"
Jodie Foster
Corey
$300 [28]
Jimmy learned HTML, hypertext markup language, to create this, addressable at jimmyland.com
his web site
Vinnie
$300 [3]
He began his "Goosebumps" series with 1992's "Welcome to Dead House"
R.L. Stine
Corey
$300 [17]
Aquarium fish include the fighting fish & this one that shares its name with the Manassa Mauler
Jack Dempsey
$400 [14]
Middle name of Chatham-born merchant Aaron Ward
Montgomery
Vinnie
$300 [24]
Mitzi is this device that doesn't emit enough luminescence
a dim bulb
Diane
$400 [7]
Richard Mulligan passed muster & was cast as General Custer in this Dustin Hoffman film
Little Big Man
Corey
$400 [27]
Jimmy created one of these to catalog his coin collection, with fields including date & nation of origin
a database
Corey
$400 [19]
Harper Lee helped him research an article which developed into the work "In Cold Blood"
Truman Capote
Diane
$400 [18]
This name for the rock bass sounds like it takes late-night flights
the redeye
Vinnie
$500 [15]
This Trenton-born Colorado explorer was killed in an 1813 assault on York, Canada; he was "piqued"
(Zebulon) Pike
Corey
$400 [25]
The lights are on, but this is Skippy's problem
no one's home
Corey
$500 [8]
Katharine Hepburn's film "The Little Minister" was based on a play by this creator of Peter Pan
(Sir James) Barrie
Diane
$500 [23]
Ironically, Jimmy spent the second Sunday in May replacing this, his PC's main circuit board
a motherboard
Corey
$500 [20]
In 1962 this "Cardinal Sins" author received the Edison Award for his "Catholic Hour" radio broadcasts
(Andrew) Greeley
Corey
$500 [16]
Clown fish can avoid their enemies by swimming among these marine polyps with a floral name
anemones
Diane
DD $1,200 [11]
Pair seen here, they were both born in New Jersey"All right, you take Joan and I'll take Sandra.""Oh, Sandra sends me.""Well then I'll take Joan!""Joan sends me too.""Now listen, you... I'm going to send you!""Sorry, you don't even appeal to me."
Abbott & Costello
Corey
$500 [26]
Biff could be thick as one, or one short of a load
a brick
Corey

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIG MOVIES ARCHITECTS WORLD GEOGRAPHY SOUNDING OFF I'M WARNING YOU... NOW GET OUT!
$200 [3]
"Big Jake" was the last of 5 films this big guy made with Maureen O'Hara
John Wayne
Vinnie
$200 [11]
The Old State House Charles Bullfinch designed for this Connecticut city is now the city hall
Hartford
Vinnie
$200 [1]
Bavaria, this country's southernmost state, is also its largest in area
Germany
Vinnie
$200 [13]
Nickname of Edmund Gibson, who hunted owls as a youth & starred in Westerns as an adult
"Hoot"
Diane
$200 [30]
He ignored the warning "Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden"
Peter Rabbit
Corey
$200 [21]
She left the Philippines with her husband on Feb. 26, 1986, leaving 3,000 pairs of shoes behind
Imelda Marcos
Vinnie
$400 [4]
Lily Tomlin & this actress were just "divine" as pairs of mismatched twins in "Big Business"
Bette Midler
Corey
$400 [12]
Two 60,000-pound statues of these graceful birds top a Disney World hotel designed by Michael Graves
swans
Diane
$400 [7]
Asia's longest river, it's called "China's fortune" because of its fertile soil & economic importance
the Yangtze
Vinnie
$400 [14]
A hit 1965 musical was called this "of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd"
The Roar
Corey
$400 [29]
In a hit song, Dion warned, "Keep away from" this title female: she "goes out with other guys"
Runaround Sue
Corey
$400 [22]
Chris Patten, governor of this British colony, left it on July 1, 1997 on the royal yacht Britannia
Hong Kong
Diane
$800 [6]
Her daughter Tracy Reiner appeared as a test market researcher in her film "Big"
Penny Marshall
Corey
$600 [15]
Philip Johnson designed the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at this Manhattan museum
MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
Vinnie
$600 [8]
This small island nation in the North Atlantic has more than 100 volcanoes
Iceland
Corey
$600 [17]
Someone who creates high expectations & can't fulfill them is "all" this "and no steak"
sizzle
$600 [28]
He warned Nixon that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, & it's on tape
John Dean
$600 [23]
This country has exiled Norodam Sihanouk twice & twice crowned him king
Cambodia
Vinnie
$1,000 [2]
Sausage King Jimmy Dean played a former sheriff in this 1990 film named for his biggest hit record
Big Bad John
Diane
$800 [16]
I.M. Pei designed the 75-story Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in this city
Houston
Vinnie
$1,000 [10]
Deep granite gorges of this river have led some to call it "the crease in the map of Spain"
the Tagus
Vinnie
$800 [18]
An organized illegal activity, like extortion
a racket
Corey
$800 [27]
After hearing dire warnings, King Saul regretted having the spirit of this prophet raised at Endor
Samuel
Vinnie Diane Corey
$800 [24]
In 1994, 2 days after Philippe Biamby & Raoul Cedras left Haiti for exile, this president returned
(Jean-Bertrand) Aristide
Vinnie Diane
DD $3,000 [5]
Most of Kevin Costner's scenes were cut from this film, except for his opening bits as a corpse
The Big Chill
Corey
$1,000 [19]
In the 1960s John Carl Warnecke redesigned this city's Lafeyette Square to include 2 new government buildings
Washington, D.C.
Vinnie
DD $5,000 [9]
763-foot Mount Royal stands in the center of this Canadian city
Montreal
Corey
$1,000 [20]
Analogous to a type of light, this kind of sound contains all audible frequencies
white noise
Diane
$1,000 [26]
Title of a 1972 Tennessee Williams play, they're advisories put out to boat-owners in high winds
small craft warnings
$1,000 [25]
After the Mormons left this Illinois town in 1846, a group of French socialists moved in
Nauvoo
Vinnie

Final Jeopardy!

THE NOBEL PRIZE

All the medals have Alfred Nobel on 1 side; these 2 categories share an identical design on the reverse

Chemistry & Physics

Vinnie "What are physics + physiology?" — wagered $1,998
Diane "What are Chemistry + Physics" — wagered $1,000
Corey "What are Literature and Peace" — wagered $8,000

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