Show #3257 1998-11-03 (taped 1998-09-03) Regular

Contestants

Allen Upchurch — a mathematics teacher from Camden, South Carolina

Jessica Ginsburg — an executive assistant from Stamford, Connecticut

Sinan Turnacioglu — a medical student from East Brunswick, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sinan $1,100 $2,200 $6,800 $1,400
2-day champion: $9,800
$6,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jessica $700 $1,900 $6,000 $0
3rd place: Festina Mega-Quartz Watches
$6,500
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Allen $100 $800 $4,600 $100
2nd place: Trip to Double Tree Resort, Walt Disney World Village, Florida
$4,900
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WEATHER 19th CENTURY FOOD & DRINK ROCK & POP SEAS POTPOURRI ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS
$100 [22]
16 degrees Celsius is roughly 61 degrees on this scale
Fahrenheit
Allen
$100 [12]
Joseph & Edward Tetley opened a shop to sell this product in 1837
Tea
Sinan
$100 [1]
It was the last decade in which Cher didn't have a Top 40 hit
1950s
Sinan Jessica Allen
$100 [11]
The Mosquito Gulf & the Gulf of Venezuela are among the gulfs lying along this sea
Caribbean Sea
Jessica
$100 [17]
To go next to your piece of the Berlin Wall, you can buy a lump of coal from this ship that sank in 1912
Titanic
Jessica
$100 [4]
"Marine"
"Marnie"
$200 [23]
The name of this storm with winds over 74 mph comes from the West Indies Taino word for "evil spirit"
a hurricane
Sinan Allen
$200 [16]
Antonin Careme created Charlotte Russe & this sour-creamed meat dish for Czar Alexander I
Beef Stroganoff
Jessica
$200 [2]
Of a steamroller, airplane or 2 U.S. cities, it was what the group Buffalo Springfield was named after
a steamroller
Sinan Allen
$200 [13]
This sea was named for an ancient Roman port near Venice
Adriatic
Sinan
$200 [18]
In World War I, the women who had this job were known as "Hello Girls"
Telephone operators
$200 [5]
"Rig Vote"
"Vertigo"
Jessica
$300 [24]
It's the 7-letter term for the common cloud type seen here
cumulus
Jessica Allen
$300 [19]
This Boston company introduced its canned deviled ham in 1867
William Underwood Co.
DD $300 [3]
(Hi, I'm Melissa Joan Hart.) My mother took my name Melissa from a song by this band featuring Duane & Gregg
The Allman Brothers Band
Allen
$300 [14]
The island of Taiwan separates this sea into east & south divisions
China Sea
Sinan
$300 [26]
Before taking the Russian throne in 1762, she changed her name, her language & her religion
Catherine the Great
Jessica
$300 [6]
"Shy Cop"
"Psycho"
Allen
$400 [25]
A boundary between 2 dissimilar air masses, it may be cold, warm or stationary
Front
Sinan
$400 [20]
Antoine Alciatore opened his restaurant on St. Louis Street in this city in 1840
New Orleans
Allen
$400 [9]
"The Truth" is part of his 4-CD "Crystal Ball" set
Prince
Sinan
$400 [15]
Bab El Mandeb, Arabic for "Gate of Tears", connects the Gulf of Aden with this colorful sea
Red Sea
Jessica
$400 [27]
Alessandro Alessandroni was the performer who added this to the music in "A Fistful of Dollars"
Whistling
Allen
$400 [7]
"Bed Shirt"
"The Birds"
Sinan
$500 [28]
Weather records are preserved in these, such as Mendenhall; a drill can pull out 160,000 years of data
Glaciers
Allen
$500 [21]
Pair who sold the first roasted coffee in cans in 1878
Chase & Sanborn
$500 [10]
In 1982 it was "Business As Usual" for this "Who Can It Be Now?" group from down under
Men At Work
Sinan
$500 [29]
Though he wrote about 40 plays in all, only 11, including "Clouds" & "Frogs", survive intact
Aristophanes
Jessica
$500 [8]
"Laid From Red Rum"
"Dial M For Murder"
Jessica

Double Jeopardy! Round

MURDER, SHE WROTE THE JEFFERSONS DYNASTY COACH JUST SHOOT ME "GOOD" TIMES
$200 [12]
This crafter of murder mysteries seenherecaused a mystery herself by vanishing for 10 days in 1926
Agatha Christie
Allen
$200 [18]
Like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson married a fetching widow with this first name
Martha
Sinan Allen
$200 [2]
Capet, Valois, Bourbon
France
Jessica
$200 [26]
Michigan football legend Glenn E. Schembechler is better known by this nickname
"Bo"
$200 [3]
Gum-chewers might know this is the weapon seen here
a bazooka
Allen
$200 [1]
This unselfish guy's story is told in Luke 10
the Good Samaritan
Sinan
$400 [13]
"A Mind for Murder" & "A Taste for Death" are works by this author whose first names are Phyllis Dorothy
P.D. James
Sinan
$400 [19]
Little did Thomas' daughter Patsy know she'd be played by Gwyneth Paltrow in "Jefferson in" this city
Paris
Jessica
$400 [4]
1st,15th, Ptolemaic
Egypt
Sinan
$400 [27]
SI called Pat Summitt, coach of this school's women's basketball team, "The Wizard of Knoxville"
the University of Tennessee
Sinan
$400 [14]
Used by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater, it's the make of pistol seen here
Derringer
Allen
$400 [8]
This groovy song was a Top 10 hit for the Beach Boys in 1966
"Good Vibrations"
Jessica
$600 [20]
In this "little" Lillian Hellman play, Regina withholds Horace's medicine & coldly watches him die
"The Little Foxes"
Jessica
$600 [22]
Thomas' first grandchild, Anne, was born, married & buried at this hilltop home
Monticello
Jessica
DD $500 [7]
Bernadotte, Vasa, Folkung
Sweden
Jessica
$600 [28]
Former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer moved south in 1994 to take over this pro football team
the Dallas Cowboys
Sinan
$600 [15]
Seen here, this weapon "heats up" the action in caves & pillboxes
a flamethrower
Sinan
$600 [9]
One of her popular books about chimps is titled "In The Shadow of Man"
Jane Goodall
Allen
$800 [21]
This female P.I. investigates murder & mayhem in books by Sara Paretsky
VI Warshawski
Allen
$800 [23]
The 1804 death of daughter Polly led Thomas to reconciliation with this family, Abigail first
Adams
Sinan
$600 [5]
Balliol, Bruce, Stuart
Scotland
Jessica
$800 [29]
With the Chicago Bulls, he was the guiding force behind the best single-season record in NBA history
Phil Jackson
Jessica
$800 [16]
The firing mechanism of this classic gun seenheregives it its name
a flintlock
Allen
$800 [10]
It's the famous geographic feature indicated here
the Cape of Good Hope
Jessica
DD $1,000 [25]
This author seenhereis famous for creating a "monstrous" killer
Mary Shelley (created "Frankenstein")
Sinan
$1,000 [24]
Some biographers believe Thomas fathered several children by this slave 30 years his junior
Sally Hemings
$800 [6]
Tran, Ngo, Dinh
Vietnam
Jessica
$1,000 [30]
Glowering Romanian Ion Tiriac helped this German man win Wimbledon at age 17 in 1985
Boris Becker
Allen
$1,000 [17]
The name of this 105mm artillery piece seenherecomes from the Czech word for catapult
a howitzer
$1,000 [11]
In Shakespeare, he's also known as Puck
Robin Goodfellow
Jessica

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY WOMEN

At this woman's April 1998 funeral, Gloria Steinem called her "the woman we want to be after the revolution"

Bella Abzug (former New York congresswoman)

Allen "Who is Lady Bird Johnson?" — wagered $4,500
Jessica "Who was Betty Shabazz?" — wagered $6,000
Sinan "Who is Klein?" — wagered $5,400

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