Show #3266 1998-11-16 (taped 1998-09-19) Regular

1998 Teen Reunion Tournament preliminary game 1.From the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

Contestants

Creswell Formey — an actor and bookstore manager from New Haven, Connecticut

Dana Venator — a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois

Peter Morris — a graduate student from Oxford, England

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Peter $-200 $500 $3,500 $7,000
2nd place: $5,000
$2,900
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Dana $1,400 $2,500 $8,900 $10,799
Winner: finalist, if one of 3 top-scoring winners; $7,500 for 4th place
$7,700
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Creswell $600 $700 $3,300 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$3,300
10 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MOTHER EARTH IN THE DRUGSTORE GOVERNORS THE BRAT PACK TODAY COLLEGE MEMORIES WORDS FOR THE WISE
$100 [20]
La Nina is the name given to the weather pattern that produces many effects opposite to this one
El Nino
Peter
$100 [8]
Leo Gerstenzang thought up this product when he saw his wife twirl cotton on a toothpick & use it as a swab
Q-Tip
Peter
$100 [18]
Amid 1994 GOP gains, Democrat Zell Miller won his second goober-natorial election in this state
Georgia
Creswell
$100 [1]
He plays Jack, who runs things at the Gate magazine, on "Suddenly Susan"
Judd Nelson
Peter
$100 [13]
It's the one-word name for the exams you take at the end of school terms
Finals
Dana
$100 [4]
Scholarly last name of "Waltons" actress Michael
Learned
Dana
$200 [21]
On the average, the Earth is about 93 million miles or one astronomical unit away from this
the Sun
Dana
$200 [9]
One of its former slogans called it "The Candy Mint With The Hole"
Life Savers
Creswell
$200 [19]
Action by Nebraska gov. Charles Thone kept order when these "breezed" through Grand Island in June 1980
Tornadoes
Peter
$200 [2]
He hung up his hockey skates to direct himself & his dad in "The War At Home"
Emilio Estevez
Creswell
$200 [14]
From the Latin for "larger", it's your academic specialty
Major
Dana
$200 [5]
As CONTROL agent Maxwell could tell you, sharp blows do it
Smart
Creswell
$300 [25]
The high or spring tides on Earth occur during these 2 phases of the Moon
new & full
Peter Dana
$300 [22]
In 1907 he developed his first corn pad, probably right after he developed his first corn
Dr. William Scholl
Peter
$300 [3]
One of the youngest of the Brat Pack, he's formed a band called Hall of Mirrors
Anthony Michael Hall
Dana
$300 [15]
You "pull" one of these by staying awake until dawn over a project or paper
All-nighter
Dana
$300 [6]
This synonym for wise is often mixed with onion to make poultry stuffing
Sage
Dana
$400 [26]
The Grand Erg Oriental, covering parts of North Africa, includes some of these that are 1,000 feet high
sand dunes
Dana
$400 [23]
This tissue-shrinking compound is said to be one of the top 5 items stolen from drugstores
Preparation H
Peter Dana
$400 [11]
He returned from a "Weekend at Bernie's" to star in the 1998 TV movie "A Father for Brittany"
Andrew McCarthy
Peter Dana
$400 [16]
Perhaps referring to the "fleecing" of your parents' bank account, it's the animal nickname for your diploma
Sheepskin
Dana
$400 [7]
The last name of this former "Melrose Place" actor
(Doug) Savant
$500 [24]
Vince Staten's book "Do Pharmacists Sell Farms?" calls this product "The WD-40 of the Drugstore"
Vaseline Petroleum Jelly
$500 [12]
After TV's "Townies", she was in off-Broadway's "How I Learned To Drive" in 1998
Molly Ringwald
$500 [17]
Of magna cum laude, summa cum laude, or cum laude, it's the one that's the highest honor
summa cum laude
Dana
$500 [10]
In 1998 this software chain closed its stores & went strictly online
Egghead

Double Jeopardy! Round

LOUD CLASSICAL MUSIC FEMINISM 10-LETTER COUNTRIES CONFESSIONS IT'S ALL ABOUT "YOU", ISN'T IT?
$200 [1]
14th century hero in the title of the following
William Tell
Peter
$200 [6]
TV's Hawkeye Pierce, this male feminist was a member of Men for ERA
Alan Alda
Dana
$200 [15]
This nation was created in 1971 out of the former Pakistani province of East Pakistan
Bangladesh
Dana Creswell
$200 [7]
These Styron "confessions" take us into the mind of a black revolutionary
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Dana
$200 [20]
1967 James Bond film starring Sean Connery
You Only Live Twice
Creswell
$600 [3]
It's the Roman god & planet that Gustav Holst featured here
Mars (the bringer of war)
Peter
$400 [11]
Perhaps inspired by Shirley Muldowney, in 1990 Saudi Arabian women protested their exclusion from this activity
driving
Creswell
$400 [16]
This African nation is the largest island in the Indian Ocean
Madagascar
Dana
$400 [8]
This Russian count's "confession" of 1882 is among his most revealing works
Leo Tolstoy
Peter
$400 [21]
It's the title reason the Beatles say "You know you should be glad"
She Loves You
Peter
$800 [4]
You'll journey to this "hall" in the Grieg work heard here
"The Hall Of The Mountain King"
Peter
$600 [12]
This 2-word term popularized by Anita Hill's testimony may have originated in a 1975 gathering at Cornell
Sexual harassment
Creswell
$600 [17]
In April 1992 this reconfigured republic was declared by Serbia & Montenegro
Yugoslavia
$600 [9]
The "confessions" of this deeply religious church father began the genre
St. Augustine
Peter
$600 [24]
It's the first line of the first verse in the song, "As Time Goes By", sweetheart
You must remember this
Dana
DD $1,000 [2]
Rioting broke out when this Stravinsky work was first performed in Paris
"The Rite Of Spring"
Peter
$800 [13]
A widely read 1977 novel by Marilyn French wasn't called "The Ladies' Room" but this
The Women's Room
Creswell
$1,000 [25]
From the early 1500s to 1975 this country on Africa's southeast coast was at least partly occupied by Portugal
Mozambique
Creswell
$800 [10]
Thomas De Quincey's feverish "confessions" were about an "eater" of this
Opium
Dana
$800 [23]
This Kaufman & Hart comedy portrays the antics of the wacky Sycamore family
You Can't Take It With You
Creswell
$1,000 [5]
This Handel work heardherewas composed while he was living in London
"Water Music"
Peter
$1,000 [14]
Title of the Judy Chicago art work seen here
The Dinner Party
Creswell
DD $2,000 [19]
This grand duchy is actually smaller than the same-named Belgian province it borders
Luxembourg
Dana
$1,000 [18]
Honest self-analysis distinguished the "confessions" of this Swiss-French author who died in 1778
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dana
$1,000 [22]
Published posthumously in 1940, this Thomas Wolfe novel is a sequel to "The Web and the Rock"
You Can't Go Home Again
Dana

Final Jeopardy!

THESE UNITED STATES

This body meets on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, but only once every 4 years

The Electoral College

Creswell "What is the ?" — wagered $3,300
Peter "What is The Electoral College?" — wagered $3,500
Dana "What is The Electoral College?" — wagered $1,899

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