Show #3271 1998-11-23 (taped 1998-10-06) Regular

Contestants

Chris Sedlack — a graduate student from Ithaca, New York

Adriana Bate — an office manager from New Orleans, Louisiana

Harry Silverstein — a marketing executive from New York City, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $11,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Harry $300 $2,600 $3,600 $1,999
3rd place: Pair of Croton Watches
$3,600
17 R, 4 W
Adriana $1,900 $3,600 $8,400 $7,400
New champion: $7,400
$9,200
25 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $300 $600 $2,600 $3,601
2nd place: Daewoo Color TV & VCR; Prologue Speaker System & Broyhill Entertainment Armoire
$2,600
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE LONE STAR STATE NAME THE MOVIE SINGERS BUSINESS TERMS IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE GIMME AN "F"
$100 [2]
In 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas declared its independence from this country
Mexico
Adriana Chris
$100 [1]
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"
The Godfather
Adriana
$100 [14]
This Judd, whose real name is Christina, took her stage name from a line in the song "Route 66"
Wynonna
Harry
$100 [15]
Sensible consumers clip these to get cents off
Coupons
Harry
$100 [24]
A large knife whose name comes from an earlier Spanish word for "mallet"; it's handy for cutting jungle paths
Machete
Adriana
$100 [6]
A small bit of snow, soap or cereal
Flake
Harry
$200 [3]
Texas has 2 national parks: Guadalupe Mountain & this 'big" one on the Rio Grande
Big Bend National Park
$200 [7]
"Houston, we have a problem"
Apollo 13
Harry
$200 [17]
In her teens this "Queen Of Soul" toured with the New Bethel Choir as a featured singer
Aretha Franklin
Harry
$200 [16]
It's the boating term used when the government comes to the aid of a "sinking" business, like Chrysler in 1979
Bailout
Adriana
$200 [30]
The length of this South American water boa may exceed 30 feet
an anaconda
Harry Chris
$200 [12]
Eliza Doolittle, or a precious little petal scatterer
Flower girl
Adriana
$400 [5]
The Cactus Jack Festival, held annually in Uvalde, honors this vice president of FDR
John Nance Garner
Chris
$300 [8]
"I never drink... wine"
Dracula
Adriana
$300 [19]
She & husband Bobby Brown have "Something In Common": that was the duet they sang on his 1992 album
Whitney Houston
Adriana
$300 [18]
A firm that buys & sells other firms, or part of the name of Janis Joplin's '60s band
Holding Company
Adriana
$300 [29]
About 2/3 of this river's 2.3 million square mile tropical rain forest lies in Brazil
Amazon
Adriana
$300 [13]
It's the "digital" technique seen here
Fingerpainting
Adriana
DD $500 [4]
Hewas managing general partner of the Texas Rangers until 1994
George W. Bush (Governor of Texas)
Adriana
$400 [9]
"Aaah! You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting, melting!"
The Wizard Of Oz
Adriana
$400 [20]
The Talk of the Town Theatre in Branson, MO is named for these 2 singers whose initials form the word "town"
Tony Orlando & Wayne Newton
$400 [22]
Term for the amount a retailer adds to the cost price of a product; it may not be all profit
Mark-up
Harry
$400 [26]
6-letter term for the thick covering formed by the tops of trees & vines where many animals live
canopy
Harry
$400 [25]
Broken, like some bones or cartoon "fairy tales"
Fractured
Harry
$500 [11]
From 1817 to 1821 Jean Lafitte used this Texas island as his headquarters
Galveston Island
Harry
$500 [10]
"You've got to ask yourself one question, 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
Dirty Harry
Harry
$500 [21]
Her father, Jose Fajardo, was once a bodyguard to Cuban president Fulgencio Batista
Gloria Estefan
Harry
$500 [23]
A factory's manual labor is blue-collar & these are "steel-collar"
Robots
$500 [28]
In 1863 French archaeologists began uncovering this temple of Vishnu in the jungles of Cambodia
Angkor Wat
Chris
$500 [27]
It comes on "little cat feet"
Fog
Adriana

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR STAGE ACTORS FOR HE'S A JOLLY LONGFELLOW MANY LOVES ADOBE GILLIS
$200 [22]
Clara Barton, who had lunch on this ship a few days earlier, was in her Red Cross office when it exploded
The Maine
Harry
$200 [11]
In 1998 this film director made his Broadway acting debut in "Wait Until Dark" & that's no "Pulp Fiction"
Quentin Tarantino
Harry
$200 [17]
Longfellow used Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's books on North American Indian tribes as a source for this poem
Hiawatha
Harry
$200 [3]
Bibliophilism
love of books
Harry Chris
$200 [1]
The word "adobe" comes from an ancient word for these straw-filled objects mentioned in Exodus
Bricks
Chris
$200 [12]
Joe Gillis, played by this actor, gets involved with Norma Desmond in 1950's "Sunset Boulevard"
William Holden
Adriana
$400 [23]
William Randolph Hearst sent this western artist to Cuba where he drew the Rough Riders charging up the hill
Frederic Remington
Adriana
$400 [18]
TV's "Odd Couple", they played an even odder couple in a recent Broadway revival of "The Sunshine Boys"
Jack Klugman & Tony Randall
Chris
$400 [27]
"Tales Of A Wayside Inn" was modeled in part on this Chaucer work
The Canterbury Tales
Adriana
$400 [4]
It's the "loving" nickname of the city seen here
"The City of Brotherly Love"
Adriana Chris
$400 [2]
Type of adobe communal structure seen here at Taos, New Mexico
Pueblo
Harry
$400 [13]
On early TV, Jim Gillis was a friend & neighbor in the "LIfe Of" this William Bendix character
Chester Riley
Adriana
$600 [24]
He said in his inaugural address "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed"
William McKinley
$600 [19]
In 1998 this "M*A*S*H" star made a s*m*a*s*hing return to Broadway in the hit play "Art"
Alan Alda
Adriana
$600 [30]
A statue of this Longfellow character in St. Martinsville, Louisiana honors exiled Acadians
Evangeline
Adriana
$600 [6]
The Beatles asked, "Would you believe in" this type of love, & others have wondered too
love at first sight
Harry
$600 [5]
This term for workers in adobe is also applied to stoneworkers & to members of certain lodges
Masons
Chris
$600 [14]
Lester Gillis was the original name of this youthful-looking gangster, but he found it sissy
"Baby Face" Nelson
$1,000 [26]
The U.S. declared war on April 25, but made it retroactive to April 21, the day before this was ordered on Cuba
a blockade
Harry
$800 [20]
You could say Kirstie Alley was an alley cat when she played Maggie The Cat in a 1984 revival of this play
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Adriana
$800 [29]
Longfellow's glowing review of this author's "Twice-Told Tales" led to a close friendship
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Adriana Chris
$800 [9]
Change 1 syllable in the name of Hole's lead singer to get this chivalric code of behavior
Courtly Love
Adriana
$800 [7]
Mali's city of Jenne is famed for an adobe one of these religious structures
a mosque
Adriana
$800 [15]
Brad Gillis was a founding member of this rock band known for its 1984 hit "Sister Christian"
Night Ranger
Harry
DD $3,000 [25]
This future admiral's fleet was in Hong Kong when he got word to move it to the Philippines
George Dewey
Adriana
DD $3,000 [21]
(Hi, I'm Jerry Orbach.) I introduced the song "Try To Remember" in this musical that opened in 1960 & is still running
The Fantasticks
Adriana
$1,000 [28]
Longfellow was 15 when he began attending this college in Brunswick, Maine
Bowdoin College
Harry Adriana
$1,000 [10]
The phrase "The love that dare not" do this was coined by Oscar Wilde's friend Alfred Douglas
Speak its name
Chris
$1,000 [8]
These Mideastern nomads whose name means "desert dwellers" often build adobe homes when they settle down
Bedouins
Adriana
$1,000 [16]
Don Gillis' "Symphony No. 5 1/2" was performed in 1947 by this conductor & the NBC Symphony
Arturo Toscanini
Adriana

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

In a 15-minute-long ceremony, his New York townhouse was designated a "Cultural Landmark" in 1998

Andy Warhol

Chris "Who is Andy Warhol?" — wagered $1,001
Harry "Who is Leonard Bernstein?" — wagered $1,601
Adriana "Who is Nixon?" — wagered $1,000

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