Show #3273 1998-11-25 (taped 1998-10-06) Regular

Contestants

Coral Sullivan — a registrar from Wayland, Massachusetts

Randy Juip — a law student from Detroit, Michigan

Adriana Bate — an office manager from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $13,810)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Adriana $1,900 $2,500 $9,300 $9,000
3-day champion: $22,810
$9,700
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Randy $0 $1,300 $100 $1
3rd place: Pair of Festina Titanium Chrono Watches
$400
9 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Coral $-1,000 $700 $2,500 $2,500
2nd place: Trip to Hotel Melia Victoria, Palma de Majorca, Spain
$2,500
15 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

WELLS THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES MILK TV CRIMEFIGHTERS THE SOLAR SYSTEM 3-LETTER WORDS
$100 [6]
"Gusher" usually refers to a flowing or spouting well of this substance
Oil
Randy
$100 [19]
That's right, guv, the first Holmes story was this "scarlet" one
A Study in Scarlet
$100 [1]
Genuine Roquefort cheese is made from this animal's milk
a sheep
Adriana Randy Coral
$100 [20]
Uh, just one more thing; he played Columbo
Peter Falk
Coral
$100 [11]
The atmospheric pressure of this planet nearest to Earth is about 90 times that of the Earth
Venus
Randy
$100 [14]
You shouldn't let the tail do this to the dog
Wag
Randy
$200 [7]
A hilltop well in Kilmersdon, England is the supposed site of this nursery rhyme pair's downfall
Jack & Jill
Adriana
$200 [25]
Holmes goes to see a man about a dog in this 1902 novel about a deadly legend
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Adriana
$200 [2]
This 1860 invention by L.O. Colvin really sucked; it used a vacuum
Milker/milking machine
Adriana
$200 [21]
As hunky private eye Dan Tanna, this actor drove topless around Vegas
Robert Urich
Coral
$200 [12]
Examples of these celestial events include Perseids, Orionids & Leonids
meteor showers
Adriana Coral
$200 [15]
Just 15% of an iceberg left in a restaurant
Tip
Coral
$300 [8]
No one has unearthed the treasure Jim Bowie is said to have hidden in a well at this fort
The Alamo
Adriana
$300 [26]
If you ever needed his services, all the mates knew this was Sherlock's London address
221B Baker Street
$300 [3]
Lady Macbeth said of her husband, "I fear thy nature, it is too full" of this
The milk of human kindness
$300 [22]
He laid down the law as Mayberry's bumbling Barney Fife
Don Knotts
Coral
$300 [13]
The name of this light display in the Earth's atmosphere is from the Latin for "northern dawn"
Aurora Borealis
Coral
$300 [16]
In baseball, it puts you "out"; it's also a game in which you may be "it"
Tag
Randy
$400 [9]
Despite the name, these pieces used to drill wells aren't little; they can be 2 1/2 feet long
Bits
Randy
$400 [27]
Conan Doyle did this to Holmes in "The Final Problem", but the public outcry caused him to change his mind
Killed him off
Randy
$400 [4]
In "H.M.S. Pinafore" you'll hear, "Things are seldom what they seem." This "masquerades as cream"
Skim milk
Adriana
$400 [23]
This actor rolled over the criminals as Ironside
Raymond Burr
Coral
DD $500 [28]
In January 1999 a spacecraft called "NEAR" is due to go into orbit around Eros, one of these objects
an asteroid
Randy
$400 [17]
It describes something radioactive or illegally obtained
Hot
Adriana
$500 [10]
Jesus chatted with a Samaritan woman at a well named for this Biblical patriarch
Jacob
Coral
$500 [30]
If events would come a cropper, this Scotland Yard inspector would seek out Holmes for help
Inspector Lestrade
$500 [5]
This sugar, which makes up almost all the carbohydrates in milk, is found only in milk
lactose
Adriana Randy Coral
$500 [24]
He played Baretta, & that's the name of that tune!
Robert Blake
$500 [29]
It's nothing to fear, but this inner & larger of Mars' 2 moons orbits the planet every 7.65 hours
Phobos
$500 [18]
Animal seen here (flightless bird)
Emu
Coral

Double Jeopardy! Round

WELLES CELTICS THOMAS PAINE THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARYLAND CANADIAN CUISINE, EH? "PO"POURRI
$200 [6]
Cinematographer Gregg Toland helped Orson Welles create the innovative style of this 1941 masterpiece
Citizen Kane
Randy Coral
$200 [1]
No one knows why Stonehenge was built, but these Celtic priests usually & incorrectly get credit for it
Druids
Adriana
$200 [26]
Paine's first pamphlet in the "Crisis" series began, "These are the times that" do this
try men's souls
Randy Coral
$200 [11]
The state house in this city is where George Washington resigned his commission in 1783
Annapolis
Adriana Coral
$200 [13]
At a sugaring off party, you may eat tire sur la neige, which is this syrup poured over snow
Maple syrup
Coral
$200 [18]
If you didn't know that this Greek sea god also created the horse, say "Neigh!"
Poseidon
Randy
$400 [7]
As soon as shooting ended on "The Lady From Shanghai", this star filed for divorce from Welles
Rita Hayworth
Coral
$400 [2]
Now coach of the Pacers, this legendary Celtic was enshrined in the NBA Hall of Fame October 2, 1998
Larry Bird
Coral
$400 [27]
In this pamphlet, he wrote, "The birthday of a new world is at hand"
Common Sense
Randy
DD $200 [23]
This U.S. Army "Proving Ground" for weapons testing occupies over 70,000 acres in Harford County
Aberdeen
Adriana
$400 [14]
French Canadians "pig out" on tourtiere, a pie traditionally filled with this meat
Pork
Adriana
$400 [19]
It's "Nine Points of the Law", or when someone's got a little devil in him
Possession
Adriana
$600 [8]
Welles & John Houseman launched this theater in 1937 with a modern-dress "Julius Caesar"
Mercury Theater
Adriana Coral
$600 [3]
This Celtic horse goddess shares her name with a 1976 Fleetwood Mac hit
Rhiannon
Coral
DD $400 [30]
This tract was Paine's response to Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution
The Rights of Man
Randy
$400 [12]
At Hancock, the state is less than 3 miles wide between West Virginia on the south & this state on the north
Pennsylvania
$600 [15]
A tasty pastry named for this beaver appendage is a specialty of Hooker's, an Ottawa eatery
Beaver tail
Adriana
$600 [20]
Film in which Heather O'Rourke proclaims: "They're heeere!"
Poltergeist
Adriana
$800 [9]
In "A Man for All Seasons", Welles played this cleric & adviser to Henry VIII
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Adriana
$800 [4]
From 1959 to 1966, the Celtics won 8 straight NBA titles led by this coach
Arnold "Red" Auerbach
$600 [28]
Paine wrote that it "Even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one"
Government
$800 [24]
Among U.S. racetracks, only Saratoga is older than this Preakness site, opened in 1870
Pimlico Race Course
$800 [16]
These lingual organs of cod are so popular in Newfoundland that St. John's has a contest for eating them
Tongues
Adriana
$800 [21]
Named for a Bannock Indian chief, it's home to Idaho State University
Pocatello
Coral
$1,000 [10]
This "magnificent" Welles film was mutilated by the studio before its 1942 release
The Magnificent Ambersons
Coral
$1,000 [5]
Celtic languages are still spoken in parts of Ireland & this "New" Canadian province that includes Cape Breton Sound
Nova Scotia ("New Scotland")
Adriana Randy
$800 [29]
Paine took on religion in his book "The Age Of" this
Reason
$1,000 [25]
Legend says this Maryland heroine told off Stonewall Jackson when he threatened the flag
Barbara Fritchie
Adriana
$1,000 [17]
Aw, shucks--Malpeque Bay oysters are a taste treat from this small island province
Prince Edward Island
Adriana
$1,000 [22]
Post currently held by William J. Henderson
Postmaster General
Adriana

Final Jeopardy!

FRENCH LITERATURE

Written in exile in Turin & Brussels in the 1850s, his "The Royal House of Savoy", was finally published in France in 1998

Alexandre Dumas (pere, the father)

Randy "Who was Voltaire?" — wagered $99
Coral "Who was Moliere?" — wagered $0
Adriana "Who was Stendahl?" — wagered $300

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