Show #3284 1998-12-10 (taped 1998-10-13) Regular

Contestants

Budd Bailey — a sports reporter from Buffalo, New York

Linda Bird — a law student from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Gary Tish — an appliance technician from Decatur, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Gary	$1,300	$3,500	$5,700	$0 3rd place: Pair of Jaguar Friendship Watches	$5,700 15 R, 1 W
Linda	$1,500	$3,200	$9,900	$11,900 New champion: $11,900	$8,200 23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Budd	$800	$1,400	$5,200	$1,900 2nd place: Trip to Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort, Bahamas	$5,200 13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS	"H"ISTORIC PEOPLE	RETIRED JERSEYS	HERBS & SPICE GIRLS	MATH CLASS	PROVERBS
$100 [8] Legend says enemies who met under a branch of this would drop their weapons & embrace; now we kiss under it Mistletoe Gary	$100 [2] Around 196 B.C. this general became chief magistrate of Carthage Hannibal Linda	$100 [13] New York Yankees No. 3 Babe Ruth Gary Budd	$100 [15] She rocked the spice world when she left the Spice Girls in May 1998 Ginger Spice Budd	$100 [19] If you got a trapezoid for Christmas, you got a figure with this many sides & a crummy gift 4 Gary	$100 [1] Unfortunately, this "travels fast" Bad news Linda
$200 [9] It rivals the turkey as the preferred bird at English Christmas feasts Goose Gary	$200 [3] President of North Vietnam for 24 years, his mausoleum in Hanoi is a national shrine Ho Chi Minh Linda	$200 [14] San Francisco 49ers No. 16 Joe Montana Linda	$200 [30] "Spanish Flea", the theme song of "The Dating Game", was a hit for this bandleader Herb Alpert Linda	$200 [20] The non-right internal angles of a right triangle add up to this total number of degrees 90 Linda Budd	$200 [7] It's the best time to "make hay" While the sun shines Budd
$300 [10] Christmas is now quite popular in this Asian country where the Christmas greeting is "Meri Kurisumasu!" Japan Gary	$300 [4] Until 1876 his father Alois, who was illegitimate, used his grandmother's name, Schicklgruber Adolf Hitler Gary	$300 [16] Chicago Bears No. 34 Walter Payton Budd	$300 [27] Spice Girl Mel B. gets this nickname from her pierced tongue, wild hair & wilder lifestyle "Scary Spice" Gary Linda	$300 [24] The diameter of one of these 3-dimensional figures is twice the radius Sphere Linda	$300 [21] It's a good thing "you can't make" this "out of a sow's ear", who'd want to? A silk purse Linda
$400 [11] This other name for a nativity scene comes from Old French for "manger" or "crib" Creche Budd	$400 [5] In March 1921 he became the first Japanese prince to tour Europe Hirohito Linda	$400 [17] Detroit Red Wings No. 9 Gordie Howe Budd	$400 [28] It's the appropriate Spice name of Emma Bunton, youngest of the Spice Girls "Baby Spice" Gary	$400 [25] From the Latin "to agree", it describes 2 figures that coincide when superimposed congruent Gary Budd	$500 [23] It's been called "The greatest thief, for it steals half one's life" Sleep Gary
$500 [12] A treasured history tradition in New York City is ice-skating beneath the giant Christmas tree in this plaza Rockefeller Plaza Linda	$500 [6] This Saxon may have sworn to support William's claim to the throne but took the throne himself in 1066 Harold II Gary	$500 [18] Anaheim Angels No. 30, Texas Rangers No. 34, Houston Astros No. 34 Nolan Ryan Budd	$500 [29] This photographer directed music videos for Madonna & Michael Jackson Herb Ritts	$500 [26] It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean Gary	DD $1,000 [22] "Men make houses" but "Women make" these A home Linda

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE	SKATING ON FILM	AROUND WILLIAMSBURG	BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE	PHOTOGRAPHY	ANAGRAMMED THEORETICAL PHYSICISTS
$200 [2] This character writes, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid....we got six thousand dollars apiece" Huckleberry Finn Linda	$200 [7] The 1990 TV movie "On Thin Ice" was the story of this partner of Randy Gardner Tai Babalonia Linda	$200 [1] Williamsburg was the capital of this colony from 1699 to 1776 Virginia Linda	$200 [18] In 1839 Joseph Cinque led a mutiny aboard this Spanish slave ship Amistad Linda	$200 [16] These 4-sided rotating devices, essential in nighttime in the '60s, are largely obsolete today Flashcubes	$200 [23] WENT ON (Isaac) Newton Gary
$400 [3] Ernest Hemingway's only Pulitzer Prize came in 1953 for this short novel about a Cuban named Santiago The Old Man And The Sea Linda	$400 [8] Sequels to this 1992 Emilio Estevez on ice film are "D2" & "D3" The Mighty Ducks Budd	$400 [12] During the revolution, the state capital moved from Williamsburg to this city in 1780 Richmond Budd	$600 [20] This orator spoke publicly of his days as a slave to an 1841 anti-slavery meeting in Nantucket Frederick Douglass Gary	$400 [17] An up-&-down type of this light-regulating device in a camera is called the guillotine Shutter Linda	$400 [24] NINETIES (Albert) Einstein
$600 [4] In this allegory, Christian uses a key called Promise to escape from the Doubting Castle Pilgrims Progress Gary	$600 [9] Olympic star Carol Heiss played Snow White when she met this movie trio on ice The Three Stooges Linda	$600 [13] Williamsburg was made defensible & had fewer mosquitos than this early English settlement a few miles to the SW Jamestown Budd	$800 [21] During the revolution, James Armistead spied on this general, revealing his camp at Yorktown Lord Cornwallis Gary	$600 [28] From the Greek for "all seeing", it's the type of camera that took the photo seen here panoramic Budd	DD $500 [27] PHONE EMPIRE (J. Robert) Oppenheimer Linda
$800 [5] In a Dickens novel, this title character's mother Clara unfortunately marries Mr. Murdstone David Copperfield Linda	$800 [10] Gold medalist of the 1928, 1932 & 1936 Olympics, she made her Hollywood debut in "One In A Million" Sonja Henie Linda	$800 [14] This Williamsburg college was founded in 1693 William And Mary Budd	$1,000 [22] Deputy U.S. marshal Bass Reeves brought outlaws back to trial in this Arkansas "fort" Fort Smith	—	$600 [25] FIRE'M! (Enrico) Fermi Linda
$1,000 [6] The character Jesse B. Semple figures prominently in many of this "Harlem" poet's short stories Langston Hughes	$1,000 [11] This 1979 film shows what blind ambition will get you: "I forgot about the flowers" Ice Castles Budd	$1,000 [15] Patrick Henry's famous 1765 speech in Williamsburg denounced this "act" The Stamp Act	DD $2,000 [19] (Hi, I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, author of Black Profiles In Courage.) The first known black man in the Americas, Pedro Alonzo Nino, was this man's navigator in 1492 Christopher Columbus Linda	—	$800 [26] HANK WIG (Stephen) Hawking Linda

Final Jeopardy!

ISLANDS

A species of mammal is named for this appropriate site of Russia's first American settlement

Kodiak Island

Budd "What is an Aleustian?" — wagered $3,300

Gary "What is the blerly?" — wagered $5,700

Linda "What is Kodiak Island?" — wagered $2,000

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