Show #3290 1998-12-18 (taped 1998-10-14) Regular

James Arey game 4.

Contestants

Alan Cates — an attorney from Newport Beach, California

Gina Diamante — a computer support technician from Temecula, California

James Arey — a hotel concierge from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $23,302)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
James $1,100 $800 $10,200 $10,001
4-day champion: $33,303
$9,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Gina $-100 $100 $2,500 $2,000
2nd place: Trip to Hotel Melia Victoria, Palma de Majorca, Spain
$2,500
9 R, 3 W
Alan $900 $2,300 $800 $0
3rd place: Trip to Ingleside Inn, Palm Springs, California
$3,900
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NORMANCLATURE CAR PETS FILM FESTIVALS WORLD COSTUME EIGHT "NIGHT"s
$100 [12]
This Norman lord was probably promised the English crown in 1051, but only took it 15 years later
William The Conqueror
$100 [18]
On June 17, 1994 95 million people watched the California Highway Patrol follow one of these Ford vans
Bronco
James
$100 [6]
Sacre Bleu! "Godzilla" was chosen as the 1998 closing-night attraction at this Riviera festival
Cannes
James
$100 [10]
Meaning "leather shorts", they can be seen at German festivals like Oktoberfest
Lederhosen
James
$100 [1]
The 8 in this collegiate group include Yale, Brown & Harvard
The Ivy League
James
$100 [13]
John Travolta received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this 1977 movie
Saturday Night Fever
James
$200 [19]
As a Ford exec., Lee Iacocca sired this sporty car introduced in April 1964
Mustang
Alan
$300 [8]
The New York Film Festival is sponsored by this institution "centrally" located at 64th & Broadway
the Film Society of Lincoln Center
James
$200 [11]
Zipperless pants called broadfalls are worn by this U.S. group named for Jacob Ammann
Amish
$200 [2]
Fortunes from this classic toy include "Outlook not so good" & "Reply hazy, try again"
Magic 8-Ball
Alan
$200 [14]
Tomatoes & belladonna are members of this plant family
Nightshade
Gina
$300 [20]
In the U.S. this subcompact was Volkswagen's successor to the Beetle, but it didn't catch on the same way
Rabbit
$400 [9]
2-word name for the grand prize at the Berlin Film Festival, or for golfer Jack Nicklaus
Golden Bear
Gina
$300 [15]
From Spanish for cape, this garment, a cloak with a hole in the middle, is common among Bolivian countrymen
Poncho
Alan
$300 [3]
This Byrds song says, "And when you touch down you'll find that it's stranger than known"
Eight Miles High
Alan
$300 [24]
In this children's book, a little bunny bids adieu to the objects in his room at bedtime
Goodnight Moon
$400 [21]
This British car maker developed from a company that made motorcycle sidecars
Jaguar
$500 [23]
"The Crying Game" & "The Piano" had their U.S. premieres at the festival in this Colorado mining town
Telluride
James Gina
$400 [16]
It's been popular in the U.S. since the '60s & is still worn in Africa
Dashiki
Alan
$400 [4]
On "M*A*S*H" Klinger dressed in women's clothes to try to qualify for this type of insanity discharge
Section 8 discharge
Alan
$400 [25]
"Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" Keats wrote in this ode
"Ode to a Nightingale"
$500 [22]
For 1980 American Motors let it soar as the 1st domestic-built 4-wheel-drive car
Eagle
Alan
DD $600 [7]
(Hi, I'm Alicia Witt.) In 1994 I won a special acting award at this festival supported by Robert Redford
Sundance
James
$500 [17]
Hats worn in this country, unlike those just named for it, are braided, not woven
Panama
Gina
$500 [5]
The Eightfold Path leads to release from suffering in this religion
Buddhism
James Gina

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ROYAL NAME'S THE SAME RAIN OUTDATED MAPS TV STARS LITERARY ADJECTIVES
$200 [6]
Lanford Wilson won a Pulitzer for "Talley's Folly" in 1980 & this Wilson won for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990
August Wilson
James
$200 [20]
Not England's Elizabeth I, but Russia's Elizabeth I was the daughter of this "Great" czar
Peter the Great
James Gina
$200 [17]
Caused in part by sulfur dioxide emissions, it has "killed" 500 bodies of water in the Adirondacks
acid rain
James
$200 [16]
Now Ho Chi Minh City, it was this as the capital of South Vietnam
Saigon
Gina
$200 [1]
The evidence is clear, he played Quincy
Jack Klugman
James
$200 [11]
Things are this if they are like Sir Thomas More's perfect island
utopian
Gina Alan
$400 [7]
He noted, "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty" in his preface to "Major Barbara"
George Bernard Shaw
James
$400 [21]
He wasn't England's Henry VIII, but Henry VIII of Bavaria who was also this empire's Henry IV
the Holy Roman Empire
Gina Alan
$800 [24]
At a warm one you get regular rain; at a cold one, thunderstorms
a front
Gina
$400 [18]
After 1961, when its namesake fell out of favor, this city was known as Volgograd
Stalingrad
James
$400 [2]
Everything was shipshape & passionate when he played Capt. Merrill Stubing
Gavin MacLeod
$400 [12]
Resembling the totalitarian future described in "1984"
orwellian
Alan
$600 [8]
His play "Glengarry Glen Ross" had its world premiere at the National Theatre in London in 1983
David Mamet
James
$600 [27]
Not to be confused with the Roman emperor, Constantine II was the last king of this nation in 1973
Greece
James Alan
$1,000 [23]
Orographic precipitation is caused by moist air rising over one or more of these, oros in Greek
mountains
Alan
$600 [19]
The "Coast" was clear for this old name for Ghana before its independence in 1957
the Gold Coast
Gina
$600 [3]
He's gone comically where no alien has gone before as Dick Solomon
John Lithgow
James
$600 [13]
"Like the impractical idealist in a Cervantes satire" reduces to this adjective
quixotic
Alan
$800 [9]
He wrote "Tea Party" & "The Birthday Party"--what a party animal!
Harold Pinter
James
$800 [25]
Unlike England's "Merry Monarch" Charles II, this country's Charles II was "El Hechizado", The Bewitched
Spain
Gina
$1,000 [22]
Out with the old! For 300 years before 1925, Oslo was known as this
Christiania
$1,000 [5]
Gomer could tell you this actor played Goober Pyle
George Lindsey
James
$1,000 [15]
In a word, "like Pantagruel's father"
gargantuan
James
$1,000 [10]
He collaborated on his hit comedy "Beggar On Horseback" with Marc Connelly, not Moss Hart
George S. Kaufman
James
$1,000 [26]
Unlike feelings toward France's Louis XVI, Louis I of this country was known as "Lajos The Great"
Hungary
James
DD $1,600 [4]
(Hi, I'm Renee Jones from Days of Our Lives.) Before he was B.J. Hunnicutt on "M*A*S*H", this actor played Scott Banning on "Days of Our Lives"
Mike Farrell
James
DD $3,100 [14]
Also used of some "bargains", this adjective means "similar to Goethe's soul seller"
faustian
Alan

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTS

2 of the 3 successive presidents who were Republicans, born in Ohio & generals in the Union army

(2 of) Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes & James A. Garfield

Alan "Who are Grant &" — wagered $800
Gina "Who were Grant & H" — wagered $500
James "Who were Garfield & Arthur?" — wagered $199

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