Show #3292 1998-12-22 (taped 1998-11-03) Regular

Contestants

Debra Keil — a school counselor from Inola, Oklahoma

Roger Goodman — a state agency director from Olympia, Washington

Susan desJardins — a pediatric cardiologist from Silver Spring, Maryland

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Susan $1,000 $400 $2,600 $1,999
2nd place: a trip to Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort, Bahamas
$3,600
12 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Roger $300 $500 $3,200 $1,199
3rd place: a Samsung Maxima Zoom 145 compact camera
$3,900
10 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Debra $500 $1,100 $1,500 $2,999
New champion: $2,999
$1,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 8 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOLIDAYS PATRIOTIC SONGS CITY FOOD BOB HOPE THE U.S. "O"
$100 [1]
Decoration Day is another name for this holiday when graves of soldiers are decorated
Memorial Day
Susan Roger
$100 [12]
He "went to town, riding on a pony"
Yankee Doodle
Debra
$100 [7]
Buffalo wings don't come from a bison, but from this bird (& from the city in New York)
chicken
Susan
$100 [26]
Sadly, Bob's plans to make "Road to the Fountain of Youth" died in 1977 with this man
Bing Crosby
Debra
$100 [2]
West Quoddy Head in this state is the easternmost point in the U.S.; East Quoddy Head is in Canada
Maine
Susan
$100 [21]
Horses can eat them whole; humans eat them after they've been cleaned, toasted, hulled & cleaned again
oats
Debra
$200 [13]
Sweden celebrates this national symbol on June 6, eight days before the U.S. celebrates its own
Flag Day
Susan Debra
$200 [17]
When the South surrendered, Lincoln asked a band outside the White House to play this "Southern" song
"Dixie"
Debra
$200 [8]
You don't have to live in Philly to spread your bagel with Philly, which is this
cream cheese
Susan
$200 [27]
Bob's books include "Confessions of a Hooker: My Lifelong Love Affair with" this
golf
Roger
$200 [3]
Industry that gave the Illinois & Pennsylvania cities of Carbondale their names
coal mining
Susan Roger Debra
$200 [22]
Reporter Ben Reddick is credited with coining this "state"ly term for Dust Bowl refugees
Okies
Roger Debra
$300 [14]
National UNICEF Day coincides with this other holiday
Halloween
Debra
$300 [18]
George M. Cohan was awarded a Congressional medal for writing this most famous song of World War I
"Over There"
Susan Roger Debra
$300 [9]
It's traditional to serve this city's steamed brown bread with its world-famous baked beans
Boston
Debra
$300 [4]
We "beg" you to give us this name for the areas where you'd find Tallahassee, Florida & Amarillo, Texas
the Panhandle
Debra
$300 [23]
Animal seen here, very much "alive"
an opossum
Debra
$400 [15]
This country observes June 10 as Malvinas Day
Argentina
Debra
$400 [19]
In 1939 Irving Berlin had this song copyrighted in the name of boxer Gene Tunney & others to create a fund
"God Bless America"
DD $500 [10]
(Richard Simmons reads the clue.) Bananas Foster & Oysters Rockefeller are 2 yummy dishes created in this Southern city, my birthplace
New Orleans
Debra
$400 [5]
These highlands stretching from St. Louis to the Arkansas River are called a plateau as well as mountains
the Ozarks
Roger
$400 [24]
At Renaissance faires, the aire be sweet with the strains of this clay flute of oval shape
an ocarina
$500 [16]
On Purim, the Biblical book named for this queen is read in synagogues
Esther
Susan Roger
$500 [20]
Its fifth verse begins, "In the beauty of the lillies Christ was born across the sea"
"The Battle Hymn Of The Republic"
Debra
$500 [11]
A typical Denver sandwich contains egg cooked with bits of ham, onion & this chopped green veggie
green peppers
Susan
$500 [6]
If Bugs Bunny had taken that proverbial left at Albuquerque, he could have followed this river
the Rio Grande
Debra
$500 [25]
Title of the 1974 suspense film seen here:"All I did was to obey my orders. Don't compare yourself with a soldier... you were an executioner..."
The Odessa File

Double Jeopardy! Round

FRENCH LIT '70s TV HISTORIC ASSASSINATIONS JACKS OF ALL TRADES RELIGION Q ME
$200 [1]
After he toiled on his first work, "Cromwell", friends told this "Comedie Humane" man to give up literature
Honoré de Balzac
Roger Debra
$200 [17]
She starred in "Shirley's World" in 1971; must seem like a lifetime ago to her
Shirley MacLaine
Roger
$200 [12]
On June 28, 1914 Bosnian Serb terrorist Gavrilo Princip jumped on this archduke's car & killed him & his wife Sophie
Franz Ferdinand
Susan
$200 [11]
He was named "Golfer of the Century" in 1988 & "Golf Course Architect of the Year" in 1993
Jack Nicklaus
Debra
$200 [26]
Jesus said unto him, "Thou Art" this name, "And upon this rock I will build my church"
Peter
Debra
$200 [6]
These people gave the letter Q its present form around the first or second century
the Romans
Susan Debra
$400 [2]
Sartre's "L' Idiot de la Famille" was a large-scale study of this "Madame Bovary" author
Gustave Flaubert
Susan
$400 [18]
This brother & sister's variety show ran from 1976 to 1979; their talk show debuted in 1998
Donny & Marie Osmond
Susan
$400 [13]
Accused JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was himself killed by this nightclub owner
Jack Ruby
Roger
$400 [22]
In 1991 he published "Prescription Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death"
Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Debra
$600 [27]
It's the highest caste among the Hindus
the Brahmans
Susan
$400 [7]
Q is being communicatedherein this code
semaphore
$600 [3]
An Algerian named Mersault is the narrator of his 1942 novel "L' Etranger"
Albert Camus
Roger
$600 [19]
Anne Meara was Kate McShane & this Kate was Kate Columbo
Kate Mulgrew
$600 [14]
In 1984 2 of her Sikh bodyguards killed her as revenge for her order to attack the Golden Temple of Amritsar
Indira Gandhi
Roger
$600 [23]
Jack McCall is best remembered for shooting this frontiersman while he was playing poker
Wild Bill Hickok
Debra
$600 [8]
Sergeant Rock could tell you that the QMC is this "supply side" branch of the Army
the Quartermaster (Corps)
Debra
$800 [4]
Author-aviator who created "Le Petit Prince"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Susan
$800 [20]
In 1962 this pair was together at Carnegie Hall; 10 years later both had variety shows
Carol Burnett & Julie Andrews
$800 [15]
At a reception in the palace for Muhammad's birthday in 1975, this Saudi king was assassinated by his nephew
King Faisal
DD $700 [25]
(Hi, I'm Jack Ford, chief legal correspondent for NBC News.) Before joining NBC, I was an anchor for this cable network from its debut in 1991 to 1994
Court TV
Roger
$800 [9]
In footnotes, it's what "q.v." means
quod vide (which see)
DD $1,000 [5]
For over 100 years the publishing house he founded has been the leader in French dictionaries
Pierre Larousse
Susan
$1,000 [21]
Way before Buffy, there was this 1974-75 Darrin McGavin series
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
$1,000 [16]
On February 28, 1986 this Swedish prime minister was shot by an unknown gunman on the streets of Stockholm
Olof Palme
Roger
$800 [24]
This 1996 vice-presidential candidate was once a quarterback for the Buffalo Bills
Jack Kemp
Roger
$1,000 [10]
Umm Said & Dukhan are cities in this country, the only one in the world that begins with the letter Q
Qatar
Susan

Final Jeopardy!

1998 OPERA NEWS

For his first opera, Andre Previn adapted this 1947 Pulitzer Prize play featuring sex, violence & insanity

A Streetcar Named Desire

Debra "What is Streetcar Named Desire?" — wagered $1,499
Susan "What is ?" — wagered $601
Roger "What is Streetcar Name Di" — wagered $2,001

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