Show #3295 1998-12-25 (taped 1998-11-03) Regular

Contestants

Will Thompson — a French professor from Memphis, Tennessee

Scott Speer — a loan officer from West Columbia, South Carolina

Dave Argentar — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $-300 $300 $1,600 $1
2nd place: Trip/Tour to Israel
$1,500
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Scott $-300 $-700 $-900 $-900
3rd place: Trip/Tour to Quebec City
$600
6 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Will $-200 $2,200 $5,200 $4,200
New champion: $4,200
$5,200
15 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES 10-DIFFERENT-LETTER WORDS WORLD OF CHRISTMAS RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER
$100 [1]
She was the second first lady
Abigail Adams
Scott
$100 [10]
Honest, Abe was the first person run by this party to be elected U.S. president
Republican
Will
$100 [15]
For 9 days before Christmas, Latin American children try to break open these colorful paper figures containing candy
Pinatas
Dave
$100 [20]
This grandson of Italian immigrants was elected the 107th mayor of New York City on November 2, 1993
Rudolph Giuliani
Dave
$100 [6]
Leo Rosten said of this hard-drinking comic, "Any man who hates small dogs & children can't be all bad"
W.C. Fields
Dave
$100 [25]
Unlike other deer, both male & female reindeer grow these
Antlers
Will
$200 [2]
In her memoirs, Julia Grant talked about the black Friday when Fisk & Gould tried to corner the market in this
gold
Dave Scott
$200 [11]
It's any word that's spelled the same forwards & backwards
Palindrome
Will
$200 [16]
In the Low Countries, St. Nicholas arrives to deliver presents on a boat from this Iberian country
Spain
Dave
$200 [21]
Shortly after his death, eerie stories told of this actor's ghost haunting "Falcon Lair", his Hollywood home
Rudolph Valentino
Will
$200 [7]
Much of the boozing persona of this Matt Helm of the movies may have been just for the cameras
Dean Martin
Dave
$200 [26]
A group of reindeer cows gathered together by a reindeer bull is callled one of these, like a sultan's
Harem
Dave
$300 [3]
His ailing wife Anna sent her daughter-in-law Jane with him to Washington, but he only served a month
William Henry Harrison
Scott
$300 [12]
In a movie it's the kind of music heard behind a scene
background (music)
Dave
$300 [17]
In Great Britain, this woman gives a special Christmas Day message on TV
The Queen
Dave
$300 [22]
You'll find this body of water in the eastern part of Kenya's Rift Valley
Lake Rudolph
Will
$300 [8]
Not sure if it's from his drinking or not, but he's the Disney chipmunk with a red nose
Dale
Will
$300 [27]
Reindeer & reindeer products are very useful to these nomadic people of northern Scandinavia
the Lapps
Will
DD $500 [4]
The widow Sarah Polk was linked for a while in the press to this bachelor president
James Buchanan
Scott
$400 [13]
In this field of study, scientists have rocks in their heads, or ore
mineralogy
Scott
$400 [18]
Rather than stockings, French children put these in front of the fireplace so "Pere Noel" can fill them with gifts
Shoes
Will
$400 [23]
The award-winning Rudolph seen here (holding 2 Olympic medals)
Wilma Rudolph
Will
$400 [9]
This bearded standup comedian is billed as "The Lovable Lush"
Foster Brooks
Dave
$500 [5]
These 2 Roosevelt first ladies were known for their strong personalities
Edith & Eleanor
$500 [14]
1 less than a cinquefoil
Quadrefoil
Will
$500 [19]
In Sweden the Christmas season begins on December 13, this saint's day
St. Lucia
$500 [24]
Bravo! This man was the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972
Sir Rudolph Bing

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICA SPEAKING CONSERVATIVELY NEXT LINE, PLEASE PERFORMANCE ART BEFORE & AFTER GETTING A PATENT
$200 [3]
In 1992 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of this country became the first African secretary-general of the U.N.
Egypt
Dave Will
$200 [15]
In 1992 Vice President Quayle attacked the values displayed by this TV sitcom character
Murphy Brown
Scott
$200 [1]
Donne:"Never send to know for whom the bell tolls..."
"It tolls for thee"
Will
$200 [8]
This melted sweet from the cacao is a well-known stage prop for Karen Finley
Chocolate
Dave
$200 [17]
Largest of the "Cosby Kids" who's currently serving as vice president
"Fat Albert" Gore
Dave
$800 [21]
In the U.S., a standard patent is good for this many years; for a design patent, it's only 14
17
Scott
$400 [4]
Robert Mugabe is president of this country that was formerly known as Rhodesia
Zimbabwe
Dave
$600 [14]
In 1980 William F. Buckley told off students at this Poughkeepsie school who disinvited him to commencement
Vassar
Will
$400 [2]
Kipling:"Oh, east is east & west is west, and..."
"Never the twain shall meet"
Dave
$400 [9]
Kurt Schwitters probably heard "Gesundheit" a lot during his "Niesscherzo" piece consisting of this action
Sneezing
Scott
$400 [18]
Culture Club singer who penned "1984"
Boy George Orwell
Dave
$1,000 [24]
The name of the agency to which inventors make applications is the "Patent and" this "Office"
Trademark
Dave
DD $700 [5]
In 1847 it became Africa's first modern independent republic
Liberia
Dave
$800 [13]
In a 1997 essay this "Book of Virtues" author & ex-cabinet officer asked, "What good is government?"
William Bennett
Dave
$600 [12]
Carroll:"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..."
"Did gyre and gimble in the wabe"
$800 [25]
"What's" this? It's a term for a performance art event coined by Allan Kaprow in 1959
Happening
Will
$600 [16]
Yesss! He's the sports announcer who theorized about relativity
Marv Albert Einstein
Will
$800 [6]
Mount Kilimanjaro, this country's highest point, is also the continent's highest point
Tanzania
Scott Will
$1,000 [20]
1790's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" is a major work by this British statesman & thinker
Edmund Burke
DD $1,000 [10]
Lovelace:"Stone walls do not a prison make..."
"Nor iron bars a cage"
Scott
$1,000 [23]
These creations named by Karel Capek rampage through performances by Survival Research Laboratories
Robots
$800 [19]
Longtime "Tonight Show" host whose "Heart Is A Lonely Hunter"
Johnny Carson McCullers
Scott Will
$1,000 [7]
In 1998 Nelson Mandela married Graca Machel, widow of a former president of this country
Mozambique
Dave Will
$1,000 [11]
Coleridge:"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan..."
"A stately pleasure-dome decree"
Scott
$1,000 [22]
1517's "Theses" author known for developing new varieties of fruits & vegetables
Martin Luther Burbank

Final Jeopardy!

NAME'S THE SAME

Name shared by any Englishman & a composer credited with England's national anthem "God Save The Queen"

John Bull

Dave "What is a Brit?" — wagered $1,599
Will "What is Brit??" — wagered $1,000

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