Show #3297 1998-12-29 (taped 1998-11-04) Regular

Contestants

Daniel Banando — a teacher from Los Angeles, California

Colleen McSwiggin — a microbiologist from Cincinnati, Ohio

Will Thompson — a French professor from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will $1,400 $2,300 $6,900 $3,200
3rd place: Rand McNally Gift Certificate
$6,500
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Colleen $900 $1,900 $5,300 $10,595
New champion: $10,595
$5,300
15 R, 1 W
Daniel $1,200 $700 $2,900 $5,700
2nd place: Panasonic 32-inch Super Flat Color TV & Broyhill Home Theater Cabinet
$3,900
17 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE CAROLINAS TV ACTORS & ROLES NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BELLS JINGLES ALL THE WAY LET'S DEMONSTRATE
$100 [2]
North Carolina supplied 1/4 of the casualties to the losing side in this war
Civil War
Daniel
$100 [1]
In the 1998 TV movie "Dallas: War of the Ewings", another attempt was made on this Larry Hagman character's life
J.R. Ewing
Daniel
$100 [11]
Mount Vesuvius looms over this city
Naples
Daniel
$100 [21]
Percussion instrument seen here
Cowbell
Colleen
$100 [16]
"Double your pleasure, double your fun" with this gum
Doublemint gum
Will Colleen
$500 [26]
In March 1988 students at this U.S. university demonstrated in favor of hiring a deaf president
Gallaudet
Will
$200 [3]
A 1971 Supreme Court case brought this mobile method of racial integration to Charlotte, N, C.
Busing
Colleen
$200 [4]
As a child in the early '70s, Jodie Foster played Eddie's pal Joey on this Bill Bixby series
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Daniel
$200 [12]
The raft in the picture is called a bublik, a Russian word for this Jewish bakery item
Bagel
Colleen
$200 [22]
1857 song that includes the line "Bells on bob-tail ring"
"Jingle Bells"
Will
$200 [17]
This "Bologna has a first name"
Oscar Mayer
Daniel
$300 [5]
In 1995 the first woman was admitted to this Charleston, S.C. military academy
The Citadel
Daniel
$400 [9]
Lara Flynn Boyle of "The Practice" used to play Laura Palmer's friend Donna on this series
Twin Peaks
Will
$300 [13]
In June '97, National Geographic ran a 16-page article on the restoration of this thick-hulled frigate
U.S.S. Constitution
Daniel
$300 [23]
Ding, dong! You can now shop online with this company that began "calling" in 1886
Avon
Daniel
$300 [18]
You don't need a lot because with this product "A little dab'll do ya"
Brylcreem
Will Daniel
$400 [6]
In 1902 "In The Good Old Summertime" was a hit & this current senator was born in Edgefield, S.C.
Strom Thurmond
Daniel
DD $500 [8]
(Hi, I'm Alan Rachins.) When I played legal eagle Douglas Brackman on this hit TV series, I got to date Vanna White
L.A. Law
Will
$400 [14]
The prairie dogs seen here are having a picnic at this national monument (in Wyoming)
Devils Tower
Colleen
$400 [24]
This Sousa march was used as the theme to "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"Liberty Bell March"
$400 [19]
They're "the dogs kids love to bite"
Armour hot dogs
Colleen
$500 [7]
During WWII the Army trained its first 2 airborne divisions at this N.C. fort
Fort Bragg
Will
$500 [10]
Swoosie Kurtz of "Suddenly Susan" starred as Alex Reed Halsey Barker on this NBC sibling series
Sisters
Colleen
$500 [15]
Dr. Livingstone named these falls on the Zambezi River
Victoria Falls
Colleen
$500 [25]
Traditionally you hit the bell & yell this 5-letter word to get a bellhop hopping
Front!
Colleen Daniel
$500 [20]
This motorcycle company likes to "let the good times roll"
Kawasaki
Daniel

Double Jeopardy! Round

ISLANDS CELEBRATE CANADA THE WORLD OF ISLAM SONNETS BOOKS BY CELEBRITIES OXYMORONS
$200 [1]
3,414-foot-high Carrantuohill west of Killarney is the highest peak on this island
Ireland
Colleen
$200 [6]
This autumn beer-bust, an annual highlight, reflects the German heritage of Kitchener & Waterloo, Ont.
Oktoberfest
Will
$200 [10]
Call me this, the eldest son of Abraham through which Muslim Arabs trace their descent
Ishmael
Daniel
$200 [25]
In his 18th, Shakespeare asks, "Shall I compare thee to" this
A summer's day
Colleen
$200 [12]
Shock jock Howard Stern let it all hang out in this 1993 autobiography
Private Parts
Will
$200 [20]
An invitation might stipulate that attire should be this kind of "dressy"
Casual dressy
Will
$400 [2]
The Tasman Glacier is a popular ski area on this country's South Island
New Zealand
Will
$400 [7]
On July 13, 1953 this city's drama festival began with a production of "Richard III"
Stratford, Ontario
Colleen
$400 [11]
The sacred Muslim site seen here can be found in this city (the Kaaba)
Mecca
Colleen
$400 [26]
Completes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's title "Sonnets from..."
the Portuguese
Daniel
$400 [13]
In collaboration with Weight Watchers, she shares some low cal fare in "Dining with the Duchess"
Sarah Ferguson
Daniel
$400 [22]
In 1969 Jerry Garcia's band released an album called "Live" this
Dead
Will
$600 [3]
This "American" territory in the South Pacific is administered by the Department of the Interior
American Samoa
Will
$600 [8]
Some have called it the "Biggest, wildest, woolliest western fling on Earth"
Calgary Stampede
Daniel
$600 [14]
Granada, Spain is home to this fortress-palace, the most beautiful example of western Islamic architecture
The Alhambra
Daniel
$600 [27]
He was a Romantic poet, a Lake Poet, a Poet Laureate & the poet who penned the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets"
William Wordsworth
Colleen Daniel
$600 [17]
This star treks through the future in his bestselling "Tekwar" novels
William Shatner
Colleen
$600 [23]
Green Keepers is a brand of "spikeless cleats" for this sport
Golf
Will
$800 [4]
If you want to rent a car on this British colony in the Atlantic, you'll come up "short"; it's not allowed
Bermuda
Daniel
DD $1,000 [9]
These Nova Scotia games include Celtic workshops & tossing the caber, a 20-foot log
the Highland Games
Daniel
$800 [15]
This ancient city is the third holiest in Islam
Jerusalem
Daniel
$800 [28]
Named for a lovesick poet-scholar, this type of sonnet is also known as an Italian sonnet
a Petrarchan sonnet
$800 [18]
Not surprisingly, the hero of this TV personality's "Murder Under Blue Skies" is a former weatherman
Willard Scott
DD $1,000 [24]
It's the Shakespearean play that features the speech heard here:"Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, /... cold fire, sick health, /Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! /This love feel I, that feel no love in this."
Romeo and Juliet
Will
$1,000 [5]
Its name suggests that this island in the Indian Ocean might be perfect for a family get-together
Reunion
Daniel
$1,000 [21]
"Somewhere in the World..." is a pageant presented each July & August in Charlottetown in this province
Prince Edward Island
Will
$1,000 [16]
The Shi'ite branch of Islam honors this son-in-law of Muhammad who was also the fourth caliph
Ali
Daniel
$1,000 [29]
One of her most evocative sonnets begins, "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
$1,000 [19]
With "Great Expectations", this "Gattaca" star published his first novel "The Hottest State" in 1996
Ethan Hawke
Colleen
$1,000 [30]
The painting seen here has this oxymoronic title (solid black square on top of solid red rectangle)
Untitled

Final Jeopardy!

CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS

It's believed this saint began the custom of the nativity scene in 1223, using real people & animals

Saint Francis of Assisi

Daniel "Who was St. Francis of Assisi?" — wagered $2,800
Colleen "Who is St. Francis of Assisi?" — wagered $5,295
Will "Who was Saint Nicholas?" — wagered $3,700

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