Show #3299 1998-12-31 (taped 1998-11-04) Regular

Contestants

Brian Gillespie — an actor originally from Bayonne, New Jersey

Felicia Vondrak — a part-time licensing assistant from Seattle, Washington

Pete Fistanic — a bond salesman from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pete $1,900 $1,400 $2,000 $400
3rd place: 3-day trip to the Canadian Rockies
$2,800
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Felicia $400 $400 $3,800 $7,500
2nd place: 7-day Broadway trip to New York City
$4,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Brian $-300 $2,100 $4,100 $7,700
New champion: $7,700
$4,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PITCHMEN THE ROARING '20s MOVIE NOSTALGIA QUOTATIONS HOLD EVERYTHING! PARTY ON!
$100 [11]
On the 70th anniversary of this brand in 1998, Mr. Whipple gave America permission to squeeze it
the Charmin (bathroom tissue)
Pete
$100 [16]
After his return from Europe in June of 1927, he received a hero's welcome & a ticker tape parade
Charles Lindbergh
Brian
$100 [1]
In the 1930s this platinum blonde bombshell starred in "Platinum Blonde" & "Bombshell"
Jean Harlow
Pete Brian
$100 [6]
On April 15, 1865 Edwin Stanton said this man "belongs to the ages"
Abraham Lincoln
Felicia
$100 [21]
From a Dutch term, it's a leather case where you keep your six shooter, pardner
a holster
Brian
$100 [26]
"Pin the nose on the witch" is a Halloween variation of this ever-popular party game
pin the tail on the donkey
Pete
$200 [12]
Gordon Jump has played this lonely pitchman since 1989
the Maytag Repairman
Brian
$200 [17]
This term came into vogue for the type of woman seen here
a flapper
Pete Brian
$200 [2]
This "bathing beauty" dove into films in 1942, in "Andy Hardy's Double Life"
Esther Williams
Pete
$200 [7]
In August 1997 Steve Jobs told him via cell phone, "Thank You. The world's a better place"
Bill Gates
Felicia
$200 [22]
It can be a soldier's flask, or a small cafeteria
a canteen
Felicia
$200 [27]
Term for the paper hats & noisemakers given to guests, or the tokens fair ladies gave to their knights
favors
Brian
$300 [13]
Before his big 1998 wedding, this actor signed for up to 7 more years as AAMCO's spokesman
James Brolin
Brian
$300 [18]
In 1927 Ford introduced this car to replace the Model T
the Model A
Brian
$300 [3]
This famous TV dad directed his son Rick in the 1965 romantic comedy "Love And Kisses"
Ozzie Nelson
Pete
$300 [8]
In 1974 he said, "I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president"
Gerald Ford
Pete
$300 [23]
Hopefully this legendary container is full when you get to the end of the rainbow
a pot of gold
Felicia
$400 [14]
On television, Paul Reiser touts this long distance provider's "One Rate Plus"
AT&T
Brian
$400 [19]
In 1921 this man seen here realized his lifelong dream of becoming U.S. Chief Justice
William Howard Taft
Pete
$400 [4]
This British PM's daughter Sarah played Fred Astaire's love interest in the 1951 film "Royal Wedding"
Winston Churchill
Pete
$400 [9]
In July 1997 CNN touted it as "the little rover that could"
Sojourner
Felicia Brian
$400 [24]
These underground cemeteries around Rome contain the remains of many early Christians
catacombs
Brian
$500 [15]
This former world leader used the royalties from his Pizza Hut commercial to fund his foundation
Mikhail Gorbachev
Brian
$500 [20]
In the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, 7 members of this man's gang were shot dead
Bugs Moran
Felicia Brian
$500 [5]
This 1955 film was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play
Picnic
Felicia
$500 [10]
In 1903 he reportedly said, "Damn the law! I want the canal built"
Theodore Roosevelt
Pete
DD $400 [25]
In Psalm 23 it's more than full
"My cup runneth over"
Brian

Double Jeopardy! Round

PITCHERS THE CIVIL WAR KIDDIE LIT IN THE DICTIONARY COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS POUR ME SOME CHAMPAGNE!
$200 [16]
Feat performed May 17, 1998 by David Wells; it was only the 13th time in the 20th century
pitching a perfect game
Brian
$200 [17]
A century before the U.S.S. Nautilus, the Confederacy had 2 of these new ships, the Pioneer & the Hunley
submarines
Pete
$200 [1]
This Rudyard Kipling classic begins with the story of "Mowgli's Brothers"
The Jungle Book
Brian
$200 [6]
The snipe in guttersnipe is one of these creatures that frequent the mud at the edge of a pond
a bird
Pete Felicia
$200 [11]
He finally won an Oscar in 1952 for playing a raffish yet courageous riverboat captain
Humphrey Bogart ( The African Queen )
Brian
$200 [23]
A little red wine is usually added to make this popular color of champagne
rosé (or pink)
Pete
$400 [18]
This strikeout king's last season, 1993, was marred by injuries & a fistfight with Robin Ventura
Nolan Ryan
$400 [22]
This July 1861 campaign in Virginia began as the Affair at Blackburn's Ford
First Bull Run
$400 [2]
She's Jane & Michael Banks' magical nanny
Mary Poppins
Felicia
$400 [7]
Meaning to vacillate between 2 choices, this phrase was originally "shall I, shall I"
shilly-shally
$400 [12]
In a Herman Wouk novel, crazy Captain Queeg commanded this vessel
Caine
Pete
$400 [25]
A classic champagne cocktail contains a dash of the Angostura type of this ingredient
bitters
Pete
$600 [19]
Intimidating moundsman seen here
Randy Johnson
Felicia
$600 [24]
This grandson of the ninth president commanded troops in the Army of the Cumberland
Benjamin Harrison
Felicia
$600 [3]
A famous book by Crockett Johnson tells of a little boy named Harold & his adventures with this color crayon
purple
Felicia
$600 [8]
From the French for "discomfited", to be "left in" this is to be left in trouble without help
the lurch
Felicia
$600 [13]
The British captured this courageous captain Sept. 21, 1776 on his return from a spy mission
Nathan Hale
Pete
$600 [26]
The songwriter who wrote, "I get no kick from champagne, mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all"
Cole Porter
Brian
DD $600 [20]
Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971, he got his nickname carrying bags at a Mobile, Alabama depot
Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Felicia
$800 [4]
It's no secret, "The Long Secret" was Louise Fitzhugh's sequel to this book about a little girl snoop
Harriet the Spy
Felicia
$800 [9]
This 3-letter word for "class" or "kind" usually follows the phrase "of that..."
ilk
Brian
DD $800 [14]
Killed by Communist forces 10 days after WWII, this U.S. Army captain has his own "Society"
John Birch
Pete
$1,000 [21]
This pitcher named for a U.S. president was played by Ronald Reagan in "The Winning Team"
Grover Cleveland Alexander
$1,000 [5]
The 1986 Newbery Medal went to this book about a mail-order bride who joins a family on the prairie
Sarah, Plain and Tall
$1,000 [10]
This word meaning "to gad about" may be an alteration of gallant
gallivant
Felicia
$1,000 [15]
The courageous captain of this spectral ship is condemned to sail the seas until judgment day
the Flying Dutchman
Pete

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. ORGANIZATIONS

A New Deal agency & a present-day organization, both using an eagle symbol, share these initials

NRA (National Recovery Administration & National Rifle Association)

Pete "What is TVA" — wagered $1,600
Felicia "What is the NRA" — wagered $3,700
Brian "What are N.R.A." — wagered $3,600

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