Show #3304 1999-01-07 (taped 1998-11-10) Regular

Contestants

Jill Rupert-Bennett — a graduate student from New Orleans, Louisiana

David Becker — an attorney from Washington, D.C.

Dennis Thibodeaux — a computer consultant from Nashville, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,200)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Dennis	$1,800	$3,000	$7,800	$800 2nd place: Marantz MD-20 Music System & Rhino CD's/Videos	$7,400 20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
David	$1,500	$2,500	$7,100	$14,200 New champion: $14,200	$6,700 18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Jill	$500	$2,400	$4,000	$100 3rd place: Vivitar Sport Travel Kit	$3,800 11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BOX OFFICE BOMBS	THE HINDU RELIGION	CRITTERS	WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD?	TRAVEL & TOURISM	BEFORE & AFTER
$100 [1] There wasn't much repeat business for this 1997 Kevin Costner film; nobody rang twice The Postman Jill	$100 [21] The Untouchables social class was renamed "Harijan" or "Children of God" by this great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi David	$100 [18] This island off Australia has been home to carnivorous "devils" & wolves Tasmania Dennis	$100 [13] Season that's also a long hairpiece Fall	$100 [11] Watch out for trolls when you ride Maelstrom in the Norway section of this Disney World theme park EPCOT Center Jill	$100 [6] Paul Reubens persona who penned "Moby Dick" Pee-wee Herman Melville David
$200 [2] Playboy worked it out; this Kevin Costner (yes, him again) soggy cinema tale cost $1.3 million a minute to make Waterworld Dennis	$200 [22] Hindus consider this father of another religion to be the ninth incarnation of Vishnu Buddha David Jill	$200 [19] Ants detect odors with sensors on these Antennae Dennis	$200 [14] Profession of the person wearing the gear seen here (soldering) Welder David	$200 [12] Steamboat Springs in this state calls itself "Ski Town, U.S.A." Colorado Dennis	$200 [7] Monticello's master who formed a band with Grace Slick Thomas Jefferson Starship/Airplane David
$300 [3] This 1997 Sandra Bullock sequel sank like a stone Speed 2 Dennis	$300 [24] This highest Hindu caste is considered to be always in a state of ritual purity Brahmans Jill	$300 [20] From their name it sounds like these ray relatives should travel "inline" Skates David	$300 [26] Traditional color of a tarboosh or fez Red Jill	$300 [15] You may be surprised to find casinos in this capital of Nepal; you'll find one at the Hotel Yak & Yeti Kathmandu Jill	$300 [8] Turn of the century suffragette who killed Janet Leigh in the shower Susan B. Anthony Perkins Dennis
$400 [4] This 1986 Lea Thompson flop didn't have the audience quacking up Howard The Duck Dennis	$400 [29] Of 100 million, 300 million or 800 million, the one closest to the total number of Hindus worldwide 800 million David	$400 [23] One of the few land mammals that migrate long distances; they wander from the tundra to the forests Caribou David	$400 [27] It's a hood for a monk or Batman Cowl Dennis	$400 [16] If you're in this country in the summer, you can see ancient plays performed at the theater of Epidaurus Greece Jill	$400 [9] "X" filmmaker who saved Chrysler from becoming an ex-company Spike Lee Iacocca Dennis
$500 [5] Melanie Griffith cried Tom Wolfe in this 1990 story of high society Bonfire Of The Vanities David	$500 [30] The word "Hindu" comes from an old Sanskrit word meaning this, perhaps a sacred one River	DD $700 [25] It's Asia's only great ape Orangutan Jill	$500 [28] The man credited with creating the football helmet is this basketball inventor James Naismith Dennis	$500 [17] The Black Church, so-called because its walls were blackened in a 1689 fire, is in Brasov in this country Romania	$500 [10] Miss Marple creator once married to Billy Joel Agatha Christie Brinkley David

Double Jeopardy! Round

CAR TROUBLE	LYING IN STATE	BY THE BOOKS	COWBOY SONGS	WE'RE IN-SEINE	"U" GOT IT!
$200 [3] His stainless steel gull wing-doored cars were sharp, but his business tactics were not John DeLorean Dennis	$200 [2] He lay in state in 1972 in tribute to his 48 years as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover David	$200 [1] Numbers 72, 73 & 74 in her "Files" by Carolyn Keene make up the "Passport to Romance" trilogy Nancy Drew Dennis	$200 [9] The dying cowboy's companions ignored his request "Bury me not" here On the lone prairie Dennis	$200 [20] 400-year-old Pont Neuf is the oldest of 30 of these structures on the Seine in Paris Bridges Dennis	$200 [10] Lauren Bacall's first job in the theater wasn't onstage; she worked in the house as one of these Usher David
$400 [7] With high hopes, in 1985 Malcolm Bricklin began importing these boxy, cheap cars from central Europe to the U.S. Yugos David	$400 [4] Last name of the father & son, a U.S. president & a longtime senator, who both lay in state Taft (William Howard & Robert)	$400 [13] Her "House of Earth" trilogy includes "A House Divided" & "The Good Earth" Pearl S. Buck Dennis	$400 [24] This song good for line dancing contains the line "Fly's in the buttermilk, shoo, fly, shoo" "Skip To My Lou" David	$400 [22] All that's left of this palace built on the right bank for Catherine de Medicis is its gardens Tuileries Jill	$400 [14] As far as we know, this 1989 hit is the only Oscar-winning song sung by an animated crab Under The Sea David
$600 [8] Production of this Chevrolet ran for 10 years before Ralph Nader helped instigate its demise Corvair Dennis	$800 [6] In 1909, before reinterment, he lay in state in the city he had planned Pierre L' Enfant David	$600 [18] The only extant trilogy we have by this ancient Greek is the "Oresteia" Aeschylus	$600 [25] They're the title sounds that spurs make as one goes "Riding merrily along" jingle, jangle, jingle Dennis	$600 [23] In 1802 this U.S. inventor launched a steam-driven paddle-wheel boat on the Seine Robert Fulton Dennis	$800 [16] It was once "The Breadbasket of the Soviet Union"; now it's "The Breadbasket of the C.I.S." Ukraine David
$800 [11] From 1978 to 1985 Olds came with these engines that produced mad consumers & too much smog for California Diesel engines David Jill	DD $1,000 [5] The last U.S. president to lie in state in the rotunda, he did it Jan. 24-25, 1973 Lyndon B. Johnson Dennis	$800 [19] "The 42nd Parallel" begins one of his trilogies; "Adventures of A Young Man" begins another John Dos Passos	$800 [26] "All day I face the barren waste without the taste of" this Cool water Dennis	$800 [28] The Seine flows into the English Channel at this seaport whose name means "The Haven" Le Havre	DD $1,000 [15] On Feb. 16, 1862 Ulysses S. Grant wrote that he would only accept this type of surrender Unconditional David
$1,000 [12] This luxury car maker's 1982 Cimarron, a 4-cylinder small car, just didn't sell Cadillac Jill	$1,000 [21] This Florida congressman & advocate for the elderly was given the honor when he died aged 88 in 1989 Claude Pepper David	—	$1,000 [27] In a famous song, an old cowboy sees these apparitions chasing a herd of red-eyed cows ghost riders in the sky David	—	$1,000 [17] The name of this Indic language comes from a phrase that means "Language of the camp" Urdu Jill

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN BUILDINGS

Once an art gallery, since 1961 it's been a shrine to the musical style said to have originated nearby

Preservation Hall (in New Orleans)

Jill "What" — wagered $3,900

David "What is Preservation Hall" — wagered $7,100

Dennis "What is Carnegie Hall?" — wagered $7,000

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