Show #3318 - Wednesday, January 27, 1999

Contestants

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Matt Sullivan, a teacher from Spokane, Washington

Lisa McAdam, a managing editor from Springfield, Oregon

Alex Huemer, an economics instructor from Claremont, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,050)

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Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL FAMILIES
WHO PLAYED 'EM?
(Alex Trebek: On television)
DAYS OF THE WEEK
PRESIDENTIAL COUPLES...NOT!
(Alex Trebek: An example: "Your Love Is Lifting Me Higher" singer & "silent" president--correct response: Who are Rita and Calvin Coolidge?)
ALL THINGS BRITISH
GIVE ME A "C"
    $100 20
This long-haired son of Manoah was always having run-ins with Philistines
    $100 4
Kelly Bundy,
Jesse Warner
    $100 2
It's NBC's "Must See TV" night of "Friends" & "Frasier"
    $100 9
This "Gimme a Break" housekeeper could learn the facts of peanut farming from this president
    $100 1
In 1997 PM Blair swapped homes with the Chancellor of the Exchequer & now lives at No. 11 on this street
    $100 15
Piece of furniture in which the president stashes his top-level advisors
    $200 26
Comparing grammars of ancient Phoenician & Hebrew shows he may have been born before Adam & Eve left Eden
    $200 5
Colt Seavers,
Col. Steve Austin
    $200 10
For federal employees, Columbus always has his day on this one
    $200 11
This woman's scandal involved Nancy Kerrigan, this president's involved a "teapot"
    $200 3
It's the noisy landmark seen here
    $200 16
When served as food, squid often goes by this Italian name
    $300 27
Father & son depicted here
    $300 6
Dan August,
Wood Newton
    $300 23
Micky sang lead on this Top 10 Monkees hit while someone else played the drums
    $300 12
This actress' violet eyes would be dazzling next to this "Rough & Ready" president
    DD: $1,000 21
This school where a form of football originated admitted its first girls in 1975
    $300 17
It's the part of a car that includes the frame & the wheels
    $400 28
His mother Jochebed was hired to be his nurse by Pharaoh's daughter
    $400 7
Laurie Partridge,
Grace Van Owen
    $400 24
One of T.S. Eliot's longer poems is "Ash" this
    $400 13
She was a TV "Golden Girl", he was a one-termer of the 1880s
    $400 22
The 1648 Battle of St. Ffagan was a major battle of the English Civil War fought in this principality
    $400 18
Isaac Newton & Gottfried Leibniz invented this branch of math independently of one another....go figure
    $500 25
Joab helped David reconcile with this son
    $500 8
Sabrina Duncan,
Amanda King
    $500 14
She's married to Tom Hanks, he was married to Edith
    $500 19
It's the (medical) symbol seen here

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Alex Lisa Matt
-$200 $1,200 $1,900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Lisa Matt
-$100 $1,200 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
TRAVEL & TOURISM
STATE BIRDS
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "G"
SPORTS COMEBACKS
GIVE ME A SEA
    $200 1
The Sumerians, who invented cuneiform writing, date back to 5500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, in what is now this country
    $200 7
Once a border resort with casinos, it's the main entry port to Mexico from California for U.S. tourists
    $200 26
It comes bob bob bobbin' along as the state bird of Michigan, Wisconsin & Connecticut
    $200 14
Lancelot's ladylove
(9)
    $200 6
In the Summit Series this country kept its hockey honor with a 1972 comeback win over the USSR
    $200 15
This tropical sea is sometimes referred to as the "American Mediterranean"
    $400 2
While conquering this ancient empire, Alexander the Great burned the buildings of Persepolis, its capitol
    $400 8
Thousands of tourists & pilgrims visit this city each year (Dome of the Rock mosque)
    $400 27
Not to knock it, but Alabama's yellowhammer is a type of this
    $400 18
Ferber's "colossal" novel
(5)
    $400 9
At the advanced age of 22, former Olympian Kim Zmeskal is making a comeback in this sport
    $400 22
Scotland's longest river, the Tay, flows into this sea, see?
    $600 3
It took more than 2,000,000 2-ton blocks of stone to build the great pyramid of this man
    $600 10
In this largest Swiss city, you can wet your whistle at the James Joyce Pub which Joyce described in "Ulysses"
    DD: $1,000 28
Add red to this state's name & you get this bird
    $600 19
Apuleius' "ass", or Henry James' "bowl"
(6)
    $600 11
This golfer famous for his comebacks lost to a Billy Casper charge on the last day of the 1966 U.S. Open
    $600 23
Inch on over to the port of Inchon & you'll be on this colorful sea
    $800 4
In 1700 B.C. this civilization's great palace at Knossos was destroyed by an earthquake
    $800 16
A trip to this Italian city's Lagoon Island should include a visit to Murano, famed for its glass
    $800 29
You'll have "shear" delight using this term that describes the tail of Oklahoma's flycatcher
    $800 20
Salinger family, or Williams menagerie
(5)
    $800 12
In 1989, 2 years after being accidentally shot, this American won the Tour de France on the last day
    DD: $2,000 24
It's the sea bounded by Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Siberia & the Kamchatka Peninsula
    $1000 5
The civilization that grew up along this Pakistani river had planned streets & houses with bathrooms
    $1000 17
Cowes on the northern coast of this isle in the English Channel is a famed yachting center
    $1000 30
Some call it a pheasant & others a partridge; as a state bird Pennsylvania calls it the ruffed this
    $1000 21
He brought "Dead Souls" to life
(5)
    $1000 13
This ex-Brave whose name means "fairness" was fairly named 1997's A.L. Comeback Player of the Year for Cleveland
    $1000 25
Sydney, Australia is the largest city on this sea

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Lisa Matt
-$500 $9,000 $9,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

VITAMINS & MINERALS
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention says it's the nutrient Americans are most likely to be deficient in

Final scores:

Alex Lisa Matt
-$500 $4,000 $1,199
3rd place: Pair of Festina Tour Watches New champion: $4,000 2nd place: Trip to Radisson Hotel Miyako, Osaka, Japan

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Alex Lisa Matt
$500 $8,800 $9,600
7 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)
22 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)
21 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $18,900

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Game tape date: 1998-11-18
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