Show #3117 - Tuesday, March 3, 1998

Chris Ward game 5.

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Sharon Paterson, a marketing executive from Saline, Michigan

Jake Martin, an undergraduate student from Knoxville, Tennessee

Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Lima, Peru (whose 4-day cash winnings total $53,703)

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round

NATURE
CANADIAN POTPOURRI
GOING CUCKOO
OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE COMIC BOOKS
MOVIEGOING
CROSSWORD CLUES "A"
    $100 13
Like other vertebrates, birds have 2 hind limbs & 2 forelimbs, the latter being these
    $100 26
If you studied Latin, you'll know that Nova Scotia's name is Latin for this
    $100 11
Sonny is the bird who's "cuckoo for" this cereal
    $100 6
Both of these female friends of Archie Andrews have their own comics & share a third
    $100 1
These stands where you buy popcorn & soda are where theaters make most of their profits
    $100 12
MacGraw or Baba
(3)
    $200 14
The largest crustacean is the giant spider type of this aquatic creature whose claws can be 10' apart
    $200 27
Afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel is a treasured tradition in this "regal" British Columbia city
    $200 22
Edmund Spenser called "The Merry Cuckoo" the "messenger of" this season
    $200 7
He's Donald Duck's rich uncle & he has his own comic book
    $200 2
Located in Los Angeles, the USA's last theater devoted to these films of the 1920s closed in 1997
    $200 18
Fore's antonym
(3)
    $300 15
Fruit types of these insects may be named for the fruit they infest, such as olives or cherries
    $300 28
This world-famous Montreal comedy festival is known in French as "Juste Pour Rire"
    $300 23
This term for the husband of an adulterous wife is derived from cuckoo
    $300 8
This superhero's debut in a 1939 issue of Detective Comics also introduced Commissioner Gordon
    $300 3
Introduced in the '30s, they usually included one major release & one B movie
    $300 19
Fossil resin "forever"
(5)
    $400 16
From the Latin for "first", this early-blooming flower contains another flower in its name
    $400 29
Wawa is Ojibwa for this wild bird & the town of Wawa, Ontario, a migration stop, boasts a giant statue of one
    $400 24
In this 1962 novel, McMurphy takes on Nurse Ratched
    $400 9
Half-human, half-alien crime fighter seen here:
    $400 4
The line "This is where I" did this began when movies ran continuously & you entered & left midway
    $400 20
Descriptive of Dickens' Dodger
(6)
    $500 17
The poisonous marine toad preys on these animals, its companions in the order Anura
    $500 30
When the province of Saskatchewan was created in 1905, this city became its capital
    $500 25
In this film, Harry Lime says Switzerland's 500 years of democracy & peace produced--the cuckoo clock
    $500 10
In January 1997 Acclaim Comics began reissuing this series with "A Tale of Two Cities" & "Tom Sawyer"
    DD: $900 5
4-word motto that accompanies the following:
    $500 21
A fruit carrier you don't want to upset
(9)

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Chris Jake Sharon
$1,300 $400 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Jake Sharon
$4,400 $1,800 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round

A "WORLD" OF INFORMATION
WORLD HISTORY
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS
MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD
WORLD CINEMA
AROUND THE WORLD
    $200 3
TWA, in full
    $200 26
Implicated in a plot to kill Hitler, this "Desert Fox" committed suicide rather than stand trial
    $200 2
If this Brit's family had kept their original name, Da Pinta, his plays would be described as "Da Pintaesque"
    $200 1
I.M. Pei's glass pyramid entrance to this Paris museum houses the hall of Napoleon
    $200 9
Hong Kong director John Woo's 1993 U.S. debut "Hard Target" starred this Belgian kickboxer
    $200 21
This African country's people are known as Ivorians
    $400 4
To this Disney song title, comic Steven Wright adds the thought, "But I wouldn't want to have to paint it"
    $400 12
This Czech writer of "R.U.R." wrote "The Insect Comedy" with his brother Josef
    $400 6
The typewriter used to write "Out of Africa" is exhibited at her home in Rungstedlund, Denmark
    $400 10
"A Fistful of Dollars" was director Sergio Leone's first of these "edible" Westerns
    $400 22
The tower of Hallgrim's church provides a sweeping view of this Icelandic capital
    $600 5
It's said of someone who can find profits & perhaps pearls in his surroundings
    $600 13
Racine wrote a racy tragedy about Phaedra, a daughter of this king of Crete
    $600 7
One highlight of this capital's Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum is a piano used by Beethoven
    DD: $400 11
"Knife in the Water" was this director's first feature after film school at Lodz
    $600 23
This French town may have been named for Cantilus, who built the first villa there; the lace came later
    $800 19
This exclamation by Miranda in "The Tempest" became an ironic Aldous Huxley title
    $800 14
This Irishman's 1926 play "The Plough and the Stars" was so controversial it provoked riots
    $800 8
This Florentine palace houses several museums including Galleria Palatina & Museo Degli Argenti
    $800 16
This Kurosawa film gives 4 different versions of a single crime
    $800 24
Juan Santamaria International Airport serves this capital of Costa Rica
    DD: $1,200 20
A British band played this song as Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown:
    $1000 27
On Feb. 12, 1912, the last emperor of this dynasty abdicated, ending more than 3,000 years of Chinese monarchy
    $1000 15
He was resident playwright at the National Theatre in Bergen when he wrote "The Feast at Solhaug"
    $1000 18
This 18th century lexicographer's first dictionary is on display in the London townhouse where he lived & worked
    $1000 17
Simone Signoret plots the death of her schoolmaster lover in this 1955 French classic
    $1000 25
Some cyclists take a downhill bicycling tour of this Caribbean country's Blue Mountains

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Jake Sharon
$7,600 $2,200 $2,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD OF BUSINESS
According to McDonald's, it's the only country where their outlets do not sell beef hamburgers

Final scores:

Chris Jake Sharon
$9,598 $3,200 $4,450
5-day champion: $63,301 3rd place: DuPont Camping Set 2nd place: Intel Create & Share Camera Pack

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Chris Jake Sharon
$9,700 $2,200 $3,000
24 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)		 9 R,
0 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $14,900

[game responses] [game scores] [suggest correction]

Game tape date: Unknown
The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. Scraping, republication, monetization, and malicious use prohibited; this site may use cookies and collect identifying information. See terms. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.