Show #3226 - Monday, September 21, 1998

Lance Johnson game 4.

Contestants

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John Brett, a procurement analyst originally from Cleveland, Ohio

Emily Krucoff, a journalist from Bethesda, Maryland

Lance Johnson, an event coordinator from Champaign, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $31,300)

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Jeopardy! Round

NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES
20th CENTURY WOMEN
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
DO YOU HAVE ANY KINGS?
(Alex: We'll give you some information and you have to identify the king in question.)
"GO"
FISH
    $100 9
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is" this
    $100 21
As Hollywood's highest paid actress, her assets include a $12.5 million salary for "Striptease"
    $100 13
1 of 2 current U.S. colleges founded in the 1600s
    $100 26
This king was Catherine Parr's third husband, & she was his sixth wife
    $100 2
Morticia's main man
    $100 1
Heaven, I'm in heaven when I see the queen type of this fish
    $200 10
"The spirit indeed is willing but" this "is weak"
    $200 22
Michelle Triola's suit against Lee Marvin popularized this term for payment to a former live-in lover
    $200 16
This University of Texas fight song is based on "I've Been Working On The Railroad"
    $200 27
Frankly, my dear, this king of the Franks was called Rex Pater Europae -- "King Father of Europe"
    $200 3
If you hung around at discos in the '60s, you saw these furiously frugging females
    $200 7
You'd expect to hear this fish say "Polly wants a cracker!"
    $300 14
It's "The wages of sin"
    $300 23
The first woman nominated for a Grammy as Best Producer, she sings "I Don't Want To Wait"
    DD: $300 17
Students in Moscow at the university of this state may cross-register for courses at Washington State
    $300 28
Born in 1892, this future Ethiopian king became governor of Harar as a teenager
    $300 4
Lorne "Gump" Worsley was famous for playing this position without a mask
    $300 8
Beware, this fish with a leonine name has extremely poisonous spines
    $400 15
In Luke 11:2 the 4-word phrase that follows "Our father which art in heaven"
    $400 24
Elton John's song "Philadelphia Freedom" was a tribute to this tennis star & her team
    $400 18
It's the nickname of the University of Oregon's athletic teams
    $400 29
He succeeded to the throne of Macedon when his brother Perdiccas perished in 359
    $400 5
This 1944 film featured the Oscar-winning song "Swingin' On A Star"
    $400 11
This scary-looking eel has razor-sharp teeth but extremely poor eyesight
    $500 20
Upon this Cyrenian "They laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus"
    $500 25
In March 1998 NASA selected her as the first female commander for a space shuttle mission
    $500 19
The only college in the Yukon Territory is Yukon College in this capital
    $500 6
It was once the capital of Portuguese India
    $500 12
This orange-red fish shares its name with the leader of the Redshirts

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Lance Emily John
$1,500 $600 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Lance Emily John
$3,400 $600 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAR"M"S
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
CONSTRUCTION
HOUSE OF PI
BRIAN DE PALMA FILMS
TRIPLE A
(Alex: The correct response in each case will be a word that has 3 "A"s in it.)
    $200 1
After Sydney, it has the largest metropolitan area in Australia
    $200 3
New Jersey's last royal governor was an illegitimate son of this Philadelphia printer-inventor
    $200 2
Hey, "Mickey", it's the beam that supports the masonry above a fireplace
    $200 22
Pi times a circle's radius squared will give you this measurement, abbreviated A
    $200 11
1976 classic about an unpopular but telekinetic teen girl
    $200 17
A fleet of warships, perhaps a "Spanish" one
    DD: $1,000 8
An Asian city, or the fabric seen here
    $400 4
Between March 1, 1781 & March 4, 1789, when the Constitution came into effect, the government was run under these
    $400 23
Class A doors have a 3-hour rating for enduring this
    $400 25
Pi comes from the Greek alphabet where it immediately precedes this equivalent of our "R"
    $400 13
Oliver Stone wrote this 1983 film starring Al Pacino as a drug-addled Cuban gangster
    $400 18
This pasture & hay plant is also called Lucerne
    $600 9
By mid-1990 all of Liberia except for parts of this capital, was controlled by rival rebel groups
    $600 5
Paul Revere's engraving of this 1770 event falsified it to demonstrate British guilt
    $600 24
From Greek for "to hear", it's the branch of physics that includes how sounds bounce around in a hall
    $600 27
Pi is the ratio of the circle's circumference to this
    $600 14
In 1987 De Palma filmed "The Untouchables"; in 1996, he brought this TV series to the big screen
    $600 19
"Llama" only has 2 As, while this relative has 3
    $800 10
The northern portion of Borneo is part of this country
    $800 6
Born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland in 1747, he took command of the Providence in 1776
    $800 26
On blueprints DD refers to this kind of split portal
    DD: $1,600 29
He didn't bother saying "Eureka!" when he found out that 22.7 was the upper limit of pi
    $800 15
Paul Williams starred in this 1974 rock version of "Phantom of the Opera"
    $800 20
It changes "satin" to "stain"
    $1000 12
The Sultan of Zanzibar built a palace in this current capital of Somalia
    $1000 7
Elected president of Congress in absentia in November 1785, he never served & resigned in 1786
    $1000 28
A spandrel is the triangular area between 2 horizontally adjoining ones of these
    $1000 16
De Palma's "Blow Out", about a sound man, is a tribute to this Antonioni film about a photographer
    $1000 21
Any incarnation of Vishnu

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Lance Emily John
$7,200 $4,600 $1,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

HOTELS
(Alex: A lot of hotels in the world.)
The U.S. investigation into the Titanic was first held in this hotel owned by one of the victims

Final scores:

Lance Emily John
$9,201 $5,200 $2,000
4-day champion: $40,501 2nd place: Trip to El Conquistador Resort, Puerto Rico 3rd place: Rand McNally Gift Certificate

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Lance Emily John
$8,200 $4,600 $2,600
24 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)
9 R,
0 W
14 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $15,400

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Game tape date: 1998-07-21
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