Show #3415 - Friday, June 11, 1999

Contestants

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Jerry Dynes, a physician from Westlake, Ohio

Michelle Arthington, a customs house broker from Mount Vernon, Washington

Ryan Thiel, a sign language interpreter from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,402)

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Jeopardy! Round

WESTERN EUROPE
HOME COOKIN'
JOE DiMAGGIO
NAME THE DECADE
POETS & POETRY
GOOD PROVERBS
    $100 17
The Frisian Islands in this sea are divided among Germany, Denmark & the Netherlands
    $100 12
Make this Creole dish with Spam & voila! You've got Spambalaya!
    $100 6
From 1974 to 1985, DiMaggio served as the spokesman for this line of automatic drip coffeemakers
    $100 26
Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the New World
    $100 11
Much of this Longfellow poem takes place "by the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water"
    $100 1
Oh, shoot! This is "as good as a mile"
    $200 18
This 270-mile mountain chain once forced Spain & France to trade by sea
    $200 13
I need lots of "elbow" room when I cook up a big pot of these elbow-shaped noodles "and cheese"
    $200 7
"Joltin' Joe" was immortalized in this song that hit No. 1 in 1968
    $200 27
Paul Revere takes a midnight ride & warns that "The British are coming"
    $200 22
In 1630 John Milton wrote a sonnet honoring this other famous sonneteer
    $200 2
"All good things must" do this
    $300 19
We assume there are plenty of females on this isle halfway between England & Ireland
    $300 14
By gosh, this singer seen here is famous for her By Gosh beef stew
    $300 8
DiMaggio earned this nautical nickname with his graceful outfield play
    $300 28
The 19th Amendment is ratified; women can now vote!
    $300 23
Voltaire's mock heroic "La Pucelle" features this medieval warrior maid
    $300 3
Not blacktop or yellow brick, "the road to Hell is paved with" these
    $400 20
City southwest of Paris where you'll find the landmark shown here
    $400 15
"Orange" you a gorgeous tart? I'm not being rude, that's a favorite treat of this celebrity seen here
    DD: $900 9
DiMaggio's last hit, a double, came in his last at-bat in the 1951 World Series when the Yankees played this NYC team
    $400 29
Good heavens! Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
    $400 24
Odysseus Elytis, a poet from this country, won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature
    $400 4
Boy Scouts should heed, "Big words seldom go with good" these
    $500 21
The Celtic settlement Lausonium, on Lake Geneva, developed into this Swiss city
    $500 16
Appropriately, chicken a la King is featured in "Are You Hungry Tonight?", a book of his favorite recipes
    $500 10
1 of 2 DiMaggio brothers to play major league baseball at the same time as Joe
    $500 30
The Maine mysteriously blows up in Havana Harbor
    $500 25
"Crossing the Water" & "Winter Trees" are 2 posthumous collections by this "Bell Jar" author
    $500 5
"A good start is half" this

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

Ryan Michelle Jerry
$3,800 -$200 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Michelle Jerry
$6,300 $0 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN CITIES
GREEN STUFF
FILM NARRATORS
(Alex: You have to identify the actor, please.)
THEY REST IN RHODE ISLAND
HUMANITARIANS
"G" WHIZ!
    $200 16
In a 1940 film Sabu was "The Thief of" this city
    $200 6
They are the 2 primary colors of paint that are mixed to produce green
    $200 11
1994's
"Forrest Gump"
    $200 21
Swan Point Cemetery is home to Elisha Hunt Rhodes, whose diary Ken Burns used in a show on this subject
    $200 26
Her parents asked Alexander Graham Bell about a teacher for their daughter; Anne Sullivan was soon hired
    $200 1
To grumble, perhaps about the ruffed bird of the same name
    $400 17
You could call Benazir Bhutto, born in this country's largest city, the Karachi Kid
    $400 7
After "Louie, Louie", the Kingsmen's next biggest hit was about ho, ho, him
    $400 12
1970's
"Little Big Man"
    $400 22
Nicholas Colasanto, who was behind the bar as Coach on this sitcom, is in a Cranston, R.I. cemetery
    $400 27
He used some of his enormous wealth to build a New York City concert hall & over 2,500 public libraries
    $400 2
Things aren't always "peachy" in this former Soviet republic
    $600 18
It hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics & lends its name to one of Japan's oldest brands of beer
    $600 8
It's what's green in Vermont's nickname
    $600 13
1950's
"Sunset Boulevard"
    $600 23
This founder of Rhode Island has his own memorial in Providence
    $600 28
In 1931 this social reformer & Hull House founder was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
    $600 3
This word can refer to any impregnable standard, not just the famous rock
    DD: $1,000 19
In this city you can visit an uplifting museum of Khmer art, or Tuol Sleng, a museum of torture & murder
    $800 9
In 1983 it became the first country in Europe to have Green Party members in its national legislature
    $800 14
1987's
"Radio Days"
    $800 24
Last name of the 2 brothers, both 19th century U.S. Naval officers, who lie in Island Cemetery
    DD: $3,500 29
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian has provided $100 million for an airlift to this country
    $800 4
It's a terrestrial rodent such as a marmot or chipmunk -- not one who's been through a meat grinder
    $1000 20
Uh, just one more thing...it's Sri Lanka's most important port
    $1000 10
Resembling "Home Improvement", this Canadian show set at the Possum Lodge can be seen on PBS
    $1000 15
1979's
"Apocalypse Now"
    $1000 25
This Cthulhu creator was born, bred & buried in Rhode Island
    $1000 30
He began studying yellow fever in 1897, 3 years prior to being appointed to a commission to find its cause
    $1000 5
A needlefish, or a Scottish verb that means to force

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Michelle Jerry
$11,900 $800 $5,700
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ART
This technique, from Latin for "to look through", began in Western painting in works like the one seen here

Final scores:

Ryan Michelle Jerry
$12,300 $1 $4,000
3-day champion: $34,702 3rd place: Daewoo Video System 2nd place: Trip to Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Ryan Michelle Jerry
$11,200 $800 $9,200
33 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
6 R,
2 W
17 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $21,200

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