Show #2735 1996-06-21 (taped 1996-02-07) Regular

Mary Hirschfeld game 5.

Contestants

Karl Coryat — a managing editor from Oakland, California

Michael Dominguez — an elementary school teacher from Los Angeles, California

Mary Hirschfeld — a professor of economics originally from Pullman, Washington (whose 4-day cash winnings total $56,004)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mary $2,300 $5,500 $8,100 $2,100
2nd place: a Quail Lodge resort vacation + Helbros his-and-her watches
$7,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Michael $300 $1,100 $6,600 $1
3rd place: a Motorola cellular phone
$5,900
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Karl $1,500 $1,700 $9,700 $16,300
New champion: $16,300
$8,700
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ACTRESSES' FIRST FILMS LIBRARIES TELEPHONE HISTORY VERMONTERS "X", "Y", "Z" SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES
$100 [21]
"Body Heat"
Kathleen Turner
Mary
$100 [14]
Marsh's Library in this country was founded c. 1702 by the Archbishop of Dublin
Ireland
Mary
$100 [26]
In 1991 this telephone company launched its Friends & Family promotion
MCI
Mary
$100 [11]
This leader of the Green Mountain Boys did not live to see Vermont become a state
Ethan Allen
Karl
$100 [6]
It looks like a sweet potato, but it isn't even a distant relative
a yam
Mary
$100 [1]
You could say this comedy "ends well"--Helena finally wins the love of her husband Bertram
All's Well That Ends Well
Karl
$200 [22]
"To Have and Have Not"
(Lauren) Bacall
Mary
$200 [17]
Architect Gordon Bunshaft designed this presidential library in Austin, Texas
the LBJ library
Mary
$200 [27]
As of July 1, 1968 you could dial this 3-digit number in New York City & get the police
911
Michael
$200 [12]
This founding prophet of Mormonism was born in Sharon, Vermont in 1805
Joseph Smith
Karl
$200 [7]
It's a kind of striped mussel as well as a striped equine
a zebra
Mary
$200 [2]
Though this comedy has Verona in its title, it ends in a forest on the frontiers of Mantua
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Karl
$300 [23]
"The Outlaw"
Jane Russell
Karl
$300 [18]
Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven, Connecticut houses the archives of this university
Yale
Mary
$300 [28]
On Oct. 30, 1938 phone traffic peaked in cities all over America as people discussed this broadcast
the "War of the Worlds"
Mary
$300 [13]
This plow inventor was a Vermont blacksmith before moving to Grand Detour, Illinois
John Deere
Michael
$300 [8]
Despite its bulk, this wild ox found in Tibet is an excellent swimmer
a yak
Mary
$300 [3]
Near the end of "Henry VIII", this princess is described as "a most unspotted lily", who will die a virgin
Elizabeth I
Mary
$400 [24]
"Oklahoma!"
Shirley Jones
$500 [20]
In 1602 this university's library reopened after restoration work by Sir Thomas Bodley
Oxford University
Michael
$400 [29]
In 1980 Dial-It National Sports became the first service on this new area code
1-900
Michael Karl
$400 [15]
George Franklin Edmunds wrote most of this antitrust act of 1890
the Sherman (Antitrust Act)
Karl
$400 [9]
Some of these are produced by bremsstrahlung, from the German for "breaking radiation"
x-rays
Mary
$400 [4]
Puck's last speech in this play begins, "If we shadows have offended, think but this--and all is mended"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mary
$500 [25]
"Halloween"
Jamie Lee Curtis
Mary
DD $1,500 [19]
Salinas, California, has a public library named for this novelist
Steinbeck
Mary
$500 [30]
In 1880 he invented the photophone, a device that sent messages through the air on beams of light
Alexander Graham Bell
Karl
$500 [16]
At age 15 this future New York Tribune editor was apprenticed to a printer in East Poultney
Horace Greeley
Michael
$500 [10]
This Saint Francis was the "Apostle of the Indies"
Xavier
Karl
$500 [5]
In the last scene of this comedy, Petruchio wins a bet that he has the most obedient wife
The Taming of the Shrew
Mary

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEDICAL MILESTONES POETS & POETRY WORLD GEOGRAPHY MIXED DRINKS THE 1930s POP MUSIC
$200 [1]
In 1751, with Benjamin Franklin's help, the 1st hospital in the U.S. was founded in this city
Philadelphia
Karl
$200 [20]
Of the 31 pilgrims in this Chaucer work, only 23 tell their stories
The Canterbury Tales
Mary
$200 [6]
Large aboriginal populations live in this country's states of Queensland & New South Wales
Australia
Michael
$200 [13]
The juice of one of these citrus fruits makes a Whiskey Sour sour
a lemon
Michael
$200 [7]
In 1936, in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, this country began remilitarizing the Rhineland
Germany
Michael
$200 [25]
He recorded "Gone At Last" with Phoebe Snow, not Art Garfunkel
Paul Simon
Michael
$400 [2]
In 1867 Thomas Allbutt invented one of these instruments which took 5 minutes to register instead of 20
a thermometer
Michael
$400 [21]
This Longfellow poem was suggested by a smithy under a chestnut tree in Cambridge, Massachusetts
"The Village Blacksmith"
$400 [12]
Administrative units in this country include Giza, Aswan & Suez
Egypt
Michael
$400 [14]
This pomegranate syrup turns a Pink Lady pink
grenadine
Mary
$400 [8]
This longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News became a UPI correspondent in 1939
Walter Cronkite
Karl
$400 [26]
She sang "Better Be Good To Me" in 1984, a few years after she broke up with Ike
Tina Turner
Mary
$600 [3]
Dutch physician Willem Kolff developed the 1st of these kidney machines that cleanse the blood
a dialysis machine
Michael
$600 [22]
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this ship, "Oh better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave"
"Old Ironsides"
Karl
$600 [15]
This longest river on the Iberian Peninsula is also known as the Tajo
the Tagus
Michael
$600 [16]
A teaspoon of creme de cassis is added to this to make a Kir
white wine
$600 [9]
Helen Keller brought the first of these Japanese dogs to the United States in 1937
the akita
Karl
$600 [27]
In "Take Me Home, Country Roads", John Denver sang, "Almost heaven," this state
West Virginia
Mary Michael
$800 [4]
In 1906 August von Wassermann developed a well-known test for this sexually transmitted disease
syphilis
Karl
$800 [23]
His "When the Frost is on the Punkin" was written for a series in the Indianapolis Journal
(James Whitcomb) Riley
Karl
$1,000 [18]
The Indus River provides the western border of this desert also known as the Great Indian Desert
the Thar Desert
$800 [19]
A basic Gin Rickey is gin, lime & this non-potent potable
soda water
Karl
$800 [10]
He was appointed conductor of the Boston Pops in 1930
Arthur Fiedler
Karl
$800 [28]
Alan, Merrill & Wayne, 3 of these Utah brothers, co-wrote their own 1972 hit "Crazy Horses"
the Osmonds
Michael
DD $2,000 [5]
In 1982 William DeVries performed the 1st permanent artificial heart transplant on this man
Barney Clark
Karl
$1,000 [24]
He was descended from an Abyssinian prince, Peter the Great's godson
(Aleksandr) Pushkin
Mary Karl
DD $1,500 [17]
Cabinda, an area of this former Portuguese colony, is separated from the rest of it by Zaire
Angola
Michael
$1,000 [30]
Using Scotch whisky turns a Manhattan into this drink
a Rob Roy
Karl
$1,000 [11]
This author of "Anne of Green Gables" was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1935
(Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Karl
$1,000 [29]
This singer's 1970 hit "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" was from the Broadway musical "Promises, Promises"
Dionne Warwick
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

On May 29, 1765 Patrick Henry's Stamp Act protest was interrupted with this one word

Treason

Michael "What is War?" — wagered $6,599
Mary "What is Liberty?" — wagered $6,000
Karl "What is Treason?" — wagered $6,600

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