Show #2932 1997-05-06 (taped 1997-04-19) Regular

1997 International Tournament semifinal game 2.From Stockholm, Sweden.

Contestants

Murat Sen — an aviation manager from Turkey

Eva Holmberg — a high school teacher from Gothenburg, Sweden

Michael Daunt — an accountant from Canada

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $3,700 $5,100 $15,400 $15,400
Finalist
$14,400
29 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W
Eva $500 $2,000 $7,600 $1
3rd place: $5,000
$7,600
20 R, 0 W
Murat $500 $700 $2,300 $4,600
2nd place: $5,000
$2,300
7 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

NAME THE AUTHOR INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK DISCOVERIES BALLET COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ENDS WITH "IST"
$100 [2]
The "Iliad", The "Odyssey"
Homer
Eva
$100 [21]
Sushi, which is most associated with this country, is often flavored with rice vinegar
Japan
Murat
$100 [1]
In 1947 a Bedouin discovered important scrolls in a cave on the shore of this sea
Dead Sea
Eva
$100 [26]
The Royal Danish Ballet has been based in this capital city for more than 200 years
Copenhagen
Eva
$100 [16]
Founded in 1348, Charles University in this Czech capital is the oldest university in central Europe
Prague
Michael
$100 [11]
At the grocery store, one of these can help you remember what to buy
(shopping) List
Eva
$200 [3]
"The Andromeda Strain","Jurassic Park"
Michael Crichton
Michael
$200 [22]
Swedish for "bread & butter table", it's a Swedish buffet featuring an assortment of taste treats
Smorgasbord
Eva
$200 [4]
"Sir Humphry Davy/Abominated gravy/He lived in the odium/of having discovered" this rhyming element
Sodium
Eva
$200 [27]
Part I of the ballet "Jewels" is named for these green gems; Part II is called "Rubies"
Emeralds
Eva
$200 [17]
Opened around 1257, it's now a part of the universities of Paris
The Sorbonne
Eva
$200 [12]
It connects the hand & the forearm
Wrist
Murat
$300 [5]
"The Idiot","Crime and Punishment"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Michael
$300 [23]
Many hot, spicy dishes such as Szechwan shrimp originated in this country's Szechwan province
China
Michael
$300 [8]
The 1820 discovery of this continent is claimed by both sailors & sealers
Antarctica
Michael
$300 [28]
"Noblissima Visione" is a dramatic, stylized ballet about this saint of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi
Michael
$300 [18]
From 1902 to 1938, Sigmund Freud served as a professor of neuropathology at this university
University of Vienna
Michael
$300 [13]
It's like fog but doesn't reduce visibility as much
Mist
Murat
$400 [6]
"The Tin Drum","Dog Years"
Gunter Grass
$400 [24]
Jerk chicken is a specialty of this Caribbean island, the home of reggae music
Jamaica
Eva Murat
$400 [9]
It was the first subatomic particle discovered 100 years ago by J.J. Thomson
Electron
Michael
$400 [19]
The Radcliffe Camera, a domed building at this British university, is a reading room for the Bodleian Library
Oxford
Eva
$400 [14]
It's a person who travels for fun
Tourist
Michael
$500 [7]
"The Stranger","The Plague"
Albert Camus
Michael
$500 [25]
The Rioja region of this European country is noted for its wines
Spain
Murat
DD $1,000 [10]
Unexplained movements by Uranus led to the discovery of this planet in the 1840s
Neptune
Michael
$500 [20]
Monrovia is home to the university of this African country
Liberia
Michael
$500 [15]
Performer who can put you in a trancelike state that leaves you open to suggestion
Hypnotist
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC EUROPEAN LEADERS COMIC ACTORS WORLD GEOGRAPHY POTPOURRI PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS PARDONNEZ MON FRANCAIS
$200 [6]
He was Soviet president at the time the Berlin Wall came down
Mikhail Gorbachev
Murat
$200 [1]
He was a star in British Vaudeville before creating the "Little Tramp" onscreen
Charlie Chaplin
Eva
$200 [21]
This country's Lake Balaton, just southwest of Budapest, is central Europe's largest lake
Hungary
Michael
$200 [11]
Ganymede & Callisto are the largest moons of this largest planet
Jupiter
Michael
$200 [14]
"Protest" is a semi-autobiographical play by this president of the Czech Republic
Vaclav Havel
Eva
$200 [26]
Raising his glass, a Frenchman might say, "A votre sante", which means this
To your health
Michael
$400 [7]
When she died in 1504, the rule of Castille was passed on to her mad daughter Juana
Isabella
Michael
$400 [2]
His title roles have included "Ace Ventura" & half of "Dumb & Dumber"
Jim Carrey
Michael
$400 [22]
Peru's highest peaks, Huascaran & Yerupaja, lie in this range
Andes
Eva
$400 [12]
The dromedary type of this mammal has 1 hump; the Bactrian has 2
Camel
Michael
$400 [15]
Scene VI of George Bernard Shaw's play about this female saint is set in Rouen in 1431
Joan of Arc
Eva
$400 [28]
A pas de trois is a dance for this many people
3
Michael
$600 [8]
In 1963 he was made Yugoslavia's president for life; he lived until 1980
Marshal Josip Broz Tito
Eva
$600 [3]
Martin Short, John Candy & Dan Aykroyd were all born in this country
Canada
Michael
$600 [23]
Bhopal is the capital of this country's Madhya Pradesh state
India
Murat
$600 [13]
This airline was founded in 1920 as the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd.
Qantas
Eva
$600 [16]
A count's daughter seduces a servant in this Swede's 1880s drama "Miss Julie"
August Strindberg
Michael
$600 [29]
At Le Bureau de Poste, you may buy les timbres, these
Stamps
Eva
$800 [9]
Succeeding his brother Richard the Lionhearted as king, he also succeeded in alienating everyone he knew
John Lackland
Eva
$800 [4]
20 years after playing Woody Allen's "Annie Hall", she's become a respected film director
Diane Keaton
Michael
$800 [24]
In 1991, after years of construction, the new city of Abuja replaced Lagos as this country's capital
Nigeria
Michael
$800 [19]
In 1783 these brothers demonstrated their hot air balloon to Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette
the Montgolfier brothers
Murat
$800 [17]
"La Cantatrice Chauve", or "The Bald Soprano", is an Absurdist play by this author of "Rhinoceros"
Eugene Ionesco
Michael
$800 [30]
To play vingt-et-un, you need these items
Deck of cards
Eva
$1,000 [10]
The patron saint of Bohemia is this "good king"
Wenceslas
Michael
$1,000 [5]
Seen in "Evita", this sex symbol from Malaga gained fame in the offbeat comic films of Pedro Almodovar
Antonio Banderas
$1,000 [25]
This island group also claimed by Argentina was named by the British for a treasurer of the British navy
Falkland (or Malvinas) Islands
Eva
$1,000 [20]
In mythology Laius & Oedipus both reigned over this Greek city
Thebes
Michael
DD $1,000 [18]
This American won a 1928 Pulitzer Prize for his very long, 9-act drama "Strange Interlude"
Eugene O'Neill
Michael
DD $1,500 [27]
Beaumarchais title character you might visit for "une coupe de cheveux"
Figaro ("The Barber of Seville")
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS

These 2 oldest wonders were built by non-Greek civilizations

Hanging Gardens of Babylon & the Pyramids of Egypt

Murat "What are the gardens of babylone & the pyramids" — wagered $2,300
Eva "What are the pyramids & the light" — wagered $7,599
Michael "What are Pyramids & Hanging Gardens" — wagered $0

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