Show #2759 1996-09-05 (taped 1996-08-06) Regular

Bernie Cullen game 4.

Contestants

Tyler Hathaway — a futures trader from New York City, New York

Marjorie MacDonald — a systems specialist from Dover, Delaware

Bernie Cullen — a biology graduate student originally from Dublin, Ireland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,499)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bernie $1,200 $3,600 $9,600 $10,003
4-day champion: $45,502 + the official Jeopardy! scorekeeper
$9,600
23 R, 0 W
Marjorie $1,800 $2,000 $1,600 $3,100
3rd place: a gift certificate for a library of books from DK Publishing + the official Jeopardy! scorekeeper
$4,400
19 R, 5 W (including 3 DDs)
Tyler $500 $1,300 $3,900 $4,500
2nd place: a week at Swept Away Resort in Negril, Jamaica with round-trip travel provided by Air Jamaica + the official Jeopardy! scorekeeper
$3,900
7 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ROBIN HOOD FIRST AID CINEMATIC SIBLINGS NATURE BASKETBALL "IN" PLACES
$100 [7]
It's the royal forest in Nottinghamshire in which Robin lived & poached
Sherwood Forest
Marjorie
$100 [2]
In a simple fracture, the wound is closed; in this type of fracture, bone may protrude
a compound fracture
Bernie
$100 [12]
Janet Leigh was "showered" with more attention than Vera Miles, who played her sister in this suspense classic
Psycho
Marjorie
$100 [14]
About 25 of the more than 250 species of these are dangerous to man, with the great white topping the list
sharks
Tyler
$100 [1]
Chet the Jet was Chet Walker, Bill the Hill was Bill McGill & Wilt the Stilt was this man
Wilt Chamberlain
Marjorie
$100 [21]
In February 1994 an earthquake struck the island of Sumatra in this nation, killing 215 people
Indonesia
Bernie
$200 [8]
Originally a character in May Day games & Morris dances, she became Robin's girlfriend
Maid Marian
Marjorie
$200 [3]
A slit-like wound is called this, like the sharp cut a doctor makes with a scalpel
an incision
Bernie
$200 [13]
Emma Thompson & Kate Winslet earned Oscar nominations for playing the Dashwood sisters in this 1995 film
Sense and Sensibility
Bernie Marjorie
$200 [15]
A 25-pound heart helps pump the blood to its head, 15 feet off the ground
a giraffe
Marjorie
$200 [27]
NBA players competed in the Olympics for the 1st time in this city in 1992 & won the gold
Barcelona
Marjorie
$200 [22]
Civilization in the valley of this Pakistani river dates back about 4500 years
the Indus River
Bernie
$300 [9]
Some sources say this big fellow's name was once reversed
Little John
Bernie
$300 [4]
Mild sunburn is classified as this-degree burn, when the skin reddens but doesn't blister
a first-degree burn
Marjorie
$300 [19]
Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Samantha Mathis & Trini Alvarado played 19th C. sisters in this "novel" film
Little Women
Bernie
$300 [16]
Tiger Cats & Numbats are classified as these animals, from the Latin for "pouch"
marsupials
Marjorie
$300 [28]
Number 14 on the 1945–46 NBL champion Rochester Royals, he went on to play "The Rifleman"
Chuck Connors
Marjorie
$300 [23]
Technically, it comprises the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles & the Lesser Antilles
the West Indies
Tyler
$400 [10]
Robin's chaplain
Friar Tuck
Bernie
$400 [5]
Symptoms of this, defined as depression of bodily functions, may not appear until hours after an injury
shock
Tyler
$400 [20]
In "Two Much" Daryl Hannah & this actress played sisters two-timed by Antonio Banderas
Melanie Griffith
$400 [17]
This seasonal activity of the blue-winged teal takes it from southern Canada to northern South America
migration
Marjorie
$400 [29]
This comical team's 1st trip wasn't around the world but to a town 50 miles from Chicago January 7, 1927
the Harlem Globetrotters
Bernie
$400 [24]
This capital of Tyrol has hosted 2 Winter Olympic games
Innsbruck
Bernie
$500 [11]
It's the only Sir Walter Scott novel in which Robin appears
Ivanhoe
Marjorie
$500 [6]
If your kit includes it, use one of these to suck venom out of a snakebite wound instead of your mouth
a suction cup
Marjorie
$500 [26]
Richard Davalos' screen debut in this 1955 film was overshadowed by James Dean, who played his brother
East of Eden
Bernie
DD $1,000 [18]
These chemicals secreted by some animals may signal alarm or attract a member of the opposite sex
pheromones
Marjorie
$500 [30]
In the 1st NBA Draft Lottery in 1985, this team got the first pick & took Georgetown's Patrick Ewing
the New York Knicks
Tyler
$500 [25]
This Missouri city is headquarters to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Independence
Bernie

Double Jeopardy! Round

PIANISTS U.S. GEOGRAPHY EUROPEAN HISTORY FOOD PEN NAMES POTPOURRI
$200 [6]
This late entertainer's Las Vegas museum displays 18 of his pianos, including one played by Chopin
Liberace
Marjorie
$200 [1]
The Missouri & Ohio are the chief tributaries of this river
the Mississippi
Marjorie
$200 [14]
Around 1620 Cornelis Drebbel demonstrated the 1st workable submarine on this British river
the Thames
Marjorie
$200 [9]
It's the descriptive name for a cake in which fruit baked on the bottom comes out on top
an upside-down cake
Marjorie
$200 [21]
This Oz creator wrote a series of "Twinkle Tales" under the pseudonym Laura Bancroft
(Frank) Baum
Bernie
$200 [19]
Meaning loathsome, this adjective is used to describe a particular Himalayan "snowman"
abominable
Bernie
$400 [7]
Winner of the 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, he launched a 60th birthday comeback tour in 1994
Van Cliburn
Bernie
$400 [2]
It's "The Natural State" as well as "The Land of Opportunity"
Arkansas
$400 [15]
The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 at the request of this royal pair
Ferdinand and Isabella
Bernie
$400 [10]
Almonds are generally divided into 2 types: sweet & this
bitter
Marjorie
$400 [22]
He wrote under his real name Ford Madox Hueffer, before legally changing his name to this in 1919
Ford Madox Ford
Bernie
$400 [20]
Sculpted by Phidias, this ancient wonder rose 40 feet with skin made of ivory
the statue of Zeus at Olympia
Tyler
$600 [8]
A contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy!, he's famous for his romantic ballads & Gershwin interpretations
Michael Feinstein
$800 [4]
Covering 625 square miles, it's Louisiana's largest lake
Lake Pontchartrain
Bernie
$600 [16]
After a stormy campaign, this former U.N. Secretary-General was elected president of Austria in 1986
(Kurt) Waldheim
Marjorie
$600 [11]
The Chinese equivalent of ravioli, they give their name to a soup
wontons
Bernie
$600 [23]
This "Vanity Fair" novelist sometimes called himself Mr. Michael Angelo Titmarsh or The Fat Contributor
Thackeray
Bernie
$600 [26]
MRI, which stands for this, cannot be used on patients with pacemakers or artificial metal joints
magnetic resonance imaging
Marjorie
DD $1,000 [3]
Four Corners in the Western U.S. is where these 4 states meet at a single point
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, & Utah
Marjorie
DD $800 [17]
This council that opened in 1545 was called in part to counteract Protestant teachings
the Council of Trent
Marjorie
$800 [12]
These beans are ground, spiced & deep-fried, & served in a falafel
chickpeas (or garbanzos)
Bernie
$800 [24]
Less famous than her sisters, this Englishwoman wrote under the name Acton Bell
Anne Brontë
Bernie
$800 [27]
Commonly used title of clergyman Mason Weems, known for his 1800 biography of George Washington
Parson
Bernie
$1,000 [5]
It's the southernmost of the New England states
Connecticut
Tyler
$1,000 [18]
Named for a monastery, this group led by Robespierre instigated France's reign of terror in 1793
the Jacobins
Tyler
$1,000 [13]
Originally from Naples, it's an Italian turnover made of pizza dough & stuffed with savory fillings
a calzone
Tyler
$1,000 [25]
Rose Blight is a pseudonym of this feminist who wrote "The Female Eunuch"
Germaine Greer
$1,000 [28]
This country's pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair was designed by Lucio Costa & Oscar Niemeyer
Brazil
Marjorie

Final Jeopardy!

TELEVISION HISTORY

On 1/19/96 in real life & fictionally on CBS, Marlee Matlin gave birth, duplicating this woman's 1/19/53 feat

Lucille Ball

Marjorie "Who was Lucille Ball" — wagered $1,500
Tyler "Who was Lucille Ball?" — wagered $600
Bernie "Who is Lucy Ball?" — wagered $403

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