Show #2935 1997-05-09 (taped 1997-04-19) Regular

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

Contestants

Boris Levit — a film technician and audio editor from Israel (subtotal of $0)

Per Gunnar Hillesoy — an assistant dean of students from Norway (subtotal of $22,000)

Michael Daunt — an accountant from Canada (subtotal of $20,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $1,600 $2,600 $11,000 $14,800 $12,000
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Per Gunnar $1,100 $2,600 $6,200 $0 $6,200
19 R, 3 W
Boris $300 $5,000 $5,000 $0 $3,500
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FOREIGN ANATOMY TRANSPORTATION ACTORS & ACTRESSES HISTORY MUSEUMS INTERNATIONAL SIGNS & SYMBOLS
$100 [1]
An average Dutch person has twee en dertig, 32, of these, tanden
teeth
Michael
$100 [26]
The elevated tracks of the "People Mover" move people around this American "Motor City"
Detroit
Michael
$100 [6]
His original name was Carl Adolf Von Sydow
Max Von Sydow
Per Gunnar
$100 [11]
A potato famine during the 1840s caused this island's population to decline by about 2 million
Ireland
Per Gunnar
$100 [21]
The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto features a pair of black silk socks worn by this emperor on St. Helena
Napoleon
Per Gunnar
$100 [16]
Thissign
a hospital
Boris
$200 [2]
A German woman may pluck these, her augenbrauen
her eyebrows
Michael
$200 [27]
Kanmon Tunnel, the world's first under an ocean, connects the island of Kyushu with this island
Honshu
Per Gunnar
$200 [7]
Before he played "Dirty Harry", he made a name for himself as the "Man With No Name" in Sergio Leone westerns
Clint Eastwood
Michael
$200 [12]
The Treaty of Versailles ended this war & set up the League of Nations
the First World War
Michael
$200 [22]
It's Spain's national museum of painting & sculpture
the Prado
Michael
$200 [17]
Take a look at this
careful, kangaroo crossing
Boris
$300 [3]
If a Japanese isha (doctor) asks you to stick out your shita, he means this
tongue
Per Gunnar Boris
$300 [28]
An "underground city" connects the subway with downtown offices & shopping in this largest Quebec city
Montreal
Boris
$300 [8]
He played Michael Corleone in all 3 of Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather" films
Al Pacino
Per Gunnar
$300 [13]
Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztecs & Francisco Pizarro conquered this Indian empire
the Incas
Michael
$300 [23]
The National Museum of American History is just one part of this Washington, D.C. institution
the Smithsonian Institute
Per Gunnar
$300 [18]
We have this signfor you
no entrance
Boris
$400 [4]
This body part is as plain as a burun on a Turk's yuz, his face
his nose
Michael
$400 [29]
It's a chair carried on poles by porters, or a car with 4 doors
a sedan
Boris
$400 [9]
This star of "Schindler's List" used to drive a forklift in Belfast
Liam Neeson
Per Gunnar
$400 [14]
By the end of his reign in 1786, Frederick the Great doubled this kingdom's area
Prussia
Michael
$400 [24]
The Museo Numismatico in Lima contains coins from this country from colonial times to the present
Peru
Per Gunnar
$400 [19]
What about this sign?
a picnic area
Boris
$500 [5]
To get to the heart of the matter, it's Spanish for "heart"
corazón
Per Gunnar
DD $2,000 [30]
This consortium of European aircraft makers is headquartered near Toulouse, France
Airbus
Boris
$500 [10]
In her 1997 autobiography, she writes of her mariage at age 21 to Frank Sinatra, who was 50
Mia Farrow
Michael
$500 [15]
In 1977 this Ugandan leader survived at least one assassination attempt & 2 attempted coups
Idi Amin
Boris
$500 [25]
The setting for "Hamlet", Kronberg Castle in this Danish town now houses a maritime museum
Helsingør
Per Gunnar
$500 [20]
The lastsignis this one
an elevator
Boris

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CURRENCY BODIES OF WATER COMPOSERS THE OLYMPIC GAMES SCIENCE & NATURE AUTHORS
$200 [19]
In December 1995 Venezuela devalued by 41% this currency named for its liberator
bolívar
Per Gunnar
$200 [26]
The "blue" branch of this river rises in the Ethiopian highlands
the Nile
Per Gunnar
$200 [8]
This American wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924 & "Second Rhapsody" in 1931
George Gershwin
Michael
$200 [12]
At the opening ceremony, athletes from this country march into the stadium first
Greece
Michael
$200 [6]
Skiers in late spring might thank Ukichiro Nakaya, who pioneered the artificial creation of this
snow
Michael
$200 [1]
His "Voyages Extraordinaires" include one "From the Earth to the Moon" & one "To the Center of the Earth"
Jules Verne
Michael
$400 [22]
The aluminum & bronze schilling coin of this country is equivalent to 100 groschen
Austria
Per Gunnar
$400 [27]
Pas de Calais is the French name for this strait between France & England
the Dover Strait (Strait of Dover)
Michael Per Gunnar
$400 [15]
His father Leopold called him "The miracle which God let be born in Salzburg"
Mozart
Michael
$400 [13]
A little birdie told us that in 1996 Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen of Denmark won the gold in this racket sport
badminton
Michael
$400 [7]
A branch of geology studies these ice masses, which formed the Svealand area where we're taping "Jeopardy!"
glaciers
Per Gunnar
$400 [2]
She met poet Percy in the spring of 1814, eloped to France with him in July & married him in 1816
Mary Shelley
Michael
$600 [23]
This country's 1996 2-dollar coin features Queen Elizabeth on one side & a polar bear on the other
Canada
Michael
$600 [28]
Albania lies on the eastern shore of this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean
the Adriatic
Per Gunnar
$600 [17]
This Norwegian "Peer Gynt Suite" composer married his first cousin, singer Nina Hagerup, in 1867
(Edvard) Grieg
Michael
$600 [14]
Bob Mathias & Daley Thompson are the only men to win this 10-event track & field contest twice
decathlon
Per Gunnar
$600 [9]
In one of these areas, the tops of the trees are collectively called the canopy
a rain forest
Michael
$600 [3]
This author of "The Son of the Wolf" & "The Sea-Wolf" called his home "Wolf House"
Jack London
Michael
$800 [24]
It takes about 22,500 of these Belarussian monetary units to equal 1 American dollar
a ruble
Michael
$800 [29]
Lake Toba on Sumatra is this country's largest lake
Indonesia
Michael
$800 [20]
This German Baroque composer wrote his "Hunt Cantata" for the birthday of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
Bach
Per Gunnar
$800 [16]
The Soviet Union & this country have won more gold medals in ice hockey than any others
Canada
Boris
$800 [10]
In the physics of sound or on the ocean, it's the distance from crest to crest
wavelength
Michael Boris
$800 [4]
He began writing the "Aeneid" around 29 B.C. & it was still unfinished at his death in 19 B.C.
Virgil
Michael Per Gunnar
$1,000 [25]
The monetary systems of Nepal & India use this basic unit
rupee
Per Gunnar
DD $2,000 [30]
The Dnestr & Vistula rivers rise in these mountains
the Carpathians
Michael
$1,000 [21]
He composed his "Moravian Duets" before he moved to the U.S. & wrote his "New World Symphony"
(Antonín) Dvořák
Michael Per Gunnar
$1,000 [18]
With 6 medals, this Russian gymnast was the most decorated athlete of the Atlanta games
Alexei Nemov
DD $2,000 [11]
These theorized subatomic particles take their name from James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"
quarks
Michael
$1,000 [5]
This creator of Tevye the Dairyman is known as the Jewish Mark Twain
Sholem Aleichem
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

PAINTERS

His grandson was the cinematographer of "Barbarella" & "The Spy Who Loved Me"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Boris "Who is Degas?" — wagered $5,000
Per Gunnar "Who is Picasso?" — wagered $6,200
Michael "Who is Renoir?" — wagered $3,800

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