Show #2786 1996-10-14 (taped 1996-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Gary Sales — a psychiatrist from Canton, Ohio

Michael Willoughby — an attorney from North Richland Hills, Texas

Kathy Robbins — a bed-and-breakfast owner from Denver, Colorado (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kathy $1,300 $2,700 $9,700 $18,400
3-day champion: $35,900
$9,500
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Michael $1,400 $3,100 $8,700 $17,399
2nd place: Trip to Saint Martin at Grand Case Beach Club
$8,000
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Gary $400 $1,900 $3,500 $4,000
3rd place: Hobie Float Cat
$3,500
10 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S.A. SAINTS ROCK MUSIC FLOWERS SPORTS PRESIDENTS' MONOGRAMS
$100 [1]
"The Apotheosis of George Washington" appears on the domed ceiling of this Washington, D.C. building
Capitol
Kathy Michael
$100 [12]
St. Ciaran founded an abbey at Clonmacnoise in this country; St. Patrick didn't do everything
Ireland
Michael
$100 [2]
"Anthology 2" a 1996 release by this group, included alternative takes of "Yesterday" & "Penny Lane"
The Beatles
Kathy
$100 [22]
The name of this common garden flower comes from the obsolete French petun, meaning "tobacco"
petunia
Michael
$100 [3]
On April 16, 1996, this city's Bulls became the first NBA team to win 70 games in a season
Chicago
Michael
$100 [17]
GRF
(Gerald Rudolph) Ford
Michael
$200 [8]
Opened in 1861, the Charles Krug winery is the oldest winery in this California valley
Napa Valley
Kathy
$200 [27]
Raphael & Gabriel share this other angel's September 29 feast day
Michael
$200 [13]
By her 22nd birthday, this Canadian's "Jagged Little Pill" album had sold over 7 million copies
Alanis Morissette
Michael
$200 [23]
Lilium longiflorum is the scientific name of the "Easter" type of this flower
lily
Gary
$200 [4]
Before becoming coach of the Miami Dolphins in 1970, he coached the Baltimore Colts for 7 seasons
Don Shula
Kathy
$200 [18]
JEC
(James Earl) Carter
Michael
$300 [9]
Centennial Park in Nashville boasts a full-scale replica of this Athenian temple
Parthenon
Gary
$300 [28]
Jesus said to this disciple, "Feed my lambs, feed my sheep"
Peter
Kathy
$400 [15]
In her first top 10 hit, this singer-guitarist gave them "Something to Talk About"
Bonnie Raitt
Michael
$300 [24]
The blossom of this plant named for Andreas Dahl can resemble a peony
dahlia
Kathy
$300 [5]
The only fight this heavyweight boxer has lost was his 1990 title bout with Buster Douglas
Mike Tyson
Michael
$300 [19]
GHWB
George (Herbert Walker) Bush
Kathy
$400 [10]
This Boston landmark was built in 1723 as a "house of prayer for all people"
Old North Church
Gary
$400 [29]
It might take an Einstein to figure out that he's the patron saint of science students
Albert
Michael
$500 [16]
In spring 1996 she visited U.S. military bases in Italy, Germany & Bosnia, singing her hit "All I Wanna Do"
Sheryl Crow
$400 [25]
The orange blossom is this state's state flower
Florida
Gary
$400 [6]
In the 1970s this golfer was the PGA's leading money winner 5 times
Nicklaus
Kathy
$400 [20]
WJC
(William Jefferson) Clinton
Gary
$500 [11]
In 1989, to recapture the spirit of the old west, this South Dakota city legalized gambling
Deadwood
Gary
$500 [30]
Over 60 saints have this simple 4-letter name, including one of Jesus' apostles
John
Gary
DD $600 [14]
In 1993 he won 6 Grammys, including Best Male Vocalist & Best Record & Song for "Tears in Heaven"
Eric Clapton
Michael
$500 [26]
Common viral diseases of this fancy flower include cymbidium mosaic & cattleya flower break
orchid
Kathy
$500 [7]
Janet Guthrie is the only representative from this sport in the Int'l Women's Sports Hall of Fame
auto racing
Kathy
$500 [21]
SGC
(Stephen Grover) Cleveland
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 12th CENTURY WORLD GEOGRAPHY SCIENCE WOMEN GREEK MYTHOLOGY LITERARY HODGEPODGE
$200 [18]
In 1159 the Taira clan ousted the Fujiwara family & took control of this country's imperial court
Japan
Michael
$200 [1]
This country's northernmost point is Cape Columbia on Ellesmere Island
Canada
Kathy
$200 [14]
The 2 thin tissue layers over its surface are called the pericardium
heart
Michael
$200 [6]
You don't have to be British to know this is Fergie's first name
Sarah
Kathy
$200 [21]
After causing this flying horse to throw Bellerophon, Zeus used it as a pack beast for thunderbolts
Pegasus
Gary
$200 [9]
This "Tropic of Capricorn" author gave his impressions of the U.S. in "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare"
(Henry) Miller
Michael
$400 [24]
This capital of Northern Ireland dates from 1177, when a Norman castle was erected there
Belfast
Kathy Michael
$400 [2]
The name of this capital of Uruguay may have come from the Portuguese for "I see a hill"
Montevideo
Gary
$400 [15]
Because the Earth does this as it orbits the sun, we have 4 seasons
tilts
Kathy Gary
$400 [7]
Daphne Sheldrick runs an orphanage for baby elephants near Nairobi National Park in this country
Kenya
Kathy
$400 [22]
He covered the island of Delos with a wave to give Zeus' pregnant mistress Leto a place to hide
Poseidon
Kathy Gary
$400 [10]
Oliver Goldsmith's novel "The Vicar of" this place has been compared to a fairy tale
Wakefield
Michael
$600 [25]
In 1130 Roger II became king of this Italian island state & made his court at Palermo
Sicily
Kathy
$600 [3]
Mount Ngauruhoe is one of several active volcanoes on this country's North Island
New Zealand
Kathy
$600 [19]
After escaping Nazi-occupied Austria with her father in 1938, she set up a child therapy clinic in London
Anna Freud
Michael
$600 [8]
Nicoletta Mantovani made headlines when this Italian tenor left his wife for her in 1996
Pavarotti
Michael
$600 [28]
Atalanta lost a race to Melanion when she stopped to pick up these which he had dropped in her path
golden apples
$600 [11]
A collection of his "Nick Adams Stories" was published in 1972, 11 years after his death
Hemingway
Michael
$800 [26]
King Suryavarman II built this great Cambodian temple complex to celebrate his incarnation as the god Vishnu
Angkor Wat
Gary
DD $1,000 [4]
Victoria Peak in the Maya Mountains is the highest point in this country on the Yucatan Peninsula
Belize
Kathy
$1,000 [23]
The particle called the lambda baryon is made of an up one, a down one & a strange one
quark
Michael
$800 [16]
This talk show hostess once said "Everyone has three names" in Puerto Rico, where she grew up
Sally Jessy Raphael
$800 [29]
Some say he fled Crete by boat & his son Icarus fell overboard & drowned
Daedalus
Kathy Michael
$800 [12]
The beautiful Rebecca is carried off by Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert in this Sir Walter Scott classic
Ivanhoe
Michael
$1,000 [27]
In 1169 this Muslim leader was made commander-in-chief of the Syrian army & vizier of Egypt
Saladin
Kathy
$1,000 [5]
In 1561 Lope de Aguirre discovered this Venezuelan river's connection with the Amazon
Orinoco
Kathy
DD $1,200 [20]
Bruce Morton & Francis Reddy wrote books on it in 1985; we'll probably see more books on it in 2061
Halley's Comet
Michael
$1,000 [17]
When she married Asif Ali Zardari in Pakistan, about 100,000 of her supporters came to the reception
(Benazir) Bhutto
Gary
$1,000 [13]
"The Making of a Saint" is "A Romance of Mediaeval Italy" by this author of "The Moon and Sixpence"
(Somerset) Maugham
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

NAMES IN THE NEWS

In June 1996 Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane was named his successor

Desmond Tutu

Gary "Who is Tutu" — wagered $500
Michael "Who is Desmond Tutu" — wagered $8,699
Kathy "Who is Desmond Tutu?" — wagered $8,700

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