Show #2752 1996-07-16 (taped 1996-04-10) Regular

1996 Olympic Games Tournament semifinal game 2.

Contestants

Soren Wedderkopp — a creative director from Copenhagen, Denmark

Tom Kinne — a translator from Frankfurt, Germany

Mandi Hale — a pharmaceutical dispenser from Ruddingham, Nottingham England

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mandi $900 $1,500 $6,500 $10,900
Finalist
$9,500
25 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Tom $1,500 $1,600 $5,400 $10,800
2nd place: $5,000
$6,200
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Soren $400 $300 $0 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$1,100
7 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY SPORTS TRAVEL U.S.A. LATIN WORDS & PHRASES BUSINESS & INDUSTRY POPES NAMED LEO
$100 [25]
While in exile on the island of St. Helena from 1815-1821, he dictated his memoirs to friends
Napoleon
Mandi
$100 [16]
He scored 12 career goals in World Cup competition; now he's Brazil's special minister for sports
Pele
Mandi
$100 [6]
Waikiki is probably the most famous beach in this U.S. state
Hawaii
Soren
$100 [1]
The phrase "fugit ireparabile tempus" has been shortened to just "tempus fugit" - this "flies"
Time
Tom
$100 [11]
Broken Hill, this country's largest company, took its name from a small town in New South Wales
Australia
Tom
$100 [26]
Leo I asserted that papal power was granted by Christ only to this man & his successors
St. Peter
Tom
$200 [21]
This grand duchy was founded in 963 when Siegfried, Count of Ardennes, gained control of the area
Luxembourg
Mandi
$200 [17]
From 1987-1995, this German tennis star won 18 womens' singles Grand Slam tournaments
Steffi Graf
Mandi
$200 [7]
Fans of Davy Crockett remember the Alamo is in San Antonio in this western state
Texas
Tom
$200 [2]
Latin title of the Christmas hymn "O Come All Ye Faithful"
"Adeste Fideles"
Mandi
$200 [12]
This largest European tire maker is headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France
Michelin
Mandi Soren
$200 [27]
During Leo IX's reign, they became important papal counselors; soon, they formed a sacred college
cardinals
Mandi
$300 [22]
The treaties ending the Seven Years', Crimean & Spanish-American Wars were signed in this city
Paris
Mandi
$300 [18]
Other than the Olympics, this Romanian's only World Gymnastics Championship came in 1978 on the balance beam
Nadia Comaneci
Soren
$300 [8]
The French Quarter of this Louisiana city is world-famous for its nightlife
New Orleans
Mandi
$300 [3]
It literally means "in glass" & is where some fertilizations occur
In Vitro
Tom
$300 [13]
Comau, a subsidiary of this Italian company, makes the robots that build its cars
Fiat
Mandi
$400 [23]
Except for a brief time, this birthplace of Christopher Columbus was ruled by a doge from 1339-1797
Genoa
Mandi Tom Soren
$400 [19]
In the 1980s, this Spaniard became the youngest golfer to win the Masters & helped Europe win 3 Ryder Cups
Seve Ballesteros
Tom
$400 [9]
When visiting this California city, take a cable car to Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco
Tom
$400 [4]
It's the opposite of "malafide"
Bonafide
Tom
$400 [14]
Johnson & Johnson owns Acuvue, the world's leading disposable brand of these
Contact Lenses
Mandi
DD $800 [24]
From 930-1262, this country's Althing served as both court & legislature
Iceland
Tom
$500 [20]
Jacky Ickx has won this 24-hour French auto race a record 6 times
24 Hours of Le Mans
Mandi
$500 [10]
The Cherry Blossom Parade is a highlight of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in this city
Washington, D.C.
$500 [5]
The period before this event is called ante-partum
childbirth
Mandi
$500 [15]
Phil Knight, founder of this Oregon-based athletic shoe company, owns about 35% of its stock
Nike
Soren

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE ASTRONOMY AMERICAN MOVIE STARS COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD QUOTATIONS WORLD LEADERS
$200 [11]
Polonius tells Hamlet he once played this role in a play, and Brutus killed him
Julius Caesar
Mandi
$200 [8]
Any point on the Earth's equator moves at a thousand miles per hour; any point on this largest planet's, at 22,000 miles per hour
Jupiter
Mandi
$200 [2]
He's three years younger than his sister, Shirley McLaine
Warren Beatty
Soren
$200 [19]
This South American country is over 10 times as long as it is wide
Chile
Tom
$200 [1]
In "The Descent of Man", this naturalist wrote, "I would have soon been descended from that heroic little monkey"
Charles Darwin
Mandi Soren
$200 [26]
After a 5-year tenure, this Polish president was defeated for re-election in 1995
Lech Walesa
Mandi
$400 [15]
Her dying words are "O Antony, nay I will take thee to; what, should I stay?"
Cleopatra
Mandi
$400 [10]
The Maxwell Montes region contains the highest point on this planet, the third brightest object in the sky
Venus
Tom Soren
$400 [3]
He danced around in his underwear to "That Old Time Rock n' Roll" in the 1983 hit "Risky Business"
Tom Cruise
Mandi
$600 [22]
Khartoum is the capital of this largest African nation
Sudan
Soren
$400 [7]
This boxer's slogan, "I Am The Greatest", was inspired by wrestler Gorgeous George
Muhammad Ali
Tom
$400 [27]
He was recently voted in as president of the new self-rule Palestinian government
Yasser Arafat
Tom
$600 [16]
He tells his daughter Cordelia "I fear I am not in my perfect mind"
King Lear
Mandi
$600 [13]
During a total eclipse of the sun, this outermost layer of the sun remains visible
Corona
Mandi
$600 [4]
She married Paul Newman in 1958, the year they starred in their first film together, "The Long Hot Summer"
Joanne Woodward
Mandi
$800 [23]
The largest ethnic groups living in this island country are the Sinhalese & the Tamils
Sri Lanka
Mandi
$600 [9]
James Joyce called this country, his homeland, "The Old Sow that Eats Her Farrow"
Ireland
Tom
$600 [28]
Once sentenced to life imprisonment, he was elected South Africa's first black leader in 1994
Nelson Mandela
Soren
$800 [17]
The 2 titled ladies in the cast of "Macbeth" are Lady Macbeth & her
Lady Macduff
$800 [20]
This British observatory was completed in 1676 from plans prepared by Christopher Wren
Greenwich
Mandi
$800 [5]
This star of "East of Eden" & "Rebel Without A Cause" was only 24 when he died in a 1955 car crash
James Dean
Tom
$1,000 [24]
Timor is the largest of this country's Lesser Sunda Islands; Bali is one of the smaller ones
Indonesia
Tom
$800 [12]
By Article II of this U.S. document, treaties are made with the advice & consent of the Senate
The Constitution
Tom
$800 [29]
After 18 years in exile, he returned to Argentina in 1973
Juan Perón
Soren
$1,000 [18]
In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Theseus, Duke of Athens, is engaged to this queen of the Amazons
Hippolyta
$1,000 [25]
This constellation, "The Hunter", is found between Taurus, the bull, & Monoceros, the unicorn
Orion
Mandi
$1,000 [6]
Norma Jean Baker's name was changed to this, after she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1946
Marilyn Monroe
Mandi
DD $3,000 [21]
The Judeo-Galilean Highlands are one of four major land divisions of this country
Israel
Mandi
$1,000 [14]
In "Paradise Lost", he wrote of "things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme"
John Milton
Mandi
DD $1,100 [30]
In failing health, he resigned as Greek premier in January of 1996
Andreas Papandreou
Soren

Final Jeopardy!

SPAIN

This Catalonian city, once the capital of the Visigoths, may be named for a Carthaginian family

Barcelona

Tom "What is Barcelona?" — wagered $5,400
Mandi "What is Barcelona?" — wagered $4,400

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