Show #2848 1997-01-08 (taped 1996-11-05) Regular

Contestants

Michael Kunes — a furniture manufacturer originally from Princeton, New Jersey

Kim Mihalick — a bartender from Merrillville, Indiana

Steve Dhuey — a book editor from Madison, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $1,400 $2,200 $2,400 $4,799
2nd place: Trip to Almond Beach Resort, Barbados
$3,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Kim $1,200 $4,500 $3,700 $4,800
New champion: $4,800
$5,700
23 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $600 $0 $1,400 $2,799
3rd place: Zodiac Sea Wolf watch
$1,400
13 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL PEOPLE GUINNESS RECORDS POP MUSIC THE OLD WEST INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK OSCAR-WINNING ROLES
$100 [9]
She told God, "The serpent beguiled me and I did eat"
Eve
Kim
$100 [16]
No fine was charged when one of these was returned to Sidney Sussex College Library 288 years late
library book
Kim
$100 [5]
This rocker's 1988 album "Tina Live in Europe" won a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance
Tina Turner
Steve
$100 [14]
Ranch hands cooked in the chuckhouse & slept in this "house"
bunkhouse
Michael
$100 [3]
Salvadorans often snack on pupusas--cakes made from this meal & stuffed with meat, beans & spices
cornmeal
Steve
$100 [1]
Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks
Steve
$200 [11]
1 Kings 11:3 claims this wise king had "seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines"
Solomon
Michael
$200 [17]
At 60, Ramon Blanco is the oldest person to reach the summit of this mountain
Mount Everest
Kim
$200 [6]
On Feb. 9, 1964 the Beatles made their live U.S. TV debut on this show, reaching an audience of 73 million
The Ed Sullivan Show
Steve
$200 [19]
When you rode into a cow town, you dropped your horse at the livery & checked these with the sheriff's office
your guns
Kim
$200 [22]
Travel books recommend Puerto Rico's home-grown version of this breakfast brew
coffee
Kim
$200 [2]
Hannibal Lecter
Anthony Hopkins
Michael
$300 [12]
The book of Matthew gives a genealogy of Jesus beginning with this father of Isaac
Abraham
Kim
$300 [18]
The fruit with the lowest nutritive value is this "cool" character
cucumber
Michael
$300 [10]
Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean sang on this group's 1966 hit "Barbara Ann"
The Beach Boys
Steve
$300 [26]
To do this, race past the cattle & turn the lead ones back into the center of the herd
How do you stop a stampede?
Steve Kim
$300 [23]
Popular in Armenia, tan is a beverage made from water, this cultured dairy product & salt
yogurt
Kim
$300 [4]
Norma Rae
Sally Field
Steve Kim Michael
$400 [28]
He was Jacob's elder twin brother
Esau
Kim
$400 [20]
The highest price ever paid for a drawing is $8.36 million for one he drew at Arles in 1888
Vincent Van Gogh
Kim
$400 [13]
Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, he was the drummer
(Carl) Palmer
Michael
$400 [29]
The Native American born Goyathlay, "one who yawns", was called this, Spanish for "Jerome"
Geronimo
Kim Michael
$400 [24]
Judd Mat Gardebo'nen--smoked pork with broad beans--is a specialty of this grand duchy
Luxembourg
Kim
$400 [7]
Miss Daisy Werthan
Jessica Tandy
Steve
$500 [27]
This wicked wife of Ahab was a Phoencian princess
Jezebel
Steve
$500 [21]
The highest incorporated U.S. city is Leadville in this state at an elevation of 10,152 feet
Colorado
Kim
$500 [15]
Mariah Carey joined with this group to record the 1995 hit "One Sweet Day"
Boyz II Men
Kim
$500 [30]
In 1860-61 the average age of these was 20; William F. Cody was only 15
Pony Express riders
Michael
$500 [25]
In the Dominican Republic, Brugal, Bermudez & Barcelo are local brands of this liquor
rum
Kim
DD $500 [8]
Sophie Zawistowska
Meryl Streep
Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS CLASSICAL COMPOSERS OCEANS & SEAS PLANTS & TREES AUTHORS HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
$200 [4]
As a boy in Ohio, he was called "Lyss"
Ulysses S. Grant
Kim
$200 [14]
Although a pupil of Joseph Haydn, this "Eroica" composer said he never learned anything from him
Beethoven
Steve
$200 [1]
Part of the Great Rift Valley, it parted in Exodus
the Red Sea
Michael
$200 [19]
Native to a small area on this state's coast, the Monterey Pine has been introduced to New Zealand & South Africa
California
Michael
$200 [9]
This "Hunt for Red October" author is a part owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team
Tom Clancy
Kim
$200 [3]
A beloved doe
dear deer
Michael
$400 [5]
In 1953 this Texas Democrat succeeded Ernest McFarland as Senate majority leader
Lyndon Johnson
Michael
$400 [15]
Instruction books he wrote for his family included "The Little Organ Book" & "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
J.S. Bach
Kim
$400 [2]
Some trace this ocean's name back to a Titan
Atlantic Ocean
Kim
$400 [20]
A type of this tall gum tree is Australia's most important timber tree
eucalyptus
Steve Michael
$400 [27]
She had the story idea for "The Thorn Birds" before she published her first novel, "Tim" in 1974
Colleen McCullough
Steve
$400 [10]
A gun or sword fight between 2 pairs of people
dual duel
Kim
$600 [6]
In 1801 he ordered a blockade of Tripoli after that pirate state declared war on the U.S.
Thomas Jefferson
Steve Michael
$600 [24]
His final opera, "William Tell", was to be the first of 5 written for the Paris Opera
Rossini
Steve
$600 [16]
The Huang Ho empties into the Huang Hai; ho is river, hai is sea & huang is this color
yellow
Kim
$600 [21]
Papaver is the genus of this Asian flower whose tiny seeds are sprinkled on rolls & used as birdseed
poppyseeds
Kim Michael
$800 [29]
From 1984 to 1990, this bestselling author served in the Mississippi legislature
John Grisham
$600 [11]
An inactive graven image
idle idol
Kim
DD $1,000 [7]
In 1856 he defeated an incumbent president to win the Democratic nomination
James Buchanan
Steve
$800 [25]
He gave his last public performance Nov. 16, 1848, at a London benefit for Polish refugees
Chopin
Steve
$800 [17]
Among the rivers that feed this ocean are the Zambezi & the Shatt Al-Arab
Indian Ocean
Kim
$800 [22]
Also called the duramen, it's the innermost part of a tree trunk
heartwood
Kim
$1,000 [28]
In 1963 this Texan's first novel, "Horseman, Pass By" was republished as "Hud"
(Larry) McMurtry
Steve Michael
$800 [12]
A shy Japanese carp
coy koi
$1,000 [8]
From his presidency to 1929, a year before his death, he lost about 90 pounds
William Howard Taft
Steve Kim Michael
$1,000 [26]
Born in Bohemia in 1824, he was the founder of the Czech National School of Music
Bedrich Smetana
Michael
DD $2,000 [18]
Sea in which you'd see the Great Barrier Reef
Coral Sea
Kim
$1,000 [23]
The porous bark of this oak tree is used to make gaskets & a black paint used by artists
cork
Michael
$1,000 [13]
Was familiar with the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
knew nu
Steve

Final Jeopardy!

ANCIENT HISTORY

Man with whom Cleopatra had the most children

Mark Antony

Michael "Who was Marc Antony" — wagered $1,399
Steve "Who is Mark Antony" — wagered $2,399
Kim "Who was Marc Antony?" — wagered $1,100

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