Show #2787 1996-10-15 (taped 1996-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Holly Buchanan — a consultant from Silver Spring, Maryland

Carl Eeman — a pastor from St. Louis Park, Minnesota

Kathy Robbins — a bed-and-breakfast owner from Denver, Colorado (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kathy $2,100 $2,000 $2,800 $5,599
2nd place: trip to Maui & stay at The Whaler
$2,800
13 R, 4 W
Carl $1,000 $3,800 $9,800 $10,300
New champion: $10,300
$8,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Holly $700 $1,500 $3,700 $1,700
3rd place: [unknown]
$5,700
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LEGISLATURES FOOD WORD ORIGINS THE BODY HUMAN ANNUAL EVENTS COMEDIES
$100 [1]
This country's legislature, the National People's Congress, has 2,978 members
China
Kathy Carl
$100 [24]
Types of these vegetables include pearl, green & Bermuda
onions
Carl
$100 [6]
This term for a policeman comes from the Latin comes stabuli, an officer of the stable
constable
Holly
$100 [17]
This gland located at the front of the neck controls metabolic activity
thyroid
Carl
$100 [13]
The Mormon pageant is a dramatic annual event in Manti in this state
Utah
Kathy
$100 [11]
Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels played a couple of dimwits in this 1994 blockbuster comedy
Dumb and Dumber
Kathy
$200 [2]
In 1980 the government of this country granted the Basques the right to an elected parliament
Spain
Carl
$200 [25]
They're the only edible part of a frog; remember, overcooking will make them tough
legs
Carl
$200 [7]
The name of this Florida site is an alteration of the Spanish cayo huesa "island of bones"
Key West
$200 [18]
The visceral pleurae are thin, tough membranes that cover the outer surface of these organs
lungs
Kathy
$200 [22]
Head for Fargo in this state to celebrate Merry Prairie Christmas
North Dakota
Holly
$200 [12]
In 1980 Dolly Parton ventured onto the big screen, playing a secretary in this film
9 to 5
Carl
$300 [3]
Greenland & the Faroe Islands each have 2 seats in this nation's Folketing
Denmark
Holly
$300 [28]
A ficelle is a long, thin one of these about half the size of a baguette
loaf of bread
Holly
$300 [8]
From the Greek kubernao, "to direct a ship", it became someone who directs a ship of state
governor
Carl
$300 [19]
The small intestine includes the jejunum, the ileum & this horseshoe-shaped section
duodenum
Carl Holly
$300 [23]
Scottish highland games take place every summer at North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain in this range
Blue Ridge Mountains
Kathy Carl Holly
$300 [14]
This cross-dressing comedy with Nathan Lane & Robin Williams is a remake of "La Cage aux Folles"
The Birdcage
Holly
$400 [4]
The rules, or takkanon, of this Israeli parliament are similar to those of Britain's House of Commons
Knesset
Kathy
$400 [29]
In different types of food, this crustacean's name precedes cake, apple & Louis
crab
Holly
$400 [9]
Thomas Jefferson helped coin this word for a certain coin; he got it from the French word for "tenth"
dime
Carl
$400 [20]
This lowest part of the brain stem helps regulate the digestive process, among other functions
medulla
Carl
$500 [27]
Founded by Gian Carlo Menotti, this music & arts festival has been an annual event in Charleston, S.C. since 1977
Spoleto
Holly
$400 [15]
In a 1983 film this comedy troupe pondered "The Meaning of Life"
Monty Python
Kathy
$500 [5]
Suspended in 1800, this country's Althing reconvened in 1843
Iceland
Kathy
$500 [30]
The top of a Dundee cake is usually covered with these nuts, blanched & split
almond
Carl
$500 [10]
From the Latin per, "through", & ager, "field", comes this long word for wandering
peregrination
Kathy
$500 [21]
The shoulder joint is formed by the scapula, the clavicle & this upper arm bone
humerus
Carl
DD $1,000 [26]
The town of Winterset in this Iowa county is noted for its Covered Bridge Festival
Madison
Carl
$500 [16]
Ricki Lake is the daughter-in-law this actress never had in the film "Mrs. Winterbourne"
Shirley MacLaine

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY ELTON JOHN SONGS PAINTERS GENESIS LIGHTHOUSES TRAGEDIES
$200 [3]
In 1981 Giovanni Spadolini became the first non-Christian Democrat premier of this country since 1945
Italy
Holly
$200 [19]
Elton sang Oscar-winning "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" over the end credits of this Disney film
The Lion King
Holly
$200 [16]
He also called Jan van der Meer van Delft
Jan Vermeer
Kathy Holly
$200 [11]
To avoid being killed, Abram & Isaac told people their pretty wives were these relatives
sisters
Carl
$200 [1]
The oldest lighthouse on the coast of this state is Portland Head Light, built in 1791
Maine
Holly
$200 [18]
This playwright's "Hamlet" is considered the highest expression of the revenge tragedy
Shakespeare
Carl
$400 [7]
In 1832 Greece was formed from several Aegean islands, part of Rumelia & this peninsula
Peloponnese
Kathy
$400 [26]
It's the song that asks, "Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet, ooh but they're so spaced out"
"Bennie and the Jets"
Carl
$400 [17]
His father, N.C., son James & sisters Henriette & Carolyn were also well-known artists
Andrew Wyeth
Kathy
$400 [12]
The 2 things the Lord "rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah"
fire & brimstone
Carl
$400 [2]
In 1939 this armed service took over control of the Lighthouse Service
Coast Guard
Kathy
$400 [23]
This "Candide" author wrote his first tragedy, "Oedipe", while still a teenager
Voltaire
Carl
$600 [8]
In 1890 this grand duchy ended its political ties to the Dutch royal family
Luxembourg
Carl
$600 [27]
In 1987 Elton re-recorded this song inspired by Marilyn Monroe with the Melbourne Symphony Orch.
"Candle in the Wind"
Holly
$600 [20]
This pointillist painted a frame around his "La Grande Jatte"
Seurat
Holly
$600 [13]
Until Chapter 11 there was only one of these for all earth's people; then God confounded it into many
language
Holly
$600 [4]
Invented by Augustin Jean Fresnel, the compound type of this is used in lighthouses
lens
$600 [24]
The 100 tales in this Boccaccio work alternated between tragedy & earthy humor
Decameron
Kathy
$1,000 [10]
When Charles IV died without male heirs in 1328, this 341-year French dynasty ended
Capets
Kathy Carl
$800 [29]
A fan of Billie Jean King, Elton wrote this 1975 hit for her
"Philadelphia Freedom"
Kathy
$800 [21]
Maurice de Vlaminck was a member of this French art group, literally "the wild beasts"
Fauves
Holly
$800 [14]
She is described as a "help meet"
Eve
Holly
$800 [5]
There's a lighthouse on this Oahu promontory, the crater of an extinct volcano
Diamond Head
Carl
$800 [25]
He wrote that Willy Loman's tragedy is "that he gave his life, or sold it, in order to justify the waste of it"
Arthur Miller
Carl
DD $1,200 [9]
The House of Wittelsbach, which ruled Bavaria 1180-1918, made this city its capital in 1255
Munich
Carl
$1,000 [30]
In 1976 Elton team up with Kiki Dee for this No. 1 hit
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
$1,000 [22]
After the Nazis closed this design school in 1933, Josef Albers joined the faculty of Black Mountain College
Bauhaus
DD $2,000 [15]
God saw he "was a just man and perfect in his generations"
Noah
Holly
$1,000 [6]
An 1833 lighthouse is a point of interest in this western New York city on Lake Erie
Buffalo
$1,000 [28]
This Swede's play "The Father" is a domestic tragedy detailing the in here nt cruelty of marriage
Strindberg
Kathy

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS STARS

In June 1996 he came in second in the race for mayor of Bucharest

Ilie Năstase

Kathy "Who is Ilie Nastase" — wagered $2,799
Holly "Who is Ivan Lendl?" — wagered $2,000
Carl "Who is Nastasie?" — wagered $500

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