Show #2733 1996-06-19 (taped 1996-02-07) Regular

Mary Hirschfeld game 3.

Contestants

Lyndia Lowy — a secretary from Los Angeles, California

Sally Cassil — a librarian from Santa Fe, New Mexico

Mary Hirschfeld — a professor of economics originally from Pullman, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,202)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mary $400 $2,500 $9,300 $10,201
3-day champion: $41,403
$9,900
26 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Sally $2,200 $4,100 $5,100 $9,700
2nd place: trip to the 1996 Olympics
$5,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Lyndia $300 $800 $5,000 $999
3rd place: Zodiac watch
$5,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ALICE IN WONDERLAND HISPANIC HOLLYWOOD GIFTS HISTORIC AMERICANS COMMON BONDS "M" ON THE MAP
$100 [8]
This wormlike creature sits atop a mushroom "with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah"
the Caterpillar
Lyndia
$100 [3]
This Cuban-born entertainer was known as Mr. Babalu
Desi Arnaz
Lyndia
$100 [23]
This saint associated with Christmas gave bags of gold as dowries for poor girls
St. Nicholas
Mary
$100 [18]
In 1811 this statesman married his wealthy cousin Floride Bonneau Calhoun
John C. Calhoun
Mary Sally
$100 [13]
Cherry, orchestra, bottomless
a pit
Sally
$100 [1]
With a population of over 365,000, it's Minnesota's largest city
Minneapolis
Mary
$200 [9]
At the trial of the Knave of Hearts, this group consists of 12 animals, including Bill the Lizard
the jury
Mary
$200 [4]
His most famous roles include a wrathful Khan & a fantastic Roarke
Ricardo Montalban
Sally
$200 [24]
Richard Morris Hunt planned the pedestal for this gift from the French people to the Americans
the Statue of Liberty
Mary
$200 [19]
This silversmith had 8 children by his first wife Sarah, & 8 more by his second wife, Rachel
Paul Revere
Lyndia
$200 [14]
Mud, Eskimo, shepherd's
pie
Lyndia
$200 [2]
In 1865 Edward Whymper became the first to reach the top of this Alpine peak
the Matterhorn
Mary Sally
$300 [28]
Tenniel's drawings of this milliner may be of Theophilus Carter, an eccentric inventor who wore a top hat
the Mad Hatter
Lyndia
$300 [5]
Cesar Romero, Duncan Renaldo & most recently Jimmy Smits played this Hispanic western hero
the Cisco Kid
Sally
$300 [25]
On this Marquis' 1824-25 visit to the U.S., Congress voted him a gift of $200,000 & a tract of land
Lafayette
Mary
$300 [20]
This frontier judge was born in Mason County, Kentucky, but his exact birthdate is unknown
Judge Roy Bean
Mary
$300 [15]
Of Science, of Foxhounds, of ceremonies
Masters
Lyndia
$300 [10]
A certain points, this principality stretches less than one-quarter mile inland from the Mediterranean
Monaco
Mary
$400 [29]
At the Mad Tea Party, this long-eared character offers wine to Alice, even though there isn't any
the March Hare
Mary
DD $500 [6]
Her resume lists "Rockford Files" (Emmy); "The Ritz" (Tony); "West Side Story" (Oscar); "The Electric Co." album (Grammy)
Rita Moreno
Sally
$400 [26]
Italy donated 3,700 tons of marble for this D.C. performing arts complex that opened in 1971
the Kennedy Center
Sally
$400 [21]
This early U.S. president often practiced the violin 3 hours a day
Jefferson
Sally
$400 [16]
Wet, Navajo, security
blanket
Mary
$400 [11]
In June 1942 the U.S. won a decisive victory over the Japanese in this air & sea battle
Midway
Sally Lyndia
$500 [30]
This fabulous monster with an eagle's head & a lion's body takes Alice to see the Mock Turtle
the Gryphon
Sally
$500 [7]
She found additional "Fame" singing the theme to "Flashdance"
Irene Cara
Sally
$500 [27]
Blenheim Palace was a public gift to John Churchill, Duke of this
the Duke of Marlborough
Lyndia
$500 [22]
Prominent temperance leader Neal Dow was this party's presidential candidate in 1880
the Prohibition Party
Mary Lyndia
$500 [17]
Picture, van, violation
moving
Sally
$500 [12]
This longest Canadian river flows from the Great Slave Lake to the Beaufort Sea
the Mackenzie

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOTABLE WOMEN THE WINE CELLAR OPERA CHARACTERS SCIENTISTS MICHIGAN CITIES HERALDRY
$200 [3]
On January 1 ceremonies in Philadelphia mark the birthday of this flagmaker
Betsy Ross
Mary
$200 [1]
In 1994 the name of this most famous Italian sparkling wine was shortened to Asti
Asti Spumante
Lyndia
$200 [9]
Decades before Rossini, Andre Gretry wrote an opera about this Swiss hero
William Tell
Sally
$200 [4]
English physicist Ralph Fowler explained the structure of the white dwarf type of this heavenly body
a star
Mary
$200 [20]
A top tune in 1942 was "I've Got a Gal in" this Michigan city
Kalamazoo
Mary
$200 [18]
The design and position of this knightly headgear denote rank; a peer's is shown in profile
the helmet
Lyndia
$400 [13]
Though she spent much of her childhood in Arizona, this Supreme Court justice was born in El Paso, Texas
Sandra Day O'Connor
Mary
$400 [2]
More than 75% of this country's wines are produced on the Niagara Peninsula
Canada
Mary Sally
$400 [10]
Erda the Earth goddess is the mother of the Valkyries in this composer's "Ring" cycle
Wagner
Mary
$400 [5]
He was a world authority on gall wasps before founding his institute for sex research in 1942
Kinsey
Lyndia
$400 [21]
When it was chosen as state capital in 1847, only a sawmill & a log house were there
Lansing
Mary
$400 [19]
In England the cadency mark of a second son is this shape associated with rolls and moons
the crescent
Mary
$600 [14]
She learned the art of making wax figures from her uncle Philippe Curtius
Madame Tussaud
Lyndia
$600 [17]
The "crusted" type of this Iberian after-dinner wine has a crust that forms during the aging process
port
Mary Sally
$600 [11]
Verdi & Salieri both wrote operas about this fat, funny Shakespearean character
Falstaff
Sally
$600 [6]
Hugo de Vries, Gregor Mendel & George Washington Carver are classified as these
botanists
Mary Sally
$600 [26]
The home of this Silverdome, or a car to drive there
Pontiac
Mary
$600 [23]
On Norway's coat of arms, this popular heraldic animal stands rampant, holding an axe in its paws
a lion
Mary
$800 [15]
In 1912 this famous Titanic survivor presented the captain of the Carpathia with a silver loving cup
the Unsinkable Molly Brown
Lyndia
$800 [29]
California is noted for producing the Johannisberg type of this German-style white wine
Riesling
Mary
$800 [12]
The Goose-Girl is the heroine of this "Hansel and Gretel" composer's fairy tale opera "The Royal Children"
Humperdinck
Mary
$800 [7]
This 19th century German mineralogist developed a famous hardness scale
Mohs
DD $600 [27]
Michigan's busiest port
Detroit
Mary
$800 [24]
Vair is the heraldic term of the fur of this arboreal rodent, represented by bell shapes
a squirrel
Mary
DD $1,000 [16]
In the 1940s this wife of a magazine publisher served 2 terms in Congress
Clare Boothe Luce
Lyndia
$1,000 [30]
Tokay Eszencia is a rare, expensive type of this country's esteemed Tokay wine
Hungary
Lyndia
$1,000 [22]
This ancient Greek poetess is the heroine of an 1840 opera by Giovanni Pacini
Sappho
Mary
$1,000 [8]
The system of mathematical logic devised by George Boole is called Boolean this
algebra
Mary Sally
$1,000 [28]
When GM workers struck in this city in 1936 & 1937, the "sparks" created got the UAW recognized
Flint
Mary
$1,000 [25]
A rooster is depicted on a Masai shield on this country's coat of arms
Kenya
Mary

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

In 1948 this sportswear company was founded in Germany by Adolph Dassler

Adidas

Lyndia "What's Adias?" — wagered $4,001
Sally "What is Adidas?" — wagered $4,600
Mary "What is Adidas?" — wagered $901

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