Show #2669 1996-03-21 Regular

Contestants

Dan McBride — a lawyer and financial analyst originally from Detroit, Michigan

Steve Wang — a graduate student from Chicago, Illinois

Jo Ellen Eppink — a librarian from Sugarland, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jo Ellen $1,900 $2,600 $4,200 $8,394
2-day champion: $21,795
$4,200
15 R, 4 W
Steve $1,400 $2,600 $9,000 $4,599
2nd place: Bush Desk & Seragraph
$6,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Dan $0 $3,300 $6,700 $4,300
3rd place: Sansui MS 5944 Mini Component Stereo System
$8,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY TV & MOVIE TOURISM DAYS OF THE WEEK ANIMALS JEWISH FOOD COMMON BONDS
$100 [6]
In 1993 he hinted that he'd be willing to give up power if the U.S. ended its embargo of Cuba
Fidel Castro
Jo Ellen
$100 [26]
Yo! The leather jacket he wore in "Rocky" is on display at Planet Hollywood in Washington, D.C.
Sylvester Stallone
Steve
$100 [11]
Like Atlanta's Journal & Constitution, Detroit's News & Free Press combine for this day's edition
Sunday
Jo Ellen Steve
$100 [12]
This continent is home to both pacas & alpacas
South America
Steve
$100 [1]
When chopped & formed into a ball, it's gefilte
fish
Steve
$100 [17]
Side, dart, Ouija
boards
Steve
$200 [7]
In 1951 Macao became an overseas province of this country, & in 1974 a "Special Territory"
Portugal
Jo Ellen
$200 [27]
Hossburgers are served at the Ponderosa Ranch in Incline Village, Nevada, where some of this TV series was filmed
Bonanza
Jo Ellen Dan
$200 [22]
It's the day of the week for presidents & labor
Monday
Steve
$200 [13]
One of these Chilopoda arthropods has as many as 177 pairs of legs; most have 15 to 23 pairs
a centipede
Steve
$200 [2]
Not all matzos can be used during this holiday, only those in boxes designated for it
Passover
Jo Ellen
$200 [18]
Bank, honor, Tootsie
rolls
Dan
$300 [8]
In 1867 Emperor Franz Joseph created this dual monarchy
Austria-Hungary
Jo Ellen
$300 [28]
Some of his personal movie memorabilia are displayed in the Tree Room, a restaurant at his Sundance Resort
Robert Redford
Steve
$300 [23]
This day will earn you the greatest number of regular points in Scrabble
Wednesday
Dan
$300 [14]
A female one of the gypsy species of this insect can lay over 1,000 eggs at one time
a moth
Jo Ellen
$300 [3]
On Rosh Hashanah it's traditional to dip slices of this fruit in honey
apples
$300 [19]
Booster, sling, jump
shots
Dan
$400 [9]
A skirmish over the theft of one of the Discovery's boats led to this explorer's murder in 1779
Captain James Cook
Steve
$400 [29]
Fans of this 1963 Hitchcock classic "flock" to Bodega Bay, California, where it was filmed
The Birds
Dan
$400 [24]
In ancient Rome it was called Dies Veneris, the day of Venus, hence the French Vendredi
Friday
Dan
$400 [15]
To count a pair of these carnivorous sea snails, say "A-one-an-a-two"
whelks
$400 [4]
Challah, a type of this, is served in a twisted form on the Sabbath
bread
Jo Ellen
$400 [20]
Place, floor, door
mats
Dan
$500 [10]
Tradition says this country's first emperor, Menelik I, was the son of King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba
Ethiopia
Jo Ellen
$500 [30]
The Virginia museum devoted to this TV series is across the street from Earl Hamner's boyhood home
The Waltons
Jo Ellen
DD $1,000 [25]
These 2 days were named for 2 sons of Odin
Tuesday & Thursday (Tue & Thor)
Dan
$500 [16]
The domestic one of these evolved from the mouflon & urial
sheep
Steve
$500 [5]
A kugel may be noodle or this type made from the main ingredient in latkes
potatoes
Steve
$500 [21]
Life, security, shin
guards
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD FACTS THE BIBLE LIBRARIES FIRST LADIES MEDICINE MUSICAL THEATRE
$200 [28]
At over 3,500,000 square miles, this desert covers an area larger than Australia
Sahara
Dan
$200 [1]
This event is also called the Deluge
the Flood
Steve
$200 [29]
This capital's library may not have the sun & the moon, but it does have the Sung & Ming Royal Libraries
Beijing
Dan
$200 [8]
When she became an actress, she was following in the footsteps of her mother, Edith Luckett
Nancy Reagan
Dan
$200 [30]
A special ward of the hospital devoted to very sick patients is the ICU, which stands for this
intensive care unit
Jo Ellen
$200 [13]
In 1994 Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia in "The Brady Bunch", appeared as Rizzo in this Broadway musical
Grease
Dan
$400 [2]
The initials F & I on Puerto Rico's official seal stand for this royal pair
Ferdinand & Isabella
Steve
$400 [22]
This brother of Moses was the first Jewish high priest
Aaron
Jo Ellen
$400 [18]
The Truman Library in this city has a Thomas Hart Benton mural
Independence, Missouri
Dan
$400 [9]
During the 1960 presidential campaign, this Texan was called the Democrats' "secret weapon"
Lady Bird Johnson
Jo Ellen
$400 [3]
In 1965 this famous pediatrician published "Caring For Your Disabled Child"
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Steve
$400 [14]
"King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running" is a musical revue set in the Outer Banks of this state
North Carolina
Jo Ellen Dan
$600 [4]
This Swiss-French lake is the largest of the Alpine lakes
Lake Geneva
Jo Ellen Steve
$600 [23]
Alphabetically, it's the first book of the King James Bible
Acts of the Apostles
Jo Ellen
$600 [19]
One location where this U.S. industrialist donated a library was his native Dunfermline, Scotland
Andrew Carnegie
Jo Ellen
$600 [10]
Teddy Roosevelt's wife Edith was related to this author of "The Age of Innocence"
Edith Wharton
Dan
$600 [5]
This common childhood viral disease is also called epidemic parotitis
the mumps
$600 [15]
Robert Preston starred as this silent film director in the Jerry Herman musical "Mack & Mabel"
Mack Sennett
$1,000 [7]
A lion on this country's coat of arms holds Saint Olaf's battle-axe
Norway
Dan
$800 [24]
In Luke 17 Jesus healed 10 men with this affliction, but only one thanked him
leprosy
Steve
$800 [20]
This country's largest library is part of its University of Dhaka
Bangladesh
Jo Ellen
$800 [11]
She wore a yellow velvet gown & a plumed Parisian turban to her husband's 1809 inaugural ball
Dolley Madison
Jo Ellen
$800 [26]
This medical magazine published in Waltham, Massachusetts was founded in 1812
The New England Journal of Medicine
Dan
$800 [16]
"Her First Roman" was a musical adaptation of Shaw's play about these historic lovers
Caesar & Cleopatra
Dan
DD $3,000 [6]
The Denmark Strait separates these 2 islands by about 200 miles
Greenland & Iceland
Steve
DD $1,800 [27]
Paul's first & second epistles to these Greeks immediately follow his epistle to the Romans
the Corinthians
Dan
$1,000 [21]
The Margaret Clapp Library at Wellesley College has all the love letters sent by this pair of poets
Robert & Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dan
$1,000 [12]
His wife Florence often consulted a Washington astrologer known as Madame Marcia
Warren G. Harding
Dan
$1,000 [25]
This psychiatric center in Topeka includes a children's hospital
the Menninger Clinic
$1,000 [17]
This creator of Jeeves wrote lyrics for more than 2 dozen musicals, including "Leave It To Jane"
P.G. Wodehouse
Steve

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS SHIPS

Commander Lloyd M. Bucher was the last captain of this U.S. ship

USS Pueblo (attacked by North Korea in 1968)

Jo Ellen "What is the Pueblo?" — wagered $4,194
Dan "What is the U.S.S. Mayaguez?" — wagered $2,400
Steve "What is the Constitution?" — wagered $4,401

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