Show #2788 1996-10-16 (taped 1996-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Jim Ellis — a TV production technician from Toledo, Ohio

Lissa Anderson — a schoolteacher from Austin, Texas

Carl Eeman — a pastor from St. Louis Park, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carl $1,900 $2,900 $7,100 $2,199
2nd place: Aroma Spa & Aroma Vera pendants
$8,100
21 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Lissa $600 $700 $4,000 $8,000
New champion: $8,000
$4,100
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jim $500 $1,100 $6,000 $2,000
3rd place: Delonghi cappuccino machine
$4,300
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

KING DAVID TELEVISION PLANTS & TREES WORLD CITIES THE HARDWARE STORE CROSSWORD CLUES "C"
$100 [1]
Saul gave his armor to David to fight this giant but David didn't wear it
Goliath
Carl
$100 [21]
This animated series ended its '94-'95 season with a "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" cliffhanger
The Simpsons
Lissa
$100 [22]
This plant that grows on southern U.S. trees is also called long moss
Spanish moss
Lissa
$100 [6]
Ile de la Cite, an island in the Seine River, is the heart of this French capital
Paris
Lissa
$100 [11]
It's the jointed device that allows a door to swing
hinge
Lissa
$100 [16]
Sideways handspring(9)
cartwheel
Carl
$200 [2]
David was buried in this city known as the City of David
Jerusalem
Carl
$200 [27]
Dean Martin played himself in "Half-Nelson", a 1985 cop show starring this "My Cousin Vinny" lawyer
Joe Pesci
Jim
$200 [23]
The name of hepatica, a woodland plant similar to the anemone, comes from the Greek for this organ
liver
Jim
$200 [7]
The site of this Bulgarian capital was once a Thracian settlement
Sofia
Lissa
$200 [12]
One of these may be rip, jig or buzz
saw
Lissa
$200 [17]
Sports star Margaret Smith or the place she played(5)
court
Lissa Jim
$300 [3]
Authorship of about half of these in the book of 150 is attributed to David
Psalms
Carl
$300 [28]
The fall '95 network season featured these 2 shows with "Murder" in their titles on Thursday nights
Murder, She Wrote & Murder One
Lissa Jim
$300 [24]
Sassafras tea is prepared with this part of the sassafras tree
root bark
Carl Jim
$300 [8]
This capital lies on a plain sometimes known as the Valley of Nepal
Kathmandu
Carl
$300 [13]
When this tool's jaws taper to a point, it's called a needlenose
pliers
Carl
$300 [18]
Baby or handset holder(6)
cradle
Carl
$400 [4]
She was the mother of David's son Solomon
Bathsheba
Carl
$400 [29]
His TV characters included Dr. Johnny Fever, Sam Royer & Charlie Moore
Howard Hesseman
Jim
$400 [25]
Kentucky's nickname comes from this popular name of Poa pratensis
bluegrass
Carl
$400 [9]
This British city is the site of the Queensway, a 2.2-mile highway tunnel under the Mersey River
Liverpool
Carl
$400 [14]
A brad is a thin wire one of these fasteners
nail
Carl
$400 [19]
Gurley magazine(12)
Cosmopolitan
Lissa
$500 [5]
When first anointed, David had this occupation
shepherd
Carl
$500 [30]
In 1988 the Christian Broadcasting Network changed its cable channel's name to this
The Family Channel
Jim
$500 [26]
In the Sierra Nevada, the lodgepole species of this tree grows at higher elevations than the Ponderosa
pine
Carl
DD $1,000 [10]
About half of French Guiana's population lives on the island where this "spicy" capital is located
Cayenne
Carl
$500 [15]
"Fantasy Island"'s Tattoo would have used this tool to smooth or pare a wood surface
plane
Jim
$500 [20]
Halloween habit(7)
costume
Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

ENGINEERS HISTORY ART & ARTISTS LITERARY CHARACTERS NATIONAL MONUMENTS MUSIC COLLABORATORS
$200 [13]
Sergei Korolev was chief designer of this country's space program during the 1950s & 1960s
USSR
Lissa
$200 [6]
c. 1438 Pachacuti's defeat of the Chanca confederacy established this South American empire
Inca
Carl
$200 [1]
"Ia Orana Maria", one of his most famous Tahitian paintings, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paul Gauguin
Lissa
$200 [14]
This assistant to Sherlock Holmes served as an assistant surgeon in Afghanistan with the British army
Dr. John Watson
Jim
$200 [4]
Among the forts that are monuments, this Maryland one is also a historic shrine
Fort McHenry
Carl
$200 [19]
His partners were Lorenz Hart & Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers
Jim
$400 [15]
Thomas Midgley developed the antiknock type of this fuel
gasoline
Jim
$400 [7]
In 1945 & 1946 the major WWII war crimes trials were held in this German city
Nuremberg
Lissa
$400 [2]
He painted a "Nude Combing Her Hair" in 1906, during his Rose Period
Pablo Picasso
Lissa
$400 [24]
This one-legged cook of the Hispaniola has a parrot named Cap'n Flint
Long John Silver
Lissa
$400 [5]
Established in Arizona in 1907, this monument has cliff dwellings but no Lone Ranger
Tonto National Monument
$400 [20]
This pair's output includes "Here, There and Everywhere" & "Norwegian Wood"
John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Carl
$600 [16]
John Ericsson, who designed the ironclad Monitor, was born in Langbanshyttan in this Scandinavian country
Sweden
Jim
$600 [8]
In 1974 this Argentinian became the first woman chief of state in the Western Hemisphere
Isabel Peron
Carl Jim
$600 [3]
A painting by this telegraph inventor was sold in 1982 for $3.25 million, then a record for a U.S. work of art
Samuel Morse
Carl
$600 [25]
During his travels, he meets the Struldbruggs, a race of immortals on the island of Luggnagg
Gulliver
Carl
$600 [21]
The Aztec ruins in this state were made a national monument in 1923
New Mexico
Jim
$600 [27]
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" We hope this pair does--they wrote it
Burt Bacharach & Hal David
$800 [17]
Charles Steinmetz joined this Schenectady, N.Y. company in 1893 & later became its consulting engineer
General Electric
$800 [11]
During the 1913 Balkan War, a triumvirate led by Enver Pasha gained control of this empire
Turkish (Ottoman) Empire
Carl
DD $700 [9]
The current U.S. tour of treasures from this designer's workshops includes the object seen here:
Fabergé
Lissa
$800 [26]
Emma Rouault & her predecessor Heloise Dubuc were this Gustave Flaubert title character
Madame Bovary
$1,000 [23]
Proclaimed a monument in 1908, a virgin stand of redwoods in California is named for this naturalist
John Muir
Carl
$1,000 [18]
Washington Roebling was made chief engineer of this N.Y. bridge after his father John's death
the Brooklyn Bridge
Jim
$1,000 [12]
When this island nation obtained its independence August 16, 1960, Archbishop Makarios III was its leader
Cyprus
Carl
$1,000 [10]
Jane Avril commissioned him to create a poster advertising her 1893 debut at the Jardin de Paris
Toulouse-Lautrec
Lissa
DD $2,500 [22]
The 2 Georges whose birthplaces are national monuments: their names are similar
George Washington & George Washington Carver
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

1960s AMERICANS

As a fugitive from the law, he assumed the identity of Barry Freed, an ecological crusader

Abbie Hoffman

Lissa "Who is Abby Hoffman?" — wagered $4,000
Jim "Who is Timothy Leary" — wagered $4,000
Carl "Who was David Jansen?" — wagered $4,901

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