Show #2824 1996-12-05 (taped 1996-10-15) Regular

Contestants

Sally Donovan — an insurance executive from Harleysville, Pennsylvania

Glenn Salzman — an attorney from Arlington, Virginia

Gay Mollette — a procurement manager originally from Detroit, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gay $600 $2,600 $6,000 $6,000
3-day champion: $24,001
$7,100
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Glenn $1,300 $2,300 $8,700 $5,399
2nd place: Trip to Tortola, BVI
$8,500
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Sally $500 $1,200 $2,000 $3,900
3rd place: Amana Top-Mount Refrigerator
$2,000
8 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MODERN HISTORY FURNITURE COUNTRY MUSIC TOURISM LITERARY HODGEPODGE THE MARINE CORPS "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES
$100 [6]
On Jan. 17, 1994 California was struck by one measuring 6.7; on Jan. 17, 1995 Kobe, Japan was hit by a 7.2
Earthquake
Gay
$100 [16]
Some French cabinetmakers called themselves ebenis for the ability to work in this difficult wood
Ebony
Gay
$100 [19]
She opened Dollywood Boulevard, an $8 million addition to her Dollywood theme park in 1996
Dolly Parton
Glenn
$100 [1]
This creator of "Lake Wobegon" grew up in Anoka, Minnesota
Garrison Keillor
Gay
$100 [26]
In 1978 Margaret A. Brewer became the first woman Marine to achieve this rank
General
Sally
$100 [7]
In the nursery rhyme, this line precedes "Bake me a cake as fast as you can"
"Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man"
Gay
$200 [12]
In 1988 radio-carbon testing dated this holy cloth only to the Middle Ages
Shroud of Turin
Glenn
$200 [17]
The rolltop type of this piece of furniture features a flexible hood that's drawn down as a lid
Desk
Gay
$200 [22]
This "Grand Ole" theme park is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1996
Opryland USA
Glenn
$200 [2]
Once a naval historian in the south Pacific, he won a Pulitzer Prize for "Tales of the South Pacific"
James Michener
Glenn
$200 [27]
This Latin motto of the corps means "Always Faithful"
"Semper Fidelis"
Sally
$200 [8]
It follows "That's one small step for a man,..."
"One Giant Leap for Mankind"
Gay Glenn
$300 [13]
In 1969 after traveling about 2600 miles, he & his crew abandoned their Ra expedition
Thor Heyerdahl
Gay
$300 [18]
This modern table named for a beverage is lower & wider than the 18th century tea table
Coffee Table
Glenn
$300 [23]
You can tour a simulated coal mine at this coal miner's daughter's home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee
Loretta Lynn
Glenn
$300 [3]
Standard English is referred to as Oldspeak in this George Orwell novel
1984
Glenn
$300 [28]
This nickname for Marines refers to the type of collar they once wore
Leathernecks
Gay
$300 [9]
Term for an electorate's wishes that its representatives carry out a certain program
Mandate
Gay
$400 [14]
In 1967 a launch pad fire claimed the lives of Edward White, Roger Chaffee & this astronaut
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Glenn
$400 [20]
A vitrine is a cabinet with doors made of this material
Glass
Gay
$400 [24]
When visiting Disney World, line dancers head for the Neon Armadillo on this night club "island"
Pleasure Island
Sally
$400 [4]
A visitor interrupted him while he was writing down his poem "Kubla Khan" & he never finished it
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gay
DD $500 [29]
Island on which the action depictedheretook place:
Iwo Jima
Gay
$400 [10]
Tube pasta filled with meat & cheese & served with tomato sauce
Manicotti
Glenn
$500 [15]
Suleyman Demirel was premier of this country on 5 separate occasions before becoming president in 1993
Turkey
Sally
$500 [21]
This furniture support may be Dutch, club or ball-and-claw
feet
Gay Sally
$500 [25]
Alabama & the Gatlin Brothers are among the country stars who have theatres in this S.C. beach city
Myrtle Beach
Glenn
$500 [5]
"Hey-Rub-A-Dub-Dub" is a 1920 collection of philosophical essays by this "Sister Carrie" author
Theodore Dreiser
Sally
$500 [11]
This dog named for its breeder originated in Apolda, Germany in the 1890s
Doberman Pinscher
Gay

Double Jeopardy! Round

GYMNASTICS U.S.A. WORLD LEADERS ANATOMY THEATRE POT LUCK
$200 [8]
Ancient Cretan performers would run toward a charging one of these animals, grab its horns & flip over it
Bull
Glenn
$200 [11]
The World Eskimo Indian Olympics held in this state includes a rather competitive ear pull
Alaska
Sally
$200 [6]
In addition to serving as Iraq's president, he's chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council
Saddam Hussein
Glenn
$200 [18]
The optic nerve transmits impulses between the eyes & this organ
Brain
Gay
$200 [1]
His "Play It Again, Sam" tells the story of Allan Felix, a film journalist whose marriage has just broken up
Woody Allen
Gay
$200 [30]
Voice range of Chaliapin, a Russian singer who popularized the "Song of the Volga Boatmen"
Bass
Gay
$400 [9]
One part of this piece of women's event equipment is about 90" above the floor, the other about 60"
Uneven parallel bars
Glenn
$400 [12]
There's a grave in Boston that some people claim belongs to this story teller of nursery rhyme fame
Mother Goose
Gay
$400 [7]
Before his 1979 election to Great Britain's parliament, he worked in banking for almost 20 years
John Major
Glenn
$400 [19]
These smallest blood vessels are about one-eighth the thickness of a strand of hair
Capillaries
Glenn
$400 [2]
In this musical members of the Class of '59 recall their days at Rydell High School
"Grease"
Glenn
$400 [29]
Clink was the name of a 16th century one of these in Southwark, London
Prison/Jail
Sally
$600 [10]
In this event performed on a mat 40' square, men's routines must be 50-70 seconds long, women's 70-90
Floor exercise
Gay
$600 [15]
Evanston in this state was named for John Evans, a founder of Northwestern University
Illinois
Glenn
$600 [23]
In 1918 he was born the son of a Tembu chief in what's now Eastern Cape province
Nelson Mandela
Gay
$600 [20]
Nearly all of the body's endocrine glands are stimulated by hormones released by this gland
Pituitary Gland
Gay
$600 [3]
After Randle P. McMurphy attacks Nurse Ratched in this play, she has him lobotomized
"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
Glenn
$600 [28]
The astronomical symbol for this planet is the same as the biological symbol for a female
Venus
Glenn
$800 [13]
This type of gymnastics became an Olympic event in 1984
rhythmic gymnastics
Gay Glenn Sally
$800 [16]
This Southwest reservoir is the largest artificial lake in the U.S.
Lake Mead
Glenn
$1,000 [25]
She took over Nicaragua's La Prensa newspaper after her husband's assassination
Violeta Chamorro
$800 [21]
Bow legs are often the result of this childhood disease caused by a lack of vitamin D
rickets
Gay
DD $1,000 [4]
This play takes place at the summer home of Norman & Ethel Thayer
"On Golden Pond"
Glenn
$800 [26]
A chapter of this 1532 book discusses the Machiavellian career of Cesare Borgia
"The Prince"
Gay
$1,000 [14]
Name for the wooden handles on a side horse
Pommels
Glenn
$1,000 [17]
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park in Alabama marks the site of this Indian war's last battle
the Creek Indian War
Glenn
DD $1,200 [24]
In 1992 this former Soviet prime minister was named chairman of the State Council of Georgia
Eduard Shevardnadze
Gay
$1,000 [22]
It's the anatomical name for the stirrup, the smallest bone in the body
Stapes
$1,000 [5]
In his play "Lysistrata", the women of Athens refuse to sleep with their men until peace is declared
Aristophanes
Sally
$1,000 [27]
Tia Maria, a liqueur made from Blue Mountain coffee beans, comes from this country
Jamaica
Gay

Final Jeopardy!

SOUTH AMERICA

In area, it's the largest country in South America entirely north of the Equator

Venezuela

Sally "What is Venezuela" — wagered $1,900
Gay "What is Venezuela?" — wagered $0
Glenn "What is Colombia?" — wagered $3,301

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