Show #2856 1997-01-20 (taped 1996-11-12) Regular

Contestants

Kevin Jack — a law student from Chicago, Illinois

Breck Jeffery — a research analyst from Kailua, Hawaii

Pam Wilson — an editor from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pam $900 $1,200 $5,600 $50
3rd place: Swintec Single-Line Fax Machine
$5,600
16 R, 3 W
Breck $2,500 $3,100 $6,400 $11,201
New champion: $11,201
$8,300
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kevin $400 $2,500 $5,200 $10,399
2nd place: Trip to Memphis, Tennessee
$6,300
19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

DESERT LIFE LANGUAGES TOP MODELS STATE CAPITALS WEIGHTS & MEASURES 6-LETTER WORDS
$100 [11]
These can carry 1,000-pound loads & go for 10 days without water
Camels
Kevin
$100 [1]
Lao, the official language of this southeast Asian country, is mostly monosyllabic
Laos
Breck
$100 [16]
This magazine's January 29, 1996 swimsuit issue featured Valeria Mazza & Tyra Banks in bikinis in South Africa
Sports Illustrated
Kevin
$100 [6]
This Colorado city's capitol dome is covered with 47 ounces of gold leaf
Denver
Pam
$100 [21]
Take off for a fortnight & you'll be gone this many days
14
Kevin
$100 [26]
Popular for knickknacks, it's the shelf above a fireplace
Mantle
Pam
$200 [12]
This rattlesnake was named for its diagonal crawling pattern
Sidewinder
Breck Kevin
$200 [2]
The dramas of Seneca & the histories of Tacitus belong to this language's silver age
Latin
Breck
$200 [17]
Holding a Cohiba panatella, Linda Evangelista was on a magazine cover for aficionados of these
Cigars
Kevin
$200 [7]
This Ohio city is home to Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery
Columbus
Breck
$200 [22]
To convert gallons to these units, multiply by 3.785
Liters
Kevin
$200 [27]
It can be a chest of drawers or a federal agency
Bureau
Pam
$300 [13]
Types of these desert animals that leap to mind are the collared, zebra-tailed & leopard
Lizards
$300 [3]
Romansh is spoken in this country's canton of Graubunden
Switzerland
Pam Breck
$300 [18]
This wonder from Down Under appears in the 1996 film "Jane Eyre"
Elle Macpherson
Kevin
$300 [8]
This North Dakota city's capitol building is called The Skyscraper of the Prairies
Bismarck
Pam
$300 [23]
A square foot contains this many square inches
144
Breck
$300 [28]
It means composed of many different or clashing elements, like musician Tommy Lee's Crue
Motley
Kevin
$500 [15]
This large yucca plant of the Mojave has a national park named for it
Joshua Tree
Breck Kevin
$400 [4]
This language whose name means "Jewish" arose between the 9th & 12th centuries in southwestern Germany
Yiddish
Pam
$400 [19]
Bijan features this "ten"acious actress in his ads
Bo Derek
Kevin
$400 [9]
According to the 1990 census, this Vermont capital had only 8,247 residents
Montpelier
Pam
$400 [24]
Jockeys know it's equal to an eighth of a mile
Furlong
Breck
$400 [29]
Japanese for "tray planting", it's the art of growing dwarfed trees & shrubs
Bonsai
Breck
DD $1,000 [14]
The name of these Arabs means "dwellers in the desert"
Bedouins
Breck
$500 [5]
The Formosan languages, spoken by about 200,000 on this island, belong to the Austronesian family
Taiwan
Breck
$500 [20]
In the 1996 novel "Swan" this black beauty takes you behind the scenes of the modeling world
Naomi Campbell
Pam
$500 [10]
This capital was founded in 1851 as Eagle Station, a stop for wagons crossing the Sierra Nevadas
Carson City
Kevin
$500 [25]
If your recipe calls for a cup of liquid, you can use this many tablespoons
16
$500 [30]
Caused by oxidation, it's the greenish film that forms on copper or old bronze
Patina
Pam

Double Jeopardy! Round

MARTIN LUTHER KING CELEBRITY COUPLES EDUCATORS OPERA TRAVEL EUROPE WOMEN NOVELISTS
$200 [7]
At Crozer Theological Seminary King learned of this Indian leader's idea of nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi
Pam
$200 [2]
Since their 1991 wedding, he's been Jane Fonda's "Cable Guy"
Ted Turner
Kevin
$200 [19]
Author & scholar Ruth R. Wisse is the 1st person to teach Yiddish literature at the Cambridge, Mass. university
Harvard
Kevin
$200 [17]
As a teen Gian Carlo Menotti turned this undersea H.C. Andersen fairy tale into an opera
"The Little Mermaid"
Pam
$200 [12]
You can see Rembrandt's "Adoration of the Shepherds" at the National Gallery on this British square
Trafalgar Square
$200 [1]
In 1996 this "Scrupulous" author published a book about the fashion industry called "Spring Collection"
Judith Krantz
Kevin
$400 [8]
It was the profession of King's father & grandfather as well
Minister
Breck
$400 [3]
She & Paul Newman became grandparents for the first time when daughter Lissy had a baby boy in 1996
Joanne Woodward
Pam
$400 [20]
Among the Challenger crew on its fateful mission was this social studies teacher from New Hampshire
Christa McAuliffe
Pam
$400 [18]
In this Puccini work, Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, is sung by a baritone
"Madame Butterfly"
Breck
$400 [13]
The northernmost 18-hole golf course in Europe is at Akureyri in this volcanic country
Iceland
Pam Kevin
$400 [21]
Maiden name of "Frankenstein" author Mary, or "A Mother And Two Daughters" author Gail
Godwin
Pam Kevin
$600 [9]
In December 1964 King conferred with this man, who was spying on him, about the FBI's role in civil rights
J. Edgar Hoover
Kevin
$600 [4]
These once-married stars are the parents of "Ellen" co-star Joely Fisher
Eddie Fisher & Connie Stevens
Pam Kevin
$600 [25]
When Tuskeegee opened its doors in 1881, he was the school's only teacher
Booker T. Washington
Kevin
$600 [28]
This Richard Strauss opera is a "Wilde" tale set around 30 A.D. in Galilee
"Salome"
Breck
$600 [14]
You can tour the Peace Palace in this city when the International Court of Justice is not in session
The Hague
Breck
$600 [22]
Before moving to the U.S., this "Fountainhead" author worked as a guide in a Leningrad museum
Ayn Rand
Kevin
$800 [10]
King wished that his children "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of" this
Character
Pam
$800 [5]
Paula Prentiss played a perverse nurse in "Mrs. Winterbourne", directed by this man, her husband
Richard Benjamin
Pam
$800 [26]
She was teaching political science when President Reagan chose her as U.N. Ambassador
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Breck
$800 [29]
This "Billy The Kid" composer wrote 2 operas: "The Second Hurricane" & "The Tender Land"
Aaron Copland
Kevin
$1,000 [16]
You can see an enormous clock on Rue du Gros-Horloge in this city where time ran out for Joan of Arc
Rouen
Breck
$1,000 [24]
In her first book since "Waiting To Exhale", she tells "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"
Terry McMillan
Kevin
$1,000 [11]
This 3-word phrase from a spiritual is engraved 3 times on King's tombstone
"Free At Last"
Breck
$1,000 [6]
She married Steven Spielberg after co-starring in his film "Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom"
Kate Capshaw
Kevin
$1,000 [27]
Of Japanese descent, this educator & linguist represented California in the Senate 1977-1983
SI Hayakawa
Breck
$1,000 [30]
"The Tales of Hoffmann" was his last & greatest work
Jacques Offenbach
Pam
DD $2,500 [15]
The Ra II is on display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in this capital city
Oslo, Norway
Breck
DD $1,100 [23]
She hopes to conclude her alphabet mysteries with "Z" around the year 2015
Sue Grafton
Kevin

Final Jeopardy!

AWARDS

The London Theatre's equivalent of Broadway's Tony Awards are named for him

Sir Laurence Olivier

Kevin "Who is Olivier?" — wagered $5,199
Pam "Who is Shakespeare?" — wagered $5,550
Breck "Who is Olivier?" — wagered $4,801

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