Show #2857 1997-01-21 (taped 1996-11-12) Regular

Contestants

Pat Pauken — an attorney and doctoral candidate from Columbus, Ohio

Jennifer Wadsack — a homemaker from Chatham, New Jersey

Breck Jeffery — a research analyst from Kailua, Hawaii (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Breck $1,300 $2,500 $10,300 $12,801
2-day champion: $24,002
$9,100
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Jennifer $-300 $100 $2,700 $2,700
3rd place: Zyliss tea/coffee service
$2,700
8 R, 1 W
Pat! $1,200 $3,800 $6,400 $4,800
2nd place: an Ashley entertainment system + a Daewoo TV & VCR
$8,000
25 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE IN HISTORY FILM STARS LAW U.S. STATES OF NO IMPORTANCE GOLF TALK
$100 [1]
This Venetian explorer was the first known European to visit what is now Thailand & Vietnam
Marco Polo
Pat!
$100 [5]
This "Mrs. Doubtfire" star was once a street mime
Robin Williams
Pat!
$100 [2]
To die intestate is to die without having made one of these
a will
Breck
$100 [12]
Colorado's motto is "Nothing Without Providence"; this smallest state's is "Hope"
Rhode Island
Pat!
$100 [21]
An unimportant vegetable, "a hill of" them is still unimportant
beans
Pat!
$100 [26]
This traditional warning that a shot is about to be taken is an Old English word for "in front"
"Fore!"
Breck
$200 [3]
General George Henry Thomas earned the epithet "The Rock of Chickamauga" during this war
the Civil War
Breck
$200 [6]
Among the jobs he had before meeting Roseanne Barr was as a meat packer at a Hormel plant
Tom Arnold
Pat!
$200 [10]
Lie while under oath & you'll be guilty of this
perjury
Jennifer
$200 [13]
The moapa dace & bonytail chub are endangered fish in this state known for its gambling & ghost towns
Nevada
Pat!
$200 [22]
A drop in the bucket, or in this much larger body of water, is trivial
an ocean
Pat!
$200 [27]
An ace is another term for this prodigious feat
a hole-in-one
Pat!
$300 [4]
He helped liberate much of South America from Spanish rule & in turn had a country named for him
Simon Bolivar
Pat!
$300 [7]
Francis Coppola & this "Cape Fear" star are co-owners of Rubicon, a San Francisco restaurant
Robert De Niro
Pat!
$300 [11]
It's the formal charge issued by a grand jury saying there's enough evidence to have a trial
an indictment
Breck
$300 [14]
Iowa's capitol building in this city has 5 domes & one of them is covered in 23-karat gold
Des Moines
Breck
$300 [23]
"Much Ado About Nothing" would be this other Shakespeare play "in a teacup"
The Tempest
Breck
$300 [28]
"Stretcher Bearer" is a slang expression for one of these golf helpers
a caddy
Pat!
$400 [16]
This father of Alexander the Great seized the throne of Macedon in 359 B.C.
Philip of Macedon
Breck
$400 [8]
He played Malcolm X in "When the Chickens Come Home to Roost" on Broadway & in a 1992 film
Denzel Washington
Pat!
$400 [19]
It's the law that sets the period of time, sometimes years, during which legal actions may be taken
a statute of limitations
Jennifer
$400 [15]
Place names that come from Indian tribes in this state include Totowa, Piscataway & Passaic
New Jersey
Breck
$400 [24]
4-word phrase meaning not special, like average goods coming out of a factory
run of the mill
Pat!
$400 [29]
Hey Verne! An around the world is a round of golf played in this many strokes
80
Breck
$500 [17]
This sheriff who shot Billy the Kid was later appointed a customs collector by Teddy Roosevelt
Pat Garrett
Pat!
$500 [9]
In 1984 she won an Emmy for "Hill Street Blues" & received an Oscar nomination for playing Geechee in "Cross Creek"
Alfre Woodard
Jennifer Pat!
$500 [20]
The Latin phrase "onus probandi" refers to this; it lies with the plaintiff
the burden of proof
Pat!
$500 [18]
Its flag bears the quartered arms of the Calvert & Crossland families
Maryland
Pat!
DD $600 [25]
Title of the following:
"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" (by Buddy Holly)
Pat!
$500 [30]
An undertaker is one who is "lethal" at this part of the game; he can really "bury" the ball
putting
Pat!

Double Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY RULERS HERBS & SPICES COMPOSERS LITERATURE GULF TALK
$200 [22]
In Japanese mythology, Inari is the god of this grain
rice
Jennifer
$200 [17]
This "Great" czar thought his son Alexis was conspiring to overthrow him, so he ordered him tortured
Peter the Great
Jennifer
$200 [26]
Hungarians have many dishes named for & made with this spice
paprika
Pat!
$200 [2]
"Lady, Be Good!" was the first show he wrote in full collaboration with his brother Ira
George Gershwin
Breck Pat!
$200 [11]
Chapter 6 of this Hawthorne classic is titled "Pearl"
The Scarlet Letter
Jennifer
$200 [7]
The Gulf of Taranto divides this boot-shaped country's "heel" from its "toe"
Italy
Breck
$400 [1]
After this founder of Rome disappeared in a storm, the Romans worshipped him as a god
Romulus
Pat!
$400 [18]
In 770 this king of the Franks married Desiderata, daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius
Charlemagne
Breck
$400 [27]
These licorice-flavored seeds flavor ouzo, a Greek liqueur
anise
Pat!
$400 [3]
Published after his death, "The Art of the Fugue" was this Baroque composer's last work
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pat!
$400 [12]
Budd Schulberg's novel "The Harder They Fall" deals with corrupt practices in this sport
boxing
Jennifer
$400 [8]
Since 1899 the Sabine-Neches Canal has linked Port Arthur, Texas with this gulf
the Gulf of Mexico
Pat!
$600 [23]
These animals were mummified by ancient Egyptians as a tribute to the goddess Bast
cats
Breck
$600 [19]
Ahmadu Seku, who died in 1898, was the second & last ruler of this continent's Tukulor Empire
Africa
Breck
$600 [28]
This expensive yellow spice is a traditional ingredient in bouillabaisse
saffron
Breck
$600 [4]
As a teen, Prokofiev studied under this composer famous for his "Flight of the Bumblebee"
Rimsky-Korsakov
Pat!
$600 [13]
1938's "Out Of The Silent Planet" was the first sci-fi novel by this Narnia creator
C.S. Lewis
Breck
$600 [9]
Canada's Prince Edward Island lies within this gulf
the Gulf of St. Lawrence
$800 [24]
Tlazolteotl was the lust goddess of these people; her name is Nahuatl for "lady of dirt"
Aztecs
Breck
$1,000 [21]
This king of England was the grandfather of Elizabeth I
Henry VII
Breck
$800 [29]
It tastes like a spicier version of nutmeg, & in fact is derived from the outer coat of the nutmeg seed
mace
Jennifer
DD $1,000 [5]
Joseph Haydn told this man's father, "Your son is the greatest composer I know"
W.A. Mozart
Pat!
$800 [15]
Published in 1923, "The Prophet" is a book of 28 poetic essays by this Lebanese-American
Kahlil Gibran
Breck Jennifer
$800 [10]
The Strait of Tiran connects the Red Sea to this gulf, its northeastern arm
the Gulf of Aqaba
$1,000 [25]
This Norse god rides through the sky in a noisy chariot pulled by 2 huge billy goats
Thor
Breck Pat!
DD $2,000 [20]
Huayna Capac, the father of Atahualpa, ruled this empire from c. 1493 until his death c. 1525
the Incan Empire
Breck
$1,000 [30]
Making soups & bean dishes tasty, its name is a synonym for tasty
savory
Breck
$1,000 [6]
"Fireworks" was an earlier work by this "Firebird" composer
Igor Stravinsky
Breck
$1,000 [16]
Amory Blaine, a student at Princeton, is the hero of this first novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
$1,000 [14]
This gulf on the coasts of Estonia & Latvia shares its name with Latvia's capital
the Gulf of Riga
Breck

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

From the Latin for "year" & "turn", it's literally "the turn of a year"

anniversary ( annus = year & verso = turn)

Jennifer "What annual" — wagered $0
Pat! "What is annum?" — wagered $1,600
Breck "What is anniversary?" — wagered $2,501

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