Show #2881 1997-02-24 (taped 1996-11-19) Regular

Contestants

Joan Friedman — a professor of accounting from Urbana, Illinois

Jim Fahner — a pediatric oncologist from Grand Rapids, Michigan

Greg Carbone — a customer service manager originally from Weston, Massachusetts

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Greg $1,700 $3,000 $8,600 $8,613
2nd place: a Central American cruise
$6,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jim $1,400 $3,200 $8,800 $11,199
New champion: $11,199
$8,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Joan $400 $2,000 $3,200 $6,400
3rd place: a Panasonic Palmcorder camcorder
$3,200
11 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER DANCE SITCOMS "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES
$100 [7]
The peach type of this insect attacks peaches, plums & other fruit, but not clothing
Moth
Jim
$100 [12]
This women's publication is known as LHJ for short
Ladies' Home Journal
Joan
$100 [26]
The New England Revolution's red, white & blue logo resembles one of these American symbols
The American Flag
Jim
$100 [19]
Legend says Hi'iaka, sister of the goddess Pele, introduced this dance to Hawaii
Hula
Jim
$100 [6]
Daniel Stern, as the adult Kevin Arnold, narrated this series set in the 1960s
"The Wonder Years"
Jim
$100 [1]
A console on a piano or typewriter
Keyboard
Joan
$200 [8]
The wolf type of this arachnid rides on its mother's back when it's a baby
Spider
Greg
$200 [13]
This organization publishes Boys' Life
Boy Scouts
Greg
$200 [27]
The excitement generated by this 1994 event was partially responsible for MLS being formed
The World Cup
Jim
$200 [20]
It's the kind of hat traditionally tossed on the floor in the Jarube Tapatio, or Mexican Hat Dance
Sombrero
Greg
$200 [17]
On this series CONTROL HQ was located underground at 123 Main Street in Washington, D.C.
"Get Smart"
Jim Joan
$200 [2]
Where partyers like to "pin the tail"
On the donkey
Joan
$300 [9]
The nine-banded type of this mammal almost always gives birth to quadruplets of the same sex
Armadillo
Greg
$300 [14]
This Gannett Company publication has been dubbed "McPaper"
USA Today
Jim
$300 [28]
In keeping with the Buccaneer theme of its football team, this area's MLS team is the Mutiny
Tampa Bay
Greg
$300 [21]
Pablo Casals composed music for the Sardana, a dance of this country's Catalan people
Spain
Greg
$300 [18]
"Georgia On My Mind" served as the theme song for this Delta Burke series
"Designing Women"
Jim
$300 [3]
Mentioned in Pennsylvania's state nickname, it's the central topmost support of an arch
Keystone
Greg
$400 [10]
These marine animals of the phylum Porifera, which means pore-bearing, have no heads or internal organs
Sponges
Jim
$400 [15]
This British humor magazine founded in 1841 folded in 1992
Punch
Greg
$400 [29]
MLS' debut season was televised on Univision & on this network & its offshoot "2"
ESPN
Jim
$400 [22]
This sitarist's older brother Uday created the ballet "Radha And Krishna" for Anna Pavlova
Ravi Shankar
Joan
$400 [23]
In 1967 Frances Bavier won an Emmy for playing this role on "The Andy Griffith Show"
Aunt Bee
Jim
$400 [4]
It describes a schoolchild left unattended at home while the parents are working
Latchkey
Greg
DD $500 [11]
The agouti, about the size of a rabbit but related to the guinea pig, belongs to this order of mammals
Rodents
Jim
$500 [16]
Arthur Hays Sulzberger was publisher of this U.S. newspaper from 1935 to 1961
The New York Times
Joan
$500 [30]
This "Melrose Place" actor won a spot on the L.A. Galaxy team
Andrew Shue
Greg
$500 [24]
Casanova thought this dance performed by sailors was "lascivious"
Hornpipe
Joan
$500 [25]
On "Petticoat Junction", Homer Bedloe of the C.F.& W. Railroad tried to scrap this old locomotive
Cannonball Express
Jim
$500 [5]
Thingamajig
doohickey
Greg

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY TOM CRUISE FILMS ART AMERICAN HISTORY CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS NICKNAMES
$200 [7]
The Grampians, a part of this continent's Great Dividing Range, is also known by its Aboriginal name, Gariwerd
Australia
Jim Joan
$200 [21]
As producer, Tom accepted the task of bringing this TV spy series to the screen in a blockbuster film
Mission: Impossible
Jim
$200 [1]
Renaissance writers gave medieval architecture this barbarian name because they thought it ugly
Gothic
Joan
$200 [16]
On Aug. 5, 1884 the cornerstone of this landmark's pedestal was laid on Bedloe's Island
Statue of Liberty
Jim
$200 [26]
The New York Times Magazine has called him "King of the Techno-Thriller"
Tom Clancy
Greg
$200 [6]
"Landslide Lyndon"
Lyndon B. Johnson
Joan
$400 [8]
This African river enters the Mediterranean via 2 main branches: the Rosetta & the Damietta
Nile
Jim
$400 [22]
Now a TV doctor, Anthony Edwards was Tom's fighter plane partner in this film
"Top Gun"
Greg
$400 [2]
The roots of this kind of "expressionism" are seen in the works of Wassily Kandinsky
Abstract expressionism
Joan
$400 [17]
41 male passengers signed this document in Provincetown Harbor, November 11, 1620
The Mayflower Compact
Greg Jim
$400 [27]
In the late 1940s this "Princess Daisy" author worked as a fashion publicist in Paris
Judith Krantz
Greg
$400 [9]
"Hero of Appomattox"
Ulysses S. Grant
Jim
$600 [13]
Located on the Danube, Linz is one of this country's major ports
Austria
Joan
$600 [23]
Despite her initial objection, Anne Rice conceded that Tom did a good job in this film
Interview with the Vampire
Jim
$600 [3]
Fathers of this modern style include Claes Oldenburg, George Segal & Roy Lichtenstein
Pop Art
Greg
$600 [18]
On May 9, 1995 the Senate, by a vote of 98-0, confirmed John Deutch as director of this agency
CIA
Greg
$800 [29]
This "The Cradle Will Fall" author's first book was a biography of George Washington
Mary Higgins Clark
$600 [10]
Lincoln's adversary "The Little Giant"
Stephen Douglas
Jim
$800 [14]
Dragon's Mouth is a strait that separates Venezuela's Paria Peninsula from this Caribbean nation
Trinidad & Tobago
Greg Jim
$800 [24]
Tom hustled pool as Paul Newman's protege in this 1986 film
"The Color Of Money"
Greg
$800 [4]
Cezanne said, "Treat nature in terms of the cylinder," this shape & "the cone, all in perspective"
Sphere
Greg Jim
$800 [19]
In 1769 he founded San Diego de Alcala, the first Franciscan mission in California
Fr. Junipero Serra
Jim
$1,000 [30]
The paperback release of his "The Apocalypse Watch" climbed the best seller charts in 1996
Robert Ludlum
$800 [11]
Defense secretary "Cap The Knife"
Caspar Weinberger
Greg
$1,000 [15]
This world capital is the most populous city in the West Indies
Havana, Cuba
Greg
$1,000 [25]
Tom turned on the Irish brogue for this 1992 film directed by Ron Howard
"Far And Away"
Greg
DD $1,000 [5]
This 20th century Spanish artist called his works "Hand-painted dream photographs"
Salvador Dali
Jim
$1,000 [20]
In 1975 200 U.S. Marines recaptured this merchant ship that had been seized by Cambodia
Mayaguez
Jim
DD $3,000 [28]
This author once had a newsletter devoted to him titled "Castle Rock"
Stephen King
Greg
$1,000 [12]
"The Butcher of Lyon"
Klaus Barbie
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTIONS

Introduced at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, its name comes from Latin for "one that takes you up the ladder"

an escalator

Joan "What is an escalator?" — wagered $3,200
Greg "What is an escalator?" — wagered $13
Jim "What is the Escalator" — wagered $2,399

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