Show #2998 1997-09-17 Regular

Pam Mifflin game 4.

Contestants

Deb Abbey — a substitute teacher from Patterson, North Carolina

Elizabeth Salinas — a historic interpreter from Silver Spring, Maryland

Pam Mifflin — a computer trainer from Brookfield, Wisconsin (whose 3-day cash winnings total $42,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pam $100 $2,000 $2,600 $1,600
2nd place: Sony VAIO Desktop PC & Bush Computer Desk
$5,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Elizabeth $2,100 $4,100 $14,100 $13,200
New champion: $13,200
$12,700
28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Deb $500 $900 $3,500 $1,000
3rd place: Meade Model 395 Telescope
$3,500
12 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

FEMINISM CITIES TV THEMES WHAT'S THE PITCH THE BIBLE "A" MEN
$100 [21]
This pun on the word "History" is the title of a 1995 book about women who changed the world
Herstory
Pam
$100 [1]
Acapulco & Cancun
Mexico
Pam
$100 [4]
[instrumental]
The Simpsons
Deb
$100 [11]
"Like a rock"
Chevrolet
Deb
$100 [22]
Number of the psalm that begins "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want"
23rd
Elizabeth
$100 [16]
He's Japan's current emperor
Akihito
Elizabeth
$200 [23]
Title IX of a 1972 education law led to greater female participation in this activity in schools
sports
Pam
$200 [2]
Basra & Baghdad
Iraq
Elizabeth Deb
$200 [5]
[instrumental]
Wheel of Fortune
Elizabeth Deb
$200 [12]
"Where's your mustache?"
milk
Deb
$200 [24]
The Wise Men, sent to Bethlehem by this king, were warned by God not to return to him
Herod
Elizabeth
$200 [17]
Though best known for his bird drawings, his last project was a multivolume work on mammals
John J. Audubon
Deb
$300 [25]
Reformer Lucy Stone is perhaps best remembered for refusing to do this when she got married in 1855
changing her last name to her husband's
Elizabeth Deb
$300 [3]
Tampere & Helsinki
Finland
Deb
$300 [8]
[instrumental]
Roseanne
Deb
$300 [13]
"Bo knows"
Nike
Deb
$300 [28]
It's the book in which Pharaoh says, "Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river"
Exodus
Pam
$300 [18]
Both he & son Michael are among the top 20 money earners on the Indy Car circuit
Mario Andretti
Pam
$400 [26]
It passed Congress in the 1970s by a combined 438-31 but was never ratified by 3/4 of the states
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Elizabeth
$400 [6]
Marrakesh & Rabat
Morocco
Elizabeth
$400 [9]
[instrumental]
Mystery!
Elizabeth Deb
$400 [14]
"Don't leave home without it"
American Express
Elizabeth
DD $1,000 [29]
The book of Acts is also known by the longer title "The Acts of" these men
The Apostles
Pam
$400 [19]
In 1994 "Three Tall Women" earned this "Seascape" playwright his third Pulitzer Prize
Edward Albee
Elizabeth
$500 [27]
A heralded 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" ended 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in her favor
Billie Jean King
Deb
$500 [7]
Riga & Jelgava
Latvia
Elizabeth
$500 [10]
[instrumental]
Law & Order
$500 [15]
"Mom's other little helper"
Shake 'n Bake
$500 [20]
This photographer known for his celebrity portraits learned his craft while in the Merchant Marine
Richard Avedon
Elizabeth

Double Jeopardy! Round

DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR THE TROPHY CASE THE LOWELLS TREES U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? AROUND THE HOUSE WITH PIERRE
$200 [24]
Liquid substance that's the Bureau of Reclamation's main concern
water
Pam Elizabeth Deb
$200 [11]
Originally, it was called the DAC Trophy, for Downtown Athletic Club
Heisman Trophy
$200 [14]
Percival Lowell built an observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. to study this planet's "canals"
Mars
Elizabeth
$200 [15]
They say that "great" ones "from little acorns grow"
Oaks
Elizabeth
$200 [6]
Monticello, in Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
Pam
$200 [1]
Pierre, not his tante, used this, a plume, when he invited you to the house
Pen
Elizabeth
$400 [25]
Clinton thought this former Arizona governor superior; he made him Secretary of the Interior
Bruce Babbitt
Elizabeth
$400 [12]
This trophy was donated by the governor-general of Canada & first presented in 1893
The Stanley Cup
Deb
$400 [20]
One of the first literary tributes to this president is in an 1865 ode by James Russell Lowell
Abraham Lincoln
Pam
$400 [16]
Thor Heyerdahl used the lightweight wood of this tree to build his Kon-Tiki raft
Balsa
Elizabeth
$400 [7]
A rose garden in Hyde Park, New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Elizabeth
$400 [2]
If you fail to compliment the view, Pierre just might throw you out of the fenetre, this
Window
Pam
$600 [26]
In 1946 the Grazing Service was combined with another office to form the BLM, this
Bureau of Land Management
Elizabeth
$600 [13]
A regulation size sterling silver football adorns the top of this Super Bowl trophy
Lombardi Trophy
Pam
$600 [21]
Created from money left by John Lowell, the Lowell Institute founded this Boston PBS station
WGBH
Elizabeth
$800 [18]
These "bald" trees are especially plentiful in the Everglades
Cypress
Deb
$600 [8]
Riverside Park, New York City
Ulysses S. Grant
Elizabeth
$600 [3]
Pierre lets Mimi run around the house without any clothes on, because Mimi is a chienne, this
Dog
Deb
$800 [27]
This service runs Yellowstone & Yosemite
National Park Service
Elizabeth
$800 [29]
An NBA trophy is named for this commissioner & DNC chairman whose office was the Watergate burglars' target
Lawrence O'Brien
Pam
$800 [22]
Among the works translated by Robert Lowell was Aeschylus' tale of this hero "bound"
Prometheus
Elizabeth
$1,000 [19]
This nutty tree of the South is the largest of the hickories
Pecan
Elizabeth
$800 [9]
Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren
Pam
$800 [4]
If you sample too much from Pierre's well-stocked wine cellar; you might end up on the plancher, this
Floor
Pam
$1,000 [28]
Originally part of the Department of War, this bureau is concerned with the how & where of Native Americans
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Elizabeth
$1,000 [30]
Originally called the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy, it weighs an incredible 436 pounds
The Davis Cup
Elizabeth
$1,000 [23]
Her "What's O'Clock" collection of verses won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926
Amy Lowell
Deb
DD $2,000 [17]
Saint-John's Bread is another name for this tree that yields a chocolate substitute
Carob
Elizabeth
DD $3,000 [10]
The corner of Delaware Avenue & Vernon Heights Blvd. in Marion, Ohio
Warren G. Harding
Pam
$1,000 [5]
As you're leaving, you're relieved that Pierre offers you this, his main & not the back of it
Hand
Pam

Final Jeopardy!

1997 FILMS

At the end of this 1997 film, the dedication "For Carl" appears onscreen

"Contact"

Pam "What is H.B. Hi Jeremy" — wagered $1,000
Deb "What is The" — wagered $2,500
Elizabeth "What ?" — wagered $900

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