Show #2671 1996-03-25 Regular

Contestants

Peter Lombardo — a Navy nurse from Oceanside, California

Marty Sade — a math teacher from Tucson, Arizona

Maria Canavan — an audiologist originally from Warwick, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Maria $300 $1,800 $3,800 $800
3rd place: Gibson washer & dryer + Jeopardy home game and computer version by GameTek
$3,200
15 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Marty $1,900 $2,900 $6,500 $12,999
New champion: $12,999
$6,500
17 R, 2 W
Peter $1,400 $3,300 $8,400 $3,799
2nd place: Dynamo Security Centers home security system & Hammerman animal brooches + Jeopardy home game and computer version
$7,500
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY SMITHSONIAN TV PROPS TRANSPORTATION CHILDREN'S LITERATURE BUSINESS & INDUSTRY FRUITY PHRASES
$100 [6]
This sea that separates Africa & Europe is the last vestige of the Permian Period's sea Tethys
the Mediterranean
Maria
$100 [1]
A hand phaser from this '60s science fiction series is there; we hope it's set on stun
Star Trek
Peter
$100 [26]
On July 23, 1995 Spain's Miguel Indurain won his record 5th straight Tour de France riding one of these
a bicycle
Peter
$100 [11]
His "Kidnapped" was first published as a serial in Young Folks magazine
Robert Louis Stevenson
Marty
$100 [21]
This company's Oak Brook, Ill. corporate headquarters has been called Hamburger Central
McDonald's
Peter
$100 [16]
One bad person in a large group
a bad (rotten) apple
Maria
$200 [7]
St. Andrews is a seaport & royal burgh in the Fife region of this country
Scotland
Peter
$200 [2]
Her charwoman costume is on display
Carol Burnett
Maria
$200 [27]
Among Eskimo canoes, the umiak is traditionally used by females & this one is used by males
the kayak
Peter
$200 [12]
This story was first chronicled by Perrault as "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge"
"Little Red Riding Hood"
$200 [22]
In size, not sales, this Colorado brewery is the nation's largest on a single site
Coors
Peter
$200 [17]
It's as "keen" you can get
peachy
Marty
$300 [8]
Capital of this nation's Karnataka state, Bangalore is a major producer of computer software
India
Peter
$300 [3]
A seltzer bottle used by this Howdy Doody clown is part of the collection
Clarabell
Marty
$300 [28]
The NYC street railway that went into service in 1832 was powered by these
horses
Peter
$300 [13]
He dedicated "Now We Are Six" to Christopher Robin's best friend, Anne Darlington
A.A. Milne
Marty
$300 [23]
This company's roots date back to the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, founded in 1866
Nestlé
Maria Marty
$300 [18]
The center of attention onstage is sometimes in this kind of light
the limelight
Marty
$400 [9]
Oyster beds along the shore of the Sea of Cortes also called the Gulf of this
California
Marty
$400 [4]
The museum has a pith helmet & a safari jacket worn by this "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" star
Marlon Perkins
Peter
$400 [29]
The smokestack helped put this 1804 Richard Trevithick vehicle right on track
the steam locomotive
Marty
$400 [14]
This Mary Mapes Dodge novel contains the story of a boy who thrust his finger into a hole in a dike
Hans Brinker
Peter
$500 [25]
In 1958 Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit for this Dallas electronics firm
Texas Instruments
Peter
$400 [19]
If you care for nothing, you "don't give" one of these
a fig
Marty
$500 [10]
This Pennsylvania Great Lakes port is on the site of Fort Presque Isle, built by the French in 1753
Erie
Maria Marty
$500 [5]
A Detroit Tigers baseball cap & a Hawaiian shirt came from this show
Magnum ( P.I. )
Marty
$500 [30]
This "sharp" term has been applied to Coast Guard vessels over 83 feet long
cutter
Maria
$500 [15]
"Green Grass of Wyoming" was the 2nd sequel to this novel about Ken McLaughlin & his half-wild filly
My Friend Flicka
Maria
DD $600 [24]
In 1868 this man's company became the first in the U.S. to make compressed yeast
Fleischmann
Maria
$500 [20]
Gossip runs through it
the grapevine
Peter

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC PEOPLE MUSIC APPRECIATION U.S. PLACE NAMES ORGANIZATIONS PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS POTPOURRI
$200 [1]
Reza Khan founded this country's Pahlavi Dynasty
Iran
Marty
$200 [19]
Liszt & Borodin wrote variations on this short, quick piano tune that can be played with 2 fingers
"Chopsticks"
Maria
$200 [8]
This Minnesota "Twin City" derives its name from a chapel built there in 1841
St. Paul
Marty
$200 [24]
In 1995 this organization that helps drinkers kick the habit celebrated its 60th anniversary
Alcoholics Anonymous
Maria
$200 [6]
Most of this playwright's "As You Like It" is a dramatization of Thomas Lodge's novel "Rosalynde"
Shakespeare
Marty
$200 [12]
During the first week of April 1896, this athletic extravaganza opened in Athens
the Olympics
Marty
$400 [2]
From 1893 to 1914, this nationalist leader of India practiced law in South Africa
Gandhi
Maria
$400 [20]
Corno Inglese is the Italian for this musical instrument
the English horn
Maria
$400 [15]
Home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, it was settled & named by the father of a famous author
Cooperstown
Maria
$400 [25]
In 1977 the American Foundation for Overseas Blind was renamed for this woman
Helen Keller
Peter
$400 [7]
In this Arthur Miller play Willy Loman commits suicide for the insurance money
Death of a Salesman
Peter
$400 [13]
The trading trail between the Mideast & the Far East was named this after a fabric
the Silk Trail (Road)
Marty
$600 [3]
In the 1860s this French chemist showed that microbes could be killed by applying heat
(Louis) Pasteur
Maria Peter
$600 [21]
This percussion instrument with tuned bars was once known as the strohfiedel, or "straw fiddle"
the xylophone
Peter
$800 [17]
Haakon, a county in South Dakota, was named by immigrants from this country, in honor of their king
Norway
Maria Peter
$800 [27]
Since 1947 this group aided by the Reserve Marines has distributed gifts to children at Christmas
Toys for Tots
Maria Peter
$600 [9]
A German actress persuaded him to write an ending to "A Doll's House" where Nora returns to her children
Ibsen
Marty
$600 [14]
Ifs 1934 & 1959 Ecuador passed laws protecting wildlife on this Pacific island group
the Galapagos Islands
Peter
$800 [4]
The Romans finally defeated this Carthaginian general at Zama in 202 B.C.
Hannibal
Marty
$800 [22]
Donizetti said of "William Tell", "The first and last acts were written by" this composer; "the second by God!"
Rossini
Maria
DD $1,000 [16]
This Arizona city's name, Spanish for "table", refers to its location on flat land
Mesa
Maria
$1,000 [28]
Dedicated to helping "prisoners of conscience", it was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize
Amnesty International
Marty
$800 [10]
This author coined the word demi-monde to describe the world in his "La Dame aux Camelias"
Alexandre Dumas (the son, fils )
Maria
$800 [30]
This Frenchman dubbed dismal areas on the Gulf of St. Lawrence "the land God gave to Cain"
Jacques Cartier
$1,000 [5]
In 1513 this Tudor king led his army to victory over the French at the Battle of the Spurs
Henry VIII
$1,000 [23]
"Virginia City" is a symphonic poem by this "Grand Canyon Suite" composer
Grofé
Peter
$1,000 [18]
The name of this Iowa city refers to a meeting in 1804 between Indians & Lewis & Clark
Council Bluffs
Peter
DD $1,500 [26]
Organizations for students include the FFA, Future Farmers of America, & the FHA, which stands for this
Future Homemakers of America
Peter
$1,000 [11]
John Osborne's play "The Entertainer" was written for this actor who played Archie Rice in it
Laurence Olivier
$1,000 [29]
In this chemical process, a gas is added to an oil to change it to a solid
hydrogenation
Peter

Final Jeopardy!

THE ELEMENTS

The first inert gas discovered on Earth, its name is Greek for "without work"

argon (Ar)

Maria "What is neon" — wagered $3,000
Marty "What is AR" — wagered $6,499
Peter "What is Helium?" — wagered $4,601

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