Show #2984 1997-07-17 (taped 1997-02-24) Regular

Contestants

Diane Mirabito — an attorney from Bayport, New York

Phil Duffy — a designer from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Patrick Friel — a teaching assistant originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Patrick $1,300 $2,900 $11,420 $13,620
2-day champion: $30,021
$10,700
21 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W
Phil $1,600 $3,800 $6,800 $13,595
2nd place: Sony VAIO Desktop PC & O'Sullivan Computer Work Center
$6,800
22 R, 2 W
Diane $500 $2,400 $5,800 $11,600
3rd place: Klipsch Epic Series Speakers
$5,800
15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WEATHER MUSICAL GROUPS FITNESS OCEANIA QUOTES HODGEPODGE
$100 [14]
In 1995, 11 tropical storms in the Atlantic strengthened to these, the most in one year since 1969
Hurricanes
Phil
$100 [9]
Clarence Clemons & Max Weinberg were part of this longtime Bruce Springsteen backup band
The E Street Band
Patrick
$100 [6]
A runner's fatigue caused by glycogen depletion is called "hitting" this
"The wall"
Diane
$100 [1]
While the U.S. has many territories in Oceania, it has only one state there: this one
Hawaii
Patrick
$100 [16]
His "Little Red Book" calls reactionaries "Paper tigers, dead tigers, bean-curd tigers"
Mao Tse-tung
Phil
$100 [24]
Larousse says the eggs of this African alligator relative "Apparently make excellent omelettes"
Crocodile
Patrick
$200 [15]
In the winter of 1997, the Great Lakes' lake effect dumped over 90" of this on Montague, New York
Snow
Patrick
$200 [10]
"....And Justice For All" was the first Top 10 album by this heavy metal band with "metal" in its name
Metallica
Patrick
$200 [7]
Term for weights, like barbells & dumbbells, not attached to a machine
Free weights
Phil
$200 [2]
The high islands like Viti Levu in the Fiji group & Kao in the Tonga group were formed by these
Volcanoes
Phil
$200 [17]
To Emily Dickinson, this genre "Makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me"
Poetry
Diane
$200 [27]
Some romantics really lose their heads on the day named for this saint who was probably beheaded
St. Valentine
Phil
$300 [21]
As seen in Los Angeles, a thermal inversion of warm air covering cool air can cause a buildup of this
Smog/pollution
Phil
$300 [11]
This outspoken rap group led by Chuck D. took its name from a song title that ended "Number One"
Public Enemy
Phil
$300 [8]
These machines mimic the action of running up stadium bleachers, with much more convenience
Stair machines
Patrick
$300 [3]
When Gauguin arrived on this island in 1891, he was shocked at how modern it was
Tahiti
Phil
$300 [20]
It follows Jesus' words, "For many are called"
"But few are chosen"
Diane
$300 [28]
Some speculate that he may have been poisoned on St. Helena by arsenic in his wallpaper
Napoleon
Phil
$400 [22]
This phenomenon begins with an invisible electric discharge called a stepped leader
Lightning
Diane
$400 [12]
Brotherly British band known for its attitude & for the album "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?"
Oasis
Patrick
$400 [18]
Crunches are performed to strengthen these midsection muslces
Abdominals
Phil
$400 [4]
Adamstown on Pitcairn Island sits on a bay named for this ship
H.M.S. Bounty
Diane
$500 [26]
"Music has" these "to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak"
Charms
Phil
$400 [29]
Queen Matilda, the wife of this Norman conqueror, was just 4' 2" tall
William the Conqueror
Phil
$500 [23]
In early 1997 floodwaters trapped 2,200 visitors in this California national park
Yosemite
Diane
$500 [13]
Soon-to-depart members David Crosby & Gene Clark co-wrote this group's 1966 hit "Eight Miles High"
The Byrds
Phil
$500 [19]
Judi Sheppard Missett developed & popularized this combination of aerobics & jazz dance
Jazzercise
Patrick
$500 [5]
These 3 terms meaning "Small Islands", "Black Islands" & "Many Islands" make up Oceania
Micronesia, Melanesia & Polynesia
DD $1,000 [25]
In 1994 he said his countrymen were as attached to the land as "The famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria"
Nelson Mandela
Patrick
$500 [30]
It's said this silent pres. liked to eat breakfast in bed while having Vaseline rubbed on his head
Calvin Coolidge
Diane

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY ART & ARTISTS FILM STARS U.S. CITIES WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT LITERARY DISGUISES
$200 [7]
The Federalists called it "Mr. Madison's War"
War of 1812
Diane
$200 [1]
For one of his works, Marcel Duchamp added a beard & mustache to a print of this da Vinci lady
Mona Lisa
Phil
$200 [6]
This "Naked Gun" star played agent WD-40 in the 1996 spoof "Spy Hard"
Leslie Nielsen
Diane
$200 [15]
This state capital was originally called Fort Nashborough, for General Francis Nash
Nashville
Diane
$200 [16]
In 1997 she filled the post of Secretary of State vacated by Warren Christopher
Madeleine Albright
Patrick
DD $20 [29]
John Howard Griffin chemically darkened his skin to research this 1961 bestseller
"Black Like Me"
Patrick
$400 [8]
His 1934 trip to Cartagena, Colombia was the first by a sitting U.S. president to South America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Patrick
$400 [2]
In the 1570s Tintoretto painted this Biblical figure "Striking The Rock"
Moses
Diane
$400 [12]
Michael Caine adopted his stage name in part from the title of this Humphrey Bogart film
"The Caine Mutiny"
Phil
$400 [18]
The metropolitan area of this Missouri city extends into Illinois
St. Louis
Patrick
$600 [23]
Canada's first woman defense minister, she was also its first woman prime minister
Kim Campbell
Patrick
$200 [24]
He shocks Watson when he poses as a plumber & romances a housemaid for the purpose of burglary
Sherlock Holmes
Phil
$600 [9]
In 1856 William Dayton became the first vice presidential candidate of this new party
Republican
Phil
$600 [3]
Picasso described this art movement as "An art dealing primarily with forms"
Cubism
Diane
$600 [13]
In 1996 fans around the world bid arrivederci to this "La Dolce Vita" star who passed away at 72
Marcello Mastroianni
Phil
$600 [19]
Petroglyph National Monument near this largest New Mexico city features Indian carvings on lava
Albuquerque
Phil
$800 [26]
In 1972 Margrethe II became this country's first queen to inherit the throne on her own right
Denmark
Patrick Diane
$400 [25]
When he returns to his Ithacan palace disguised as a beggar, his dog recognizes him & drops dead
Odysseus
Phil
$800 [10]
In 1962 this Hawaiian became the first Japanese-American elected to the U.S. Senate
Daniel Inouye
Phil Diane
$800 [4]
This impressionist's depiction of a nude picnicker in "Luncheon On The Grass" created a scandal in 1863
Edouard Manet
Phil Diane
$800 [14]
This late Puerto Rican actor played Gomez Addams in the 2 Addams Family films
Raul Julia
Patrick
$800 [20]
You can see the oldest continuously used Mormon chapel in a "Trip To" this Utah city
Bountiful
$1,000 [27]
Petra Kelly, who helped found this party, was elected to the West German parliament in 1983
Green Party
Phil
$600 [30]
In an Isaac Bashevis Singer story, she becomes a "Yeshiva Boy"
Yentl
Phil
$1,000 [11]
Nixon's running mate in 1960, he was named chief negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks in 1969
Henry Cabot Lodge
Patrick
$1,000 [5]
You can see his most famous work, "Nighthawks", at the Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper
Patrick
$1,000 [22]
Sir Laurence Olivier dubbed this star of "Tom Jones" & "The Dresser" the best actor of his generation
Albert Finney
Diane
$1,000 [21]
This New Hampshire city is New England's largest north of Boston
Manchester
Patrick
DD $1,500 [17]
In 1959 Haydee Santamaria helped overthrow this country's gov't & subsequently set up the Communist regime
Cuba
Patrick
$800 [28]
Shakespeare's male-disguised heroines, like Rosalind in this play, were originally played by boys
"As You Like It"
Patrick

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENTISTS

In the 1740s he published "Flora Suecica" & "Fauna Suecica", 2 volumes of his observations

Carolus Linnaeus

Diane "Who is Linnaeus?" — wagered $5,800
Phil "Who was Linneaus" — wagered $6,795
Patrick "Who was Linnaeus?" — wagered $2,200

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