Show #2665 1996-03-15 Regular

Contestants

Julie Richer — a software company owner from San Francisco, California

Elliot Wilen — a network administrator originally from Baltimore, Maryland

Michael Ireton — a graduate student originally from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $300 $300 $4,700 $9,400
2nd place: trip to Carmel Valley Ranch Resort + Magnavox camcorder
$4,700
11 R, 2 W
Elliot $1,700 $4,800 $4,800 $9,401
New champion: $9,401
$6,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Julie $200 $2,000 $4,400 $400
3rd place: Rug Doctor carpet cleaner
$4,400
17 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

LANGUAGES FICTIONAL CHARACTERS PROVERBS METALS FAMOUS HOPKINS COMMON BONDS
$100 [1]
This language also known as Siamese is predominantly monosyllabic
Thai
Elliot
$100 [13]
Some say his original surname was Quixada or Quesada, "before he lost his senses"
Don Quixote
Elliot
$100 [5]
"Don't swap" these animals "in midstream"
horses
Julie
$100 [11]
Alloys of neodymium are used for these sparking items found in cigarette lighters
the flints
$100 [26]
The Hopkins on this 1776 document is Rhode Island's Stephen Hopkins
the Declaration of Independence
Elliot
$100 [21]
Band, Coconut, Puka
shells
Julie
$200 [2]
Languages no longer spoken are described as this, from the Latin for "to extinguish"
extinct
Elliot
$200 [17]
Of Chevy Chase, Chevy Slyme or Chevy Nova, the character in "Martin Chuzzlewit"
Chevy Slyme
Michael Julie
$200 [6]
This creature "wins the race while the hare is sleeping"
the tortoise
Elliot
$200 [12]
In 1973 by definition, the dollar was worth .024 ounces of this metal
gold
Julie
$200 [27]
He's been in "The Lion in Winter", "The Elephant Man" & "The Silence of the Lambs"
Anthony Hopkins
Julie
$200 [22]
Legal, launch, lily
pads
Michael
$300 [3]
Mali's national anthem, "A ton appel Mali", is sung in this official language
French
Michael
$300 [18]
Hercule Poirot has a waxed one
a moustache
Elliot
$300 [7]
"Man proposes," he "disposes"
God
Elliot
$300 [14]
Many toothpastes contain stannous fluoride, a compound of fluorine & this metal
tin
Elliot
$300 [28]
You might hobnob on Nob Hill in this city at the Mark Hopkins Hotel
San Francisco
Julie
$300 [23]
Balboa, Mountains, Graziano
Rocky
Elliot
$400 [4]
Most native speakers of Tswana live in South Africa or in this landlocked country
Botswana
Michael Elliot Julie
$400 [19]
In this author's "The Pathfinder", Charles Cap calls his niece Magnet because of her "personal attractions"
James Fenimore Cooper
$400 [8]
"The nearer" this, "the sweeter the flesh"
the bone
Michael
$400 [15]
California & Colorado are the leading U.S. producers of this metal also called wolfram
tungsten
Elliot
$400 [29]
As an aide to this president, Harry Hopkins accompanied him to Tehran & Yalta
Franklin Roosevelt
Elliot
$500 [25]
Alarms, teeth, eyelashes
false things
Julie
$500 [10]
Malta has 2 official languages: Maltese & this
English
Elliot
$500 [20]
They were based on 3 real people: Armand de Sillegue, Isaac de Portau & Henri d'Aramitz
the Three Musketeers
Julie
$500 [9]
This "is blind" but "a pennyweight of" it "is worth a pound of law"
love
Julie
$500 [16]
This metal 2/3 the weight of aluminum burns with a brilliant white light & is used in flares
magnesium
Elliot
$500 [30]
Gertrude Stein attended this university's medical school
Johns Hopkins
Elliot
DD $1,000 [24]
Daiquiris, yogurt, assets
frozen
Elliot

Double Jeopardy! Round

CATHEDRALS & CHURCHES WOMEN MISSISSIPPI MEDALS & DECORATIONS REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
$200 [1]
Church authorities recently imposed complete silence on visitors to this Venetian basilica
St. Mark's
Elliot
$200 [5]
The coloratura soprano Dame Nellie Melba was a native of this country; "Melba" is a variation of Melbourne
Australia
Julie
$200 [20]
At Rosemont Plantation, roses grown by this Confederate president's mother still bloom
Jefferson Davis
Elliot
$200 [8]
Foreigners who have given distinguished service to this country receive the Order of the Aztec Eagle
Mexico
Michael
$200 [13]
Julia Wells & Arthur Plummer in "The Sound of Music"
Christopher Plummer & Julie Andrews
Julie
$200 [18]
The only president to win a Pulitzer Prize, for "Profiles in Courage"
(John F.) Kennedy
Elliot
$400 [2]
The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in this city has been called James Gibbs' masterpiece
London
Michael
$400 [6]
In the 1960s this stick-thin British model was so popular Mattel made a doll in her likeness
Twiggy
Elliot
$400 [30]
During the Civil War, the Governor's Mansion in this city served as headquarters for General Sherman
Jackson
Elliot
$400 [9]
In 1847 it instituted the Order of Pius
the Vatican
Julie
$400 [14]
William Gable & Claudette Chauchoin in "It Happened One Night"
Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert
Michael
$400 [19]
Cleveland's great-great- grandfather died at the Philadelphia home of this statesman in 1757
Benjamin Franklin
Julie
$600 [3]
Built in 1632, St. Luke's near Smithfield in this state is the USA's oldest church of English foundation
Virginia
Julie
$600 [10]
Royal reaction to Andrew Morton's 1992 book about her inspired People's headline "The Empire Strikes Back"
Princess Diana
Michael Elliot
$600 [29]
Each September Greenville hosts a festival featuring the "Delta" type of this musical form
the blues
Michael
$600 [21]
Lebanon's Nat'l Order of this tree is awarded for exceptional service or acts of extreme courage
the cedar
Elliot
$600 [15]
Susan Abigail Tomalin & Virginia Davis in "Thelma & Louise"
Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon
Michael
$600 [24]
Before becoming president of Princeton, he was a professor & football coach at Wesleyan
Woodrow Wilson
Elliot
$800 [4]
The beautiful cathedral in this city SW of Paris was the site of King Henry IV's coronation in 1594
Chartres
Julie
$800 [11]
Susan Butcher won this race for the first time in 1986; in '89 she was named sled-dog racer of the decade
the Iditarod
Julie
$800 [28]
This city features a seafood industry museum & a 70-minute shrimping trip
Biloxi
Michael
$800 [22]
In 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte instituted this chivalric order
the Legion of Honor (Legion d'Honneur)
Julie
$800 [16]
Thomas Connery & Nathalie Hedren in "Marnie"
Sean Connery & Tippi Hedren
Michael
$800 [25]
A native of West Branch, Iowa, he was the first president born west of the Mississippi
Herbert Hoover
DD $1,000 [7]
It was built to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's victories over the khanates of Kazan & Astrakhan
St. Basil's Cathedral
Elliot
$1,000 [12]
In 1993 Ada Deer, a member of the Menominee tribe, became the first woman to head the BIA, which stands for this
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Julie
$1,000 [27]
This Mississippi city, the "Gibraltar of the Confederacy", is home to a toy soldier museum
Vicksburg
Elliot
$1,000 [23]
This decoration for heroism, instituted in 1856, is Great Britain's highest honor
the Victoria Cross
Elliot Julie
$1,000 [17]
Henry Beaty & Diane Hall in "Reds"
Diane Keaton & Warren Beatty
Julie
DD $1,000 [26]
He was both the 8th president & the 8th vice president
Martin Van Buren
Elliot

Final Jeopardy!

PUBLISHING FIRSTS

In 1570 Abraham Ortelius produced the first modern book of this type: "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum"

an atlas

Julie "What is astrolog" — wagered $4,000
Michael "What is an atlas?" — wagered $4,700
Elliot "What is an Atlas" — wagered $4,601

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