Show #2888 1997-03-05 (taped 1996-11-20) Regular

Missing introductions & prizes.

Contestants

Sandy Stephenson — a sales representative merchandiser from New Richmond, Wisconsin

Brad Rosenstein — a radio producer originally from Miami, Florida

Jim Diggins — a legal editor from South Euclid, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $13,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jim $900 $3,000 $7,600 $6,300
3-day champion: $19,901
$9,100
22 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs)
Brad $1,200 $1,700 $7,900 $5,900
2nd place
$7,700
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Sandy $300 $1,300 $3,100 $100
3rd place
$3,100
9 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY TV INITIALS MUSEUMS ANIMALS GAMBLING FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES
$100 [4]
His 12 labors were performed as penance for killing his wife & children in a fit of madness
Hercules
Sandy
$100 [2]
It's set at Chicago's County General Hospital
ER
Brad
$100 [11]
The finger of this Italian astronomer is displayed at the Museo di Storia del Scienza in Florence
Galileo
Jim
$100 [18]
A moon jelly is a luminescent type of this aquatic animal
a jellyfish
Jim
$100 [10]
This game often sponsored by charities has 75 numbers compared to lotto's 90
bingo
Brad
$100 [1]
Relatively speaking, they're mere & pere
mother & father
Brad
$200 [5]
Numa Pompilius became the second king of Rome after the death of this founder
Romulus
Jim
$200 [3]
In 1995 Kim Delaney joined its cast as Detective Diane Russell
NYPD Blue
Sandy
$200 [22]
Several museums in Salzburg house collections of this "Magic Flute" composer's manuscripts
Mozart
Jim
$200 [19]
The red panda eats this food, the main diet of the giant panda, but it also dines on mice & insects
bamboo
Jim
$200 [12]
In 1863 Francois Blanc purchased this principality's gambling concession for over $300,000
Monaco
Jim
$200 [27]
It's the French way of saying "Oh well, that's life!"
c'est la vie
Brad
$300 [6]
These creatures, half-man, half-horse, lived mainly in Thessaly
centaurs
Brad
$300 [7]
Set at a radio station, it returned in a new syndicated version in 1991
WKRP
Brad
$300 [23]
This British city's Merseyside County Museums date back to 1851
Liverpool
Jim
$300 [20]
This "colorful" snake is the only venomous snake native to the U.S. that is not a pit viper
the coral snake
Brad
$300 [13]
Using wild cards, spit in the ocean is a type of the draw form of this game
poker
Brad
$300 [28]
Term for an alcoholic beverage taken before a meal to stimulate the appetite
an apéritif
Brad
$400 [14]
The Hyades were siblings of these sisters, & like them, were placed in the sky as stars
the Pleiades
Jim
$400 [8]
A Martinez played Daniel Morales on it
L.A. Law
$400 [24]
The world's largest Jewish service organization, its headquarters in Washington house a Jewish museum
B'nai B'rith
Jim
$400 [21]
The drill lacks the distinctive facial coloration of this other baboon, its close relative
a mandrill
Brad
$400 [16]
Edward Thorp's 1962 book "Beat the Dealer" introduced many to the idea of card counting in this game
blackjack
Jim
$400 [29]
They're eyeglasses that clip on the nose
pince-nez
Brad
DD $500 [15]
She was Athena's Roman counterpart
Minerva
Jim
$500 [9]
It starred Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Inspector Lewis Erskine
The F.B.I.
Jim
$500 [25]
Antique streetcars are displayed at the Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven in this state
Connecticut
Sandy
$500 [26]
The Japanese Bobtail, a type of this pet, is considered a good luck symbol
a cat
Sandy
$500 [17]
Term for the person who throws the dice in a game of craps
the shooter
Brad
$500 [30]
This 2-word phrase refers to the "high" art of fine cooking
haute cuisine
Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW ENGLAND CLASSIC NOVELS ART CLASS 20th CENTURY HISTORY POTPOURRI HUSBANDS & WIFE
$200 [9]
In Connecticut broad leaf & shade types of this plant are grown for use as cigar wrappers
tobacco
$200 [1]
This Charlotte Bronte novel begins, "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day"
Jane Eyre
Sandy
$200 [15]
After cleaning these, they should be stored bristles up
paintbrushes
Jim
$200 [4]
He first used "Fair Deal", the name of his domestic program, during the 1949 State of the Union address
Truman
Jim
$200 [12]
Of the 7 Ancient Wonders, this one may have overlooked the Ishtar Gate in Babylon
the Hanging Gardens
Sandy
$200 [25]
Don Johnson, Steven Bauer, Don Johnson, Antonio Banderas
Melanie Griffith
Brad
$400 [10]
Providence sits at the head of this Rhode Island bay, a natural harbor
Narragansett Bay
$400 [2]
In this novel, a detective named Fix follows Fogg on his journey, believing he's a bank robber
Around the World in Eighty Days
Brad
$400 [17]
Carbonizing willow twigs produces sticks of this drawing material
charcoal
Jim
$400 [5]
The 1920 Treaty of Tartu reaffirmed Finland's independence from this country
Russia
Jim
$400 [19]
In 1996 student L'Kisha Brantley earned some extra "dough" by selling 3,520 boxes of these
Girl Scout cookies
Jim
$400 [26]
Jeff Goldblum, Renny Harlin
Geena Davis
Brad
$600 [11]
In the early 18th century the sperm oil trade originated on this island 25 miles south of Cape Cod
Nantucket
$600 [3]
Egdon Heath, a barren moor in Wessex, is the setting for his novel "The Return of the Native"
Thomas Hardy
Jim
$800 [21]
As its name implies, this printing process was originally executed on limestone slabs
lithography
Sandy
$600 [6]
The atomic pile built by this Italian physicist in Chicago in 1942 used pure graphite as a moderator
Fermi
Jim
$600 [20]
The Latin proverb "In vino veritas" translates to this
in wine there is truth
Brad
$600 [27]
Tommy Lee, Richie Sambora
Heather Locklear
Sandy
$800 [16]
The Transcendental Club met at the Concord home where this essayist lived 1835-1882
Emerson
Brad
$800 [13]
"Mr. Wegg prepares a grindstone for Mr. Boffin's nose" is a chapter in his novel "Our Mutual Friend"
Charles Dickens
Brad
DD $1,000 [18]
Artist material seenherein a form that's been made for over 2,000 years
ink
Jim
$800 [7]
In 1904 Warren G. Harding became this state's lieutenant governor
Ohio
Jim
$800 [23]
Soledad Seanez, widow of this Mexican revolutionary, passed away in 1996; she was 100
Pancho Villa
Sandy
$800 [28]
Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra
Ava Gardner
Brad
$1,000 [30]
This highest peak in New Hampshire is sometimes visible from the Atlantic Ocean 75 miles away
Mount Washington
Jim
DD $1,200 [14]
His 1849 novel "Redburn: His First Voyage" was inspired by his own first voyage as a cabin boy in 1839
Melville
Brad
$1,000 [22]
Italian term for a type of flooring with bits of crushed marble or granite set in concrete
terrazzo
Brad
$1,000 [8]
On her 1963 space mission, she completed 48 orbits of the Earth in her Vostok 6 capsule
(Valentina) Tereshkova
Jim
$1,000 [24]
John Barleycorn is the personification of liquor & he is the personification of England
John Bull
Sandy
$1,000 [29]
Dan Greenburg, Carl Bernstein, Nicholas Pileggi
Nora Ephron
Sandy

Final Jeopardy!

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS

At the end of "Macbeth", he tells his thanes they will "henceforth be Earls, the first" ever in Scotland

Malcolm

Sandy "Who is MacDuff?" — wagered $3,000
Jim "Who was Duncan?" — wagered $1,300
Brad "Who is Macduff?" — wagered $2,000

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