Show #2836 - Monday, December 23, 1996

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Barbara Jackson, an attorney from Raleigh, North Carolina

Charlie Patton, a journalist from Jacksonville, Florida

Lucy Shigemitsu, a writer originally from Tokyo, Japan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $12,000)

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round

FLORIDA
5-LETTER WORDS
AWARDS
ANIMALS
HERBS & SPICES
SPORTS NICKNAMES
    $100 6
The Florida largemouth type of this is Florida's official freshwater fish
    $100 18
A metalworker, or a common surname
    $100 8
At the 1996 People's Choice Awards, this "Apollo 13" star received 2 awards for favorite actor
    $100 13
The silky & Yorkshire are toy breeds of this dog
    $100 22
In the 1770s bergamot was used to brew this while the American colonies boycotted the British product
    $100 1
"Shaq"
    $200 7
This inventor had the bright idea to plant hundreds of palms in Fort Myers, now known as "The City of Palms"
    $200 27
This term for a person who's authorized to act for another is short for procuracy
    $200 9
In 1989 the N.A.B. established an award named for this wireless radio pioneer
    $200 14
Perhaps referring to its erratic behavior, the gnu is also called this
    $200 23
Its botanical name is zingiber officinale & it will put a snap or a zing in your cookies
    $200 2
"The Shoe"
    $300 19
The Spanish Beard Contest has been a hair-raising event at this oldest U.S. city's Days In Spain Festival
    $300 28
It's the hollow, stemlike shaft of a feather
    $300 10
Kurt Wait, the first man to win this contest, captured $1 million for his Macadamia Fudge Torte
    $300 15
The 2 popular breeds of dairy cattle named for Britain's 2 largest Channel Islands
    $300 24
In large quantities, this eggnog topper is poisonous
    $300 3
Football's "Boomer"
    $400 20
A revolving platform called Kodak's Island in the Sky provides panoramic views of these gardens near Winter Haven
    $400 29
Type of puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words or phrases
    $400 11
Rosa Parks was among those honored by the president in 1996 with this highest civilian award
    $400 16
Up to 50 feet in length, the whale species of this fish is the largest in the sea
    $400 25
A mixture of this seed & salt is used in Bloody Marys & stuffings
    $400 4
Hockey's "The Great One"
    $500 21
Open since 1913, Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant is a highlight of this trendy area of Miami Beach
    $500 30
A short, pithy expression, or a dwarfish creature who guards a treasure
    $500 12
Her "Heidi Chronicles" won the 1989 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play
    DD: $500 17
In summer, when its coat is brown, the ermine is referred to by this name
    $500 26
In old England this fruit was roasted & served with caraway; "Henry IV, Part 2" mentions it
    $500 5
"The Brown Bomber"

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Lucy Charlie Barbara
$1,900 $800 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Lucy Charlie Barbara
$3,200 $2,100 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCULPTURE
LITERATURE
AROUND THE WORLD
POLITICIANS
ANCIENT HISTORY
TV & FILM SAXOPHONISTS
    $200 24
This creator of "The Thinker" studied sculpture with Antoine Louis Barye
    $200 9
In 1938 actor Orson presented this novelist's "The War of the Worlds" on radio
    $200 16
About 3% of this country's people live on collective settlements called kibbutzim
    $200 1
This Tennessee senator & father of the VP helped write the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act
    $200 2
The Bantu migration from modern Cameroon to the south of this continent began about 2,000 years ago
    $200 21
He was the guest saxophonist on the June 3, 1992 "Arsenio Hall Show"
    $400 26
Cyrus Edward Dallin's "Sir Isaac Newton" is in this Washington, D.C. library
    $400 10
On his fifth voyage, he encounters the Old Man of the Sea
    $400 17
2 miles from Innsbruck, you can see one of this country's best-preserved castles, Schloss Ambras
    DD: $1,200 4
Jimmy Carter attended the 1996 funeral of this Maine senator, once his secretary of state
    $400 3
In 337 Constantine The Great abolished this form of execution out of respect for Jesus
    $400 22
Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 biopic about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker
    $600 27
This Michelangelo sculpture in Florence was carved from marble left by Agostino di Duccio
    $600 11
In this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Myrtle Wilson is accidentally run over & killed by Daisy Buchanan
    $600 18
When in Ecuador you might "experiment" with new foods like cuy, which is this lab rodent, baked
    $600 5
William Scranton was governor of this state from 1963 to 1967 & later served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
    $600 7
In the 200s Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of this within about 15% of accurate
    DD: $1,000 23
1984 film that featured the following:

"It's a free country, welcome to almost anyone, and I hope that someday you'll join me here; of course I'll continue to write to you every week. Yes, in America anything is possible. Good-bye for now, beloved family. I love you. Voya."
[Playing a saxophone in a city park]
    $800 28
This Rochester, Minn. medical clinic commissioned William Zorach's 1953 "Man And Work"
    $800 12
This E.M. Forster novel is set in the fictional city of Chandrapore
    $800 19
The capital of Indonesia is on this island
    $800 6
In 1974 this Arkansas Democrat lost his bid for a sixth term in the U.S. Senate
    $800 14
Ephialtes, a Thessalian, betrayed the Greeks holding these "hot gates" against the Persian invasion
    $800 25
Series on which sheriff Jimmy Brock, played by Tom Skerritt, tooted his sax
    $1000 29
Between 1919 & 1925, he made several versions of "Bird In Space", in marble & bronze
    $1000 13
In his 1938 work "The Unvanquished", the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War
    $1000 20
Each July this Swiss town plays host to a world-famous jazz festival
    $1000 8
This Illinois Republican served 8 terms in the House, & in 1959 became Senate Minority Leader
    $1000 15
Scipio Africanus the Elder was a hero of the second war against Carthage, known by this name
    $1000 30
This 1986 film earned a best actor nomination for tenor sax great Dexter Gordon

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Lucy Charlie Barbara
$7,000 $8,700 $5,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
"America's Favorite Food", a book about this company, contains 12 pages of Andy Warhol's art

Final scores:

Lucy Charlie Barbara
$11,601 $14,001 $8,800
2nd place: a trip to Barcelona, Spain New champion: $14,001 3rd place: a Broyhill entertainment armoire

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Lucy Charlie Barbara
$7,000 $9,700 $5,000
18 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 20 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $21,700

[game responses] [game scores] [suggest correction]

Game tape date: 1996-10-23
The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. Scraping, republication, monetization, and malicious use prohibited; this site may use cookies and collect identifying information. See terms. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.