Show #2717 - Tuesday, May 28, 1996

Missing third-place prize.

Contestants

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Dan Streit, a teacher originally from Miami, Florida

Alexandra Grochol, a homemaker from McLean, Virginia

Steve Cunningham, a mortgage banker from Glastonbury, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $600)

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Jeopardy! Round

SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS

POP MUSIC

NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

1982

6-LETTER WORDS

60;60;60;

$100

This telegraphy pioneer once ran for mayor of New York

60;60;60;

$100

In 1995 the Leader Federal Bank in Memphis issued a Mastercard featuring 3 images of this performer

60;60;60;

$100

This business biweekly ranks its 500 largest U.S. corporations by performance & by state

60;60;60;

$100

In the 1720s the central university of this country was founded in Caracas

60;60;60;

$100

Spain joined NATO under the stipulation that none of these weapons would be based on its soil

60;60;60;

$100

To be or not to be, it's a very small village

60;60;60;

$200

Isaac Dripps invented this device once found on the front of a locomotive

60;60;60;

$200

This group got "Satisfaction" in 1964 with its first U.S. Top 10 hit, "Time is on My Side"

60;60;60;

$200

Il Messaggero is one of the principal daily newspapers published in this capital

60;60;60;

$200

"The Dome" is the yearbook of this university near South Bend

60;60;60;

$200

Yasir Arafat met with this Jordanian king to discuss the possibility of a Palestinian confederation

60;60;60;

$200

A football maneuver, or a common term for fishing gear

60;60;60;

$300

In 1914 Max Planck helped Einstein get a position at the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute in this capital

60;60;60;

$300

It's the musical instrument played by Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five

60;60;60;

$300

A founder of pop art, he was also the founder of Interview magazine

60;60;60;

$300

The Mark Twain Project at the Bancroft Library of this school in Berkeley has 600 Twain manuscripts

60;60;60;

$300

For this north African country's support of terrorism, the U.S. barred imports of its oil

60;60;60;

$300

A male goose, or a glance

60;60;60;

$400

In 1959 his wife Mary found a fossil of Australopithecus in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge

60;60;60;

$400

This vocalist with the Lovin' Spoonful wrote the group's hit "Do You Believe in Magic?"

60;60;60;

$400

This 1962 Rachel Carson book first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker

60;60;60;

$400

In 1881 Booker T. Washington founded this college as a training school for black teachers

60;60;60;

$400

Kodak introduced this new flat camera

60;60;60;

$400

In medicine, it's the opposite of malignant

60;60;60;

$500

Hermann Muller demonstrated that these inheritable changes in genes can be caused by X-rays

60;60;60;

$500

Jackson Browne was once a member of this "grubby" group whose hits included "Mr. Bojangles"

60;60;60;

$500

Otis Chandler became publisher of this U.S. newspaper in 1960

60;60;60;

$500

In 1881 the Wharton School of Finance & Commerce was founded at this university

60;60;60;

DD: $1,000

After Alexander Haig resigned, he was named secretary of state

60;60;60;

$500

It can be a case for a sword, or a close-fitting dress

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Steve	Alexandra	Dan
$1,600	$700	$1,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steve	Alexandra	Dan
$2,300	$2,500	$3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

CELEBRITY RELATIVES

THE KOREAN WAR

MYTHOLOGY

THE PASTA BAR

60;60;60;

$200

It begins, "'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents', grumbled Jo..."

60;60;60;

$200

Andros is the largest of the 700 islands that make up this nation off Florida's coast

60;60;60;

$200

Family name of acting brothers William, Daniel, Stephen & Alec; it's become a synonym for "hunk"

60;60;60;

$200

Pasiphae, the mother of Ariadne & Phaedra, gave birth to this bullish monster

60;60;60;

$200

Ziti, penne & elbow are forms of this tube pasta

60;60;60;

$400

At the end of "The Scarlet Letter", she plans to take her daughter Pearl to Europe

60;60;60;

$400

Lizard Peninsula in the county of Cornwall is the southernmost part of this island

60;60;60;

$400

This author of "The Pelican Brief" is a distant cousin of President Clinton

60;60;60;

$400

Ganymede was one of the cupbearers who served this drink to the Greek gods

60;60;60;

$400

English name for capelli d'angelo pasta

60;60;60;

$600

In this Dickens novel, escaped convict Abel Magwitch tries to give Pip a better chance in life than he had

60;60;60;

$600

The area of this small nation surrounded by Italy consists largely of Mount Titano

60;60;60;

$600

This leading lady of the film "Grease" is the granddaughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born

60;60;60;

$600

It's said this lame Greek god of fire received his injuries when he was flung from Mt. Olympus

60;60;60;

$600

Farfalle are shaped like this men's fashion accessory

60;60;60;

$800

In 1929 Frederic Dannay & Manfred Lee published "The Roman Hat Mystery", this detective's first appearance

60;60;60;

DD: $2,000

Island groups belonging to this country include the Pescadores & Quemoy & Matsu

60;60;60;

$800

This blonde entertainer likes to introduce herself as "Princess Leia's Mother"

60;60;60;

DD: $1,000

Of her suitors, it was said Leiades was the only one righteous at heart

60;60;60;

$800

"Seasonal" term for a pasta dish tossed or topped with sliced cooked vegetables

60;60;60;

$1000

This 1932 collection of Damon Runyon stories featured the adventures of NYC gamblers & gangsters

60;60;60;

$1000

The Volga-Don Canal links the Black Sea to this large saltwater lake to the east

60;60;60;

$1000

This "Come Back, Little Sheba" playwright was said to be a distant relative of John Wilkes Booth

60;60;60;

$1000

After the nymph Daphne was turned into this tree, the tree became sacred to Apollo

60;60;60;

$1000

This dish of flat pasta in a creamy sauce was created by & named for a Roman restaurateur

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steve	Alexandra	Dan
$900	$7,900	$3,400
	(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. NICKNAMES

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & Whittier, California share this two-word nickname

Final scores:

Steve	Alexandra	Dan
$800	$6,900	$1,900
3rd place: -----------------	New champion: $6,900	2nd place: Desktop computer system

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steve	Alexandra	Dan
$400	$7,900	$6,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 6 W	20 R, 2 W	21 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Show #2717 - Tuesday, May 28, 1996

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $14,700

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