Show #1697 - Tuesday, January 7, 1992

Contestants

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Michael Cohen, a fundraising consultant from Long Beach, California

Millicent Kidder, a civilian personnel officer from Kokomo, Indiana

Bruce Gardner, a veterinarian from Cerritos, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,201)

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Jeopardy! Round

RENAISSANCE MEN
WORLD CAPITALS
FOOD
QUOTES
SPORTS
APPROXIMATES WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
    $100 19
Unlike his predecessors, Maximilian I of this empire wasn't crowned by the Pope
    $100 1
This capital's name is derived from a dam once built on the Amstel River
    $100 6
This egg white concoction tops Baked Alaska & certain lemon pies
    $100 10
In his "Essay on Criticism", Alexander Pope said, "To err is human, to forgive" is this
    $100 16
The entire body is the target are when epees are used in this sport, so be "on guard"
    $100 18
From an Old English word for "bake", it's the amount of cookies made in one baking
    $200 20
"Being unarmed...causes you to be despised", he wrote in "The Prince"
    $200 2
The name of this Kenyan capital is Masai for "cold water"
    $200 7
The pink type of this fish is nicknamed humpback for a ridge it grows before spawning
    $200 11
W.T. Ballard said, "You can take a boy out of" this NYC borough, "but you can never get" it "out of the boy"
    $200 17
The Australia II was the first non-American boat to win this
    $200 22
Vaguely speaking, it's a large quantity of anything; specifically speaking, it's 2,000 pounds
    $300 21
Pope Leo X was the second son of this "Magnificent" Medici
    $300 3
This Honduran city is one of the few world capitals not served by a railroad
    $300 8
The material from which cheese is made, it's the solid part of coagulated milk
    $300 12
Samuel Johnson said to this author, "You have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both"
    $300 28
In this sport, a player wears a curved basket called a cesta on his hand
    $300 23
The show's intro said Superman could leap these buildings "in a single bound"
    $400 25
1 of the first reliefs this great artist sculpted was the "Madonna of the Stairs"
    $400 4
Muhammad Ali, ruler of Egypt, founded this Sudanese capital in the 1820s
    $400 9
You needn't be a simpleton to enjoy this British pudding made of gooseberries & cream
    $400 13
Mortally wounded, Capt. James Lawrence said, "Tell the men to fire faster and" don't do this
    $400 24
All the money needed to complete payment is this type of sum
    $500 26
This Borgia was accused of murdering his brother Giovanni in 1497
    $500 5
From 1659 to 1862, this Romanian city was the capital of the principality of Walachia
    $500 15
This semolina-based food is the national dish of Morocco
    $500 14
In "McCulloch v. Maryland" he said "We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding"
    DD: $1,000 27
Name of the product seen here, it features 2 approximate measures:

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Bruce Millicent Michael
$300 -$500 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bruce Millicent Michael
$800 -$400 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
METALS
MYTHOLOGY
AUTHORS
THE MOVIES
FRENCH 101
    $200 7
The British had more casualties in this June 17, 1775 battle near Boston than in any other of the war
    $200 21
What we sometimes call tinfoil may be made of tin or this metal
    $200 12
In Roman mythology, Aurora was the goddess of this time of day
    $200 1
He began the "Just So Stories" while living with his American wife in Vermont
    $200 2
This 1978 film in which John Belushi made his debut featured an inter-fraternity food fight
    $200 26
The best of the best, or the richest of coffee additives
    $400 17
In a pamphlet, he said, "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind"
    $400 22
Hg, the symbol for this metal, is derived from the Greek word "hydrargyrum". meaning "water silver"
    $400 13
This band of men who sailed with Jason included Hercules & Orpheus
    $400 8
He reworked his 1st major piece "Stephen Hero" into "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
    $400 3
This Biblical film's title means "Whither goest thou?"
    $400 27
If you need a peace officer in Paris, you don't call for a policeman, you call for 1 of these
    $600 18
17 years after surrendering at Yorktown, this British Lord served as Viceroy of Ireland
    $600 23
Because of their potential toxicity, water pipes made of this metal are no longer being installed
    $600 14
Some say it was Nemesis who caused him to fall in love with his own reflection
    $600 9
Born the same year as Shakespeare, this "Dr. Faustus" author was killed in a tavern brawl at age 29
    DD: $500 4
1973 film which popularized the following Scott Joplin tune:
    $600 28
This phrase, literally "stoke of state", refers to the sudden overthrow of a government
    $800 19
On Jan. 10, 1779 the French gave John Paul Jones the ship Duc de Duras, which he renamed this
    $800 24
One cubic mile of sea water contains nearly 6 million tons of this metal, symbol Mg
    $800 15
After waging war on these women, Theseus married their queen, Hippolyta
    $800 10
He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1st full-length play, 1920's "Beyond the Horizon"
    $800 5
He not only wrote & directed 1988's "School Daze", he had a co-starring role as Half-Pint
    $800 29
Term used for a short literary sketch, or a short, memorable scene in a film or play
    $1000 20
He beat the British in the Northwest Territory but never got paid for Army service
    $1000 25
The most widely used stainless steel, "18-8", contains 8% nickel & 18% this plating metal
    DD: $1,000 16
2 of the 3 Greek goddesses who claimed the golden apple marked "For the fairest"
    $1000 11
Ironically he died in 1673 while performing the title role of his "The Imaginary Invalid"
    $1000 6
In this 1959 film, Cary Grant played Lieutenant Commander M.T. Sherman, the skipper of a pink submarine

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bruce Millicent Michael
$4,200 $2,500 $3,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

EDUCATION
Friedrich Froebel wanted children to grow naturally, like plants, so he named his school this

Final scores:

Bruce Millicent Michael
$6,001 $5,000 $6,000
2-day champion: $18,202 3rd place: 17-piece set of Bra cookware 2nd place: Bassett dining room set + Krups kitchen set

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Bruce Millicent Michael
$5,200 $3,600 $3,000
20 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $11,800

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Game tape date: 1991-10-22
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