Show #2536 - Monday, September 18, 1995

Len Krisak game 5.

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Albina Moran, an administrative assistant from Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Herb Metzler, an art handler from Evanston, Illinois

Len Krisak, an editor from Newton, Massachusetts (whose 4-day cash winnings total $43,399)

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Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS
SONGS
COLORS
WORLD FACTS
FAMOUS FIRSTS
"A" IN HISTORY
    $100 1
Salerio is a messenger from this city & Antonio is "The Merchant of" it
    $100 6
He's told to "mind the music and the step, and with the girls be handy"
    $100 23
It's the top level of alert
    $100 12
The greatest concentration of islands in this ocean is in the Caribbean region
    $100 16
Last name of the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy
    $100 7
This king of the Huns was described as a short, squat man with a large head & a scraggly beard
    $200 2
After this queen dies, her attendant Charmian also kills herself with an asp
    $200 22
This ex-Supreme's 1985 hit "Missing You" was a tribute to Marvin Gaye
    $200 24
This color is very "putt upon"
    $200 13
It's the only Portuguese- speaking nation in the Western Hemisphere
    $200 17
The first stockings made of this fiber went on sale in the U.S. in 1940
    $200 8
The initial section of this road, begun in 312 B.C., ran 132 miles from Rome to Capua
    $300 3
Among the characters in "Richard III" are the Sheriff of Wiltshire & the Lord Mayor of this city
    $300 26
This singer was nominated for a 1980 Oscar for writing "On The Road Again", but lost to the song "Fame"
    $300 25
When Elizabeth Barrett put some meat under the broiler to darken it, she was doing this
    $300 14
At 500,000 square miles, this desert covers most of Mongolia
    $300 18
James Naismith not only invented this game, he also wrote its first rule book
    $300 9
While passing through Phrygia in 333 B.C., he's said to have cut the Gordian Knot
    $400 4
In this play Malcolm & Donalbain are the sons of King Duncan
    $400 29
Peggy Lee recorded her first big hit, "Why Don't You Do Right?", with this "King of Swing"
    $400 27
This name for a color & a fruit goes back to the Sanskrit word naranga
    DD: $1,000 15
The 4 largest countries in population are China, India, the U.S. & this island nation
    $400 19
This language was first laid out in an 1887 book called "Lingvo Internacia"
    $400 10
It's the former name of Ethiopia
    $500 5
Phrynia & Timandra are mistresses to Alcibiades in the play about this title Athenian
    $500 30
In 1983 he sang "We've Got Tonight" with Sheena Easton & "Islands In The Stream" with Dolly Parton
    $500 28
It's the color of the streak left by the mineral chalcanthite or by a fast talker
    $500 21
Bluefields, Nicaragua is the principal town on this coast named for Indians, not for insects
    $500 20
In 1939 he became the first British monarch to visit the U.S.
    $500 11
During the French occupation of Spain, some of the towers of this Moorish palace were blown up

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

Len Herb Albina
$3,900 $0 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Len Herb Albina
$4,400 -$300 $2,300

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRIME MINISTERS
SCIENCE & NATURE
1994 OBITS
ART
WINE & CHEESE
THEATRE
    $200 11
Morarji Desai, imprisoned under her "emergency rule" of India, succeeded her as P.M. in 1977
    $200 18
A 1919 solar eclipse confirmed this theory of Albert Einstein's
    $200 16
This former president's funeral cost the U.S. military $311,039
    $200 2
American artist Benjamin West painted "Death on a Pale" one of these animals
    $200 1
The only characters in this Alfred Uhry play are Daisy Werthan, her chauffeur & her son
    $400 12
This man who became Canada's P.M. in 1968 earned a master's degree from Harvard in 1945
    $400 22
Around 1660 Marcello Malpighi became the first to see blood flow in these small vessels
    $400 17
Sadly, this "Birdman of Alcatraz" star went "From Here to Eternity"
    $400 3
The title of his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" refers to a Spanish street known for its brothels
    $400 7
Much of Stephen Sondheim's 1976 musical "Pacific Overtures" was modeled on this form of Japanese theatre
    $600 13
Under David Lange, this country was suspended from the ANZUS Pact
    $600 26
This Australian tree produces a resin called Botany Bay kino that protects wood against worms
    $600 19
She was the mother of the 42nd U.S. president
    $600 4
Durer's "Four Apostles" shows his Protestant leanings; John holds this man's translation of the Bible
    $600 8
William Ball founded the ACT in Pittsburgh in 1965 but moved it to this Northern California city in 1967
    $800 14
Lee Kuan Yew was its P.M. both before & after it was part of the Federation of Malaysia
    $800 24
This dainty insect that lives for a few hours or a few days is also called a dayfly
    DD: $2,000 20
In 1960 she won a record 3 track & field gold medals at the Rome Olympics
    $800 5
Van Eyck was one of many to paint this event, Gabriel telling Mary she would be the mother of the son of God
    $800 25
The tawny type of this fortified Iberian wine may be aged in wood for many years
    DD: $1,700 9
This Southerner's play "Tiger Tail" is a reworking of his screenplay for the Carroll Baker film "Baby Doll"
    $1000 15
This assassinated Swedish prime minister was a protege of previous P.M. Tage Erlander
    $1000 23
For discovering Uranus, he was awarded the Copley Medal from the Royal Society of London
    $1000 21
When this "Invisible Man" author died in 1994 at age 80, his 2nd novel was still unfinished
    $1000 6
The drawings for Vesalius's famous book on this subject may have been done in Titian's studio
    $1000 27
It's best to drink this country's Moselle wines when they are about 4 years old
    $1000 10
Edith Evans played the serpent in the 1923 cast of this playwright's "Back to Methuselah"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Len Herb Albina
$5,600 $3,300 $7,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR II
On Jan. 29, 1944 Margaret Truman, accompanied by her senator father, christened this battleship

Final scores:

Len Herb Albina
$11,199 $6,599 $11,800
2nd place: Broyhill Fontana living room set & Dale Tiffany lamp + Jeopardy! home game & Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo 3rd place: Samsung 27" TV + Jeopardy! home game & Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo New champion: $11,800

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Len Herb Albina
$5,000 $5,300 $6,900
25 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W		 12 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $17,200

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