Show #2699 - Thursday, May 2, 1996

Missing third-place prize.

Contestants

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Theron Patrick, a waiter and actor from Dallas, Texas

Kurt Taube, a psychometrician from Culpepper, Virginia

Judy Riley, a patent lawyer from Rochester, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY ALLUSIONS
STEVES & STEVIES
ROYALTY
GOLF
SCHOOL DAYS
WORLD OF FOOD
    $100 2
It brought Aladdin a genie & became a symbol for something that brings great wealth
    $100 7
He sold guidebooks & performed magic tricks at Disneyland before he became a movie "Jerk"
    $100 1
This Princess of Wales was born in 1961 at Park House on the Queen's Estate at Sandringham
    $100 12
A player may carry a selection of up to 14 of these in various shapes & sizes
    $100 13
In 1939, after a 2-year study, this school bus color was made a national standard
    $100 24
Sushi,
teriyaki,
yakitori
    $200 3
A person with unawakened potential may be compared to this heroine who slumbered for 100 years
    $200 8
Formerly with Fleetwood Mac, she recorded "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
    $200 18
Born in 1969, Princess Nori is the only daughter of this emperor
    $200 14
6-time British Open winner Harry Vardon popularized the overlapping type of this
    $200 16
A 1789 Massachusetts law required grammar schools to teach this 3rd "R" with reading & writing
    $200 25
Guacamole,
red snapper Vera Cruz,
cochinita pibil
    $300 4
When you mention this bird "of happiness", you're referring to a play by Maurice Maeterlinck
    $300 9
Gorme's groom
    $300 19
Albert I, King of Germany, was the son of the first member of this family to wear the German crown
    $300 15
This golfer known as Slammin' Sam was a founder of the U.S. seniors tour
    $300 17
With Sally, Mother, Father, Spot & Puff, this brother & sister taught generations to read
    $300 26
Gulyas,
paprikas csirke,
palacsinta
    $400 5
The British call this rainy day accessory a gamp after Sarah Gamp, a Dickens character who carried one
    $400 10
Oscar Levant once quipped, "When I can't sleep, I read a book by" this ex-"Tonight Show" host
    $400 20
After giving up the throne of this Scandinavian country, Christina tried to become Queen of Naples
    $400 29
This course on California's Monterey Peninsula opened for play in 1919
    $400 22
One may be administered to a cosmetology student who missed an exam
    $400 27
Dolmathes,
tyropitta,
souvlakia
    $500 6
Doublethink, the acceptance of 2 contradictory ideas, comes from this George Orwell novel
    $500 11
He was Mr. World & Mr. Universe before he muscled his way into Hercules movies in the 1950s
    $500 21
Maurice of Nassau was a prince of this royal house of the Netherlands
    DD: $1,000 30
The 1st formal golf organization, the Company of Gentleman Golfers, was formed in this capital in 1744
    $500 23
Since they had a mix of history, geography & literature, McGuffey's readers were described as this
    $500 28
Kalbi,
kim chee,
bul goki

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

Judy Kurt Theron
$0 $1,200 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Judy Kurt Theron
$1,300 $4,900 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

KENYA
U.S. HISTORY
MIDDLE NAMES
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
THE EARTH
THEATRE
    $200 1
Prides of more than 20 of these predators can be seen at the Masai Mara National Reserve
    $200 2
This "Pelican State" was the first admitted to the Union from land bought from France in 1803
    $200 8
With this middle name, J.C. Penney was right on the money
    $200 13
His grandfather, also named Ludwig, was a Flemish immigrant who moved to Bonn in 1733
    $200 21
Because the Earth is tilted on its axis, we have 4 of these each year
    $200 26
Tina Howe's 1983 play "Painting Churches" takes place on Beacon Hill in this city
    $400 18
About 70% of Kenyans follow this religion; more than half of them are Protestants
    $400 3
In July 1971 Nixon sent him on a secret mission to Beijing
    $400 9
Western author Grey used this middle name as his first; his original name was Pearl
    $400 14
His baptismal names were Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus
    $400 22
This force is stronger at the poles since they're closer to the center of the Earth than the equator
    $400 27
A 1995 revival of this playwright's "Suddenly Last Summer" starred Elizabeth Ashley as the venomous Violet Venable
    $600 19
This official is head of state, head of government & Commander in Chief
    $600 4
He's the lawyer who lost the Scopes Trial
    $600 10
John F. Kennedy's middle name was Fitzgerald & Robert F. Kennedy's was this
    $600 15
In the 1830s Paris critics called this Polish-born composer the "Ariel of the Piano"
    $600 23
Due to the spread of the Mid-Atlantic ridge, this country right over it widens about 1" a year
    DD: $3,500 28
Settings for this musical include Schultz' fruit shop & a train en route to Berlin
    $800 7
Kisumu, capital of Kenya's Nyanza Province, is located on this lake, Africa's largest
    $800 5
Sales of public lands helped virtually eliminate this in the 1830s; the government isn't even close now
    $800 11
Louis Tiffany should have felt at ease with this middle name
    $800 16
He based his most celebrated piece, "Clair de Lune", on a poem by Paul Verlaine
    $800 24
Grasslands are called prairies in North America, Pampas in South America & these in Europe
    $800 29
His days as a TV comedy writer for Sid Caesar inspired his irreverent comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor"
    $1000 20
Mombasa, a port on this ocean, is Kenya's second-largest city
    $1000 6
Pair accused of committing the 1920 payroll robbery of the Slater & Morrill Shoe Company
    DD: $2,000 12
Born into a Roman Catholic family, Edmund S. Muskie has this middle name shared by 5 Popes
    $1000 17
In 1945 this American won the Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Spring"
    $1000 25
Quartz is composed of these 2 most common elements in the Earth's crust
    $1000 30
The title of his 1935 play "Awake and Sing" is a quotation from Isaiah 26:19

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Judy Kurt Theron
$8,600 $7,300 $4,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE EMMYS
He won Emmys for teleplay writing 3 years in a row, 1955-57

Final scores:

Judy Kurt Theron
$14,701 $9,300 $6,600
2-day champion: $30,402 (due to scoring error) 2nd place: Broyhill bedroom set 3rd place: unknown

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Judy Kurt Theron
$5,700 $8,800 $4,600
12 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 29 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $19,100

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