Show #2331 - Monday, October 24, 1994

Bill Pitassy game 1.

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Bill Pitassy, a labor attorney from Cranford, New Jersey

Ed Lerner, a technical manager from Fanwood, New Jersey

Tony Zepezauer, a computer science student from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

1970
THE MOVIES
FOOD FACTS
ENERGY SOURCES
MUSEUMS
IN THE DICTIONARY
    $100 3
On April 26 a bomb ripped through the Louisiana state capitol in this city
    $100 1
This 1968 Russian film based on a Tolstoy novel was originally released in 4 parts totalling 507 minutes
    $100 7
It's a small thin round of ground beef or peppermint candy
    $100 12
It's the brand of battery that keeps going & going & going...
    $100 14
The Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Ky. displays over 500 of these ventriloquist sidekicks
    $100 16
This kind of contest is also called a spelldown; we won't make you spell it
    $200 18
Curt Flood filed a suit charging this sport with violation of antitrust laws
    $200 2
He won "Best Director" Oscars in the 1980s for "Platoon" & "Born on the Fourth of July"
    $200 8
What the British call "crisps" we call these
    $200 13
Today a barrel of crude oil yields about 19 gallons of it
    $200 15
The Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum is one of many museums in the area of this state capital
    $200 17
This word for a foreign person or a creature from outer space comes from the Latin word for "other"
    $300 19
This presidential adviser, now a N.Y. senator, proposed "benign neglect" of the race issue
    $300 4
12 years before starring as "The Fly", this actor appeared in the 1974 film "Death Wish", playing a thug
    $300 9
After pasteurization, milk is put through this process for uniformity
    DD: $1,500 27
Used in reactors, this element's 239 isotope has a half-life of 24,360 years
    $300 24
The Jackson, Tennessee home of this famed railroad engineer is maintained as a museum
    $300 21
A French word for "thicket" gave us this word for something a bride throws
    $400 20
All U.S. ground forces were reported withdrawn to Vietnam from this neighboring country
    $400 5
In this "Best Picture" of 1952, Betty Hutton is an aerialist in love with Charlton Heston
    $400 10
In this method a warm water bath slowly cooks an egg
    $400 29
It's harvested in blocks, dried & used for fuel in Ireland
    $400 25
The Keats-Shelley Memorial House at the Spanish Steps in this city is devoted to the English romantic poets
    $400 22
An interjection that expresses childish delight, or an old form of address that's an alteration of "goodwife"
    $500 30
On May 17 this Norwegian embarked on his second attempt to cross the Atlantic in a papyrus boat
    $500 6
Composer Vangelis won a 1981 Oscar for his score to this film
    $500 11
Italian for "hunter", it's in the name of a hunter-style chicken dish
    $500 28
Water power is hydropower; this is steam power produced from water heated naturally in the earth
    $500 26
The Shrine of the Book in this capital city houses the Dead Sea Scrolls
    $500 23
The Thomson's type of this antelope is named for Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson

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

Tony Ed Bill
$2,500 $200 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tony Ed Bill
$5,500 $600 $3,300

Double Jeopardy! Round

RUSSIAN HISTORY
FASHION
MILITARY MEN
LITERARY ALLUSIONS
NEWSPAPERS
J.S. BACH
    $200 1
Russia's first permanent settlement in this territory was founded in 1784 on Kodiak Island
    $200 24
The name of these sexy openwork stockings implies that you can catch tuna in them
    $200 16
This "Desert Fox" who once taught at the Dresden Infantry School published a textbook on tactics in 1937
    $200 9
In England a Cinderella dance is a dance party set to end at this time
    $200 14
In the early 20th c., this inventor & businessman was owner of the Dearborn Independent
    $200 2
During his lifetime, he was more famous as a player of one of these instruments than as a composer
    $400 7
In 1698, wishing to modernize Russia, this czar instituted a beard tax
    $400 27
The "Unisex" look introduced in this decade was popular with both men & women
    $400 17
As Menachem Begin's foreign minister, this eyepatched ex- general helped arrange the Camp David Accords
    $400 10
An eternal optimist is a Micawber, a reference to Mr. Wilkins Micawber in this Dickens novel
    $400 22
The Boston Gazette, founded in 1719, was printed by this statesman's brother James
    DD: $1,500 3
Bach wrote a set of concertos for Christian Ludwig, the margrave of this historic German region
    $600 8
In 1954 this peninsula in the Black Sea was transferred from Russia to Ukraine
    $600 28
A bloused effect at the waistline is called this, a diminutive of the French word "blouse"
    $600 18
His tomb at Annapolis reads: "He gave our navy its earliest traditions of heroism and victory"
    $600 11
The name of this merciless master in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" became a byword for a brutal boss
    $600 23
Reporter Carl Bernstein joined this paper in 1966 & remained on staff for 10 years
    $600 4
Historians note that Bach never met this famous contemporary who composed "Messiah"
    $800 15
Ivan the Terrible venerated this saint for whom a red square cathedral is named
    $800 29
Wide at the hips, these riding breeches are named for a city in India
    $800 19
He was only 28 when he victoriously "met the enemy" in the Battle of Lake Erie
    $800 12
Dr. Pangloss in this Voltaire novel inspired the adj. Panglossian, which means extremely optimistic
    $800 25
This Canadian province's first newspaper, the Victoria Gazette, was published in 1858
    $800 5
Bach's second surviving son, nearly as famous as his father, he wrote about 150 keyboard sonatas
    $1000 21
Fyodor II, czar April-June 1605, was the son of this man, hero of a Mussorgsky opera
    $1000 30
It's a decorative hairnet worn at the nape of the neck
    $1000 20
In 1945 this U.S. private became the 1st American executed for desertion since the Civil War
    DD: $2,500 13
The names of these 2 wicked daughters of King Lear became synonymous with ungrateful children
    $1000 26
La Gaceta, El Heraldo & La Tribuna are dailies in this country's capital, Tegucigalpa
    $1000 6
1722 work of preludes & fugues in all keys for "musical young people eager to learn"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tony Ed Bill
$7,800 $5,000 $11,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

SPACE
The names of these 2 space shuttles, the first & last built, are synonyms

Final scores:

Tony Ed Bill
$11,001 $500 $15,601
2nd place: Thomas Pradzinski serigraph + Bush executive desk 3rd place: Panasonic VCR New champion: $15,601

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Tony Ed Bill
$9,100 $5,000 $9,900
24 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
2 W		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $24,000

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Game tape date: 1994-08-30
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