Show #2379 - Thursday, December 29, 1994

Contestants

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Bob Ungar, a satellite engineer from Glen Rock, New Jersey

Steve Stales, a stationary engineer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Arlene Goldberg, a language coordinator from Staten Island, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,600)

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Jeopardy! Round

CANADA
1995 CALENDARS
19th CENTURY BUSINESS
ANTHROPOLOGISTS
FAIRIES & WEE FOLK
COMMON BONDS
    $100 11
Of all this province's newspapers, the Toronto Star ranks first in circulation
    $100 26
You can get a factoid a day from this Ted Turner network's calendar
    $100 6
Created in 1898 by the Seiberling Bros., this company was named for the inventor of vulcanized rubber
    $100 21
In the 1920s Ales Hrdlicka claimed that most American Indians were originally from this continent
    $100 16
Pixies like to dance by the light of this heavenly body
    $100 1
Royal,
grape,
petroleum
    $200 12
Cowboys gallop to this city in March for the Rodeo Royale & in July for the Stampede
    $200 27
Day Dream's "Shaq Attaq" calendar has this center as its center of attention
    $200 7
The first ad for this "floating soap" appeared in 1882
    $200 22
In 1906-07 Vilhjalmur Stefansson lived with these people at the mouth of the Mackenzie River
    $200 17
A museum in Deerfield, Illinois is devoted to this fairy who collects children's canines
    $200 2
Band,
tortoise,
cockle
    $300 13
This Edinburgh native produced a hydrofoil & many other inventions at his Nova Scotia laboratory
    $300 28
You can purchase a calendar of 365 puzzles from this high-IQ society to tantalize you, one a day
    $300 8
Flavor of Campbell's first soup
    $300 23
The Bandelier Nat'l Monument near Los Alamos in this state is named for anthropologist Adolph Bandelier
    $300 18
Like naiads, nixies live in this environment
    $300 3
Bank,
busman's,
Billie
    $400 14
Aw, shucks, you can chow down on chowder at the Tyne Valley Oyster Festival in this small island province
    $400 29
One new calendar features photos of golf courses around the world designed by this "Army" man
    $400 9
This candied popcorn & peanuts confection celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1993
    DD: $1,200 24
Ruth Benedict is known for "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", her book on this culture
    $400 19
The fairies of this country are believed to be remnants of gods who were known as Tuatha de Danann
    $400 4
Saw,
clothes,
hobby
    $500 15
Named for a home of the gods in Norse myth, Gimli, Manitoba was founded by people from this volcanic country
    $500 30
This cartoonist's creations are featured in a couple of calendars: "Life in Hell" & "The Simpsons"
    $500 10
This steak sauce dates back to the court of George IV & a chef named Brand
    $500 25
In 1970 he again tried to cross the Atlantic in a reed boat; his first attempt in 1969 failed
    $500 20
Fairies love this plant that's the source of digitalis, so harm it at your peril
    $500 5
Check,
cook,
match

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

Arlene Steve Bob
$1,800 $1,600 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Arlene Steve Bob
$2,200 $5,100 $1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

ROYALTY
U.S. RIVERS
SAINTS
COMPOSERS
HISTORY
WORLD LITERATURE
    $200 1
Ramses I founded this country's 19th Dynasty
    $200 16
This river on the border of Texas & Oklahoma is named for the color of its sediment
    $200 3
As the patron saint of children, he's the origin of "Father Christmas"
    $200 26
Offenbach's original first name was Jakob; he changed it to this, which sounds more French
    $200 21
In 1993 this country withdrew the remnants of a brigade sent to Cuba during the 1962 Missile Crisis
    $200 11
In French this 1831 work is known as "Notre-Dame de Paris"
    $400 2
The Aviz Dynasty ruled this Iberian country from 1385 to 1580, when the Hapsburgs took over
    $400 17
Historic sites located on this river include Harpers Ferry & Mount Vernon
    $400 4
This saint of Assisi sent St. Berard to preach the gospel to the Western Muslims
    $400 27
In 1908 he wrote "Sugar Cane: A Ragtime Classic Twostep"
    $400 22
The first great railroad tunnel through the Alps, the St. Gotthard, opened in this country in 1882
    $400 12
This animal hero of a 1923 Felix Salten novel grows from a fawn to a stag & marries Faline
    $600 8
Humayun, the 2nd Mogul ruler of India, was born in this city, now the capital of Afghanistan
    $600 18
This river rises in the Rocky Mountains & empties into the Gulf of Mexico at Brownsville, Texas
    $600 5
At the age of 19 she married William Seton, a merchant
    $600 28
This composer's brother Fred played the learned judge in the original cast of his operetta "Trial by Jury"
    $600 23
The treaty he negotiated in 1854 opened Japan to commercial trade with the United States
    $600 13
In a Dostoyevsky novel, they are Dmitri, Ivan & Alyosha
    $800 9
The century in which England first had a king named George-- George I, of course
    DD: $1,300 19
The Great Miami, Wabash & Tennessee Rivers flow into this important commercial river
    $800 6
This "Venerable" saint's most valuable work was the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
    $800 29
This lieder composer wrote incidental music for the 1823 play "Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus"
    $800 24
Leading his Redshirts, he proclaimed himself dictator of Sicily in 1860
    DD: $1,200 14
The title of this Henryk Sienkiewicz novel could be translated as "Where are you going?"
    $1000 10
It's believed that Olaf II was baptized a Christian in Normandy before he became king of this country
    $1000 20
Boats can travel on this 1,000-mile-long river as far inland as Lewiston, Idaho
    $1000 7
During the Papal reign of St. Miltiades, this emperor decreed toleration of Christianity
    $1000 30
In 1924 this "Pomp And Circumstance" composer was appointed Master of the King's Musick
    $1000 25
In her 1926 swim of the English Channel, she broke the men's record by almost 2 hours
    $1000 15
In this Alexandre Dumas novel, a sailor is falsely imprisoned in the Chateau d'If near Marseilles

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Arlene Steve Bob
$8,000 $7,200 $7,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

1994 MOVIES
The title of this 1994 action hit can be traced to a 1919 Supreme Court opinion by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Final scores:

Arlene Steve Bob
$1,599 $100 $14,400
2nd place: trip to Williamsburg, Virginia 3rd place: Reuge Music jewelry box New champion: $14,400

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Arlene Steve Bob
$7,600 $7,700 $7,200
19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $22,500

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Game tape date: 1994-10-18
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