Show #2417 - Tuesday, February 21, 1995

Contestants

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Jim Clem, a graduate student from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Tom Hennigan, a graduate assistant from Moscow, Idaho

Charlie Garfink, a cafe owner from San Rafael, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $25,400)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY
MOVIE NOSTALGIA
COINS
THE HUMAN BODY
SEAFOOD
10-LETTER WORDS
    $100 1
Japan joined this international organization on December 18, 1956
    $100 6
In Germany this animated Disney classic is known as "Schneewittchen und die Sieben Dwerge"
    $100 20
Physically, it's the smallest U.S. coin now in circulation
    $100 25
During exercise, this organ pumps at least 30 quarts of blood per minute
    $100 8
Very large quahogs, a type of these, are good for chowder
    $100 11
It's the act of crowning a king or queen
    $200 2
In 1984 this British P.M. narrowly missed being blown up by an IRA bomb in Brighton
    $200 7
Ronald Reagan & Ann Sheridan were the original choices for the roles of Rick & Ilsa in this classic film
    $200 21
The 25-pence coin of the Isle of Man issued in 1975 featured this animal on one side
    $200 26
Excessive rubbing can cause these thickened patches of skin, especially on the palms & soles
    $200 10
The soft-shell type of this is caught just after molting, when its shell is so thin it can be eaten
    $200 12
It can be any tool used in medicine or any device that produces music
    $300 3
This PLO leader survived an April 7, 1992 plane crash in the Libyan Desert
    $300 9
Bette Midler's 1990 film "Stella" was a remake of this 1937 Barbara Stanwyck tearjerker
    $300 22
In 1988 this country issued a 50,000-won gold coin to commemorate the Summer Olympics held there
    $300 28
The head of the thighbone fits together with this bone where they form a ball-and-socket joint
    $300 15
This vinegared rice & raw seafood dish is seasoned with wasabi, a horseradish-like powder
    $300 16
Rings & a pommel horse are used in this sport
    $400 4
In April 1959 Prime Minister Nehru met with this exiled Tibetan leader in India
    $400 13
Burt Lancaster compared love to "the morning and the evening star" in this 1960 film that won him an Oscar
    $400 23
Tajikistan uses this unit of currency, as it did when it was part of the Soviet Union
    $400 29
A jellylike substance called the vitreous humor helps maintain this organ's shape
    $400 17
This bivalve is eaten raw or in such dishes as Hangtown fry & angels on horseback
    $400 19
In grammar the present one ends in -ing, while the past one usually ends in -ed or -en
    $500 5
In 1929 oilman Harry Sinclair went to jail for his part in this Harding administration scandal
    $500 14
This early crooner's 1929 film "The Vagabond Lover" was based on his own career
    DD: $500 24
Some coins of this country feature the portrait of revolutionary leader Augusto Sandino
    $500 30
During swallowing, the epiglottis prevents food from entering the larynx & this tube
    $500 18
Konbu, a dried type of this seaweed, is essential in making dashi soup stock
    $500 27
It's the act of taking another's ideas or writings & passing them off as one's own

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

Charlie Tom Jim
$900 $800 $1,900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Charlie Tom Jim
$2,500 $2,000 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY
NICKNAMES
MYTHS & LEGENDS
MUSIC
WORLD CITIES
WOMEN AUTHORS
    $200 2
In 1728 Spain gave the Royal Guipuzcoa Company of Caracas control of all trade in this country
    $200 16
We don't know if this British prime minister answered to Pooh Bear, but he did answer to Winnie
    $200 1
The infant Oedipus was saved from death by a herder of these woolly animals
    $200 18
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor turned this Longfellow poem about an Indian into a cantata
    $200 7
The ancient Parthenon in this city was built of marble from Mount Pentelicus
    $200 20
She was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, England in 1890
    $400 6
In 1830 Belgium declared its independence from this other Low Country
    $400 17
Nickname shared by OSS director William Joseph Donovan & frontier marshal James Butler Hickok
    $400 3
Ishtar, a goddess of thunderstorms, is often depicted with this animal that has a thunderous roar
    $400 23
Instrument featured in John Cage's "HPSCHD"
    $400 10
This Scottish city may have been named for Edwin of Northumbria, an Anglian king
    $400 27
This author of "Valley of the Dolls" appeared in more than 20 Broadway productions as an actress
    $600 8
By a 1920 vote Northern Schleswig was transferred from Germany to this peninsular country
    $600 19
Boz was Charles Dickens & Bozzy was this Samuel Johnson chronicler
    $600 4
In Norse myth this splendid hall is guarded by a gate called Valgrind
    $600 24
Opera star Jan Peerce appeared on Broadway in this musical about a milkman
    $600 13
Once known as Massilia, it's France's oldest town
    $600 28
Alice B. Toklas translated her 1938 book "Picasso" into English
    DD: $900 11
On Aug. 16, 1960 Britain, Greece & Turkey allowed this Mediterranean island to become independent
    $800 21
This Italian has been referred to as "The Red Shirt Hero"
    $800 5
The most famous Chanson de Geste, "The Song of" this paladin is 4,002 lines long
    $800 25
Richard Strauss wrote "Ariadne auf Naxos" to be performed after this playwright's "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme"
    $800 14
Peru's "City of Kings", it was founded during the Feast of the Three Kings in 1535
    $800 29
Though Danish, she wrote her works like "Out of Africa" in English
    $1000 12
Joan of Arc was present at the 1429 coronation of Charles VII in this city
    $1000 22
This poet was the Bard of Ayrshire
    $1000 9
In Egyptian astronomy, Isis was equated with this dog star
    DD: $800 26
Works by the artist Victor Hartmann are the subject of this Modest Mussorgsky suite
    $1000 15
This chief seaport city of Israel is located on Mount Carmel
    $1000 30
She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1985 novel "The Accidental Tourist"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Charlie Tom Jim
$6,200 $9,000 $5,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS AMERICANS
On October 18, 1938, Hermann Goering decorated him with a service cross

Final scores:

Charlie Tom Jim
$10,400 $15,201 $200
2nd place: a trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico aboard Trans World Airlines & a week at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel & Casino on Isla Verde Beach + Jeopardy! home game New champion: $15,201 3rd place: Magnavox compact VHS camcorder with 12:1 zoom lens & flying erase head + Jeopardy! home game

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Charlie Tom Jim
$6,100 $9,700 $5,200
18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $21,000

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Game tape date: 1994-11-15
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