Show #2420 - Friday, February 24, 1995

Contestants

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Dave Jordan, an engineer from Niles, Michigan

Bill Fairchild, a computer software specialist from Herndon, Virginia

Scott Stechman, an attorney from Woodmere, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,100)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
THE MOVIES
POTENT POTABLES
ANIMALS
LOST & FOUND
"A" IN GEOGRAPHY
(Alex: ...each correct response will begin with that letter of the alphabet.)
    $100 9
The actual Star-Spangled Banner can be seen at the Nat'l Museum of American History, part of this complex
    $100 1
This actor played the Frankenstein monster in 1931 & the Mummy the next year
    $100 21
The bock variety of this beverage is sweeter & darker than the lager
    $100 14
This small, herringlike food fish is used on pizzas & in sauces
    $100 26
Found in 1920 in southern Africa, the 60-ton Hoba West is one of these outer space visitors
    $100 4
At over 9,500 feet, Mount Tahat is the highest point in this North African country
    $200 10
This national motto of the U.S. is probably derived from a line in the song
    $200 2
This "Silence of the Lambs" character first appeared in the 1986 film "Manhunter"
    $200 22
The Irish form of this beverage is similar to the Scotch, without the smoky peat flavor
    $200 15
The largest type of this African scavenger is the spotted or laughing species
    $200 27
In its year & a half of operation in the 1860s, it lost only one mail delivery
    $200 5
Vorarlberg, which is noted for its skiing, is this country's "Little Province", or Landle
    $300 11
The words were first printed as a handbill under the title "The Defense of" this place
    $300 3
The 1994 sequel to this Billy Crystal movie was subtitled "The Legend of Curly's Gold"
    $300 23
This Japanese drink is produced from steamed rice called koji
    $300 16
This tusked pinniped's "mustache" consists of about 400 sensitive bristle-like structures
    $300 28
31 of this Renaissance artist's notebooks have been found; no one knows how many are lost
    $300 6
The Blue Ridge Mountains have been called the backbone of this extensive mountain system
    DD: $1,000 12
In March 1931 this president signed the law making it the official national anthem
    $400 19
Marlon Brando film in which he uttered the lines "I coulda had class! I coulda been a contender!"
    $400 24
In 1605 the Marechal d'Estrees gave the recipe for this liqueur to the Carthusian Fathers
    $400 17
The Galapagos Islands are home to 2 species of this large lizard: land & marine
    $400 29
It was found on Samothrace in 1863 with no head or arms; a hand turned up in 1950
    $400 7
In area, it's Canada's fourth-largest province
    $500 13
The tune is attributed to John Stafford Smith, who wrote it for the poem "To Anacreon" here
    $500 20
Elvis's feature film debut, it was also his only film in which he didn't receive top billing
    $500 25
This Scandinavian spirit is often flavored with caraway
    $500 18
Known for its bugle-like call, this rare bird is North America's tallest at about 5 feet
    $500 30
These include those of Dan, Gad & Naphtali
    $500 8
This world capital lies about 25 miles northeast of the Dead Sea

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

Scott Bill Dave
$500 $1,900 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Bill Dave
$1,300 $2,200 -$100

Double Jeopardy! Round

1885
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
GUARDS
DESERTS
FINANCE
AMERICAN LITERATURE
    $200 1
When this arrived from France on June 19, its pedestal on Bedloe's Island wasn't finished
    $200 24
In the 1880s Eliezer Ben-Yehuda founded a magazine dedicated to reviving this as a living language
    $200 15
In the U.S. it guards visiting heads of foreign governments & vice presidents-elect
    $200 6
These have been artificially created in the Sahara by drilling over 1000' down for water
    $200 12
A 1980 deregulation law allowed banks to pay this on checking accounts
    $200 11
Lillian Hellman was the model for Nora Charles in his novel "The Thin Man"
    $400 2
The first U.S. street railroad employing this type of power opened in Baltimore on August 10
    $400 25
Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex and the Single Girl" led to her appointment as this magazine's editor
    $400 16
The Swiss Guard is responsible for guarding the man who has this job
    $400 7
Fossilized dinosaur eggs have been found in this desert the Chinese also call Shamo
    $400 20
It's the good faith deposit a home buyer gives to the seller or bank
    DD: $1,000 13
Nick Adams is the hero of many of the stories in his 1925 collection "In Our Time"
    $600 3
Chartered in 1880, Bryn Mawr College opened in this state in 1885
    $600 26
The first "Dear Abby" column appeared in this California city's Chronicle in 1956
    $600 17
"Carnivorous" nickname of the warders of the Tower of London
    $600 8
In 1974 this country detonated its first nuclear device in its Thar Desert
    $600 21
Abbreviated C.P.I., it measures changes in the cost of living
    $600 14
His 1949 book "Knight's Gambit" is a collection of interrelated detective stories set in Mississippi
    $800 4
This 18th U.S. president & his vice president Schuyler Colfax both died during the year
    $800 30
In 1926 Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories, the first magazine in this literary genre
    DD: $1,200 18
From Augustus to Constantine they were the household guards of Roman emperors
    $800 9
This desert covers the southern half of Israel
    $800 22
A money market fund is one of these funds that pools money from a group of investors
    $800 28
This native of Salem, Mass. published his novel "Fanshawe" anonymously & never admitted that he wrote it
    $1000 5
He completed his first important painting, "The Potato Eaters", in Nuenen
    $1000 27
After attending Oxford, this Australian media magnate worked as a junior editor for the London Daily Express
    $1000 19
It knew that 3 heads were better than one for guarding Hades
    $1000 10
In the 19th century Bolivia, Peru & Chile fought over this desert for its sodium nitrate deposits
    $1000 23
This rate is the value of one currency in terms of another
    $1000 29
This Betty Smith novel tells us, "The one tree in Francie's yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Bill Dave
$5,900 $4,200 $3,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

KINGS & QUEENS
This royal wife, Queen of England for just 6 months in 1540, was the daughter of a German duke

Final scores:

Scott Bill Dave
$900 $150 $3,401
2nd place: Bose Lifestyle 12 home theater system + Bush Industries home theater ready-to-assemble furniture ensemble + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or Super Nintendo Entertainment System 3rd place: Givenchy Paris his & hers Swiss watches + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or Super Nintendo Entertainment System New champion: $3,401

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Bill Dave
$8,100 $4,200 $4,900
21 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 15 R,
3 W		 15 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,200

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Game tape date: 1994-11-15
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