Show #2396 - Monday, January 23, 1995

Contestants

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Mark Werlinsky, an attorney and stand-up comedian from Broomall, Pennsylvania

Lee Knapp, a film graduate student originally from Seattle, Washington

David Bond, a classical guitarist originally from Subury, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,700)

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Jeopardy! Round

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
SONG LYRICS
PATERNAL NICKNAMES
AVIATION
CAKES & PASTRIES
GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS
    $100 3
Kenneth Grahame considered calling this 1908 classic "The Wind in the Reeds"
    $100 5
"When I was seventeen it was" this type of year "for small town girls and soft summer nights"
    $100 11
He was called "Father of the Continental Congress" & "Father of the Stove"
    $100 15
His "Spirit of St. Louis" was built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego
    $100 24
Baklava is drenched in a syrup made of this apian sweetener
    $100 1
You're not likely to see many Danes in this South American mountain range
    $200 9
Gretel Brinker, not her brother Hans, wins these title objects in a race
    $200 6
"Why does the rain fall from up above? Why do fools" do this
    $200 12
Joseph B. Strauss is called the father of this San Francisco span
    $200 16
This man developed his 2-seat Cub aircraft from the earlier Taylor J-2 Cub
    $200 25
Panettone, an Italian Christmas treat, is leavened with this
    $200 2
Mona moved to this sultanate last week
    $300 10
She edited a children's magazine called Merry's Museum before she published "Little Women"
    $300 7
"There's a somebody I'm longing to see. I hope that he turns out to be someone" to do this
    $300 13
Marius Petipa has been called the father of the classical type of this dance form
    $300 17
This country's Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was the first operational rocket plane
    $300 26
Though named for a French emperor, this puff pastry & creme patissiere dessert is not French
    $300 4
The Caspian Sea Coast is the part of this country that gets the most rain
    $400 18
The Ingalls family moves to Minnesota in her book "On the Banks of Plum Creek"
    $400 8
Led Zeppelin sang, "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she's buying" one of these
    $400 21
Charles Ebbets was known as the father of this baseball team
    $400 29
In 1986 Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager flew around the world without landing or doing this to the plane
    $400 27
Dacquoise is a pastry made of this beaten egg white mixture
    $400 14
It pains me to say that I've never spent enough time in this European country
    $500 19
This author's Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle may be the most famous hedgehog in literature
    $500 23
In this Amanda McBroom song, Bette Midler sang, "I say love it is a flower and you its only seed"
    $500 22
This American was "The Father of Method Acting"
    $500 30
In the 1930s this Illinois-based airline called its coast-to-coast route the "Main Line"
    DD: $900 28
The name of this tiny iced cake is French for "little oven"
    $500 20
When Nora stays in Florence, she insists on a view of this river

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

David Lee Mark
$700 $700 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

David Lee Mark
$2,500 $1,000 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS
MYTHOLOGY
ODD WORDS
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS
AFRICA
LEF
(Alex: It has been left unfinished.)
    $200 6
In 1994 Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of this country, brought 5 neo-fascists into his cabinet
    $200 1
His 12 labors were carried out at the instigation of his cousin Eurystheus
    $200 11
A kreng is the carcass of a whale after this fat has been removed
    $200 21
"I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men", brags this hefty comic rogue
    $200 14
F.W. de Klerk revealed that this country built 6 crude atomic bombs, but destroyed them
    $200 26
The "Athenaeum" is Gilbert Stuart's famous unfinished portrait of this man
    $400 7
Patricio Aylwin became president of this country in 1990; Pinochet remained army commander-in-chief
    $400 2
Thanks to this winged horse, Bellerophon defeated the Amazons & killed the Chimaera
    $400 12
To manducate is to do this, the same as masticate
    $400 22
This heroine's nurse asks her, "Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin?"
    $400 15
To help boost Swaziland's economy, this soft drink co. opened a concentrate plant there in 1987
    $400 27
He believed that the "Requiem" he was working on at his death in 1791 was for himself; sadly, he was right
    $600 8
This German chancellor received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1958
    $600 3
Tartarus was a dark region far beneath this abode of the dead
    $600 13
A Zapata is a drooping one of these, named for Emiliano Zapata, who sported one
    $600 23
He says, "Caesar, now be still: I killed not thee with half so good a will"
    $600 16
At 19,340 feet, it's Africa's highest mountain
    $600 28
When Michelangelo left Florence for Rome in 1534, he left this family's tomb unfinished
    $800 9
In 1959 he fled to Cairo after trying unsuccessfully to oust Iraqi dictator General Abdul Karim Kassem
    DD: $1,000 4
After his return, Penelope bore him a second son named Poliporthes
    $800 19
This adjective for compatible or of like mind may come from Spanish
    DD: $1,000 24
He kills his wife, Emilia, in the last scene of "Othello"
    $800 17
Since 1991 there's been much fighting going on in this capital of Somalia
    $800 29
He planned "The Faerie Queene" as an epic of 24 books, but only wrote 6 & part of the 7th
    $1000 10
As Army Chief of Staff, this current Israeli P.M. presided over the victory in the Six-Day War
    $1000 5
Cronus was the youngest of these gods who revolted against Uranus
    $1000 20
This long word meaning "before Noah's flood" was the last word in the 1994 Scripps Howard Nat'l Spelling Bee
    $1000 25
Angus, Lennox & Caithness are 3 of the noblemen in this play
    $1000 18
Until it gained independence in 1975, this country was Portugal's largest overseas province in area
    $1000 30
When you speak of the Dickens, you can say he never finished this mystery novel

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

David Lee Mark
$11,300 $7,000 $3,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

THE SOUTHERN U.S.
At 345 feet, this southern state's highest elevation is the lowest among the 50 states

Final scores:

David Lee Mark
$14,300 $2,000 $6,800
2-day champion: $26,000 3rd place: Cutco knife set + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo Entertainment System 2nd place: Ashley dining furniture + Bob Mitchell coverings + Jeopardy Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

David Lee Mark
$11,100 $7,700 $3,400
24 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $22,200

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Game tape date: 1994-11-08
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