Show #2492 - Tuesday, June 6, 1995

Contestants

Tom Gardner, an inventor and engineer from Walnut Creek, California

Judi Amsel, an acquisitions editor from Nyack, New York

Howard Goldstein, a music professor from Auburn, Alabama (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
THE MOVIES
FASHION
PARKS
ORGANIZATIONS
HODGEPODGE
    $100 5
In 1732 Benjamin Franklin's brother James founded this colony's first newspaper in Newport
    $100 1
Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster won Oscars for this 1991 film based on a Thomas Harris novel
    $100 3
Popular in warm weather, baby dolls are a style of this for women
    $100 10
This New York honeymoon site has parks named Devil's Hole & Whirlpool
    $100 25
In 1897 Phoebe Hearst & Alice Birney created this group in which families work with schools
    $100 19
With a circulation of over 3 million, it's America's bestselling sports magazine
    $200 6
Alexander Hamilton Stephens was elected vice president of this February 9, 1861
    $200 2
In this 1994 film Meryl Streep & her family are taken hostage during a whitewater rafting vacation
    $200 4
It's the descriptive name for a loose, oil-treated raincoat, usually in bright yellow
    $200 11
A passage linking the Flint Ridge cave system to this Kentucky cave was discovered in 1972
    $200 26
This organization of Roman Catholic laymen is known as the K. of C. for short
    $200 20
When this poet died in Baltimore in 1849, it's claimed his last words were "Lord help my poor soul"
    $300 7
This founder of the American Red Cross was born on Christmas Day in 1821
    $300 15
In "Hang 'Em High" this star swears vengeance on the men who tried to lynch him
    $300 18
It's estimated that by his death in 1960, Salvatore Ferragamo had created over 20,000 styles of these
    $300 12
This Florida city's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park contains an Indian burial ground
    $300 27
College sports are under the auspices of this organization headquartered in Kansas
    $300 21
In the 1860s Napoleon III had his finest dinner spoons made of this light metal
    $400 8
In 1562 French Huguenots settled on what is now Parris Island in this state
    $400 16
In 1950 he was "Father of the Bride"
    $400 24
It's the part of the body on which epaulets are worn
    $400 13
It's Arkansas' only national park
    $400 28
The Baum Bugle is a newsletter published by devotees of this fictional land
    $400 22
This religious group founded the Boston Latin School in 1635
    DD: $600 9
The Centennial Exposition, the 1st successful World's Fair in the U.S., took place in this city in 1876
    $500 17
Winona Ryder earned an Oscar nomination for the film version of this Edith Wharton novel
    $500 30
Common term for a man's crinkled lightweight summer suit with stripes
    $500 14
Windmill Island Municipal Park in this Michigan city has the USA's only operating Dutch windmill
    $500 29
In 1957 the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed with this man as president
    $500 23
This Apache leader was born Goyathlay, or "One Who Yawns", near Arizona's Gila River in 1829

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

Howard Judi Tom
$700 $800 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Howard Judi Tom
$2,100 $3,100 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 16th CENTURY
FRUITS
GEOGRAPHY
SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE
AUTHORS
MALAYO- POLYNESIAN WORDS
(Alex: This is the first time we have had this as a category.)
    $200 12
Years after finishing this project in 1512, Michelangelo still suffered pain in his neck
    $200 20
This fruit's pink & ruby red seedless varieties were developed from a white variety
    $200 1
Bulgaria is located on this peninsula
    $200 14
Until Nathaniel Macon, a Democratic-Republican in 1801, all speakers were from this party
    $200 27
This "Grapes of Wrath" author took classes in marine science at Stanford
    $200 4
Captain Cook brought back this word for "forbidden" from the South Pacific
    $400 13
On the night of June 30, 1520, he barely escaped from rampaging Aztecs at Tenochtitlan
    $400 21
The Bing is the leading commercial variety of this fruit
    $400 2
Common name for the line of latitude at approximately 66° 30'N.
    $400 18
This Texan & Joseph Martin, Jr. alternated in the post 1940-1961
    $400 6
In May 1924 this "Heart of Darkness" author refused an offer of knighthood
    $400 5
First used in English to refer to a frenzied Malay, it now means to rush about wildly & follows "run"
    $600 17
This English "Queen of Nine Days" was beheaded February 12, 1554, at age 16
    $600 22
Varieties of this melon include icebox & seedless
    $600 3
It's the proper noun for a person from Cyprus
    $600 19
At the 1912 Democratic Convention, Speaker Champ Clark lost to this man on the 46th ballot
    $600 7
His 1983 work "Ancient Evenings" is the first of a projected trilogy
    DD: $400 28
This term for a small box that holds tea leaves goes back to a Malay weight of just over a pound
    $800 15
He studied for the priesthood in France, but became a Protestant c. 1533 & later moved to Geneva
    $800 23
Ounce for ounce, this green "butter pear" has more potassium than a banana
    DD: $2,500 10
In 1992 fighting escalated between mostly Muslim Azerbaijan & this mostly Christian neighbor
    $800 25
Alice Roosevelt's husband, he was speaker from 1925 until his death in 1931
    $800 8
It's the pen name of author John Burgess Wilson
    $800 29
The name of this cobalt-blue shark comes from the Maori
    $1000 16
This bridge that crosses a narrow part of the Grand Canal was built at the end of the 16th century
    $1000 24
This variety of apple accounts for almost one-half of the domestic crop
    $1000 11
Its parliament, the Riksdag, was established in 1435, making it the earliest on the mainland of Europe
    $1000 26
This Tennessean who was speaker 1835-39 became president in 1845
    $1000 9
In 1954 this Canadian-born U.S. author won a National Book Award for "The Adventures of Augie March"
    $1000 30
The name of this large ostrich relative of New Guinea is from Malay

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Howard Judi Tom
$4,400 $3,300 $6,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS
Among the 2-letter abbreviations for U.S. states, this state's is 1st alphabetically

Final scores:

Howard Judi Tom
$8,799 $3,799 $8,801
2nd place: Gateway 2000 family multimedia PC + Bassett home computer workstation + Jeopardy! home game 3rd place: Samsung 13" color monitor TV/VCR + Jeopardy! home game New champion: $8,801

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Howard Judi Tom
$2,700 $3,300 $6,300
15 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W		 19 R,
4 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $12,300

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Game tape date: 1995-02-01
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