Show #2493 - Wednesday, June 7, 1995

Contestants

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Dave Cameron, a historian from Santa Monica, California

Ilene Markell, a musician originally from Memphis, Tennessee

Tom Gardner, an inventor and engineer from Walnut Creek, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

U.S. RIVERS
SILENT MOVIES
FIRE
ANIMALS
INVENTORS
ABBREVIATIONS
    $100 1
This river forms Virginia's northeast border
    $100 4
Lon Chaney played this part in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" with 40 lbs. of rubber on his back
    $100 13
Crassus gained land in this city by buying burning buildings & having his own fire brigade put them out
    $100 5
To haul itself onto the ice, this aquatic mammal often uses its long tusks as hooks
    $100 26
Adolphe Sax invented the saxotromba as well as this better-known musical instrument
    $100 17
This center of operations for a business or organization is abbreviated HQ
    $200 2
Otter Creek, the longest river within this state, flows from near East Dorset to Lake Champlain
    $200 7
He made "Intolerance" in part due to what he thought was intolerant reaction to "The Birth of a Nation"
    $200 14
Gen. Sherman's troops occupied this city for about 2 months before setting it ablaze in November 1864
    $200 6
The pudu of South America is the smallest of these antlered animals
    $200 27
Nehemiah Grew found magnesium sulfate in springs near Epsom, Surrey, "inventing" this substance
    $200 18
If you're looking to buy property, you might know that dup. stands for this
    $300 3
This river begins at Tear-of-the- Clouds Lake on Mount Marcy in northern New York State
    $300 8
Rollie Totheroh photographed many movies for this director & star, including "The Gold Rush" & "City Lights"
    $300 15
Under this Babylonian's code, a fireman who looted was to be thrown into the fire
    $300 11
A snipe is a type of this creature
    $300 28
This liquid was not a safe explosive until inventor Alfred Nobel used it in making dynamite
    $300 20
To recover from an accident, a patient might need OT, which is this
    $400 19
This northwest river generates about 1/3 of the hydroelectric power produced in the U.S.
    $400 9
Lois Wilson played Daisy Buchanan in the 1926 silent version of this Fitzgerald novel
    $400 24
In 1992 a fire destroyed St. George's Hall in this British Castle
    $400 12
In the 1700s farmers in Lanarkshire, Scotland developed this popular draft horse
    $400 29
The Tabulating Machine Company of inventor Herman Hollerith grew into this major corporation
    $400 21
Found in most sizable communities, C. of C. stands for this
    DD: $700 23
In Utah the Green River is the main tributary of this river
    $500 10
Inspired by a trip to New York, this futuristic Fritz Lang film used over 30,000 extras
    $500 25
This Istanbul church stands on the site of a cathedral that burned in the Nika riot of 532
    $500 16
This large salamander was named for the erroneous belief that it could bark
    $500 30
Around 1912 Vincent Bendix invented this device that made hand cranking of autos unnecessary
    $500 22
An M.L. is a master of letters; an M.L.S. is a master of this

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

Tom Ilene Dave
$1,000 $1,900 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Ilene Dave
$2,200 $3,800 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
LABOR TERMS
WORLD CITIES
ISLAM
MUSEUMS
ENGLISH LIT.
    $200 14
In 1851, nearly 70 years before U.S. Prohibition, Maine passed a law banning the sale of this
    $200 24
Clothing part whose color distinguishes manual laborers from management
    $200 1
150-foot-wide O'Connell Street in this Irish city is one of Europe's widest streets
    $200 6
Under Islamic law, a man may have 4 of these, all entitled to equal treatment
    $200 4
El Greco's "Adoration of the Shepherds" can be seen at this Spanish museum
    $200 3
Dickens thought about calling this novel "The Copperfield Survey of the World as it Rolled"
    $400 19
From 1947 to 1949, this Cabinet department was known as the National Military Establishment
    $400 27
A walkout is a strike in which the workers leave the factory & this is a strike in which they stay inside
    $400 2
The name of Bloemfontein, this country's judicial capital, means "fountain of flowers"
    $400 15
The record of his precepts, actions & life is called hadith
    $400 9
Muskogee in this state has a museum devoted to the Five Civilized Tribes
    $400 5
Published in 1939, "The Map of Love" is a volume of stories & poems by this Welshman
    $600 20
Before the great debates, he drew up the Kansas-Nebraska Act
    $600 28
It's the extra money you get when your employment is terminated
    $600 7
The Cosmos Hotel in this East European city was built for the Olympics held there in 1980
    $600 18
A mihrab, or prayer niche, in the qibla wall of this type of structure shows the direction to Mecca
    $600 11
Syracuse, New York has a museum that features historical exhibits on this waterway
    $600 16
This older sister of Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell published her 1st volume of verse in 1915
    $800 21
This Indian's war ended August 27, 1832 with his capture
    DD: $2,000 29
In Marxist theory, this working class does not possess capital or means of production
    $800 8
In this Canadian city, you can visit Old Fort York, burned by U.S. forces in the War of 1812
    $800 25
Most of the Muslims of this Pacific island nation are called the Moro
    $800 12
A 10-foot mural of Black history adorns a wall of this city's Dusable Museum of African American history
    $800 17
His novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" opens near the village of Weydon-Priors in Upper Wessex
    DD: $1,400 22
This Massachusetts uprising ended in February 1787 after its leader fled the state
    $1000 30
The Labor- Management Relations Act, better known as this, was passed in 1947 over Truman's veto
    $1000 10
In the 1200s settlers from Meissen founded this city that later gave its name to Meissen's porcelain
    $1000 26
This cube-shaped central shrine of Islam had already attracted pilgrims in pre-Islamic Arabia
    $1000 13
The Way It Was Museum in this Nevada mining town has a video on the history of the Comstock Lode
    $1000 23
Rima the Bird Girl is the daughter of an evil spirit named Didi in this "colorful" novel by W.H. Hudson

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Ilene Dave
$6,600 $9,200 $10,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ITALIAN OPERA
The title of this Puccini opera is the last name of the opera's heroine, a famous singer named Floria

Final scores:

Tom Ilene Dave
$6,500 $13,201 $200
2nd place: Broyhill bedroom + Magnavox VCR + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computers or Super Nintendo Entertainment System + Jeopardy home game New champion: $13,201 3rd place: Krieger watch + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computers or Super Nintendo Entertainment System + Jeopardy home game

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Tom Ilene Dave
$6,600 $8,000 $9,600
19 R,
2 W		 24 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 15 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $24,200

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Game tape date: 1995-02-01
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