Show #2494 - Thursday, June 8, 1995

Contestants

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Scott Marley, a writer and editor from Albany, California

Kevin McCarty, an actor from Van Nuys, California

Ilene Markell, a musician originally from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,201)

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Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AMERICA
BASEBALL HISTORY
NEWSPAPERS
FRENCH CITIES
COOKING WITH EGGS
"MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES
    $100 6
In 1956, in Pittsburgh, this circus gave its final performance under the "Big Top"
    $100 26
One of the big teams in the 1890s was this city's Beaneaters
    $100 12
In 1973 this newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of the Watergate scandal
    $100 1
Nearly 20% of France's people live in this city's metropolitan area
    $100 11
To test freshness, put eggs in a bowl of cold water; a bad one will do this
    $100 13
The wrongful unplanned killing of another person, it can be voluntary or involuntary
    $200 7
In 1977 he was elected to the first of 3 terms as mayor of New York City
    $200 27
Harry Hooper said of him at 19, "He could eat more than anyone else, and he could hit a baseball further"
    $200 22
This newspaper has the largest Sunday circulation of any paper west of the Mississippi River
    $200 2
This film festival city became a popular resort after Baron Brougham built a villa there
    $200 17
It's a hard-boiled egg, its yolk mixed with mustard & mayo, put back in & topped with paprika
    $200 14
According to a nursery rhyme, he lives in Drury Lane
    $300 8
In 1907 the printmaking firm of this late pair was formally dissolved
    $300 28
In 1889 Michael Kelly was so famous for doing this he inspired a song, "Slide Kelly Slide"
    $300 23
The Clarion-Ledger is this Mississippi capital's morning paper
    $300 3
This city where Louis XIV had his palace is the capital of Yvelines department
    $300 18
It's one size larger than extra large
    $300 15
Myanmar's second-largest city, it served as the country's capital from 1860 to 1885
    $400 9
In 1947 this committee began its investigation of Communist activity in the movie industry
    $400 29
The myth of this man inventing baseball was spread by a sporting goods maker to keep the game "American"
    $400 24
Robert R. McCormick took control of this Chicago paper in 1910 & held it until his death in 1955
    $400 4
This third-largest French city was founded in 43 B.C. as Lugdunum
    $400 20
This egg-thickened dessert is basically just eggs, milk & sugar
    $400 16
He can "take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it in choc'late and a miracle or two"
    $500 10
In 1925 he broke the Silence, becoming the 1st president to broadcast his inauguration on radio
    $500 30
In 1893, due to the power of pitchers Amos Rusie & this man, the mound was moved back to 60'6" from home
    $500 25
The Deseret News is this state's largest evening newspaper
    DD: $200 5
This city on the Garonne River is the shipping center for the famous wines that share its name
    $500 21
An egg wash brushed on a pastry before baking will produce one of these on the finished product
    $500 19
This 1967 play based on the "Peanuts" comic strip starred Gary Burghoff in the title role

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Ilene Kevin Scott
$400 $700 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ilene Kevin Scott
$2,300 $2,500 $900

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL PEOPLES
MUSIC
LAKES & RIVERS
SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS
HISTORY
POETS & POETRY
    $200 19
The Galatians & Colossians were among the recipients of his letters
    $200 1
As you might expect, a fughetta is a little one of these
    $200 12
Lough Leane, which covers nearly 8 square miles, is the largest of this country's lakes of Killarney
    $200 16
This inventor's assistant, Thomas A. Watson, received a share in his business
    $200 11
In 1156 Prince Yuri Dolgoruky erected the first Moscow fortress on the site of this present one
    $200 4
Lord Byron's poem "The Island" was inspired by the mutiny on this ship
    $400 20
The Ammonites & Moabites were descendants of this man whose wife shouldn't have looked back
    $400 2
The modern Spanish or classical type of this instrument has 6 strings & a range of more than 3 octaves
    $400 14
Africa's Lake Victoria was named for the British queen & this lake was named for her husband
    $400 23
In addition to steam engine improvements, this Scot developed an ink for copying correspondence
    $400 13
FDR & Churchill met at this Moroccan city for 10 days in 1943 but Stalin was unable to attend
    $400 5
"Mending Wall" ends with this famous phrase about barriers
    $600 22
The collective name of the people of the 12 tribes, it's from a name given to Jacob
    $600 3
This note is a semitone higher than G natural
    $600 21
Vermont shares its second-largest lake, Memphremagog, with this Canadian province
    $600 24
In his sketches this Renaissance painter left designs for a construction crane & a movable bridge
    $600 15
German king Rudolf I founded this dynasty which ruled Austria until 1918
    $600 8
He began "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" after the death of a friend, Richard West
    $800 28
The Midianites were descended from Midian, this patriarch's son
    $800 6
This piece is the second in the trilogy Respighi began with "The Fountains Of Rome"
    DD: $2,500 17
Albert Gallatin helped negotiate this treaty ending the War of 1812
    $800 9
He wrote the humorous verse "I don't mind eels except as meals"
    $1000 25
Goliath was a champion fighter for these people
    $1000 7
A chorus of hisses greeted the premiere of 3 movements of his "German Requiem" in 1867
    DD: $1,400 26
Sebastian Cabot named this South American river for the mineral deposits he thought were nearby
    $1000 27
In the 1780s these French papermakers invented the hot-air balloon
    $1000 18
In 1978 Daniel T. Arap Moi was sworn in as the second president of this African country
    $1000 10
His "An Essay on Criticism" includes the line "A little learning is a dangerous thing"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ilene Kevin Scott
$5,300 $2,500 $5,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICANS
In September 1814 John S. Skinner & this Maryland atty. were sent to negotiate the release of William Beanes, a POW

Final scores:

Ilene Kevin Scott
$5,001 $1 $199
2-day champion: $18,202 3rd place: Panasonic 27" TV + Jeopardy! home game 2nd place: trip on TWA to Honolulu & stay at the Ala Moana Hotel + Jeopardy! home game

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Ilene Kevin Scott
$5,300 $4,100 $7,900
17 R,
3 W		 16 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 15 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,300

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Game tape date: 1995-02-01
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