Show #2026 - Monday, May 31, 1993

Contestants

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Ira Gitlin, a musician from New Carrollton, Maryland

Rosemary Palladino, a lawyer from Staten Island, New York

Brian Donahue, a research scientist originally from Wellesley, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $12,398)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY
ITALIAN 101
AMERICAN POTPOURRI
BLUE
PLATO
SPECIALS
    $100 1
This country announced the formation of Nunavut
in '91, a new terr. to be partly owned by the Inuit
    $100 3
La banca is the bank, il barbiere is the barber shop & l'ufficio postale is this
    $100 21
This holiday was named for Old Glory
    $100 15
Someone talking very rapidly is talking this
    $100 4
Plato believed that after death this migrates to the realm of the pure forms
    $100 26
In May 1992 Dick Clark hosted this show's 40th anniversary special
    $200 2
Much of the Vietnamese city of Hue was destroyed during this 1968 "Offensive"
    $200 11
Grazie is Italian for this; when you say it, you'll often hear "Prego" as a reply
    $200 22
The name of this city near Lexington, Kentucky is spelled the same way as a palace near Paris
    $200 17
Too little of this in the blood can cause cyanosis, a condition in which your skin looks blue
    $200 7
Originally it was Aristocles; Plato just meant "broad-shouldered"
    $200 27
Her first TV special on April 28, 1965 was titled "My Name Is Barbra"
    $300 5
In 1939 this famous pollster founded the Audience Research Institute in Princeton, N.J.
    $300 12
If an Italian asks you, "Capisce?" he means, "Do you" do this
    $300 23
Before he was president, he was the "Scribe of the Revolution"
    $300 18
A blue point, 2 words, is a cat; a bluepoint, 1 word, is one of these
    $300 8
Plato wanted to enter politics but was disillusioned after this friend's execution in 399 B.C.
    $300 28
NBC had a couple of specials March 7, 1955: the 1st coast-to-coast Emmy show & this musical with Mary Martin
    $400 6
This ultraconservative organization was founded by Robert H.W. Welch, Jr. in 1958
    $400 13
Sono stanco doesn't mean "I stink" but "I'm" this; you might say it after a long day of sightseeing
    $400 24
Larry McMurtry set "The Last Picture Show" in this, his home state; he was born in Wichita Falls
    $400 19
A Navajo song tells of Johano-ai's horse, which was the shade of this blue stone
    $400 9
After Plato died his nephew Speusippus took over this school
    $400 29
In "The Missiles of October", he played Robert Kennedy; in "Kennedy", John F.
    DD: $600 14
This American space program launched 10 2-man space capsules in 1965 & 1966
    $500 16
An Italian would call this Swiss souvenir l'orologio a cucu
    $500 25
The Dismal Swamp covers hundreds of square miles in Virginia & this adjacent state--how dismal
    $500 20
This deep blue 45.5- carat diamond now resides at the Smithsonian
    $500 10
Plato wrote in a literary form known as this; it consisted of conversations
    $500 30
In a June 25, 1990 special on CNN, Ted Turner interviewed this world leader

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

Brian Rosemary Ira
$1,500 $1,200 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brian Rosemary Ira
$2,400 $1,400 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIOLOGY
BRITISH HISTORY
MARYLAND
AWARDS
FAMOUS NAMES
POETS & POETRY
    $200 7
Dentition refers to the development of these, or their number, shape & arrangement
    $200 26
Caernarvon Castle in this country of the U.K. was begun in 1283 by Edward I
    $200 2
The region of Maryland called the Eastern Shore is on the eastern shore of this bay
    $200 4
This group's "Hotel California" won a 1977 Grammy for Record of the Year
    $200 1
He wrote books on chess & angling but is best known for his "familiar Quotations"
    $200 15
He wrote, "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars"
    $400 8
In most fish this organ is S-shaped with 1 atrium & 1 ventricle
    $400 27
Founded in 1734, this insurance company's "List" is one of London's oldest newspapers
    $400 3
The state has 4 of these: Timonium, Laurel, Marlborough & Pimlico
    $400 9
In 1945 Sir Alexander Fleming was 1 of 3 men to win the Nobel Prize in this category
    $400 14
This cartoonist called his lavish New York estate "BION", an acronym for "Believe It or Not!"
    $400 16
His prose poem "Kaddish" is an elegy for his mother, Naomi Ginsberg
    $600 10
Often triggered by cold or shock, piloerection is the literal standing of these on end
    $600 28
In 1875 the U.K. obtained a controlling interest in this canal company by buying Ismail Pasha's holdings
    $600 5
The official state sport is this medieval one of fighting on horseback with lances
    $600 17
His "Rabbit at Rest" won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1991
    $600 20
A plane crash in March 1931 claimed the life of this "All American" football coach
    $600 23
He was a poet before he started writing stories & novels about Yoknapatawpha County
    $800 12
Made up of 3 segments, it's the part of an insect's body that bears the walking legs & wings
    DD: $1,200 29
Between 1868 & 1885, William Gladstone & this man alternated as prime minister of Britain
    $800 6
This city was temporary U.S. capital from November 1783 to June 1784
    $800 18
In 1986 this Boston Red Sox pitcher won the Cy Young Award & was named MVP in the American League
    $800 21
In 1979 this hotel magnate passed away at age 91
    $800 24
"A bar of steel--it is only smoke at the heart of it", he wrote in "Smoke and Steel"
    $1000 13
This dark pigment which normally colors skin & animal fur is absent or lacking in albinism
    $1000 30
In 1485 the Earl of Richmond killed Richard III at Bosworth & became this first Tudor king of England
    $1000 11
Family name of the 5 Lords Baltimore who served as Lords Proprietary of Maryland
    $1000 19
For his part in organizing the U.N., this Secretary of State under FDR won the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize
    $1000 22
He patented a pencil sharpener in 1921 & the first successful electric shaver 7 years later
    DD: $2,000 25
The poet who wrote, "I fear thee, Ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand!"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brian Rosemary Ira
$7,600 $6,400 $9,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH AMERICA
The original name of this capital city translates as "Our Lady of Peace"

Final scores:

Brian Rosemary Ira
$0 $9,400 $15,201
3rd place: Maytag Jetclean diswasher + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis 2nd place: Michael C. Fina fine English bone china (service for 8) + Orrefors Intermezzo stemware New champion: $15,201

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Brian Rosemary Ira
$7,500 $5,400 $8,600
20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 25 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $21,500

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Game tape date: 1993-01-19
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