Show #1820 - Friday, June 26, 1992

John Kelly game 1.

Contestants

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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas

Charles LaBorde, a high school principal from Charlotte, North Carolina

Wayne Winston, a college professor from Bloomington, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,800)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY
NEWSMEN
DAWN
GOLD
INVENTORS
POT LUCK
    $100 3
The Golden Gate Bridge connects Marin County with this city
    $100 1
In 1981 he received a Pres. Medal of Freedom for his years of reporting; "And that's the way it is"
    $100 11
The Dawn redwood, unlike other redwoods, does this each year
    $100 12
The simplest way to find gold is to locate a stream & use this object
    $100 13
In 1960 Theodore Maiman built the 1st of these devices for producing an intense beam of coherent light
    $100 26
He's the current Bishop of Rome & successor of the Prince of the Apostles
    $200 4
The Kennedy Channel separates this Danish island from Canada's Ellesmere Island
    $200 2
In 1975 Jim Lehrer teamed up with this anchor to host PBS's nightly news
    $200 14
Also called the laughing jackass, this Australian bird laughs its head off at dawn
    $200 18
Carpenter James W. Marshall discovered the first gold nuggets at this trader's mill in 1848
    $200 20
About 1860 Frederick Walton invented this hard floor covering named for linseed oil, one of its ingredients
    $200 27
Consumer eggs are graded AA, A or B in accordance with this U.S. government department
    $300 8
Only about one-fourth of the residents of this country in the Pyrenees are citizens
    $300 5
It was Tom Brokaw's admiration for this pair that prompted him to pursue a news career
    $300 15
In 1973 Helen Reddy had a No. 1 hit about this dawn
    $300 19
This thin sheet of gold used for decorative purposes can be as thin as 4 millionths of an inch
    $300 21
Though known for the 1st successful steamboat, he was also a successful portrait painter
    $300 28
Short for "binary digit", it's the smallest unit of information stored in a computer
    $400 9
This river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, shares its name with the nearby Tibetan capital
    $400 6
In 1984 this ABC journalist was named "The best television White House correspondent in the business"
    $400 16
Eos & Aurora
    $400 22
The soil, gravel or sand where gold is struck, or a fortunate discovery
    $400 24
About 1950, 3 Bell Telephone Labs scientists invented this, the 1st solid-state electronic device
    $400 29
At the 1912 Olympics, Sweden's King Gustav V called him the greatest athlete in the world
    $500 10
Dian Fossey established the Kariosoke Research Centre in this country in 1967
    DD: $500 7
This newsman whose given names were Egbert Roscoe headed the U.S. Information Agcy. from 1961-64
    $500 17
He did a series of paintings of the Rouen Cathedral's facade as it looked from dawn to dusk
    $500 23
Gold alloyed with palladium. platinum or nickel is this color
    $500 25
In 1879 he invented a machine for applying photographic emulsion gel
    $500 30
Teddy Roosevelt is credited with originating this coffee's slogan "Good to the last drop"

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Wayne Charles John
$1,400 $0 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Wayne Charles John
$2,000 $1,700 $2,300

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY CHARACTERS
GULFS
MUSIC
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
RELIGION
SPELLING "B"
    $200 1
Most of Sherlock Holmes' adventures are narrated by this physician & assistant
    $200 2
The Gulf Stream was named for this gulf
    $200 10
Term for a composition based on one of the 150 songs of the same name in the Old Testament
    $200 11
When Paul Revere & William Dawes were sent to awaken these soldiers, fewer than 100 showed up at Lexington
    $200 17
St. Peter's Basilica was built in this religious shape
    $200 26
This Russian ballet company first danced in the U.S. in 1959
    $400 3
In a Harriet Beecher Stowe work, Aunt Chloe is his self-sacrificing wife
    $400 7
During WWII, Allied flights between Egypt & India stopped on Bahrain island in this gulf
    $400 19
By the early 1900s, the square style of this musical instrument was supplanted by the upright
    $400 12
The first of the "Intolerable Acts" would have been repealed if the colonists had paid for this dumped item
    $400 18
From the Greek for "gratitude", it's a term for the sacrament of communion
    $400 27
In a courtroom, it's the officer who guards the jurors
    $600 4
In this Huxley novel, former physicist Mustapha Mond is one of 10 world controllers
    $600 8
This gulf shares its name with Jordan's only seaport
    $600 23
Musical term whose name is Italian for "alone"
    DD: $400 13
General Charles O'Hara gave this general's sword to General Benjamin Lincoln at Yorktown
    $600 20
Most modern Afrikaners belong to this church
    $600 28
It's the style of art associated with Caravaggio, Carracci & Peter Paul Rubens
    DD: $800 5
In a Frances Hodgson Burnett book, "Little" Cedric Errol receives this title when his father dies
    $800 9
It was created by LBJ in 1964 in response to attacks on 2 U.S. destroyers
    $800 24
The title character in "Rusalka", perhaps Dvorak's finest one of these, is a water nymph
    $800 14
This South Carolina planter used Guerrilla tactics, retreating into the swamp after each attack
    $800 21
It was the highest governing council of the Jews during Roman times
    $800 29
French for "little spit", it's a small spit or skewer on which meat & vegetables are cooked
    $1000 6
This first mate of the Pequod tries to talk captain Ahab out of his obsession with Moby Dick
    $1000 16
The Gulf of Bothnia separates these 2 northern European countries
    $1000 25
Grande & Chico are 2 styles of this type of song sung with the Andalusian dance of the same name
    $1000 15
The colonists captured this Canadian city but gave it up after the attack on Quebec failed
    $1000 22
Although a minority in India, this religious sect is in the majority in Punjab

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Wayne Charles John
$4,800 $5,700 $9,900

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Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. COINS
This 10-letter word appears on only one current U.S. coin, the nickel

Final scores:

Wayne Charles John
$300 $200 $11,401
2nd place: trip to Las Vegas & stay at the 4 Queens Hotel Casino 3rd place: Vita-Mixer 4000 + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy New champion: $11,401

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Wayne Charles John
$5,000 $5,700 $9,900
15 R
(including 3 DDs),
3 W		 19 R,
2 W		 20 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $20,600

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Game tape date: 1992-02-10
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