Show #2476 - Monday, May 15, 1995

Contestants

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Teresa Holland, a bank teller from Spring Valley, Ohio

Tom McManus, a writer originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey

Doug Levy, a claims adjuster originally from Napa, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,599)

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Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GOVERNMENT
THE MOVIES
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
DANCE
TRAVEL & TOURISM
(Alex: Shades of the movie White Men Can't Jump...)
STARTS WITH "Q"
    $100 11
This district elected a nonvoting delegate to the U.S. House in 1971, Walter E. Fauntroy
    $100 1
In this 1935 film, Boris Karloff says of Elsa Lanchester, "She hate me... like others!"
    $100 6
On October 18 this state remembers its transfer from Russia to the U.S.
    $100 26
The name of this lively, high-kicking dance is French for "gossip"
    $100 21
You can order a special "Spirit of the Needle" cocktail at a restaurant in this northwest city
    $100 16
This archaic word for "uttered" appears in the poem "The Raven"
    $200 12
Congress overrode 15 of this post-Civil War president's vetoes, a record number
    $200 2
The 1968 British film "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter" starred this rock group
    $200 7
The "Good" in the name of this holiday is probably a corruption of "God's"
    $200 27
The jive of the '50s was a tamer version of this dance popular in the '30s & '40s
    $200 22
A summer festival in Athens offers plays & concerts at the Herodes Atticus Theatre on this hill
    $200 17
This word can mean to extinguish a fire or to slake your thirst
    $300 13
His 1881 assassination by an office-seeker spurred creation of a merit-based civil service
    $300 3
This comedian directed & starred in the 1986 film "Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling"
    $300 8
Armistice Day, the forerunner of Veterans Day, originally celebrated the end of this war
    $300 28
Composer Jean-Baptiste Lully introduced this dance to the court of Louis XIV
    $300 23
National Forests in this state include Bridger-Teton near Jackson & Shoshone near Cody
    $300 18
C20H24N202 is the formula of this malaria medicine
    $400 14
A 1993 plan to transfer control of this bureau, the ATF, to the FBI was dropped
    $400 4
This actress won an Oscar nomination for her role as Lizzie Curry in "The Rainmaker"
    $400 9
This holiday is traditionally greeted with joyous dancing around a garlanded pole
    DD: $500 29
The name of this dance related to the samba is Portuguese for "new trend"
    $400 24
5 1/2 million cubic yards was excavated to build this structure 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas
    $400 19
This designation for a standard typewriter keyboard comes from the first 6 letters at the upper left
    $500 15
This agency preserves the Watergate tapes as well as the U.S. Constitution
    $500 5
Judy Garland introduced "The Trolley Song" in this 1944 MGM musical
    $500 10
Celebrated on July 1, Canada Day was formerly called this
    $500 30
In 1989 this choreographer's "Broadway" featured classic dances from his past shows
    $500 25
The smallest of Rome's hills, it's been home to the city hall for centuries
    $500 20
In 1918 a Marine base was established near this Virginia town on the Potomac

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Doug Tom Teresa
$0 $500 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Doug Tom Teresa
$1,700 $1,400 $500

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY
ANTHROPOLOGY
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
ART
STATE CAPITALS
LITERARY HODGEPODGE
    $200 19
This "terrible" czar ascended the Russian throne in 1533 at the age of 3
    $200 16
The Arawaks, who once stretched from Florida to Brazil, were the Indians who met this explorer in 1492
    $200 10
A painting by Rembrandt shows this biblical figure as a boy "Playing the Harp Before Saul"
    $200 1
Founded in 1849 as the Minnesota Pioneer, this city's Pioneer Press is Minnesota's oldest newspaper
    $200 6
The first typewritten book manuscript was his "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
    $400 20
In 1963 control of the western part of New Guinea passed from the Netherlands to this country
    $400 17
The carvings on these tall objects may show a Tlingit family history
    $400 11
Op art, with its vibrant colors & pulsating patterns, reached its peak during this decade
    $400 2
Heitor Villa-Lobos' 1971 opera "Yerma" had its world premiere at this New Mexico city's opera
    $400 7
According to his book title, it's how Charles Schulz defines "Happiness"
    $600 21
This country's Capetian Dynasty began with the election of Hugh Capet in 987
    $600 18
The name of these nomadic Arabs means "desert dweller"
    $600 12
In 1994 "Tete", a 1928 painting by this Spaniard, was stolen from a Chicago art gallery
    $600 3
Kennedy Center architect Edward Durell Stone also designed this city's North Carolina Museum of Art
    DD: $1,500 8
They're the four "Little Women"
    $800 22
By 1630 this commercial league of cities had dwindled to just 3 members: Lubeck, Bremen & Hamburg
    $800 24
In 1953 this Norwegian led an expedition to prove South Americans could have migrated to the Galapagos
    $800 27
This city that hosted the 1982 World's Fair was the site of the University of Tennessee's first campus
    $800 13
This movement, founded in Zurich around 1915, was allegedly named by randomly sticking a knife in a dictionary
    $800 4
This city is the site of the annual Pennsylvania Farm show
    $800 15
Katherine Anne Porter was a cousin of William Sydney Porter, who was better known by this pen name
    $1000 23
Vizier Ibrahim Pasha governed the Ottoman Empire 1523-1536 under this sultan
    $1000 25
These aboriginal people of Asia live on Hokkaido & have intermingled with the Japanese
    DD: $1,200 26
Colleges in this state include Daniel Webster & Franklin Pierce
    $1000 14
At Mantua, where he was court painter from 1600 to 1608, he was referred to as "The Fleming"
    $1000 5
This Southwestern capital, not Salt Lake City, lies in the Salt River Valley
    $1000 9
Sara Paretsky introduced this hard-boiled heroine in "Indemnity Only"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Doug Tom Teresa
$4,800 $4,200 $5,100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE
Ajax, Achilles & Agamemnon are all characters in this play

Final scores:

Doug Tom Teresa
$100 $50 $1,100
2nd place: Ashley dining collection + Sunworthy wall coverings + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo Entertainment System 3rd place: Sansui mini component system + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo Entertainment System New champion: $1,100

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Doug Tom Teresa
$7,500 $4,200 $5,600
19 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 15 R,
3 W		 13 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,300

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Game tape date: 1995-01-17
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