Show #2737 1996-06-25 (taped 1996-02-13) Regular

Contestants

Don Sloan — a composer and music professor from Wadsworth, Ohio

Rob Mitchell — a telecommunications engineer from Aberdeen, New Jersey

Karl Coryat — a managing editor from Oakland, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Karl $3,100 $4,600 $14,000 $7,900
2nd place: Broyhill bedroom furniture
$11,100
33 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Rob $700 $1,600 $3,600 $2,200
3rd place: Sansui CD system
$3,600
9 R, 1 W
Don $800 $1,600 $10,000 $12,000
New champion: $12,000
$6,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

SOCIOLOGY WORLD CITIES TV LAW MORTAL MATTERS U.S. PRESIDENTS CROSSWORD CLUES "M"
$100 [21]
Financial crimes committed by high-status people are referred to as this-collar type
white
Rob
$100 [4]
Diego Velazquez founded this capital on Cuba's south coast; 4 years later it was moved to the north coast
Havana
Karl
$100 [26]
Writer Erle Stanley Gardner had script approval of this series' episodes
Perry Mason
Karl
$100 [16]
This planet is named for the god of the dead
Pluto
Rob Don
$100 [1]
He passed away at Monticello July 4, 1826
Jefferson
Karl
$100 [11]
Mickey & Minnie (4)
mice
Karl
$200 [22]
People born in the 1946-1964 birth explosion make up this generation
Baby Boomers
Karl
$200 [7]
This city's main shopping street is the Mercerie, between the Rialto Bridge & St. Mark's Square
Venice
Karl
$200 [27]
In 1987 this Stephen Bochco series was named Outstanding Drama Series at the Emmys
L.A. Law
Karl
$200 [17]
The Aztecs believed dead warriors were reborn as these swift, small birds
hummingbirds
$200 [2]
After leaving office, this generally "silent" president wrote a syndicated news column
Coolidge
Rob
$200 [12]
Bates building (5)
motel
Karl
$300 [23]
The former Communist nations of the Soviet bloc were part of this numerical "world"
the Second World
Karl
$300 [8]
The home of Prime Minister William Gladstone still stands in this British city on the Mersey River
Liverpool
Karl
$300 [28]
This "Rifleman" star played attorney John Egan in the 90-minute series "Arrest and Trial"
Chuck Connors
Karl
$300 [18]
This explorer's heart is buried in Chitambo, now in Zambia, his body in Westminster Abbey
Livingstone
Don
$300 [3]
He beat Charles Evans Hughes by only 23 electoral votes to win reelection in 1916
Wilson
Don
$300 [13]
Pestle's partner (6)
a mortar
Karl
$400 [24]
It's the web of relationships between people; you may use it to get a job
networking
Rob
$400 [9]
This capital of New South Wales is Australia's oldest British settlement
Sydney
Karl
$400 [29]
When Michael Moriarty left this NBC series in 1994, he was replaced by Sam Waterston
Law & Order
Don
$400 [19]
She wrote, "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
Emily Dickinson
Karl
DD $500 [5]
He was the first president to preside over all 50 states
Eisenhower
Karl
$400 [14]
Sexy civet scent (4)
musk
Karl
$500 [25]
It's the study of how births, deaths & people moving affect population
demographics
Rob
$500 [10]
It's said this North Korean capital is the Korean Peninsula's oldest city
Pyongyang
Rob
$500 [30]
In 1961 Martin Sheen had his first major TV role on this series starring E.G. Marshall & Robert Reed
The Defenders
Karl
$500 [20]
On this November 2 holiday, Roman Catholic priests can say 3 masses for the dead
All Souls Day
Karl
$500 [6]
On graduating from West Point in 1843, he hoped to become a math teacher
Grant
Karl
$500 [15]
Tolkien's terrain (6,5)
Middle Earth
Don

Double Jeopardy! Round

PAINTINGS FESTIVALS & CELEBRATIONS PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS BRITISH HISTORY 1982 WEIGHTS & MEASURES MOUNTAINS
$200 [3]
The title of a Gauguin painting featuring the bird of the devil, or a quote from a Poe raven
"Nevermore"
Karl
$200 [26]
Corbin in this "Bluegrass State" is home to the Nibroc (Corbin spelled backward) festival
Kentucky
Karl
$200 [16]
In this 1940 winner, Steinbeck alternates narrative with discussion of the problems of migrant workers
The Grapes of Wrath
Karl
$200 [21]
The crisis over these islands escalated into a war
the Falklands
Don
$200 [1]
This measure has been defined as the combined lengths of 12 poppyseeds
an inch
Rob
$200 [8]
Annapurna was the highest mountain climbed until this peak was scaled in 1953
Everest
Karl
$400 [4]
In Botticelli's "Primavera", this blindfolded cherub is ready to shoot an arrow at the 3 graces
Cupid
Don
$400 [27]
This state has a rose festival in Jackson & a lilac festival on Mackinac Island
Michigan
Don
$400 [17]
Will Durant shared a Pulitzer for "Rousseau and Revolution" with this woman, his wife
Ariel
Rob
$400 [22]
This heir to the throne was born June 21, 1982
(Prince) William
Karl
$400 [2]
This system of measurement is abbreviated avdp.
avoirdupois
Don
$400 [9]
The highest peaks in these mountains of France & Spain lie in the Maladeta Range
Pyrenees
Rob
$600 [5]
His 2nd & 3rd most famous women's portraits are "Cecilia Gallerani" & "Ginevra de' Benci"
Leonardo da Vinci
Karl
$600 [30]
Don't "space out" or you'll miss Panoply, a spring celebration of the arts in this Alabama city
Huntsville
Karl
$600 [18]
This American historian, born Barbara Wertheim in 1912, won 2 Pulitzers for general nonfiction
Barbara Tuchman
Don
$600 [23]
In October this Tudor king's flagship the Mary Rose, which sank over 400 years earlier, was raised
Henry VIII
Karl
$600 [13]
Gold of this many karats is 3/4 pure
18
Karl
$600 [10]
Only 2 Alpine peaks exceed 15,000 feet--Monte Rosa & this one
Mont Blanc
Karl
$800 [6]
Venus, Juno & Minerva are the full-bodied women in this Flemish master's 1638 "Judgment of Paris"
Rubens
Karl
$1,000 [28]
A fire ant mating call contest is part of the Fire Ant Festival in Marshall in this southwest state
Texas
$800 [19]
James Michener won his only Pulitzer Prize for this, his first book of fiction
Tales of the South Pacific
Don
$800 [24]
In operation since 1977, this low-fare airline declared bankruptcy
Laker
Don
$1,000 [15]
This unit was originally intended to be 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's circumference
the meter
$800 [11]
In Arabic this North African range is called Djezira El-Maghreb, or "Island of the West"
the Atlas Mountains
Karl
$1,000 [7]
Victorine Meurend, his "Chanteuse des rues", is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe"
Manet
Karl
DD $4,800 [29]
"Mountaineers are always free" to attend Mountaineer Week in Morgantown in this state
West Virginia
Don
$1,000 [20]
This Truman Secretary of State won for his autobiographical book "Present at the Creation"
Dean Acheson
Karl
$1,000 [25]
This opera company known for its Gilbert & Sullivan shows went out of business in February
D’Oyly Carte
Karl Rob
DD $3,600 [14]
In 1967 this unit of time was defined as 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation of a cesium-133 atom
the second
Karl
$1,000 [12]
Mount Kosciusko, Australia's highest peak, lies in this range of the Australian Alps
the Snowy Mountains
Karl

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

It's the biggest single customer of the domestic airline industry, using about 15,000 flights a day

the U.S. Postal Service

Rob "What is the U.S. Government?" — wagered $1,400
Don "What is the US Postal Service?" — wagered $2,000
Karl "What is ?" — wagered $6,100

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