Show #2660 1996-03-08 Regular

Contestants

Kevin Shultz — a foreign language student originally from Austin, Texas

Andrew Burtle — a financial consultant from Falls Church, Virginia

Carolyn Christian — a foreign service officer stationed at Jakarta, Indonesia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carolyn $1,900 $3,400 $13,800 $12,600
2nd place: Zodiac sports watch + Service Merchandise catalog
$13,800
34 R, 3 W
Andrew $900 $2,800 $-900 $-900
3rd place: New Braunfels smoker/grill barbecue
$1,700
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Kevin $1,200 $2,100 $7,400 $14,800
New champion: $14,800
$6,700
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

NEW JERSEY THE MOVIES FOOD MAMMALS BLACK AMERICA CROSSWORD CLUES "M"
$100 [21]
In 1783 he wrote his farewell orders to the Army at Berrien House in Rocky Hill
George Washington
Kevin
$100 [16]
Orson Welles & Herman Mankiewicz won Oscars for writing this 1941 film, Welles' directorial debut
Citizen Kane
Carolyn
$100 [6]
Irish stew is made with lamb or this older meat
mutton
Carolyn
$100 [1]
Tomato juice is the traditional deodorant for the foul-smelling spray of this black & white mammal
a skunk
Carolyn
$100 [26]
He played with the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro League before hitting 755 home runs in the majors
Hank Aaron
Carolyn Andrew
$100 [11]
Jumpin' Jagger(4)
Mick
Carolyn
$200 [22]
The Savannah, the first merchant ship powered by this, was launched at Camden, New Jersey in 1959
nuclear power
Carolyn Kevin
$200 [17]
Among the songs in this animated Beatles film are "When I'm Sixty-Four" & "All You Need Is Love"
Yellow Submarine
Carolyn
$200 [7]
Native to France, the Belon type of this is great for eating on the half shell
an oyster
Carolyn
$200 [2]
Endangered subspecies of this cat include the Javan & Siberian
a tiger
Andrew
$200 [27]
Eldridge Cleaver served as this party's Minister of Information
the Black Panthers
Carolyn
$200 [12]
Master mime Marcel(7)
Marceau
Andrew
$300 [23]
This man who served as the 22nd & 24th president was the only native New Jerseyan to become president
Grover Cleveland
Carolyn
$300 [18]
Buck Henry, who co-wrote the film, played a desk clerk in this 1967 Dustin Hoffman-Anne Bancroft movie
The Graduate
Carolyn
$300 [8]
This plant whose red stalks are made into pie is a member of the buckwheat family
rhubarb
Carolyn
$300 [3]
To kill a cobra this mammal sidesteps the snake's strike & bites its head
a mongoose
Kevin
$300 [28]
In 1969 she wrote "My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr."
Coretta Scott King
Carolyn
$300 [13]
Leading lady Learned(7)
Michael
Carolyn
$400 [24]
The Kittatinny Mountains, which include New Jersey's highest point, are part of this great chain
the Appalachians
Carolyn Andrew
$400 [19]
In "The French Connection", Gene Hackman played detective Jimmy Doyle, who had this nickname
Popeye
Carolyn
$400 [9]
Shoofly pie originated among Germans living in this U.S. state
Pennsylvania
Carolyn
$400 [4]
A unau is a 2-toed type of this slow-moving arboreal mammal
a sloth
Kevin
$400 [29]
It's the largest & one of the most influential civil rights groups in America
The NAACP
Andrew
$400 [14]
Code creator(5)
Morse
Carolyn
DD $1,000 [25]
It's believed New Jersey was first explored by this Italian for whom a NYC bridge is named
(Giovanni da) Verrazzano
Andrew
$500 [20]
For his role as an Alcatraz convict in "Murder in the First", this "Footloose" star lost 20 pounds
Kevin Bacon
Kevin
$500 [10]
Creme brulee is a rich custard topped with a brittle layer of this
brown sugar
Carolyn
$500 [5]
Found in Africa, the Cape species of this bovine can kill lions with its hoofs & horns
Cape buffalo
Carolyn Kevin
$500 [30]
Chris Dickerson was the first Black Mr. America & she was the first Black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
Kevin
$500 [15]
Gruesome Gorgon(6)
Medusa
Andrew

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ELEMENTS BODIES OF WATER ART FIRST LADIES COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES DRAMA
$200 [1]
You'll find an abundance of this element in limestone & marble, & in your bones
calcium
Kevin
$200 [6]
Lake Garda, this country's largest lake, lies about halfway between Venice & Milan
Italy
Andrew
$200 [11]
Bronze vessels with animal motifs typify this country's Shang Dynasty sculptures
China
Carolyn
$200 [21]
Lyndon proposed marriage to her the day of their first date
Lady Bird Johnson
Carolyn
$200 [14]
Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College was established in 1864 by this religious denomination
the Quakers
Carolyn
$200 [30]
The 1st theatrical "entertainment" Harriet Beecher Stowe saw was a version of this novel she wrote
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kevin
$400 [2]
In 1993 the EPA advised that people buying a house should check for this gas, symbol Rn
radon
Carolyn
$400 [7]
Punta Arenas, Chile is the chief port on this strait
the Strait of Magellan
Kevin
$400 [12]
Appropriately, he painted the "Blue Room" during his Blue Period, in 1901
Picasso
Carolyn
$400 [22]
Elizabeth Monroe ended many of this predecessor's practices, such as constant open houses
Dolley Madison
Carolyn
$400 [15]
Under Apartheid universities in this country were divided into Afrikaans- & English-speaking
South Africa
Kevin
$400 [29]
Thornton Wilder's 1943 Pulitzer for "The Skin of Our Teeth" came 5 years after he won for this play
Our Town
Carolyn
$600 [3]
The anesthetic known as laughing gas is an oxide of this element
nitrogen
Carolyn
$600 [8]
The Chicago River flows out of this Great Lake into the Mississippi River basin
Lake Michigan
Kevin
$600 [13]
She painted the "Purple Hills Near Abiquiu", New Mexico in 1935
Georgia O'Keeffe
Kevin
$600 [23]
After her release from a mental hospital in 1875, she moved to France & lived there until 1880
Mary Todd Lincoln
Carolyn
$600 [16]
Bernard M. Baruch is one of the colleges of this, CUNY for short
City University of New York
Andrew Kevin
$600 [28]
This Goethe play opens with Mephistopheles in Heaven
Faust
Carolyn
$800 [4]
Making up the iron family on the periodic table are iron, nickel & this blue-tinged metal
cobalt
Kevin
$1,000 [10]
This Siberian lake contains more than 1/5 of the world's unfrozen fresh water
Lake Baikal
Carolyn
$800 [19]
A famous Delacroix painting shows her "Leading the People" 28 July 1830
Liberty
Carolyn
$800 [24]
Her ill appearance on June 18, 1881 kept Charles Guiteau from shooting her husband for 2 weeks
(Lucretia) Garfield
Andrew
$800 [17]
In 1869 the University of California moved from Oakland to this neighboring city
Berkeley
Carolyn
$800 [27]
Galsworthy wrote "The Skin Game" & D.L. Coburn wrote this "Game" that starred Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy
The Gin Game
Carolyn
$1,000 [5]
Einsteinium & this element, symbol Fm, were first produced in a 1952 thermonuclear explosion
fermium
Carolyn
DD $1,500 [9]
This bay off France & Spain is sometimes called the Gulf of Gascony
the Bay of Biscay
Kevin
$1,000 [20]
Andrea del Verrocchio, one of this city's finest sculptors, may have been a pupil of Donatello
Florence
Carolyn
DD $3,100 [25]
Visiting San Jose in the last year of her husband's presidency, she was given a banner by the WCTU
Lucy Hayes
Andrew
$1,000 [18]
Most of this D.C. university's undergraduate courses are open to hearing-impaired students only
Gallaudet
Carolyn
$1,000 [26]
One critic called "A Streetcar Named Desire" a rewrite of this author's "Miss Julie"
August Strindberg
Andrew

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

He adapted a rejected treatise on exploring Africa by balloon into an 1863 novel, his first big success

Jules Verne

Kevin "Who is Jules Verne?" — wagered $7,400
Carolyn "Who is H.G. Wells?" — wagered $1,200

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