Show #2550 1995-10-06 Regular

Contestants

Diana Ashbrook — a teacher from Los Angeles, California

Ana Wagner-Hoffman — a travel writer from Ames, Iowa

Patrick McGeehan — a journalist from Hoboken, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,200)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Patrick	$700	$700	$5,900	$800 2-day champion: $10,000 + Jeopardy! '92 home game	$5,900 15 R, 2 W
Ana	$2,500	$3,000	$5,900	$1 3rd place: pair of Wittenauer wristwatches + Jeopardy! '92 home game	$7,000 20 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Diana	$1,100	$900	$300	$595 2nd place: a trip to Quail Lodge Resort in Carmel, California + Ricardo Beverly Hills luggage + Jeopardy! '92 home game	$1,800 16 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE	THE OLYMPICS	ATTIRE	STATE CAPITALS	FACTS & FIGURES	STARTS WITH "UM"
$100 [3] The name of this precious metal occurs in the Bible 409 times gold Patrick	$100 [1] In 1992 the U.S. "Dream Team" defeated Croatia 117-85 to win the gold in this event (men's) basketball Diana	$100 [11] Claude Montana designed the red leather jacket he wore in the video "Beat It" Michael Jackson Diana	$100 [18] It's home to the University of Minnesota's College of Agriculture St. Paul Patrick	$100 [27] It's 6'3" for Bill Clinton & Lyndon Johnson; Abe Lincoln beat them both height Diana	$100 [13] The Morton Salt Girl is holding one umbrella Diana
$200 [5] The concept of turning these weapons into plowshares is mentioned in both Micah & Isaiah swords Patrick	$200 [2] The first competition in this event is the 100-meter dash; the tenth, the 1500-meter run decathlon Ana	$200 [12] 18th century men wore powdering jackets to protect their clothes while this item was being powdered wig Patrick	$200 [19] This Idaho capital is located on a river of the same name Boise Diana	$200 [28] With a mean speed of 15.4 MPH Blue Hill, Mass., not Chicago, holds this distinction among U.S. cities the windiest Ana	$200 [14] No Teamster has called more strikes than one of these men umpire Patrick
$300 [8] The Beatitudes begin this "sermon" found only in Matthew The Sermon on the Mount Ana	$300 [4] Women perform this gymnastics event to music; men, without music floor exercise Ana	$300 [23] Since 1965 many of these nuns' outfits have become simpler habit Ana	$300 [20] This capital city lies just east of Lake Tahoe Carson City, Nevada Diana	$300 [29] This second-longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is this Mary Poppins-ism supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Diana	$300 [15] This color is sometimes burnt umber Ana
$400 [9] In the Hebrew bible, the word Bavel refers to Babel as well as to this Mesopotamian city & its region Babylon Diana	$400 [6] In 1994 this American won the men's 1,000-meter speed skating event after finishing 8th at 500 meters Dan Jansen Diana	$400 [24] You'll most likely see a sporran worn on a low-slung belt over this item of apparel kilt Diana	$500 [22] The Governor's Mansion in this city, the seat of Kennebec County, was the home of James G. Blaine Augusta, Maine Patrick Ana Diana	$400 [30] The Census Bureau says 12.8% of the U.S. population is this age & over; in 2050, 20.4% will be 65 Patrick	$400 [16] This diacritical mark is 2 dots over a vowel in a German word umlaut Ana
$500 [10] The name of this site of the final cosmic battle between good & evil means "Mount Megiddo" Armageddon Ana	$500 [7] In 1992 Yael Arad won this Middle Eastern country's first Olympic medal--a silver in women's judo Israel Ana	$500 [25] This African shirt made of boldly-printed cotton was introduced into the U.S. in the late 1960s dashiki Patrick	DD $1,500 [21] In 1897 Ransom E. Olds began the automobile industry in this capital city Lansing, Michigan Diana	$500 [26] With 50% more passengers than Frankfurt's, it's the busiest foreign airport Heathrow Patrick Diana	$500 [17] An indefinitely large amount, though it sounds like a lot less than a zillion umpteen Ana

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES	AWARDS	WORLD GEOGRAPHY	FICTIONAL WOMEN	SCIENCE	MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES
$200 [18] He's revered as China's supreme sage & foremost teacher Confucius Ana	$200 [1] In 1988 this French oceanographer received 1 of 15 Nat'l Geographic Society Centennial Awards Jacques Cousteau Ana	$200 [2] The Spaniards named this Central American nation for Nicarao, an Indian leader Nicaragua Ana	$200 [12] Aurora Greenway is General Hector Scott's lover in Larry McMurtry's "Terms of" this Endearment Diana	DD $100 [30] This is defined as the breakdown of glucose or other sugars by yeast or bacteria in the absence of oxygen fermentation Ana	$200 [7] Wild celebrations are called Bacchanal after the festivals that honored this wine god Bacchus Patrick
$400 [19] Water was Elizabeth I's playful nickname for this court favorite Sir Walter Raleigh Diana	$400 [14] In 1995 the American Film Institute honored this "E.T." director with its Life Achievement Award Steven Spielberg Patrick	$400 [3] The name of this Alpine peak is French for "white mountain" Mont Blanc Diana	$400 [13] Zofia Zawistowska, an Auschwitz survivor, is the heroine of this 1979 William Styron novel Sophie's Choice Patrick	$200 [26] The vertical difference between the sides of one of these crustal fractures is called the throw fault Ana	$400 [8] A sponge found in Asian waters is known as this Roman love goddess' "flower basket" Venus Ana
$600 [20] In 1456, 25 years too late, her sentence for heresy was revoked & annulled Joan of Arc Diana	$600 [15] For its publication of the Pentagon Papers, this newspaper won a 1972 Pulitzer Prize New York Times Ana Diana	$600 [4] It's Austria's chief river the Danube Ana	$600 [23] Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen are featured in 2 of his novels, "The Rainbow" & "Women in Love" D.H. Lawrence Diana	$400 [27] Carbon monoxide causes death by displacing oxygen from this blood pigment hemoglobin Ana	$600 [9] Inspiration may be called the Pierian Spring after a place sacred to these 9 goddesses of arts & learning the Muses Ana
$800 [21] This Greek "Father of Medicine" may have left the island of Cos after he was blamed for a fire Hippocrates Patrick	$800 [16] This Chinese-American was awarded the 1976 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture I.M. Pei Patrick	DD $1,000 [5] One of the world's largest diamond deposits is located at Orapa, Botswana, in this desert the Kalahari Ana	$800 [24] This character is the head nurse in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Nurse Ratched Patrick	$600 [28] In this type of exercise, muscles are contracted against resistance without movement of the joints isometric Diana	$800 [10] Predatory or shrewish people may be compared to these monsters with women's heads & birds' bodies Harpies Patrick Diana
$1,000 [22] During the Third Crusade, this red-bearded Holy Roman emperor drowned while trying to cross a river Frederick Barbarossa Diana	$1,000 [17] Chief Justice 1953-1969, he was the first recipient of the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Earl Warren Diana	$1,000 [6] The mountain known as K2 is also called this after the Englishman who surveyed it c. 1860 Godwin-Austen	$1,000 [25] Offred is the title character of this Margaret Atwood tale The Handmaid's Tale Patrick	$800 [29] Geodesy is a scientific branch concerned with the exact shape & size of this the Earth Ana	$1,000 [11] It was the formless abyss that existed before the world was created; now it's a synonym for total anarchy chaos Ana

Final Jeopardy!

PRIMATES

A type of macaque, it's the only primate, other than man, found in Europe

The Gibraltar Ape

Diana "What are the apes of Gibraltar" — wagered $295

Ana "What is a Mandrille?" — wagered $5,899

Patrick "What is Spider Monkey" — wagered $5,100

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