Show #2674 1996-03-28 Regular

Contestants

Judy Zellers — a homemaker from Mountain View, California

Jim Henderson — an attorney from Sacramento, California

Marty Sade — a math teacher from Tucson, Arizona (whose 3-day cash winnings total $40,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marty $3,600 $4,000 $2,900 $2,900
2nd place: Bassett Legend dining room set
$4,900
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jim $-500 $-600 $1,400 $2,700
3rd place: Friedman hand-crafted mirror
$1,400
10 R, 5 W
Judy $300 $3,400 $7,000 $5,900
New champion: $5,900
$6,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

GENERAL SCIENCE NURSERY RHYMES LIBRARIES ANCIENT EGYPT MONEY PROBLEMS 4-LETTER WORDS
$100 [1]
g. Acceleration due to this, varies slightly with latitude since the Earth is not a perfect sphere
gravity
Marty
$100 [9]
He had to show the pieman his money before he could take a taste test
Simple Simon
Jim
$100 [21]
The Lincoln Center Library is a branch of this city's library
New York City
Marty
$100 [6]
An essential feature of this embalming process was desiccation by means of dry natron
mummifying
Marty
$100 [26]
If the 4 members of the band Moonpools & Caterpillars split a $2,000 royalty evenly, each gets this amount
$500
Judy
$100 [14]
A synonym for a small island; Ireland is an emerald one
isle
Marty
$200 [2]
Riboflavin deficiency can cause photophobia, abnormal sensitivity to this
light
Marty Judy
$200 [10]
He didn't kiss & tell, he kissed & ran
Georgie Porgie
Judy
$200 [22]
In 1854 this New England capital opened the first major free public library in the U.S.
Boston
Jim
$200 [7]
Ancient Egyptians made this potent potable by soaking bread in water & fermenting the mixture
beer
Marty
$200 [27]
John's jar had 300 pennies in it, but he lost 2/3 of them in a pitching contest with Bob, leaving this many
100
Marty Judy
$200 [15]
It's a slang term for a potato
spud
Jim
$300 [3]
This malaria-fighting substance is extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree
quinine
Marty
$300 [11]
He's been quoted as saying, "What a good boy am I"
Little Jack Horner
Marty Jim
$300 [23]
The library of the university of this largest Scottish city has about 500 printed items from the 15th C.
Glasgow
Jim
$300 [8]
This famous queen was replaced by her daughter as Akhenaten's principal wife
Nefertiti
Judy
$300 [28]
If I had a nickel for every time I said "I" in this answer, I would have this much money
20 cents (4 times)
Judy
$300 [16]
This device is used to soften the tone of an instrument such as a trumpet
mute
Judy
$400 [4]
This, sound composed of a random mix of frequencies, comes in "white" & "pink" types
noise
Marty
$400 [19]
The rhyme says he's responsible for the sheep; you can only infer he's in charge of the cows, too
Little Boy Blue
Judy
$400 [24]
Woodruff Library at Atlanta's Emory University houses papers of this Uncle Remus creator
Joel Chandler Harris
Jim Judy
$400 [12]
Hieroglyphics were Greek to scholars until this 1799 discovery supplied Greek equivalents
The Rosetta Stone
Marty
$400 [29]
Change for a quarter in 4 coins
3 nickels & a dime
Jim
$400 [17]
This heaviest fencing sword has a bowl-shaped guard & a long, narrow blade with no cutting edge
epee
Judy
DD $1,000 [5]
Titan, a moon of this planet, has a thicker atmosphere than Earth
Saturn
Marty
$500 [20]
A cat killed the rat that ate the malt in his house
"The House That Jack Built"
Judy
$500 [25]
Herbert Putnam served as head of this U.S. library for 40 years, 1899-1939
Library of Congress
Marty
$500 [13]
The pyramid of Menkaure was the last of the major 3 built at this site southwest of modern Cairo
Giza
Marty Jim
$500 [30]
If Mary, a dime-a-dance girl, handles 10 partners an hour, she earns this amount in 4 hours
$4.00
Jim
$500 [18]
A noisy outburst, or a steady wind of 32-63 MPH
Gale
Jim Judy

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN CITIES MUSIC WOMEN IN RELIGION LITERATURE PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA THE MOVIES
$200 [4]
Hradcany Castle, former home of the kings of Bohemia, is in this Czech capital
Prague
Marty
$200 [17]
It means to sing in a soft, intimate style, like Bing Crosby used to do
croon
Marty
$200 [22]
This woman who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta is called the Saint of the Gutters
Mother Teresa
Marty
$200 [5]
In this 17th C. novel, Sancho Panza is promised, & eventually gets, the governorship of his own island
"Don Quixote"
Jim
$200 [10]
Fewer than 120,000 popular votes separated Richard Nixon from this man in 1960
John F. Kennedy
Marty
$200 [1]
Annette Bening wins the heart of the chief executive played by Michael Douglas in this 1995 film
The American President
Judy
$400 [7]
The Pummerin, Austria's largest bell, is in this city's St. Stephen's Cathedral
Vienna
Marty
$400 [24]
The name of this deep voice range is also used to describe a violin, a clef & a tuba
bass
Marty
$400 [23]
In "Retrospection And Introspection", she told of her experiences with the science of Christian healing
Mary Baker Eddy
Jim Judy
$400 [11]
This 1895 story set in the future was H.G. Wells' first novel
"The Time Machine"
Marty
$400 [13]
Clinton is the most recent William to hold the office; this man was the first
William Henry Harrison
Jim
$400 [2]
Jim Carrey has a 2nd go as this kooky detective in "When Nature Calls"
Ace Ventura
Jim
$600 [8]
Liege is the cultural center of this country's French-speaking area
Belgium
Jim
$600 [28]
An 1898 opera by Rimsky-Korsakov concerned these "Amadeus" adversaries
Mozart & Salieri
Marty
$600 [25]
In 1987 Patricia Ann McClurg became the first ordained woman to head this Christian group abbreviated NCC
National Council of Churches
$600 [12]
The full title of this 1872 tale ends with "And what Alice found there"
"Through the Looking-Glass"
Judy
$600 [14]
He served as president during the 73rd-79th Congresses
F.D. Roosevelt
Judy
$600 [3]
The TV comedy "Police Squad!" inspired these films with Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin
The Naked Gun
Judy
$800 [21]
The fact this Italian city is home to Fiat isn't shrouded in mystery
Turin
Marty
$800 [29]
Saint-Saens' "Carnival Of The Animals" was composed for 2 of these instruments & ensemble
piano
$800 [27]
This colorful evangelist founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
Aimee Semple McPherson
Judy
$800 [18]
James Jones' 1962 novel "The Thin Red Line" was a sequel to this 1951 work
"From Here to Eternity"
$800 [15]
In 1947 this future president testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Ronald Reagan
Judy
$800 [6]
Bette Davis gave a memorable performance as a socialite dying of a brain tumor in this 1939 film
Dark Victory
Marty Judy
$1,000 [20]
The Peace of this city in the Netherlands ended the War of the Spanish Succession
Utrecht
Judy
$1,000 [26]
Ann Lee established the first U.S. community of this sect in Watervliet, N.Y. in 1776
Shakers
Judy
DD $2,500 [19]
Characters in this Dickens novel include Mealy Potatoes, Mr. Creakle & Edward Murdstone
"David Copperfield"
Marty
DD $1,200 [16]
These 3 men served as president between the terms of the only father & son presidents
Jefferson, Madison & Monroe
Judy
$1,000 [9]
Jeremy Irons & Meryl Streep headed the cast of this 1994 film based on a novel by Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC PEOPLE

Apsley House, the London home of this historic duke, boasts an 11' 4" nude statue of Napoleon

the Duke of Wellington

Jim "Who is the Duke of Wellington?" — wagered $1,300
Marty "Who is the Duke of Wellington" — wagered $0
Judy "Who was Windsor?" — wagered $1,100

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