Show #2230 1994-04-22 (taped 1994-01-12) Regular

Contestants

Jeff Jaech — a college student from Riverside, California

Ken Frier — a director of foreign exchange originally from Hendersonville, North Carolina

John Hunt — a jazz musician from San Francisco, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $1,300 $1,600 $7,000 $13,000
3-day champion: $37,601
$7,000
18 R, 1 W
Ken $300 $1,200 $400 $10
3rd place: Magnavox TV
$3,200
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jeff $3,300 $4,100 $8,300 $2,599
2nd place: trip to Roseland Ranch, NY
$7,900
25 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY FAMOUS CANADIANS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ROCKS & MINERALS FOOD & DRINK STARTS WITH "K"
$100 [6]
The salinity of this Utah lake ranges roughly between 15% & 27%
the Great Salt Lake
John
$100 [16]
This character actor was the brother of Canada's first native-born gov.-general, Vincent Massey
Raymond Massey
Jeff
$100 [1]
The American Heritage Dictionary entry for "clash" mentions these instruments
cymbals
Jeff
$100 [2]
Much of this stone used by Michelangelo for his sculptures came from Carrara, Italy
marble
John
$100 [26]
A selection of small pieces of food is cooked this way to make the Italian dish fritto misto
(deep) fried
John
$100 [21]
Folk who don't do this to "the habit" may do it to "the bucket"
kick
John
$200 [7]
This cape is the easternmost point of North Carolina's Outer Banks
Cape Hatteras
Jeff
$200 [17]
This dapper anchorman from Toronto used to be ABC News' Beirut bureau chief
Peter Jennings
Jeff
$200 [3]
It's a valveless horn used for military calls
bugle
Jeff
$200 [4]
Of the 3 major divisions of rocks, shale is classified as this
sedimentary
John
$200 [27]
The 4 regions of this country that produce whiskey are the High-lands, Lowlands, Campbeltown & Islay
Scotland
Ken
$200 [22]
This kind of pine is popular for paneling
knotty
John
$300 [11]
The seat of government in Hawaii is on this island
Oahu
Jeff
$300 [18]
A "Famous Lornes from Ontario" category would include Lorne Greene & this "Saturday Night Live" producer
Lorne Michaels
Jeff
$300 [5]
Handel wrote "The Harmonious Blacksmith" for this predecessor of the piano
the harpsichord
Ken
$300 [8]
1 of the 2 items on the Mohs hardness scale whose name ends in "z"
topaz (or quartz)
Jeff
$300 [28]
Cooked and served in chicken soup, a knaidel is also called this kind of ball
a matzo ball
Ken
$300 [23]
According to Miss Manners, neither gentlemen nor ladies should cross these
their knees
Jeff
$400 [12]
Many of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River belong to Ontario, the rest to this state
New York
Jeff
$400 [19]
In 1957 this Canadian had his first No. 1 hit with a song inspired by his teenage crush Diana Ayoub
Paul Anka
Jeff
$400 [14]
The steel in the pedal steel variety of this instrument is a metal bar drawn along its strings
guitar
John
$500 [10]
The rock of Gibraltar is this type of rock made up of calcite, a form of calcium carbonate
limestone
Jeff
$400 [29]
This grain is soaked in lye, then ground to produce hominy grits
corn
John
$400 [24]
It often precedes board, hole & Largo
key
Ken
$500 [13]
Tributaries of this Indiana river include the Tippecanoe, Eel & Mississinewa
the Wabash
John
$500 [20]
This late Montrealer played Murphy Brown's mother & Marilla Cuthbert on "Anne of Avonlea"
Colleen Dewhurst
$500 [15]
You might say it's the Australian aborigines' instrumental equivalent of the Swiss alphorn
didgeridoo
Jeff
DD $800 [9]
This gas is the most abundant element in almost all the world's rocks
oxygen
Jeff
$500 [30]
This aromatic liqueur is manufactured in France by Carthusian monks
Chartreuse
John Jeff
$500 [25]
The name of this Sri Lankan city sounds like something you'd steal from a baby
Kandy

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN'S FIRSTS LANGUAGES ART BOOKS ON AUDIOTAPE 1986 POT LUCK
$200 [13]
In 1993 Takako Doi became the 1st woman Speaker of this country's lower House of Parliament
Japan
Jeff
$200 [3]
Modern dialects of this language include Picard & Lorrain
French
Jeff
$200 [2]
On the reverse of "Lot and his Daughters", Albrecht Durer painted his picture of this person "and Child"
the Madonna
Jeff
$200 [1]
George Kennedy may have had a "whale" of a time recording this 1851 whale tale
Moby-Dick
John
$200 [19]
In February the Philippine National Assembly proclaimed him reelected--it didn't work
Marcos
Jeff
$200 [26]
A simple, traditional way to grind spices is with a mortar & this implement
pestle
Jeff
$400 [14]
In 1933 Ruth Bryan Owen, the daughter of this political leader, became America's 1st woman diplomat
William Jennings Bryan
Ken
$400 [4]
A standard form of this language is based on the speech of Seoul
Korean
Jeff
$400 [8]
Daniel Chester French's works include the huge statue of this president in a D.C. memorial
Lincoln
John Jeff
$400 [10]
Ken Burns reads excerpts from the companion volume to his PBS miniseries about this war
the Civil War
Jeff
$400 [20]
This event tried to form a human chain from one end of the U.S. to the other--it didn't work
Hands Across America
Jeff
$400 [27]
Chief Two Bears, who died in 1958 was the last Choctaw Indian scout for this showman
Buffalo Bill
John Jeff
$600 [16]
13 Americans were among the 1st group of women awarded this scholarship to Oxford in 1976
the Rhodes Scholarships
John
$600 [5]
In the 16th C. Friar Bernardino de Sahagun wrote a history of this Mexican tribe in Nahuatl, their native language
the Aztecs
John
$600 [9]
In the 1730s Canaletto painted the quay of the Piazzetta in this city, his home
Venice
Ken
$600 [15]
This author taped "The Looking Glass War", one of his books about George Smiley
John le Carré
John
$600 [21]
After being sworn in as Chief Justice on September 26, he swore in Antonin Scalia
William Rehnquist
Ken
$600 [28]
For fraud prevention, many credit cards now feature these 3-dimensional photographs
holograms
Ken
$800 [17]
Lusia Harris-Stewart & Nera White were the 1st women inducted into this sports hall of fame in Springfield, Mass.
the Basketball Hall of Fame
John
$800 [6]
The chukchi language is spoken by only a few thousand in the NE part of this Russian region
Siberia
John
$800 [11]
After a quarrel with French officials in Tahiti, he moved to Hiva Oa in the Marquesas in 1901
Gauguin
Jeff
$800 [22]
Ken Howard went to bat to read this author's "The Natural"
Bernard Malamud
$1,000 [24]
On Oct. 20, 1986 Israeli PM Shimon Peres & this foreign minister exchanged posts
Yitzhak Shamir
Ken
$800 [29]
While governor of New York 1943-1955, he ran for president twice & lost
Dewey
Ken
$1,000 [18]
This cosmonaut was only 26 when she became the 1st woman in space
(Valentina) Tereshkova
Jeff
$1,000 [7]
This Iranian language is accepted as a second language in Afghanistan
Farsi
John
DD $1,000 [12]
In 1965 this artist's portrait of his son Titus was sold to collector Norton Simon for over $2 million
Rembrandt
Jeff
$1,000 [25]
This British actress who starred in "Far from the Madding Crowd" also recorded the novel on tape
Julie Christie
DD $2,800 [23]
After a 6-year exile in Gorky, this Nobel Prize winner was allowed to return to Moscow in December
Andrei Sakharov
Ken
$1,000 [30]
Columns from this ancient wonder at Ephesus are now displayed at the British Museum
Temple of Artemis

Final Jeopardy!

OLD RADIO

This comedian said he took his last name from a Revolutionary War hero who was no longer using it

Fred Allen

Ken "Who was Revere" — wagered $390
John "Who was Fred Allen" — wagered $6,000
Jeff "Who is Jack Benny?" — wagered $5,701

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