Show #2607 1995-12-26 Seniors Tournament

1995-B Seniors Tournament semifinal game 2.

Contestants

Darryl Adams — an attorney and real estate broker from North Potomac, Maryland

Nola Wegman — a retired English professor from Valparaiso, Indiana

David Cuneo — a former history teacher from Reisterstown, Maryland

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
David	$600	$2,000	$7,100	$14,100 Finalist	$6,400 22 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Nola	$800	$2,400	$7,000	$14,000 2nd place: $5,000	$7,000 19 R, 2 W
Darryl	$400	$1,100	$6,700	$13,400 3rd place: $5,000	$5,500 15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY	GAMBLING	TV SITCOMS	GARDENING	RIVERS	MUSICAL QUOTES
$100 [13] The Indian type of this pachyderm is smaller than the African one the elephant Darryl	$100 [10] Omaha is a seven-card spit type of this card game poker Darryl	$100 [26] The title pair played by Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams Laverne & Shirley David	$100 [2] With work, this potted Christmas plant can be made to bloom again the following year poinsettia Nola	$100 [1] River that's the course of the Henley Royal Regatta the Thames Nola	$100 [9] Emilia tells this Shakespearean Moor, "I will play the swan, and die in music" Othello Nola
$200 [14] The upside-down type of this "feline" fish actually swims upside-down a catfish David	$200 [11] Some of the most popular versions of this card game are Five Hundred, Gin & Michigan rummy David	$200 [27] Lecy Goranson, the original Becky Conner on this sitcom, returned to the series in September 1995 Roseanne Nola	$200 [3] You have to plant your cucurbita pepo seeds in the spring if you want these for the end of October pumpkins Nola	$200 [5] Between Lake Tiberius & the Dead Sea, it flows through the Ghawr Valley the Jordan River Darryl	$200 [12] "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is" is a line from his "Private Lives" Noel Coward Darryl
$300 [20] A pangolin can extend this sticky organ as much as 10 inches its tongue Nola	$300 [23] In this game you can buy "insurance" if the dealer's up card is an ace blackjack David	$300 [28] Despite the death of Freddie Prinze, this series continued until 1978 Chico and the Man Darryl	$300 [4] This flower of love is the one Japanese beetles love best a rose David	$300 [6] Ian Dunlop wrote the 1969 book "Chateaux of" this river the Loire Darryl	$300 [15] In "Ode to a Nightingale", he wrote, "Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?" John Keats Nola
$400 [21] This single-humped camel is also known as the Arabian camel the dromedary David Darryl	$400 [24] In this game the stickman pushes the dice to the shooter after all the bets are down craps Darryl	$400 [29] Daniel Hugh-Kelly starred in "I Married Dora" & Jim Backus starred in "I Married" this woman I Married Joan David Darryl	$400 [16] Though used as annuals, pansies & petunias are actually these perennials David Nola	$400 [7] It flows under Florence's Ponte Vecchio the Arno David	$500 [18] In an 1829 letter, this German poet wrote,"I call architecture frozen music" Goethe Nola
$500 [22] The La Plata dolphin is found in the rivers & eastern coastal waters of this continent South America David	$500 [25] Called the world's fastest gambling game, it's based on a form of handball played by Basques jai alai Nola	$500 [30] On "Seinfeld" it was revealed that this is Kramer's first name Cosmo David	$500 [19] To attract these birds, plant fuchsia, phlox, nasturtium or hollyhock hummingbirds Nola	$500 [8] David Livingstone explored this fourth-longest African river during the 1850s & 1860s the Zambezi River David Darryl	DD $600 [17] "Musick is the thing of the world that I love most" comes from his July 30, 1666 diary entry Samuel Pepys David

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARCHITECTURE	THE OLD TESTAMENT	BOOKS & AUTHORS	WORD ORIGINS	FIRST LADIES	ODDS & ENDS
$200 [15] This Defense Department headquarters was designed by G.E. Bergstrom to conserve structural steel the Pentagon Darryl	$200 [2] Weapon used by David to defeat the heavily armed Goliath a sling David	$200 [14] "Prizzi's Glory" & "Prizzi's Money" are Richard Condon's sequels to this novel Prizzi's Honor Nola	$200 [1] The name of this powerful explosive comes from the Greek word for "power", dunamis dynamite Nola	$200 [3] In 1954 Alden Hatch published a biography of her titled "Red Carpet for Mamie" Mamie Eisenhower David	$200 [20] Holy Saturday is observed the day before this holiday Easter David
$400 [16] Often used to absorb thrusts from roof vaults, these supports come in hanging & flying varieties buttresses David	$400 [5] In Job 30:7 this stinging plant serves as protection for Job's enemies nettles Nola	$400 [27] The tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche is one of the pivotal events in this author's novel "Ivanhoe" (Sir Walter) Scott David	$400 [7] The name of this wheat used to make pasta comes from durus, Latin for "hard" durum wheat Darryl	$400 [4] During the War of 1812, she arranged for safe transport of papers & paintings out of the capital Dolley Madison Nola	$400 [21] A silver wedding anniversary celebrates this many years of marriage 25 David
$600 [17] Examples of his geodesic dome were built in Baton Rouge, LA. & on Oahu, among other places (Buckminster) Fuller David	$600 [6] This beloved psalm contains the line "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies" the 23rd Psalm Darryl	$600 [28] "The Hand of Ethelberta" is a more obscure novel by this author of "Jude the Obscure" Thomas Hardy Darryl	$600 [8] This men's formal attire got its name from a village in New York state tuxedo Nola	$600 [10] In 1800 she found the unfinished White House "habitable", but barely Abigail Adams David	$600 [22] 1 of only 2 airlines that offer flights aboard the Concorde Air France (or British Airways) David
$800 [18] Begun in 1785, his capitol building in Richmond was based on a Roman temple in France Thomas Jefferson Darryl	$800 [9] This wife of Isaac was the Daughter of Abraham's nephew Bethuel Rebekah David	$800 [29] This prolific woman's 1988 bestseller "Zoya" takes place before & after the Russian Revolution Danielle Steel Nola	$1,000 [26] Ostrakon, the pottery fragment used to vote for banishment, gave us this word for exclusion ostracize Nola	$800 [11] When she was a little girl, her mother married Dr. Loyal Davis; he adopted the future first lady in her teens Nancy Reagan David Nola	$800 [23] The first 5 letters of the Greek alphabet are alpha, beta, gamma, delta & this epsilon Nola
$1,000 [19] The first winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize received this British sculptor's "Ode to Architecture" Henry Moore David	$1,000 [12] This prophet ruled Israel at the end of the period of Judges & anointed the first 2 kings Samuel David	$1,000 [30] This "Airport" author was born in England & served with the Royal Air Force during WWII (Arthur) Hailey Nola	DD $2,000 [25] Our word "score" comes form scoru, Old English for this number 20 Darryl	DD $1,500 [13] After the wedding, she & her husband drove to Ann Arbor for the Northwestern-Michigan game Mrs. Ford (Betty Ford) David	$1,000 [24] This almanac was first published in 1947 as an extension of a radio quiz show The Information Please Almanac Darryl

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC PEOPLE

Marie Antoinette called him "l'ambassadeur electrique"

Benjamin Franklin

Darryl "Who is Benjamin Franklin" — wagered $6,700

Nola "Who is Ben Franklin?" — wagered $7,000

David "Who is Ben Franklin" — wagered $7,000

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