Show #2619 1996-01-11 Regular

Barbara Walker game 2.

Contestants

Susan Goldsamt — a training specialist from Silver Spring, Maryland

Glenn Jessee — an attorney from Washington, D.C.

Barbara Walker — an elementary school principal from Westminster, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Barbara $400 $1,300 $9,400 $6,400
2-day champion: $19,800
$5,900
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Glenn $1,100 $3,300 $10,600 $2,399
3rd place: Franchi Menotti sports watch
$9,100
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Susan $2,100 $2,600 $6,600 $6,199
2nd place: Lloyd Flanders wicker furniture
$6,500
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MAMMALS TV BARS & RESTAURANTS GEMS & JEWELRY WORLD CITIES INVENTORS HODGEPODGE
$100 [2]
Both African & Indian species of this mammal undergo periods of odd behavior called musth
elephant
Susan
$100 [26]
On this sitcom Duff Beer is on tap at Moe's Tavern where the clientele is always "animated"
The Simpsons
Glenn
$100 [1]
In 1847 Louis Cartier founded an elegant jewelry firm in this capital city
Paris
Susan
$100 [11]
This Puerto Rican capital's harbor is guarded by Fort San Felipe Del Morro
San Juan
Glenn
$100 [16]
Laurens Hammond invented an electric type of this musical instrument
an organ
Susan
$100 [20]
In heraldry a wyvern is one of these mythical beasts depicted with 2 legs, wings & a barbed tail
a dragon
Barbara Susan
$200 [3]
Collisions with boats are the largest identifiable cause of death of these gentle Florida sea cows
manatees
Susan
$200 [27]
Head north, far north, to visit The Brick, this show's restaurant
Northern Exposure
Barbara
$200 [7]
One of the most important mines for these green gems is found at Muzo, Colombia
emeralds
Susan
$200 [12]
You can visit the Museum Carolino-Augusteum as well as Mozart's birthplace in this Austrian city
Salzburg
Susan
$200 [17]
He invented a razor with disposable blades after experts at M.I.T. told him it was impossible
King Gillette
Glenn
$200 [22]
Kellogg introduced these toaster pastries in 1964
Pop-Tarts
Glenn
$300 [4]
In Sumatra they call this tree-dwelling ape mawas
orangutan
Susan
$300 [28]
On this sitcom you could have seen Jay Thomas take a few "Potts" shots in the Blue Shamrock
Love And War
Glenn Susan
$300 [8]
The Jonker, a 726-carat gem of this kind, was discovered in South Africa in 1934
a diamond
Glenn
$300 [13]
This city founded in 1693 didn't become capital of Jamaica until 1872
Kingston
Glenn
$300 [18]
Thomas Hancock patented vulcanized rubber in England the year before this man in the U.S.
Charles Goodyear
Barbara Glenn Susan
$300 [23]
Mercury & aneroid are the 2 main types of this instrument used to measure air pressure
barometer
Susan
$400 [5]
Though these "Earth pigs" eat ants, strictly speaking they are not anteaters
aardvarks
$400 [29]
On this sitcom you may find the Crane brothers having coffee at Cafe Nervosa
Frasier
Glenn
$400 [9]
It's the color of the Star of India, a famous 563-carat sapphire
blue
Barbara
$400 [14]
This capital of Saudi Arabia was built at an oasis
Riyadh
Glenn
$400 [19]
Typists owe a debt of thanks to Bette Nesmith, who invented this correction fluid
Liquid Paper
Glenn
$400 [24]
Members of this church are popularly called "Moonies"
Unification Church
Glenn
$500 [6]
The fossa, a type of civet, is the dominant carnivore of this African island, the world's 4th largest
Madagascar
Susan
$500 [30]
The Lunch Box in Lanford, Ill. is one of this sitcom's settings
Roseanne
Barbara
$500 [10]
The "sherry" type of this golden gemstone is sometimes heated to turn it pink
topaz
$500 [15]
In 1932 Cholon was combined with this city in Vietnam's Mekong delta
Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)
Susan
DD $600 [21]
The first inflatable rubber life jacket is credited to this man famous for his raincoats
Charles McIntosh
Susan
$500 [25]
The fish called the Dolly Varden Trout was named for a character in this author's "Barnaby Rudge"
Charles Dickens
Glenn

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 16TH CENTURY FAMOUS MARGARETS THE MISSISSIPPI HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES ART POETS
$200 [8]
On July 29, 1588 this fleet was sighted off the coast of England
the Spanish Armada
Glenn
$200 [13]
In 1994 this former British prime minister was installed as chancellor of the college of William And Mary
Margaret Thatcher
Glenn
$200 [19]
The Minnesota River joins the Mississippi near these twin cities
Minneapolis & St. Paul
Barbara
$200 [15]
This March observance has been called the "most important national holiday in Ireland"
St. Patrick's Day
Glenn
$200 [3]
In 1922 he painted his 1st major mural, "Creation", at the National Preparatory School in Mexico City
Diego Rivera
Glenn
$200 [1]
In 1911 this "Trees" poet's first volume of verse, "Summer of Love" was published
Joyce Kilmer
$400 [9]
At the beginning of the century, Huayna Capac ruled this South American empire
Incas
Glenn
$400 [14]
Her 10th murder mystery, "Murder in the National Cathedral", was published in 1990
Margaret Truman
Susan
$400 [27]
Riverboat casino gambling has increased tourism in this Hawkeye State's city of Bettendorf
Iowa
Glenn Susan
$400 [22]
On August 30 this state observes Huey P. Long Day
Louisiana
Susan
$600 [5]
It's what Alexander Calder called his stationary sculptures
stabiles
Glenn
$400 [2]
He became a reporter for the Chicago Daily News in 1917, a year after his "Chicago Poems" was published
Carl Sandburg
Glenn
$600 [10]
When Thomas Cavendish became the third to accomplish this feat it took 2 years & 50 days
circumnavigate the globe
Barbara
$600 [16]
Found at a swap meet, the special Oscar stolen from this child star of "Meet Me in St. Louis" was returned in 1995
Margaret O'Brien
Susan
$600 [28]
This word for a Mississippi River embankment comes from the French meaning "to rise"
levee
Susan
$600 [23]
It's the date on which the anniversary of D-Day & South Korea's Memorial Day are observed
June 6
Glenn
$800 [6]
You can see his "Majas on a Balcony" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Francisco Goya
Barbara
$600 [20]
George Thomson's "Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs" contains many of his songs
Robert Burns
Barbara
$800 [11]
This confederation was split in the 1531 War of the Catholic Cantons
Swiss Confederation
Barbara
$800 [17]
Her photograph of Montana's Fort Peck Dam graced the cover of Life Magazine's first issue
Margaret Bourke-White
Barbara
$800 [29]
Ferde Grofe wrote his "Mississippi Suite" 6 years before this famous suite
Grand Canyon Suite
Barbara
$800 [24]
The Megillah or Story of Esther is read on this Jewish holiday
Purim
Susan
$1,000 [7]
In 1983 he skirted 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with sheets of pink plastic
Christo
Glenn
$800 [21]
In a Longfellow poem, this schooner is wrecked "On the reef of Norman's Woe"
the Hesperus
Susan
$1,000 [12]
In 1543 he published his treatise "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres"
Nicolaus Copernicus
Barbara Glenn
$1,000 [18]
She was secretary of Health & Human Services 1983-85, then became U.S. ambassador to Ireland
Margaret Heckler
Glenn
DD $4,500 [30]
This future Republican president managed flood relief on the Mississippi in 1927
Herbert Hoover
Barbara
$1,000 [25]
July 26 is observed as the feast day of the Virgin Mary's parents, St. Joachim & this woman
St. Anne
Barbara
DD $1,900 [4]
Botticelli featured members of this prominent family in his "Adoration of the Magi"
the Medicis
Glenn
$1,000 [26]
His 1892 work "Barrack-Room Ballads" included such poems as "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" & "Danny Deever"
Rudyard Kipling
Barbara

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHY

It's Europe's second-largest island

Iceland

Susan "What isGreat BritainIreland?" — wagered $401
Barbara "What is Sicily" — wagered $3,000
Glenn "What is Ireland?" — wagered $8,201

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