Show #2825 1996-12-06 (taped 1996-10-15) Regular

Daily Double at Double Jeopardy! Round clue 22 featured in the 1999 filmBaby Geniuses.

Contestants

Donna Craig — an aspiring writer from New York City, New York

Clark Adams — a horse shoer from Batesville, Virginia

Gay Mollette — a procurement manager originally from Detroit, Michigan (whose 3-day cash winnings total $24,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gay $600 $900 $5,100 $10,199
3rd place: Whirlpool dishwasher & trash compactor
$5,100
10 R, 2 W
Clark $1,000 $3,100 $7,000 $10,401
New champion: $10,401
$9,100
26 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Donna $400 $1,000 $5,200 $10,201
2nd place: silver flatware & china service
$5,200
15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN EXPLORERS MEASURING DEVICES MYTHOLOGY TELEVISION ANNUAL EVENTS HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
$100 [16]
Edward Beale brought news of this 1848 discovery in California to the east coast
gold
Donna
$100 [19]
The amount of this in a solution can be measured by a saccharometer
sugar
Clark
$100 [6]
Daedalus used this substance to fasten the wings to his back
wax
Clark
$100 [1]
This Sunday night series is subtitled "The New Adventures of Superman"
Lois & Clark
Clark
$100 [17]
This state's Days of '47 Festival honors the day Brigham Young reached the Salt Lake Valley in 1847
Utah
Donna
$100 [11]
A complete donut center
whole hole
Donna
$200 [20]
Stephen Long & Zebulon Pike have peaks named for them in this state, an area they said was uninhabitable
Colorado
Clark
$200 [27]
The energy from this is measured by a pyrheliometer
the Sun
Gay
$200 [7]
Cadmus planted these parts of a dragon to raise some troops
teeth
Gay
$200 [2]
"Freddy's Nightmares", a horror anthology that debuted in 1988, was based on this movie series
Nightmare on Elm Street
Clark
$200 [18]
Monroe, near Snohomish in this state, is the site of the annual Evergreen State Fair
Washington
Gay
$200 [12]
In a restaurant, it's a quartet's table request
for four
$300 [21]
Co-commanders of the 1st U.S. expedition to explore from Mississippi to the west coast
Lewis & Clark
Clark
$300 [28]
An odometer measures the distance covered by a vehicle & this device measures how far you've walked
a pedometer
Clark
$300 [8]
The sister of Orestes, mourning became her
Electra
Donna
$300 [3]
This crime drama with Robert Wagner & Stefanie Powers was created by Sidney Sheldon
Hart to Hart
Clark
$300 [24]
Dog lovers look forward to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, held each February in this city
New York City
Gay Clark
$300 [13]
Contented performing kittens might be paid this way
per purr
$400 [22]
Jedediah Smith was a mountain man & explorer employed in this industry
fur trading
Clark
$400 [29]
A spirometer measures the capacity of these organs
the lungs
Donna
$400 [9]
Zeus' father, Cronus, was one of this group of 12
Titans
Gay
$500 [5]
Jack Wagner, formerly of "General Hospital", now plays Dr. Peter Burns on this Fox drama
Melrose Place
$400 [25]
The Pendleton Roundup, an annual rodeo, takes place in Pendleton in this northwestern state
Oregon
Clark
$400 [14]
A squash that's been pierced by a bull's horn
gored gourd
Clark
$500 [23]
Senator Thomas Hart Benton's son-in-law was this "Pathfinder"
John C. Frémont
$500 [30]
A nilometer measures the height of the water in this
the Nile River
Clark
$500 [10]
Leda laid 2 eggs: one with Helen & Pollux in it, the other containing Clytemnestra & him
Castor
Clark
DD $600 [4]
Character seen here, his action-packed journeys are legendary:
Hercules (Kevin Sorbo)
Clark
$500 [26]
The Tanglewood Music Festival is a summer highlight in Lenox in this New England state
Massachusetts
Clark
$500 [15]
Remained sedate
stayed staid
Clark

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOTABLE NONHUMANS WORLD FACTS ART & ARTISTS BUSINESS & INDUSTRY HISTORY POETS
$200 [2]
This Nazi dictator sometimes dined alone with Blondi, his Alsatian
Adolf Hitler
Clark
$200 [19]
This isthmus connects North & South America
Isthmus of Panama
Clark
$200 [1]
He painted "Irises" & "Pink Roses" as well as "Sunflowers"
Vincent Van Gogh
Clark
$200 [30]
It has over 9,700 tax preparation offices worldwide
H&R Block
Donna
$200 [11]
Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city
Athens
Donna
$200 [4]
On Feb. 12, 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he addressed a joint session of Congress
Carl Sandburg
Gay Clark Donna
$400 [3]
In 1964 he lifted his beagles Him & Her by the ears on the White House lawn, provoking protest
Lyndon Johnson
Donna
$400 [20]
A humid city, Rio de Janeiro lies just north of this tropic line
the Tropic of Capricorn
Clark
$400 [14]
This drip artist was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912
Jackson Pollock
Gay
$400 [18]
In 1961 this firm introduced its Selectric typewriter, which used a spherical typing element
IBM
Clark
$400 [12]
Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, this country gave Norway to Sweden but kept Greenland & other islands
Denmark
Donna
$400 [5]
Between 1842 & 1885, he repeatedly revised his "Idylls of the King"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Clark
$600 [6]
Colo was the first of these great apes born in captivity, in 1956 at the Columbus Zoo
Gorilla
Clark
$600 [21]
The lowest river in the world, it's revered by Jews, Christians & Muslims alike
The River Jordan
Clark
$600 [15]
He spent several summers painting pointillist seascapes including "Le Bec Du Hoc, Grandcamp"
Georges Seurat
Donna
$600 [25]
In 1934 he plugged Bulova "Lone Eagle" watches
Charles Lindbergh
Clark
$600 [13]
In February 1904 this country attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur
Japan
Gay
$600 [8]
For much of the winter of 1794-95, he served as acting supervisor for Dumfries, Scotland
Robert Burns
Donna
$800 [7]
In 1945 this famous scottie was injured in a fight with Blaze, Elliott Roosevelt's mastiff
Fala
Donna
$1,000 [23]
In area this country whose capital is now called Yangon is the largest in mainland southeast Asia
Myanmar (Burma)
Clark
$800 [16]
His sculpture, "The Age of Bronze", exhibited in 1877, was inspired by Michelangelo
Auguste Rodin
Gay
DD $600 [28]
In 1811 this German family began its steel-making business by constructing a plant in Essen
Krupp
Clark
$800 [24]
On May 30, 1967 Colonel Ojukwu declared Biafra's independence from this country, starting a civil war
Nigeria
Gay
$800 [9]
Her "I Heard a Fly Buzz" may have been based on a chapter in "The House of the Seven Gables"
Emily Dickinson
Donna
$1,000 [26]
This favorite horse of Alexander the Great sometimes wore golden horns in battle
Bucephalus
Clark
DD $1,100 [22]
Discovered by David Livingstone, Botswana's Lake Ngami lies in the northern part of this desert
Kalahari Desert
Clark
$1,000 [17]
You can see this British sculptor's "Reclining Mother and Child" at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
Henry Moore
Gay
$800 [29]
Only Philip Morris & this Cincinnati-based firm have yearly ad expenditures exceeding $2 billion
Procter & Gamble
Gay
$1,000 [27]
In the midst of the Korean War, this South Korean president was elected to his second of 4 terms
Syngman Rhee
Clark Donna
$1,000 [10]
He once wrote, "I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer"
Robert Frost
Donna

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH NOVELS

This 1895 novel is subtitled "An Invention"

The Time Machine

Gay "What is "The Time Machine"" — wagered $5,099
Donna "What is The Time Machine" — wagered $5,001
Clark "What is The Time Machine" — wagered $3,401

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