Show #2201 1994-03-14 (taped 1993-12-07) Regular

Amy Fine game 2.

Contestants

Rick Geary — an illustrator and cartoonist from San Diego, California

Bob Helfrich — a clergyman from Sayreville, New Jersey

Amy Fine — a wife and mother from Potomac, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amy $1,800 $3,000 $8,200 $14,801
2-day champion: $28,002
$8,200
22 R, 1 W
Bob $500 $1,400 $2,200 $1
3rd place: Panasonic digital effects generator & Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune for Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$7,200
16 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Rick $1,600 $3,800 $7,400 $5,400
2nd place: AST color notebook & Dome home business software
$6,900
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

METALS COMEDY FILMS INCREDIBLE EDIBLES CHILDREN'S LITERATURE NEXT IN LINE "EX" WORDS
$100 [12]
Radiation shielding is an important use of this metal, symbol Pb
lead
Amy
$100 [3]
Macaulay Culkin got left behind in this film & its sequel
Home Alone
Amy
$100 [11]
The Masai tap the veins of their cattle with special arrows to get this, which they drink
blood
Bob
$100 [22]
This book's title was originally followed by "and Mr. McGregor's Garden"
Peter Rabbit
Amy
$100 [17]
Heading away from the Sun, it's Venus, Earth, then this planet
Mars
Rick
$100 [1]
God calls Moses to leadership in this Old Testament book
Exodus
Amy
$200 [14]
A major use of platinum is in the catalytic converters found on these vehicles
automobiles
Bob
$200 [4]
Charlie Sheen goes on a rescue mission Rambo-style in this comedy "Part Deux"
Hot Shots!
Rick
$200 [13]
Lapps lap up the milk of these deer, & they use it to make cheese, too
reindeer
Bob
$200 [23]
This bull would rather smell flowers than fight
Ferdinand
Rick
$200 [18]
Graduates going up the honor scale know that it's cum laude, magna cum laude, this
summa cum laude
Rick
$200 [2]
A museum display, or anything introduced as evidence in court
exhibit
Rick
$300 [15]
Quicksilver is another name for this metal
mercury
Amy
$300 [5]
In a 1991 remake of this film, Steve Martin took the role originally played by Spencer Tracy
the Father of the Bride
Rick
$300 [16]
Vitellius, a noted glutton & ancient emperor of this, gorged himself on flamingo tongues & peacock brains
Rome
Rick
$300 [24]
We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him!" this Dr. Seuss character
The Cat in the Hat
Amy
$300 [19]
The USDA meat rankings progress from select to choice to this
prime
Amy
$300 [8]
From the Latin for "high", it means to praise or glorify
exalt
Amy
$400 [27]
This, the Earth's most abundant metal, is sometimes anodized for use as a building material
aluminum
Bob
$400 [6]
In a 1988 film he play Danny De Vito's twin
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rick
$400 [29]
Luak, drunk in Indonesia, is a type of this beverage made from beans already digested by a civet cat
coffee
Bob
$400 [25]
In this 1908 novel, Rat, Toad & Badger reside on the banks of an English river
The Wind in the Willows
Bob
$400 [20]
Hexagon follows pentagon & this follows quintuplets
sextuplets
Rick
$400 [9]
The pleasure tours usually have low fares & are of short duration
excursions
Amy
$500 [28]
This metal found in rat poisons can be detected in hair or fingernails
arsenic
Amy
$500 [7]
In this classic Jerry Lewis creates a potion that changes him from shy chem. teacher to campus swinger
The Nutty Professor
Rick
$500 [30]
The liver of this tusked pinniped is a traditional food of the Eskimos
the walrus
Amy
$500 [26]
The ALA awards this medal annually for the most distinguished children's picture book
the Caldecott Award
Amy Bob
DD $1,000 [21]
Next president in the sequence: Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt,...
George Washington
Rick
$500 [10]
Impromptu
extemporaneous
Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 50 STATES HISTORIC NAMES TRAVEL GUIDES HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES SHIPS QUOTES
$200 [2]
The Milwaukee Sentinel is the oldest newspaper in this state
Wisconsin
Amy
$200 [4]
This British naturalist was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809
(Charles) Darwin
Rick
$200 [13]
For its 1993 "Tourbook"s, this U.S. car & road organization approved almost 28,000 establishments
Triple-A
Bob
$200 [12]
Taiwan observes Constitution Day on this date when many observe Christmas
December 25th
Bob
$200 [1]
In 1959 the N.S. Savannah became the first commercial ship powered by this
nuclear power
Amy
$200 [14]
Variety reported the 1929 stock market crash with the headline this street "Lays an Egg"
Wall Street
Amy
$400 [3]
Rochester in this state is home to the largest private medical center in the world, the Mayo Clinic
Minnesota
Rick
$400 [5]
On his deathbed in 1821, his final word is said to have been "Josephine"
Napoleon
Bob
$400 [28]
This French tire maker published its first Red Guide in 1900 to promote car use
Michelin
Amy
$400 [20]
Reformation Day, Oct. 31, is the anniversary of the day he posted his 95 Theses in 1517
Martin Luther
Amy
$400 [19]
The largest portion of the world's merchant fleet is this type of cargo ship
a tanker
Amy
$400 [15]
The 19th century novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford wrote that this is "in the eye of the beholder"
beauty
Bob
$600 [6]
This state has 2 of the nation's oldest seashore resorts: Long Branch & Cape May
New Jersey
Bob
$600 [9]
Chinese philosopher Mencius was given the title "Second Sage", being 2nd in wisdom only to this philosopher
Confucius
Rick
$1,000 [25]
This German published his first guide in 1829, concerning the Rhine Valley
(Karl) Baedeker
Rick
$600 [21]
This Mideast country celebrates its 1948 independence on the fifth day of the lunar month of Iyar
Israel
Amy
$600 [27]
In 1967 this company launched the Queen Elizabeth II, its last liner
the Cunard line
Bob
$600 [16]
Welshman who wrote, "The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man"
Dylan Thomas
Rick
$800 [7]
Gannett Peak is this state's highest mountain, though Grand Teton is better known
Wyoming
Bob
$800 [10]
The mummy of this king thought to be the pharaoh of Exodus can be seen in Cairo
Ramses (II) (the Great)
Amy
$800 [22]
April 16, the birthday of Queen Margrethe II, is a holiday in this country
Denmark
Bob
$800 [26]
Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat was better known by this name, after the estate of a major backer
the Clermont
Rick
$800 [17]
Robert Louis Stevenson called this institution "a friendship recognized by the police"
a marriage
Bob
$1,000 [8]
Flathead Lake in this "Treasure State" is one of the largest natural lakes west of the Mississippi
Montana
Amy
$1,000 [11]
Shakespeare borrowed many of his historical facts from this ancient writer's "Parallel Lives"
Plutarch
Amy
DD $3,000 [23]
This nation's 17th of July Day commemorates the return to power of the Bath Party in 1968
Iraq
Bob
$1,000 [24]
Launched in 1797, this oldest decommissioned U.S. Navy ship is docked at Pier 1 in Baltimore Harbor
the Constellation
Bob
DD $2,000 [18]
"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves", she wrote in "Adam Bede"
George Eliot
Bob

Final Jeopardy!

THE UNITED NATIONS

The only member of the League of Nations that has never joined the United Nations under any name

Switzerland

Bob "What is Germany?" — wagered $2,199
Rick "What S" — wagered $2,000
Amy "What is Switzerland?" — wagered $6,601

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