Show #2292 1994-07-19 (taped 1994-03-08) Seniors Tournament

1994 Seniors Tournament semifinal game 2.

Contestants

Frances Taliaferro — a guidance counselor and teacher from New York City, New York

Madeline Wilhoft — a retired printer from Uniondale, New York

Joe Clonick — a composer and musician originally from Chicago, Illinois

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $1,500 $3,800 $13,200 $14,200
Finalist
$13,000
25 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Madeline $1,300 $2,700 $2,500 $5,000
3rd place: $5,000
$2,500
17 R, 3 W
Frances $-100 $400 $3,000 $6,000
2nd place: $5,000
$3,500
14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SEA CREATURES AWARDS AROUND THE KITCHEN THE 1850s TRANSPORTATION COMMON BONDS
$100 [1]
Unlike true ones of these crustaceans, the spiny or rock types don't have large claws
lobsters
Madeline
$100 [25]
The Goya is considered the Spanish equivalent of this American film award
the Oscar
Madeline
$100 [6]
A pitter takes the pit out of an olive & this specialized device takes the middle out of an apple
a corer
Madeline
$100 [11]
This prince was largely responsible for the Crystal Palace exhibition in Hyde Park
Prince Albert
Madeline
$100 [16]
From the shape of its tunnels, it's the British term for a subway
the tube
Joe
$100 [21]
Doris, Dennis, D-
Day
Madeline
$200 [2]
This relative of the octopus is sometimes called a sea arrow
a squid
Frances
$200 [26]
Studs Terkel won a 1985 Pulitzer Prize for "The Good War: An Oral History of" this conflict
World War II
Frances
$200 [7]
In the kitchen you may use the kitchen or poultry ones of these; the pinking type is for another room
a shears
Madeline
$200 [12]
In May 1857 the Prussian king renounced his rights to this country's Neuchatel Canton
Switzerland
Frances
$200 [17]
In 1984 this airline dropped the wings from its flying kangaroo logo
Qantas
Madeline
$200 [22]
Chop, drum, pick-up
sticks
Frances
$300 [3]
Mesogloea is the gelatinous substance that gives this creature its name
a jellyfish
Madeline
$300 [27]
In 1984 this comedic actress became the 1st woman inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame
Lucille Ball
Madeline Frances
$300 [8]
It's a metal stand with little feet used to separate a hot dish from a tabletop
a trivet
Joe
$300 [13]
This abolitionist leader of the raid on Harpers Ferry was hanged in Charles Town, Va. in 1859
John Brown
Joe
$300 [18]
Discontinued 22 years earlier, the Hoboken Ferry was relaunched between these 2 states in 1989
New York & New Jersey
Madeline
$300 [23]
Snow, blood, piggy
bank
Joe
$400 [4]
The 2 parts of this "giant" bivalve's shell often weigh as much as 500 pounds
the giant clam
Madeline
$400 [28]
"The Dreamer of Oz", a TV movie about this author, won a 1991 Christopher Award
(Frank) Baum
Joe
$400 [9]
A runcible spoon combines a spoon with one of these utensils
a fork
Frances
$400 [14]
All 2,500 copies of this Hawthorne book were sold within 10 days of its release in 1850
The Scarlet Letter
Joe Madeline Frances
$400 [19]
A popular car of the early 1900s was this company's Bearcat
Stutz
Frances
$400 [24]
Coins, pancakes, your wig
flip
Madeline
$500 [5]
The world's best caviar comes from the beluga, a species of this fish
the sturgeon
Madeline
$500 [30]
LBJ awarded this pope a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963
Pope John XXIII
Joe
DD $500 [10]
Raytheon's microwave ovens were first sold in 1947 under this name
Radaranges
Frances
$500 [15]
In the 1856 treaty ending this war, Russia ceded Southern Bessarabia
the Crimean War
Joe
$500 [20]
Italian for "wasp", it's a famous make of motor scooter
Vespa
Joe
$500 [29]
Crow, salad, singles
bar
Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER VICE PRESIDENTS ANNUAL EVENTS FAMOUS BROTHERS ANATOMY OPERAS & OPERETTAS
$200 [16]
Jean Laffite once lived on Grand Terre Island in Barataria Bay in this famous gulf
the Gulf of Mexico
Joe
$200 [26]
He was the last man to serve as FDR's vice president
Harry Truman
Frances
$200 [21]
On January 8 Louisiana commemorates this battle of the War of 1812
the Battle of New Orleans
Joe Frances
$200 [1]
They founded Rome but it took more than a day to build it
Romulus & Remus
Frances
$200 [11]
The cerebrum is the largest & most highly developed part of this organ
the brain
Madeline
$200 [3]
Act II of "Die Fledermaus" includes a hymn to this bubbly beverage
champagne
Madeline
$400 [17]
The Severn & the Wye are the longest rivers that enter this country, part of the United Kingdom
Wales
Frances
$400 [27]
He was the last vice president to serve more than 4 years in the office
Bush
Joe
$400 [22]
Each August this large city hosts the Elvis International Tribute Week
Memphis
Madeline
$400 [2]
In the early 1800s they published "Kinder-und Hausmarchen", tales for kids & adults
the Brothers Grimm
Joe
$400 [12]
Near its origin, this largest artery gives rise to the coronary arteries of the heart
the aorta
Joe
$400 [4]
Sancho Panza is a silent role in "Master Peter's Puppet Show", based on an episode in this novel
Don Quixote
Frances
$600 [18]
When visiting Liverpool, you can ride a ferry across this river, as Gerry and the Pacemakers could tell you
the Mersey
Joe Frances
$600 [28]
He was the first vice president to serve more than 4 years in the office
John Adams
$600 [23]
A popular October event in North Carolina is the Mello Yello 500 auto race in this city
Charlotte
Joe Madeline
$600 [5]
When he was about 15, he joined his older brother Frank in Quantrill's Raiders
Jesse James
Madeline
$600 [13]
It's the joint formed by the lower end of the humerus & the 2 upper ends of the ulna & radius
the elbow
Joe
$600 [6]
"Trial By Jury" is this duo's only operetta without spoken dialogue
Gilbert & Sullivan
Joe
$800 [19]
Lake Winnipegosis lies in the southern part of this Canadian province
Manitoba
Frances
$800 [29]
A nephew of this Jefferson vice president sponsored the Erie Canal
George Clinton
Frances
$800 [24]
International Falls in this state is the site of the annual Ice Box Days Winter Festival in January
Minnesota
Joe Frances
DD $1,000 [9]
In 1884 they left Baraboo, Wisconsin with a small wagon show
the Ringling Brothers
Joe
$800 [14]
There are 3 pairs of these glands in the body, including the sublingual ones under the tongue
the salivary glands
Frances
$800 [7]
"Threepenny Opera" composer whose opera "Down in the Valley" is based on American folk songs
Kurt Weill
Joe
$1,000 [20]
Jordan's only seaport, Al-Aqabah, lies on this sea
the Red Sea
Frances
$1,000 [30]
1 of the 2 presidents under whom John C. Calhoun served as vice president
(1 of) John Quincy Adams & Andrew Jackson
DD $1,000 [25]
Each July this Canadian province celebrates its heritage with the Highland Games in Antigonish
Nova Scotia
Joe
$1,000 [10]
Though these Frenchmen invented the hot air balloon, they weren't the first to go up in it
the Montgolfier brothers
Joe Madeline
$1,000 [15]
After a meal bile that's stored in this sac is released into the small intestine
the gall bladder
Joe
$1,000 [8]
Heinrich Sutermeister based his 1948 opera "Raskolnikoff" on this Dostoyevsky novel
Crime and Punishment
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY AUTHORS

D.H. Lawrence said he probably did "more than any writer to present the Red Man to the white man"

James Fenimore Cooper

Madeline "Who is J. Fenimore Cooper" — wagered $2,500
Frances "Who is James F Cooper?" — wagered $3,000
Joe "Who is J.F. Cooper" — wagered $1,000

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