Show #2520 1995-07-14 (taped 1995-02-27) Seniors Tournament

1995-A Seniors Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Susan Schubert — a retired teacher from Phoenix, Arizona

Steve Paquette — a weapons designer from Glen Gardner, New Jersey

Aaron Klein — a religious school director from Des Plaines, Illinois

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Aaron $2,100 $3,700 $9,500 $10,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$11,500
27 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Steve $400 $100 $3,500 $7,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$3,500
11 R, 3 W
Susan $1,300 $2,500 $5,900 $10,900
Automatic semifinalist
$5,900
16 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES SPORTS GREATS COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES STATE EMBLEMS CLASSIC TELEVISION POTPOURRI
$100 [1]
In 1919 this former newspaper editor formed the Fascist Party in Italy
Mussolini
Steve
$100 [8]
He was hockey's leading scorer in 1984 & 1994
Wayne Gretzky
Aaron
$100 [7]
Al-Azhar University in this Egyptian capital was established around the Al-Azhar Mosque
Cairo
Aaron
$100 [6]
It sounds like you'd find this state flower of Massachusetts on Plymouth Rock
the mayflower
Steve
$100 [13]
Its opening narration began, "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man..."
The Twilight Zone
Susan
$100 [22]
This purported nursery rhyme author is sometimes known as Ma'am Goose
Mother Goose
Aaron
$200 [2]
Ivan the Terrible had this many wives, one more than a famous oft-married English king
7
Steve
$200 [9]
This Seattle Mariner had 40 home runs when the 1994 season abruptly ended
Ken Griffey Jr.
Aaron
$200 [27]
The University of Antioquia is located in Medellin in this country
Colombia
Aaron
$200 [18]
Its state motto is "North to the Future"; its tree, the Sitka spruce
Alaska
Aaron
$200 [14]
Van Heflin was offered this role in "The Untouchables"; Robert Stack took the part
Eliot Ness
Aaron
$200 [23]
The popularity of these white accessories, once the mark of a lady, declined in the 1960s
gloves
Aaron
$300 [3]
This British explorer left on his third & final voyage in July 1776
(Captain) Cook
Susan
$300 [10]
In 1994 Pete Sampras became the 1st man to win back-to-back Wimbledon singles since this German in 1986
Boris Becker
Aaron
$300 [28]
This school in Tempe didn't become a university until 1958
Arizona State University
Steve Susan
$300 [19]
Its state flower is the Rocky Mountain columbine; its state song, "Where The Columbines Grow"
Colorado
Aaron
$300 [15]
This Norman Lear sitcom starred Bea Arthur as Edith Bunker's liberal cousin from Tuckahoe, New York
Maude
Aaron
$300 [24]
This plump little quail is named for its characteristic call
a bobwhite
$400 [4]
This British soldier was 5'5 1/2"; Peter O'Toole, who played him on film, is 6'3"
Lawrence of Arabia
Susan
$400 [11]
Event in which Bob Seagren made his name
pole vault
Aaron
$400 [29]
This college is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin
Trinity College
$500 [21]
The star garnet is the gem of this "Gem State"
Idaho
$400 [16]
Sitcom town where you'd find Emmett's Fix-It Shop, Walker's Drugstore & Floyd's Barbershop
Mayberry
Susan
$400 [25]
In the Christian hierarchy of angels, the 2 groups whose names end with "im"
seraphim & cherubim
Aaron
$500 [5]
Since the death of this N. Korean president, Fidel Castro is the current longest-serving Communist leader
Kim Il-sung
Susan
$500 [12]
Sportswriter Damon Runyon dubbed this fighter the Manassa Mauler
Jack Dempsey
Aaron
$500 [30]
Now nonsectarian, Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr was originally affiliated with this religious group
the Quakers
Aaron
DD $800 [20]
Its folk dance is the square dance; one of its songs is a waltz
Tennessee
Aaron
$500 [17]
E.G. Marshall won an Emmy for his role as attorney Lawrence Preston in this courtroom drama
The Defenders
Aaron
$500 [26]
The Drug Enforcement Administration is part of this cabinet department
the Justice Department
Susan

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CITIES QUOTABLE WOMEN THE ROARING '20s DEM BONES LAW COMPOSERS
$200 [1]
Swedes call this Finnish city Helsingfors
Helsinki
Aaron
$200 [26]
The poet who wrote, "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aaron Susan
$200 [13]
In 1926 the "bee-stung" look was in for this part of a woman's body
the lips
Susan
$200 [6]
The tympanic bone is located in this organ
the ear
Susan
$200 [20]
A capital offense is defined as a crime punishable by life imprisonment or this
death
Susan
$200 [11]
One of Rossini's early works was a comic adaptation of this fairy tale called "La Cenerentola"
Cinderella
Aaron
$400 [2]
This city's Dutch name, 's-Gravenhage, means "the count's hedge"
The Hague
Susan
$400 [27]
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music", said this "Oklahoma!" choreographer
Agnes de Mille
Aaron
$400 [14]
In 1924 Howard Carter uncovered this man's now-famous funerary mask
King Tut
Steve
$400 [7]
The Ilium, pubis & ischium make up this "girdle"
the pelvic girdle
Susan
$400 [21]
Defamation includes these 2 offenses, one written, the other oral
slander & libel
Aaron
$400 [12]
He first realized he was going deaf in 1798; he was only 27
Beethoven
Steve
$600 [3]
This Alberta city is nicknamed the "Foothill City", but you could call it the "Stampede City"
Calgary
Steve
$600 [28]
In 1923 this M.P. wrote, "The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman"
Lady Astor
$600 [15]
A flapper was a girl & a flivver was one of these
a car
Aaron
$600 [8]
It runs down the center of the chest & your true ribs branch off of it
the sternum
Steve
$600 [22]
Under former laws, it was a person who settled on public land to acquire its title
a squatter
Steve
DD $500 [19]
Organ master & composer of the canon heard here: [Instrumental music plays]
(Johann) Pachelbel
Aaron
$800 [4]
Legend says Ulysses founded this Portuguese city, hence its ancient name, Olisipo
Lisbon
Steve
$800 [29]
"Honor wears different coats to different eyes", she wrote in "The Guns of August"
Barbara Tuchman
Steve
DD $700 [16]
6-syllable word for the U.S. anniversary celebrated in 1926
the sesquicentennial
Aaron
$800 [9]
It runs from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite the thumb
the ulna
Steve Susan
$800 [23]
In this type of marriage, legal appointees substitute for the absent couple at the ceremony
proxy
Susan
$600 [17]
His "Suite Bergamasque", in several movements, includes the celebrated "Clair De Lune"
Debussy
Aaron
$1,000 [5]
There's a park named for John F. Kennedy in this Costa Rican capital
San José
Aaron
$1,000 [30]
Her novel "So Big" tells us, "Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it"
Edna Ferber
Aaron
$1,000 [25]
His well-publicized 1925 trial was really between the modernists & the fundamentalists
(John) Scopes
Aaron
$1,000 [10]
Common name for the calcaneus, the quadrangular bone at the back of the tarsus
the heel bone
Steve Susan
$1,000 [24]
It's the legal term for a supplement or addition to a will
a codicil
Steve
$800 [18]
"Armida", an opera by this Czech composer, premiered in Prague in March 1904, 5 weeks before his death
Dvořák
Aaron Susan

Final Jeopardy!

NOVEL CHARACTERS

The next-to-last line spoken by this man is "I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't"

Rhett Butler

Steve "Who was Rhett Butler" — wagered $3,500
Susan "Who was Rhett Butler?" — wagered $5,000
Aaron "Who is Rhett Butler" — wagered $500

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