Show #2527 1995-09-05 (taped 1995-07-18) Regular

Contestants

Carol Ann Hilton — a fundraiser from Washington, D.C.

Bill Vanko — a radio news director from Ellicott City, Maryland

Mark Temares — a project manager from Garden City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,101)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $1,400 $2,600 $3,800 $3,399
3rd place: Dykstra grandfather clock + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo
$4,600
18 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Bill $1,400 $2,600 $6,400 $3,900
2nd place: Bassett dining room set & Wallace Silversmiths tea service + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo
$6,900
21 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Carol Ann $1,600 $2,700 $8,500 $12,801
New champion: $12,801
$8,300
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD WEST BIRTHDAY'S THE SAME GEMS & JEWELRY BIOLOGY CONGRESS PROVERBS
$100 [26]
When you "cashed in your chips", you headed for the "last" one of these
roundup
Bill
$100 [16]
Dan Rather, Jane Pauley & Dale Evans might enjoy bobbing for apples on this day, their birthday
October 31st
Bill
$100 [1]
This country's remaining crown jewels are in the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre
France
Mark
$100 [6]
Lipids are soluble in fat solvents & insoluble in this common liquid
water
Carol Ann
$100 [21]
In 1995, on the 1st day of the 104th Congress, 3 full standing & 25 "sub" ones of these were abolished
committees
Carol Ann
$100 [11]
"Straws show which way" this "blows"
the wind
Bill
$200 [27]
Cowboys called it black water, brown gargle & cafecito
coffee
Bill
$200 [17]
Jack LaLanne & this "Rhapsody In Blue" composer were born on September 26, but in different centuries
(George) Gershwin
Bill
$200 [2]
The finest of these red gems are obtained from limestone gravel in Myanmar
rubies
Mark
$200 [7]
In some flies this secretion contains a digestive enzyme; in bloodsuckers, an anticoagulant
saliva
Bill
$200 [22]
Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was the first to hold this top congressional post
Speaker of the House
Mark
$200 [12]
"Might makes" this
right
Bill
$300 [28]
The letters this service carried in 1860 & 1861 were carried in mochilas draped over the saddle
the Pony Express
Mark
$300 [18]
On August 15 this "French Chef" could bake a cake for herself, "Mannix" star Mike Connors & Linda Ellerbee
Julia Child
Bill
$300 [3]
This purple or violet quartz gem is thought to protect against drunkenness
amethyst
Carol Ann
$300 [8]
The pollen producer in a flower, it features an anther at its apex
a stamen
Mark
$300 [23]
The last of these rejected by the Senate was the Montreal Aviation Protocols in 1983
a treaty
Mark
$300 [13]
According to Kipling, "The female of the species is more" this "than the male"
deadly
Carol Ann
$400 [29]
Deadwood Dick & Hurricane Nell were typical characters in these pulp novels
dime novels
Mark
$400 [19]
Wayne Newton could "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round" this singer on April 3, their mutual birthday
Tony Orlando
Bill
$400 [4]
The Victorians made dark red jewelry out of the pyrope type of this gem, mined in Bohemia
garnet
Carol Ann
$400 [9]
Among the muscles, it's the antagonist of the biceps
the triceps (quadriceps)
Mark Bill
$400 [24]
In 1957 this South Carolina senator made the Senate's longest speech, 24 hours, 18 minutes
Strom Thurmond
Bill
$400 [14]
A Latin proverb says "In vino" this
veritas
Mark
$500 [30]
It was an Indian-English term for the black soldiers in the Apache wars
the Buffalo Soldiers
Carol Ann
$500 [20]
Al Pacino & this actress who played his sister in the "Godfather" films were born on April 25
Talia Shire
Carol Ann
$500 [5]
The largest cut one of these gems is the 545.67-carat Unnamed Brown
a diamond
Bill
$500 [10]
Vital for blood clotting, there are about 250,000 of them per cubic millimeter of blood
platelets
Bill Carol Ann
DD $500 [25]
This Maine senator was the first of her party to denounce Senator McCarthy on the Senate floor
Margaret Chase Smith
Bill
$500 [15]
"Iron not used soon" does this
rusts
Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY SHAKESPEARE U.S. GEOGRAPHY POPES LITERATURE 5-LETTER WORDS
$200 [21]
In 1981 Giovanni Spadolini became this country's first premier since WWII who wasn't a Christian Democrat
Italy
Bill
$200 [17]
In 1936 Orson Welles directed an all-Black cast in this play, setting it in Haiti, not in Scotland
Macbeth
Mark Bill
$200 [7]
North Dakota is divided into 53 of these, alphabetically ranging from Adams to Williams
counties
Bill
$200 [26]
Innocent III promoted the fourth of these: it captured Constantinople in 1204
a crusade
Mark
$200 [3]
This author's "A Tale of Two Cities" takes place in London & Paris during the French Revolution
Dickens
Bill
$200 [1]
The burning of one's house to collect the insurance
arson
Mark
$400 [22]
At the end of WWII, Poland received Szczecin, now one of its leading ports, from this country
Germany
Carol Ann
$400 [13]
Servilius is a servant to this title character "of Athens"
Timon
Mark
$400 [11]
St. Martinville, La. has an oak under which this Longfellow heroine is said to have met her lover
Evangeline
Mark Carol Ann
$400 [27]
Giovanni de Dolci built this official papal chapel for Pope Sixtus IV
the Sistine Chapel
Mark Carol Ann
$400 [4]
Tom & Daisy Buchanan are characters in this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
The Great Gatsby
Mark
$400 [6]
It's a mesh kitchen utensil used for straining
a sieve
Mark
$600 [23]
In 1580 Spain's King Philip II became King Philip I of this country
Portugal
Mark Carol Ann
$600 [14]
In this comedy a fairy sings, "Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen... come not near our fairy queen"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mark Carol Ann
$600 [16]
This state's most populous city is named for Andrew Jackson, once its territorial governor
Florida
Mark Carol Ann
$600 [28]
Fabian was elected pope when one of these peaceful birds landed on his head at the election
a dove
Carol Ann
$600 [5]
William Golding novel described as a "nightmarish adventure story in the Robinson Crusoe tradition"
Lord of the Flies
Bill
$600 [8]
It means to pinch the edges of a pie crust together or to make waves in the hair
crimp
Bill Carol Ann
DD $1,000 [24]
Henry of Navarre, who ruled as Henry IV, was France's first king from this house
the Bourbon house
Carol Ann
$800 [15]
The prologue of "Troilus and Cressida" describes this as "Priam's six-gated city"
Troy
Bill
$800 [19]
Historic Fort Wayne is located on West Jefferson Avenue in this Michigan city
Detroit
Carol Ann
$800 [29]
Paul VI weakened the Italian vote in this "College" by expanding it with members from the Third World
the College of Cardinals
Bill
$800 [10]
Steinbeck novel in which Lennie Small wants to "live off the fatta the lan', an' have rabbits"
Of Mice and Men
Bill
$800 [9]
In doggerel things go from bad to this
verse
Mark
$1,000 [25]
Once Napoleon's foreign minister, he helped remove Napoleon from power in 1814
Talleyrand
Carol Ann
DD $800 [18]
Of him it's said, "He doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus"
Julius Caesar
Mark
$1,000 [20]
The U.S. has 2 "Great" national parks, Great Basin & Great Smoky Mountains, & these 2 "Grand" ones
Grand Canyon & Grand Teton
$1,000 [30]
In 1960 he created the Secretariat for Christian Unity
Pope John XXIII
Bill
$1,000 [12]
His "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is largely autobiographical
(James) Joyce
Mark
$1,000 [2]
To gather leftover grain
glean
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

Licensing rights to the likeness of this man born in Germany in 1879 belong to Jerusalem's Hebrew University

Albert Einstein

Mark "Who isHitler?" — wagered $401
Bill "Who is Adolph Hitler?" — wagered $2,500
Carol Ann "Who is Albert Einstein?" — wagered $4,301

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