Show #2431 1995-03-13 (taped 1994-11-30) Regular

Contestants

Chris Garvin — an environmental engineering student from Troy, New York

Julie Bell — a business attorney from Washington, D.C.

Gord Brown — an editor and writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gord $1,500 $2,600 $4,100 $900
2nd place: a trip to Honolulu, Hawaii aboard TWA + a week at the Pacific Beach Hotel in Honolulu
$5,500
22 R (including 1 DD), 9 W (including 1 DD)
Julie $800 $3,100 $7,100 $5,999
New champion: $5,999
$7,100
20 R, 0 W
Chris $600 $1,100 $900 $42
3rd place: Cazal 951 & 955 fashion sunglasses & sports systems w/interchangeable bands
$900
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ORGANS PIERRES CELEBRES RELIGION FRUITS & VEGETABLES AMERICANA ANAGRAMS
$100 [3]
Its name is akin to the Latin "lingua"
the tongue
Gord
$100 [12]
Pierre Boulle wrote "The Bridge on the River Kwai" & "The Planet of" these animals
the Apes
Gord
$100 [1]
In Tibetan Buddhism, the Panchen Lama was second only to this one in authority
the Dalai Lama
Julie
$100 [17]
This orange root vegetable belongs to the same family as celery & parsley
a carrot
Julie
$100 [8]
A $100 bill shows a picture of Benjamin Franklin on the front & this building on the back
Independence Hall
Gord
$100 [23]
A spy might use the invisible type of this to send messages to his kin
ink (for kin)
Gord
$200 [4]
Elderly people sometimes have dark skin spots named for this organ
the liver
Chris
$200 [13]
This state's capital is named for fur trader Pierre Chouteau
South Dakota
Chris
$200 [2]
For Muslims, this book corrects & completes revelations given to earlier prophets
the Koran
Chris
$200 [18]
The Crenshaw is a type of this with green skin & salmon-colored flesh
a melon
Julie
$200 [9]
You can observe the big-sea-water of Lake Superior in a Michigan forest named for this Indian hero
Hiawatha
Gord
$200 [27]
Many collectors file away copies of this magazine
Life (for file)
Julie
$300 [5]
A blue baby is born with this organ defective; it can now be corrected with surgery
the heart
Gord
$300 [16]
In 1898 he & his wife told of finding an element hundreds of times as radioactive as uranium
Pierre Curie
Julie
$300 [6]
The Falashas, an Ethiopian sect of this religion, trace descent from Solomon & the Queen of Sheba
Judaism
Julie
$300 [19]
A compound called capsaicin puts the varying degrees of hot in different types of these
a pepper
Julie
$300 [10]
Among Ivy League colleges, they're nicknamed "The Big 3"
Harvard, Princeton & Yale
Gord
$300 [28]
Sidney won't watch any films that weren't made by this studio
Disney (for Sidney)
Julie
$400 [14]
An eye bank arranges transplants of this transparent outer part of the eye
the cornea
Gord
$400 [25]
In April 1968, less than 3 years after taking his first public office, he was made P.M. of Canada
Pierre Trudeau
Julie
$400 [7]
Mostly Dominicans & Franciscans staffed this heretic-seeking tribunal set up in 1231
the Inquisition
Gord Julie
$400 [20]
The new yellow pear variety of this is used in much the same way as the cherry type
tomatoes
Chris
$400 [22]
Airports in Barrow, Alaska & Renton, Washington are named for this pair who died in a 1935 plane crash
Will Rogers & Wiley Post
Chris
$400 [29]
If an artist doesn't own this kind of support, he should lease one
easel (for lease)
Gord
$500 [15]
Hail, hail, the basal ganglia is all here in this organ
the brain
Gord
$500 [26]
This French Impressionist is known for works like "The Loge" & for his filmmaker son, Jean
(Pierre) Renoir
Gord
$500 [11]
Term for the religious images venerated in Orthodox churches
icons
Gord
$500 [21]
To make moussaka use one of these purple vegetables
an eggplant
Julie
DD $600 [24]
The Bowery area of New York City was named for the farm of this Dutch colonial governor
(Peter) Stuyvesant
Gord
$500 [30]
Nina's hobbies are pressing petals in a scrapbook & collecting these items of tableware
plates (for petals)
Gord Chris

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 16th CENTURY LAKES & RIVERS MUSICAL THEATRE CONGRESS MAMMALS LITERARY ALLUSIONS
$200 [6]
She was only 6 days old when she became Scotland's queen in 1542
Mary, Queen of Scots
Julie
$200 [14]
It's the largest river that empties into the Gulf of Mexico
the Mississippi
Gord
$200 [11]
Rosie O'Donnell played the tart-tongued Rizzo in the 1994 revival of this musical set in the '50s
Grease
Julie
$200 [18]
TV cameras were admitted to the Senate chambers in 1974 when N. Rockefeller was sworn into this job
vice president
Julie
$200 [21]
The blue bear, whose fur appears bluish, lives in this U.S. state—maybe it's cold
Alaska
Chris
$200 [1]
The name of this Washington Irving sleepyhead came to symbolize a person who's out of step with the times
Rip Van Winkle
Gord Chris
$400 [7]
The ruins of Pompeii, destroyed by this volcano's eruption, were discovered late in the century
Vesuvius
Julie
$400 [15]
The Dordogne River, which eventually joins the Garonne, is one of this country's longest rivers
France
Julie
$400 [12]
Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote this "regal" musical for Gertrude Lawrence, who played Anna in it
The King and I
Julie
$400 [22]
Since 1787 Congress has presented only 33 of these to the states; 6 were not ratified
amendments to the Constitution
Gord
$400 [27]
Of the average man, mouse or warthog, the one who can run fastest at its top speed
the warthog
Gord Chris
$400 [2]
Ali Baba's 2-word command, it signifies something that brings about a desired result, as if by magic
open sesame
Gord
$600 [8]
On April 18, 1506, Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone for this church
St. Peter's
Julie
$600 [16]
Lakes Winnipeg & Winnipegosis in this Canadian province are remnants of the glacial Lake Agassiz
Manitoba
Gord
$600 [13]
This "Cabaret" star played George M. Cohan in the 1968 musical "George M!"
Joel Grey
Gord
$600 [23]
The privilege of sending mail by putting a signature on the envelope is called this
franking
Gord
$600 [28]
The Bedlington terrier is named for a coal-mining area in this country
England
Gord
$600 [3]
Uncouth boors have been called Yahoos ever since this 18th century satirist coined the term — think "fast"
Jonathan Swift
Gord
$800 [9]
In 1590 John White returned to this island to find its settlers gone, including his granddaughter Virginia Dare
Roanoke Island
Julie
$800 [17]
This second-largest African lake separates Tanzania from Zaire
Lake Tanganyika
Gord Chris
$800 [19]
This dancer who says he's 5 feet 18 1/2 inches tall directed & choreographed "Grand Hotel"
Tommy Tune
Julie
$800 [24]
This chair of the Senate Watergate Committee first entered the House to complete his brother's term
Sam Ervin
Gord
$800 [4]
Someone who teaches crimes to others is called this, after the twisted old gang leader in "Oliver Twist"
Fagin
Gord
$1,000 [10]
In 1522 the Ottoman Turks seized this Greek island, forcing the Knights Hospitalers to flee
Rhodes
Gord Chris
$1,000 [26]
On its way from the Andes to the Pacific, the Loa river flows through this Chilean desert
the Atacama
$1,000 [20]
This composer's "Passion" won the 1994 Tony for Best Musical
Stephen Sondheim
DD $1,500 [25]
This Democrat won his fourth Senate term in 1994 but lost his Finance Committee chair to the GOP
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (of New York)
Gord
$1,000 [5]
The title of O. Henry's book "Cabbages and Kings" comes from Lewis Carroll's poem about this duo
the Walrus & the Carpenter
Gord

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CURRENCY

On an alphabetical list of the world's basic monetary units, this one is last

the złoty

Chris "What is the zaire?" — wagered $858
Gord "What is the zlotny" — wagered $3,200
Julie "What is yen?" — wagered $1,101

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