Show #2554 1995-10-12 Regular

Contestants

Maureen Delgado — a foreign language teacher from Cyprus, Texas

Rob Fisher — a math teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Les Muldorf — an endodontist from Poughkeepsie, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Les $1,600 $3,000 $10,100 $4,399
2nd place: the Directions bedroom by Broyhill Premiere + numbered & signed limited edition serigraph Hollywood in the 30's by Linnea Pergola from Martin Lawrence Galleries + GameTek Jeopardy!
$9,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Rob $500 $2,700 $7,900 $5,700
New champion: $5,700
$6,700
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Maureen $2,400 $3,300 $5,700 $0
3rd place: RCA home theater laserdisc & CD player + GameTek Jeopardy!
$5,300
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY GUINNESS RECORDS GEOLOGY U.S. MUSEUMS POTPOURRI THE GAME SHOW NETWORK
$100 [11]
German admiral Karl Doenitz was convicted at these war crimes trials in 1946
Nuremberg
Maureen
$100 [21]
With 8,151, Alan Rumbell holds the record for the one-arm type of these; let's see Jack Palance beat that
push-ups
Rob
$100 [1]
Fumaroles are found near active ones of these
volcanoes
Les Maureen
$100 [16]
A Louisville museum honors this founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Harland Sanders
Rob
$100 [2]
He's the sprite who traces icy patterns on your windows
Jack Frost
Les
$100 [26]
Tom Selleck, Michael Jackson & Arnold Schwarzenegger were among the bachelors on this Jim Lange show
The Dating Game
Rob
$200 [12]
In the 1950s the last French prisoners left this rocky islet
Devil's Island
Rob
$200 [22]
To make one of these, you have to break some eggs; to make the largest one, you have to break over 160,000
an omelette
Maureen
$200 [5]
A rift valley is bounded by this type of line where you can really feel the earth move
a fault line
Les
$200 [17]
The National Civil Rights Museum is housed at the Memphis motel where he was slain in 1968
Martin Luther King
Les
$200 [3]
Some American Indians ornamented their moccasins with this rodent's quills
a porcupine
Maureen
$200 [27]
The Hatfields once faced off against the McCoys on this game hosted by Richard Dawson
Family Feud
Les
$300 [13]
In the early 17th century, the college of James VI became the university of this Scottish city
Edinburgh
Maureen
$300 [23]
Team Disney in Florida has the largest of these timepieces that only work in daylight
a sundial
Rob
$300 [6]
Material from denudation is found in this class of rocks that includes shale
sedimentary
Les
$300 [18]
One of the galleries at the Museum of Yachting in Rhode Island is devoted to this race
the America's Cup
Rob
$300 [4]
If a debutante receives several of these floral accessories, she may wear them on a ribbon tied around her wrist
a corsage
Rob
$300 [28]
On this show the host asked at the end of the voting, "Will the real (John Doe) please stand up!"
To Tell the Truth
Maureen
$500 [15]
In 1805 Muhammad Ali, a tobacco merchant, was appointed governor of this country by the Ottoman sultan
Egypt
$400 [24]
During a 1951 chase in New South Wales, a female of these animals made a 42-foot leap
a kangaroo
Maureen
$400 [7]
Running along the coastline of North America & other land masses, it's covered by up to 600' of seawater
the continental shelf
Les
$400 [19]
The museum of this Cabinet department features exhibits on conservation & natural resource development
the Department of the Interior
Rob
$400 [9]
Some fine specimens of the fire type of this silica gemstone have been found in Honduras
opals
Maureen
$400 [29]
The categories on this Jack Barry show appeared in the windows of a giant slot machine
The Joker's Wild
Rob
DD $800 [14]
From 1682 to 1689 this Czar shared the throne with half brother Ivan V under half sister Sophia's regency
Peter the Great
Maureen
$500 [25]
In 1990 Sadao Harada & friends flew 11,284 of these on a single line
kites
Les
$500 [8]
A zinc ore was named for this British chemist who also had an American institution named for him
(James) Smithson
Maureen
$500 [20]
The home of this doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth is now a museum in Waldorf, Maryland
(Dr.) Mudd
Les
$500 [10]
Some believe this "Aida" composer's first opera, "Rocester", is lost; others believe it's part of "Oberto"
Verdi
Les
$500 [30]
On its first show, February 2, 1950, the mystery guest was Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto
What's My Line?
Rob

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL PEOPLE NEWSPAPERS VICE PRESIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE THEATRE HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS
$200 [8]
Only one gospel mentions Jesus raising this man from the dead
Lazarus
Rob
$200 [16]
The Rocky Mountain News was founded in this capital city in 1859
Denver
Maureen
$200 [1]
Nicknamed "Rocky", he was born in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1908
Nelson Rockefeller
Maureen
$200 [22]
Popular with kids, they're 2 single beds, one above another, with a ladder
bunk beds
Les
$200 [2]
Ethel Merman sang "Anything You Can Do" in this musical about Annie Oakley
Annie Get Your Gun
Maureen
$200 [17]
Sam Levenson joked, "Lead us not into" this; "Just tell us where it is; we'll find it"
temptation
Les
$400 [10]
His name is sometimes given as Cephas, which also means "rock"
Peter
Maureen
$400 [27]
Papers in this state include the New Haven Register & the Waterbury Republican & American
Connecticut
Maureen
$400 [7]
His father, Theofraste Anagnostopoulos, immigrated to the U.S. from Greece around 1900
Spiro Agnew
Les
$400 [23]
If you don't have a wet bar, you can store this in a cabinet called a cellarette
wine
Les Rob Maureen
$400 [3]
T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral' deals with the murder of this man
Thomas Becket
Rob
$400 [18]
Ogden Nash rhymed, "Here's a good rule of thumb: too clever is" this
dumb
Maureen
$600 [11]
This third son of Adam & Eve was an ancestor of Noah
Seth
Les Maureen
$600 [28]
This St. Louis newspaper won Pulitzers for meritorious public service in 1937, 1941, 1948 & 1952
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rob
$600 [9]
After leaving office in 1969, he returned to teaching at Macalester college in St. Paul, Minnesota
Humphrey
Les
$600 [24]
For cooking chicken, you might use one of these small ovens with an electrically-turned spit
a rotisserie
Les
$600 [4]
This famous 1962 drama has only 4 characters: Martha, George, Nick & Honey
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Les
$600 [19]
Mountain climber who said, "There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti"
Hilary
Rob
$1,000 [13]
Before his death, he consulted with the spirit of Samuel, who predicted his defeat
Saul
Rob
$800 [29]
CNN host Larry King is a columnist for this newspaper's "Life" section
USA Today
$1,000 [15]
For his WWI reparations plan, this vice president under Calvin Coolidge won a 1925 Nobel Peace Prize
Charles Dawes
$800 [25]
It's the French term for a tall, movable cupboard or wardrobe
an armoire
Maureen
$800 [5]
Charles Condomine is haunted by both his late wives in this Noel Coward farce
Blithe Spirit
Rob
$800 [20]
Comic Steven Wright wondered "If Miles Davis is known as" this "in Europe"
Kilometers Davis
Les
DD $1,500 [12]
She was the daughter-in-law of Naomi & the great-grandmother of King David
Ruth
Les
DD $2,000 [14]
He was Harry Truman's second choice for vice president; William O. Douglas was first
Alben Barkley
Rob
$1,000 [26]
Named for an earl, it's a large, overstuffed sofa with upright armrests
a Chesterfield
Les
$1,000 [6]
Based on a true incident, this 1990 play tells of an imposter who claims to be Sidney Poitier's son
Six Degrees of Separation
Les
$1,000 [21]
This philosopher asked, "Is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?"
Friedrich Nietzsche

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NOVELS

The first of the 7 commandments in this 1945 novel is "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy"

Animal Farm

Maureen "What is the Naked & the Dead" — wagered $5,700
Rob "What is ?" — wagered $2,200
Les "What: ?" — wagered $5,701

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