Show #2563 1995-10-25 Regular

Contestants

Steve Boyd — a Latin teacher from Hagerstown, Maryland

Clytie David — a secretary from Forest Hills, New York

Dennis Jones — an analyst from Springfield, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dennis $600 $3,500 $10,200 $7,199
2nd place: General Instrument satellite system & Samsung 25" TV + Jeopardy home game & electronic game from Tiger
$9,700
24 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Clytie $2,000 $2,700 $3,500 $0
3rd place: Towle coffee/tea service + Jeopardy home game & electronic game from Tiger
$6,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Steve $2,000 $2,800 $6,600 $8,200
New champion: $8,200
$6,600
19 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS ABBREVIATIONS NORSE MYTHOLOGY THE FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK THE FUN '50s FRANKS & FRANKLINS
$100 [8]
His mother, the former Hannah Milhous, hoped he'd become a Quaker missionary
Richard Nixon
Steve
$100 [1]
It's what SWAK stands for on the back of an envelope
sealed with a kiss
Dennis
$100 [6]
He hurled his hammer to kill the mighty giant Hrungnir
Thor
Steve
$100 [21]
Boston favorite cake is basically this other "Boston" dessert without the custard filling
a Boston cream pie
Steve
$100 [26]
It was the two-word term for shoeless dances held in school gymnasiums
a sock hop
Steve
$100 [16]
He's the man on the bill that's the value of this answer
Benjamin Franklin
Dennis Steve
$200 [12]
In 1994 this former president went to Haiti to help restore the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jimmy Carter
Steve
$200 [2]
When used as a title of respect, Hon. stands for this
honorable
Clytie
$200 [7]
Skadi chose a husband by looking only at these extremities protruding beneath a curtain
feet
Dennis
$200 [25]
These beans found in succotash are also a traditional ingredient in Brunswick stew
lima beans
Dennis
$200 [27]
This fad that peaked in 1958 was inspired by bamboo rings used in Australian gym classes
the hula hoop
Dennis
$200 [17]
He wanted to study architecture at the University of Wisconsin in the 1880s, but it wasn't offered
Frank Lloyd Wright
Steve
$300 [13]
In his will he asked to be buried at the side of his wife Rachel in the garden of the Hermitage
Andrew Jackson
Steve
$300 [3]
To an investor, the S & P in the S & P 500 stands for this
Standard and Poor
Dennis
$300 [9]
This supreme god is known by many epithets, including Veratyr, "Lord of Men", & Ygg, "The Awful"
Odin
Steve
$300 [22]
This essential gumbo ingredient may be sliced & cooked with corn, tomatoes, green pepper & onion
okra
Dennis
$300 [28]
This "quiz champ" was on the cover of the February 11, 1957 issue of Time magazine
Charles Van Doren
Clytie
$300 [18]
In 1882 there was a $10,000 dead or alive reward for him & his brother
Frank James
Dennis
$400 [14]
Sadly, he was the first president whose parents survived him
JFK
Clytie Steve
$400 [4]
Someone who gambles on horse races should know that OTB stands for this
off track betting
Clytie
$400 [10]
Audhumla, the first of these farm animals, nourished the first giant, Ymir, with her milk
a cow
Steve
$400 [23]
Fannie's recipe for crabmeat Indienne calls for this powder
curry powder
Dennis
$400 [29]
This fashion that began in 1953 had men on the streets exposing their knees
Bermuda shorts
Dennis
$400 [19]
1 of the 3 Franks in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
(1 of) Frank Gifford (Frank Kinard, Frank Gatski)
Clytie
DD $1,000 [15]
He published "Principles of Mining" in 1909 & "Fishing for Fun" in 1963
Hoover
Clytie
$500 [5]
This book of the Bible is sometimes abbreviated Ez.
Ezekiel
Steve
$500 [11]
Fafnir transformed himself into one of these mythical beasts in order to guard his golden treasure
a dragon
Steve
$500 [24]
It's the vegetable needed to make shirred eggs Florentine
spinach
Steve
$500 [30]
He was the "good-looking" wrestler famous for spraying the ring with perfume
Gorgeous George
Dennis
$500 [20]
He went up in Gemini 7 & Apollo 8
Frank Borman
Dennis

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT GREECE LAKES & RIVERS THE MOVIES MAMMALS LITERATURE ART POTPOURRI
$200 [7]
In 373 B.C. an earthquake destroyed the temple of Apollo at this site famous for its Oracle
Delphi
Steve
$200 [24]
Xochimilco in this country is famous for its "floating gardens"
Mexico
Dennis
$200 [1]
This 1964 Disney film starring Julie Andrews won an Oscar for its visual effects
Mary Poppins
Clytie
$200 [3]
True to its name, the bighorn type of this animal has curved horns that may reach 4 feet in length
sheep
Dennis
$200 [11]
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" is a grim account of this city's stockyards
Chicago
Dennis
$200 [18]
Some paints are made by mixing powdered pigments with the linseed or walnut type of this
oil
Dennis
$400 [8]
This warlike city-state conquered Messenia in the 8th century B.C.
Sparta
Clytie
$400 [25]
In 1973 Lake Edward in the south of this country was renamed for Idi Amn
Uganda
Clytie
$400 [2]
In titles of films, this name precedes "Prince of Thieves" & "Men in Tights"
Robin Hood
Dennis
$400 [4]
The domesticated form of this Tibetan ox is Central Asia's chief beast of burden
the yak
Dennis
$400 [12]
The narrator of this Harper Lee novel is a young southern girl named Scout
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dennis
$400 [19]
Eugene Delacroix painted the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in this Paris museum
the Louvre
Steve
$600 [9]
In the comedies of Aristophanes, this dramatic group had 24 members
the chorus
Dennis
$600 [26]
Famous for its many chateaux, this river was called the Liger by the Romans
the Loire
Clytie
$600 [23]
In this film Humphrey Bogart tells Katharine Hepburn, "Lady, you got ten absurd ideas for my one!"
The African Queen
Steve
$600 [5]
Peba is another name for the nine-banded species of this creature
the armadillo
Dennis
$600 [13]
This Albert Camus novel was published in England under the title "The Outsider"
The Stranger
Steve
$600 [20]
In 1958 this Spanish surrealist painted art collector Chester Dale & his dog Coco
Salvador Dalí
Clytie
$800 [14]
The largest land battle of this war took place during the 6-year Peace of Nicias
the Peloponnesian War
Clytie
$1,000 [30]
Lake Garda is this nation's largest lake
Italy
Dennis
$800 [28]
Songs heard on the soundtrack of this 1977 film include "Jive Talkin"' & "You Should Be Dancing"
Saturday Night Fever
$800 [6]
The size of a small fox, a primate called the aye-aye is found only on this island off Africa's coast
Madagascar
Steve
$800 [16]
The main character in his "L'Education sentimentale" has been called "a sort of male Emma Bovary"
Gustave Flaubert
$800 [21]
Begun in 1929, murals by this artist from Guanajuato adorn the Palacio de Cortes in Cuernavaca
Diego Rivera
Clytie Steve
$1,000 [15]
This greatest Greek orator was already 30 when he made his first major speech before the Assembly
Demosthenes
Dennis
DD $3,000 [27]
This southernmost of the Great Lakes was called Lac du Chat by French explorers
Lake Erie
Clytie
$1,000 [29]
An 18" Capuchin monkey named Monkey was 1 of 5 used in this 1995 Dustin Hoffman film
Outbreak
Steve
DD $1,500 [10]
This mammal whose name is from the Greek for "flatfooted" has webbed feet
the platypus
Dennis
$1,000 [17]
This author's 1981 book "Peace Breaks Out" didn't fare as well as "A Separate Peace"
John Knowles
$1,000 [22]
This Flemish artist known for painting fleshy females completed "The Garden of Love" around 1632
Peter Paul Rubens
Steve

Final Jeopardy!

NATIVE AMERICANS

Indian tribes own more acreage in this state than in any other

Arizona

Clytie "What is Alaska?" — wagered $3,500
Steve "What is Arizona?" — wagered $1,600
Dennis "What is Alaska?" — wagered $3,001

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