Show #2566 1995-10-30 Regular

Contestants

Judy Conrad — a teacher from Cumberland, Maryland

Marty Johns — an engineer from Stow, Ohio

Tom Welch — an accountant originally from Bedford, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,412)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $900 $2,700 $4,300 $2,300
2nd place: Lloyd/Flanders Heirloom Series wicker furniture & New Braunfels smoker grill + Jeopardy! home game & GameTek Jeopardy!
$4,300
14 R, 2 W
Marty $1,400 $3,700 $10,500 $11,000
New champion: $11,000
$11,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Judy $1,000 $1,800 $600 $700
3rd place: Samsung fax machine + Jeopardy! home game & GameTek Jeopardy!
$2,600
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE IN HISTORY AMUSEMENT PARKS MUSIC CLASS COOKIES & CANDY AROUND ITALY THE "LONG" & THE "SHORT" OF IT
$100 [1]
She was 18 when she married 17-year-old Ferdinand of Aragon
Isabella
Judy
$100 [6]
Wonderland in Toronto has a "Days of Thunder" motion simulator that puts you in one of these vehicles
a race car
Judy
$100 [9]
It's the male singing voice between bass & tenor
baritone
Judy
$100 [10]
This mountainous European country is the home of Toblerone chocolate bars
Switzerland
Tom
$100 [11]
A 1966 flood of the Arno destroyed shops on this city's Ponte Vecchio as well as art in the Uffizi
Florence
Tom
$100 [17]
As Diane Chambers on "Cheers", she jilted Kelsey Grammer's character, Dr. Frasier Crane
Shelley Long
Judy
$200 [2]
Explorer William Clark nicknamed this Shoshone woman "Janey"
Sacajawea
Judy
$200 [7]
You've read this hero's comics & seen his movies; now you can ride "The Ride" at California's Magic Mountain
Batman
$200 [22]
It's a folk song that tells a story, "On Top Of Old Smoky" is an example
a ballad
Tom
$200 [13]
Created in 1930, these original chocolate chip cookies are named for a Massachusetts inn
Toll House
Marty
$200 [12]
These lead from Rome's Piazza di Spagna up to the Trinita dei Monti Church
the Spanish Steps
Judy
$200 [18]
A savory version of this dish may be topped with chicken, but many prefer the strawberry dessert
shortcake
Judy
$300 [3]
This automobile manufacturer was born in Michigan July 30, 1863, a few weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg
(Henry) Ford
Judy
$300 [8]
You can ride the Hoosier Hurricane in this state, at a park in Monticello
Indiana
Marty
$300 [28]
3 of the most common ones of these in western music are 4/4, 3/4 & 6/8
the meter
Tom Marty Judy
$300 [24]
It's the 24-hour period when you collect your wages, or the peanut caramel bar you may buy with the money
payday
Marty
$300 [14]
It's said Hercules founded this town that was buried by a volcano in 79 A.D.
Herculaneum
Tom
$300 [19]
It's a rail route that covers a limited distance, perhaps on a Monopoly board
a short line
Tom
$400 [4]
For a brief time in 1890 this inventor made talking dolls, but their voices were "exceedingly unpleasant"
Edison
Tom
$400 [23]
Kings Dominion in Virginia & Carowinds in North Carolina include his "World"; way, no way, way!
Wayne
Judy
$400 [29]
Section of the orchestra in which you'd find a glockenspiel
percussion
Marty
$400 [26]
It's the company that makes Nutter Butters, Lorna Doones & Mallomars
Nabisco
Judy
$400 [15]
Real or not, Juliet's tomb is a tourist attraction in this city
Verona
Marty
$400 [20]
This 19th century American not only wrote poems, he translated poetry from at least 11 languages
Longfellow
Marty
$500 [5]
In 1587 this courtier, a favorite of Elizabeth I, became captain of the queen's guard
Sir Walter Raleigh
Marty
$500 [25]
These fish parks in Florida, Texas & Ohio have added a monster marsh complete with dinosaurs
SeaWorld
Marty
$500 [30]
Classified by tempo, these musical pieces can be funeral, quick or double quick
marches
$500 [27]
Yes, my dear, the name of these Italian-made hazelnut chocolates is French for "my dear"
Mon Cheri
Tom
DD $1,000 [16]
Europe's biggest boat show is held in this city, Italy's biggest port
Genoa
Marty
$500 [21]
He was an Emmy-winning writer for "SCTV" before he joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live"
Martin Short
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS FOREIGN CURRENCY CONGRESS "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS THEATRE HELLO, DOLLEY
$200 [13]
He's the physicist called "The Father of Relativity"
Albert Einstein
Marty Judy
$200 [3]
During the 1950s some Egyptian coins depicted this monument that guards the pyramids
the Sphinx
Tom
$200 [8]
Before moving to Washington, Congress met in this city's Congress Hall from 1790 to 1800
Philadelphia
Marty Judy
$200 [18]
It registers pedigreed purebred pooches
the American Kennel Club
Marty
$200 [26]
In 1994 he revised his 1966 play "Don't Drink the Water" for TV
Woody Allen
$200 [1]
She hosted the first of these in Washington the evening of her husband's swearing-in ceremony
the inaugural ball
Judy
$400 [14]
Bituminous & anthracite types of this occur mainly in Carboniferous strata
coal
Marty
$400 [4]
100 German pfennigs are equivalent to this monetary unit
the mark
Marty
$400 [9]
This Senate committee recommends approval or rejection of treaties
Foreign Relations
Marty
$400 [19]
One of the reasons it was founded in 1847 was to improve public health
the American Medical Association
Tom Marty
$400 [27]
In this play Gooper & Brick are sons of Big Daddy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Judy
$400 [2]
This N.Y. senator, later a famous duellist, introduced Dolley to James
(Aaron) Burr
Tom Judy
$600 [15]
One thing that distinguishes men from apes is bipedalism, which is this
walking on two feet
Marty
$600 [5]
According to some sources, this Hebrew currency was first coined in the 2nd century B.C.
the shekel
Marty
$800 [11]
In 1952 this Speaker of the House from Texas banned television cameras from House committee sessions
Sam Rayburn
Marty
$600 [20]
It created controversy in 1978 when it supported American Nazis' right to march in Skokie, Ill.
the American Civil Liberties Union
Marty
$600 [28]
In March 1995 Maria Conchita Alonso replaced Vanessa Williams on Broadway in this musical set in South America
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Tom
$600 [23]
This "Rip Van Winkle" author called Mrs. Madison "a fine, portly, buxom dame"
Washington Irving
Judy
$800 [16]
Ben Franklin watched these brothers demonstrate their balloon in Paris in November 1789
the Montgolfier brothers
$800 [6]
In 1993 Armenia replaced this currency with the dram
the ruble
Marty
$1,000 [12]
A person who refuses to cooperate with a congressional subpoena can be charged with this misdemeanor
contempt of Congress
Marty
$800 [21]
Founded in 1919, it drafted the G.I. Bill of Rights, passed in 1944
the American Legion
Tom
$1,000 [25]
After leaving Washington in 1817, Dolley continued to entertain grandly at this Virginia estate
Montpelier
Tom
$1,000 [17]
Mathematician John von Neumann defended this Manhattan Project director against disloyalty charges
Oppenheimer
Marty
$1,000 [7]
The Netherlands Antilles uses this monetary unit as its official currency
the guilder
Tom
DD $1,400 [10]
Congress overrode only 9 of this president's record 635 vetoes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Marty
$1,000 [22]
The ALP, it supported the Democrats in the 1936, 1940 & 1944 presidential elections & was dissolved in 1956
the American Labor Party
Marty
DD $2,000 [24]
Before becoming a first lady she was a cabinet wife, since James was part of this president's cabinet
Thomas Jefferson
Judy

Final Jeopardy!

ANNUAL EVENTS

Between 1903 & the present, this event took place every year but 2: 1904 & 1994

the World Series

Judy "What is the World Series?" — wagered $100
Tom "What is Arbor Day?" — wagered $2,000
Marty "What is The World Series?" — wagered $500

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