Show #2324 1994-10-13 (taped 1994-08-23) Regular

Contestants

Mark Maginity — an actuary from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sally Adams — a project coordinator from Washington, D.C.

Bill Schilling — a financial aid director from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $1,600 $2,700 $5,300 $1,001
2nd place: trip on TWA to Orlando & stay at Marriott Orlando World Center + Jeopardy! home game
$5,300
16 R, 2 W
Sally $-200 $1,700 $500 $1
3rd place: Castaldo crystal collection + Jeopardy! home game
$400
13 R (including 2 DDs), 9 W
Mark $2,400 $2,800 $10,700 $10,601
New champion: $10,601
$10,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

1895 SONG LYRICS BRIDGES MATH LIQUEURS 4-LETTER WORDS
$100 [1]
He followed the success of "The Red Badge of Courage" with "The Black Riders and Other Lines"
Stephen Crane
Mark
$100 [17]
"I'm wearing second hand hats, second hand clothes, that's why they call me" this
"Second Hand Rose"
Bill Sally
$100 [22]
During its 50th anniversary party in 1987, so many people crowded this Calif. bridge some feared it might collapse
the Golden Gate Bridge
Sally
$100 [3]
Anything that occurs semimonthly will happen this many times in 1 year
24
Bill
$100 [15]
Flavor in common to creme de cerise & maraschino
cherry
Sally
$100 [10]
Before an Oscar winner is announced, this is broken on the envelope containing the name
a seal
Bill
$200 [2]
In 1895 this country ceded Taiwan to Japan
China
Mark
$200 [27]
"On a day like today, we passed the time away writing" these
"Love Letters In The Sand"
$200 [23]
Rededicated in Arizona in 1971, Guinness calls it "the largest antique ever sold"
London Bridge
Sally
$200 [6]
Term for a polygon that has twice as many sides as a pentagon
a decagon
Mark
$200 [18]
Southern Comfort is from the U.S.; Yukon Jack is from this country
Canada
Bill Sally
$200 [11]
Cut into cube-shaped pieces
dice
Bill
$300 [4]
U.S. Sec'y of State Richard Olney invoked this doctrine against Britain in a border dispute with Venezuela
the Monroe Doctrine
Bill
$300 [28]
"I bless the day I found you, I want to stay around you, and so I beg you" this
"Let It Be Me"
Sally
$300 [24]
Between 1959 & 1962, a lower deck with 6 more traffic lanes was added to this bridge over the Hudson
the George Washington Bridge
Bill
$300 [7]
Size of an angle complementary to one of 85º
Sally Mark
$300 [19]
If you wake up & smell this, it could be Kahlua or Pasha
coffee
Sally
$300 [12]
It's a feudal estate
a fief
Mark
$400 [5]
Sir William Ramsay isolated this light gas, atomic number 2, from the mineral cleveite
helium
Mark
$400 [29]
"They said someday you'll find, all who love are blind, when your heart's on fire, you must realize" this
"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"
Mark
$400 [25]
In 1986 B the King Fahd Causeway opened, linking Bahrain with this country
Saudi Arabia
Sally
$400 [8]
A tangent touches a circle at 1 point & this is a line that touches at 2 points
a secant
Mark
$400 [20]
The aniseed in pernod gives it an this distinctive candy flavor
licorice
Sally
$400 [13]
The name of this fruit also means something very desirable
a plum
Bill
$500 [16]
In Jan. Carsten Borchgrevink was a member of the first party to set foot on this continent's main part
Antarctica
Sally
$500 [30]
"Never thought I'd fall, but now I hear love call, I'm gettin'" this
"I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"
DD $600 [26]
The name of this Italian bridge comes from the lamentations of prisoners who were forced to cross it
the Bridge of Sighs
Sally
$500 [9]
Euclid provided a proof that the number of these is infinite; in 1992 one with 227,832 digits was found
a prime number
Mark
$500 [21]
Herbs, heather honey & this liquor are blended in Drambuie
scotch
Bill
$500 [14]
It can precede row, road or doo
skid
Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES CANADA QUOTATIONS BLACK AMERICA RELIGION OPERA SETTINGS
$200 [1]
After leaving the White House, she helped plan her husband's presidential library in Atlanta
Rosalynn Carter
Mark
$200 [26]
It's the language of instruction at the University of Ste.-Anne in Nova Scotia
French
$200 [21]
Jerome K. Jerome wrote, "It is impossible to enjoy idling... unless one has plenty of" this "to do"
work
Bill
$200 [16]
A former home of this "Roots" author in Henning, Tenn. is now a state historic site
Alex Haley
Mark
$200 [6]
These officials appointed by the pope rank second to him in authority & dignity
cardinals
Sally
$200 [11]
In "Il piccolo Marat", terror reigns in this capital city after the murder of Marat
Paris
Mark
$400 [2]
She missed her husband's 1797 inauguration because she was nursing his sick mother in Massachusetts
Abigail Adams
Sally Mark
$400 [27]
The Grouse Mountain Skyride takes visitors 3,700 feet above this British Columbia city
Vancouver
Sally
$400 [22]
Francis Bacon wrote of "the wisdom of" these animals,"that shed tears when they would, devour"
crocodiles
Mark
$400 [17]
In 1994 this New Jersey-born boxer, the oldest man to win the heavyweight title, died at age 80
Jersey Joe Walcott
Bill
$400 [7]
In the Sahara these Islamic houses of worship may be no more than a half circle of stones
mosques
Mark
$400 [12]
Puccini set his opera "The Witches" in this dark, wooded area of Germany
the Black Forest
Mark
$600 [3]
She was twice named to the list of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America"
Hillary Clinton
Sally
$600 [28]
Old Wives Lake lies southwest of Regina in this province, & that's not an old wives' tale
Saskatchewan
Bill
$600 [23]
Ralph Waldo Emerson defined it as "a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered"
a weed
Mark
$600 [18]
In 1946 Judge William H. Hastie became the 1st Black governor of this U.S. possession in the Caribbean
the Virgin Islands
Bill
$600 [8]
This religious movement first received its name at the Diet of Speyer in 1529
Protestantism
Bill
$600 [13]
This opera based on a Herman Melville book is set on the H.M.S. Indomitable in 1797
Billy Budd
Mark
$800 [4]
Besides Frances Cleveland, she was the only other presidential widow to remarry
Jackie Kennedy Onassis
Bill
$800 [29]
A Micmac Indian legend says this small island province was the favorite island of a god named Glooscap
Prince Edward Island
Mark
$800 [24]
Boswell's "Life of Johnson" quotes this American's "Man is a tool-making animal"
Ben Franklin
$800 [19]
When Malcolm X joined the Black Muslims, he dropped this last name
Little
Sally
$800 [9]
It's the chief form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet
Lamaism
Sally
$800 [14]
This 1850 opera famous for its wedding march is set in the Antwerp area in the 10th century
Lohengrin
Bill
$1,000 [5]
Although she never wrote her memoirs, she did write a book about her ancestors with son Kermit
Edith (the wife of Teddy) Roosevelt
Sally
DD $1,700 [30]
The Royal Tyrrell Museum, the world's leading dinosaur museum, is in this westernmost prairie province
Alberta
Mark
$1,000 [25]
In "Don Juan" Byron wrote this is sweet "especially to women"
revenge
Bill Sally
DD $1,000 [20]
She wrote the poems read by Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice" & also appeared in the film
Maya Angelou
Sally
$1,000 [10]
Dating from between 1500 & 500 B.C., they're the oldest & most sacred books of Hinduism
the Vedas
Mark
$1,000 [15]
Like many other operas, including "Don Giovanni", Massenet's "Le Cid" takes place in this Spanish city
Seville
Sally Mark

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY AWARDS

2 of 3 men from Ireland awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

(2 of) (William Butler) Yeats, (George Bernard) Shaw or (Samuel) Beckett

Sally "Who are James Joyce Eugene O'Neill?" — wagered $499
Bill "Who were Joyce & Yeats" — wagered $4,299
Mark "Who are Shaw & Joyce" — wagered $99

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