Show #2362 1994-12-06 (taped 1994-09-13) Regular

Jeopardy! Round clues 14, 15, 23 & 24 archived from N64 game transcript.

Contestants

Jim Solomon — a speech pathologist from Hayward, California

George Needham — an association executive from Park Ridge, Illinois

Alex Guard — an actor from St. Catharines, Ontario (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,301)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $900 $2,700 $8,700 $2,799
2nd place: Gateway 2000 PC + Samsung fax machine + Jeopardy! home game
$8,700
22 R, 0 W
George $1,400 $2,000 $7,300 $14,500
New champion: $14,500
$5,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jim $2,300 $3,900 $9,500 $1,599
3rd place: Vivitar 440PZ camera + Jeopardy! home game
$9,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HAIL TO THE CHIEF MUSIC POTPOURRI SICKNESS & HEALTH EUROPE FRUITS & VEGETABLES 2-LETTER WORDS
$100 [26]
Before becoming U.S. president, he was president of the Georgia Crop Improvement Association
Jimmy Carter
Jim
$100 [2]
This mama & daughter country duo won a 1984 Grammy for "Mama He's Crazy"
The Judds
George
$100 [16]
During surgery a defibrillator may be used to restart this organ
the heart
George
$100 [1]
On January 1, 1979, this country created the Canton of Jura
Switzerland
George
$100 [21]
The robe de Sargent & imperial types of this fruit are dried to make prunes
plums
Alex
$100 [11]
To call attention to your product or service, you might want to place one of these in the newspaper
an ad
Alex
$200 [27]
William Henry Harrison's monogram was WHH & this president's monogram was WGH
Harding
Alex
$200 [3]
This George M. Cohan song contains the line "a real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's"
"(I'm A) Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Jim
$200 [17]
Most commonly caused by infection, osteitis is the inflammation of one of these
a bone
Jim
$200 [4]
This rocky site is known as the "Key to the Mediterranean"
Gibraltar
Alex
$200 [22]
The leaf types of this salad ingredient are good to grow at home because they don't run to seed
lettuce
Jim
$200 [12]
This pronoun is the objective case of "I"
me
Jim
$300 [28]
This 22nd & 24th president wrote several books, including "Fishing and Shooting Sketches"
(Grover) Cleveland
Alex
$300 [8]
Her 1990 music video "Justify My Love" was banned from MTV but still sold widely in stores
Madonna
Alex
$300 [18]
Popular with travelers, this product claims to be "the most recommended motion sickness medicine ever"
dramamine
Jim
$300 [5]
The Danish national one is the dannebrog, brog being Old Danish for cloth
the flag
Alex
$300 [23]
A simple way to cook this is to tie a bundle of spears together & stand them in boiling water
asparagus
Alex
$300 [13]
This conjunction is used to indicate an alternative
or
George
$400 [29]
He was so elegant & polished that he was nicknamed "Prince Arthur"
Chester Arthur
Jim
$400 [9]
At age 6 Wynton Marsalis received his first trumpet, from this "Java" trumpeter
Al Hirt
George
$400 [19]
Somnambulism is a medical term for this
sleepwalking
Jim
$400 [6]
To the French this country is Allemagne
Germany
Jim
$400 [24]
One explanation for the name of this bog fruit is that its flower looks like the head of a crane
cranberry
Alex
$400 [14]
This interjection can follow "westward" or "land"
ho
Jim
$500 [30]
His last words were "I know that I'm going where Lucy is"
Rutherford (B.) Hayes
George Jim
$500 [10]
This 1973 hit about 2 types of creepy critters was Jim Stafford's only million seller
"Spiders & Snakes"
George
$500 [20]
In the rarest & most extreme form of color blindness, a person sees only in these 3 shades
black, white & gray
Alex
DD $600 [7]
Albert II has been king of this country since August 9, 1993
Belgium
Jim
$500 [25]
This turnip relative has been called a turnip-rooted cabbage
a rutabaga
Jim
$500 [15]
It follows mu in the Greek alphabet
nu
Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY NONFICTION OLD U.S. COINS RELATIVES BALTIMORE SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS
$200 [2]
Louis IX embarked on 2 of these military expeditions, in 1248 & 1270
Crusades
Alex
$200 [1]
Published in 1958, "Stride Toward Freedom" was Martin Luther King's account of the bus boycott in this city
Montgomery
Jim
$200 [26]
On the quarter during the 1920s, it was flying; today it's perched
the eagle
Alex
$200 [12]
Relatively speaking, sib is short for this word
sibling
Alex
$200 [21]
The city is named for the Lords Baltimore who established this colony
Maryland
Jim
$200 [7]
This British actor-director's 1965 film of "Othello" featured Derek Jacobi as Cassio
Olivier
Alex
$400 [3]
Alberto Cavos rebuilt this Moscow opera & ballet theatre in 1856 after a fire
the Bolshoi
Jim
$400 [17]
Betty J. Eadie tells of her near-death experience in the bestseller "Embraced by" this
the Light
George
$400 [27]
The old Lincoln penny had one ear of Lincoln's on the front & 2 ears of this grain on the back
wheat
Jim
$400 [13]
The Grimms wrote about wicked ones in "Hansel and Gretel" & "Cinderella"
stepmothers
Alex Jim
$400 [22]
4 adjoining homes, including the one where Babe Ruth was born, are now a museum for this sports team
the Orioles
Alex
$400 [8]
Edith Evans was renowned for her portrayal of the nurse in this tragedy
Romeo and Juliet
Alex
$600 [4]
This largest Australian city was founded in 1788 & named for Britain's home secretary
Sydney
Alex
$600 [18]
This Irma Rombauer book first appeared in America's kitchens in 1931
The Joy of Cooking
George
$600 [28]
On a very fine one of these coins from 1930, the full horn shows
buffalo nickel
$600 [14]
The Esperanto word for this female relative is onklino
aunt
Alex
$600 [23]
The battle monument on Baltimore's flag honors the men who defended the city during this war
the War of 1812
Jim
$600 [9]
In 1934 Jessica Tandy appeared onstage in her native London playing this role opposite John Gielgud's Hamlet
Ophelia
Jim
$800 [5]
This "numerical" group that included Mao's wife fell from power after Mao's death
the Gang of Four
Jim
$800 [19]
In "The Fountain of Age", this author of "The Feminine Mystique" tackles the age mystique
Betty Friedan
Jim
$800 [29]
It currently has a torch on the back; prior to 1946 it had a fasces, a bundle of rods
the dime
Alex
$800 [15]
Derived from the Italian for "nephew", it's favoritism shown to nephews or other relatives
nepotism
George
$800 [24]
H.L. Mencken was long associated with this newspaper as Baltimore's major daily
the Baltimore Sun
George
DD $1,000 [10]
Christopher Plummer has played Mark Antony in both of these Shakespeare plays
Antony & Cleopatra & Julius Caesar
Jim
$1,000 [6]
The largest naval battle of WWI was fought near & named for this Danish peninsula
Jutland
Alex
$1,000 [20]
Reminiscent of his techno-thrillers, "Submarine" by this author is a "Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship"
Tom Clancy
George
$1,000 [30]
1879 Morgan dollars with an "O" mint mark commemorated the reopening of this southern city's mint
New Orleans
George
DD $2,700 [16]
Under English law, it was the practice of giving preference to the eldest son
primogeniture
George
$1,000 [25]
This private institution has the oldest U.S. university press in continuous operation, founded in 1878
Johns Hopkins
Jim
$1,000 [11]
Laurence Harvey played Leontes in a British film version of this "seasonal" play
The Winter's Tale
Alex

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Last name of the 18th c. bookseller & publisher known as the first to specialize in children's books

Newbery

George "What is Newberry?" — wagered $7,200
Alex "What" — wagered $5,901
Jim "What was McGuffy?" — wagered $7,901

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