Show #2675 1996-03-29 Regular

Contestants

Gary Fulcomer — an Air Force attorney originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania

Susan Hoppe — a medical student originally from Woodbridge, Virginia

Judy Zellers — a homemaker from Mountain View, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Judy $2,100 $2,500 $5,700 $2,500
3rd place: Daniel Mink his & hers watches
$5,700
18 R, 1 W
Susan $600 $600 $4,400 $4,300
2nd place: trip to Mexico City & Zihuatanejo, Mexico
$4,400
14 R, 5 W
Gary $300 $2,600 $7,000 $11,500
New champion: $11,500
$7,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

OLD TESTAMENT TV CHARACTERS LANGUAGES SCULPTORS SECTIONS ODDS & ENDS
$100 [26]
"And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah"
Samson
Gary
$100 [19]
This "Addams Family" character usually entered a room with the words "You rang?"
Lurch
Judy
$100 [1]
The click languages are non-Bantu languages mostly spoken in this continent's southern part
Africa
Susan
$100 [12]
Michelangelo gave 2 sculptures, now in this Paris museum, to a family who cared for him during an illness
the Louvre
Judy
$100 [2]
By 1990 1 in 4 U.S. babies was delivered by this procedure
Cesarean section
Judy
$100 [7]
Until 1971 there were 240 of these in a British pound
pence
Judy Susan
$200 [27]
He was a spry 600 when "the flood of waters was upon the earth"
Noah
Judy
$200 [20]
On "The Beverly Hillbillies", this character was president of the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills
Mr. Drysdale
Susan
$200 [16]
When written, this official language differs very little from Austria to Switzerland
German
Gary
$200 [13]
Gutzon Borglum, famous for sculpting this South Dakota monument, was a friend of Auguste Rodin
Mount Rushmore
Susan
$200 [3]
The cheapest seats in a stadium are usually in this uncovered section beyond the outfield
the bleachers
Gary
$200 [8]
In 1846 Maine banned the sale of this except for medicinal or industrial purposes
alcohol
Judy
$300 [28]
2 Chronicles 5 covers its installation in the temple
the Ark of the Covenant
Susan
$300 [21]
Guy Williams won this Disney role because of his fencing ability
Zorro
Gary
$300 [17]
In the 1930s this country began moving from Osmanli, or Ottoman, to a more indigenous language
Turkey
Susan
$300 [14]
Thomas Crawford sculpted "Armed Freedom", the statue crowning the dome of this Washington building
the Capitol
Judy
$300 [4]
Duncan & Ruby Red are varieties of this large fruit that has sections
the grapefruit
Susan
$300 [9]
By a 1912 executive order, the diameter of each of these shall be .0616 the height of the U.S. flag
the stars
Gary
$400 [29]
He patiently said, "Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?"
Job
Gary
$400 [22]
This character's sidekicks have included Ben Romero, Ed Jacobs, Frank Smith & Bill Gannon
Sgt. Joe Friday
Susan
DD $300 [24]
The largest community of Scottish Gaelic speakers in North America is in this Canadian province
Nova Scotia
Gary
$400 [15]
Edme Bouchardon's equestrian statue of Louis XV was destroyed during this 1789-1799 upheaval
the French Revolution
Judy
$400 [5]
Section of an orchestra in which the tuba player sits
the brass section
Gary
$400 [10]
This type of cloud is sometimes referred to as a thunderhead
a cumulonimbus
Judy Susan
$500 [30]
The first book in the Hebrew Bible named for a specific person, though it's not certain he wrote it
Joshua
Gary
$500 [23]
George Morgan played this "M*A*S*H" priest in the pilot episode, William Christopher in the series
Father Mulcahy
Gary
$400 [18]
The 2 major Baltic-Finnic languages are Estonian & this one
Finnish
Judy Susan
$500 [25]
This genius of the early Renaissance was born Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi circa 1386
Donatello
Judy
$500 [6]
Ultramicrotomes are used to cut very thin sections of tissue for viewing by these powerful microscopes
electron microscopes
Judy
$500 [11]
It was the occupation of Charles Walgreen who opened his first store in 1901
a pharmacist
Susan

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES WORLD CAPITALS PLANTS & TREES NONFICTION EDUCATORS MUSICALS' OPENING NUMBERS
$200 [16]
Astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati discovered 6 of these tailed bodies; one is named for him
a comet
Judy
$200 [1]
This city dates back to the founding of the Roman settlement of Londinium in 43 A.D.
London
Judy
$200 [21]
This "Dutch" flower's name is from the Turkish for "turban"
a tulip
Gary
$200 [11]
At his death in 1869, his "Thesaurus of English words and Phrases" had gone through 28 editions
Roget
Gary
$200 [6]
This Black educator's own education was obtained at the Hampton Institute in Virginia, 1872-75
Booker T. Washington
Susan
$200 [24]
"Willkommen"
Cabaret
Judy
$400 [17]
In 1813 he recaptured his hometown, Caracas, from the Spaniards
(Simón) Bolívar
Gary
$400 [2]
This capital is located at the mouth of the Bou Regreg on Morocco's northwestern coast
Rabat
Susan
$400 [22]
There are 2 species of the bristlecone type of this tree: Great Basin & Rocky Mountain
a pine tree
Gary
$400 [12]
This comedienne offers some humorous observations in "Edith Ann: My Life, So Far"
Lily Tomlin
Gary
$400 [7]
This Mass. educator & legislator was known as the "Father of American Public Education"
(Horace) Mann
Gary
$400 [25]
"Once in the Highlands"
Brigadoon
Judy
DD $500 [18]
Myra Bradwell, founder of the Chicago Legal News, got this famous woman's insanity verdict reversed in 1876
Mary Todd Lincoln
Gary
$600 [3]
Heroes' Square in this capital is a monument to the Magyar Conquest
Budapest
Susan
$600 [23]
The prickly pear type of this plant is so named because its fruit is pear-shaped
a cactus
Judy
$600 [13]
In 1973 this astronomer published his 1st book for general readership, "The Cosmic Connection"
(Carl) Sagan
Susan
DD $500 [8]
In 1907 she opened her first children's house in a Rome slum
(Maria) Montessori
Gary
$600 [26]
"Tradition"
Fiddler on the Roof
Gary
$800 [19]
Appropriately, this Bohemian composer wrote his symphony "From the New World" while living in the U.S.
Dvořák
Judy
$800 [4]
Most of the people in this Uruguayan capital are of European descent
Montevideo
Gary
$800 [27]
Scientists divide the 450 species of this tree into 3 groups: white, red & ringed
the oak tree
Susan
$800 [14]
Anthony Burgess' 1973 book "Joysprick" is a study of the language used by this Irish author
James Joyce
Judy
$800 [9]
This former Secretary of Education chaired the National Endowment for the Humanities 1981-85
(William) Bennett
Susan
$800 [29]
"If a Girl Isn't Pretty"
Funny Girl
$1,000 [20]
Dingane became King of the Zulu after taking part in the 1828 murder of this half-brother
Shaka
$1,000 [5]
This city's railroad terminal was designed by Eliel Saarinen & completed in 1914
Helsinki
$1,000 [28]
The Bracken species of this spore-bearing plant can be poisonous to livestock
the fern
$1,000 [15]
Drawn from personal papers, "Sword of San Jacinto" celebrates the life of this Texas statesman
Houston
Susan
$1,000 [10]
Between 1836 & 1857, Truman & Smith Publishers of Cincinnati issued 6 of his "Eclectic Readers"
McGuffey
Gary
$1,000 [30]
"I Hope I Get It"
A Chorus Line
Susan

Final Jeopardy!

POETS

In 1942 his collection of verse "Shakespeare in Harlem" appeared

Langston Hughes

Susan "Who is Frost?" — wagered $100
Judy "Who is" — wagered $3,200
Gary "Who is Hughes" — wagered $4,500

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