Show #2655 1996-03-01 Regular

Contestants

Allison Wise — a homemaker originally from San Diego, California

Kevin Waldron — a property manager originally from Massapequa, New York

Richard Drapkin — a restaurant consultant and law student from Santa Monica, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Richard $-100 $400 $6,000 $12,000
2nd place: Trip to Quail Lodge Resort, Carmel, California + Pinseeker golf clubs
$6,000
19 R, 4 W
Kevin $3,600 $4,100 $7,200 $2,200
3rd place: Jules Jurgensen men's watch
$6,300
20 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Allison $600 $2,600 $9,800 $14,401
New champion: $14,401
$9,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 1950s CELEBRITY QUOTES PENNSYLVANIA FOOD ADDITIVES GOVERNMENT & POLITICS 6-LETTER WORDS
$100 [6]
Deposed as leader of Argentina in 1955, he fled to Paraguay & then to Spain
Juan Perón
Kevin
$100 [23]
Rollin Hand on "Mission: Impossible", in 1994 I sank my teeth into the role of Bela Lugosi
Martin Landau
Richard
$100 [11]
Easton, home of this document's signer George Taylor, held one of its 1st public readings July 8, 1776
the Declaration of Independence
Kevin
$100 [18]
Canthaxanthin is fed to some salmon to turn their flesh this color
pink
Kevin
$100 [1]
Media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi became premier of this country in May 1994 but resigned in December
Italy
Richard
$100 [16]
It's the implement needed to play tennis or badminton
a racket
Allison
$200 [7]
North Korean forces captured this South Korean capital city June 28, 1950
Seoul
Kevin
$200 [27]
I sang on the Berlin Wall to 1,000,000 people, talked to a car on TV & now save lives on the beach
David Hasselhoff
Richard
$200 [12]
A 307-foot observation tower overlooks the site where this July 1863 battle was fought
Gettysburg
Allison
$200 [20]
75% of your intake of this comes from processed & fast foods, so shaking on less doesn't help much
salt
Richard Allison
$200 [2]
He served in the Illinois legislature as a Whig before becoming the first Republican president
Abraham Lincoln
Richard
$200 [17]
It can refer to a pack of dogs, or a place to board them
a kennel
Richard
$400 [9]
She became an instant celebrity in 1952 after undergoing the first sex change operation in Copenhagen
Christine Jorgensen
Kevin Allison
$300 [28]
My dog Ron is on the cover of my album that includes "Jessie's Girl"
Rick Springfield
Kevin
$300 [13]
This "Good Earth" author's Nobel Prize is on display at her farmhouse near Dublin, Pennsylvania
Pearl Buck
Kevin
$300 [24]
This insect product is used as an emulsifier & has a honey-like odor
Beeswax
Richard Kevin Allison
$300 [3]
Part of the South Central area of this city lies in Maxine Waters' congressional district
Los Angeles
Kevin
$300 [19]
Type of person Nicholas Murray Butler described as "one who knows more and more about less and less"
an expert
Richard
$500 [10]
In 1953 Crick & Watson published their double helix theory of this substance
DNA
Kevin
$400 [29]
Former Weekend Update host who had a talk show canceled, then went on to success on HBO
Dennis Miller
Richard
$400 [14]
Bridges in this city include the Smithfield Street, Fort Duquesne & Liberty
Pittsburgh
Richard Kevin
$400 [25]
The FDA tried to ban use of this artificial sweetener in 1977 but Congress blocked it
saccharin
Kevin
$400 [4]
In 1904 he announced his "corollary" to the Monroe doctrine
Teddy Roosevelt
Kevin
$400 [21]
From the Latin for "worm", it's the term for destructive, disease-carrying critters such as lice or rats
vermin
Allison
DD $700 [8]
King Abdullah Ibn Hussein of this country was assassinated in Jerusalem in July 1951
Jordan
Kevin
$500 [30]
I was hired as head writer, not performer, for the first year of "SNL" & stayed only 1 year
Chevy Chase
$500 [15]
The Brandywine River Museum has many works by members of this family & a gallery devoted to Andrew
the Wyeths
Kevin
$500 [26]
Agar, used to thicken & stabilize food, comes from various types of this plant
algae (or seaweed)
Allison
$500 [5]
Public printer is the title of the top official at this entity, abbreviated GPO
Government Printing Office
Kevin
$500 [22]
It gives a teacher permanent status
tenure
Allison

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE LIBRARIES FAMOUS DOCTORS AMERICAN LITERATURE MOUNTAINS QUEEN VICTORIA
$200 [6]
When Joshua & the Israelites conquered this city, only one woman & her family were spared
Jericho
Richard
$200 [11]
In 1860 this state's first subscription library was established in Denver
Colorado
Richard
$200 [22]
Dr. Michael Rothenberg co-authored the updated version of his "Baby and Child Care" book
(Dr.) Spock
Richard
$200 [21]
In this book Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote, "No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Richard
$200 [13]
Ranges in this state include Old Woman, Chocolate & San Bernardino
California
Richard
$200 [1]
The "Imperial State" one created for Victoria is now worn by the monarch for state occasions
the crown
Kevin
$400 [7]
Chapter 11 of the book of Genesis concerns the building of this structure
the Tower of Babel
Allison
$400 [12]
The library of the University of North Dakota has a set of papers from these war crimes trials
the Nuremberg Trials
Kevin
$400 [23]
This Greek physician is praised in Plato's dialogues "Protagoras" & "Phaedrus"
Hippocrates
Richard
$400 [27]
His 1840 novel "The Pathfinder" is subtitled "The Inland Sea"
(James Fenimore) Cooper
Richard
$400 [14]
On May 1, 1963 James Whittaker became the first American to reach the summit of this Himalayan mountain
Mount Everest
Richard
$400 [2]
Victoria's granddaughters carried this blood disease into the Spanish & Russian royal houses
hemophilia
Richard
$800 [9]
The Virgin Mary's visit to this cousin is commonly referred to as the Visitation
Elizabeth
Allison
$600 [18]
This presidential library in Dorchester, Massachusetts is administered by the National Archives
the JFK Library
Kevin
$600 [24]
In 1913 he built a hospital at Lambarene on the Ogowe River in Gabon
(Dr.) Schweitzer
Kevin
$600 [28]
In "Of Mice and Men", he accidentally kills Curley's wife by breaking her neck
Lennie (Small)
Richard
$600 [15]
The southern extremity of this range lies on Tierra del Fuego
the Andes
Allison
$600 [3]
2 of these went on sale May 1, 1840: a penny black & a 2-pence blue, both showing Victoria
a stamp
Allison
DD $1,000 [8]
Completing the five books of Moses, this book has been called "Five-fifths of the Law"
Deuteronomy
Allison
$800 [19]
This Paris library is Europe's oldest national library
the Bibliothèque nationale
Allison
$800 [25]
From 1958 to 1983 he was head of the cardiac unit at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town
Barnard
Richard
$800 [29]
His first collection, "Tamerlane and Other Poems", was published in 1827 & credited to "A Bostonian"
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Richard
$800 [16]
The base of this Sicilian volcano extends to the Mediterranean Sea
Mount Etna
Kevin
$800 [4]
Victoria had one of this castle's chapels restored as a monument to her Albert
Windsor
Richard
$1,000 [10]
It's written that this husband of Jezebel did more to provoke God to anger than all the kings before him
Ahab
Allison
$1,000 [20]
The Family History Library at 35 N. West Temple Street in this state capital is the largest of its kind
Salt Lake City
Allison
$1,000 [26]
This discoverer of blood circulation in mammals was physician to kings James I & Charles I
William Harvey
$1,000 [30]
In this Hemingway story, a writer dies from a gangrenous leg while on an African safari
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Kevin
DD $1,500 [17]
These 2 ranges are traditional boundaries between Europe & Asia
The Urals & Caucasus
Kevin
$1,000 [5]
In 1837 she succeeded William IV, who was this relative, not her father
her uncle
Allison

Final Jeopardy!

THE CONTINENTS

The 3 longest rivers in the world are on these 3 continents

Africa, South America, and Asia

Richard "What are So. America Africa Asia" — wagered $6,000
Kevin "What are S. Amer Asia N. Amer." — wagered $5,000
Allison "What is Africa South America Asia?" — wagered $4,601

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