Show #2657 1996-03-05 Regular

Contestants

Mike King — a college professor from Weiler, Kentucky

Tom Wheeler — a stock options trader from Dallas, Texas

Melanie Posey — a market analyst from New York City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,500)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Melanie	$400	$1,100	$2,700	$100 3rd place: The Key interactive musical instrument	$4,700 11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Tom	$1,800	$4,500	$7,300	$14,001 New champion: $14,001	$7,300 23 R, 1 W
Mike	$400	$1,000	$7,000	$9,000 2nd place: Kingsdown mattress + DuPont Comforel pillow & comforter set	$6,700 17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS	CLASSIC TV WESTERNS	COLORS	FURNITURE	BIBLE QUOTATIONS	7-LETTER WORDS
$100 [1] The name of this Canadian capital comes from an Indian word meaning "to trade" Ottawa Mike	$100 [11] James Garner & Jack Kelly played brothers Bret & Bart on this ABC western Maverick Melanie	$100 [13] This shade of yellow is named for a type of pet songbird canary Melanie	$100 [20] Woolens, etc. are stored in a cedar chest for protection from these pests moths Mike	$100 [2] Proverbs says, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before" this a fall Mike	$100 [30] Grasse, France is an important supplier of flowers used to make this fragrant fluid perfume Melanie Tom
$200 [6] This Colombian capital is located at an elevation of almost 8,700 feet Bogota Melanie	$200 [12] This Chuck Connors series was the most popular new show of the 1958-59 season The Rifleman Tom	$200 [14] Bone can be beige or an off shade of this color white Tom	$200 [21] "Optimistic" term for the chest used to store one's trousseau a hope chest Tom	$200 [3] "Cast" this "upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days" your bread Mike	$200 [26] If you "go off on" one of these, you've changed course or made a sudden digression a tangent Mike
$300 [7] 2 9-hole golf courses serve this capital of Nepal Kathmandu Tom	$300 [15] This James Drury title character's real name was never revealed on the show The Virginian Tom	$300 [17] This color is named for a plant genus named for 16th century German botanist Leonhard Fuchs fuchsia Melanie	$300 [22] This child's bed mounted on rockers has nearly been replaced by the more functional crib a cradle Tom	$300 [4] In the Old Testament, praying for deliverance, he said, "The waters compassed me about, even to the soul" Jonah	$300 [27] This word can mean agreement, or a musical performance a concert Mike
$400 [8] This capital on the Tigris River was founded in the 8th century by Caliph Al-Mansur Baghdad Tom	$400 [25] For 11 seasons Ken Curtis played this hillbilly deputy on "Gunsmoke" Festus Tom	$400 [18] The Persian for "dust" gave us the name of this dull brown often used for military uniforms khaki Tom	$400 [23] Biedermeier, a 19th century style from this country, got its name from a bourgeois caricature Germany Tom	$400 [5] Patriarch to whom God said, "Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age" Abraham Tom	$400 [28] A costumed procession, or a show consisting of beauty contestants a pageant Tom
$500 [9] Suprema a Situ, supreme by situation, is the motto of this New Zealand capital Wellington Mike	$500 [16] He was the only survivor of an ambush by Butch Cavendish's Hole in the Wall Gang the Lone Ranger	$500 [19] This deep blue dye once came from a member of the pea family grown on southern plantations indigo Melanie	$500 [24] A cabriole is this part of a piece of furniture shaped in a double curve the legs	DD $500 [10] He was asked, "Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen...?" Daniel Mike	$500 [29] The Greek for "learned man" gave us this term for a record of past events or the study of them history Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC WOMEN	CHEMISTRY	COMPOSERS	NATIONAL MONUMENTS	POLITICS	LITERATURE
$200 [16] She was about 12 years old when she saved the life of Captain John Smith Pocahontas Tom	$200 [7] Hold a lump of gallium in your hand & it will do this, so you can assume M&M's aren't coated with it melt Tom	$200 [6] 1790's "Cosi Fan Tutte" was his first opera commission since 1787's "Don Giovanni" Mozart Tom	$200 [17] In 1939 this Baltimore fort's status was changed from National Park to National Monument Fort McHenry Tom	$200 [30] The Democratic Party used a hickory pole & broom and a rooster as emblems before settling on this a donkey Tom Mike	$200 [1] This 1950 Ray Bradbury novel about life on Mars was titled "The Silver Locusts" in England The Martian Chronicles Mike
$400 [28] The subject of a rhyme, she was acquitted of a double murder in 1893 Lizzie Borden Tom	$400 [8] The name of this gas, NH3, goes back to ancient Egypt, where it was part of the salt of Ammon Ammonia Tom	$400 [12] John Cage's "Prepared" type of this keyboard instrument has objects attached to the strings a piano Mike	$400 [18] Virginia has 2 national monuments: the birthplaces of George Washington & this black educator Booker T. Washington Melanie Tom	$400 [29] This senator popularized the phrase "Point of order" at 1954 Senate hearings (Joe) McCarthy Tom	$400 [2] This Herman Melville title character, an English sailor, is hanged for killing master-at-arms Claggart Billy Budd Melanie
$600 [25] In 1899, at her own Paris theatre, she gave the first of her famous performances as Hamlet Sarah Bernhardt Melanie Mike	$600 [9] A "strong" one of these, like sulfuric or hydrochloric, will ionize completely in water An acid Tom	$600 [13] This author of "A Clockwork Orange" wrote the 3-movement "Sinfoni Melayu", based on Malaysian themes Burgess Mike	$600 [19] Devils Postpile National Monument is in California & Devils Tower is found in this state Wyoming Melanie	$600 [22] Lord Acton said this "tends to corrupt" power Mike	$600 [3] In the Jonathan Swift novel, it's Gulliver's first name Lemuel
$1,000 [27] In 1927 this American birth control pioneer helped organize the first world population conference (Margaret) Sanger Melanie	$800 [10] For osmosis to occur, you need a semipermeable one of these between the 2 solutions a membrane Melanie	$800 [14] In 1865 Anton Bruckner attended the premiere of "Tristan und Isolde" & met this man, its composer Wagner Mike	$1,000 [21] A monument on San Diego Bay honors this Portuguese explorer who claimed the west coast for Spain Juan Cabrillo Mike	$800 [23] Popular name of the States' Rights Democrats who supported Strom Thurmond in 1948 the Dixiecrats Melanie	$800 [4] Floral Heights, a suburb of this fictional metropolis, is the setting for Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt" Zenith
DD $1,600 [26] This infamous Italian patron of the arts was the illegitimate daughter of the future Pope Alexander VI Lucrezia Borgia Mike	$1,000 [11] In the process of sublimation, this state of matter is skipped liquid Mike	$1,000 [15] Liszt's piano music was influenced by the phenomenal technique of this Italian violin virtuoso Paganini Mike	DD $2,000 [20] This expanse of gypsum dunes lies between the San Andres & Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico White Sands National Monument Melanie	$1,000 [24] This term for an intermediary between citizen & government comes from the Swedish for "Commissioner" ombudsman Melanie	$1,000 [5] The title of this William Faulkner novel refers to 3 friends who steal a banker's car The Reivers

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

Husband & wife who were both nominated for playing a married couple in a 1966 film; only the wife won

Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor

Melanie "Who Newman and Woodward" — wagered $2,600

Mike "Who are Burton and Taylor" — wagered $2,000

Tom "Who is Burton & Taylor" — wagered $6,701

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