Show #2724 1996-06-06 Regular

Contestants

Elaine O'Gara — a travel writer from Austin, Texas

Jean Sirius — an artist from Oakland, California

Sandy Falck — a physical therapist from South Euclid, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $28,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sandy $300 $800 $5,200 $999
3rd place: limousine ride from Carey Limousine
$5,200
15 R, 2 W
Jean $1,400 $3,100 $4,700 $9,400
2nd place: trip to Mesquite, Nevada
$6,700
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Elaine $200 $2,200 $9,400 $10,401
New champion: $10,401
$9,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NEW TESTAMENT NAMES MONTHS THE MOVIES CITY QUOTES AMERICAN HISTORY BY HALVES
$100 [21]
It was Paul's original name
Saul (of Tarsus)
Jean
$100 [13]
For awhile it was 29 days long but one of its days was transferred to August
February
Elaine
$100 [11]
Darryl F. Zanuck paid John Steinbeck $100,000 for the rights to film this 1939 Pulitzer-winning novel
The Grapes of Wrath
Jean
$100 [1]
Walter Winchell called it "a city where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors"
Hollywood
Jean
$100 [6]
In 1861 this Texas governor refused to support the Confederacy & was forced from office
Sam Houston
Jean Elaine
$100 [26]
It's a popular way to serve an oyster
on the half shell
Sandy
$200 [22]
Tradition says this man who presided over Jesus' trial eventually became a Christian
Pilate
Jean
$200 [14]
The day after Halloween falls in this month
November
Sandy
$200 [12]
This author appeared in both "Creepshow" & "Creepshow 2"
Stephen King
Sandy
$200 [2]
To S.J. Perelman, this City of Brotherly Love was "the city of bleak November afternoons"
Philadelphia
Elaine
$200 [7]
On July 11, 1955 this military academy opened with temporary headquarters in Denver
the Air Force Academy
Jean
$200 [27]
Split the world in half & you have 2 of these
hemispheres
Jean
$300 [23]
According to John 20:15, upon seeing Jesus after the resurrection, she thought he was the gardener
Mary Magdalene
Elaine
$300 [15]
An undefined period of time is known as a month of these days
Sundays
Jean
$300 [18]
This Russian immigrant mouse was the lead character of "An American Tail"
Fievel
Jean
$300 [3]
William G. Shepherd nicknamed it "The Winded City"
Chicago
Jean
$300 [8]
Under the Compromise of 1850, this Western territory was admitted as a free state
California
Sandy
$300 [28]
Each half in a professional football game is this many minutes long
30
Elaine
$400 [24]
In Revelation 12 this archangel leads his band of angels in battle against the dragon
Michael
Sandy Jean
$400 [16]
The French revolutionary calendar months of vintage, fog & frost came in this season
autumn
Sandy
$400 [19]
In this 1964 film, Ann-Margret joined Elvis in the duet "The Lady Loves Me"
Viva Las Vegas
Sandy
$400 [4]
Around 1900 Edgar Saltus called this Northeast metropolis "a nightmare in stone"
New York
Sandy Elaine
$400 [9]
On June 15, 1836 this "Land of Opportunity" joined the Union as a slave state
Arkansas
Elaine
$400 [29]
On a half-slip it's elasticized
the waist
Elaine
$500 [25]
Of the 4 gospels, his is the shortest
Mark
$500 [17]
On a morn in this month, Neil Diamond "danced until the night became a brand new day"
September
Jean
$500 [20]
He directed both the 1957 & 1988 versions of "And God Created Woman"
Roger Vadim
Elaine
$500 [5]
Emerson said this city is "where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time"
Washington, D.C.
Jean
DD $1,000 [10]
The Keokuk Dam, then the world's largest, opened in 1913 across this river
the Mississippi
Elaine
$500 [30]
Increments by which the Light Brigade charged into the Valley of Death
half a league (onward)
Elaine

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS GERMANS WORLD CAPITALS BIOGRAPHIES EXPLORERS ART & ARTISTS HOMOPHONES
$200 [6]
Though completely deaf, he insisted on helping conduct the 1824 premiere of his ninth symphony
Beethoven
Sandy
$200 [1]
During the Middle Ages, this city was capital of The Pale, an area ruled by England on Ireland's E. coast
Dublin
Sandy
$200 [21]
A book called "Mother India" covers the life & political career of this late leader
Indira Gandhi
Elaine
$200 [15]
For about 10 years the English kept secret the full accounts of his 1577-1580 voyage around the world
Sir Francis Drake
Jean Elaine
$200 [12]
One of Augustus John's portraits of T.E. Lawrence is in the collection of this city's Tate Gallery
London
Jean
$200 [7]
Forward in time, place or order, or coming after third
forth / fourth
Sandy
$400 [16]
After fleeing Germany to avoid the draft, he built a brewery in Golden, Colorado
Adolph Coors
Jean
$400 [2]
This Peruvian capital may go years without any rain
Lima
Sandy
$400 [22]
A 1942 biography of this man was subtitled "Dynamite King, Architect of Peace"
(Alfred) Nobel
Elaine
$400 [20]
Bartolomeu Dias died here 12 years after he discovered it & named it the Cape of Storms
the Cape of Good Hope
Elaine
$400 [13]
H. Frankenthaler was the 1st woman associate fellow of Calhoun College at this New Haven university
Yale
Jean
$400 [8]
A bunk on a ship, or the beginning of life
berth / birth
Sandy
$600 [17]
In 1862 he remarked that "The great questions of the time are... decided... by iron and blood"
Bismarck
Jean
$600 [3]
South Harbor is the oldest of this Finnish capital's 5 harbors
Helsinki
Sandy
$600 [23]
"A Prophet with Honor" is a profile of this evangelist & preacher to the presidents
Billy Graham
Jean
$600 [26]
Accounts of William Dampier's voyages influenced tales by these Robinson Crusoe & Gulliver authors
Swift & Defoe
Jean
$600 [14]
In 1930 Jean Arp invented a new type of this, using torn rather than cut paper, randomly arranged
a collage
Sandy
$600 [9]
Entirely, or sacred
wholly / holy
Elaine
$800 [18]
In 1601 this astronomer was appointed Imperial Mathematician by Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II
(Johannes) Kepler
Elaine
$800 [4]
Kebangsaan University & the University of Malaya are located in this capital city
Kuala Lumpur
Elaine
$1,000 [25]
Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln consists of "The War Years" & this earlier period
the Prairie Years
$800 [29]
In 1769 he set out on the Endeavour to find out if the Great South Land existed
James Cook
$800 [27]
Frederick Edwin Church, who studied with Thomas Cole in Catskill, N.Y., belonged to this landscape school
the Hudson River School
Elaine
$800 [10]
A small insect of the order Siphonaptera, or to run away from one
flea / flee
Sandy
$1,000 [19]
This philosopher argued that "God is dead" in his famous treatise "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
Nietzsche
Sandy
$1,000 [5]
In 1816 it became capital of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata
Buenos Aires
Elaine
DD $2,000 [24]
It was the title of Bob Woodward's bestselling biography of John Belushi
Wired
Jean
$1,000 [30]
After a failed expedition to South America, this son of an Italian explorer was banished from Spain
Sebastian Cabot
DD $2,000 [28]
Before returning to France in 1923, he designed sets for the Kamerny State Jewish Theater
Marc Chagall
Elaine
$1,000 [11]
A bowl used in ancient Greece for mixing wine, or a bowl-shaped depression on the moon
krater / crater
Jean

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTORS

In 1856 he addressed a British scientific association on "the manufacture of iron without fuel"

Henry Bessemer

Jean "Who was Bessemer" — wagered $4,700
Sandy "Who was Diesel?" — wagered $4,201
Elaine "Who was Bessemer" — wagered $1,001

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