Show #2310 1994-09-23 (taped 1994-07-26) Regular

Contestants

Peter Pinnola — an attorney from Melrose Park, Pennsylvania

Bob Zalin — a Ph.D. candidate from New York City, New York

Neil Quarterman — a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C. (whose 3-day cash winnings total $40,803)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Neil $800 $800 $2,600 $4,100
3rd place: Kroy labelling system
$4,400
18 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Bob $2,700 $5,000 $9,000 $9,500
New champion: $9,500
$9,000
24 R, 2 W
Peter $400 $1,100 $4,100 $5,201
2nd place: "Mesa Con Frutas" serigraph by Manel Anoro & Lane Venture sleigh bed
$4,900
10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH HISTORY TV ACTORS & ROLES ANNUAL EVENTS MOUNTAINS MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH CROSSWORD CLUES "D"
$100 [6]
He married a pregnant Anne Boleyn while still legally married to Catherine of Aragon
Henry VIII
Neil
$100 [22]
Pat Morita played Arnold on this Ron Howard sitcom before he coached "The Karate Kid" on film
Happy Days
Neil
$100 [20]
In October this state's annual State Fair takes place in Shreveport
Louisiana
Bob
$100 [9]
The heads carved on this South Dakota mountain would fit a person 450 feet tall
Mount Rushmore
Neil
$100 [1]
Pioneer IV was supposed to fly by this in 1959, but missed it by so much that its instruments were useless
the moon
Neil Bob
$100 [24]
Bird of peace(4)
a dove
Bob
$200 [5]
King John set his royal seal to this document on June 15, 1215
the Magna Carta
Neil
$200 [21]
She was one of Marcus Welby's nurses, but she's more famous for playing Chris Cagney on "Cagney & Lacey"
Sharon Gless
Bob
$200 [19]
During the summer, Grandview State Park in West Virginia presents a play about these 2 feuding families
the Hatfields & the McCoys
Bob
$200 [11]
Mount Carmel extends from the Esdraelon valley to the Bay of Haifa in this country
Israel
Neil
$200 [18]
In December 1992 the asteroid Toutatis missed this planet by a mere 2.2 million miles--whew!
Earth
Neil
$200 [25]
Some are raised & glazed(9)
doughnuts
Peter
$300 [2]
This title reserved for the eldest son of the monarch was first conferred in 1301 on Edward I's son
the Prince of Wales
Bob
$300 [23]
He played a man named Tiny on "Cimarron City" before he played a man called Hoss on "Bonanza"
Dan Blocker
Bob
$300 [14]
Annual events in this state include the Maple Festival in St. Albans & the Marlboro Music Festival
Vermont
Bob
$300 [7]
On May 1, 1963 James W. Whittaker became the first American to reach the top of this mountain
Mt. Everest
Bob
$300 [12]
In 1991 at Super Bowl XXV, they lost to the Giants 20-19
the Buffalo Bills
Bob
$300 [26]
Crack a code(8)
decipher
Neil
$400 [3]
The Henley Regatta originated in 1829, when crews from these 2 universities competed on the Thames
Oxford & Cambridge
Neil
$400 [29]
Tim Matheson provided the voice of this cartoon adventurer, the son of Dr. Benton Quest
Jonny Quest
Bob
$400 [15]
The Cereal City Festival with "The World's Longest Breakfast Table" takes place each June in this city
Battle Creek, Michigan
Neil
$400 [8]
Among North American mountains, only this one is taller than Canada's Mount Logan
Mt. McKinley
Peter
$400 [13]
In 1974 he lost the French election with 49.19% to Giscard d'Estaing; in 1981 he beat him with 51.76%
Francois Mitterrand
Bob
$400 [27]
Widowed queen or empress(7)
dowager
Bob
$500 [4]
Under the 1564 Treaty of Troyes, England gave up her claims to this French seaport for 222,000 crowns
Calais
Bob
$500 [30]
Roseanne's TV mom, she won an Oscar for playing Clyde's sister-in- law in "Bonnie and Clyde"
Estelle Parsons
Peter
DD $600 [16]
A harvest festival honoring this fruit is held each September in Harwich, Massachusetts
the cranberry
Neil
$500 [10]
About 20,000 people were killed when this Sicilian volcano erupted in 1669
Mount Etna
Neil Bob
$500 [17]
In 1906 this Russian periodic table founder missed winning a Nobel Prize by 1 vote
Mendeleev
Bob
$500 [28]
Synonym for stalemate(8)
a deadlock
Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MIDDLE NAMES DOGS QUOTATIONS COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD CIRCUS HISTORY
$200 [20]
The 1783 Treaty of Paris gave the U.S. all land east of this river except Spanish Florida
the Mississippi River
Neil
$200 [10]
This middle name of actor Michael Douglas should remind you of his father
Kirk
Neil
$200 [23]
In Mexico this dog is known as the Chihuahueno
the Chihuahua
Peter
$200 [15]
He wrote, "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?"
Bob Dylan
Neil
$200 [1]
On Feb. 11, 1979 followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew this country's Pahlavi Dynasty
Iran
Neil
$200 [27]
Clyde Beatty preferred to be called a lion trainer because this other term implies lions can be domesticated
a lion tamer
Bob
$400 [9]
The first of 5 Intolerable Acts passed by Parliament in early 1774 closed this city's port
Boston
Peter
$400 [11]
Since he stopped using the initial J. for James, Sen. Thurmond has gone by this middle name
Strom
Neil
$400 [24]
A schnauzer is born with a long one, but a veterinarian often docks it a few days after birth
a tail
Bob
$400 [19]
Ben Franklin rhymed, "Nothing but" this "is sweeter than honey"
money
Neil
$400 [2]
Giza is 1 of 3 cities in this country with a population exceeding 1 million
Egypt
Bob
$400 [28]
In 1985 a statue of this huge elephant was erected in St. Thomas, Ont., where he died 100 years earlier
Jumbo
Neil
$600 [4]
After this June 17, 1775 battle, the American troops retreated via the Charlestown Neck
Bunker Hill
Bob
$600 [12]
It was the middle name of American sculptor Daniel French
Chester
Bob
$600 [25]
This Chinese dog, one of the world's most unusual-looking, is known for its loose, wrinkled skin
a shar-pei
Peter
$600 [14]
Speaking of the NL Pennant Race, this former Yankee catcher said, "It ain't over till it's over"
Yogi Berra
Peter
$600 [6]
This island nation north of Indonesia was named for Philip II of Spain
The Philippines
Peter
$600 [30]
These performers are called "Joeys" in honor of Joseph Grimaldi, who was the father of their art
clowns
Peter
$800 [3]
At the Battle of Monmouth, her husband, John Hays, was a gunner in a Pennsylvania regiment
Molly Pitcher
Bob
$800 [13]
Samuel Morse had 2 middle names, Finley & this
Breese
$800 [26]
The Sealyham terrier is named for an estate in Pembrokeshire in this country, part of the U.K.
Wales
Neil
$800 [18]
Bartlett's attributes the phrase "It'll play in" this Illinois city to John Ehrlichman
Peoria
Neil
DD $800 [7]
It's the largest republic in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Russia
Peter
$800 [29]
This big ape was known as Buddy before he was renamed for a giant in a 16th century satire
Gargantua
Peter
$1,000 [5]
This Prussian wrote a manual for "The Order and Discipline of the Troops", used until the War of 1812
Baron von Steuben
Neil
DD $1,200 [16]
This playwright & novelist had the middle names Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
Oscar Wilde
Neil
$1,000 [21]
The Brabancon is a smooth-coated type of this dog with a Belgian city in its name
the Brussels Griffon
$1,000 [17]
In "Gravity's Rainbow", he wrote, "Yet who can presume to say what the war wants, so vast and aloof is it"
Thomas Pynchon
Bob
$1,000 [8]
In Feb. 1993 Michal Kovac was elected the first president of this new European republic
Slovakia
Bob
$1,000 [22]
A former fire-eater named Guy Laliberte founded this highly unusual circus in Montreal in 1984
Cirque du Soleil
Bob

Final Jeopardy!

NOVELISTS

In 1918 he proudly wrote to his family "I'm the first American wounded in Italy"

Ernest Hemingway

Neil "Who was Hemmingway?" — wagered $1,500
Peter "Who was E. Hemingway" — wagered $1,101
Bob "Who was Hemmingway?" — wagered $500

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