Show #2389 1995-01-12 (taped 1994-10-25) Regular

Contestants

Adam Goldberg — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York

Charlie Hanson — a college professor from Crete, Nebraska

Michael Friel — a playwright from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $1,800 $2,200 $7,500 $0
3rd place: Sansui 6-CD changer
$7,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Charlie $900 $1,700 $8,000 $999
2nd place: trip to Honolulu, Hawaii
$8,100
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Adam $1,200 $2,200 $3,600 $3,200
New champion: $3,200
$3,600
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ROCK SISTERS PAPER SEPTEMBER LANGUAGES 8-LETTER WORDS
$100 [5]
It's claimed that Paul McCartney's dad wanted this song's "Yeah, yeah, yeah" changed to "Yes, yes, yes"
"She Loves You"
Michael
$100 [1]
This Christian denomination has the greatest number of orders of nuns
Roman Catholicism
Michael
$100 [19]
The fibers in this plant that pandas feed on can be used to make paper
bamboo
Charlie
$100 [14]
In Sept. 1807 a circuit court in Richmond, Virginia acquitted this ex-vice president of treason
Aaron Burr
Michael
$100 [8]
This language was formed mainly from the Svea dialects spoken in & around Stockholm
Swedish
Adam
$100 [25]
The name of this marsupial can precede court or vine
kangaroo
Michael
$200 [6]
The Commodores' biggest hit, "Three Times A Lady", was written by this member of the group
Lionel Richie
Adam
$200 [2]
It's estimated that of the 3,200 of these in the Civil War, 640 were nuns
nurses
Michael
$200 [20]
A strict rule in traditional origami is that you can never do this to the piece of paper
cut
Michael
$200 [15]
On Sept. 19, 1934 Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested in the Bronx for this kidnapping
the Lindbergh case (the Lindbergh baby)
Charlie
$200 [9]
This language is also called Hollands
Dutch
Adam
$200 [26]
A musical medley of familiar themes, or a 1940 animated Disney film featuring 8 musical sequences
Fantasia
Adam
$300 [7]
In 1991 George Michael & this singer reached No. 1 in the U.K. with "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"
Elton John
Charlie
$300 [3]
Technically, a woman who takes the simple ones of these is known as a sister; the solemn ones, a nun
vows
Michael
$300 [21]
Name for the wood fibers prepared for papermaking
pulp
$300 [16]
In 1741 he finished "Messiah" after working on it just 23 days
Handel
Michael
$300 [10]
The standard form of this Bantu language is based on the Kiunguja dialect of Tanzania
Swahili
Adam
$300 [27]
It's a framework of parallel bars used to broil meat, or a football field
a gridiron
Adam
$400 [23]
In 1976 Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. sang, "You don't have to be" this "to be in my show"
a star
Charlie
$400 [4]
It's from the Latin for "assembly"; nuns may live in a cloistered one
a convent
Adam
$400 [22]
The end papers in these items sometimes have a marbled appearance
books
Charlie
$400 [17]
In Sept. 1953 Ike named California governor Earl Warren to this post
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (or of the United States)
Charlie
$400 [11]
This language spoken chiefly in northeastern Spain also has a few speakers on Sardinia
Catalan (Catalonian)
Charlie
$400 [28]
Programs such as WordPerfect used to direct the operation of a computer
software
Michael
$500 [24]
1962 Crystals hit that begins, "See the way he walks down the street. That's the way he shuffles his feet"
"He's A Rebel"
$500 [13]
Born Elizabeth Ann Bayley in 1774 in New York City, she was canonized in 1975
Mother Seton
Michael
$500 [30]
In the 1850s the Union Company of Pennsylvania was the first to mass-produce these for merchants
paper bags
Charlie
$500 [18]
In 1943 this Generalissimo was named President of the Chinese national government, replacing Lin Sen
Chiang Kai-shek
Adam
$500 [12]
Motu is a language spoken along a coastal strip around Port Moresby, capital of this island nation
Papua New Guinea
Michael
DD $600 [29]
This word for an occurrence of widespread destruction comes from the Latin for "star"
disaster
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

NATIVE AMERICANS WORLD CITIES ART & ARTISTS LEGENDS & FOLKLORE GEOLOGY WOMEN AUTHORS
$200 [8]
Her uncle Opachisco & 2 of her brothers represented her father at her 1614 wedding
Pocahontas
Michael
$200 [1]
This, the former capital of New France, is Canada's only walled city
Quebec (City)
Michael Adam
$200 [20]
This artist's devoted brother Theo died just 6 months after his 1890 suicide
Van Gogh
Adam
$200 [12]
This musician of German legend is described as "pied" because of his multicolored clothing
the Pied Piper
Michael
DD $100 [29]
During a period of orogeny, these geological formations are built
mountains
Charlie
$200 [2]
She introduced Miss Jane Marple in her 1930 novel "Murder at the Vicarage"
Agatha Christie
Charlie
$400 [17]
His Sioux name, Tashunca-Uitco, may also be translated as "unbroken horse"
Crazy Horse
Charlie
$400 [3]
Mentioned in the Bible, "The Street Which Is Called Straight" still exists in this Syrian capital
Damascus
Charlie Adam
$400 [21]
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow but received his training in this Bavarian capital
Munich
Charlie
$400 [13]
This term for a voyeur dates back to the tailor who dared to peek at Lady Godiva
Peeping Tom
Charlie
$200 [26]
Known for his "burner", this man is also noted for his study of volcanic rocks in Iceland
Bunsen
Charlie
$400 [7]
M.M. Kaye, born in this country, set her bestseller "The Far Pavilions" there
India
Charlie
$600 [18]
Clara Hall Jerome, the maternal grandmother of this British prime minister, was part Iroquois
Churchill
Adam
$600 [4]
While banking in this largest Swiss city, you may want to pick up some chocolates or an Army knife
Zurich
Michael Charlie
$600 [23]
The earliest known surviving works of Andrea Pisano are the first bronze doors of this city's baptistery
Florence
Charlie Adam
$600 [14]
In Ireland these sea creatures are called merrows; their appearance forebodes a coming storm
mermaids
Charlie
$400 [27]
Term for the minerals from which pure metals can be extracted
ores
Michael
$800 [10]
"Fortune's Favorites" is the third volume in this Australian author's Roman epic
Colleen McCullough
$800 [19]
This Ottawa chief might have captured Fort Detroit if his plan hadn't been betrayed
Chief Pontiac
Adam
$800 [5]
The reputed tomb of Eve in Jiddah was destroyed by this country's gov't as a place of idolatry
Saudi Arabia
Charlie
$800 [24]
This surrealist is buried at his museum in Figueras, Spain
Salvador Dali
Charlie
$800 [15]
To strengthen their own bloodlines, some fairies steal babies & leave these beings in their place
changelings
Michael
$600 [28]
Common name of the sulfide mineral FeS2; it looks more valuable than it is
fool's gold (iron pyrite)
Charlie
$1,000 [11]
She's the creator of private detective V.I. Warshawski
Sara Paretsky
Adam
$1,000 [22]
When this Apache chief died in 1874, his warriors carried his body into the Dragoon Mtns; his burial place is unknown
Cochise
Michael
$1,000 [6]
The Haboob, a dust-laden wind, can darken the sky in this Sudanese capital between March & October
Khartoum
Michael
$1,000 [25]
This Swedish-born pop artist invented "soft" sculpture
Claes Oldenburg
$1,000 [16]
He was popular in folklore before becoming the subject of the 1630 play "The Seducer of Seville"
Don Juan
Michael
DD $1,100 [9]
Her "Sense and Sensibility" grew out of an earlier novel, "Elinor and Marianne"
Jane Austen
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH MONARCHS

9-year-old Henry III became king of England when this king, his father, died in 1216

King John

Adam "Who is Edward of Gaunt" — wagered $400
Michael "Who was Richard I?" — wagered $7,500
Charlie "Who is Richard II?" — wagered $7,001

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