Show #2175 1994-02-04 (taped 1993-11-02) Regular

Tom Nichols game 5-A.

Contestants

Bob Tzudiker — a writer originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Phil Oakley — an actor from Van Nuys, California

Tom Nichols — a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts (whose 4-day cash winnings total $45,690)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $200 $1,600 $5,600 $11,190
2nd place: Trip to Quail Lodge Resort, Carmel, California + Panasonic camcorder
$5,400
23 R (including 2 DDs), 8 W
Phil $200 $600 $2,200 $2,200
3rd place: Towle flatware set + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$3,000
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Bob $1,000 $3,000 $6,200 $11,300
New champion: $11,300
$6,200
18 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIOLOGY MADE BY RONCO HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES MUSIC 3-LETTER WORDS POTPOURRI
$100 [2]
Members of this order of mammals have chisel-like incisors for gnawing & no canine teeth
rodents
Bob
$100 [4]
Ronco made a special vacuum that cleaned these before you put them on the turntable
records
Bob
$100 [9]
Venezuela's independence celebration is on this date, 1 day after ours
July 5
Phil
$100 [1]
This interval has 8 steps; octo is Latin for "eight"
an octave
Bob
$100 [17]
It's a long bench for seating the congregation in a church
a pew
Tom
$100 [18]
Name shared by a card game, a pastry & a Bonaparte
Napoleon
Bob
$200 [3]
Bipolar, ganglion & amacrine cells connect the cones & rods of the retina to this nerve
the optic nerve
Tom
$200 [6]
A foundation of the Ronco empire is this device that slices & dices
the Veg-O-Matic
Bob
$200 [10]
In this part of the U.K., Orangeman's Day celebrates a Protestant victory over the Catholics
Northern Ireland
Tom
$200 [11]
This Italian synonym for decrescendo is often abbreviated dim.
diminuendo
Bob
$200 [23]
Meaning "to write down hastily", this word comes from the Greek Iota
jot
Bob
$200 [19]
Historian & columnist Pierre Berton has been called this North American country's most famous journalist
Canada
Phil
$300 [5]
These chambers of the heart were formerly called the auricles
the atria
Tom Phil
$300 [28]
With one machine you can dehydrate food, or make yogurt or this dried meat product
jerky
Tom
$300 [15]
These animals are driven through the streets of Pamplona, Spain during the Fiesta de San Fermin
bulls
Phil
$300 [12]
The musical range of a baritone is between a tenor & this lowest type of male voice
the bass
Phil
$300 [24]
Often paired with to, it means "away" or "back"
fro
Tom Phil
$300 [20]
In heraldry, 1 of the 2 parts of a dragon that are usually barbed
the tongue (or the tail)
Bob
$400 [7]
Doctors sometimes induce hypothermia, which is this, to reduce metabolic activity
low body temperature
Tom Bob
$400 [29]
The egg scrambler scrambles the egg while it's still here
In the shell
Tom
$500 [27]
King Bhumibol of this SE Asian country gives Buddhist monks new yellow robes on Thot Kathin
Thailand
Bob
$400 [13]
This cauldron-shaped drum tuned to a definite pitch originated in Asia
timpani (kettledrum)
Bob
$400 [25]
It's the term for food regurgitated from the first stomach of a ruminant & chewed again
cud
Bob
$400 [21]
In 1971 he launched his first Eau de Toilette for men, YSL Pour Homme
Yves Saint Laurent
Tom
$500 [8]
This genus of bacteria includes S. typhi, causing typhoid, & S. typhimurium, causing food poisoning
salmonella
Bob
$500 [30]
Mr. Dentist is the plaque attacker & this product lets you talk over the radio
Mr. Microphone
Phil
DD $800 [16]
Chinese New Year's Day falls in 1 of these 2 months on our calendar
January or February
Phil
$500 [14]
In an arpeggio the notes of one of these are sounded in succession, not simultaneously
a chord
Tom
$500 [26]
A symbol of the power of a monarch, it's a globe surmounted by a cross
an orb
Tom
$500 [22]
An Astaire & Rogers musical, an adjective that means having no worries, or a sugarless gum
Carefree
Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY THE STATUE OF LIBERTY FAMOUS LAWYERS WOMEN U.S. HISTORY LITERARY MOVEMENTS
$200 [3]
This Dutch city on about 70 islands connected by about 400 bridges is famous for its diamond cutters
Amsterdam
Tom Bob
$200 [1]
For almost a year before it was shipped to the U.S., the statue was displayed in this world capital
Paris
Tom
$200 [2]
Judah P. Benjamin served this Confederate president as Attorney General & Secretary of War & State
Jefferson Davis
Bob
$200 [16]
Israel's first minister to the Soviet Union, she became the country's prime minister in 1969
Golda Meir
Tom
$200 [11]
In 1973 President Nixon nominated this man to succeed William Rogers as Secretary of State
Kissinger
Tom
$200 [20]
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & Lawrence Ferlinghetti were part of this group of writers
the Beats
Tom
$400 [4]
It's now made up of just the republics of Serbia & Montenegro
Yugoslavia
Tom
$400 [21]
Encased in the cornerstone is a coin minted in 1824, the year this Marquis last came to the U.S.
Lafayette
Tom
$400 [5]
In 1954 Edward Bennett Williams represented this Wisconsin senator in his Senate censure case
McCarthy
Tom
$400 [18]
In 1854 she was asked by the British Secretary of War to take command of the nurses in Scutari, Turkey
Florence Nightingale
Phil Bob
$400 [12]
In 1802 Eleuthere Irenee du Pont established a gunpowder mill in this state
Delaware
Tom
$400 [24]
William Wordsworth helped launch this "love"ly movement in England
Romanticism
Tom
$600 [8]
Districts of this country include Braganca, Portalegre & Lisboa
Portugal
Bob
$600 [22]
The full name of the statue is "Liberty" doing this
Enlightening the World
$600 [6]
His book "Unsafe at any Speed" helped pass the national traffic & motor vehicle safety act of 1966
Nader
Tom
$600 [19]
In 1977 this former New York congresswoman ran for mayor of New York City
Bella Abzug
Tom Phil
$600 [13]
This first patient to get a permanent artificial heart died on March 23, 1983
Barney Clark
$600 [27]
Beckett & Ionesco dipped a bit into the "Theatre of" this
the absurd
Phil
$800 [9]
Bulgaria borders this sea
the Black Sea
Tom
DD $600 [23]
As part of a fund-raising effort, she wrote "The New Colossus", which would be placed on the pedestal
Emma Lazarus
Tom
$800 [7]
This ANC leader received his law degree from the University of South Africa in 1942
(Nelson) Mandela
Bob
$800 [29]
She was a managing editor for Vanity Fair before she married the publisher of Time
Clare Boothe Luce
Tom
$800 [14]
This Confederate general died of pneumonia 7 days after the amputation of his arm in May 1863
"Stonewall" Jackson
Phil
$800 [28]
Adjective describing the "young men" with whom John Osborne & Kingsley Amis were associated
Angry
Tom
$1,000 [17]
This German seaport's full name calls it a Free & Hanseatic City
Hamburg
Tom Bob
$1,000 [25]
Standing inside the crown on Oct. 28, 1886, this sculptor released the French flag & the statue was unveiled
Bartholdi
$1,000 [10]
This Harvard-educated lawyer is best known as the author of "Two Years Before the Mast"
Richard Henry Dana
Tom
DD $1,400 [26]
In 1993 this university administrator became Secretary of Health & Human Services
Donna Shalala
Tom
$1,000 [15]
This U.S. president garnered just 8 electoral votes when defeated by Woodrow Wilson in 1912
Taft
Tom
$1,000 [30]
This Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger work lent its title to the movement associated with Goethe
Sturm und Drang

Final Jeopardy!

DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS

1 of only 2 films directed by Clint Eastwood that did not star Clint Eastwood

(1 of) Bird or Breezy

Phil "What is ?" — wagered $0
Tom "What is Bird?" — wagered $5,590
Bob "What is Bird?" — wagered $5,100

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