Show #2417 1995-02-21 (taped 1994-11-15) Regular

Contestants

Jim Clem — a graduate student from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Tom Hennigan — a graduate assistant from Moscow, Idaho

Charlie Garfink — a cafe owner from San Rafael, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $25,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Charlie $900 $2,500 $6,200 $10,400
2nd place: a trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico aboard Trans World Airlines & a week at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel & Casino on Isla Verde Beach + Jeopardy! home game
$6,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Tom $800 $2,000 $9,000 $15,201
New champion: $15,201
$9,700
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jim $1,900 $2,800 $5,200 $200
3rd place: Magnavox compact VHS camcorder with 12:1 zoom lens & flying erase head + Jeopardy! home game
$5,200
14 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY MOVIE NOSTALGIA COINS THE HUMAN BODY SEAFOOD 10-LETTER WORDS
$100 [1]
Japan joined this international organization on December 18, 1956
the UN
Charlie
$100 [6]
In Germany this animated Disney classic is known as "Schneewittchen und die Sieben Dwerge"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Charlie
$100 [20]
Physically, it's the smallest U.S. coin now in circulation
the dime
Tom
$100 [25]
During exercise, this organ pumps at least 30 quarts of blood per minute
the heart
Tom
$100 [8]
Very large quahogs, a type of these, are good for chowder
clams
Charlie
$100 [11]
It's the act of crowning a king or queen
a coronation
Tom
$200 [2]
In 1984 this British P.M. narrowly missed being blown up by an IRA bomb in Brighton
(Margaret) Thatcher
Charlie
$200 [7]
Ronald Reagan & Ann Sheridan were the original choices for the roles of Rick & Ilsa in this classic film
Casablanca
Jim
$200 [21]
The 25-pence coin of the Isle of Man issued in 1975 featured this animal on one side
the Manx cat
Tom
$200 [26]
Excessive rubbing can cause these thickened patches of skin, especially on the palms & soles
calluses
Jim
$200 [10]
The soft-shell type of this is caught just after molting, when its shell is so thin it can be eaten
crab
Jim
$200 [12]
It can be any tool used in medicine or any device that produces music
an instrument
Tom
$300 [3]
This PLO leader survived an April 7, 1992 plane crash in the Libyan Desert
Arafat
Jim
$300 [9]
Bette Midler's 1990 film "Stella" was a remake of this 1937 Barbara Stanwyck tearjerker
Stella Dallas
Jim
$300 [22]
In 1988 this country issued a 50,000-won gold coin to commemorate the Summer Olympics held there
South Korea
Jim
$300 [28]
The head of the thighbone fits together with this bone where they form a ball-and-socket joint
the hip
Charlie
$300 [15]
This vinegared rice & raw seafood dish is seasoned with wasabi, a horseradish-like powder
sushi
$300 [16]
Rings & a pommel horse are used in this sport
gymnastics
Charlie
$400 [4]
In April 1959 Prime Minister Nehru met with this exiled Tibetan leader in India
the Dalai Lama
Charlie
$400 [13]
Burt Lancaster compared love to "the morning and the evening star" in this 1960 film that won him an Oscar
Elmer Gantry
Jim
$400 [23]
Tajikistan uses this unit of currency, as it did when it was part of the Soviet Union
the ruble
Tom
$400 [29]
A jellylike substance called the vitreous humor helps maintain this organ's shape
the eye
Jim
$400 [17]
This bivalve is eaten raw or in such dishes as Hangtown fry & angels on horseback
oysters
Tom
$400 [19]
In grammar the present one ends in -ing, while the past one usually ends in -ed or -en
a participle
$500 [5]
In 1929 oilman Harry Sinclair went to jail for his part in this Harding administration scandal
the Teapot Dome scandal
Jim
$500 [14]
This early crooner's 1929 film "The Vagabond Lover" was based on his own career
Rudy Vallee
Tom
DD $500 [24]
Some coins of this country feature the portrait of revolutionary leader Augusto Sandino
Nicaragua
Tom
$500 [30]
During swallowing, the epiglottis prevents food from entering the larynx & this tube
the trachea
Charlie
$500 [18]
Konbu, a dried type of this seaweed, is essential in making dashi soup stock
kelp
Charlie
$500 [27]
It's the act of taking another's ideas or writings & passing them off as one's own
plagiarism
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY NICKNAMES MYTHS & LEGENDS MUSIC WORLD CITIES WOMEN AUTHORS
$200 [2]
In 1728 Spain gave the Royal Guipuzcoa Company of Caracas control of all trade in this country
Venezuela
Tom
$200 [16]
We don't know if this British prime minister answered to Pooh Bear, but he did answer to Winnie
Churchill
Charlie
$200 [1]
The infant Oedipus was saved from death by a herder of these woolly animals
sheep
Charlie
$200 [18]
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor turned this Longfellow poem about an Indian into a cantata
Hiawatha
Charlie
$200 [7]
The ancient Parthenon in this city was built of marble from Mount Pentelicus
Athens
Charlie
$200 [20]
She was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, England in 1890
Agatha Christie
Tom
$400 [6]
In 1830 Belgium declared its independence from this other Low Country
the Netherlands
Jim
$400 [17]
Nickname shared by OSS director William Joseph Donovan & frontier marshal James Butler Hickok
"Wild Bill"
Tom
$400 [3]
Ishtar, a goddess of thunderstorms, is often depicted with this animal that has a thunderous roar
the lion
Tom
$400 [23]
Instrument featured in John Cage's "HPSCHD"
the harpsichord
Tom
$400 [10]
This Scottish city may have been named for Edwin of Northumbria, an Anglian king
Edinburgh
Charlie
$400 [27]
This author of "Valley of the Dolls" appeared in more than 20 Broadway productions as an actress
(Jacqueline) Susann
Jim
$600 [8]
By a 1920 vote Northern Schleswig was transferred from Germany to this peninsular country
Denmark
Tom
$600 [19]
Boz was Charles Dickens & Bozzy was this Samuel Johnson chronicler
Boswell
Jim
$600 [4]
In Norse myth this splendid hall is guarded by a gate called Valgrind
Valhalla
Tom
$600 [24]
Opera star Jan Peerce appeared on Broadway in this musical about a milkman
Fiddler on the Roof
Tom
$600 [13]
Once known as Massilia, it's France's oldest town
Marseilles
Tom
$600 [28]
Alice B. Toklas translated her 1938 book "Picasso" into English
Gertrude Stein
Tom
DD $900 [11]
On Aug. 16, 1960 Britain, Greece & Turkey allowed this Mediterranean island to become independent
Cyprus
Charlie
$800 [21]
This Italian has been referred to as "The Red Shirt Hero"
Garibaldi
Jim
$800 [5]
The most famous Chanson de Geste, "The Song of" this paladin is 4,002 lines long
Roland (or Orlando)
Charlie
$800 [25]
Richard Strauss wrote "Ariadne auf Naxos" to be performed after this playwright's "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme"
Molière
Tom
$800 [14]
Peru's "City of Kings", it was founded during the Feast of the Three Kings in 1535
Lima
Charlie Jim
$800 [29]
Though Danish, she wrote her works like "Out of Africa" in English
Isak Dinesen
Tom
$1,000 [12]
Joan of Arc was present at the 1429 coronation of Charles VII in this city
Reims
Charlie Tom
$1,000 [22]
This poet was the Bard of Ayrshire
Robert Burns
Tom
$1,000 [9]
In Egyptian astronomy, Isis was equated with this dog star
Sirius
Jim
DD $800 [26]
Works by the artist Victor Hartmann are the subject of this Modest Mussorgsky suite
Pictures at an Exhibition
Tom
$1,000 [15]
This chief seaport city of Israel is located on Mount Carmel
Haifa
$1,000 [30]
She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1985 novel "The Accidental Tourist"
(Anne) Tyler
Charlie

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS AMERICANS

On October 18, 1938, Hermann Goering decorated him with a service cross

Charles Lindbergh

Jim "Who was ?" — wagered $5,000
Charlie "Who was Charles Lindhberg" — wagered $4,200
Tom "Who was Lindberg" — wagered $6,201

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