Show #2420 1995-02-24 (taped 1994-11-15) Regular

Contestants

Dave Jordan — an engineer from Niles, Michigan

Bill Fairchild — a computer software specialist from Herndon, Virginia

Scott Stechman — an attorney from Woodmere, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,100)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Scott	$500	$1,300	$5,900	$900 2nd place: Bose Lifestyle 12 home theater system + Bush Industries home theater ready-to-assemble furniture ensemble + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or Super Nintendo Entertainment System	$8,100 21 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Bill	$1,900	$2,200	$4,200	$150 3rd place: Givenchy Paris his & hers Swiss watches + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or Super Nintendo Entertainment System	$4,200 15 R, 3 W
Dave	$100	$-100	$3,900	$3,401 New champion: $3,401	$4,900 15 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER	THE MOVIES	POTENT POTABLES	ANIMALS	LOST & FOUND	"A" IN GEOGRAPHY
$100 [9] The actual Star-Spangled Banner can be seen at the Nat'l Museum of American History, part of this complex the Smithsonian Scott	$100 [1] This actor played the Frankenstein monster in 1931 & the Mummy the next year Boris Karloff Scott	$100 [21] The bock variety of this beverage is sweeter & darker than the lager beer Scott	$100 [14] This small, herringlike food fish is used on pizzas & in sauces anchovies Dave	$100 [26] Found in 1920 in southern Africa, the 60-ton Hoba West is one of these outer space visitors a meteorite Bill	$100 [4] At over 9,500 feet, Mount Tahat is the highest point in this North African country Algeria Scott
$200 [10] This national motto of the U.S. is probably derived from a line in the song "In God we trust" Dave	$200 [2] This "Silence of the Lambs" character first appeared in the 1986 film "Manhunter" Hannibal Lecter Scott	$200 [22] The Irish form of this beverage is similar to the Scotch, without the smoky peat flavor whiskey Bill	$200 [15] The largest type of this African scavenger is the spotted or laughing species the hyena Bill	$200 [27] In its year & a half of operation in the 1860s, it lost only one mail delivery the Pony Express Scott	$200 [5] Vorarlberg, which is noted for its skiing, is this country's "Little Province", or Landle Austria Bill
$300 [11] The words were first printed as a handbill under the title "The Defense of" this place Fort McHenry Dave	$300 [3] The 1994 sequel to this Billy Crystal movie was subtitled "The Legend of Curly's Gold" City Slickers Bill	$300 [23] This Japanese drink is produced from steamed rice called koji sake Scott	$300 [16] This tusked pinniped's "mustache" consists of about 400 sensitive bristle-like structures a walrus Bill	$300 [28] 31 of this Renaissance artist's notebooks have been found; no one knows how many are lost da Vinci Scott Dave	$300 [6] The Blue Ridge Mountains have been called the backbone of this extensive mountain system the Appalachians Bill
$500 [13] The tune is attributed to John Stafford Smith, who wrote it for the poem "To Anacreon" here in heaven Bill	$400 [19] Marlon Brando film in which he uttered the lines "I coulda had class! I coulda been a contender!" On the Waterfront Scott	$400 [24] In 1605 the Marechal d'Estrees gave the recipe for this liqueur to the Carthusian Fathers Chartreuse	$400 [17] The Galapagos Islands are home to 2 species of this large lizard: land & marine the iguana Scott Bill	$400 [29] It was found on Samothrace in 1863 with no head or arms; a hand turned up in 1950 Winged Victory of Samothrace Bill	$400 [7] In area, it's Canada's fourth-largest province Alberta Bill
DD $1,000 [12] In March 1931 this president signed the law making it the official national anthem Herbert Hoover Dave	$500 [20] Elvis's feature film debut, it was also his only film in which he didn't receive top billing Love Me Tender Scott	$500 [25] This Scandinavian spirit is often flavored with caraway aquavit	$500 [18] Known for its bugle-like call, this rare bird is North America's tallest at about 5 feet the whooping crane Dave	$500 [30] These include those of Dan, Gad & Naphtali the lost tribes of Israel Bill	$500 [8] This world capital lies about 25 miles northeast of the Dead Sea Amman (Jordan) Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

1885	NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES	GUARDS	DESERTS	FINANCE	AMERICAN LITERATURE
$200 [1] When this arrived from France on June 19, its pedestal on Bedloe's Island wasn't finished the Statue of Liberty Scott	$200 [24] In the 1880s Eliezer Ben-Yehuda founded a magazine dedicated to reviving this as a living language Hebrew Scott Bill	$200 [15] In the U.S. it guards visiting heads of foreign governments & vice presidents-elect the Secret Service Bill	$200 [6] These have been artificially created in the Sahara by drilling over 1000' down for water oases Dave	$200 [12] A 1980 deregulation law allowed banks to pay this on checking accounts interest Scott	$200 [11] Lillian Hellman was the model for Nora Charles in his novel "The Thin Man" (Dashiell) Hammett Dave
$400 [2] The first U.S. street railroad employing this type of power opened in Baltimore on August 10 electricity Dave	$400 [25] Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex and the Single Girl" led to her appointment as this magazine's editor Cosmopolitan Scott	$400 [16] The Swiss Guard is responsible for guarding the man who has this job the pope Dave	$400 [7] Fossilized dinosaur eggs have been found in this desert the Chinese also call Shamo the Gobi Scott	$400 [20] It's the good faith deposit a home buyer gives to the seller or bank a down payment Scott	$600 [14] His 1949 book "Knight's Gambit" is a collection of interrelated detective stories set in Mississippi Faulkner Dave
$600 [3] Chartered in 1880, Bryn Mawr College opened in this state in 1885 Pennsylvania Scott Dave	$600 [26] The first "Dear Abby" column appeared in this California city's Chronicle in 1956 San Francisco Bill	$600 [17] "Carnivorous" nickname of the warders of the Tower of London Beefeaters Scott	$600 [8] In 1974 this country detonated its first nuclear device in its Thar Desert India Scott Bill Dave	$600 [21] Abbreviated C.P.I., it measures changes in the cost of living the consumer price index Dave	$800 [28] This native of Salem, Mass. published his novel "Fanshawe" anonymously & never admitted that he wrote it Nathaniel Hawthorne Bill
$800 [4] This 18th U.S. president & his vice president Schuyler Colfax both died during the year (Ulysses) Grant Scott	$800 [30] In 1926 Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories, the first magazine in this literary genre science fiction Bill	$1,000 [19] It knew that 3 heads were better than one for guarding Hades Cerberus Dave	$800 [9] This desert covers the southern half of Israel the Negev Scott	$800 [22] A money market fund is one of these funds that pools money from a group of investors a mutual fund Dave	DD $1,000 [13] Nick Adams is the hero of many of the stories in his 1925 collection "In Our Time" Ernest Hemingway Scott
$1,000 [5] He completed his first important painting, "The Potato Eaters", in Nuenen Van Gogh Scott	$1,000 [27] After attending Oxford, this Australian media magnate worked as a junior editor for the London Daily Express (Rupert) Murdoch Scott	DD $1,200 [18] From Augustus to Constantine they were the household guards of Roman emperors the Praetorian guards Scott	$1,000 [10] In the 19th century Bolivia, Peru & Chile fought over this desert for its sodium nitrate deposits the Atacama Dave	$1,000 [23] This rate is the value of one currency in terms of another exchange rate Dave	$1,000 [29] This Betty Smith novel tells us, "The one tree in Francie's yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Dave

Final Jeopardy!

KINGS & QUEENS

This royal wife, Queen of England for just 6 months in 1540, was the daughter of a German duke

Anne of Cleves

Dave "Who was Mary I" — wagered $499

Bill "Who was Mary of Scots" — wagered $4,050

Scott "Who was Jane Grey" — wagered $5,000

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