Show #2435 1995-03-17 (taped 1994-11-30) Regular

Jonathan Groff game 4.

Contestants

Sean Sell — an attorney from La Jolla, California

Jim Lux — a consultant from Westlake Village, California

Jonathan Groff — a writer and actor from New York City, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $44,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jonathan $2,500 $6,200 $12,800 $6,800
4-day champion: $51,500
$15,300
41 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jim $700 $1,200 $2,000 $3,999
2nd place: a trip on Trans World Airlines + a week at Marriott at Sawgrass Resort in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida + the Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
$2,000
7 R, 2 W
Sean $600 $1,300 $3,300 $0
3rd place: a vacation at the historic Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs + the Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
$3,300
7 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

DISASTERS SINGERS TRAVEL & TOURISM HEALTH & MEDICINE FOOD PHRASES CAN I PUT THIS DOWN?
$100 [1]
Patrick O'Leary's house was undamaged in this 1871 disaster that began in his barn
the Chicago Fire
Jonathan
$100 [12]
Billy Ray Cyrus said his favorite record as a child was her hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
Nancy Sinatra
Jonathan
$100 [21]
Galeao Int'l Airport on Governador Island in Guanabara Bay serves this Brazilian city
Rio de Janeiro
Jim
$100 [26]
The production of this by an adult female is called lactation
milk
Jonathan
$100 [10]
A predicament may be "a fine kettle" of these
fish
Jonathan
$100 [5]
She's been carrying a torch since 1886
the Statue of Liberty
Jonathan
$200 [2]
In 1978 the Amoco Cadiz dumped about 1.5 million barrels of this into the waters off Brittany
oil
Jim
$200 [17]
Mac Davis wrote several of this singer's hits, including "Don't Cry Daddy" & "In The Ghetto"
Elvis Presley
Sean
$200 [22]
Don't miss the tasting room at this brewery's Hop Store in Dublin
Guinness
Jonathan
$200 [27]
Your baby is apt to get 8-12 of these "common" illnesses each year
colds
Jonathan
$200 [11]
A person who can't accomplish a required task can't "cut" this
the mustard
Sean
$200 [6]
It's what Diogenes was carrying during his search for an honest man
a lamp
Jonathan
$300 [3]
It took about 30 seconds for this hydrogen-filled airship to burn in New Jersey in 1937
the Hindenburg
Jonathan
$300 [18]
Opera singer Kathleen Battle was given the middle name Deanna in honor of this movie star
Deanna Durbin
Jonathan
$300 [23]
The Mosaics at St. Mark's Basilica in this Italian city took 700 years to complete
Venice
Jonathan
$300 [28]
The 3 major types of dentifrices are powder, gel & this
pastes
Jonathan
$300 [14]
To coax or to goad, perhaps into making an omelette
to egg on
Jonathan
$300 [7]
This constellation is holding a shield & a club
Orion
Jonathan
$400 [4]
These Protestants, victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, may be named for Besancon Hugues
the Huguenots
Sean
$400 [19]
This Broadway "Phantom" dueted with Barbra Streisand on his album "A Touch of Music in the Night"
Michael Crawford
Jonathan
$400 [24]
Scala, one of Denmark's largest shopping malls, is located across from this Copenhagen amusement park
the Tivoli Garden
Jim
$400 [29]
This pancreatic hormone's name comes from New Latin for "island"
insulin
Jonathan
$400 [15]
If you're in hot water, you may be in a "pretty", "sad", "fine" or "sweet" one of these
a pickle
Jonathan
$400 [8]
Among corporate symbols, Mr. Peanut & Johnnie Walker both carry one
a cane
Jonathan
DD $1,000 [13]
Half of Ghiberti's bronze panels were ripped off Florence's baptistery in a 1966 flood on this river
the Arno
Jonathan
$500 [20]
Late teen idol & "Garden Party" singer whose fans threw an "International Garden Party" in his honor in 1993
Ricky Nelson
Jonathan
$500 [25]
One of the top attractions in this Austrian city is the Olympic ski jump stadium built in 1964
Innsbruck
Jonathan
$500 [30]
These result from a tendon abnormality in the toes, not from driving nails with them
hammertoes
Jonathan
$500 [16]
It's an unattainable dream, like an airborne coconut cream
a pie in the sky
Sean
$500 [9]
The Oscar, of Academy Awards fame, holds one of these weapons
a sword
Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

MONARCHS U.S. GEOGRAPHY PAINTERS & PAINTINGS MYTHOLOGY BLACK AMERICANS MARYS IN LITERATURE
$200 [2]
In 1035, at age 8, he inherited Normandy from his father, Robert I
William the Conqueror
Jonathan
$200 [15]
Massachusetts' largest island, it lies just off Cape Cod
Martha's Vineyard
Jonathan Jim
$200 [21]
Titian, Bosch & Pieter Bruegel the Elder are among those who've painted "Christ Carrying" this
the cross
Jonathan
$200 [7]
Odysseus' Odyssey began after this 10-year war ended
the Trojan War
Jonathan
$200 [12]
In 1993 this Phoenix Suns player was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player
Charles Barkley
Jonathan
$200 [26]
Mary Eliza Chase is Nelson Chase's wife in this author's novel "Burr"
Gore Vidal
Jonathan
$400 [3]
This czar founded the Russian Academy of Sciences, which opened just after his 1725 death
Peter the Great
Jonathan
$400 [1]
Rising near Mount Shasta, the Sacramento is one of this state's principal rivers
California
Jonathan
$400 [22]
In 1911 this Spaniard painted "Accordionist"; in 1930 he painted "Acrobat"
Picasso
Jim
$400 [8]
In Norse mythology, this god of thunder lives in a 540-room mansion called Bilskirnir
Thor
Sean
$400 [13]
In 1968 this Black Panther Minister of Information published the book "Soul on Ice"
Eldridge Cleaver
Jonathan Jim
$400 [27]
In "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", Mary Hawley marries her partner during this kind of contest
a dance marathon
Jim
$600 [4]
In 1774 Louis-Auguste, duc de Berry, became this king of France
Louis XVI
Jonathan
$800 [17]
Ohio's shoreline stretches 262 miles along this Great Lake
Lake Erie
Jonathan
$600 [23]
One of his "At the Moulin Rouge" series shows "The Start of the Quadrille"
Toulouse-Lautrec
Jonathan
$600 [9]
When this Argonaut leader betrayed Medea, she murdered their children
Jason
Jim
$600 [14]
In 1955 she became the first black singer to perform opera on TV when she appeared in "Tosca" on NBC
Leontyne Price
Jonathan Sean
$600 [28]
This James T. Farrell character's mother, Mary Lonigan, wants him to become a priest
Studs Lonigan
Jonathan
$800 [5]
In 1976 this country's Carl XVI Gustaf married Silvia Sommerlath, a German
Sweden
Jonathan
$1,000 [18]
Near New Orleans, narrow passages connect this lake to Lakes Maurepas & Borgne
Lake Pontchartrain
Jonathan
$800 [24]
A year after "American Gothic", he painted "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
Grant Wood
Jonathan
$800 [10]
One of Hercules' labors was to capture this wild animal that lived on Mount Erymanthus
a boar
$1,000 [20]
On Aug. 30, 1983 he became the first black American astronaut to travel in space
Guion Bluford, Jr.
$800 [29]
In Ernest J. Gaines' "Autobiography of" this woman, Mary Agnes Lefabre is a Creole woman
Miss Jane Pittman
Jonathan
$1,000 [6]
Willem-Alexander, this current Dutch ruler's son, is the first male heir in the House of Orange since 1884
Beatrix
Jonathan
DD $4,000 [16]
This state's highest point, Black Mesa, rises 4,973 feet in Cimarron County in the Panhandle
Oklahoma
Jonathan
$1,000 [25]
Delacroix painted the "Garden at Nohant", a garden owned by this authoress with a masculine pen name
George Sand
Sean
$1,000 [11]
This Greek goddess of the hunt was the twin sister of Apollo
Artemis
Jonathan
DD $1,800 [19]
From 1955 to 1971, this statesman served as an undersecretary of the U.N.
Ralph Bunche
Jonathan
$1,000 [30]
Mary Littlejohn is Frankie Addams' new friend in this Carson McCullers work
The Member of the Wedding
Jonathan

Final Jeopardy!

PHILANTHROPISTS

In 1887 the remains of James Lick were placed inside one of these that he endowed

a telescope

Jim "What is an observatory?" — wagered $1,999
Sean "What is a Cathedral" — wagered $3,300
Jonathan "What is a statue?" — wagered $6,000

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