Show #2224 1994-04-14 (taped 1994-01-11) Regular

Contestants

Melinda Chatain — a freelance writer from Amagansett, New York

Joe Reinhard — a receiving clerk from Union, New Jersey

David Stewart — a songwriter from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
David	$600	$4,900	$1,900	$3,800 3rd place: Samsung camcorder	$5,400 21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Joe	$1,200	$2,200	$9,200	$11,100 New champion: $11,100	$8,400 19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Melinda	$500	$600	$3,600	$4,000 2nd place: trip to Hilton Head Island	$3,600 13 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CONTINENTS	SPORTS RULES	HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	MUSIC	ON THE FARM	COMMON BONDS
$100 [3] The Dibble iceberg tongue hangs off this continent Antarctica Melinda	$100 [8] In golf you can use up to 14 of these but if you break one you can't borrow another player's a club Joe	$100 [11] On May 4 this smallest U.S. state commemorates the date it proclaimed independence from Britain Rhode Island Melinda	$100 [1] Thomas Hastings' Hymn "Toplady" is the music for this Augustus Toplady poem & its words "cleft for me" "Rock of Ages" David	$100 [21] This machine replaced mother hens for keeping eggs warm until they hatch an incubator David	$100 [26] Spare, Prime, Adam's ribs David
$200 [4] It's the continent that's home to the International Court of Justice Europe Melinda	$200 [9] This soccer player has to dress differently from the other players & the referees the goalie Joe	$200 [12] The end of a 1575 epidemic in this city is commemorated by a procession of gondolas each July 17 Venice Joe	$200 [2] These parade pieces may be written in 2/4, 4/4 or 6/8 time & Sousa was King of them marches Melinda	$200 [22] It's the machine that compacts straw or hay into easy-to-store blocks a baler Joe	$200 [27] Wedding, Dumb, Tinker bell David
$300 [5] On this continent a very nice guy is called a "bonzer bloke" Australia Joe	$300 [10] In hockey they must be 40-48" high, made of wood or fiberglass & painted white the boards (around the rink) David Melinda	$300 [13] Traditionally, these leave San Juan Capistrano on October 23 swallows Melinda	$300 [14] His real first name is Riley; the initials came from "Blues Boy", a name he used as a disc jockey B.B. King David	$300 [23] This unit used for picked fruit is equal to 4 pecks a bushel David	$300 [28] Comic, landing, Gaza strip David
$400 [6] The Berbers are native to this continent's northern coast Africa Melinda	$400 [15] A free kick in football may be performed as a drop kick, a place kick or one of these a punt Joe	$400 [17] On December 5 Haiti celebrates its discovery by this man Columbus David	$400 [18] On a stringed instrument, it or they may be C-, F- or rose-shaped tone holes David	$400 [24] It's the 2-word term for applying pesticides by plane or helicopter crop dusting Joe	$400 [29] Corn, chocolate, cough syrup Joe Melinda
$500 [7] It's the continent with the second-greatest number of Confucians North America David Melinda	$500 [16] In cricket these are placed 22 yards apart, at either end of the pitch wickets David	DD $1,000 [20] On November 3 this country observes its 1903 independence from Colombia Panama David	$500 [19] This Hungarian began his public piano career after rejection by the Paris Conservatory at the age of 12 (Franz) Liszt David	$500 [25] This organization for young people is abbreviated FFA the Future Farmers of America David	$500 [30] Card, round, periodic tables Melinda

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY AMERICA	TREES	SAINTS	MUSEUMS	AUTHORS	FILE UNDER "J"
$200 [7] Richard Olney is famous for an 1895 corollary to this 1823 doctrine the Monroe Doctrine David	$200 [21] You can identify different types of these trees by their leaves, bark & acorns oaks Joe	$200 [2] St. Frideswide is patron of this English city & its university Oxford David	$200 [26] The new Richelieu wing that opened in 1993 doubled this museum's display area the Louvre Melinda	$200 [1] He finished "Paradise Lost" & began "Paradise Regained" in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire John Milton David	$200 [16] When this Steven Spielberg film opened in June 1993, it had the best first week ever—$81.7 million Jurassic Park David
$400 [8] In 1830 there was about 30 miles of this in the U.S.; by 1850 there was about 9,000 miles railroad tracks David Joe	$400 [22] Common name for the edible seeds in the cones of pinon trees pine nuts Joe	$400 [3] This visionary saint of Lourdes died at the age of 35 Bernadette Joe	$400 [27] Opened in 1972, the Van Gogh Museum in this capital city houses about 600 of the artist's works Amsterdam David	$400 [12] This author of "Lord of the Flies" & winner of the 1983 Nobel Literature Prize died in 1993 William Golding Melinda	$400 [17] From the Latin for "legal knowledge", it's the term for the formal science of law jurisprudence Joe
$600 [9] In 1837 he built his first steel-bladed plow at his blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Illinois (John) Deere Melinda	$600 [23] Acer saccharum is the sugar maple & Acer rubrum is this the red maple Joe	$600 [4] Saints named Ladislas & Stephen were both kings of this country Hungary Joe Melinda	$600 [30] Several museums, including the Silver Museum, are in this Florence, Italy palace The Pitti Palace David	$600 [13] Arthur Koestler's novel about the Moscow trials of the 1930s was called "Darkness at" this time Noon Joe	$600 [18] Gibberish, or the specialized language of a profession or trade jargon Melinda
$800 [10] The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy versus this man condoned "separate but equal" practices Ferguson David	$800 [24] A type of crab is named for this tree which it climbs the coconut	$1,000 [6] This English king died a week after Westminster Abbey was consecrated Edward the Confessor David Joe	$1,000 [29] One room of Lisbon's military museum is devoted to this captain who opened a new trade route to India in 1498 (Vasco) da Gama David	$800 [14] Half of this "The Time Of Your Life" author's ashes were interred in California & half in Armenia William Saroyan	$800 [19] From 1615-1642, he served as architect to King James I & then King Charles I Inigo Jones Melinda
$1,000 [11] Lincoln's secretary, he went on to negotiate treaties with England's Julian Pauncefote John Hay	$1,000 [25] The most massive tree is a giant sequoia named for this general; its seeds weigh about 1/5,000 oz. General Sherman Joe	DD $1,600 [5] He's the patron saint of dancers & even has a "dance" named for him St. Vitus Joe	DD $4,000 [28] This country's National Museum building was designed by Saarinen, Gesellius & Lindgren Finland David	$1,000 [15] E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes & Virginia Woolf were members of this literary group the Bloomsbury Group Melinda	$1,000 [20] Founded as El Paso del Norte c. 1660, this city is Mexico's largest on the border with the U.S. Juarez Joe

Final Jeopardy!

THE NOBEL PRIZE

On receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, she said, "I accept in the name of the poor"

Mother Teresa

David "Who is Mother Teresa?" — wagered $1,900

Melinda "Who is Mother Teresa?" — wagered $400

Joe "Who is Mother Teresa?" — wagered $1,900

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