Show #2225 1994-04-15 (taped 1994-01-11) Regular

Contestants

Kevin Moran — a book publishing executive from Astoria, New York

Jim Thompson — a graduate student originally from Charlotte, North Carolina

Joe Reinhard — a receiving clerk from Union, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $1,600 $3,900 $6,700 $100
3rd place: Sanyo VCR + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$6,700
21 R, 1 W
Jim $2,000 $2,200 $8,200 $2,999
2nd place: Singer dining room set + Wallpapers To Go gift certificate
$7,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Kevin $700 $2,300 $6,500 $13,000
New champion: $13,000
$5,900
17 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

MEDICINE BLACK AMERICA HINTS FROM HELOISE U.S. LAKES & RIVERS BUSINESS LEADERS CROSSWORD CLUES "P"
$100 [1]
Zoopsia is a type of hallucination in which a person sees these
animals
Joe
$100 [16]
In January 1993, for the first time, all 50 states observed the birthday of this slain civil rights leader
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Joe
$100 [26]
One of Heloise's readers wears a scuba mask while chopping these; it keeps her from crying
onions
Kevin
$100 [6]
It's third in size of the Great Lakes & the only one entirely within the U.S.
Lake Michigan
Jim Kevin
$100 [11]
This cable mogul not only financed the film "Gettysburg", he also appears in it
Ted Turner
Joe
$100 [21]
Pennsylvania pirate city(10)
Pittsburgh
Joe
$200 [2]
Also known as the pharyngeal tonsils, they're found in your nasopharynx, unless you've had them removed
the adenoids
Joe Kevin
$200 [17]
In May 1993 Rita Dove became the first Black American to be named to this poetic post
poet laureate
Kevin
$200 [27]
Some eye makeup removers are expensive; you can use the baby or mineral type of this instead
oil
Joe
$300 [8]
Iowa's second-largest city is named for the rapids of this river
the Cedar
Joe
$200 [12]
This 1992 presidential candidate was once GM's largest stockholder
(Ross) Perot
Jim
$200 [22]
The point of a sentence(6)
a period
Jim
$300 [3]
A "hiatal" one of these often leads to heartburn
a hernia
Jim
$300 [18]
In 1966 this future clergyman was chosen to head the Chicago Branch of Operation Breadbasket
Jesse Jackson
Joe
$300 [28]
Heloise makes a bug collecting cage with a half-gallon milk carton & an old nylon one of these
a stocking
Joe
$400 [9]
This large southern lake is fed mainly by the Kissimmee River
Okeechobee
Jim
$300 [13]
In 1988 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen became owner & chairman of this Oregon basketball team
the Portland Trail Blazers
Jim
$300 [23]
Charming title(6)
Prince
Kevin
$400 [4]
This fever is now more common on the Eastern seaboard than in the mountain range for which it's named
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Jim
$400 [19]
In a 1950 poll he was voted the greatest track star of the first half of the century
Jesse Owens
Joe
$400 [29]
To avoid mess, Heloise places tacos in these filters before serving them to children
coffee filters
Kevin
$500 [10]
The artificially created Lake O' the Cherokees is located in this state
Oklahoma
Joe Jim
$400 [14]
In 1957 he came out of retirement to head the failing Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Armand Hammer
Joe
$400 [24]
Fire man(10)
pyromaniac
Joe Kevin
$500 [5]
Hepatomegaly is defined as enlargement of this organ
the liver
Kevin
$500 [20]
The monument on her grave reads: "The greatest blues singer in the world will never stop singing"
Bessie Smith
Kevin
$500 [30]
Heloise saves these plastic items found in hotel bathrooms & uses them to cover bowls of leftover food
shower caps
Joe
DD $800 [7]
Lewis & Clark explored the full length of this river to its source in Montana
the Missouri
Jim
$500 [15]
After leaving this video game co. which he founded in 1972, Nolan Bushnell started Chuck E. Cheese Pizza
Atari
Kevin
$500 [25]
Chien(six lettres)
a poodle
Kevin

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS RELIGION U.S. PRESIDENTS GEMS ENGLISH LITERATURE CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS
$200 [1]
One of the tourist sites in this capital is the arch of Janus near the Tiber River
Rome
Kevin
$200 [8]
In Judaism the ten days of repentance end on this holy day
Yom Kippur
Joe
$200 [6]
This Democrat is the third youngest man inaugurated as president
Bill Clinton
Jim
$200 [21]
These gems are classified as "Oriental" if they come from saltwater mollusks
pearls
Kevin
$200 [16]
He wrote a novel about the selfish Dorian Gray & a fairy tale about "The Selfish Giant"
Oscar Wilde
Kevin
$200 [26]
Sir Sagramore, Pellinore, Mordred
Camelot
Jim
$400 [2]
This capital is served by Indira Gandhi International Airport
New Delhi
Jim
$400 [9]
70% of the adherents of this religion are Vaishnavites
Hinduism
Jim
$400 [7]
In 1973 the Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston was renamed in his memory
Lyndon Johnson
Joe
$400 [22]
Turquoise has been mined for thousands of years on this peninsula east of the Gulf of Suez
the Sinai
Joe
$400 [17]
Chapter 28 of this Dickens novel is entitled "Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet"
David Copperfield
Jim
$400 [27]
Rabbi, Tzeitel, Lazar Wolf
Fiddler on the Roof
Jim
$600 [3]
This city's Constitution Plaza was the site of the Aztecs' governmental & religious center
Mexico City
Joe
$600 [10]
It's the belief in many gods
polytheism
Jim
$600 [11]
His presidential library is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Gerald Ford
Kevin
$600 [23]
An Arizona ruby isn't a real ruby, it's a ruby-colored one of these January birthstones
a garnet
Joe
$600 [18]
As children, these sisters & their brother Branwell wrote about imaginary places called Angria & Gondal
the Brontes
Joe
$600 [28]
Caesar Rodney, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Franklin
1776
Jim
$800 [4]
This Finnish capital was under Russian rule from 1809 to 1917
Helsinki
Kevin
$800 [14]
On his deathbed this leader of the Methodists said, "Best of all, God is with us"
(John) Wesley
Jim
$1,000 [13]
He was president during "The Era of Good Feelings", which lasted from about 1817-1825
Monroe
Jim
$800 [24]
The Cairngorm Mountains in this country are famous for their topaz
Scotland
Kevin
$800 [19]
Emma interferes with the romances of her vapid friend Harriet in this woman's novel "Emma"
(Jane) Austen
Kevin
$800 [29]
Fiona MacLaren, sword dancers, bagpipers
Brigadoon
Kevin
DD $1,200 [5]
The ruins of ancient Carthage overlook this North African capital
Tunis
Kevin
$1,000 [15]
Hegira is the term for Muhammad's journey from Mecca to this city
Medina
Jim
DD $1,200 [12]
Herbert Hoover's oath of office was administered by this former president
(William Howard) Taft
Kevin
$1,000 [25]
The 530-carat Star of Africa was cut from this 3,106-carat diamond, the largest ever found
the Cullinan
Joe
$1,000 [20]
Gudrun, a character in his book "Women in Love", was based on the writer Katherine Mansfield
D.H. Lawrence
Joe
$1,000 [30]
Ermengarde, Minnie Fay, Cornelius Hackl
Hello, Dolly!
Kevin

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIE ACTRESSES

1 of only 4 women who have won the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award

(1 of) Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck

Kevin "Who is Lillian Gish" — wagered $6,500
Joe "Who is Katherine Hepburn?" — wagered $6,600
Jim "Who was Helen Hayes?" — wagered $5,201

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