Show #2438 1995-03-22 (taped 1994-12-06) Regular

Contestants

Chris Sullivan — a naval flight officer from Manama, Bahrain

Sue Whelan — a teacher from East Brunswick, New Jersey

Art Vespignani — a compliance officer from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Art $2,100 $4,400 $10,600 $10,399
2-day champion: $29,699
$10,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Sue $700 $2,800 $3,800 $100
3rd place: Sanyo fax machine with 15 second per page transmission + the Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or Super Nintendo Entertainment System + Jeopardy! home game
$3,800
16 R, 1 W
Chris $200 $600 $5,400 $100
2nd place: a trip aboard Trans World Airlines + a week at Indian River Plantation Beach Resort on Hutchinson Island, Florida + the Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or Super Nintendo Entertainment System + Jeopardy! home game
$5,400
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY THE BEATLES WHEN IN ROME... CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TEA FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
$100 [1]
On July 8, 1776 revolutionary patriot John Nixon gave the first public reading of this document
the Declaration of Independence
Art
$100 [3]
Badfinger, Mary Hopkin & Billy Preston were among those featured on this Beatle-owned label
Apple
Chris
$100 [14]
Visitors can get a panoramic view of Rome from the top of the dome of this Vatican City church
St. Peter's
Chris
$100 [8]
In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", this submarine visits Atlantis
the Nautilus
Chris
$100 [20]
On Dec. 16, 1773 tea worth £18,000 was destroyed in this city's harbor
Boston
Sue
$100 [15]
If you want something made of this material while shopping in Germany, ask for das Leder
leather
Art Chris
$200 [2]
This famous frigate made her last cruise in battle under Charles Stewart in 1815
Old Ironsides (the Constitution )
Sue
$200 [4]
Questionable title preceding "Do you promise not to tell?"
"Do You Want To Know A Secret"
Sue
$200 [17]
The family tomb of Scipio Africanus is one of the sights along this ancient road
the Appian Way
Sue
$200 [9]
His fairy tales first appeared in English in 1846, 11 years after they were published in Danish
Hans Christian Andersen
Chris
$200 [21]
Not surprisingly, this country is the world's largest importer of tea
England (Great Britain)
Sue
$200 [16]
In French a million is un million, while this larger number is un milliard
a billion
Art
$300 [11]
In 1890 Congress established this territory & added the Panhandle region to it
Oklahoma
Art
$300 [5]
On a 1990 tour one of this former Beatle's sidemen was his son Zak
Ringo Starr
Sue
$300 [23]
In a city of many fountains, the most famous is this one dominated by Oceanus in a sea chariot
Trevi Fountain
Chris
$300 [10]
"The Sea Cook" was the working title of this 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson novel
Treasure Island
Art
$300 [22]
The 2 types of tea served during this country's tea ceremony are usucha, a thin tea, & koicha, a thick tea
Japan
Art
$300 [24]
When in Spain, it's the kind of food you'd expect to buy at la pescaderia
fish
Sue
$400 [12]
In 1921 President Harding appointed this former president chief justice of the United States
William Howard Taft
Art
$400 [6]
"In Penny Lane there is" one of these "with an hourglass and in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen"
a fireman
Chris
$400 [26]
On Capitoline Hill, a white marble monument to this king contains Italy's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Victor Emmanuel
Art
$400 [18]
In Carlo Collodi's story, Pinocchio turns into this animal & is sold to a circus
a donkey
Sue
$400 [25]
R. Blechynden invented iced tea at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Expo in this city on the Mississippi
St. Louis
Art Chris
$400 [28]
The Portuguese call this color amarelo
yellow
Sue
DD $1,100 [13]
In 1867 this newspaper editor helped Jefferson Davis gain his freedom by signing his bail bond
Horace Greeley
Art
$500 [7]
In the 1994 film "Backbeat", Stephen Dorff played this "Fifth Beatle"
Stu Sutcliffe
$500 [27]
At the end of a fine Roman meal, try this anise-flavored liqueur served with coffee beans
sambuca
Chris
$500 [19]
This Illinois poet wrote 3 collections of nonsense tales about the Rootabaga country
(Carl) Sandburg
Sue
$500 [29]
This chemical in tea leaves provides color & a bitter taste
tannin
Art
$500 [30]
An Esperanto speaker would call this day of the week Lundo
Monday
Art

Double Jeopardy! Round

KINGS & QUEENS TRAVEL U.S.A. DOGS TRANSPORTATION RELIGION PLAYS
$200 [7]
In 1993 she ranked ninth on Fortune Magazine's list of the world's billionaires
Queen Elizabeth
Art
$200 [14]
You can visit the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville at this racetrack
Churchill Downs
Sue
$200 [6]
These sporting dogs are called "labs" for short
Labrador retrievers
Art
$200 [24]
In the late 1920s, Greyhound bought a fleet of these common London vehicles to use in the U.S.
double-decker buses
Art
$200 [1]
A center of Hindu pilgrimage is prayaga, at the confluence of the Yamuna & this river
the Ganges
Chris
$200 [15]
"Peter and Wendy" was J.M. Barrie's retelling of this play in book form
Peter Pan
Sue
$400 [8]
The "Catholic Monarchs", they married October 19, 1469 at Valladolid, Spain
Ferdinand & Isabella
Sue
$400 [21]
This state's 306-foot-high granite tower in Bennington is one of the world's tallest battle monuments
Vermont
Sue
$400 [30]
Roman soldiers brought the ancestors of the Bernese mountain dog to this country over 2,000 years ago
Switzerland
Art
$400 [25]
Bill Clinton drove his own 1967 model of this Ford classic at a 30th anniversary festival
the Mustang
Sue
$400 [2]
The first members of this religion to settle in America were all Sephardim
Jews
Art
$400 [16]
In 1949 the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle chose his "Death of a Salesman" as the best new American play
Arthur Miller
Sue
$600 [9]
His 6-year reign over Scotland ended in 1040 when he was killed by Macbeth
Duncan
Art
$600 [12]
This Colorado city just east of Pikes Peak is the site of the U.S. Olympic Training Center
Colorado Springs
Chris
$600 [29]
The cairn breed of this dog is known for its ability to squeeze into cairns, which are heaps of stones
a cairn terrier
Art
$600 [13]
One of these made its first flight February 18, 1977 atop a 747
a Space Shuttle
Art
$600 [3]
This Haitian folk religion played a significant role in Haiti's war for independence
Voodoo
Art
$600 [17]
"Monday After the Miracle" was a sequel, set 17 years later, to this play about Helen Keller
The Miracle Worker
Chris
DD $800 [10]
Queen Liliuokalani composed this song:
"Aloha ʻOe"
Art
$800 [20]
An Acadian village of 16 reconstructed buildings can be seen in Van Buren in this New England state
Maine
Art
$800 [28]
The face of a Pomeranian resembles the face of this vulpine mammal
a fox
Chris
$800 [18]
Richard Branson, this airline's CEO, was the 1st to hot-air balloon across the Atlantic
Virgin
Chris
$1,000 [5]
The Book of Laws for this faith is the "Kitab al-Aqdas" of Baha'ullah
the Baha'i
Chris
$800 [22]
This Thomas Wolfe novel about the Gant family was adapted for the stage by Ketti Frings
Look Homeward, Angel
$1,000 [11]
It's the name shared by 2 20th century Iraqi kings & a Saudi Arabian king
Faisal
Chris
$1,000 [26]
Red Cloud, Nebraska holds an annual spring conference devoted to this author of "O Pioneers!"
(Willa) Cather
Chris
$1,000 [27]
The Affenpinscher was a forebear of this griffon that's named for a European capital
the Brussels griffon
$1,000 [19]
During the 1940s, after building just 51 of the "first new car in 50 years", he went bankrupt
Preston Tucker
Sue
DD $1,400 [4]
In Arabic he is usually called Isa ibn Maryam
Jesus
Art
$1,000 [23]
The title of this David Mamet play comes from 2 real estate subdivisions
Glengarry Glen Ross
Art

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

His father, Apollo Korzeniowski, helped organize Polish rebellion against Russia in the 1860s

Joseph Conrad

Sue "Who is Dostoyevski?" — wagered $3,700
Chris "Who is Chopin" — wagered $5,300
Art "Who is Checov?" — wagered $201

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