Show #2250 1994-05-20 (taped 1994-01-19) Regular

Contestants

Dennis Maxson — a private investigator from Studio City, California

Mike Hambly — an attorney originally from Burlington, Vermont

Pat Allen — a bartender and antiques dealer from Norco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pat $1,000 $3,100 $11,300 $12,000
2-day champion: $20,800
$10,100
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Mike $800 $2,000 $6,000 $11,900
2nd place: trip to Avandaro, Mexico
$6,000
16 R, 2 W
Dennis $2,100 $2,800 $5,800 $11,100
3rd place: ride in Goodyear Blimp + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$5,700
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CITIES SPORTS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ANATOMY SHOPPING "P.S."
$100 [1]
This city's Irish name, Luimneach, means "bare land", not "humorous 5-line verse"
Limerick
Dennis
$100 [20]
In bowling you score a Dutch 200 by alternating strikes & these marks
spares
Mike
$100 [2]
"My Dog Has Fleas" is a little ditty used to tune this Hawaiian instrument
a ukulele
Dennis
$100 [5]
Exophthalmos is the bulging of these from their sockets
the eyes
Mike
$100 [17]
Built in 1828, the Arcade in this Rhode Island capital is the oldest indoor shopping mall in the U.S.
Providence
Pat
$100 [12]
He was famous for playing the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau
Peter Sellers
Dennis
$200 [25]
The rose-colored buildings of Jaipur make it the "Pink City" of this country
India
Pat
$200 [21]
Like his father, Bobby, Brett Hull is a big name in this sport
hockey
Pat
$200 [3]
Types of this instrument include the snare, tenor & timpani
drums
Dennis
$200 [6]
It's any hollow body cavity, not just the 4 in the bones surrounding the nose
sinuses
Dennis
$200 [18]
Shopping for snowflake ornaments? This N.Y. City museum has produced a new one every year since 1971
the Metropolitan
Pat
$200 [13]
In the Christian calendar, it begins Holy Week
Palm Sunday
Mike
$300 [26]
It may surprise you to learn that Lausanne in this country was originally a Celtic settlement
Switzerland
Mike
$300 [24]
It's the sport in which traveling is a violation
basketball
Dennis
$300 [4]
With 7 pedals & over 40 strings, it has one of the largest ranges of any orchestral instrument
a harp
Pat
$300 [7]
The cruciate ligaments provide stability for this, your largest joint
the knee
Pat Mike
$300 [19]
"A Star is Worn" in L.A. sells stars' clothing like this actor's priest costume from "The Thorn Birds"
Richard Chamberlain
Mike
$300 [14]
The girlfriend of one of Buddy Holly's Crickets gave her name to this 1957 hit
"Peggy Sue"
Mike
$400 [27]
This Austrian city's name is German for "Bridge on the Inn River"
Innsbruck
Dennis
$400 [29]
In 1993 pitcher Anthony Young of this team set a new major league record, losing 27 straight games
the Mets
DD $500 [10]
A standard string quartet has 2 violins plus these 2 members of the violin family
the cello & viola
Dennis
$400 [8]
Since there are 2 of these enclosed in pleural sacs, would 1 be in a singular sac?
lungs
Dennis
$400 [22]
The word millinery is derived from the name of this city, a fashion center for centuries
Milan
Pat
$400 [15]
It's another name for Kielbasa
Polish sausage
Mike
$500 [28]
One entrance to the funicular in this French Canadian city is inside Louis Jolliet's restored home
Quebec (City)
Pat
$500 [30]
She called her heptathlon win at the '93 World Track & Field Championships "my greatest triumph"
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Pat
$500 [11]
Clarence Leo Fender, who died in 1991, was among the first makers of this instrument
an electric guitar
Pat
$500 [9]
It's what you "feel" when you press the radial artery against the radius
your pulse
Mike Dennis
$500 [23]
The Drop of Doom is a thrill ride in this Canadian province's West Edmonton Mall, so you can shop 'til you drop
Alberta
Mike
$500 [16]
George Vancouver named this inlet in Washington state for a lieutenant in his 1792 expedition
Puget Sound
Pat

Double Jeopardy! Round

HAIL TO THE CHIEF THEATRE TRANSPORTATION MYTHOLOGY U.S. GEOGRAPHY POE TALES
$200 [17]
In a 1975 book he described himself as a Southerner, a farmer & a lover of Bob Dylan's songs
Jimmy Carter
Dennis
$200 [3]
In 1988 Ingmar Bergman's production of "Hamlet" in this language played in Brooklyn
Swedish
Dennis
$200 [20]
In 1992 a new high-speed train began running between Madrid & Seville in this country
Spain
Mike
$200 [2]
Nessus, who was one of these creatures, tried to horse around with Hercules' wife; Hercules killed him
a centaur
Pat
$200 [8]
Ohio's Lexington Plain is an extension of the Bluegrass region of this state
Kentucky
Pat
$200 [1]
Story that ends, "I admit the deed!—tear up the planks! Here, here!—it is the beating of his hideous heart!"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Dennis
$400 [18]
He was sworn into office 48 years to the day after his grandfather
Benjamin Harrison
Pat Dennis
$400 [27]
In 1993 Maggie Smith starred in a revival of this playwright's "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Oscar Wilde
Pat
$400 [22]
World Book calls it "the most elementary means of transportation"
walking
Pat
$400 [4]
In Greek mythology, this wife of Zeus is the goddess of childbirth
Hera
Mike
$400 [10]
Because of the way Nevada is angled, this, its capital city, is farther west than Los Angeles
Carson City
Dennis
$400 [9]
It could have been titled "The Stolen Correspondence"
"The Purloined Letter"
Dennis
$600 [19]
For injuries sustained off the Solomon Islands during WWII, he received a Purple Heart
John F. Kennedy
Mike Dennis
$600 [28]
Act I of this musical opens at a cinema in Buenos Aires in 1952
Evita
Mike
$600 [23]
At one time almost all submarines had this type of engine, like most big trucks
diesel
Dennis
$600 [5]
According to Homer, Circe is the daughter of this sun god
Helios
Pat
$600 [11]
The highest point in the 48 contiguous states is this California mountain
Mount Whitney
Mike
$600 [14]
In this story C. Auguste Dupin deduces that 2 Paris homicides were committed by an orangutan
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Pat
$800 [21]
Some called him the "Red Fox of Kinderhook"
Martin Van Buren
Pat
$800 [29]
In 1993 this musical set in a Latin American prison captured 7 Tonys
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Mike Dennis
$800 [24]
In 1840 this company's first steamship, the Britannia, made its first transatlantic crossing
Cunard
Dennis
$800 [6]
These frightful bird-women were known for their sickening smell
harpies
Dennis
$800 [12]
Sharing its name with a brand of flatware, it's the largest lake entirely within New York State
Oneida
Pat
$1,000 [16]
This story is told from the point of view of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
Pat
$1,000 [26]
In 1881 America had 3 presidents: Hayes, Garfield & this man
Chester Arthur
Mike
$1,000 [30]
In a play by Chekhov, Ivan Voinitsky is this title character
Uncle Vanya
Pat
$1,000 [25]
The airport with the world's largest terminal is this one in Atlanta
Hartsfield International Airport
$1,000 [7]
Hercules stole this Amazon queen's girdle
Hippolyta
Mike
DD $1,500 [13]
It's the northwesternmost & second largest of the New England states
Vermont
Pat
DD $1,500 [15]
Fortunato, a wine connoisseur, is entombed with stone & mortar by Montressor in this tale
"The Cask of Amontillado"
Pat

Final Jeopardy!

EXPLORERS

He published the aptly titled memoir "High Adventure" in 1955

Sir Edmund Hillary

Dennis "Who is Hillary?" — wagered $5,300
Mike "Who is Sir Ed Hillary" — wagered $5,900
Pat "Who was Hillary?" — wagered $700

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