Show #2271 1994-06-20 (taped 1994-02-08) Regular

Contestants

Robert Jeantet — a college teacher from Tallmadge, Ohio

Steve Kitty — an attorney from Warrington, Pennsylvania

Roger Solberg — a college professor from Edinboro, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $37,299)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Roger $300 $1,500 $7,400 $10,000
2nd place: trip to U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama
$7,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Steve $500 $200 $5,000 $7,401
3rd place: Gibson refrigerator/freezer + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$5,700
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Robert $2,000 $4,000 $6,200 $12,400
New champion: $12,400
$6,200
18 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITALS ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES BUSINESS & INDUSTRY NICKNAMES INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK CROSSWORD CLUES "M"
$100 [7]
Before becoming Connecticut's sole state capital, it served jointly with New Haven
Hartford
Robert
$100 [1]
When Margaret Lockwood played this title role onstage in 1957, her teenage daughter Julia played Wendy
Peter Pan
Roger
$100 [12]
This 3 Musketeers maker also owns Uncle Ben's Rice
Mars
Roger
$100 [6]
When exiled to Elba, he said he'd return with the Violets, earning him the nickname "Corp. Violet"
Napoleon
Steve
$100 [26]
Made in Sweden, Absolut Kurant is this type of liquor flavored with black currants
vodka
Robert
$100 [17]
Holy fish(8)
mackerel
Steve
$200 [8]
It's home to football's Broncos & basketball's Nuggets
Denver
Steve
$200 [2]
In her 20s, Rosemary de Camp played 43-year-old James Cagney's mother in this film about George M. Cohan
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Steve
$200 [22]
This automobile firm once used the advertising line "Oh what a feeling!"
Toyota
Robert
$200 [13]
This Speaker of the House was known as "Mr. Democrat" as well as "Mr. Sam"
Sam Rayburn
Robert
$200 [27]
Alemtejo, a cheese from this Iberian country, is made from milk curdled with thistle flowers
Portugal
Roger Steve
$200 [18]
Criminal coffee cup photo(3,4)
mug shot
Steve
$300 [9]
The now-extinct Apalachee Indians lived in the region of this present Florida capital
Tallahassee
Robert
$300 [3]
Ellen Corby played Esther, better known as Grandma, on this series set in Virginia
The Waltons
Roger
$300 [23]
Conair has 52% of the market share of these hand-held appliances
hair dryers
Steve
$300 [14]
Many people called this Ketchum, Idaho resident "Papa", but we don't know if his 3 sons did
Ernest Hemingway
Roger
$300 [28]
The fugu is a fish prized as a delicacy in this country, even though eating it can be fatal
Japan
Steve
$300 [19]
Senorita Annie's Tomorrow(6)
manana
Robert
$400 [10]
In an alphabetical listing, this capital comes first
Albany
Roger
$400 [4]
Before playing Daphne Moon on "Frasier", Jane Leeves was Miles Silverberg's girlfriend on this sitcom
Murphy Brown
Roger
DD $500 [24]
The name of this company is derived from the Greek words for "dry" & "writing"
Xerox
Steve
$400 [15]
This radio & TV "Talent Scouts" personality liked to call himself "The Old Redhead"
Arthur Godfrey
Robert
$400 [29]
Caudle, a warm drink from this country, is made from ale or wine mixed with gruel
England
$400 [20]
Greek cow's letter(2)
mu
Robert
$500 [11]
You'll find this state capital at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Santa Fe
Roger Robert
$500 [5]
This gap-toothed model played a vampiress in "Once Bitten", which Leonard Maltin described as "pretty anemic"
Lauren Hutton
Robert
$500 [25]
In 1932 he founded a large cosmetics firm with a $300 investment in a nail enamel company
(Charles) Revson
Robert
$500 [16]
Famous nickname of Margaretta Fitler Murphy Rockefeller
Happy
Roger
$500 [30]
Orecchioni is a pasta named for its resemblance to these sense organs
ears
Robert
$500 [21]
Love letter from Hawkeye Pierce(4,4)
a mash note
Roger Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY NATURE THE OLD TESTAMENT FABRICS POETS BENJAMIN FRANKLINS
$200 [1]
On Jan. 11, 1973 this president ended mandatory wage & price controls
Richard Nixon
Robert
$200 [9]
The "screech" type of this bird likes to nest in hollow trees
the owl
Roger
$200 [7]
An angel told this strong man's mother not to drink while she was pregnant; good advice
Samson
Roger
$200 [24]
This sleek worsted fabric used to make suits doesn't come from hammerheads as its name implies
sharkskin
Roger
$200 [6]
This Welsh poet born Oct. 27, 1914 had a first name that can mean "son of the waves"
Dylan Thomas
Steve
$200 [13]
Benjamin Franklin Wade would have been president if this man had been impeached & convicted
Andrew Johnson
Robert
$400 [2]
In 1938 the Mexican government nationalized foreign holdings in this industry now run by Pemex
the oil industry
Steve
$400 [20]
The females of these "equine" flies sometimes carry diseases such as anthrax
Horse flies
Roger
$400 [18]
The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam & its head weighed 600 shekels of iron—that's big!
Goliath
Roger
$400 [25]
Rose point, a very fragile type of this delicate fabric, often features floral motifs
lace
$400 [8]
With poet Robert Southey, this "Kubla Khan" writer planned to build a Utopian society in Pennsylvania
Coleridge
Robert
$400 [14]
Benjamin Franklin Butler's troops occupied this La. city May 1, 1862 after Farragut took it
New Orleans
Steve
$600 [3]
On Jan. 30, 1933 he became Chancellor of Germany
Hitler
Steve
$600 [21]
The mugger, known for its broad snout, is an Asian type of this large reptile
a crocodile
Roger
$600 [19]
In Genesis it's the next construction project described in detail after Noah's Ark
the Tower of Babel
Robert
$600 [28]
The Sea Island type of this natural fiber may come from the Sea Islands or the West Indies
Cotton
$600 [10]
This English poet's c. 1369 work "The Book of the Duchess" was an elegy on John of Gaunt's first wife
Chaucer
$600 [15]
After his first rubber goods business fell flat, he moved to Akron & bounced back
Benjamin Franklin Goodrich
Steve
$800 [4]
Futurama was General Motors' exhibit at this city's 1939-1940 World's Fair
New York City
Roger
$800 [22]
Named for its habit of drinking sap from trees, the sapsucker is a species of this bird
the woodpecker
Robert
$800 [26]
At the start of the book of Numbers, God told him to take a census
Moses
$800 [29]
The crepe-back type of this fabric is dull on one side & lustrous on the other
satin
$800 [11]
The closing poem in "Lyrical Ballads" was his "lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey"
Wordsworth
Roger
$800 [16]
Benjamin Franklin Stephenson found the G.A.R., this veterans' organization
The Grand Army of the Republic
Steve
DD $1,300 [5]
This country withdrew its forces from NATO Command in 1966
France
Roger
$1,000 [23]
Many mouselike types of this marsupial live in Central & South America
the opossums
Steve Robert
$1,000 [27]
According to 1 Kings 7, this king employed Hiram of Tyre to create the brasswork for the temple
Solomon
Steve
DD $800 [30]
1 of the 2 leading wool-producing countries in South America
Argentina (or Uruguay)
Steve
$1,000 [12]
The line "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" is from his "An Essay on Man"
Alexander Pope
Roger
$1,000 [17]
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Payton became president of this Alabama university in 1981, its centennial year
the Tuskegee Institute
Steve Robert

Final Jeopardy!

FICTIONAL TRANSPORTATION

It's 70 meters long, powered by electricity, displaces 1500 cubic meters of water & cost 1,687,000 francs

the Nautilus

Steve "What was the Nautalas" — wagered $2,401
Robert "What was the Nautilus?" — wagered $6,200
Roger "What is the Nautilus?" — wagered $2,600

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