Show #2272 1994-06-21 (taped 1994-02-08) Regular

Contestants

Jonathan Kaufman — a law student from Flushing, New York

Jan Littler — a daycare provider from Arcadia, California

Robert Jeantet — a college teacher from Tallmadge, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robert $800 $3,700 $8,900 $0
3rd place: Daniel Mink his & hers watches
$8,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jan $1,300 $1,100 $6,000 $10,000
New champion: $10,000
$4,500
13 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Jonathan $300 $2,600 $9,800 $1,799
2nd place: trip to Boston, Massachusetts
$9,800
24 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY TV TRIVIA FOOD MAGAZINES MANMADE STRUCTURES ON THE "HOUSE"
$100 [1]
After several days without food or water, this animal's hump will soften & lean to one side
a camel
Jan
$100 [2]
Bob Eubanks hosted the 1975 quiz show "The Diamond Head Game", which was taped on this island
Oahu
Jan Jonathan
$100 [11]
This tuber is native to America; the yam, with which it's confused, probably began in Africa
the sweet potato
Jan Jonathan
$100 [13]
In 1992 this rock music publication founded by Jann Wenner celebrated its 25th anniversary
Rolling Stone
Jonathan
$100 [21]
Construction of this 102-story NYC structure began March 17, 1930
the Empire State Building
Jonathan
$100 [26]
A church or synagogue
a house of worship
Jonathan
$200 [7]
The pouch of this water bird holds more than its stomach, about 3 gallons
the pelican
Robert
$200 [3]
Jack Nicholson appeared in the "Opie Finds A Baby" episode of this series
The Andy Griffith Show
Jan
$200 [12]
This chewy candy is pulled after cooking to achieve a light texture
taffy
Jonathan
$200 [14]
GQ stands for this magazine
Gentlemen's Quarterly
Jan
$200 [22]
The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in this Turkish city connects Europe & Asia
Istanbul
Robert
$200 [27]
It's a poker hand consisting of three of a kind & a pair
a full house
Jan
$300 [8]
Herpetology is the study of reptiles & these
amphibians
Jonathan
$300 [4]
This Mountie's love for Nell Fenwick was unrequited because she was in love with his horse
Dudley Do-Right
Jonathan
$300 [15]
The name of this nut comes from the Tupi Indian word acaju
the cashew
$300 [18]
This evangelist who's advised many presidents helped found the magazine "Christianity Today"
Billy Graham
Robert
$300 [23]
This dam on the Arizona-Nevada border was dedicated by FDR, but is now named for his predecessor
Hoover Dam
Robert
$300 [28]
These 2 bodies & the Queen make up the British Parliament
the House of Commons & the House of Lords
Jonathan
$400 [9]
This chambered relative of the squid & octopus is the only cephalopod with a true external shell
a nautilus
Jan
$400 [5]
This series that made Sally Field a star also featured Barbara Hershey & Bonnie Franklin as 2 of her friends
Gidget
Robert Jan
$400 [16]
Agar is the vegetable equivalent of this substance obtained from animal bones
gelatin
Robert Jan
$400 [19]
Oliver Wendell Holmes sugggested the name of this "Monthly" that began publication in 1857
The Atlantic
Jonathan
$400 [24]
Once Seattle's tallest building at 605 feet, it's now exceeded by at least 4 taller structures
the Space Needle
Robert
$400 [29]
Jane Addams carried on much of her work in this dwelling, now a museum run by the Univ. of Ill. at Chicago
Hull House
Jonathan
$500 [10]
While the musk type of this animal has no antlers, it does have 2 tiny tusks
the deer
Robert
$500 [6]
Barbara Stanwyck played Charlton Heston's sister on "The Colbys", a spinoff of this series
Dynasty
Robert
DD $800 [17]
This term refers to 2 different organs: the thymus glands & the pancreas
sweetbreads
Robert
$500 [20]
It bills itself as "Canada's weekly newsmagazine"
Maclean's
Jonathan
$500 [25]
In 1934 this king opened the Mersey Tunnel connecting Liverpool with Birkenhead, England
George V
Robert
$500 [30]
When it opened, this Ibsen play was seen as an immoral attack on the sanctity of marriage
A Doll's House
Jonathan

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS NATIONAL MONUMENTS ARTISTS THE BIBLE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
$200 [7]
In 1993, 4 years after his death, his body was returned to the Philippines for burial
Ferdinand Marcos
Jonathan
$200 [26]
4,000-year-old Eskimo archaeological sites can be found at Cape Krusenstern Nat'l Monument in this state
Alaska
Jonathan
$200 [2]
After he temporarily adopted the name La Foret, he signed some of his bird drawings J.L.F.A.
(John) Audubon
Robert
$200 [12]
In Genesis 3:7 they sewed fig leaves together & made aprons for themselves
Adam & Eve
Jan
$200 [1]
Howe's troops entered this Penn. city Sept. 26, 1777, but the Continental Congress had already fled
Philadelphia
Robert
$200 [18]
Between adventures, he lives with the widow Douglas
Huckleberry Finn
Jonathan
$400 [8]
In a 1991 TV interview, Boris Yeltsin admitted that "to a large extent" he didn't like this man
Mikhail Gorbachev
Jonathan
$400 [27]
In 1956 this black educator's birthplace near Roanoke, Va. was made a national monument
Booker T. Washington
$400 [3]
His daughter Paloma was named for the dove on a poster he created for a 1949 peace conference
Pablo Picasso
Robert
$400 [13]
At 969 years, he lived the longest of any person in the Bible
Methuselah
Jonathan
$400 [14]
At the surrender at Yorktown, this general pleaded illness & had an aide deliver a sword to Washington
Cornwallis
Jan
$400 [19]
The "Final Cases" of this Agatha Christie heroine was published in 1979
Miss Marple
Jonathan
$600 [9]
In 1989 Hashemi Rafsanjani succeeded Ali Khamenei as president of this country
Iran
Jonathan
$600 [28]
This city's Castle Clinton National Monument served as an immigration depot 1855-1890
New York City
Jonathan
$600 [4]
In 1888 this Western artist illustrated a series of magazine articles written by Teddy Roosevelt
Remington
Jonathan
$800 [24]
This first king of Israel was a Benjamite from the mountain village of Gibeah
King Saul
Robert
$600 [15]
The letters this second First Lady wrote during the war are famous
Abigail Adams
Jan
$600 [20]
On the day Esmeralda dies, this hunchbacked Bell Ringer disappears, never to be seen alive again
Quasimodo
Jan
$800 [10]
He & many of his former cabinet members were executed at Lake Como in 1945
Mussolini
Jonathan
$800 [29]
Birds & chipmunks live at the summit of this 865-foot-high national monument in Wyoming
Devils Tower
Robert
$800 [5]
Many of his portraits of the 1630s depict his wife, Saskia
Rembrandt
Jonathan
$1,000 [25]
Jesus nicknamed these 2 brothers & apostles "Boanerges", meaning "sons of thunder"
John & James
$800 [16]
Nathaniel Fanning, John Paul Jones' clerk on this ship, wrote of its battle with the Serapis
the Bonhomme Richard
Robert
$800 [21]
Guy Mannering, one of this author's title characters, is a British officer who dabbles in astrology
Sir Walter Scott
$1,000 [11]
In October 1993 she was elected prime minister of Pakistan for the second time in 5 years
Benazir Bhutto
Jonathan
$1,000 [30]
This natural bridge in Utah stands 290 feet high & spans 275 feet
Rainbow Bridge
Jonathan
$1,000 [6]
Art deco designer Romain de Tirtoff, who died in 1990, was better known by this one-word name
Erte
Robert
DD $1,100 [23]
When Herod was told of Jesus' ministry, he believed that this man had come back from the dead
John the Baptist
Jan
$1,000 [17]
Ben Franklin helped this Prussian pad his resume to get a position with the Continental Army
von Steuben
Robert
DD $2,000 [22]
This foundling who's raised by Mr. Allworthy later discovers that Allworthy is his uncle
Tom Jones
Jan

Final Jeopardy!

ISLANDS

This isolated Pacific island 1400 miles SE of Tahiti is named for the first European who sighted it, in 1767

Pitcairn Island

Jan "What is Pitcairn" — wagered $4,000
Robert "What is Cook Island?" — wagered $8,900
Jonathan "What is Cook Island?" — wagered $8,001

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