Show #2279 1994-06-30 (taped 1994-02-14) Regular

Contestants

Dave Smith — a political analyst from Arlington, Virginia

Lori MacWilliam — an attorney from Clinton, New Jersey

Michael Bowen — an accountant from Monroe, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $200 $1,700 $5,300 $9,300
2nd place: Lloyd/Flanders indoor/outdoor furniture set + Ducane gas grill
$5,300
16 R, 2 W
Lori $2,200 $3,000 $4,200 $8,200
3rd place: Swintec fax machine
$4,200
13 R, 1 W
Dave $1,200 $3,800 $13,900 $10,900
New champion: $10,900
$10,900
27 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 1950s SINGERS COATS OF ARMS LESSER KNOWN NAMES STADIUMS & ARENAS 12-LETTER WORDS
$100 [11]
The new constitution creating this nation's Fifth Republic was approved Sept. 28, 1958
France
Michael
$100 [2]
She ripped her see-through pants on her way to the podium when she won an Oscar for "Funny Girl"
Barbra Streisand
Lori
$100 [21]
Among the items seen on this country's coat of arms are 4 red maple leaves, 6 fleurs-de-lis & the Union Jack
Canada
Lori
$100 [1]
Navigator Martin Pinzon commanded the Pinta on this explorer's first voyage to the New World
Columbus
Lori
$100 [26]
Rome's Palazetto Dello Sport was completed for this 1960 event
the Olympics
Dave
$100 [16]
Shutterbug is slang for this, especially an amateur one
a photographer
Michael
$200 [12]
In 1958 this armed service moved its academy to a permanent site near Colorado Springs
the U.S. Air Force
Dave
$200 [3]
This Grammy winner's initials stand for Kathy Dawn
k.d. lang
Lori
$200 [22]
The coat of arms of this neutral country resembles its flag, a white cross on a red background
Switzerland
Michael
$200 [7]
George Cormack of the Washburn Crosby Co. developed this "Breakfast of Champions"
Wheaties
Michael
$200 [27]
With a capacity of 240,000, the Strahov Stadium in this Czech capital is the world's largest
Prague
Dave
$200 [17]
It's another term for a state or federal prison
a penitentiary
Dave
$300 [13]
On March 1, 1959 Archbishop Makarios returned from exile to this island
Cyprus
Dave
$300 [4]
Melissa Manchester appears as Mayim Bialik's mother on this TV series
Blossom
Lori
$300 [23]
On Spain's coat of arms, a castle represents Castile & this animal represents Leon
a lion
Michael
$300 [8]
Until Steven Spielberg's film, few knew of this German industrialist who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews
(Oskar) Schindler
Dave
$300 [28]
In 1914 this city's Yale Bowl became the first to exceed the capacity of the ancient Colosseum
New Haven
Dave
$300 [18]
It's a store or restaurant that specializes in cold cuts, smoked fish, cheeses & the like
a delicatessen
Lori
$400 [14]
This physician was elected president of Haiti in 1957
Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc)
Dave
$400 [5]
He wrote & sang lots of wacky songs, including "Do-Wacka-Do" & "My Uncle used to love me but she died"
Roger Miller
Michael Dave
$400 [24]
This country's coat of arms features a horse, an ox, a pair of scales & the hill of Montevideo
Uruguay
Michael
$400 [9]
In a contest to find a substitute for this billiard ball material, John Wesley Hyatt developed celluloid
ivory
Dave
$400 [29]
This Mets stadium was one of the first whose seats could be moved depending on the sport
Shea Stadium
Dave
$400 [19]
It's defined as the official care & preservation of natural resources
conservation
Lori
$500 [15]
In 1953 this Swedish economist & diplomat was elected to a 5-year term as U.N. Sec'y-General
Dag Hammarskjöld
Lori
$500 [6]
This former lead singer of Herman's Hermits said, "Even my mother still refers to me as "'My son Herman'"
Peter Noone
Lori
$500 [25]
The ax & crown of St. Olaf were added to this country's coat of arms circa 1280
Norway
Dave
$500 [10]
Ellen Church, the 1st woman to have this profession, has an airport named for her in Cresco, Iowa
a stewardess
Michael Lori
DD $1,400 [30]
The name of this Greek arena means "a horse run"
a hippodrome
Dave
$500 [20]
In grammar it's an exclamatory word or phrase such as oh! or ouch!
an interjection
Michael Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY BLACK AMERICA FLOWERS MOUNTAINS TOMS IN LITERATURE PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
$200 [11]
Babar defeated the Sultan of Delhi in 1526, gaining control of the northern part of this country
India
Michael
$200 [16]
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Black trader, founded the settlement that later became this "Windy City"
Chicago
Michael
$200 [1]
In 1960 the city of Rotterdam celebrated the 400th anniversary of this flower's introduction into Europe
tulips
Michael
$200 [6]
This mountain chain has 6 peaks that tower over 27,000 feet
the Himalayas
Dave
$200 [21]
Hired hand & outlaw Tom Chaney is pursued by Rooster Cogburn & others in this Charles Portis novel
True Grit
Dave
$800 [27]
He was nicknamed "The Quaker Engineer"
Herbert Hoover
Lori Dave
$400 [12]
This Protestant reformer was born in Eisleben in Thuringia, Germany Nov. 10, 1483
Martin Luther
Dave
$400 [17]
He was an editor for "Black Sports" magazine & sports director of KNBC before joining the "Today" show
Bryant Gumbel
Michael
$400 [2]
The girasole, a type of this flower, gets its name from the Italian for "turning to the sun"
a sunflower
Dave
$400 [7]
The first recorded eruption of Mount Kilauea on this island occurred in 1970
Hawaii
Dave
$400 [22]
Thomas Franklin is the lawyer who evicts Chance in this Jerzy Kosinski book
Being There
Dave
$1,000 [26]
Martin Van Buren was this state's attorney general from 1815 to 1819
New York
Dave
$600 [13]
His appointment of his stepson Tiberius to succeed him gave us the dynasty that included Nero
Augustus Caesar
Dave
$600 [18]
In 1945 this educator became the 1st Black person elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Booker T. Washington
Michael
$600 [3]
North Dakota's state flower is the wild prairie type of this
the rose
Lori
$600 [8]
The name of this Sicilian volcano comes from the Greek for "I burn"
Etna
Dave
$600 [23]
Tom Buchanan is the unfaithful husband of this character in "The Great Gatsby"
Daisy
Lori
DD $2,000 [28]
Calvin Coolidge was the first president sworn in by this relative
his father
Dave
$1,000 [15]
In April 1964 this island nation & Tanganyika signed an act of Union
Zanzibar
Michael
$800 [19]
In 1986 she unseated Katarina Witt to become the world figure skating champion
Debi Thomas
Dave
$800 [4]
It's the colorful name for the group of flowers that includes carnations & sweet Williams
pinks
Michael Lori
$800 [9]
In 1848 Johannes Rebmann became the first European to sight this Tanzanian mountain
Kilimanjaro
Michael
$800 [24]
In "The Prince and the Pauper", this slum kid looks exactly like Edward Tudor
Tom Canty
DD $1,500 [14]
When Cardinal Mazarin died in 1661, this French king became his own chief minister
Louis XIV
Dave
$1,000 [20]
This Black Muslim minister born Louis Eugene Walcott once worked as a professional calypso singer
Louis Farrakhan
Michael Dave
$1,000 [5]
Early Spanish explorers associated parts of this flower with Christ's crucifixion
a passionflower
Dave
$1,000 [10]
This highest Canadian peak was named for a director of the Geological Survey of Canada
Mount Logan
Dave
$1,000 [25]
Thomas "Flap" Horton appears in this author's "Terms of Endearment" & other works
Larry McMurtry
Dave

Final Jeopardy!

IN THE NEWS

In 1994 the Navy named a new class of cargo ships after this entertainer

Bob Hope

Lori "Who is Bob Hope?" — wagered $4,000
Michael "Who is Bob Hope?" — wagered $4,000
Dave "Who is Elvis" — wagered $3,000

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