Show #2488 1995-05-31 (taped 1995-01-31) Regular

Contestants

Ed Edelman — a pawnbroker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Brooks Sanders — a college professor from Castle Creek, New York

Mike Creed — an antique and collectibles dealer from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $1,600 $3,200 $7,600 $100
3rd place: Sanyo laundry system + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo Entertainment System + Jeopardy box game
$7,100
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Brooks $1,100 $2,600 $7,400 $14,700
New champion: $14,700
$7,400
19 R, 1 W
Ed $1,200 $2,100 $6,000 $11,600
2nd place: Mastervoice home automation system butler + Jules Jurgensen ladies watch + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo Entertainment System + Jeopardy box game
$7,300
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN CAPITALS TELEVISION MYTHOLOGY THE 20th CENTURY STEWS FILE UNDER "H"
$100 [16]
Originally, this Austrian city was a Celtic settlement called Vindobona
Vienna
Brooks
$100 [7]
This U.K. broadcasting entity began its first regularly scheduled TV service in 1936
the BBC
Mike
$100 [12]
A shepherd named Faustulus found this pair being suckled by a she-wolf
Romulus & Remus
Mike
$100 [26]
Because of this 1912 disaster, steamships were required to carry sufficient lifeboats
the Titanic
Mike
$100 [21]
Now generally made with chicken, Brunswick stew was originally made with these nut gatherers
squirrels
Mike
$100 [1]
The Jivaro Indians of Ecuador are famous for making shrunken ones of these
heads
Mike
$200 [17]
You'll find the Parliament building in this Swedish city on Helgeandsholmen--"Holy Ghost Island"
Stockholm
Mike
$200 [8]
Launched in 1984, this cable network known as AMC specializes in films of the '30s to the '70s
the American Movie Classics
Brooks Ed
$200 [13]
Callisto, a handmaiden to Artemis, was changed into a bear & later became this constellation
Ursa Major
Mike
$200 [27]
On May 25, 1968 this landmark designed by Eero Saarinen was dedicated in St. Louis
the Gateway Arch
Ed
$200 [22]
This most famous Hungarian meat stew is flavored with paprika & often served with buttered noodles
goulash
Brooks
$200 [2]
An opening in the deck of a ship, or to come out of a shell
hatch
Brooks
$300 [18]
Children can sometimes try on costumes at the Teatermuseet, or Theater Museum, in this Norwegian capital
Oslo
Brooks
$300 [6]
Tuners for this broadcast band were required in all TVs manufactured after April 30, 1964
UHF
Mike
$300 [11]
Calais & Zetes, sons of Boreas the North Wind, sailed with Jason on the quest for this object
the Golden Fleece
Mike
$300 [28]
On March 9, 1916 this Mexican revolutionary & his men killed 17 in Columbus, New Mexico
Pancho Villa
Mike
$300 [23]
This creole stew thickened with okra begins with a dark roux, a mixture of flour & fat
gumbo
Ed
$300 [3]
Word game to play at a necktie party
hangman
Brooks
$400 [19]
The palace of Wilanow, which has been called the Polish Versailles, lies on the outskirts of this city
Warsaw
Mike
$400 [9]
Before creating "Star Trek", he was head writer of "Have Gun, Will Travel"
Gene Roddenberry
Brooks
$400 [14]
As the god & goddess of this, Mars & Minerva were honored during the Quinquatrus festival
war
$400 [29]
In 1935 this newspaper publisher earned the USA's largest salary
(William Randolph) Hearst
Ed
$400 [24]
Cassoulet is a stew from France's Languedoc Region made of meat & the dried haricot type of these
beans
Brooks
$400 [4]
It's about 5 feet tall, weighs about 4 tons & is related to the pig
a hippopotamus
Brooks
DD $1,000 [20]
An equestrian statue of King Philip III stands in the center of this city's Plaza Mayor
Madrid
Mike
$500 [10]
This bishop began his "Life Is Worth Living" series on the Dumont Network; later he moved to ABC
Fulton Sheen
Ed
$500 [15]
As a baby Hermes killed one of these creatures to make a lyre from its shell
a turtle (tortoise)
Mike
$500 [30]
On Nov. 1, 1952 the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb at this Pacific atoll
Eniwetok
Mike Brooks
$500 [25]
Tunisians use harissa sauce to spice up this stew usually served over steamed semolina
couscous
$500 [5]
Popular name of the sect brought to the U.S. in the 1960s by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Hare Krishna
Ed

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC MASSACRES 19th CENTURY OPERA INVENTIONS U.S.A. POETS ODDS & ENDS
$200 [2]
Matthew 2:16 says he tried to kill the baby Jesus by ordering all infants in Bethlehem killed
King Herod
Brooks
$200 [30]
Based on a tragedy, this Rossini opera is subtitled "Il Moro di Venezia"--"The Moor of Venice"
Otello
Mike
$200 [1]
Willem Einthoven invented the string galvanometer used to produce these, known as EKGs
electrocardiograms
Brooks
$200 [7]
John Dillinger was born in this capital of Indiana in 1903 & he's buried there in Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis
Brooks
$200 [19]
This New England poet published his first major collection, "A Boy's Will", while living in Old England
Robert Frost
Brooks
$200 [20]
Each year this magazine provides 5 colorful & informative wall maps
National Geographic
Mike
$400 [3]
Of those who defended this mission between February 23 & March 6, 1836, a few survived
the Alamo
Mike
$400 [29]
Jenny Lind starred in the 1st production of this "Rigoletto" composer's opera "The Robbers"
Verdi
Mike
$400 [8]
In 1875 Stephen D. Tucker invented a high-speed device to do this to newspapers after they were printed
fold them
Brooks
$400 [10]
This "Sunflower State" has 34 stars on its flag because it's the 34th state
Kansas
Mike
$400 [18]
This poet laureate wrote poems on "The Death of the Duke of Wellington" & "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Tennyson
Brooks
$400 [21]
The ruins of the pre-Inca city of Chan Chan can be found near Trujillo in this country
Peru
Ed
$600 [4]
Samuel Adams used this March 5, 1770 incident to stir up anti-British feelings in the colonies
the Boston Massacre
Brooks
$600 [23]
The flower maidens are temptresses who inhabit a magic garden in this composer's 1882 opera "Parsifal"
(Richard) Wagner
Mike
$600 [9]
This Ernst Ruska & Max Knoll invention can now distinguish objects 2 angstroms in size
the electron microscope
Mike
$600 [11]
Wolf Creek Tavern near the Rogue River in this NW state was built as a stagecoach inn in the 1870s
Oregon
Brooks
$600 [16]
She died in 1887, before her "New Colossus" was placed on the Statue of Liberty
Emma Lazarus
Mike
$600 [24]
In 1965 this Chinese-American won a Bard Award for designing NYC's Kips Bay Apartments
(I.M.) Pei
Ed
$800 [5]
Catherine de Medicis was among the people who had a hand in this feast day massacre
St. Bartholomew's Massacre
Ed
DD $1,000 [25]
The Hexenlied, or witch's song, in this fairy tale opera is also called "Hurr, Hopp, Hopp, Hopp!"
Hansel and Gretel
Ed
$800 [12]
With the invention of this in the 15th century, the demand for eyeglasses boomed
a printing press
Mike Ed
$800 [14]
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in this city is famous for its circus galleries
Sarasota, Florida
Ed
$800 [17]
After his death, this poet's ashes were interred near the grave of John Keats
Shelley
Mike
$800 [27]
Prior to succeeding to the throne in 1851, this country's King Mongkut served as a Buddhist monk
Siam (Thailand)
$1,000 [6]
In 1885 the entire Egyptian garrison under Charles Gordon was wiped out in this Sudan city
Khartoum
Mike
$1,000 [26]
"The Devil and Kate" is a charming comic opera by this composer of the "New World" symphony
Dvořák
Brooks
$1,000 [13]
You needed an eyedropper to put the ink inside the fountain pen that he invented in 1884
(Lewis) Waterman
Mike Brooks
DD $1,500 [15]
Northwestern University has 2 different campuses: 1 in Chicago & 1 in this city
Evanston
Ed
$1,000 [22]
His poem "I Sing The Body Electric" was initially published without a title in 1855
Walt Whitman
Ed
$1,000 [28]
In the 1870s the U.S. gained treaty rights to a naval station at this Samoan port
Pago Pago
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

Best known as a novelist, in 1973 he directed his first feature film, "Westworld"

Michael Crichton

Ed "Who is Michael Crichton?" — wagered $5,600
Brooks "Who is MichaelChCreighton" — wagered $7,300
Mike "Who is Bradbury" — wagered $7,500

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