Show #2774 1996-09-26 Regular

Missing introductions and first 5 clues.

Contestants

Grant Wilton — an environmental chemist from Golden, Colorado

Liam Bailey — a vocational evaluator from Holman, Wisconsin

Jason Benton — a teacher from Amenia, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $-300 $1,400 $8,600 $3,600
2-day champion: $14,100
$9,900
22 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Liam $1,600 $2,700 $6,800 $0
3rd place: Service Merchandise gift certificate
$6,500
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Grant $500 $1,400 $3,400 $3,400
2nd place: trip to Cancun, Mexico
$3,400
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

CELEBRITY ALUMNI STATE SYMBOLS LAW BIBLE QUOTATIONS SHADOWS LIGHT
$100 [26]
Tommy Lee Jones & this VP, his Harvard roommate, were together again stuck in an elevator in 1995
Albert Gore
Grant
$100 [11]
This state wild animal of Tennessee is masked
a raccoon
Liam
$100 [6]
It's the removal of a tenant from property by a landlord
eviction
Jason
$100 [21]
"Thou art" this "and unto" this "shalt thou return"
dust
Liam
$100 [1]
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Jason
$100 [16]
In a vacuum it's 186,282 miles per second
the speed of light
Jason
$200 [27]
John Ritter was a psychology major at this "Trojan" school before he switched to drama
USC
Liam
$200 [12]
It's the state fruit of the state of New York
an apple
Liam
$200 [7]
This term for smuggling liquor came from a hiding place in apparel worn by 19th c. smugglers
bootlegging
Liam
$200 [22]
In John 8:32 Jesus said, "ye shall know" this, and it "shall make you free"
the truth
Jason
$200 [2]
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Grant
$200 [17]
It's the hole that lets light into your eye
the pupil
Liam
$300 [28]
When she was in her 60s, this wife of Hume Cronyn earned a law degree from the University of Western Ontario
Jessica Tandy
Liam
$300 [13]
This insect may want to "fly away home" to Massachusetts, where it's the state insect
a ladybug
Liam
$300 [8]
This term for an infraction of the law may be "of contract", "of peace" or "of promise"
a breach
Liam Grant
$300 [23]
A passage from Luke says, "ye will surely say unto me this proverb, physician," do this
heal thyself
Liam
$300 [3]
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Grant
$300 [18]
In 1969 one of these beams was used to measure the distance between the earth & the moon
a laser
Grant
$400 [29]
She was a "model" student at Princeton, earning a B.A. in French lit, & we're not "babbling"
Brooke Shields
Jason
$400 [14]
The Vermont state animal is this horse, named for the Randolph, Vt. man who owned it
a Morgan
Jason Grant
$400 [9]
This, illegally entering another's area or property, refers to animals as well as to people
trespassing
Grant
DD $300 [25]
O.T. book that orders: "When ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout"
Joshua
Jason
$400 [4]
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Jason
$400 [19]
Device used by Sir Isaac Newton to split white light into separate colors
a prism
Jason
$500 [30]
This producer who brought us "Melrose Place" won 2 Eugene O'Neill Awards for playwrighting as an SMU student
Aaron Spelling
Grant
$500 [15]
The U.S.S. Nautilus is its state ship
Connecticut
Liam Grant
$500 [10]
Term for conspiracy between 2 parties to defraud, for example, an insurance agency
collusion
Liam
$400 [24]
Completes the line from Ecclesiastes, "there is no new thing..."
under the Sun
Jason
$500 [5]
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Jason Liam
$500 [20]
Colors on this household object are produced by beams of electrons hitting colored phosphors
a television
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

SWAHILI WORDS & PHRASES AMERICAN HISTORY AUTHORS CLASSICAL MUSIC ISLANDS "WILD" MOVIES
$200 [11]
In Kenya you might want to order your chai—tea—with sukari—this
sugar
Liam
$200 [6]
The island of Guam was captured by U.S. Captain Henry Glass in 1898, during this war
the Spanish-American War
Jason
$200 [1]
Naguib Mahfouz' "Al-Thulathiyya" trilogy depicts the lives of 3 generations in this Egyptian capital
Cairo
Liam
$200 [19]
On April 9, 1742, 4 days prior to its premiere, this Handel oratorio had a public rehearsal in Dublin
the Messiah
Grant
$200 [22]
This Texas island is named for a viceroy of Mexico, Count Bernardo de Galvez
Galveston
Grant
$200 [15]
In 1935 Clark Gable starred in this film version of a Jack London classic
Call of the Wild
Jason
$400 [12]
This bird is kuku—don't tell the Colonel
chicken
Jason
$400 [7]
Some of the older buildings in this Pennsylvania city show high-water marks from the disastrous 1889 flood
Johnstown
Grant
$400 [2]
He wrote "The Naked and the Dead" while living in New York
Norman Mailer
Jason
$400 [27]
This "Lullaby" composer wrote variations on themes by Haydn, Schumann & Paganini
Brahms
Liam
$400 [23]
Road Town, which lies on Tortola, is the capital of the British group of these Caribbean islands
the Virgin Islands
Liam
$400 [16]
Sam Peckinhah's classic 1969 Western about a gang of aging outlaws
The Wild Bunch
Grant
$600 [13]
Swahili speakers call this nutritious beverage maziwa
milk
Jason
$600 [8]
This 180-by 60-foot South Dakota sculpture was dedicated in 1927
Mount Rushmore
Liam
$600 [3]
Thomas Keneally received the Booker Prize for this book about a German industrialist who saved Jews
Schindler's List
Jason
$600 [28]
Premiering on June 25, 1910, "The Firebird" was the first ballet he composed for Sergei Diaghilev
Stravinsky
Jason
$600 [24]
Manitoulin, the world's largest island in a lake, lies in Lake Huron in this Canadian province
Ontario
Jason
$600 [17]
1954: Brando on a bike; need we say more?
The Wild One
Liam
$800 [14]
It's the Swahili word for lion, which you may know if you've seen "The Lion King"
Simba
Liam Grant
$800 [9]
In 1920 this president sent 500 federal troops to quell a West Virginia mining dispute
Woodrow Wilson
Liam
$800 [4]
This author of "The Castle" worked for an accident insurance board from 1908 to 1922
Kafka
Jason
$800 [29]
In 1884 this "Clair De Lune" composer won the Grand Prix de Rome for "The Prodigal Child"
Debussy
Liam
DD $1,000 [25]
Iraklion is the chief port on this land, the fifth largest in the Mediterranean
Crete
Jason
$800 [20]
We hope you don't get a rash when you think of this 1957 Ingmar Bergman classic
Wild Strawberries
Jason Liam
$1,000 [18]
When shopping. you'll probably want to ask, "Pesa ngapi?", which means this
How much is this?
Jason
DD $1,300 [10]
In July 1962 this communications satellite beamed the first live TV pictures from the U.S. to Europe
Telstar
Liam
$1,000 [5]
"60 Minutes" humorist & WWII Stars and Stripes reporter who wrote "The Story of the Stars and Stripes"
Andy Rooney
Liam
$1,000 [30]
"Parsifal", his final opera, was completed in 1882
Wagner
Jason
$1,000 [26]
This 36-square-mile island near St. Kitts is actually a volcanic cone
Nevis
Liam
$1,000 [21]
Goldie Hawn coached a high school football team in this 1986 film
Wildcats
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

NATIONAL MOTTOES

Country whose motto is "L'Union Fait La Force" or "Eendracht Maakt Macht"—"Union provides strength"

Belgium

Grant "What is Switzerland?" — wagered $0
Liam "What is Switzerland?" — wagered $6,800
Jason "What is Switzerland" — wagered $5,000

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