Show #1975 1993-03-19 (taped 1992-11-18) Regular

Debby Arnold game 5.An uncorrected scoring error introduced at clue 14 of the Jeopardy! Round leaves Debby with $100 more than she should have had before Final Jeopardy!

Contestants

Mary Maher — a L.A. area housing authority manager originally from Houston, Texas

Ed Kavazanjian — a civil engineer originally from Long Beach, New York

Debby Arnold — a registered nurse from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 4-day cash winnings total $43,103)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Debby $1,400 $2,900 $6,300 $1
3rd place: set of reference books + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis
$6,300
19 R, 2 W
Ed $200 $1,000 $5,400 $400
2nd place: a trip on TWA to Las Vegas with stay at the Flamingo Hilton
$6,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Mary $1,100 $2,400 $6,400 $12,601
New champion: $12,601
$6,400
15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

1942 SNOOPY AIRPORTS TENNESSEE PARTY TIME! STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS
$100 [25]
Just months before George M. Cohan's death, this film about his life premiered
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Mary
$100 [15]
In the film "Snoopy, Come Home", Snoopy almost leaves this boy to live with Lila, his original owner
Charlie Brown
Debby
$100 [8]
This Chicago airport is named for a WWII ace who was listed as missing in 1943
O'Hare
Debby
$100 [16]
Mined in the Cumberland Plateau, the bituminous type of this is Tennessee's most valuable mineral
coal
Debby
$100 [3]
The god of this potent potable is celebrated with a bacchanalia
wine
Debby Ed
$100 [1]
Nomads often head to one of these desert places to find a date
an oasis
Debby
$200 [26]
At an auction in New York, this sculptor's "The Thinker" sold for $9,500
Rodin
Debby
$200 [22]
Charles Schulz' son Monte's interest in WWI model airplanes inspired the strips about this Snoopy nemesis
the Red Baron
Mary
$200 [9]
Just prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics, this airport opened its Tom Bradley International Terminal
LAX
Ed
$200 [17]
In 1854 Tennessee's first railroad was completed between Nashville & this "choo-choo" city
Chattanooga
Mary
$200 [4]
The American Heritage Dictionary calls it an autumn festival emphasizing merrymaking & beer drinking
Oktoberfest
Mary
$200 [2]
Counting from 1, it's the first number to fit the category
eight
$300 [27]
The Supreme Court ruled that divorces granted in this state were valid throughout the U.S.
Nevada
Mary
$300 [23]
You can meet Snoopy at Camp Snoopy, which opened at this California theme park on July 1, 1983
Knott's Berry Farm
Debby
$300 [10]
When it opened in 1939, this New York City airport was called North Beach Airport
La Guardia
Debby Ed
$300 [18]
Since the 1930s flooding of the Tennessee River has been controlled by dams built by this agency
the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Ed
$300 [5]
It's a ceremonial dinner, or the type of hall in which it's held
a banquet
$300 [12]
It means to listen to a private conversation without the speakers' knowledge
eavesdrop
Debby
$400 [28]
On July 20 the first group of officers in this women's military unit began basic training in Iowa
the Women's Army Corps (the WACS)
Ed
$400 [24]
Once, after a heavy snowstorm, Snoopy found that this little bird had built an igloo in his nest
Woodstock
Debby
$400 [11]
An airport in Warm Springs, Georgia is named in memory of this president
Roosevelt (FDR)
Debby
$400 [20]
Sue K. Hicks, assistant prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial, later inspired this Johnny Cash hit
"A Boy Named Sue"
Ed
$400 [6]
On the Mexican kids' TV show "TVO", Gaby Ruffo sings about this, Spanish for the party or festival
fiesta
Mary
$400 [13]
In 1983 this group featuring Annie Lennox hit No. 1 with "Sweet Dreams"
the Eurythmics
Ed
DD $800 [29]
To the dismay of many countrymen, he was named Minister- President of Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Ed
$500 [30]
Snoopy wears sunglasses & a turtleneck in his guise as this BBOC, or big beagle on campus
Joe Cool
Mary
$500 [19]
This first man to break the sound barrier has an airport named for him in Charleston, West Virginia
Charles Yeager
Ed
$500 [21]
Famous for its handicrafts, the resort town of Gatlinburg is located near the entrance to this nat'l park
Great Smoky
Debby
$500 [7]
A noisy celebration for a collection of Boy Scouts
a jamboree
Mary
$600 [14]
In 1865 Wellington replaced this city as capital of New Zealand
Auckland
Debby

Double Jeopardy! Round

BLACK AMERICA OFFICE MACHINES WORLD FACTS GEOLOGY WOMEN WRITERS THE MAGNA CARTA
$200 [9]
In 1775 Black patriots joined this rebel & his Green Mountain Boys in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Ethan Allen
Mary
$200 [21]
The PC introduced by this giant in 1981 had parts from Intel & Microsoft
IBM
Mary
$200 [5]
In Venezuela aluminum ranks second only to this as the most valuable export
oil
Ed
$200 [1]
It's the large landscape feature formed by a meteorite
a crater
Ed
$200 [10]
In 1970 this Cosmopolitan editor offered her views on "Sex and the New Single Girl"
Helen Gurley Brown
Ed
$200 [26]
There are 4 copies of the 1215 charter: 1 each in Lincoln & Salisbury Cathedrals & 2 in this museum
the British Museum
Debby
$400 [13]
In the 1830s Black bandleader Frank Johnson played for this queen at Buckingham Palace
Victoria
Debby
$400 [22]
In June 1987 Fawn Hall testified she remembered putting some phone logs & memos in this machine
a shredder
Ed
$400 [7]
With temperatures as low as -90° F., this Russian region is the world's coldest inhabited place
Siberia
Ed
$400 [2]
This soft metal is rarely found alone; it's usually extracted from galena
lead
Ed
$400 [12]
This bestselling author of "Jewels" & "Fine Things" has also written several children's books
Danielle Steel
$400 [27]
The charter called for this with representation, something the American colonies later fought for
taxation
Ed
$600 [14]
For advancements in agricultural chemistry, he received the 1923 Spingarn Medal
George Washington Carver
Debby
$600 [23]
"Press for tacking" & "lift cap to load" are instructions on this desktop device
a stapler
Mary
$600 [8]
Madagascar leads the world in the production of this ice cream flavoring
vanilla
Debby
$600 [3]
Of the 3 main groups of rocks, this one is formed directly from magma
igneous
Ed
$600 [15]
She began her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", while working at a hospital during WWI
Agatha Christie
Ed
$600 [28]
The First Clause grants this body freedom from government intervention
the clergy
Mary
DD $600 [16]
In 1989 Coleman Young was elected to an unprecedented fifth term as mayor of this city
Detroit
Ed
$800 [24]
He developed the first dictation machine, which he called the graphophone
Alexander Graham Bell
Mary
$800 [11]
Amsterdam derives its name from a dam once built on this river
the Amstel
Debby
$800 [4]
Scientists believe that from about the 1500s to the 1800s the Earth went through a little one of these ages
an ice age
Debby
$800 [19]
She dedicated the second edition of "Jane Eyre" to novelist William Makepeace Thackeray
Charlotte Bronte
Ed Mary
DD $1,200 [29]
It was written in this language
Latin
Ed
$1,000 [18]
In 1982 Leontyne Price opened the Congress of the DAR with a concert honoring this contralto
Marian Anderson
Debby Mary
$1,000 [25]
One of the first business "machines", it began as a flat stone with grooves in which pebbles were put to keep count
the abacus
Mary
$1,000 [17]
It's the southernmost of the Central American countries
Panama
Ed
$1,000 [6]
It's the term for submarine elevations over 3,300'; they're found singly or in chains
seamounts
Ed
$1,000 [20]
On winning his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest Hemingway said it should have gone to this "Beautiful" Danish writer instead
Isak Dinesen
Debby

Final Jeopardy!

MUSEUMS

In 1971 Michael Collins was named director of this museum

The (National) Air & Space Museum

Ed "What is the Smithsonian" — wagered $5,000
Debby "What is the British Museum?" — wagered $6,299
Mary "What is the Air & Space Museum?" — wagered $6,201

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