Show #2044 1993-06-24 (taped 1993-02-03) Regular

Contestants

Anthony McCafferty — an engineer from Glendale, California

Jim Maher — a disc jockey from Phoenix, Arizona

Ray Agran — an attorney from Yardley, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,701)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ray $1,400 $4,000 $6,400 $9,400
2nd place: General Instrument satellite TV system + Sanyo 27" TV + Jeopardy! home game or computerized edition
$6,400
22 R, 2 W
Jim $800 $1,400 $6,900 $13,799
New champion: $13,799
$6,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Anthony $400 $2,800 $8,500 $1,500
3rd place: Christian Riese Lassen serigraph Impressions of Maui + Jeopardy! home game or computerized edition
$6,700
14 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

OHIO SONG STANDARDS ARCHITECTURE FAMOUS NAMES FASHION HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
$100 [1]
There's an Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta named for this first man to walk on the Moon
Armstrong
Ray
$100 [4]
"Ol' Man River jus' keeps" doing this
rollin' along
Ray
$100 [7]
The 4 main types of these are ribbed, dome, groined & barrel
vaults
Ray Jim
$100 [9]
People forget this Persian was a mathematician, not just a "Rubaiyat" poet
Omar Khayyam
Ray
$100 [26]
Made of a sturdy yellow or buff cloth, trousers called Nankeens were named for Nanking in this country
China
Ray
$100 [19]
A hirsute Truman
a hairy Harry
Ray
$200 [2]
This capital was established after local residents offered free land & $50,000 for construction
Columbus
Ray
$200 [8]
"Climb ev'ry mountain, ford ev'ry stream, follow ev'ry" one of these, "till you find your dream"
a rainbow
Ray
$200 [15]
This city's Hagia Sophia is considered the finest achievement of Byzantine architecture
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Anthony
$200 [10]
His father was a Hungarian rabbi & he was an escapologist
(Harry) Houdini
Ray
$200 [27]
Although some are wool, most bomber jackets are made of this material
leather
Ray
$200 [20]
The sixty minutes that belong to us
our hour
Ray
$300 [3]
This city boasts the McKinley National Memorial & the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Canton
Jim
$300 [13]
"Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worry on the doorstep, just direct your feet to" this
the sunny side of the street
Ray
$400 [17]
In 1949 this German- American architect & some former students designed the Graduate Center at Harvard
(Walter) Gropius
Anthony
$300 [11]
This 97-year-old Chicago bicycle company filed for bankruptcy in October 1992
Schwinn
Ray
$300 [28]
It's the type of hand covering with the fingers together in one part & the thumb in another
a mitten
Jim
$300 [21]
A prohibited group of musicians
a banned band
Jim
$400 [5]
A memorial at Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island honors his victory in the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie
(Commodore) Perry
Anthony
$400 [22]
"Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh so" this
mellow
Anthony
$500 [18]
A balcony can be built on one of these horizontal beams supported at only one end
a cantilever beam
Ray
$400 [12]
Nickname of Spanish knight Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar who fought both the Moors & Christians
El Cid
Jim
$400 [29]
Body stockings, which were introduced in the 1960s, were derived from this gymnastics garment
a leotard
Anthony
$400 [23]
Conceal a Robert Louis Stevenson villain
hide Hyde
Anthony
$500 [6]
The white circle with a red center on the state's flag represents the letter O & this tree's nut
the buckeye
Anthony
$500 [25]
In "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'", "The corn is as high as" this
an elephant's eye
Ray
DD $600 [16]
This covered walk is built around the courtyard of a college building, church or monastery
a cloister
Anthony
$500 [14]
The basic laws of genetic inheritance are named after this monk
Mendel
Anthony
$500 [30]
It's a style of dress or blouse that ties behind the neck & leaves the back & shoulders bare
a halter
Ray
$500 [24]
Mode of water transport to get Tinker Bell to an island
a fairy ferry
Ray

Double Jeopardy! Round

REMEMBER THE ALAMO! LANGUAGES LAKES SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS ROCKS & MINERALS LITERARY CHARACTERS
$200 [1]
It took this man & his army 13 days to take the Alamo; it took the Texas army 18 minutes to beat him at San Jacinto
Santa Anna
Jim
$200 [3]
Darling, it's German for "Thank you very much"
Danke schön
Jim
$200 [21]
After a road was built along this Scottish lake in the 1930s, monster sightings increased
Loch Ness
Ray
$200 [26]
At the same meeting in 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace & this man had papers presented on natural selection
Darwin
Jim
$200 [16]
Stalactites & stalagmites are 2 types of dripstones that are commonly found in these places
caves
Jim
$200 [11]
Thomas Hardy partly based this heroine "of the d'Urbervilles" on his own grandmother
Tess
Ray
$400 [2]
Of the 189 defenders to die, 33 came from this state, many of them with Davy Crockett
Tennessee
Ray
$400 [4]
Both the Scottish & Irish forms of this language are called Erse
Gaelic
Jim
$400 [22]
Lake Albano has many villas on its shores, including Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence
the pope
Jim
$400 [27]
This horticulturist developed the Shasta daisy as well as a famous variety of potato
Burbank
Jim
$400 [17]
It's the "canine" term for rock collectors
rock hounds
Ray Jim
$400 [12]
This old plantation slave tells the stories of Brer Fox & Brer Rabbit
Uncle Remus
Anthony
$600 [8]
Sam Houston sent this col. known for his knife to the Alamo to destroy it but the col. ignored the order
(Jim) Bowie
Jim
$600 [5]
Minangkabau, which resembles Malay, is spoken on the island of Sumatra in this country
Indonesia
Ray
$600 [23]
Lake Constance is fed by this river that enters at the eastern end & exits at the western
the Rhine
Ray
$600 [28]
In the late 1800s Reverend G.W. Garrett of England devised the first submarine powered by this
steam
$600 [18]
Pedicurists know a "stone" composed of this abrasive igneous rock helps keep the feet neat
pumice
Jim
$600 [13]
It's the first name of Sherlock Holmes' mysterious brother
Mycroft
Jim
$1,000 [10]
Since 1905 the Alamo complex has been operated by this women's group
the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Jim
$800 [6]
This language has enriched English with such expressions as "farblondjet", "schmooze" & "maven"
Yiddish
Ray
$800 [24]
This artificial lake is also called High Dam Lake
Lake Nasser
Jim Anthony
$800 [29]
In the 1940s this instant camera inventor developed a 3-D movie process based on polarized light
(Edwin) Land
Jim
$800 [19]
This metamorphic rock for which a shade of gray is named is abundant in Wales
slate
Jim Anthony
$800 [14]
Hollywood producer Monroe Stahr is "The Last Tycoon" in an unfinished novel by this author
Fitzgerald
Anthony
DD $1,500 [9]
With his sword, this colonel drew a line on the ground & asked those prepared to stay & die to cross it
(Colonel William) Travis
Jim
$1,000 [7]
Millions of people in this country speak Marathi, especially in the state of Maharashtra
India
Anthony
$1,000 [25]
The Great Salt Lake, Utah's largest, is a remnant of this prehistoric lake
Lake Bonneville
Anthony
$1,000 [30]
This pioneer in electrophysiology taught anatomy at the Univ. of Bologna from 1762 until the 1790s
Luigi Galvani
Jim
$1,000 [20]
Add an "H" to the end of this silicate mineral's name & you'll get a book of the Old Testament
mica
Jim
DD $2,500 [15]
In books by James Fenimore Cooper, this hero is also known as Leatherstocking
Natty Bumppo
Anthony

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

Before Clinton, he was the last U.S. president who was a law school graduate

(Gerald) Ford

Ray "Who is Ford?" — wagered $3,000
Jim "Who is Ford" — wagered $6,899
Anthony "Who is Nixon" — wagered $7,000

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