Show #2496 - Monday, June 12, 1995

Contestants

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Susan Cheatham, a secretary from Arlington, Virginia

Charlie Baumann, a contracts approver from Cranford, New Jersey

Mark Mullinax, a fish and wildlife volunteer originally from Paxton, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,300)

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Jeopardy! Round

INSECTS
A.K.A.
PHOTOGRAPHY
1933
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
STARTS WITH "Z"
    $100 9
Types of this chirping insect include tree, house & field
    $100 4
We uncovered this cover girl's real name: it's Mary Laurence Hutton
    $100 15
In 1955 Henri Cartier-Bresson became the first photographer to have an exhibit in this French museum
    $100 1
On May 26 the Australian government laid claim to one-third of this continent
    $100 2
This Chinese observance moves between January 21 & February 20 on the Gregorian calendar
    $100 16
To expedite mail service, this numerical system was introduced in 1963
    $200 10
The plague is transmitted to humans by these insects, which get the bacteria from infected rats
    $200 5
Her original name was Rose Diane Ladner & her daughter Laura Dern followed in her footsteps
    $200 21
Most SLR or single-lens reflex cameras use this size film
    $200 3
Members of a British expedition climbed to within 1,000 feet of the summit of this highest mountain
    $200 27
Though no longer celebrated, this city's oldest festival was the Panathenaea
    $200 17
This last surviving Marx brother passed away in 1979
    $300 11
In the U.S. this insect falls into 3 groups: subterranean, damp-wood & dry-wood
    $300 12
Gangster Benjamin Siegel preferred to be called Ben; this famous nickname made him angry
    $300 22
It's 2 shots on the same frame of film
    $300 6
Control of this historic Baltimore fort was transferred to the National Park Service
    $300 28
April 21, the day of Muhammad Iqbal's death, is a holiday in this country that split from India in 1947
    $300 18
This California wine comes in many varieties, from the dry red to the sweet "white"
    $400 24
The destructive gypsy type of this winged insect was introduced to the U.S. from Europe in the 1860s
    $400 13
As a child actor in the '50s, this future Monkee starred in TV's "Circus Boy" under the name Mickey Braddock
    $400 23
A 1916 trip to Yosemite inspired him to photograph the American wilderness
    $400 7
He was elected mayor of New York on a Fusion ticket, combining Republicans & Reform groups
    DD: $2,500 29
It wasn't made a U.S. legal holiday until 1941, 165 years after it was first observed
    $400 19
The Tower of Babel is believed to have been one of these pyramidlike towers
    $500 25
Tropical varieties of this insect that resembles a twig can reach a foot in length
    $500 14
This singer's real name isn't Lady Marmalade, it's Patricia Holt
    $500 26
In 1877 Eadweard Muybridge's photos proved at one point when it runs, all 4 of its feet are off the ground
    $500 8
Engelbert Dollfuss dissolved Parliament in this European country & began to rule by decree
    $500 30
The observances that accompany Halloween are believed to go back to these ancient British people
    $500 20
It's the capital of Croatia

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Mark Charlie Susan
$2,200 $600 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Charlie Susan
$8,400 $1,600 -$100

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 18th CENTURY
ORGANIZATIONS
BODIES OF WATER
PLANTS & TREES
LITERATURE
NEXT IN LINE
    $200 11
In 1795 he defended the Tuileries with cannon fire that became known as the "Whiff of Grapeshot"
    $200 13
This U.S. agency assigns call letters to radio & TV stations
    $200 1
This canal is approached from the Atlantic side via Limon Bay
    $200 15
This tree is sometimes called the Douglas spruce
    $200 4
This George Orwell work includes an appendix on "The Principles of Newspeak"
    $200 8
The Pope heads the Roman Catholic Church, followed by the cardinals, then these clergymen
    $400 12
In 1769 & 1770 he surveyed the coast of New Zealand, proving it wasn't part of a southern continent
    $400 14
Rank of the top officer in the Salvation Army
    $400 2
Principal Indian ports of this bay include Calcutta & Madras
    $400 22
Socrates died after he drank a potion made from this poisonous plant
    $400 5
He set his story "The Gold-Bug" on South Carolina's Sullivans Island
    $400 9
Moving from the inside of the Earth outward, it's the core, the mantle & this
    $600 25
At his death in 1775, Prithvi Narayan Shah had conquered most of what is now this Himalayan kingdom
    $600 19
A club devoted to this TV series includes chapters named for Barney & the Mayberry Sheriff's Dept.
    $600 3
The Poles call this river the Wisla
    $600 23
Winterberry is a variety of this shrub that's popular at Christmas
    $600 6
This book about the patients of a psychiatric ward was Ken Kesey's first novel
    $600 10
Moving up the line of winning poker hands, it's one pair, two pair, three of a kind, then this
    $800 28
In 1745 her husband Francis Stephen, became Holy Roman Emperor as Francis I
    $800 20
The 2 branches of advanced masonry are the York Rite & this rite
    $800 17
The Gulf of Trieste is a northern extension of this arm of the Mediterranean
    $800 24
The gebang palm, whose large leaves are used for thatching, is native to this Se Asian peninsula
    $800 7
Katherine Anne Porter's last book, "The Never- Ending Wrong" deals with the 1920s legal case of this pair
    $800 27
Seen on ascending U.S. currency, it's Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Hamilton, this man
    DD: $2,000 21
The American Thoracic Society is the medical arm of this organization founded in 1904
    $1000 18
The Lukuga River is the only outlet of this deepest African lake
    $1000 26
Epiphytes are popularly called these because they don't root in the ground
    $1000 16
William Kennedy turned his nonfiction study of Albany's street people into this Pulitzer-winning novel
    DD: $2,400 29
Alben,
Richard,
Lyndon,
Hubert,....

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Charlie Susan
$9,000 $3,000 $700
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES
In a 1987 interview, he said, "In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people"

Final scores:

Mark Charlie Susan
$11,000 $1,401 $0
2-day champion: $23,300 2nd place: The Hitter, The Hero and the American Dream serilithograph autographed by Joe DiMaggio + Bulova Sportstime watches + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computers or Super Nintendo Entertainment System 3rd place: Curtis Mathes 25" TV + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computers or Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mark Charlie Susan
$9,300 $5,000 $700
32 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 8 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $15,000

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Game tape date: 1995-02-07
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