Show #2299 - Thursday, September 8, 1994

Contestants

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Nancy Ungar, an insurance customer representative from Akron, Ohio

Ron Martell, a copywriter from San Francisco, California

Matt Handel, a marketing analyst from Wayne, Pennsylvania

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Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITALS
ACTORS ONSTAGE
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
THE BODY HUMAN
WHEELS
ABBREVIATIONS
    $100 7
This city is the home of Florida A&M University
    $100 5
Tommy Tune & Christopher Walken played killers in "Baker Street", a musical about this detective
    $100 16
It's the month during which the U.S. celebrates its Independence Day
    $100 1
The apex beat is the medical term for this organ's throb
    $100 21
The amusement park ride once called a pleasure wheel is now called this after its modern inventor
    $100 26
A BMOC is this college personage
    $200 8
Schuyler Mansion in this N.Y. city was the site of A. Hamilton's marriage to Elizabeth Schuyler
    $200 9
In 1993 this playwright's brother Dakin appeared as Blanche DuBois at a Florida Theatre Festival
    $200 17
During Ramadan Muslims are not allowed to eat between these 2 times of day
    $200 2
At this joint the knucklelike condyles of the femur are attached to the tibia
    $200 22
The first regular transatlantic steamships were propelled by these
    $200 27
The CEO of a company is this
    $300 11
It's the seat of Sangamon County as well as the capital of Illinois
    $300 10
Martin Short starred in this musical based on a Neil Simon film for which Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar
    $300 18
In Israel Tu Bi-Shevat is the new year of these, which children are encouraged to plant
    $300 3
The corpus callosum is the band of fibers that connects the right & left halves of this
    $300 23
Artistic types throw clay on one
    $300 28
This religion is sometimes abbreviated Xnty.
    $400 12
You'll find the Kansas Center for Historical Research in the Kansas Memorial Building in this city
    $400 14
Bernadette Peters portrayed Vaudeville entertainer Josie Cohan in this 1968 musical
    $400 19
Pancake Day is another name for this, the last day before Lent
    $400 4
Crystals of calcium phosphate build up in rods or prisms to form this hardest substance in the body
    DD: $1,300 24
This country's flag features the Dharma Chakra, or wheel of law
    $400 29
If you own a car, you should know that VIN stands for this
    $500 13
The Cumberland River flows through the heart of this state capital
    $500 15
In 1960 he starred in the Broadway musical "Greenwillow" & became a movie "Psycho"
    $500 20
On the day of this annual occurrence, you should be able to stand an uncooked egg on its end
    $500 6
This small organ located behind the stomach has white pulp & red pulp & cleans the blood
    $500 25
Common device that includes, hands, a detent & an escape wheel
    $500 30
This title of nobility can be abbreviated Bt.

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

Matt Ron Nancy
$2,300 $200 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Ron Nancy
$6,200 $300 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round

1921
DESIGNERS
ISLANDS
PRIMATES
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS
AUTHORS
    $200 17
In September this international organization accepted Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania as members
    $200 2
VDB, the initials of designer Victor David Brenner, are seen under ABE on this monetary unit
    $200 1
The Fox & Rat Islands are among the 5 major groups that make up this Alaskan chain
    $200 22
It's the largest of all living primates
    $200 10
At the 1932 Democratic Convention, he became the first nominee to make an acceptance speech in person
    $200 5
It "Just So" happens that he was the 1st British author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
    $400 18
William Lyon Mackenzie King formed the first of his 5 governments as prime minister of this country
    $400 27
German Willy Messerschmitt was famous for designing these
    $400 3
The Isle of Skye was ruled by Norsemen until the 13th century when it became part of this country
    $400 23
The uakari, the only short-tailed New World monkey, lives in the basin of this South American river
    $400 11
A chant at the 1940 Republican Convention of "We Want" this man helped get him nominated
    $400 6
He followed "Ben-Hur" with a nonfiction book entitled "The Boyhood of Christ"
    $600 19
The first radio broadcast of a World Series was carried by WJZ, featuring these 2 New York teams
    $600 28
Known for his photos, Cecil Beaton won 4 Tonys & 2 Oscars for designing these
    $600 4
This island between Cuba & Puerto Rico contains the highest point in the Caribbean, Pico Duarte
    $600 24
Studies suggest that these African apes are the closest to humans genetically & in intelligence
    $600 12
In 1956 a vote for his running mate came down to John Kennedy & Estes Kefauver, who got it
    $600 7
This author of "A Passage to India" was once private secretary to an Indian maharajah
    $800 20
Hjalmar Branting, Social Democratic prime minister of this country, won the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize
    $800 29
In 1754 he published "The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director"
    $800 15
This island, Australia's smallest state, was once connected to the Australian mainland
    $800 25
Today this reddish- brown ape is confined entirely to the forests of Borneo & Sumatra
    $800 13
The Silver Republicans met in July 1900 & picked this man, also the Democrats' choice for president
    $800 8
It's the pseudonym under which Washington Irving wrote "A History of New York"
    $1000 21
Lloyd George negotiated the treaty establishing this "Free State"
    $1000 30
Beatrice Behrman designed the Madame Alexander line of these collectibles
    $1000 16
Most of the oil produced by Chile comes from the Strait of Magellan & this island
    DD: $1,400 26
The traditional organ grinder's monkey, it's named for the patch of hair that resembles a monk's hood
    $1000 14
On the 1st ballot of the 1880 Republican Convention, he received no votes; in November he won the election
    DD: $1,400 9
This author best known for his detective novels co-wrote the screenplay for "Watch on the Rhine"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Ron Nancy
$18,400 $5,300 $2,100
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES
In 1877 his remains were buried at West Point, where he had graduated last in his class

Final scores:

Matt Ron Nancy
$23,400 $6,300 $3,100
New champion: $23,400 2nd place: trip on TWA to Honolulu & stay at Pacific Beach Hotel + Jeopardy! home game 3rd place: Samsung 27" TV + Jeopardy! home game

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Matt Ron Nancy
$17,100 $4,900 $2,100
40 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
7 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $24,100

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Game tape date: 1994-07-19
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