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Show #2825 - Friday, December 6, 1996

Daily Double at Double Jeopardy! Round clue 22 featured in the 1999 film Baby Geniuses.

Contestants

Donna Craig, an aspiring writer from New York City, New York

Clark Adams, a horse shoer from Batesville, Virginia

Gay Mollette, a procurement manager originally from Detroit, Michigan (3-day champion whose cash winnings total $24,001)

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN EXPLORERS
MEASURING DEVICES
MYTHOLOGY
TELEVISION
ANNUAL EVENTS
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
    $100 16
Edward Beale brought news of this 1848 discovery in California to the east coast
    $100 19
The amount of this in a solution can be measured by a saccharometer
    $100 6
Daedalus used this substance to fasten the wings to his back
    $100 1
This Sunday night series is subtitled "The New Adventures of Superman"
    $100 17
This state's Days of '47 Festival honors the day Brigham Young reached the Salt Lake Valley in 1847
    $100 11
A complete donut center
    $200 20
Stephen Long & Zebulon Pike have peaks named for them in this state, an area they said was uninhabitable
    $200 27
The energy from this is measured by a pyrheliometer
    $200 7
Cadmus planted these parts of a dragon to raise some troops
    $200 2
"Freddy's Nightmares", a horror anthology that debuted in 1988, was based on this movie series
    $200 18
Monroe, near Snohomish in this state, is the site of the annual Evergreen State Fair
    $200 12
In a restaurant, it's a quartet's table request
    $300 21
Co-commanders of the 1st U.S. expedition to explore from Mississippi to the west coast
    $300 28
An odometer measures the distance covered by a vehicle & this device measures how far you've walked
    $300 8
The sister of Orestes, mourning became her
    $300 3
This crime drama with Robert Wagner & Stefanie Powers was created by Sidney Sheldon
    $300 24
Dog lovers look forward to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, held each February in this city
    $300 13
Contented performing kittens might be paid this way
    $400 22
Jedediah Smith was a mountain man & explorer employed in this industry
    $400 29
A spirometer measures the capacity of these organs
    $400 9
Zeus' father, Cronus, was one of this group of 12
    DD: $600 4
Character seen here, his action-packed journeys are legendary:
    $400 25
The Pendleton Roundup, an annual rodeo, takes place in Pendleton in this northwestern state
    $400 14
A squash that's been pierced by a bull's horn
    $500 23
Senator Thomas Hart Benton's son-in-law was this "Pathfinder"
    $500 30
A nilometer measures the height of the water in this
    $500 10
Leda laid 2 eggs: one with Helen & Pollux in it, the other containing Clytemnestra & him
    $500 5
Jack Wagner, formerly of "General Hospital", now plays Dr. Peter Burns on this Fox drama
    $500 26
The Tanglewood Music Festival is a summer highlight in Lenox in this New England state
    $500 15
Remained sedate

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Gay Clark Donna
$600 $1,000 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Gay Clark Donna
$900 $3,100 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOTABLE NONHUMANS
WORLD FACTS
ART & ARTISTS
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
HISTORY
POETS
    $200 2
This Nazi dictator sometimes dined alone with Blondi, his Alsatian
    $200 19
This isthmus connects North & South America
    $200 1
He painted "Irises" & "Pink Roses" as well as "Sunflowers"
    $200 30
It has over 9,700 tax preparation offices worldwide
    $200 11
Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city
    $200 4
On Feb. 12, 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he addressed a joint session of Congress
    $400 3
In 1964 he lifted his beagles Him & Her by the ears on the White House lawn, provoking protest
    $400 20
A humid city, Rio de Janeiro lies just north of this tropic line
    $400 14
This drip artist was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912
    $400 18
In 1961 this firm introduced its Selectric typewriter, which used a spherical typing element
    $400 12
Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, this country gave Norway to Sweden but kept Greenland & other islands
    $400 5
Between 1842 & 1885, he repeatedly revised his "Idylls of the King"
    $600 6
Colo was the first of these great apes born in captivity, in 1956 at the Columbus Zoo
    $600 21
The lowest river in the world, it's revered by Jews, Christians & Muslims alike
    $600 15
He spent several summers painting pointillist seascapes including "Le Bec Du Hoc, Grandcamp"
    $600 25
In 1934 he plugged Bulova "Lone Eagle" watches
    $600 13
In February 1904 this country attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur
    $600 8
For much of the winter of 1794-95, he served as acting supervisor for Dumfries, Scotland
    $800 7
In 1945 this famous scottie was injured in a fight with Blaze, Elliott Roosevelt's mastiff
    DD: $1,100 22
Discovered by David Livingstone, Botswana's Lake Ngami lies in the northern part of this desert
    $800 16
His sculpture, "The Age of Bronze", exhibited in 1877, was inspired by Michelangelo
    $800 29
Only Philip Morris & this Cincinnati-based firm have yearly ad expenditures exceeding $2 billion
    $800 24
On May 30, 1967 Colonel Ojukwu declared Biafra's independence from this country, starting a civil war
    $800 9
Her "I Heard a Fly Buzz" may have been based on a chapter in "The House of the Seven Gables"
    $1000 26
This favorite horse of Alexander the Great sometimes wore golden horns in battle
    $1000 23
In area this country whose capital is now called Yangon is the largest in mainland southeast Asia
    $1000 17
You can see this British sculptor's "Reclining Mother and Child" at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
    DD: $600 28
In 1811 this German family began its steel-making business by constructing a plant in Essen
    $1000 27
In the midst of the Korean War, this South Korean president was elected to his second of 4 terms
    $1000 10
He once wrote, "I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Gay Clark Donna
$5,100 $7,000 $5,200

Final Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH NOVELS
This 1895 novel is subtitled "An Invention"

Final scores:

Gay Clark Donna
$10,199 $10,401 $10,201
3rd place: Whirlpool dishwasher & trash compactor New champion: $10,401 2nd place: silver flatware & china service

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Gay Clark Donna
$5,100 $9,100 $5,200
10 R,
2 W
26 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 2 DDs)
15 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $19,400

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