Show #2543 1995-09-27 Regular

Linda Roberts game 3.

Contestants

Peg Hausman — a writer and editor from Bloomington, Indiana

Dotty Shekarian — an administrative services director from Bethesda, Maryland

Linda Roberts — a registered nurse from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,402)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Linda	$800	$4,000	$10,000	$12,601 3-day champion: $41,003 + Jeopardy! '92 home game + Jeopardy! electronic game	$10,300 28 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Dotty	$300	$1,300	$6,300	$7,400 2nd place: Gateway 2000 family multimedia PC + O'Sullivan desk + Jeopardy! '92 home game + Jeopardy! electronic game	$6,300 19 R, 3 W
Peg	$700	$1,700	$3,100	$1 3rd place: KROY labeling system+ Jeopardy! '92 home game + Jeopardy! electronic game	$5,100 10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD TESTAMENT	COLORS	SCIENCE	POP MUSIC	STATE CAPITALS	FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
$100 [12] After 3 attempts, she discovered the secret of Samson's strength & betrayed him to the Philistines Delilah Dotty	$100 [13] Shades of this color include powder, sapphire & navy blue Linda	$100 [14] Ferrovanadium is an alloy of vanadium & this metal iron Dotty	$100 [6] As this group, Donny & his brothers had only one No. 1 record in the U.S.: "One Bad Apple" in 1971 The Osmonds Dotty	$100 [7] This Rhode Island city has almost twice the population of Warwick, the state's second largest city Providence Dotty	$100 [1] The Spanish term for these scrambled items is huevos revueltos eggs Linda
$200 [27] This queen gave Solomon 120 talents of gold & other precious items Queen of Sheba Linda	$200 [15] Battleship is a tint of this color grey Linda	$200 [19] The horny casing of the toes of ungulates is called this hooves Linda	$200 [23] "Piano Man", released in 1973, was his first successful album Billy Joel Dotty	$200 [8] On July 4, 1831 "America" was first sung at this city's Park Street Church at the foot of Beacon HIll Boston Dotty	$200 [2] When shopping in Lisbon, you may want to ask, "Quanto custa?", which means this "How much does it cost?" Linda
$300 [28] Miriam & Aaron criticized this man, their brother, for marrying an Ethiopian Moses Linda	$300 [16] It's the "flowery" color of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes violet Linda	$300 [20] In 1990 this space telescope provided the first picture of Charon as completely separate from Pluto the Hubble telescope Linda	$300 [24] You "can't trust that day", according to The Mamas & The Papas Monday(, Monday) Dotty	$300 [9] This capital lies at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet & Capitol Lake Olympia(, Washington) Peg	$300 [3] In Dutch, apricots are abrikozen, figs are vijgen & this fruit is kokosnoot coconut Dotty
$400 [29] Jacob's other name was this, like the 12 tribes descended from him Israel Linda	$400 [17] This color found on the togas of Roman emperors is a synonym for "regal" purple Linda	$400 [21] He outlines his 3 laws of motion in "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" Sir Isaac Newton Linda	$400 [25] At age 40, she won 3 Grammys for "Nick of Time", 1989's album of the year Bonnie Raitt Dotty	$400 [10] When this future Confederate capital became a city in 1782, half of its population was slaves Richmond(, Virginia) Linda	$400 [4] The French refer to this season of the year as l'hiver winter Peg
$500 [30] In 1 Samuel 31 this king falls upon his own sword, opening the way for David to become king Saul Dotty Peg	$500 [18] This pale yellow color shares its name with a French region & the sparkling wine produced there champagne Linda	$500 [22] Fusion, the change of a solid to a liquid state, is more commonly called this melting Peg	$500 [26] This British group's 1979 album "The Wall" included the hit single "Another Brick in the Wall" Pink Floyd Dotty	DD $500 [11] Alphabetically, it's the last state capital named for a U.S. president Madison (Wisconsin) Linda	$500 [5] Italians call this country La Svezia Sweden Linda Dotty

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY	ECONOMICS	WOMEN	WORLD GEOGRAPHY	SHIPS & BOATS	20th CENTURY NOVELS
$200 [6] In 1791 this future French emperor became a lieutenant colonel in the Corsican National Guard Napoleon Peg	$200 [21] An APR, or annual percentage rate, is a rate of this interest Linda	$200 [11] A magazine launched in 1972 helped popularize this courtesy title used before a woman's name "Ms." Linda	$200 [1] Ticino is this country's southernmost canton Switzerland Linda Dotty	$200 [30] It's voyage was "naturally" chronicled in an 1839 book the Beagle Dotty	$200 [16] This "Heart of Darkness" author's "Nostromo" takes place in the fictional country of Costaguana Joseph Conrad Dotty
$400 [7] Between the 800s & 1400s the Khmer had a Hindu-Buddhist kingdom with its capital in what is now this country Cambodia Linda	$400 [22] These proceeds from a business may be normal or supernormal & may be "shared" with employees profits Peg	$400 [12] 1994 inductees into the National Women's Hall of Fame included Bella Abzug & this 1984 candidate for VP Geraldine Ferraro Dotty	$400 [2] This European country's highest point is Vaalserberg which rises 1,053 feet near Maastricht The Netherlands Linda	$400 [29] It was the first nuclear-powered submarine to sail under the North Pole the Nautilus Linda	$400 [17] In Mary McCarthy's "The Group", Kay Strong marries one week after graduation from this college Vassar Linda
$600 [8] In 1830 this peninsula connected to southern Spain was made a British crown colony Gibraltar Dotty	$800 [24] This German researched his 1859 "Critique of Political Economy" at the British Museum Karl Marx Linda	$600 [13] Grace Murray Hopper, who helped develop COBOL, also coined this term for a computer glitch a bug Dotty	$600 [3] The 2 northern extensions of the Red Sea are the Gulf of Aqaba & this gulf Gulf of Suez Linda	$600 [28] The Cutty Sark was built in 1869 to carry crates of this cargo from China tea Dotty	$600 [18] Manfred de Spain appears in "The Town", "The Mansion" & "The Reivers" by this author (William) Faulkner Dotty
$800 [9] In 1964 Moise Tshombe, who led the Katanga secession, became premier of this country, now Zaire the Congo Linda Peg	$1,000 [25] Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago 1948-1982, he won a 1976 Nobel Prize Milton Friedman Peg	$800 [14] In 1868 this author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" co-founded the New England Woman Suffrage Assoc. Julia Ward Howe Peg	$800 [4] This European island nation's largest lake is Thingvallavatn in the southwest Iceland Linda	DD $1,000 [27] Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki wa made of balsa; his Ra II was made of this material reeds (or papyrus) Linda	$800 [19] Both her "The Member of the Wedding" & "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" feature adolescent tomboys Carson McCullers Peg
$1,000 [10] This Phoenician city was founded in 814 B.C. on the shores of the Gulf of Tunis Carthage Linda	DD $2,000 [23] Term for precious metals like gold or silver used in international transactions in bulk form bullion Peg	$1,000 [15] In 1982 Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman cosmonaut since this one to fly in space (Valentina) Tereshkova Dotty	$1,000 [5] This Venezuelan river empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Trinidad the Orinoco Linda Dotty	$1,000 [26] It was the name of Aristotle Onassis' famous yacht the Christina Linda	$1,000 [20] Tyrone Slothrop, a character in his "Gravity's Rainbow", is also called Ian Scuffling & Rocketman (Thomas) Pynchon Peg

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CURRENCY

On April 13, 1976 the reverse of this bill was changed from a presidential home to an event

the $2 bill

Peg "What is the $5 bill?$10" — wagered $3,099

Dotty "What is a $2 bill?" — wagered $1,100

Linda "What is the $2.00 bill?" — wagered $2,601

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