Show #2378 1994-12-28 (taped 1994-10-18) Regular

Contestants

Will Webster — an attorney originally from Decatur, Alabama

Arlene Goldberg — a language coordinator from Staten Island, New York

Pat Farrior — a postal worker from Pensacola, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pat $600 $1,100 $3,100 $1
3rd place: DeLonghi espresso/cappuccino maker + Jeopardy! Sports Edition video game + Jeopardy! '92 home game
$3,100
14 R, 7 W
Arlene $1,400 $1,500 $4,300 $6,600
New champion: $6,600 + Jeopardy! Sports Edition video game + Jeopardy! '92 home game
$4,300
13 R, 2 W
Will $600 $2,300 $4,300 $6,300
2nd place: a New Home Memory Craft 8000 sewing machine + a Hoover Steam Vac + Jeopardy! Sports Edition video game + Jeopardy! '92 home game
$4,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY THE FUNNIES FOOD & DRINK BIOLOGY FLAGS RULES FROM EXODUS
$100 [2]
On May 22, 1906 they received a patent for an improved model of their airplane
the Wright brothers
Arlene
$100 [1]
The pun police are a running gag in this prehistoric strip
"B.C."
Will
$100 [16]
In an Italian restaurant, order Moleche & you'll get the soft-shelled type of these crustaceans
crabs
Pat Arlene
$100 [8]
Crocodilians are the only reptiles in which this organ has 4 separated chambers
the heart
Will
$100 [12]
The flag of this British Crown colony has a castle denoting its strategic importance in the Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Will
$100 [11]
You should not take the name of the Lord "in" this
"vain"
Will
$200 [3]
Samuel Adams referred to this April 19, 1775 battle when he said, "What a glorious morning for America!"
Lexington, Concord
Arlene
$200 [5]
On January 7, 1929 2 strips debuted, "Tarzan" and this strip about a man who wakes up 500 years in the future
"Buck Rogers"
Will
$200 [18]
Used to flavor cocktails, orange & Angostura are types of these
bitters
Pat
$200 [22]
The armadillo possesses the endo- & exo- types of this support structure
skeleton
Will
$200 [23]
The District of Columbia's flag is the banner of the arms of his ancestral family in England
George Washington
Will
$200 [13]
According to 21:15 & 17, if you smite or even curse these 2 family members, you should die
mother and father
Arlene
$300 [4]
Prior to his election to the Tennessee legislature in 1821, this frontiersman was a Justice of the Peace
Davy Crockett
Pat
$300 [9]
Baby Dumpling was born in 1934 in this strip
"Blondie"
$300 [19]
First made by Dutch immigrants in East Prussia, Tilsit is a type of this
cheese
Pat
$300 [27]
E. coli, one of these found in humans, is often used in genetic studies
a bacteria
Pat Will
$300 [24]
Israel's flag consists of this object & 2 stripes of blue on a white field
the Star of David
Will
$300 [14]
One of the commandments says "Thou shalt not bear" this "against thy neighbor"
"false witness"
Pat
$400 [6]
1 of 4 freedoms FDR termed essential in a January 6, 1941 address to Congress
1 of (want, speech, religion, or fear)
Arlene
$400 [10]
In 1950, at age 87, he approved his last strip for his papers, Mort Walker's "Beetle Bailey"
William Randolph Hearst
$400 [20]
The name of this twisted fried doughnut is from the Dutch for "twisted cake"
cruller
Arlene
$400 [28]
A bird's crop is an expanded area of this part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx & stomach
the esophagus
Will
$400 [25]
Oliver Hazard Perry's flag bore this phrase uttered by James Lawrence in the War of 1812
"Don't Give Up the Ship"
Arlene
$400 [17]
You're supposed to eat this kind of bread 7 days a year; they all fall during Passover
unleavened
Pat
$500 [7]
Of the 3 writers of the Federalist papers, 2 were New Yorkers & he was a Virginian
(James) Madison
Pat Arlene
$500 [15]
This humorous, unmarried title woman works for a marketing firm & has a dog named Electra
"Cathy"
Pat
$500 [30]
This traditional French dish consists of meat braised in red wine & garnished with mushrooms & onions
beef bourguignon
Will
$500 [29]
In 1910 Paul Ehrlich announced that Salvarsan was an effective treatment for this disease
syphilis
DD $400 [26]
This alliance's flag contains all the flags of its members, including Peru, Grenada, & the U.S.
the Organization of American States
Will
$500 [21]
23:8 warns not to take one of these inducements, for it "perverteth the words of the righteousness"
bribe (or gift)

Double Jeopardy! Round

1993 PARKS THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS LITERATURE POT LUCK OPERA
$200 [6]
At the end of May, Emerson Fittipaldi won this auto race for the second time
Indy 500
Arlene
$200 [21]
This state's Kenai Fjords National Park is the site of the Harding icefield, one of the USA's major icefields
Alaska
Arlene
$200 [1]
Though there are about 75 of these, some lists only include one of them
the Pyramids (of Egypt)
Will
$200 [7]
Cervantes novel that tells us, "A knight errant without a lady is like...a body without a soul"
"Don Quixote"
Pat
$200 [12]
Koalas rarely drink water; instead, they obtain their liquid mostly from the leaves of this tree
the eucalyptus
Will
$600 [24]
This Norwegian completed only 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason", his sole attempt at opera
(Edvard) Grieg
Pat
$400 [17]
In June the U.S. fired on this country in retaliation for their plot to kill George Bush
Iraq
Pat
$400 [22]
The lowest point of this national park in the southwest U.S. is more than 1100 feet underground
the Carlsbad Caverns
Will
$400 [2]
It's said that on the day this conqueror was born in 356 B.C. Herostratus burned down the Temple of Diana
Alexander (the Great)
Pat
$400 [8]
He wrote his first novel, "Murphy", in 1938, 14 years before his famous play "Waiting for Godot"
(Samuel) Beckett
Will
$400 [13]
From 1943 to 1974 this radio program was broadcast from Nashville's Ryman Auditorium
"The Grand Ole Opry"
Pat
$800 [25]
Name shared by a Handel opera, a general in Verdi's "Attila" & Mr. Pinza of the Met
Ezio
Pat
$600 [18]
On November 2 the Senate voted 94-6 to subpoena 3,000 pages of his diary
Robert Packwood
Pat Will
$800 [23]
This country's Cape Horn national park is the most southerly park in the Western Hemisphere
Chile
Pat Arlene Will
$600 [3]
Some sources say a ship could sail under this wonder, some say it had its feet together
the Colossus of Rhodes
Will
$600 [9]
His wife Mary said the caroling of a skylark in Leghorn inspired his poem "To a Skylark"
(Percy) Shelley
Pat
$600 [14]
He was present when St. Stephen was martyred & persecuted other Christians while he was known as Saul
Paul (of Tarsus)
Will
$1,000 [26]
Placido Domingo starred in a 1992 TV version of "Tosca", taped in its actual settings in this capital city
Rome
$800 [19]
Kimba Wood was considered for this cabinet post but ran afoul with Nannygate
Attorney General
Arlene
DD $1,000 [4]
Pliny said that by his time this wonder was just a desolate wilderness
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Will
$800 [10]
"The Knight's Tale" by this 14th century author is based on Boccaccio's poem "Teseida"
(Geoffrey) Chaucer
Arlene
$800 [15]
This Finnish-born architect designed NYC's CBS building, his only skyscraper
(Eero) Saarinen
Pat
$1,000 [20]
This treaty on European unity went into effect on November 1
Maastricht Treaty
$1,000 [5]
When finished by Ptolemy Philadelphus, it was over 400 feet high
the Pharos at Alexandria
Pat Arlene
$1,000 [11]
His 1958 novel "Our Man in Havana" takes place in pre-Castro Cuba
Graham Greene
Pat
$1,000 [16]
Born in 1850, this future labor leader joined the cigarmakers' union at the age of 14
(Samuel) Gompers
Arlene

Final Jeopardy!

ETYMOLOGY

Until 1946, this word usually meant a mathematician; since then, it's come to mean a machine

a computer

Pat "What is a calculator?" — wagered $3,099
Arlene "What is a computer?" — wagered $2,300
Will "What is acalculatorcomputer?" — wagered $2,000

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