Show #1765 1992-04-10 (taped 1991-12-16) Regular

Contestants

Ed Bryant — a lawyer from Springfield, Massachusetts

Priscilla Byerly — a Spanish instructor originally from Eastchester, New York

Marsha Pomeroy-Huff — a secretary originally from Clovis, New Mexico (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,902)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marsha $1,000 $1,800 $5,600 $11,199
2nd place: Orefors stemware and Retroneu service for eight
$6,400
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Priscilla $500 $1,900 $5,700 $5,700
3rd place: Joyce Chen Chinese cooking outfit and Nintendo Entertainment System
$5,700
15 R, 0 W
Ed $800 $1,000 $9,800 $11,401
New champion: $11,401
$8,800
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

CLEVELAND PLANTS & TREES MOVIE QUOTES U.S. HISTORY PLAYING WITH FIRE 9-LETTER WORDS
$100 [17]
Cleveland is situated where the Cuyahoga River meets this Great Lake
Erie
Priscilla
$100 [12]
Indians made boats from the bark of the paper or canoe variety of this tree
birch
Priscilla
$100 [7]
In this film Paul Newman is told, "You're gonna get used to wearing them chains after a while, Luke"
Cool Hand Luke
Marsha
$100 [2]
President Ford appointed this future president director of the CIA in 1975
George Bush
Priscilla
$100 [1]
Slang for a hot dog barbecue
weenie roast
Ed
$100 [26]
From the Latin for "sword", this person was trained for combat in the ancient Roman arena
gladiator
Marsha
$200 [18]
Abbreviated WCTU, this group that promoted abstinence from alcohol was founded in Cleveland in 1874
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Ed
$200 [13]
Gum tree & stringybark tree are popular names for these Australian trees
eucalyptus
Marsha
$200 [8]
It was Rhett Butler's parting shot to Scarlet O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind"
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
Marsha
$200 [3]
In 1960 he quipped, "Mr. Nixon dismissed me as 'another Truman'...I consider him another Dewey"
John Kennedy
Marsha
$200 [22]
Prometheus stole fire from this heavenly body & gave it to mankind
sun
Marsha
$200 [27]
It's a young woman making her entrance into society
debutante
Ed
$300 [19]
The opening of this international waterway in 1959 allowed oceangoing ships to reach Cleveland
St. Lawrence Seaway
Ed
$300 [14]
Socrates died from drinking a poisonous brew made of this herb
hemlock
Priscilla
$300 [9]
Barbra Streisand's first line on film is "Hello, gorgeous" in this 1968 release
Funny Girl
Ed
$300 [4]
In 1799 this orator was elected to VA.'s legislature but died before he could take his seat
Patrick Henry
Marsha
$300 [23]
Site on the stove of low-priority items
back burner
Marsha
$300 [28]
To ornament with needlework
embroider
Marsha
$400 [20]
The world's largest collection of manuscripts of this celibate religious sect is in Cleveland
Shakers
Marsha
$400 [15]
An imperfect one of these lacks either stamens or a pistil
flower
Marsha
$400 [10]
"Of all" these establishments "in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine"
gin joints
Marsha
$400 [5]
When this general died in 1863, Robert E. Lee wrote, "I know not how to replace him"
(Stonewall) Jackson
Ed
$400 [24]
A WWI song by Lena Ford said to "Keep" these "burning, while your hearts are yearning"
home-fires
Priscilla
$400 [29]
To introduce the virus of a disease into the body in order to cure, immunize or experiment
inoculate (or vaccinate)
Priscilla
$500 [21]
In 1967 he became mayor, the first African American to hold that office in a major U.S. city
Carl Stokes
Ed
DD $800 [16]
Much of the lumber that shows this tree's "bird's-eye" pattern comes from N. Michigan
maple
Marsha
$500 [11]
In "Suspicion" he greets Joan Fontaine by saying, "Hello, monkey face"
Cary Grant
Ed
$500 [6]
In 1742 James Oglethorpe won the Battle of Bloody Marsh & virtually ended this country's threat to Georgia
Spain
Ed
$500 [25]
The bon in bonfire is short for this, the substance originally burned in it
bones
$500 [30]
A French raspberry brandy
framboise
Marsha Priscilla

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE AGE OF CHIVALRY SCIENCE REPUBLICANS WORLD GEOGRAPHY MONEY MATTERS "A"UTHORS
$200 [11]
The Knights of St. John captured this island centuries after its colossal statue collapsed
Rhodes
Ed
$200 [2]
The main types of this fuel are peat, lignite, bituminous & anthracite
coal
Priscilla
$200 [1]
His political career began in 1949 when he was elected to the Phoenix city council
Goldwater
Marsha
$200 [3]
Tennessee's lowest point, 182 feet above sea level, is at this river in the southwest corner
Mississippi
Ed
$200 [8]
A short seller of a stock anticipates its price will do this
go down
Priscilla
$200 [15]
She wrote potboilers under the name A.N. Barnard before the success of "Little Women"
Louisa May Alcott
Priscilla
$400 [12]
A knight carried a light wooded one of these covered with hide & painted with his coat of arms
shield
Marsha
$400 [10]
One of the oldest marine biology laboratories is located at Woods Hole in this New England state
Massachusetts
Priscilla
$400 [23]
The first Whig governor of N.Y., he later turned Republican & purchased Alaska as Sec'y of State
Seward
Ed
$400 [4]
This Scottish city on the River Clyde is one of the world's greatest shipbuilding centers
Glasgow
Priscilla
$400 [9]
The time allowed for making payments on a loan after the due date is this "period"
grace period
Marsha
$400 [16]
He attended Harvard before writing the popular "Ragged Dick" rags-to-riches books
Horatio Alger
Ed
$600 [28]
King Philip IV of this country coveted the wealth of the Knights Templars, so he persecuted them
France
Marsha Priscilla
$600 [13]
While most vitamins are fat-soluble, vitamin C & this complex are water-soluble
B complex
Marsha
$800 [25]
After losing the 1936 Presidential election, this Kansas governor retired from nat'l politics
Alf Landon
Ed
$600 [5]
This island tied politically to Trinidad is famed for its Buccoo Reef, a popular scuba diving spot
Tobago
Ed
$600 [20]
The only Asian country among the Group of Seven, the finance ministers of 7 leading industrial powers
Japan
Ed
$600 [17]
She is the author of such autobiographical works as "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Maya Angelou
Ed
$800 [29]
Oliver was the sworn friend of this paladin who's celebrated in a famous "song"
Roland
Marsha
$800 [14]
The bacterium rhizobium, which lives in nodules on legume roots, "fixes" this element from air
nitrogen
Priscilla
$1,000 [26]
He became Interior Sec'y in 1989 after many years as the only Hispanic Republican in the House
Manuel Lujan
Marsha
$1,000 [7]
David Livingstone was the 1st European to explore this river on which Victoria Falls is located
Zambezi
Ed
$800 [21]
A VAT is a value-added type of this levy
tax
Ed
$800 [18]
Once a rabbi, this humorous writer created the character of Tevye the milkman
Sholem Aleichem
Ed
$1,000 [30]
Albert, the first bishop of this large Latvian city, founded the Knights of the Sword about 1200
Riga
Priscilla
$1,000 [27]
The lowest temperature yet reached was 2 billionths of a degree above zero on this scale
Kelvin scale
Marsha
DD $1,200 [24]
In 1972 he became North Carolina's first Republican Senator in the 20th century
Jesse Helms
Ed
DD $1,200 [6]
The name of this Romanian region means "beyond the forest"
Transylvania
Ed
$1,000 [22]
The opposite of caveat venditor, it means "let the buyer beware"
caveat emptor
Ed
$1,000 [19]
"Without Feathers", "Getting Even" & "Side Effects" are collections of his humorous pieces
Woody Allen
Ed

Final Jeopardy!

AWARDS

The Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal features an engraving of this 18th century American

Benjamin Franklin

Marsha "Who is B. Franklin?" — wagered $5,599
Priscilla "Who is Zenger" — wagered $0
Ed "Who is Franklin?" — wagered $1,601

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