Show #1863 1992-10-14 (taped 1992-08-11) Regular

Leslie Miller game 5.

Contestants

Kyle Reynolds — an electronics technician originally from Chicago, Illinois

Kate Haire — a computer programmer and analyst from Wilmington, Delaware

Leslie Miller — an editor from Reston, Virginia (whose 4-day cash winnings total $46,899)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Leslie $2,300 $3,200 $10,200 $17,401
5-day champion: $64,300
$9,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Kate $900 $1,800 $6,000 $9,000
3rd place: Frango chocolates + Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune video games
$6,000
17 R, 0 W
Kyle $800 $3,500 $8,700 $12,001
2nd place: Singer bedroom set + Dorothy's bedroom ensemble
$8,700
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES COWBOY LIFE FURNITURE BIRDS POTPOURRI FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
$100 [26]
When she met Abe, he said he wanted to dance with her "in the worst way", &, she said later' "He did"
Mary Todd Lincoln
Kate
$100 [2]
Nickname given to orphaned calves, sometimes urged to git along
dogie
Kyle
$100 [16]
Type of "rack" on which you'd hang your homburg
a hat rack
Leslie
$100 [11]
Unlike other pheasants, the Congo peacock is native to this continent
Africa
Kyle
$100 [21]
If you look shar-pei & feel shar-pei, you're one of these
a dog
Kate
$100 [1]
French for "very much" or "very many", it often comes after "merci"
beaucoup
Kate Kyle
$200 [27]
Lovely Julia Tyler was a native of this state where she was known as "The Rose of Long Island"
New York
Kyle
$200 [3]
To stop one of these, get ahead of the pack & force the cattle to mill in a tightening circle
a stampede
Kate
$200 [17]
The pembroke, a small drop-leaf one of these, may have been named for the Earl of Pembroke
a table
Kate
$200 [12]
There are 2 subspecies of the northern species of this bird; the Bullock's and the Baltimore
an oriole
Leslie
$200 [22]
The new Champ model of this knife has 29 tools, including an orange peeler & a divot fixer
a Swiss Army knife
Kate
$200 [7]
Dorothy Lamour could tell you it's Malay for a long, colorful cloth worn as a skirt or dress
a sarong
Leslie
$300 [28]
This "Silver Fox" is proud of her white hair & refuses to dye it
Barbara Bush
Kyle
$300 [4]
For the New Book of Knowledge, Gene Autry wrote the article on this cowboy skill
roping
Kate
$300 [18]
In the late 1700s this Pennsylvania city became known for its Chippendale-style furniture
Philadelphia
Kate
$300 [13]
Most honey eaters live in Australia & New Guinea, but some live in this U.S. state
Hawaii
Kate
$300 [23]
One of Forbes' 200 best small companies in America is this Tinseltown lingerie firm
Frederick's of Hollywood
Kyle
$300 [8]
Skiers use this Norwegian word to describe a zigzag course, or a race on such a course
a slalom
Kyle
$400 [29]
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison was the 1st president-general of this group of descendants of Rev. War figures
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Kyle
$400 [5]
He takes a green group of cowhands, prepares them for the drive & then leads it
the trail boss
$400 [19]
The vargueno, a combination cabinet & desk, was introduced in this country during the Renaissance
Spain
Leslie
$400 [14]
The Andean species of this bird has a greater wingspan than the California
the condor
Kyle
$400 [24]
The number of Henry VIII's wives who lost their heads over him
2
Leslie
$400 [9]
In Japanese kon ba wa means "good evening" & this means "good afternoon"
konnichiwa
Leslie
DD $500 [30]
She attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut from 1944-47
Jackie Onassis (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
Kyle
$500 [6]
The spiked wheel on the back of this is called a rowel
a spur
Leslie
$500 [20]
Inspired by ancient motifs, the Louis XVI style was part of the movement known as "Neo" this
Classical
Kyle
$500 [15]
A baby swan is called this, which has a nice "ring" to it
a cygnet
Leslie
$500 [25]
10 to the hundredth power is a googol, 10 to the googol power goes by this name
a googolplex
Kyle
$500 [10]
Derived from a word meaning "cup", it's the Scandinavian equivalent of "cheers" or "to your health"
skol
Leslie

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS MUSIC ASTRONOMY ARTISTS SCHEMES POETS
$200 [11]
John Milton called it "The eye of Greece, mother of arts and eloquence"
Athens
Kate
$200 [1]
It evolved from a similar lutelike instrument called the mandola
a mandolin
Kate
$200 [12]
The nucleus or core of one of these is said to resemble a large, dirty snowball
a comet
Kyle
$200 [4]
Born in Nuremberg in 1471, Albrecht Durer is called this country's greatest Renaissance artist
Germany
Kyle
$200 [22]
This Teamsters president was indicted December 7, 1960 for misusing funds in a real estate scheme
Jimmy Hoffa
Leslie
$200 [21]
Her poem inspired "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" inspired Robert to write to her; they eventually married
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Leslie
$400 [15]
One legend says this Portuguese capital was founded by and named for Ulysses
Lisbon
Kyle
$400 [2]
A sonatina is a little one of these
a sonata
Kate
$400 [13]
The equatorial diameter of this planet, 88,700 miles, is about 11 times that of the earth
Jupiter
Leslie
$400 [5]
This co-creator of Cubism with Picasso was also a pioneer of collage
Braque
Kate
$400 [23]
The 1695-1700 Darien scheme was Scotland's attempt to colonize this isthmus & control its trade
the Isthmus of Panama
Kyle
$400 [27]
Gabriela Mistral of Chile was the 1st Latin American woman to win this prize for literature
the Nobel Prize
Leslie
$600 [16]
It's the headquarters of Colombia's national airline, Avianca
Bogota
Kyle
$600 [3]
On a piano, the "soft" one of these is usually on the left side
the pedal
Leslie
$600 [14]
Perihelion refers to the point in the orbit of a planet that's nearest to this body
the Sun
Leslie
$600 [8]
Edvard Munch was born December 12, 1863 at Loten in this Scandinavian country
Norway
Kate
$600 [24]
In 1985 members of this family, among the USA's richest, were charges in a silver scheme
the Hunts
Kate
$600 [28]
When Walt Whitman's brother George was wounded during this war, Walt went to Va. to nurse him
the American Civil War
Kyle
$800 [17]
Haiti's capital & largest city, it was founded by the French as L'Hopital
Port-au-Prince
Leslie
$800 [6]
The name of this Pietro Mascagni opera is Italian for "rustic chivalry"
Cavalleria rusticana
Kyle
$800 [19]
To detect one of these "dark" objects, you must observe its gravitational effects on other objects
a black hole
Kyle
$800 [9]
"The Gallery of the Louvre" by this telegraph pioneer sold for $3.25 million in 1982
Morse
Leslie
$800 [25]
Her father, the Duke of Suffolk, made this "Lady" challenge Mary Tudor for the throne
Lady Jane Grey
Kyle
$800 [29]
He subtitled his nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark" "An Agony in Eight Fits"
Lewis Carroll
Kate
DD $2,000 [18]
Its architectural landmarks are the parliament buildings & the Kenyatta Conference Center
Nairobi
Leslie
$1,000 [7]
It's believed that the "Triumphes of Oriana" madrigals glorified this Tudor queen
Queen Elizabeth I
Leslie
$1,000 [20]
The first one of these stars which emit short bursts of radio waves was discovered in 1967
pulsar
Kyle
$1,000 [10]
The J.M.W. initials by which this English artist is known stand for Joseph Mallord William
Turner
Leslie
DD $1,000 [26]
To rid himself of this son of Danae, King Polydectes sent him to kill Medusa
Perseus
Kyle
$1,000 [30]
This Lake Poet succeeded his friend Robert Southey as Poet Laureate in 1843
Wordsworth
Leslie Kate

Final Jeopardy!

RELIGIOUS GROUPS

"The War Cry" & "The Young Soldier" are publications of this religious movement

Salvation Army

Kate "What is the Salvation Army?" — wagered $3,000
Kyle "What is the Salvation Army?" — wagered $3,301
Leslie "What is the Salvation Army?" — wagered $7,201

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