Show #1635 1991-10-11 (taped 1991-08-20) Regular

Leszek Pawlowicz game 2.

Contestants

Vincent Soatikee — a musician and actor from Los Angeles, California

Nick Pyle — an architect from Los Angeles, California

Leszek Pawlowicz — a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Leszek $3,200 $7,300 $12,700 $8,000
2-day champion: $23,401
$16,100
40 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Nick $900 $1,400 $400 $1
3rd place: Hotpoint extra-large washer & dryer + the Nintendo Entertainment System
$5,400
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Vince $-300 $-300 $1,700 $700
2nd place: a trip to Cancun aboard AeroCancun with accomodations at the Hotel Oasis Cancun
$1,700
5 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY COMPLETES THE FILM TITLE FOOD LOUISIANA TEXTILES GO TO "H"
$100 [6]
Great Danes were developed to hunt these fierce, powerful hogs
boars
Leszek
$100 [1]
"The Greatest Story..."
Ever Told
Leszek
$100 [19]
This Japanese dish can be many ingredients, not just raw fish, wrapped around vinegared rice
sushi
Leszek
$100 [26]
During the Civil War, the state capital was moved to Opelousas; it returned to this city in 1882
Baton Rouge
Leszek
$100 [11]
In 1958 this photography company introduced Kodel, a type of polyester
Kodak
Leszek
$100 [13]
It's the medical term for bad breath
halitosis
Leszek
$200 [7]
The Grevy's species of this striped animal is found in Kenya, Ethiopia & Somalia
zebra
Nick
$200 [2]
"Ferris Bueller's..."
Day Off
Leszek
$200 [20]
Coarse hominy is called samp & ground hominy, this
grits
Leszek
$200 [27]
New Orleans first held this festival in 1699
Mardi Gras
Leszek
$200 [12]
Short, loose fibers that form the fuzz found in a dryer's trap
lint
Leszek
$200 [14]
Established in 1519, this capital is the largest city in the West Indies
Havana (Cuba)
Nick Vince
$300 [8]
This massively built ox is sometimes found 20,000 feet above sea level
a yak
Leszek
$300 [3]
"Desperately Seeking..."
Susan
Leszek
$300 [21]
The cheese steak sandwich is thought to have originated in this city in the 1930s
Philadelphia
Leszek
$300 [28]
This country got Louisiana from France in 1762 & kept it for 38 years before ceding it back to France
Spain
Leszek
$300 [18]
For textiles, the best type of this fiber comes from the Bactrian variety
camelhair
Leszek
$300 [15]
This small nocturnal mammal covered with spines rolls into a ball when threatened
a hedgehog
Leszek
$500 [10]
The pocket gopher was named for the fur-lined pockets on this part of its body
cheeks
Nick Vince
$400 [4]
"Fast Times..."
at Ridgemont High
Nick
$400 [22]
In Europe, some cook & eat the shoots of this beer-flavoring vine
hops
Leszek
$400 [29]
The state seal features this bird feeding 3 of its young
the pelican
Leszek
$400 [24]
Derived from the stems of plants, bast fibers include jute, ramie & this linen producer
flax
Leszek
$400 [16]
This royal family ruled Great Britain from 1714 to 1901
Hanover
Leszek
DD $1,000 [9]
The golden marmoset, whose hair looks like a lion's mane, is one of the smallest of these anlmals
monkeys
Leszek
$500 [5]
"Mr. Blandings Builds..."
His Dream House
Leszek
$500 [23]
The famous French tarte tatin contains this fruit
apples
Nick
$500 [30]
The state's first railroad was begun in 1831 by a company named for this large lake
Lake Pontchartrain
$500 [25]
The larva of the Bombyx mori moth produces this fiber
silk
Leszek
$500 [17]
He wrote the oldest extant major Greek prose work & the 1st history in Western civilization
Herodotus
Leszek

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARCHAEOLOGY MONTHS 19th C. AMERICANS SCIENCE FRENCH LITERATURE OLD TESTAMENT
$200 [5]
Fragments of poems about Baal were descovered in the early 1930s on tablets made of this
clay
Leszek
$200 [11]
Armed Forces Day & Memorial Day are both observed during this month
May
Leszek
$200 [16]
This Grand Detour, Illinois blacksmith invented the steel plow around 1838
John Deere
Leszek
$200 [2]
These identifying features are categorized on the basis of arches, loops & whorls
fingerprints
Leszek
$200 [21]
Of Delmonico, Filet Mignon or Chateaubriand, the one who was a French novelist
Chateaubriand
Vince
$200 [26]
His friends were cast into the fiery furnace & he was cast into the lion's den
Daniel
Nick
$400 [6]
The tall, large-headed statues on this Pacific island were carved from tuff, a volcanic rock
Easter Island
Nick
$400 [12]
This summer month's birthstone is the ruby & its special flower, the water lily
July
Vince
$400 [17]
She was called "The Angel of the Battlefield" for her efforts in caring for Civil War wounded
Clara Barton
Leszek
$400 [3]
Blood cells are suspended in this liquid that's 95% water
plasma
Leszek
$400 [22]
In a Voltaire novel, this title character arrives in Lisbon just in time for the 1755 earthquake
Candide
Nick
$400 [27]
Lot chose to reside in this one of the five cities of the plain
Sodom
Vince
$600 [1]
The House of the Deer is an unusual villa preserved in this once-buried city near Pompeii
Herculaneum
Leszek
$600 [13]
The U.S. entered the Revolutlonary War, the Civil War & WWI during this month
April
Leszek
$600 [18]
In 1856 this abolitionist & his men killed 5 in a guerrilla raid in Pottawatomie, Kansas
John Brown
Leszek
$600 [4]
A fuel cell converts chemical energy directly to this kind of energy
electrical energy
Nick
$600 [23]
In an 1831 novel, Esmeralda hides from a mob in the belfry of this building
Notre Dame Cathedral
Leszek
$600 [28]
This king of Israel's famous harp was actually a type of lyre called a kinnor
David
Nick
$800 [7]
Ruins of Mayan temples & palaces have been found at Tikal in this country that borders Belize
Guatemala
Leszek
$1,000 [15]
James Whitcomb Riley said it's about "knee-deep in" this month that "strawberries melts on the vine"
June
Vince
$800 [19]
After Jim Bowie fell ill at the Alamo, Texans fought under the sole command of this lieutenant colonel
William B. Travis
$800 [8]
A representation of an object formed by an optical instrument, it can be "virtual" or "real"
an image
Leszek
$800 [24]
"The Paths of Freedom" was a 4-volume series of novels that this existentialist never completed
Sartre
Leszek
$800 [29]
The Babylonian form of his name was Nabu-Kudurri-Usur
Nebuchadnezzar
Nick
$1,000 [10]
The ancient Clovis culture was named for a site in this SW state where its artifacts were discovered
New Mexico
Leszek
DD $4,000 [14]
On the original 12-month Roman calendar, it was the twelfth month
February
Leszek
$1,000 [20]
This noted lexicographer helped found Amherst College in 1821
Noah Webster
Leszek
$1,000 [9]
The islets of Langerhans in this organ also produce glucagon
the pancreas
Leszek
$1,000 [25]
Most of book V of his novel "Gargantua and Pantagruel" was probably written by an impostor
(François) Rabelais
Nick
DD $5,000 [30]
Although he's often called Adam's third son, Genesis 5:3 implies he was first
Seth
Nick

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CITIES

The paper making Winston Churchill an honorary U.S. citizen is in this city named for an inventor

Fulton, Missouri

Nick "What is Edison Park N.J." — wagered $399
Vince "What is Whit" — wagered $1,000
Leszek "What is Edison" — wagered $4,700

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