Show #2157 1994-01-11 (taped 1993-09-27) Regular

Contestants

Steve Ashworth — a financial consultant from Mount Kisco, New York

Jon Olson — a contract manager from Chatham, New Jersey

Graydon Hazenberg — a graduate student originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Graydon $2,100 $3,600 $10,500 $8,801
2nd place: a trip for two to the Grove Park Inn Resort in Ashville, North Carolina + the Jeopardy! home game
$8,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jon $1,000 $1,200 $4,400 $7,399
3rd place: a crystal castle from Iris Arc Crystal + the Jeopardy! home game
$4,400
16 R, 2 W
Steve $1,000 $3,600 $11,200 $21,200
New champion: $21,200
$9,700
21 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

INSECTS SILLY SONGS THE SMITHSONIAN QUOTES COLORS PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS
$100 [4]
Insects of the order embioptera aren't spiders, but they still spin these
webs
Graydon
$100 [22]
"Weird Al" Yankovic parodied this Michael Jackson hit with a song called "Eat It"
Beat It
Steve
$100 [17]
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is in the Canal Zone in this country
Panama
Graydon
$100 [1]
Robert Lowell wrote, "If we see a light" here, "it's the light of an oncoming train"
at the end of the tunnel
Steve
$100 [13]
Shades of this include steel, field & smoke
grey
Jon
$100 [5]
Whittier College
Richard Nixon
Jon
$200 [9]
The wooly-bear caterpillar grows up to be one of these
a moth
Graydon
$200 [23]
This rodent group gave us "The Alvin Twist:" in 1962
the Chipmunks
Steve
$200 [27]
James Renwick, who designed the Smithsonian "Castle", also designed this city's St. Patrick's Cathedral
New York City
Steve
$200 [2]
On arriving in this city, Robert Benchley telegramed, "Streets full of water. Please advise"
Venice
Steve
$200 [16]
Color of the guards in a 1960s Maoist movement
red
Jon
$200 [6]
Eureka College
Ronald Reagan
Graydon
$300 [10]
Worker bees have "baskets" on their hind legs to carry this; cuckoo bees don't
pollen
Graydon
$300 [24]
Tiny Tim also recorded "Animal Crackers in My Soup", but this little girl sang it first in "Curly Top"
Shirley Temple
Graydon
$300 [28]
The Nat'l Museum of Natural history contains the Warner crystal ball & this 45.5-carat blue diamond
the Hope Diamond
Graydon
$300 [3]
W.C. Fields said, "It's a funny old world--a man's lucky if he gets out of it" this way
alive
Graydon
$300 [18]
A shade of pink is named for this pink-fleshed fish
salmon
Graydon
$300 [12]
Georgetown University
Clinton
Steve
$400 [11]
The bald-faced type of this stinging insect builds oval paper nests
wasps
Jon
$400 [25]
This singer ordered a "Cheeseburger in Paradise" in 1978, 1 year after "Margaritaville"
Jimmy Buffett
Steve
$400 [29]
The flag that inspired him to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" is in the National Museum of American History
(Francis Scott) Key
Steve
$400 [7]
Arthur Miller work that includes the line "He's liked, but he's not--well liked
Death of a Salesman
Steve
$400 [19]
A name for an ancient black cosmetic is pronounced like "coal" but spelled this way
kohl
$400 [14]
The University of Michigan
Gerald Ford
Jon
$500 [21]
It's the larva of a beetle, or a synonym for chow
grub
Steve
DD $800 [26]
This entertainer introduced the followingsilly songin the 1941 movie musical "That Night in Rio""I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, I like you very muchI, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, I think you're grand Why, why, why is it..."
Carmen Miranda
Steve
$500 [30]
In his capacity as this, William Rehnquist is a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents
Chief Justice of the United States (C.J. of Supreme Court accepted)
Graydon
$500 [8]
He said of the Gunpowder Plot, "A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy
Guy Fawkes
Graydon
$500 [20]
Something xanthic is a shade of this
yellow
$500 [15]
Southwest Texas state
Lyndon Johnson
Graydon

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 16th CENTURY STATE CAPITALS SWEETENERS 9-LETTER WORDS BLACK AMERICA HODGEPODGE
$200 [1]
In 1501 this explorer for whom America is named made his second voyage to the new world
(Amerigo) Vespucci
Jon
$200 [6]
The Blue Diamond growers will let you taste some nuts when you tour their plant in this California city
Sacramento
Jon
$200 [21]
It's estimated bees must visit over 2 million flowers to produce a pound of this
honey
Jon
$200 [11]
Medically speaking, the flu is short for this
influenza
Jon
$200 [26]
Josiah Henson, an escaped slave & minister, inspired this Harriet Beecher Stowe character
Uncle Tom
Jon
$200 [12]
This flavoring comes from a combination of coffee & chocolate
mocha
Steve
$400 [2]
In 1582 Pope Gregory instituted the Gregorian calendar to replace this older one
the Julian calendar
Steve
$400 [7]
The CNN studio tour is a highlight of this capital city
Atlanta
Graydon
$400 [22]
The blackstrap type of this is an important component of animal feeds
molasses
Jon
$400 [13]
It's a public declaration of one's views & motives; Marx & Engels wrote a "communist" one
a manifesto
Graydon
$400 [27]
In June 1990 he announced he would not seek a fourth term as mayor of Washington, D.C.
Marion Barry
Jon
$400 [17]
Some believe when this Biblical city's walls came tumbling down, it was already 6,700 years old
Jericho
Jon
$600 [3]
His dreams of a Utopian society ended on the scaffold in 1535
(Thomas) More
Graydon
$600 [8]
You'll find the World Center for Birds of Prey on West Flying Hawk Lane near this capital of Idaho
Boise
Steve
$600 [23]
Found in Sweet 'N Low, this substance is several hundred times as sweet as sugar
saccharin
Graydon Jon Steve
$600 [14]
It describes a person who is able to speak 2 languages fluently
bilingual
Steve
$600 [28]
In 1988 this founder of Motown was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Steve
$600 [18]
This author's first book of tales in 1835 included "The Tinderbox" & "The Princess & the Pea"
Hans Christian Andersen
Graydon
$1,000 [5]
The 1553 execution of this emperor by Pizarro's men marked the end of the Inca civilization
Atahualpa
Graydon
$800 [9]
Charles Marion Russell's largest painting hangs in the state capitol in this Montana city
Helena
Jon
$1,000 [25]
This chemical marketed as NutraSweet was once studied as a possible ulcer treatment
aspartame
Steve
$800 [15]
A malestrom, or a line of appliances
a whirlpool
Jon
$800 [29]
In 1978 he followed up his decade-old book "Soul on Ice" with another called "Soul on Fire"
Eldridge Cleaver
Steve
$800 [19]
One of the sports enjoyed by Scots at the Highland games is tossing the caber, which is one of these
a pole
Steve
DD $2,500 [4]
In 1530 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V granted this island to the Knights Hospitallers
Malta
Graydon
$1,000 [10]
The Lightning Route was an electric streetcar system that served this Alabama city for decades
Montgomery
Graydon
DD $2,000 [24]
Andreas Marggraf discovered that the sucrose in this plant was the same as that in sugarcane
beet root
Steve
$1,000 [16]
It can be a briefcase for manuscripts or an investor's holdings
a portfolio
Jon
$1,000 [30]
In 1985 she retired from opera singing after a farewell performance as "Aida"
Leontyne Price
Jon
$1,000 [20]
In the 1950s the U.S. & Canada built this series of radar posts in the arctic
the DEW Line
Graydon

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS WOMEN

In an 1875 book she wrote, "Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind"

Mary Baker Eddy

Jon "Who is Mary Baker Eddy" — wagered $2,999
Graydon "Who Anna Freud" — wagered $1,699
Steve "Who was Mary Baker Eddy" — wagered $10,000

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