Show #1667 1991-11-26 (taped 1991-09-12) Regular

Kirk Ditzler game 2.

Contestants

Steve Greenfogel — an attorney from Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Kerry Turk — a defense analyst from San Antonio, Texas

Kirk Ditzler — a teacher from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Kirk	$1,700	$4,600	$11,800	$11,600 2-day champion: $18,200	$11,900 31 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Kerry	$1,000	$1,700	$1,400	$1 3rd place: Yorx CD stereo system + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger	$2,900 10 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Steve	$800	$1,400	$2,800	$2,800 2nd place: Samsung VHS camcorder & tour of Southern California on the Goodyear Blimp + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger	$2,800 11 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE HUMAN BODY	IOWA	BIRDS	FOREIGN CURRENCY	MIDDLE NAMES	"HOUSE"s
$100 [15] The body makes you yawn when it needs more of this gas oxygen Steve	$100 [3] This state capital has a doll collection of First Ladies wearing their individual gowns Des Moines Steve	$100 [26] In Florida these birds were killed off in the wild for their beautiful pink feathers flamingos Kirk	$100 [9] On this country's standard coin you'll find the motto, "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" France Kirk	$100 [12] If you know "The Rest of the Story", tell us this middle name of radio commentator Paul Aurandt Harvey Kirk	$100 [1] It's the elective, lower house of the British parliament House of Commons Kirk
$200 [22] Gene splicing has produced humulin, a man-made version of this hormone insulin Kirk Kerry	$200 [4] Mrs. Olsen of Folger's coffee fame grew up in Stanton, where the world's largest one of these stands coffee pot Steve	$200 [27] Though this southwestern bird can fly, it prefers to sprint at speeds up to 15 mph roadrunner Kirk	$200 [17] This country's peseta features an engraving of Juan Carlos I Spain Steve	$200 [13] Ronald Reagan's middle name, or the last name of our 28th President Wilson Steve	$200 [2] Abbreviated HUAC, it investigated communist influence inside & outside the U.S. government House Un-American Activities Commission Kerry
$300 [23] Even on a thick-skinned individual, the thinnest skin covers these eyes Kirk	$300 [5] Pufferbilly Days, held each September in Boone, celebrates this means of transport rail Steve	$300 [28] Some of these nocturnal birds have tufts of feathers on their heads called "ears" or "horns" owls Kirk	$300 [18] It's the monetary unit of New Zealand & Australia dollar Kirk	$300 [14] Former Pinkerton detective Samuel Hammett wrote under this middle name Dashiell Kerry	$300 [8] The Animals made this traditional New Orleans folk song a No. 1 hit "The House of the Rising Sun" Kerry Steve
DD $500 [24] From Latin for "basin", 3 parts of this basin-shaped structure are the ilium, sacrum & coccyx pelvis Kirk	$400 [6] A 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein film was set at this annual event in Iowa state fair Kerry	$400 [30] These purplish-black Asian birds, that can imitate human speech, are types of starlings mynah birds Kerry	$400 [19] Until the decimal system was approved in 1971, the British pound consisted of 240 of these pence Steve	$400 [16] Middle name of AFL-CIO president Joseph Kirkland Lane Kerry	$400 [10] A vengeful Vincent Price displayed dead bodies in this 1953 3-D thriller House of Wax Kirk
$500 [25] A mole is a group of cells containing an unusually high concentration of this pigment melanin Kirk	$500 [7] Iowa's official rock, it may look plain on the outside, but inside there are crystals geode Kirk	$500 [29] The "Arctic" variety of this sea bird migrates farthest—about 22,000 miles back & forth in a year tern Kirk	$500 [20] Originally, it was a Hebrew unit of weight equal to about 1/2 ounce Shekel	$500 [21] Harmenszoon was the middle name of this painter Rembrandt Kerry	$500 [11] Thomas Jefferson served in this Virginia assembly from 1769 to 1774 House of Burgesses Kirk

Double Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS	U.S. HISTORY	AFRICA	THEATRE	PHYSICAL SCIENCE	MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES
$200 [3] Etiquette expert who wrote in 1928 "How to Behave Though a Debutante" Emily Post Steve	$200 [1] A U.S. team that played this sport met with Chinese premier Chou-En-lai in 1971 ping-pong Kerry	$200 [19] This ocean separates East Africa from Australia Indian Kirk	$200 [9] A musical set during his final days was titled "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" "the King", Elvis Kirk	$200 [26] While it makes up more of the earth's crust than iron, its ore, bauxite, is rarer than iron ore aluminum Kirk	$200 [16] "To cut" this "knot" means to solve a difficult problem in an easy, decisive way Gordian Knot Kirk
$400 [5] Tolstoy lived by his own commandments & was eventually excommunicated by this church (Russian) Orthodox Kirk	$400 [2] When this Vice President was Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade in 1959, the theme was "Tall Tales and True" Nixon Kirk	$400 [22] This lake in East Central Africa is the largest source of the Nile River Lake Victoria Kirk Steve	$400 [10] In 1598 this playwright acted in Ben Jonson's 1st important play, "Every Man in His Humour" Shakespeare Steve	$400 [27] Surgeons now use them to "weld" a detached retina or to remove tattoos lasers Kirk	$400 [17] The expression "hydra-headed" is derived from the many-headed Hydra fought by this hero Hercules Kirk
$600 [6] Varina Davis, daughter of this famous man, wrote the 1895 novel "The Veiled Doctor" Jefferson Davis Kerry	$600 [4] During WWI James Montgomery Flagg produced a series of about 45 posters for this purpose recruiting for the military Kirk Steve	DD $400 [23] Country in which you'd find the Booker T. Washington Institute Liberia Kirk	$600 [12] The leading characters in "the Lisbon Traviata" are obsessed with this Greek-American diva Maria Callas Kirk	$600 [28] Willard Libby won a Nobel Prize for showing you can date fossils by the amount of this isotope in them carbon (carbon 14) Kirk	$600 [18] If you stare at your own reflection constantly, this mythological word fits you perfectly Narcissus Kerry
$1,000 [8] He was only 5 when the plague ravaged London; he wrote his "Journal of the Plague Year" 57 years later Daniel Defoe Kirk	$800 [11] It's estimated on May 11, 1934 the Great Plains lost 300 million tons of this topsoil Kirk	$800 [24] Shaaban Robert of Tanzania was one of the best-known authors to write in this Bantu language Swahili Kirk	$800 [13] Jason Robards starred in the original 1960 production of her play "Toys in the Attic" Lillian Hellman Steve	$800 [29] The sun produces its energy through nuclear-fusion, changing hydrogen to this gas helium	$800 [20] The name of this banquet hall has come to describe a final resting place for great men Valhalla Kerry
DD $1,500 [7] This Elizabethan courtier wrote the sonnet that's the preface to Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" Sir Walter Raleigh Kerry	$1,000 [14] Name given to the FDR administration's efforts to improve U.S.-Latin American relations Good Neighbor Policy Kirk	$1,000 [25] Portuguese explorers who found gold in what's now this country dubbed it the Gold Coast Ghana Kerry Steve	$1,000 [15] The 2 characters in this Englishman's 1957 play "The Dumb Waiter" are hired killers Harold Pinter	$1,000 [30] Alberto Santos-Dumont in 1906 was the 1st to do this in Europe, 3 years after it was done in the U.S. undergo powered flight Kirk	$1,000 [21] The name of this rock on which a siren sat is now synonymous with "siren" Lorelai

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

In the late 1880s this engineer earned the nickname "Magician of Iron"

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel

Kerry "Who was Fulton?" — wagered $1,399

Steve "Who was Roebling" — wagered $0

Kirk "Who Casey Jones?" — wagered $200

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