Show #2086 1993-10-04 (taped 1993-08-02) Regular

Contestants

Laura Jacobsson — a waitress from Chicago, Illinois

Matthew Seelinger — a legislative assistant originally from Falls Church, Virginia

Barry Kerman — an ophthalmologist from Woodland Hills, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Barry $900 $1,500 $2,000 $1
3rd place: Bausch & Lomb binoculars + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for SNES & Sega Genesis
$3,500
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Matthew $1,700 $4,400 $4,700 $5,201
New champion: $5,201
$6,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Laura $800 $1,800 $2,600 $1
2nd place: General Instrument satellite TV system & Samsung 27" color TV
$2,600
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL PARKS THE MOVIES GEMS PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES ALICE IN WONDERLAND POTPOURRI
$100 [22]
Glacier National Park is in Montana & Glacier Bay National Park is in this state
Alaska
Laura
$100 [10]
Film in which Humphrey Bogart said, "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray. You wore blue."
Casablanca
Matthew
$100 [13]
Uralian emerald is a type of garnet that's this color, not red
green
Matthew
$100 [6]
He wrote to his wife Abigail, "I must not write a word to you about politics"
John Adams
Matthew
$100 [19]
The Duchess says all of these can grin, not just the Cheshire ones, "and most of 'em do"
cats
Laura
$100 [1]
The John Conti Co.'s museum in Louisville should wake you up—it's devoted to this breakfast brew
coffee
Laura
$200 [23]
Big Bend National Park in Texas is located on a bend of this river
Rio Grande
Barry
$200 [11]
This movie monster was also known as the Gill Man
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Matthew
$200 [14]
Many samples of this fossilized resin come from sands that are 40 to 60 million years old
amber
Matthew
$200 [7]
Of this future president, Lincoln said, "I can't spare this man; he fights"
Ulysses S. Grant
Laura
$200 [20]
When Alice first meets the Caterpillar, he's sitting atop one of these
mushroom
$200 [2]
In "I Left My Heart in San Francisco", these vehicles "climb halfway to the stars!"
little cable cars
Barry Laura
$300 [26]
In 1872 it became the world's first area designated as a national park
Yellowstone
Matthew
$300 [16]
In 1956 this singer took the title song from "The Tender Trap" to No. 7 on the pop charts
Frank Sinatra
Laura
$300 [15]
If you were born in this late summer month, peridot is your birthstone
August
Matthew Laura
$300 [8]
This man, McKinley's VP, said Mc Ki Mc Ki Mc Ki Mc Ki Mc Ki Mc Ki Mc KiMcKinleysmorekbonenhocolateair
Teddy Roosevelt
Matthew
$300 [21]
The Mad Hatter's has butter in it, is 2 days slow & the March Hare dips it in his tea
watch
$300 [3]
The Triton was the first of these to travel around the world underwater
nuclear-powered submarine
Barry
$500 [28]
This U.S. South Pacific territory has a national park featuring a tropical rain forest
American Samoa
Matthew
$400 [17]
The 1937 movie "A Family Affair", starring Lionel Barrymore & Mickey Rooney, was the 1st in this series
Andy Hardy
$400 [24]
The name of this gem comes from the Greek word adamas, which means "unconquerable"
diamond
Matthew
$400 [9]
Speaking of this opponent, LBJ said, "He wants to repeal the present and veto the future"
Barry Goldwater
Barry
$400 [29]
The soldiers who double over to make the croquet arches are live ones of these
playing cards
Barry
$400 [4]
Of all the colors we know, this one has the most "skeletal" name
bone
Laura
DD $1,500 [27]
This park encompasses the southernmost land on the U.S. mainland
Everglades
Matthew
$500 [18]
Grace Kelly's last film as an actress, it was a remake of "The Philadelphia Story"
High Society
$500 [25]
A 243-pound crystal of this "sea-colored" gem was discovered in Brazil in 1910
aquamarine
Laura
$500 [12]
c. 1918 FDR said of this man, "I wish we could make him president"; in 1932 FDR defeated him for the office
Herbert Hoover
Matthew
$500 [30]
Classes at this character's school included music, washing, reeling, writhing & seaography
Mock Turtle
$500 [5]
This handsome Latvian-born dancer won the Nijinsky Prize in 1968 & defected 6 years later
Baryshnikov
Matthew

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY ART BLACK AMERICA THE CONSTITUTION LANGUAGES PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS
$200 [1]
An earthquake in 224 B.C. caused this monument of Rhodes to break at the knees & fall
Colossus of Rhodes
Barry
$200 [6]
Self-taught sculptor Simon Rodia spent 3 decades on this city's Watt Towers
Los Angeles
Barry
$200 [14]
In 1989 this singer toured for the first time in her career without the Pips
Gladys Knight
Barry
$200 [10]
Article III, Section 3 partially defines this as giving "aid and comfort" to enemies of the U.S.
treason
Barry
$200 [15]
This language's equivalent of "Go fly a kite" is "Vete a freir esparragos", which means "Go fry asparagus"
Spanish
$200 [21]
Lee J. Cobb was just 37 when he played 60-something Willy Loman in this 1949 Prize winner
Death of a Salesman
Barry
$400 [2]
After conquering Tyre in 332 B.C., he went to Egypt & was crowned pharaoh
Alexander the Great
Barry
$400 [7]
David Siqueiros was a leader of this country's mural renaissance with Rivera & Orozco
Mexico
Barry
$400 [19]
Joe Black, the first black pitcher to win a World Series game, later became a VP of this bus co.
Greyhound
Matthew
$400 [11]
This Virginian was president of the Constitutional Convention
George Washington
Barry
$400 [16]
It's the language you're most likely to hear in the country of San Marino
Italian
Matthew
$400 [22]
In 1992 "The Kentucky Cycle" became the first play to win without being produced in this city
New York
Laura
$600 [3]
At its completion in 128, this Roman fortification in Britain extended nearly 75 miles
Hadrian's Wall
Matthew
$600 [8]
This armless Hellenistic statue of Nike was supposedly made by Pythokritos of Rhodes
Winged Victory
Barry
$600 [20]
In 1935 chemist Percy Julian synthesized physostigmine, a drug used in treating this eye condition
glaucoma
Laura
$600 [12]
Amendments become part of the Constitution when ratified by this fraction of the states
3/4s
Matthew
$600 [25]
Change 1 letter in Filipino to get this name of a Filipino language
Pilipino
$600 [23]
He directed his wife Vivien Leigh in the 1945 London production of "The Skin of Our Teeth"
Laurence Olivier
Laura
$800 [4]
After a defeat at Leuctra, Spartan power declined & this military league ceased to exist
Peloponnesian League
Matthew
$1,000 [13]
This Swedish-born American artist is known for his soft sculptures
Claes Oldenburg
$800 [26]
Oscar De Priest, the 1st 20th c. black elected to Congress, represented this "Prairie State" 1929-1935
Illinois
Matthew Laura
$1,000 [18]
Article IV, Section 4 guarantees every state this form of government
republican
Laura
$800 [24]
Jessica Lange played Blanche DuBois in this play 45 years after Jessica Tandy created the role
A Streetcar Named Desire
Matthew
$1,000 [5]
In the 2nd century B.C., the Helvetii migrated from Germany into what is now this country
Switzerland
DD $1,500 [9]
His most famous work, "The Scream", is in The National Gallery in Oslo
Edvard Munch
Barry
$1,000 [27]
One of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" in 1970, this female activist was acquitted of all charges in 1972
Angela Davis
Laura
DD $2,500 [17]
This word may be substituted for "swear" in the presidential oath of office
affirm
Matthew

Final Jeopardy!

EXPLORERS

This famous explorer was born in Larvik, Norway October 6, 1914

(Thor) Heyerdahl

Barry "Who was Amundsen?" — wagered $1,999
Laura "Who is?" — wagered $2,599
Matthew "Who isAmundsenHayordahl" — wagered $501

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