Show #1963 1993-03-03 (taped 1992-11-10) Regular

Contestants

Dave Gordon — an attorney originally from Santa Ana, California

Laura Crain — a student and housewife from New Orleans, Louisiana

Donna Radu — a music administrator from Radnor, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Donna $1,500 $4,000 $9,500 $5,199
2nd place: Singer bedroom set & Dorothy's bedroom ensemble
$9,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Laura $1,400 $2,400 $6,900 $100
3rd place: Cutco Galley knives set
$6,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Dave $500 $2,500 $6,300 $6,300
New champion: $6,300
$6,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BOTANY APPETIZERS THEME PARKS MUSICAL TERMS ATTACKERS KINGLY NICKNAMES
$100 [1]
A large funnel-shaped flower native to Argentina, or Porky Pig's girlfriend
Petunia
Dave
$100 [10]
"Joy of Cooking" suggests deviling these breakfast items with curry, capers or caviar
eggs
Laura
$100 [4]
Walter Knott turned a California fruit ranch into this theme park
Knott's Berry Farm
Dave
$100 [15]
It can be a short choral piece sung during a Protestant service, or a "national" song
hymn (anthem)
Donna
$100 [7]
The animals used in this "national spectacle" of Spain are bred for courage
bull (bullfighting)
Donna
$100 [23]
The "King of the Cowboys"
Roy Rogers
Dave
$200 [2]
The Easter species of this plant has waxy white flowers shaped like a trumpet
lily
Donna
$200 [13]
This main ingredient in guacamole can also be sliced & served with chutney
avocado
Dave
$200 [5]
You can buy the kind of clothes Dolly Parton wears at Dolly's Dressing Room in this theme park
Dollywood
Laura
$200 [16]
Anyone can sing a shanty now, but the first shanties were sung by these people
sailors
Donna
$200 [14]
Though perhaps 60 senators attacked him in 44 B.C., he only identified 1 by name
Julius Caesar
Donna
$200 [24]
The "Kodak King"
(George) Eastman
Laura
$300 [3]
Varieties of this plant include Bracken, Royal & Boston
fern
Laura Dave
$300 [20]
To make Angels on Horseback, start by shucking these shellfish
oysters
Dave
$300 [6]
Perhaps it was tea time when this duchess & her daughter Beatrice rode at the teacups at Disneyland in 1991
Duchess of York (Sarah Ferguson)
Laura
$300 [17]
In a fugue, it follows the first theme; on "Jeopardy!", it precedes the question
answer
Donna
$300 [25]
Dressed as policemen, 5 members of his gang gunned down 7 of Bugs Moran's in 1929
Al Capone
Laura
$300 [28]
"King of the Daredevils"
Evel Knievel
Donna
$400 [8]
The stems of this giant Arizona cactus are used by elf owls & woodpeckers for their nests
Saguaro
Donna
$400 [21]
Rollmops are fillets of this saltwater fish, rolled around pickle or onion & preserved in vinegar
herring
Dave
$400 [11]
There's a 333-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower at Kings Dominion in this "Old Dominion" state
Virginia
Dave
$400 [18]
If you don't want to "mezz" around with the longer term, you can call these singers "mezzos" for short
mezzo-soprano
Donna
$400 [26]
On October 15, 1990 the first of these to migrate naturally to the U.S. was found in Texas
killer bees
Donna
$400 [29]
The "King of Ragtime"
Scott Joplin
Donna
$500 [9]
These legumes are the USA's largest source of vegetable oil
soybeans
Donna
DD $700 [22]
Raw vegetables cut in strips & served with with dip are called these, from the French for "rawness"
crudites
Dave
$500 [12]
Appropriately, there was once a cosmetics boutique named for her at Heritage USA
Tammy Faye Bakker
Laura
$500 [19]
From the old Provencal verb balar, meaning "to dance", it's a narrative poem of folk origin that is sung
ballad
Donna
$500 [27]
The first to move or attack in this sport has the right of way; the opponent who parries can then riposte
fencing
Laura
$500 [30]
The "Standard Oil King"
(John D.) Rockefeller
Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

CANADIAN CAPITALS AUTHORS MATH MUSEUMS HISTORIC QUOTES PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES
$200 [7]
This national capital city was called Bytown until 1855
Ottawa
Donna Laura
$200 [11]
This poet & Lincoln biographer served in the Spanish-American War
Carl Sandburg
Donna
$200 [14]
In a division problem, any number that's "left over" is called this
remainder
Donna
$200 [5]
The Cooper-Hewitt Museum became part of this Washington-based institution in 1968
the Smithsonian
Laura
$200 [17]
At Leyte Island in 1944, he said, "By the grace of almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil"
Douglas MacArthur
Donna
$200 [1]
Between 1913 & 1918 2 of his daughters & 1 niece were wed at the White House
Woodrow Wilson
Donna Laura
$400 [8]
It's the capital of the province of Ontario
Toronto
Donna
$400 [12]
His collection "Dubliners" ends with "The Dead", one of the world's great short stories
James Joyce
Dave
$400 [15]
It's the instrument most often used to measure an angle
protractor
Donna
$400 [24]
This city's Natural History Museum is named for department store owner Marshall Field
Chicago
Laura
$400 [18]
On Aug. 24, 1963 he said, "I once said, 'We will bury you', and I got into trouble with it"
Nikita Khrushchev
Dave
$400 [2]
His oldest daughter, Ruth, was born in 1891, between his 2 presidential terms
Grover Cleveland
Laura
DD $700 [9]
This province and its capital have the same name
Quebec
Donna
$600 [13]
This novelist's father, also named John, served as county treasurer of Monterey, California
Steinbeck
Donna
$600 [16]
In the metric system, this unit is equal to the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water
gram
Donna Laura
$600 [25]
This Malibu, California museum, named for its oil magnate founder, is the world's richest
the Getty Museum
Donna
$600 [19]
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. commented in 1904 that these "are what we pay for civilized society"
taxes
Dave
$600 [3]
His mother, Nancy Hanks, may have been born out of wedlock
Abraham Lincoln
Dave
$800 [10]
Vancouver isn't on Vancouver Island, but this capital, named for a queen, is
Victoria
Laura
$800 [22]
He refused to accept the 1940 Pulitzer Prize awarded for his play "The Time of Your Life"
William Saroyan
$800 [29]
Because their product is 1, 3/4 & 4/3 are said to be this
reciprocals
Laura
$800 [27]
In 1990 art worth some $100 million was stolen from the Gardner Museum on the Fenway in this city
Boston
Dave
$800 [20]
In 1917 this congresswoman said, "I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no"
Jeannette Rankin
$800 [4]
John Parke Custis was the only one of his 4 stepchildren who lived to adulthood; he died at age 27
George Washington
Donna
$1,000 [26]
Whitehorse is the capital of this Canadian territory that borders Alaska
Yukon
Dave
$1,000 [23]
This creator of detective Lord Peter Wimsey was one of the first women to get an Oxford degree
Dorothy Sayers
Donna
$1,000 [30]
Analytic geometry uses a coordinate system named for this French philosopher-mathematician
Descartes
Donna
$1,000 [28]
While the Guggenheim Museum is in NYC, Peggy Guggenheim's collection is in this Italian city
Venice
$1,000 [21]
In 1964 this Republican said, "To insist on strength...is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering"
Barry Goldwater
Laura
DD $1,500 [6]
Ulysses Grant Jr. was nicknamed "Buck" because he was born in this state
Ohio
Laura

Final Jeopardy!

THE NOBEL PRIZE

The category in which the U.S. has won the fewest medals--10

Literature

Dave "What is Literature?" — wagered $0
Laura "What is Peace?" — wagered $6,800
Donna "What is Economics?" — wagered $4,301

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