Show #1707 1992-01-21 (taped 1991-11-06) Regular

Contestants

Rhea Levine — an anatomy professor from Haddonfield, New Jersey

Joseph D'Hippolito — a freelance writer from Fullerton, California

Walter Mayes — a publisher sales representative from San Francisco, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $56,003)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Walter $700 $1,900 $700 $0
3rd place: Daniel Mink Bolero collection watch + Jeopardy! home game
$700
7 R, 3 W
Joseph $1,700 $3,800 $20,000 $15,000
New champion: $15,000
$11,700
32 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W
Rhea $400 $1,700 $2,700 $2,700
2nd place: Lane video cabinet & Sanyo 20" color TV + Jeopardy! home game
$2,700
13 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC SITES ODD JOBS SPORTS THE SEAS INTERNATIONAL CUISINE STARTS WITH "K"
$100 [7]
This territory was formally transferred to the U.S. at Castle Hill in Sitka
Alaska
Joseph
$100 [26]
The person in charge of the performances at a circus
ringmaster
Joseph
$100 [2]
In 1989 Paul Tagliabue was elected to succeed Pete Rozelle as this pro sport's commissioner
football
Walter Joseph
$100 [14]
Their complex behavior is caused by the gravitational forces of the sun & the moon on the earth
tides
Rhea
$100 [1]
To make the Irish dish colcannon, mash these & add cooked onions & cabbage
potatoes
Joseph
$100 [18]
Here's a "purl" of wisdom: socks, scarves & sweaters can all be made by this method
knitting
Joseph
$200 [8]
The Israeli army uses this ancient fortress on the west shore of the Dead Sea for ceremonial purposes
Masada
Joseph
$200 [27]
Term for the person who yells out the figures in square dancing
caller
Joseph
$200 [3]
Already a world champion bicycle sprinter, in 1976 Sheila Young won a gold in this fast winter sport
speed skating
Joseph
$200 [15]
Like green plants, some tiny organisms called flagellates contain this food-producing substance
chlorophyll
Joseph
$200 [10]
Panocha is a Mexican-Spanish word for a raw or brown type of this & for a fudgelike candy made with it
sugar
Walter Joseph
$200 [22]
A county in eastern Ireland, or a TV & movie doctor
Kildaire
Walter
$300 [9]
This fortress-city overlooking the Urubamba River may have been the last Inca stronghold
Machu Picchu
Walter Rhea
$300 [28]
A fuller is someone who treats or shrinks this
fabric
Rhea
$300 [4]
In 1965 this 75-year-old manager of the New York Mets retired & was succeeded by Wes Westrum
Casey Stengel
Walter
$300 [19]
Cyclones over the North Atlantic are called hurricanes, those over the China Sea are called these
typhoons
Joseph
$300 [11]
This grain is one of the main ingredients in kedgeree, an Anglo-Indian dish
rice
Rhea
$300 [23]
This organization is known as the K. of C. for short
Knights of Columbus
Joseph
$400 [16]
The first oil well in the United States was at Titusville in this state
Pennsylvania
Joseph
$400 [29]
The soldier who carries the flag or colors of a military unit
color bearer (standard bearer)
Rhea
$400 [5]
Other than the U.S., 1 of 2 countries to win Olympic gold medals in men's basketball
(1 of) Soviet Union (or Yugoslavia)
Joseph
$400 [20]
The first attempt to map this was made in 1850 by the U.S. Navy officer Matthew Fontaine Maury
the bottom of the sea
Joseph
$400 [12]
Chines markets sell "hundred-year-old" ones of these that have been preserved with lime & ashes
eggs
Rhea
$400 [24]
This adjective often describes a rousing speech that's the highlight of a political convention
keynote address
Joseph
$500 [17]
For the first time in history 5 U.S. presidents met for the opening of this in November 1991
Ronald Reagan Library
Walter
$500 [30]
A costermonger, now any street peddler, came from costard, a type of this fruit
apple
Rhea
DD $800 [6]
This sport combines cross-country skiing with rifle-shooting skills
biathlon
Joseph
$500 [21]
Electrical resistance is used to measure this in sea water
salinity
Joseph
$500 [13]
A dish made or garnished with this green vegetable or its puree is described as "St. Germain"
(green) peas
Rhea
$500 [25]
Moscow-born abstract artist who wrote "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" in 1912
Kandinsky
Walter Rhea

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES WORLD GEOGRAPHY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES CHEMISTRY THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
$200 [22]
Former U.N. Secretary-Genaral Kurt Waldheim has been pres. of this country since 1986
Austria
Walter
$200 [2]
The African kingdom of Buganda was located in what's now this country
Uganda
Joseph
$200 [19]
At the end of Edmond Rostand's play, Roxane professes her love for this hero
Cyrano de Bergerac
Joseph
$200 [8]
The Illini go to Illinois & the Elis to this school
Yale
Joseph
$200 [1]
About 1869 Julius Lothar Meyer & Dmitry Mendeleyev came up with this chart separately
periodic table
Joseph
$200 [16]
The Committee of Public Safety held power by using this, which gave their reign its name
terror
Joseph
$400 [24]
Brig. General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. led the 4th Division ashore at Utah Beach in this invasion
D-Day
Joseph
$400 [3]
A separate Turkish state was proclaimed on this Mediterranean island in 1975
Cyprus
Rhea
$400 [23]
Scarlett O'Hara married Charles Hamilton after losing this man to Melanie
Ashley Wilkes
Joseph
$400 [10]
He entered Princeton at age 13, graduated at 16 & went on to be Jefferson's vice president
Aaron Burr
Walter Joseph
$400 [4]
Putting a little sodium into a Bunsen burner flame will turn the flame this color
yellow
Rhea
$400 [17]
The mob that stormed the Bastille was looking for these
weapons
Joseph
$600 [25]
He participated in the 1st mechanized trip to the South Pole as well as the 1st expedition to climb Everest
(Sir Edmund) Hillary
Rhea
$600 [9]
The largest island surrounded by fresh water is Ilha de Marajo in this South American river
Amazon
Rhea
$600 [26]
25 years after "The Hustler", this Walter Tevis character was revived for "The Color of Money"
"Fast Eddie" Felson
$600 [13]
This future president of El Salvador was a member of Notre Dame's class of 1948
Napoleón Duarte
Joseph
$600 [5]
In the atmosphere, this common gas exists mainly as a molecule of 2 atoms
oxygen
Joseph Rhea
$600 [18]
This king decided to join the emigres, nobles who fled the country, but was arrested at Varennes
Louis XVI
Rhea
$800 [27]
Ho Chi Minh's nickname was Bac Ho, bac meaning this relative in Vietnamese
uncle
Joseph
$800 [11]
A statue of Roger Williams stands in a park overlooking this city Williams founded in 1636
Providence
Joseph
$800 [14]
This Midwest University is home to the Kinsey Institute
Indiana
Rhea
$800 [6]
It's created when the molecules on the top of a liquid are attracted to each other
surface film (surface tension)
Rhea
$800 [20]
This leader was arrested , tried & guillotined within 48 hours at the end of July 1794
Robespierre
Joseph
DD $8,000 [28]
Familial relationship of Madame Sun Yat-sen to Madame Chiang Kai-shek
sisters
Joseph
DD $2,000 [12]
Gatun Lake & Miraflores Lake are part of this waterway
Panama Canal
Joseph
$1,000 [15]
West Point's colors are black, grey & gold, the colors of the ingredients in this
gunpowder
Joseph
$1,000 [7]
1 amu, or atomic mass unit is 1/12 of the mass of an atom of this element
carbon
Rhea
$1,000 [21]
The 1791 constitution divided France into these, which still exist today
departments
Walter Joseph

Final Jeopardy!

U.S.A.

This community outside Washington, D.C. is named after a Presbyterian church built there in 1820

Bethesda, Maryland

Walter "What the heck is Fairfax?" — wagered $700
Rhea "What is Arlington VA?" — wagered $0
Joseph "What is Chevy Chase?" — wagered $5,000

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