Show #1892 1992-11-24 (taped 1992-08-24) Regular

Contestants

Jimmy Black — an engineer from West Warwick, Rhode Island

Mark Kristal — a professor originally from Paterson, New Jersey

Susan Hodges — a writer from Palmyra, New Jersey

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Susan $1,200 $2,900 $5,300 $10,301
New champion: $10,301
$5,300
14 R, 0 W
Mark $2,400 $2,100 $7,600 $4,899
3rd place: Flexsteel sofa
$10,100
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Jimmy $500 $1,000 $5,000 $8,500
2nd place: trip for 2 to Panama City, Florida
$5,000
14 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATURE HOBBIES NURSERY RHYMES NOTABLE NAMES ITALIAN MENU FILE UNDER "W"
$100 [2]
More flowers are pollinated by this insect than by any other
a bee
Mark
$100 [21]
If you're taking up this hobby, "How to be a Ham" is recommended reading
shortwave radio operation (ham radio)
Mark
$100 [26]
This "piper's son, stole a pig and away he run"
Tom
Susan
$100 [6]
This piano maker was born in 1797 in what is now Germany; his original last name was Steinweg
Steinway
Jimmy
$100 [11]
Cabbage is cavolo, & this cabbage relative is cavolini di Bruxelles
Brussels sprouts
Mark
$100 [1]
In a woven fabric they're the threads at right angles to the warp threads
the woof
Mark
$200 [3]
This small, New World bat is known to drink about 1 tbs. of blood each day, about half its weight
a vampire
Mark
$200 [22]
Philography is the hobby of collecting these, whether it's Mozart's or President Bush's
autographs
Jimmy
$200 [27]
"When the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie" did this
ran away
Susan
$200 [7]
"Queen of Ice Queen of Shadows" is a biography of this late Olympic athlete & screen star
Sonja Henie
Mark
$200 [16]
If you order ostriche in an Italian restaurant, you won't get an ostrich but these shellfish
oysters
Mark
$200 [10]
The Edict of this place issued May 25, 1521 branded Martin Luther an outlaw
Worms
Susan
$300 [4]
Rather than a nose, a whale breathes through 1 or 2 of these nostrils at the top of its head
a blowhole
Mark
$300 [23]
Presto! Famous practitioners of this include Harry Anderson & Dom De Luise
magic tricks
Jimmy
$300 [28]
2-word phrase that describes Peter, who "had a wife and couldn't keep her"
pumpkin eater
Mark
$300 [9]
She once said, "The best job of my life was as U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Ghana"
Shirley Temple Black
Susan
$300 [18]
If Nero were alive today & wanted his coffee served this way, he'd ask for un caffe nero
black coffee
Mark
$300 [14]
It's the 9-letter term for a person who frets a lot, maybe over handling toads
a worrywart
Susan
$400 [5]
They're the leaves that enclose & protect an ear of corn
the husk
Susan
$400 [24]
Since it was legalized federally in 1978, home brewing of this has attracted about 1.5 mill. Americans
beer
Mark
$400 [29]
Line following "Up and down the city road, In and out the Eagle, That's the way the money goes..."
Pop goes the weasel!
Susan
$400 [12]
This Catholic was the first U.S. first lady to have a private audience with the Pope
Jackie Kennedy
Mark
$400 [19]
Served as an appetizer, salmone affumicato is salmon prepared this way
smoked salmon
Mark
$400 [15]
2-word phrase for someone who reveals wrongdoings from within an organization
a whistle blower
Jimmy
$500 [8]
The giant species of this tree is also known as the Sierra Redwood
the sequoia
Mark
DD $2,000 [25]
Collectors of these restaurant souvenirs are known as phillumenists
matchbooks
Mark
$500 [30]
The old woman who lived in a shoe gave her children "some broth without any" of this
bread
Susan
$500 [13]
The Duchess of Windsor's first name was Bessie, but she was known by this, her middle name
Wallis
Mark
$500 [20]
Paul Simon might know these 4 herbs are known in Italy as prezzemolo, salvia, rosmarino e timo
parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Susan
$500 [17]
His "Swiss Family Robinson" was inspired by Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
Johann Wyss

Double Jeopardy! Round

MUSIC INVENTORS HALL OF FAME EXPLORERS EUROPEAN CITIES COURTROOM DRAMAS LITERARY TERMS
$200 [1]
He wrote the 1892 operetta "Haddon Hall" with Sydney Grundy after quarrelling with W.S. Gilbert
(Sir Arthur) Sullivan
Mark
$200 [26]
This Dearborn auto pioneer was elected in 1982 for his transmission mechanism
Henry Ford
$200 [19]
Before conquering Peru, he served as mayor of Panama City from 1519 to 1523
Pizarro
Mark
$200 [8]
Massive building projects were undertaken in this capital city after the great fire of 1666
London
Jimmy
$200 [10]
This "Silence of the Lambs" star got her day in court & an Oscar for the 1988 drama "The Accused"
Jodie Foster
Susan
$200 [2]
A spectre doesn't have to appear in this type of supernatural tale, as its name implies
a ghost story
Jimmy
$400 [3]
The second part of Handel's "Messiah" ends with this famous chorus
the "Hallelujah" chorus
Jimmy
$400 [27]
Eli Whitney was named to the Hall of Fame in 1974 for this invention
the cotton gin
Jimmy
$400 [20]
The journal still survives from his 1673 exploration of the Mississippi with Joliet
Marquette
Mark
$400 [9]
Solidarity's roots are in this seaport city
Gdansk
Susan
$400 [11]
Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination for his role as a down-and-out lawyer in this 1982 film
The Verdict
Susan
$400 [6]
From the Latin legere, "to read", this kind of story is often handed down from the past
a legend
Jimmy
$600 [4]
Examples of these poems set to music include Schoenberg's "to Napoleon" & Beethoven's "to Joy"
odes
Jimmy
$600 [28]
Harold Edgerton was elected in 1986 for his development of a stroboscope used in this creative field
photography
Mark
$600 [21]
The bay lying between Canada & Greenland was named for this English explorer who reached it in 1615
Baffin
Jimmy
$600 [13]
This largest Swiss city is on the lake & in the canton of the same name
Zurich
Mark Jimmy
$600 [12]
In his final film role, Tyrone Power stood trial for killing a widow in this Agatha Christie drama
Witness for the Prosecution
Jimmy
$600 [16]
It's a "canine" term for poetry that's rude & crude
doggerel
Susan
$800 [5]
A "lied" is a German art song; add 2 letters to get this word, its plural
lieder
Mark
$800 [29]
For his development of the neutronic reactor, this Italian-American was elected in 1976
(Enrico) Fermi
Mark
$800 [22]
He discovered the Magnetic North Pole in 1831 & has an Antarctic ice shelf and sea named for him
(Sir James Clark) Ross
Mark
$800 [14]
This city is home to the Ulster Museum
Belfast
Mark
$800 [24]
Noted lawyer Joseph Welch played a judge & Jimmy Stewart a lawyer in this 1959 drama
Anatomy of a Murder
Jimmy
$800 [17]
This movement whose name means "storm & stress" was the forerunner of German Romanticism
Sturm und Drang
Susan
$1,000 [7]
Chopin's Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1 is better known by this title
the "Minute Waltz"
Jimmy
$1,000 [30]
In 1987 this American inventor was elected for his calculating or adding machine
William Burroughs
$1,000 [23]
Knighted in 1886, he was in the 1st European party to reach Africa's Lake Tanganyika
Sir Richard Burton
Mark
DD $1,000 [15]
Galileo taught at the university in this Italian city where Shakespeare set "The Taming of the Shrew"
Padua
Mark
DD $1,500 [25]
Henry Fonda as Juror No. 8 is the lone holdout among his fellow jurors in this 1957 drama
12 Angry Men
Mark
$1,000 [18]
This adjective derived from Spanish describes a novel about a picaro, or rogue
picaresque
Jimmy

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC PAIRS

They were the maternal grandparents of England's Queen Mary I

Ferdinand & Isabella

Jimmy "Who are Ferdinand & Isabella?" — wagered $3,500
Susan "Who were Ferdinand . Isabella" — wagered $5,001
Mark "Who were ?" — wagered $2,701

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