Show #1893 1992-11-25 (taped 1992-08-24) Regular

Contestants

Marcia Kaplan Belgorod — an executive assistant from Forest Hills, New York

Tim Buthod — a credit union teller from Atlanta, Georgia

Susan Hodges — a writer from Palmyra, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,301)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Susan $1,100 $1,900 $3,500 $6,500
2nd place: trip to Oahu, Hawaii
$3,500
14 R, 2 W
Tim $1,900 $5,700 $16,900 $21,900
New champion: $21,900
$12,400
32 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Marcia $1,100 $1,200 $3,100 $6,100
3rd place: Bushnell binoculars + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$2,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

GREECE PATRIOTIC SONGS FOR THE RECORD LITERATURE NAMES IN THE NEWS RHYME TIME
$100 [16]
Nearly 1/3 of Greeks live in this city or its metropolitan area
Athens
Tim
$100 [15]
He had used the tune for "The Star-Spangled Banner" in another song 9 years before
Francis Scott Key
Tim
$100 [1]
It's the book in which a ship's speed, route & the events that affect them are recorded
the log
Susan
$100 [23]
In a Victor Hugo novel, Parisians choose him the "Prince of Fools"
Quasimodo
Susan
$100 [3]
This African National Congress leader announced his separation from wife Winnie in April 1992
Nelson Mandela
Tim
$100 [11]
Mickey Mouse's girlfriend after she goes on a diet of low-fat cheese
a skinny Minnie
Susan
$200 [17]
Greeks eat more of this meat than any other
lamb
Marcia
$200 [18]
In this song "Macaroni" referred to foppish young men of London
"Yankee Doodle"
Susan Tim
$200 [2]
A necrology is a record of people who've done this
died
Tim
$200 [24]
Chapter 1 of this Mark Twain book is entitled "Camelot"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Susan
$200 [4]
Philadelphian Willie Williams replaced Daryl Gates as this city's Chief of Police
Los Angeles
Tim
$200 [12]
What happens to Pinocchio when he tells a lie
nose grows
Susan
$300 [20]
In Greek this peak is called Oros Olimbos
Mount Olympus
Tim
$300 [22]
This military service's hymn begins, "Eternal Father, strong to save, whose arm hath bound the restless wave"
the Navy
Susan
$300 [7]
They're the official records of what went on at an organization's meeting
the minutes
Tim
$300 [25]
The 1855 autobiography of this Dane is "The Fairy Tale of My Life"
Hans Christian Andersen
Tim
$300 [5]
On Tax Day, April 15, 1992, this "Hotel Queen" began her 4-year sentence for tax evasion
Leona Helmsley
Marcia
$300 [13]
An 18-wheeler that's immobilized in quicksand
a stuck truck
Susan
$400 [21]
Retsina is a Greek type of this potent potable flavored with pine resin
wine
Marcia
$400 [29]
Though written in 1918, this song was introduced to the public in 1938 by Kate Smith
"God Bless America"
Tim
$400 [8]
From the Latin for "daily allowance", it's a record of each day's events
a diary
Marcia
$400 [26]
In this Sir Walter Scott novel, a 12th century Saxon knight is in love with Rowena
Ivanhoe
Tim
$400 [6]
She was on holiday in Austria when her father, the Eighth Earl Spencer, passed away
Princess Diana
Susan
$400 [14]
An extremely wicked cotton boll insect
an evil weevil
Marcia
$500 [28]
This peninsula is connected to the mainland of Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth
the Peloponnesian Peninsula
Tim
$500 [30]
This country singer has written such patriotic songs as "Okie from Muskogee" & Fightin' Side"
Merle Haggard
Tim Marcia
$500 [9]
The name of this directory of famous people repeats an interrogative pronoun
a Who's Who
Tim
DD $1,000 [27]
This author's third novel about Harry Angstrom won him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982
(John) Updike
Tim
$500 [10]
In a 1992 trial in NYC, 13 counts stuck to this man once called "The Teflon Don"
(John) Gotti
Tim
$500 [19]
Cleopatra might have borrowed these from Julius to pluck her eyebrows
Caesar's tweezers
Tim

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES PARKS BIBLICAL PEOPLE DEMOCRATS GLANDS
$200 [10]
Kumbi was capital of this continent's Ghana Kingdom, which reached its apogee in the 10th C.
Africa
Tim
$200 [20]
In Texas' A&M University, the M stands for Mechanical & the A stands for this
Agricultural
Tim
$200 [1]
This San Francisco park includes the Asian Art Museum & the California Academy of Sciences
Golden Gate Park
Tim
$200 [5]
This older brother of Moses is often considered the first high priest of Israel
Aaron
Tim
$200 [15]
After serving 3 terms as Massachusetts governor, he declined to run for reelection in 1990
Dukakis
Tim
$200 [22]
These glands cool the skin by secreting fluid
sweat glands
Marcia
$400 [11]
In 1869 this dominion purchased the present NW Territories from the Hudson's Bay Company
Canada
Tim
$400 [21]
In April 1992 this University's Blue Devils won their second consecutive nat'l basketball championship
Duke
Susan
$400 [2]
This 1200-acre Chicago park on the shore of Lake Michigan is noted for its zoo
Lincoln Park
Marcia
$400 [6]
While not mentioned by name, she's traditionally identified as the sinful woman in Luke
Mary Magdalene
Tim
$400 [16]
From 1841 to 1843 this "Little Giant" served as a judge of the Illinois Supreme Court
(Stephen) Douglas
Tim
$400 [25]
The parotid glands are the largest of these glands in the mouth which help in the digestion of starches
salivary glands
Marcia
$600 [12]
Crowned King of Ireland in 1316, Edward Bruce was the brother of this Scottish king
Robert (the Bruce)
Susan
$600 [23]
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs is part of this Ivy League university
Princeton
Tim
$600 [3]
This Washington State national park named for a volcano has more than 20 glaciers
Mount Rainier National Park
Marcia
$600 [7]
He asked at the Last Supper, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?"
Thomas
Susan
$600 [17]
After he was beaten twice for president by Dwight Eisenhower, he lost the 1960 nomination to JFK
Adlai Stevenson
Tim
$600 [28]
This pair of glands produces hormones which help the body adjust to sudden stress
adrenal glands
Susan
$800 [13]
A symbol of Dutch resistance to the Nazis, the Queen abdicated in favor of daughter Juliana in 1948
Wilhelmina
Tim
$800 [24]
This university in Ithaca, N.Y. was named for a founder of Western Union
Cornell
Susan
$800 [4]
After 89 years as a federal reservation, this Arkansas park became a nat'l park in 1921
Hot Springs
Susan
$800 [8]
For interpreting the handwriting on the wall, he was promised scarlet clothing & a gold chain
Daniel
Tim
$800 [18]
In 1983 this Democratic senator from New Jersey was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame
(Bill) Bradley
Tim
$800 [29]
A deficiency of iodine causes this gland to enlarge
the thyroid
Tim
$1,000 [14]
The 1713-1714 Treaties of Utrecht ended the 13 yr. war over this country's succession
Spain's succession
Tim
DD $1,500 [27]
Under student pressure, this Wash. D.C. univ. appointed its first deaf president, I. King Jordan, in 1988
Gallaudet
Marcia
$1,000 [26]
South Carolina's Table Rock Park lies in these mountains
the Blue Ridge Mountains
Tim Marcia
$1,000 [9]
After years of childlessness, she conceived twins, Esau & Jacob
Rebekah
Susan Tim Marcia
DD $5,000 [19]
As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he presided over the Clarence Thomas hearings
Joe Biden
Tim
$1,000 [30]
This pinecone-shaped gland is now known to function as a biological clock
the pineal
Tim

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

John Tyler, James Monroe & Jefferson Davis are buried in this capital's Hollywood Cemetery

Richmond, Virginia

Marcia "What is Richmond?" — wagered $3,000
Susan "What is Richmond?" — wagered $3,000
Tim "What is Richmond?" — wagered $5,000

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