Show #1752 1992-03-24 (taped 1991-12-09) Regular

Robert Slaven game 1.

Contestants

Lynn Carpenter — a personnel specialist from San Antonio, Texas

Robert Slaven — an office automation specialist from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Thom Stark — a senior research analyst from El Cerrito, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,401)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Thom	$700	$2,900	$8,600	$8,600 2nd place: General Instrument satellite TV system & Sanyo 26" stereo TV	$7,000 18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Robert	$600	$3,100	$8,600	$17,200 New champion: $17,200	$10,100 26 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Lynn	$700	$600	$2,400	$2,400 3rd place: Nemesis Igo Dojo handheld electronic Go game	$2,400 8 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 1950s	KATHARINE HEPBURN	MAGAZINES	NICKNAMES	SALAD DAYS	4-LETTER WORDS
$100 [15] While visiting Iowa Sept. 22, 1959, this Soviet premier ate his first hot dog Nikita Khrushchev Robert	$100 [2] Kate won her 4th Oscar & Henry Fonda his 1st as Best Actor playing Ethel & Norman Thayer in this film On Golden Pond Robert	$100 [3] This bimonthly published by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is named for its most prestigious award The Emmy Robert	$100 [1] "The Lord of San Simeon" (William Randolph) Hearst Lynn	$100 [25] The name of this dish made of finely shredded cabbage & mayonnaise comes from Dutch coleslaw Robert	$100 [8] At this type of sale, you can buy cakes & cookies bake sale Lynn
$200 [16] in 1952, after 15 years of work, scholars finished the revised standard version of this bible King James Version Thom	$200 [9] In 1969 Kate played this fashion designer in the Broadway musical "Coco" Coco Chanel Thom	$200 [4] In July 1925 Charlie Chaplin became the 1st movie star to appear on the cover of this newsmagazine Time Robert	$200 [10] Empress known as "The Little Mother of All the Russias" Catherine the Great Thom	$200 [26] The German type of this salad is served hot & has bacon in its dressing potato salad Thom	$200 [20] An Irish party before the burial may be rowdy enough to do this to the dead wake Robert
$300 [17] This missionary & musician was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Albert Schweitzer Lynn	$300 [14] In "Summertime" Kate takes a topple into this city's Grand Canal Venice Thom	$300 [5] It calls itself "The World's Automotive Authority" Motor Trend Thom Robert	$300 [11] Showman known as the "Prince of Humbugs" P.T. Barnum Thom	$300 [27] A Waldorf salad usually contains this type of nut walnut Thom	$300 [21] To create or compel, or what a womanizer's on the make Thom
$400 [19] This senator known as "Mr. Republican" was Eisenhower's chief opponent for the 1952 nomination Robert Taft Lynn	$400 [18] Dorothy Parker's famous pun of Kate's acting said she ran "The gamut of emotions from A to" this B Robert	$400 [6] It's the former name of Kiplinger's personal finance magazine Changing Times	$400 [12] Wisconsin senator who liked to be known as "Tailgunner Joe" Joseph McCarthy Robert	$400 [28] These tiny fish fillets are found in Salad Nicoise anchovies Robert	$400 [23] A profligate, or a long-handled, toothed garden implement rake Robert
DD $1,200 [22] On November 5, 1957 people in Tokyo reported seeing this Soviet space dog fly over Laika Thom	$500 [30] Kate played in this Philip Barry comedy for a year on Broadway before making the movie in 1940 The Philadelphia Story	$500 [7] The Saturday Review originally had these 2 words added to its title of Literature	$500 [13] This 19th century South Carolina senator was called "The Great Nullifier" John C. Calhoun Lynn	$500 [29] This type of lettuce is used to make a Caesar salad romaine Robert	$500 [24] Man's name that's slang for OK; it sometimes follows "Everything is" Jake Robert

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIOLOGY	FOLKLORE	AUTHORS	THE U.N.	COMPUTERESE	WORLD CITIES
$200 [16] The spinneret in a spider makes silk for webs; in an insect it makes silk for these cocoons Thom	$200 [21] If a troll is exposed to this, it bursts or turns into stone sunlight Thom	$200 [24] Charlotte Bronte's novel "Villette" is based on her experiences in this Belgian capital Brussels Lynn	$200 [11] "Health for All by the Year 2000" is the goal set by this U.N. agency based in Geneva World Health Organization Robert	$200 [10] They can come in dot, matrix & laser varieties printers Robert	$200 [1] This city in British Columbia is the center of Canada's third-largest urban area Vancouver Robert
$400 [20] A venule is a small one of these vein Robert	$400 [29] His cause of death was overexertion from hammering too fast John Henry Thom Robert	$400 [25] George Orwell fought in this country's civil war & wrote about it in "Homage to Catalonia" Spain Robert	$400 [12] It's the minimum number of votes needed to defeat an issue in the Security Council 1 Robert	$400 [9] On a regular typerwriter it's the return key; on a computer keyboard it's usually labeled this enter Robert	$400 [2] This English city was founded as a Benedictine monastery in 1543 by Leofrie & Lady Godiva Coventry Lynn
$600 [19] 6-letter term for a localized population of bacteria colony Robert	$800 [23] The rock in the Rhine known for its siren Lorelei Lynn	$600 [26] In 1930 this Tarzan creator wrote "Tarzan at the Earth's Core" Edgar Rice Burroughs Robert	$600 [13] Annual sessions of the General Assembly begin on the third Tuesday of this month & last about 3 months September Lynn	$600 [8] A nibble is half of this byte Robert	$600 [3] Brazil's independence was proclaimed by Don Pedro in 1822 in this city named for a saint Sao Paulo Robert
$800 [18] These threadlike projections on protozoans all beat in one direction to move it around cilia Thom	$1,000 [22] He gave his wife keys to all the rooms in the castle, but said don't go in one (it had bodies of old wives) Bluebeard Thom	$1,000 [28] Virginia-born Nebraska authoress whose 1st novel, "Alexander's Bridge", was published in 1912 Willa Cather Lynn	$800 [14] The staff of the Secretariat conducts business in English & this language French Thom	$800 [7] DOS is an acronym for this disk operating system Thom	$800 [4] Fittingly, this capital of Australia's Northern Territory is located on Beagle Gulf Darwin Robert
$1,000 [17] Stridulation is the sound made by a grasshopper rubbing this against his leg wing Thom	DD $1,500 [30] In Norse myth the Norns were equivalent to these dispensers of destiny in Greek myth The Fates Thom	DD $1,500 [27] Mark Twain said "In the early days I liked" this creator of Poker Flat, "but by and by I got over it" Bret Harte Robert	$1,000 [15] 1 of 2 Soviet republics that became charter members of the U.N. in 1945 Ukraine Robert	$1,000 [6] It's one instruction that stands for a series of commonly used keystrokes macro Robert	$1,000 [5] This capital of Zaire was known as Leopoldville until 1966 Kinshasa Thom

Final Jeopardy!

OPERETTAS

Hanna Glawari, whose late husband has left her a fortune, is the heroine of this 1905 operetta

"The Merry Widow"

Lynn "What is "The Merry Widow"?" — wagered $0

Robert "What is Merry Widow?" — wagered $8,600

Thom "What is The Merry Widow" — wagered $0

« Back to Games