Show #1754 1992-03-26 (taped 1991-12-09) Regular

Robert Slaven game 3.

Contestants

Jean Hernon — an attorney originally from New Hartford, New York

Dave Janka — a photographer from Moorestown, New Jersey

Robert Slaven — an office automation specialist from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robert $1,400 $1,300 $5,300 $7,001
3-day champion: $32,701
$6,100
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Dave $1,400 $1,900 $1,500 $3,000
2nd place: His & hers clothing from the Greif Companies & Mastercraft maple wardrobe
$2,500
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jean $600 $1,700 $3,500 $500
3rd place: Service Merchandise gift certificate
$4,300
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC QUOTES APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES POP MUSIC VOCABULARY ZOOLOGY "Mc"PEOPLE
$100 [8]
In a 1939 radio broadcast, Churchill called this country "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
Russia
Jean
$100 [6]
Abbreviated "c.", it's used before approximate dates
circa
Robert
$100 [1]
Folk songs written by this performer include "Times They are A-Changin'" & "Mr. Tambourine Man"
Bob Dylan
Robert
$100 [10]
As an adjective, it's slang for tipsy; in the name of a game, it precedes "winks"
tiddly
Dave
$100 [15]
Dutch colonists in South Africa gave the gnu this name meaning "wild beast"
wildebeest
Dave
$100 [22]
He was also Johnny Carson's sidekick on a TV game show called "Who Do You Trust?"
Ed McMahon
Robert
$200 [9]
Around 1850 Horace Greeley suggested, do this "and grow up with the country"
"Go west, young man"
Dave
$200 [7]
This term for a big spoonful of whipped cream may come from the Icelandic dolpur, meaning "fat man"
dollop
Jean
$200 [2]
In this song, "He's gonna get caught, just you wait & see, 'why is everybody always pickin' on me?'"
"Charlie Brown"
Robert
$200 [11]
An inhabitant of the Palmetto State, the Tar Heel State or the Caroline Islands
Carolinian
Robert
$200 [16]
Although its neck can be 6 feet long, it often has 7 bones--the same as humans
giraffe
Dave
$200 [23]
In May 1991 this former S.D. senator made it official that he won't run for president
George McGovern
Dave
$300 [27]
In 1913 he proclaimed, "We demand that big business give the people a square deal"
Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Jean
$300 [20]
Elastic-sounding word that's slang for a term of imprisonment
stretch
$300 [3]
Of Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young, the one born in England
Graham Nash
Jean
$300 [12]
A flexible tube found in your garden, or flexible coverings found on your legs
hose
Dave
$300 [17]
A popular activity in Thailand is watching these quarrelsome fish attack each other
Siamese fighting fish
Dave
$300 [24]
After his death, his reaper firm merged with others to form the International Harvester Company
Cyrus McCormick
Jean
$400 [28]
In 1944 this GOP presidential candidate campaigned on the slogan, "It's Time for a Change"
Thomas Dewey
Dave
$400 [21]
A cloth emblem on a uniform sleeve, or a small field of pumpkins
patch
Dave
$400 [4]
Juice Newton peaked at No. 2 with this song named after a playing card
"Queen of Hearts"
Robert
$400 [13]
A natural or acquired ability or a unit of weight & money, used in ancient Greece
talent
Robert
$400 [18]
The name of this deadly snake of tropical North & South America is French for "lance head"
fer-de-lance
Robert
$400 [25]
In 1968 this host of ABC's "Wide World of Sports" became the 1st sports commentator to win an Emmy
Jim McKay
Dave
$500 [29]
According to Charles Evans Hughes, this document "Is what the judges say it is"
the Constitution
Jean
$500 [30]
From the Latin for "separate" or "distinct", it means a few, more than 2, but not many
several
$500 [5]
This record by Kyu Sakamoto is the only Japanese language song to reach No. 1 in America
"Sukiyaki"
$500 [14]
From the Latin meaning "suffering", it often refers to Christ's suffering
passion
Dave
DD $800 [19]
One species of this long-snouted piglike South American mammal wasn't discovered until the 1820s
tapir
Robert
$500 [26]
In 1988 this former national security advisor admitted he had misled Congress on several occasions
Robert McFarlane
Robert

Double Jeopardy! Round

POETS & POETRY U.S. CITIES THE ELEMENTS NEWSPAPERS DATES IN HISTORY NAME THE PLAY
$200 [6]
Lord Byron rhapsodized, "She walks in" this, "like the night"
beauty
Jean
$200 [16]
It's nicknamed the "City of Witches"
Salem, Massachusetts
Dave
$200 [1]
Over 13 times heavier than water, it was known in ancient times as "living silver"
mercury
Robert Jean
$200 [24]
Erwin D. Canham edited this paper, founded by Mary Baker Eddy, from 1945-1964
The Christian Science Monitor
Robert
$200 [11]
It was stormed Tuesday July 14, 1789
the Bastille
Robert
$200 [21]
Biff Loman, Linda Loman &Willy Loman
Death of a Salesman
Dave
$400 [7]
The noted actor & playwright Colley Cibber was appointed to this poetic office in 1730
poet laureate
Dave
$400 [17]
This city on the Texas-Arkansas border takes its name from the two states plus Louisiana
Texarkana
Robert
$400 [2]
Found in egg & clam shells, it was discovered in 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy
calcium
Robert
$400 [25]
This syndicated editorial cartoonist has worked at the Washington Post since 1946
Herb Block
$400 [12]
After a 12-day siege, it fell to Santa Anna's troops March 6, 1836
the Alamo
Robert
$400 [22]
Danny Zuko, Betty Rizzo &Sandy Dumbrowski
Grease
Robert
$600 [8]
This Hoosier poet wrote his 1890 poem "The Raggedy Man" in Hoosier dialect
James Whitcomb Riley
$600 [18]
From 1701-1875 Connecticut had twin capitals, Hartford & this city
New Haven
Robert
$600 [3]
This element whose symbol is Li follows helium at No. 3 on the periodic table
lithium
Dave
$600 [26]
Neue Zurcher Zeitung, one of the world's most respected papers, is published in this city
Zurich
Robert
$600 [13]
On July 26, 1775 the U.S. Post Office was established with him as postmaster general
Benjamin Franklin
Robert
$600 [23]
Harry Brock, Paul Verrall &Billie Dawn
Born Yesterday
$800 [9]
According to Leigh Hunt, "Jenny" did this to "me when we met"--how romantic
kissed me
$800 [19]
Called Strawbery Banke until the 1650s, it's New Hampshire's only major seaport
Portsmouth
Jean
DD $1,000 [4]
All regular U.S. coins minted today contain some of this element
copper
Dave
$800 [27]
Granma is the official voice of this Latin American country's Communist Party
Cuba
Robert Dave
$800 [14]
On September 26, 1789 Congress confirmed him as America's first chief justice
John Jay
Jean
$800 [29]
Sheridan Whiteside, Maggie Cutler &"My Lady Nausea"
The Man Who Came to Dinner
$1,000 [10]
Vachel Lindsay's poem about the death of this Salvation Army founder was written to be sung
General William Booth
Jean
DD $800 [20]
The name of this third-largest Washington city is the Indian name for Mt. Rainier
Tacoma
Jean
$1,000 [5]
After about 713 million years, half a quantity of uranium-235 turns into this element
lead
Jean
$1,000 [28]
Last name of Otis, Norman & Harry, all of whom were publishers of the Los Angeles Times
Chandler
$1,000 [15]
On April 5, 1614 Pocahontas married this tobacco planter
John Rolfe
$1,000 [30]
Dr. Gibbs, George Gibbs &Emily Webb
Our Town
Jean

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD BUSINESS

After a heraldic lion was placed over its entrance in 1522, a German brewery took this name

Lowenbrau

Dave "What is Lowenbrau?" — wagered $1,500
Jean "What is Heineken?" — wagered $3,000
Robert "What is Lowenbrau?" — wagered $1,701

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