Show #1697 1992-01-07 (taped 1991-10-22) Regular

Contestants

Michael Cohen — a fundraising consultant from Long Beach, California

Millicent Kidder — a civilian personnel officer from Kokomo, Indiana

Bruce Gardner — a veterinarian from Cerritos, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bruce $300 $800 $4,200 $6,001
2-day champion: $18,202
$5,200
20 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Millicent $-500 $-400 $2,500 $5,000
3rd place: 17-piece set of Bra cookware
$3,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $700 $1,000 $3,000 $6,000
2nd place: Bassett dining room set + Krups kitchen set
$3,000
11 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

RENAISSANCE MEN WORLD CAPITALS FOOD QUOTES SPORTS APPROXIMATES WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
$100 [19]
Unlike his predecessors, Maximilian I of this empire wasn't crowned by the Pope
the Holy Roman Empire
Bruce
$100 [1]
This capital's name is derived from a dam once built on the Amstel River
Amsterdam
Bruce
$100 [6]
This egg white concoction tops Baked Alaska & certain lemon pies
meringue
Millicent
$100 [10]
In his "Essay on Criticism", Alexander Pope said, "To err is human, to forgive" is this
divine
Millicent
$100 [16]
The entire body is the target are when epees are used in this sport, so be "on guard"
fencing
Bruce
$100 [18]
From an Old English word for "bake", it's the amount of cookies made in one baking
a batch
Millicent
$200 [20]
"Being unarmed...causes you to be despised", he wrote in "The Prince"
Machiavelli
Bruce
$200 [2]
The name of this Kenyan capital is Masai for "cold water"
Nairobi
Bruce
$200 [7]
The pink type of this fish is nicknamed humpback for a ridge it grows before spawning
a salmon
Michael
$200 [11]
W.T. Ballard said, "You can take a boy out of" this NYC borough, "but you can never get" it "out of the boy"
Brooklyn
Michael
$200 [17]
The Australia II was the first non-American boat to win this
The America's Cup
Bruce Michael
$200 [22]
Vaguely speaking, it's a large quantity of anything; specifically speaking, it's 2,000 pounds
a ton
Bruce
$300 [21]
Pope Leo X was the second son of this "Magnificent" Medici
Lorenzo
Bruce
$300 [3]
This Honduran city is one of the few world capitals not served by a railroad
Tegucigalpa
Michael
$300 [8]
The material from which cheese is made, it's the solid part of coagulated milk
curd
Bruce
$300 [12]
Samuel Johnson said to this author, "You have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both"
Boswell
Bruce Millicent
$300 [28]
In this sport, a player wears a curved basket called a cesta on his hand
jai alai
Bruce
$300 [23]
The show's intro said Superman could leap these buildings "in a single bound"
tall
Bruce
$400 [25]
1 of the first reliefs this great artist sculpted was the "Madonna of the Stairs"
Michelangelo
Bruce
$400 [4]
Muhammad Ali, ruler of Egypt, founded this Sudanese capital in the 1820s
Khartoum
Bruce
$400 [9]
You needn't be a simpleton to enjoy this British pudding made of gooseberries & cream
fool
$400 [13]
Mortally wounded, Capt. James Lawrence said, "Tell the men to fire faster and" don't do this
don't give up the ship
Bruce Millicent
$400 [24]
All the money needed to complete payment is this type of sum
a lump sum
$500 [26]
This Borgia was accused of murdering his brother Giovanni in 1497
Cesare
$500 [5]
From 1659 to 1862, this Romanian city was the capital of the principality of Walachia
Bucharest
Michael
$500 [15]
This semolina-based food is the national dish of Morocco
couscous
Michael
$500 [14]
In "McCulloch v. Maryland" he said "We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding"
John Marshall
Michael
DD $1,000 [27]
Name of the product seen here, it features 2 approximate measures:
Good & Plenty
Bruce

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION METALS MYTHOLOGY AUTHORS THE MOVIES FRENCH 101
$200 [7]
The British had more casualties in this June 17, 1775 battle near Boston than in any other of the war
the Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)
Millicent
$200 [21]
What we sometimes call tinfoil may be made of tin or this metal
aluminum
Bruce
$200 [12]
In Roman mythology, Aurora was the goddess of this time of day
dawn
Millicent
$200 [1]
He began the "Just So Stories" while living with his American wife in Vermont
Kipling
Michael
$200 [2]
This 1978 film in which John Belushi made his debut featured an inter-fraternity food fight
Animal House
Millicent
$200 [26]
The best of the best, or the richest of coffee additives
the crème de la crème
Michael
$400 [17]
In a pamphlet, he said, "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind"
Thomas Paine
Michael
$400 [22]
Hg, the symbol for this metal, is derived from the Greek word "hydrargyrum". meaning "water silver"
mercury
Bruce
$400 [13]
This band of men who sailed with Jason included Hercules & Orpheus
the Argonauts
Millicent
$400 [8]
He reworked his 1st major piece "Stephen Hero" into "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
James Joyce
Michael
$400 [3]
This Biblical film's title means "Whither goest thou?"
Quo Vadis?
Bruce
$400 [27]
If you need a peace officer in Paris, you don't call for a policeman, you call for 1 of these
a gendarme
Millicent
$600 [18]
17 years after surrendering at Yorktown, this British Lord served as Viceroy of Ireland
Cornwallis
Bruce
$600 [23]
Because of their potential toxicity, water pipes made of this metal are no longer being installed
lead
Bruce
$600 [14]
Some say it was Nemesis who caused him to fall in love with his own reflection
Narcissus
Bruce
$600 [9]
Born the same year as Shakespeare, this "Dr. Faustus" author was killed in a tavern brawl at age 29
Christopher Marlowe
Millicent
DD $500 [4]
1973 film which popularized thefollowing Scott Joplin tune:
The Sting
Millicent
$600 [28]
This phrase, literally "stoke of state", refers to the sudden overthrow of a government
coup d'état
Bruce
$800 [19]
On Jan. 10, 1779 the French gave John Paul Jones the ship Duc de Duras, which he renamed this
the Bonhomme Richard
Bruce
$800 [24]
One cubic mile of sea water contains nearly 6 million tons of this metal, symbol Mg
magnesium
Michael
$800 [15]
After waging war on these women, Theseus married their queen, Hippolyta
the Amazons
Millicent
$800 [10]
He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1st full-length play, 1920's "Beyond the Horizon"
Eugene O'Neill
$800 [5]
He not only wrote & directed 1988's "School Daze", he had a co-starring role as Half-Pint
Spike Lee
Millicent
$800 [29]
Term used for a short literary sketch, or a short, memorable scene in a film or play
vignette
$1,000 [20]
He beat the British in the Northwest Territory but never got paid for Army service
George Clark
Bruce Michael
$1,000 [25]
The most widely used stainless steel, "18-8", contains 8% nickel & 18% this plating metal
chromium
Bruce
DD $1,000 [16]
2 of the 3 Greek goddesses who claimed the golden apple marked "For the fairest"
(2 of) Athena, Aphrodite & Hera
Millicent
$1,000 [11]
Ironically he died in 1673 while performing the title role of his "The Imaginary Invalid"
Molière
Millicent
$1,000 [6]
In this 1959 film, Cary Grant played Lieutenant Commander M.T. Sherman, the skipper of a pink submarine
Operation Petticoat
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

EDUCATION

Friedrich Froebel wanted children to grow naturally, like plants, so he named his school this

kindergarten

Millicent "What is kindergarten?" — wagered $2,500
Michael "What is kindergarten" — wagered $3,000
Bruce "What is a kindergarten?" — wagered $1,801

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