Show #2059 1993-07-15 (taped 1993-03-01) Seniors Tournament

1993 Seniors Tournament quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Bob McClary — a retired photographer from San Francisco, California

David Chasman — a retired film executive from Beverly Hills, California

Barbara Broerman — a physician from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Barbara $1,600 $2,800 $12,000 $9,000
Automatic semifinalist
$10,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
David $1,500 $2,500 $2,700 $0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$2,700
13 R, 2 W
Bob $-200 $1,000 $8,800 $8,800
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$7,700
19 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE GOLDEN OLDIES FURNITURE DANCE POTENT POTABLES FILE UNDER "F"
$100 [6]
Kaolin is a fine, white type of this material used for ceramics
clay
Barbara David Bob
$100 [11]
This performer had a No. 1 Hit with "Love Letters in the Sand" due to its inclusion in the film "Bernadine"
Pat Boone
David
$100 [14]
A fourposter bed often has one of these coverings suspended from its posts
canopy
David
$100 [1]
This syncopated dance was probably named for Vaudeville star Harry Fox
foxtrot
Barbara
$100 [20]
This margarita ingredient is sometimes called "cactus whiskey"
tequila
Bob
$100 [25]
Goethe was born in this German city, the original home of the Rothschilds
Frankfurt
David
$200 [7]
The adjective used to describe things having to do with this planet is Jovian
Jupiter
Bob
$200 [12]
In November 1969 "Suspicious Minds" became the last of this performer's 18 No. 1 Hits
Elvis
Barbara
$200 [15]
This writing desk topped by a bookcase shares its name with an office worker
secretary
Barbara
$200 [2]
The Academic American Encyclopedia's article on this dance says: "See Strauss family"
waltz
Bob
$200 [21]
In a gin and it cocktail, the "it" is the sweet Italian variety of this
vermouth
Bob
$200 [26]
This vision defect is also called hyperopia
farsightedness
Barbara
$300 [8]
This unit of relative sound intensity is equal to 1/10 of a bel
decibel
David
$300 [13]
In 1958 The Monotones sang, "I wonder, wonder who, who wrote" this
"The Book of Love"
$300 [16]
Credence is another name for this piece of furniture better known by its Italian name
credenza
Barbara
$300 [3]
Though the samba is called a Brazilian dance, its origins can be traced to this continent
Africa
Barbara
$300 [22]
Cointreau & triple sec both have this fruit flavor
orange
Barbara
$300 [27]
An infallible scheme is described as this
foolproof
Bob
$400 [9]
This partition that separates the abdominal & chest cavities is made up of muscles & tendons
diaphragm
Barbara
$400 [19]
In "Ode to Billy Joe", Billy Joe McAllister jumps off this Mississippi bridge
Tallahatchie
Barbara Bob
$400 [17]
The minimalist style known as desornamentado originated in this country during the Renaissance
Spain
Barbara David
$400 [4]
The Huapango, a fast-paced dance for couples, is named for a town near Veracruz in this country
Mexico
David
$400 [23]
Many consider the dry fino type of this fortified wine the world's finest
sherry
Barbara
DD $500 [28]
Contrary to this battle cry, the Oregon border was set at 49° n. in 1846
"Fifty-four forty or fight!"
Bob
$500 [10]
By definition, hydroponics is the growing of plants without this
soil
David Bob
$500 [30]
Marty Robbins song containing the line "Nighttime would find me in Rosa's cantina"
"El Paso"
Bob
$500 [18]
Walnut furniture with cabriole legs typifies the style named for this queen who reigned from 1702 to 1714
Queen Anne
David
$500 [5]
A swing dance that resembles a square dance, or a gigantic granny smith
big apple
Barbara
$500 [24]
It's the "rock" in rock & rye
rock candy
David
$500 [29]
Alvin Toffler's 2-word phrase for the inability to cope with rapid technological change
future shock
David

Double Jeopardy! Round

WRITERS CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES ASIAN CAPITALS VOCABULARY NUTRITION POISONED
$200 [1]
This horror writer's title char. "Dolores Claiborne" admits that she murdered her husband
Stephen King
David
$200 [22]
"Invicible Stonewall's last name
Jackson
Barbara
$200 [6]
The Ming rulers gave this city its name, which means "northern capital"
Beijing
Barbara
$200 [11]
"To flourish" originally pertained to the blooming of this
flowers
David
$200 [21]
Like olive oil, avocados contain the monounsaturated type of this
fatty acid
Bob
$200 [16]
Tradition says it was the source of the poison that ended Cleopatra's life
asp
Barbara
$400 [2]
Hume Cronyn co-wrote scripts for 2 of this director's films, "Under Suspicion" & "Rope"
Alfred Hitchcock
Bob
$400 [23]
During the war this "Wild" man of the old west was a Union spy
Wild Bill Hickok
Bob
$400 [7]
Almost 25% of South Korea's population resides in this capital
Seoul
Barbara
$400 [12]
An ampere is a unit of electric current; an ampersand is a symbol for this
and
Bob
$400 [27]
Most of this lipid in the blood is made by the liver or is absorbed from foods like eggs
cholesterol
Barbara
$400 [17]
Paris shot him in the heel with a poisoned arrow
Achilles
Barbara
$600 [3]
She wrote a series of short stories about a traveling saleswoman several years before "So Big"
Edna Ferber
Bob
$600 [24]
Col. John Mosby was known as this color "Ghost"; it helps if you know which side he was on
Gray
Barbara
$600 [8]
Memorabilia from Gandhi's life can be found at the Gandhi National Museum & Library in this capital
New Delhi
Barbara
$600 [13]
This synonym for bubbly has the same root as the word fervent
effervescent
Bob
$600 [28]
Ultraviolet light from the sun hitting sterols in the skin produces this vitamin
D
Bob
$600 [18]
Artaxerxes III's reign of terror in this country ended in 338 B.C. when he was poisoned by 1 of his ministers
Persia
Bob
$800 [4]
He gave readers a choice of alternate endings in "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
John Fowles
Barbara Bob
$800 [25]
Because he signed his name "F. Lee", General Fitzhugh Lee earned this "insect" nickname
Flea
David
$800 [9]
Mongolia's largest city, it was founded in 1639 as Lamaist monastery
Ulan Bator
Barbara
$800 [14]
An aubade is a musical piece performed in the morning & this is one played under a window at night
serenade
Barbara
$800 [29]
This mineral is essential for the production of certain enzymes as well as hemoglobin
iron
Bob
$800 [19]
This country's Haakon III may have been poisoned under orders of his Swedish stepmother
Norway
Barbara
$1,000 [5]
He wrote about Navajos who turn away from their people & practice witchcraft in "Skinwalkers"
Tony Hillerman
$1,000 [26]
This guerrilla leader who sacked Lawrence, Kansas has been called "The bloodiest man in American history"
Quantrill
Bob
DD $3,000 [10]
King Rama I built this city's Grand Palace, which contains the Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Bangkok
Barbara
$1,000 [15]
It once referred to a street cleaner, now it means any animal that feeds on decaying matter
scavenger
Barbara David Bob
DD $2,000 [30]
About 20 of these make up human proteins; about 1/2 are "nonessential" because the body can make them
amino acids
Bob
$1,000 [20]
This Russian "monk" was poisoned—didn't work; shot—didn't work; then drowned—we think it worked
Rasputin
Barbara

Final Jeopardy!

THEATRES

Martha Graham & The Wallendas were among the acts featured on the opening night of this 6200-seat theatre 12/27/32

Radio City Music Hall

David "What is the Hippodrome?" — wagered $2,700
Bob "What is the Ziegfeld Theatre?" — wagered $0
Barbara "What is Madison Sq. Garden" — wagered $3,000

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