Show #1858 1992-10-07 (taped 1992-08-10) Regular

Contestants

Mitch Hankins — an attorney from Lubbock, Texas

Susan Speers — a freelance writer from Chicago, Illinois

Felice Bogus — a grad student originally from Norfolk, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Felice $700 $3,900 $9,100 $7,999
2nd place: trip on Delta to Mexico & stay at the Conrad Puerto Vallarta + Jeopardy! home edition
$9,100
25 R, 1 W
Susan $600 $0 $1,800 $2,100
3rd place: Dictomatic talking translator + Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune for SNES & Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! home edition
$4,300
12 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Mitch $700 $2,000 $5,100 $10,100
New champion: $10,100
$4,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES TRAVEL & TOURISM THE TONIGHT SHOW ANIMALS STOP THE PRESSES! WORD ORIGINS
$100 [1]
This commanding general's soldiers affectionately nicknamed him "Uncle Robert"
Robert E. Lee
Felice
$100 [3]
Originally called the Grand Cours, it's Paris' most celebrated thoroughfare
the Champs-Elysees
Mitch
$100 [8]
In 1967 he succeeded Milton DeLugg as band leader on "The Tonight Show"
Doc Severinsen
Felice
$100 [26]
This dog's name is derived from what the French called it: grand Danois, literally "big Danish"
a Great Dane
Susan
$100 [21]
A kids magazine survey found out this fairy tends to leave girls about 25 cents more than boys
the tooth fairy
Mitch
$100 [9]
Motel is actually derived from two words: hotel & this
motor
Susan
$200 [2]
He had several nicknames that began with the same letters, including "Unprecedented Strategist"
U.S. Grant
Susan
$200 [6]
In this island group you can tour the tortoise hatchery at the Charles Darwin Biological Research Station
the Galapagos
Felice
$200 [14]
On Oct. 1, 1962, this "You Bet Your Life" star introduced Johnny Carson as the show's permanent host
Groucho Marx
Felice Susan Mitch
$200 [27]
The pirate type of this animal raids the webs of others of its kind, killing & eating the builders
the spider
Felice
$200 [22]
A British paper claimed Prince Charles puts toothpaste in his nose to prevent this nocturnal noise
snoring
Felice
$200 [10]
This unit of measurement abbreviated dB was named for Alexander Graham Bell
a decibel
Mitch
$300 [4]
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was "The Hero of" this South Carolina fort
Fort Sumter
Felice
$300 [11]
An annex of Italy's Basilica of San Francesco contains the tomb of this "divine" poet
Dante
Felice
$300 [16]
From 1983 to 1986 she was the permanent guest host of "The Tonight Show"
Joan Rivers
Felice
$300 [28]
The Adelie penguin was named for this continent's Adelie Coast
Antarctica
Susan Mitch
$300 [23]
People Magazine reported that Clint Black wears size 7 1/4 while Garth Brooks' is 7 5/8
a cowboy hat
Mitch
$300 [12]
Originally a charity bequest, this word for a small amount of money comes from Latin for "piety"
a pittance
Felice Susan
$400 [5]
This cavalry officer's West Point classmates teasingly nicknamed him "Beauty" Stuart
J.E.B. Stuart
Mitch
$400 [19]
The Mozarteum is one site of this Austrian city's famous music festival
Salzburg
Felice Susan
$400 [17]
On Dec. 17, 1969, their marriage on "The Tonight Show" drew an estimated 45 million viewers
Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki
Mitch
$400 [29]
The helmets of Queen Elizabeth"S household cavalry are adorned with this Himalayan animal's hair
the yak
Susan
$400 [24]
In 1992 she not only left her ministry but divorced her jailed husband
Tammy Faye Bakker
Felice
DD $500 [13]
Palestine derived its name from this ancient people who lived in the region
the Philistines
Susan
$500 [7]
He was "The Sword of the Confederacy", but his more famous nickname likened him to a rock structure
Stonewall Jackson
Susan
$500 [20]
In Beijing, just south of the Forbidden City, you'll find this square, the city's largest plaza
Tiananmen
Felice
$500 [18]
This clairvoyant character was first used in a sketch by Carson in a 1964 telecast
Carnac the Magnificent
Mitch
$500 [30]
The gavial has a narrower snout than this swamp-dwelling reptile it resembles
an alligator (crocodile)
Mitch
$500 [25]
The 4th annual International Leisure Suit Convention drew 1500 polyester lovers to this Iowa capital
Des Moines
Felice
$500 [15]
From the Greek for "without bottom", it's a bottomless gulf or the ocean's depths
an abyss
Felice

Double Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES THE 15th CENTURY MONEY THEATRE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD PSYCH 102
$200 [3]
He was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, not in Never-Never-Land
(James) Barrie
Felice
$200 [16]
In 1473 construction began on this chapel, named for Pope Sixtus IV
the Sistine Chapel
Felice
$200 [21]
You have to shell out some bahts to spend one night in Bangkok in this country
Thailand
Mitch
$200 [1]
In a 1968 revival of "Doctor Faustus", this woman of Troy was "tastefully nude"
Helen
Mitch
$200 [15]
Made of bronze & honoring the sun god Helios, it stood about 100 feet high in the harbor of a Greek island
the Colossus of Rhodes
Felice
$200 [10]
Common ones of these include fears of heights, animals & darkness
phobias
Felice
$400 [4]
You can visit the cottage near Dorchester where this author was born "Far From the Madding Crowd"
Thomas Hardy
Susan
$400 [17]
By the end of the century this Indian empire extended from Peru into parts of Bolivia, Chile & Ecuador
the Incas
Susan
$400 [23]
San Marino uses this Italian currency
the lira
Susan
$400 [2]
John Dryden wrote his 1677 play "All For Love" in this kind of verse also favored by Shakespeare
iambic pentameter (blank verse)
Felice
$400 [27]
To irrigate this ancient wonder, water from the Euphrates was pumped to the top of the hill
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Felice
$400 [11]
Some believe they're meaningless by-products of REM sleep; some, that they have hidden meanings
dreams
Felice
$600 [5]
Norman Mailer comes from this New Jersey city that has the same name as Miss Kitty's saloon on "Gunsmoke"
Long Branch
Mitch
$600 [18]
With Constantinople's capture by Ottoman Turks, the empire came to an end
the Byzantine Empire
Mitch
$800 [25]
The florin is another name for this currency of the Netherlands
the Dutch guilder
Susan
$600 [8]
Perhaps in response to the gloom of WWII, he wrote the light comedy "Blithe Spirit" in just 6 days
Noel Coward
Mitch
$600 [28]
It was the earliest built of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
the Great Pyramid
Felice
$600 [12]
Working memory is another name for this type that remembers things for a few seconds
short-term
Felice
$800 [6]
John Irving's hometown is Exeter in this state & he attended Phillips Exeter Academy there
New Hampshire
Mitch
$800 [19]
Having spent his fortune on exploration, this Portuguese prince died in debt in 1460
Prince Henry the Navigator
Mitch
$1,000 [26]
In Austria 100 groschen make 1 of these
the schilling
Felice
$1,000 [22]
This great Russian acting teacher played Satin in Gorky's 1902 play "The Lower Depths"
Stanislavsky
Mitch
$800 [29]
Some sculptures from this marble tomb at Halicarnassus are in the British Museum in London
the Mausoleum
$800 [13]
A propensity that is inherited rather than learned, like nest-building in wasps, is a "basic" one of these
an instinct
Susan
$1,000 [7]
Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a native of this country, where he lives in Cartagena
Colombia
Mitch
$1,000 [20]
In 1479, under the rule of Ferdinand & Isabella, these two powerful kingdoms were united
Aragon & Castile
Felice
DD $2,000 [24]
Unit of foreign currency referred to by thefollowingsymbol:
the Australian dollar
Susan
DD $1,500 [9]
"Murder in the Cathedral" premiered in this city where the play is set
Canterbury (England)
Mitch
$1,000 [30]
A fire burned day & night at the top of this ancient wonder
the lighthouse at Alexandria
Mitch
$1,000 [14]
Hyphenated term for a neurosis that you might want to wash your hands of—continuously
an obsessive-compulsive disorder
Susan

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICANA

The Ryan NYP hanging from a ceiling in Washington, D.C. is better known by this name

the Spirit of St. Louis

Susan "What is the Spirit of St. Louis" — wagered $300
Mitch "What is the Spirit of St. Louis" — wagered $5,000
Felice "What is?" — wagered $1,101

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