Show #1950 1993-02-12 (taped 1992-11-09) Regular

Contestants

Brendan Beary — a computer scientist from Ambler, Pennsylvania

Beth Jackson — a systems supervisor originally from Baltimore, Maryland

Susie Macksey — a stand-up comic from Cambridge, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,700)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Susie	$0	$800	$5,400	$10,400 3-day champion: $27,100	$5,400 18 R, 6 W
Beth	$2,100	$3,800	$7,000	$3,199 2nd place: trip on Delta to Jacksonville with stay at Marriott Sawgrass	$6,500 15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Brendan	$600	$1,700	$1,000	$1,999 3rd place: Service Merchandise gift certificate & Wheel of Fortune + Jeopardy! for Super Nintendo + Sega Genesis	$2,500 15 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD TRAVEL	PLANTS & TREES	FAMOUS MILLERS	MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS	BOUNCE	ANIMAL RHYME TIME
$100 [1] A memorial to John F. Kennedy is located near Dealey Plaza in this city Dallas Brendan	$100 [4] These smooth-skinned peaches sometimes grow on the same trees as the fuzzy-skinned varieties nectarines	$100 [5] On January 27, 1961 TV viewers began to "Sing Along with" him Mitch Susie	$100 [10] Its name comes from the Latin words for "key" & "string", clavis & chorda the clavichord Susie	$100 [22] It's the "soggy" term for bouncing a basketball dribble Brendan	$100 [14] The enemy of a deer, a female deer a doe foe Beth
$200 [2] This London palace was originally the home of a duke by the name of John Sheffield Buckingham Palace Susie Beth	$200 [27] The highest price paid for this flower in the U.S. was $4,500 for a cymbidium an orchid Susie Beth	$200 [6] This big band leader was probably the most famous man born in Clarinda, Iowa Glenn Miller Beth	$200 [11] Scholars think the lur, an ancient trumpet, may have once been made from this part of a mammoth the tusk Brendan	$200 [23] An Italian word for "springboard" gave us this name for a bouncing apparatus a trampoline Susie	$200 [15] An inebriated polecat a drunk skunk Brendan
$300 [3] In this city it's about 2 miles from Hans Christian Andersens Blvd. to Den Lille Havfrue Statue Copenhagen Brendan	$300 [28] The white wood of this tree is used for spools & paper birch Susie	$300 [7] 30 years after "George White's Scandals of 1939", this tap dancer returned to Broadway in "Mame" Ann Miller Beth	$300 [19] Played since the Crusades, this side-blown flute is often paired with drums a fife Susie	$300 [24] By rule this sport's yellow or white balls must bounce up 53-58" when dropped on concrete from 100" tennis Susie Brendan	$300 [16] A melancholy lady sheep a blue ewe Brendan
$400 [12] Tourist sites in this Detroit suburb include Greenfield Village & the Henry Ford Museum Dearborn Beth	$400 [29] Named for a region on the Mediterranean, it's the most popular variety of orange in the U.S. Valencia Brendan	$400 [8] Anais Nin's pen pal Henry Miller	$400 [20] The sheng, a Chinese mouth organ, has pipes made of this giant grass bamboo Brendan	$400 [25] On August 19, 1812 these bounced harmlessly off the side of the U.S.S. Constitution cannonballs Susie Beth	$400 [17] A frivolous young mare a silly filly Susie
DD $1,000 [13] Music lovers enjoy visiting the Smetana Museum in this European capital Prague (Czechoslovakia) Beth	$500 [30] In flowers the pollen sacs are normally located in this part of the stamen the anther	$500 [9] British M.D. & comedian who co-starred in "Beyond the Fringe" & hosted PBS' "The Body in Question" Jonathan Miller	$500 [21] He was the first known composer to write for the Celeste, in his "Nutcracker" ballet Tchaikovsky Beth	$500 [26] This device on a ship detects how long a pulse of sound takes to bounce off the sea floor & return sonar Susie	$500 [18] A baby cat who's very much in love a smitten kitten Beth

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY	LITERARY QUOTES	FIRST LADIES	THEATRES	ARTISTS	BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
$200 [6] This scandal of 1924 involved the secret leasing of oil reserves in Wyoming & California Teapot Dome Susie	$200 [1] Macbeth asked, "Is this" one of these weapons "which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?" a dagger Susie	$200 [11] This first lady met her husband at the home of her sister in Springfield, Illinois Mary Todd Lincoln Beth	$200 [16] "Godlike" name shared by theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue in London & West 125th Street in Harlem the Apollo Brendan	$200 [21] In 1987 his "Irises" sold for $53,900,000, a record price for a work of art to that time Van Gogh Brendan	DD $500 [26] Norelco & Magnavox are consumer brands of Philips NV, which is based in this country the Netherlands Brendan
$400 [7] When he was in power the Venezia Palace in Rome was his headquarters Mussolini Susie	$400 [2] Thomas Carlyle called "a poet without" this emotion "a physical and metaphysical impossibility" love Brendan	$400 [12] In the 1950s her hairstyle with the famous bangs became her trademark Mamie Eisenhower Brendan	$400 [17] In 1963 British director Tyrone Guthrie founded a theatre named for himself in this Minnesota city Minneapolis Susie	$400 [22] This American illustrator's 1943 paintings "The Four Freedoms" " toured the country during World War II Rockwell Susie	$600 [28] Owens-Corning is the world's largest producer of this fiber fiber glass (glass fiber) Brendan
$600 [8] When Sun Yat-sen died in 1925, he became leader of the military & later of the Nationalist government Chiang Kai-shek Beth Brendan	$600 [3] It "is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land" April Susie	$600 [13] She was born 1731, the year before her husband Martha Washington Beth	$600 [18] In 1958 Broadway's Globe Theatre was renamed in honor of these married actors Lunt & Fontanne Susie	$600 [23] To prove that blue could be more than a minor color in a picture, he painted "The Blue Boy" Gainsborough Brendan	$800 [27] In 1988 the News Corporation LTD., controlled by this Australian, bought TV Guide (Rupert) Murdoch Susie Beth
$800 [9] In July 1944 a conference in Bretton Woods, N.H. created 2 organizations: the World Bank & this Fund the International Monetary Fund Susie	$800 [4] The author who wrote, "and now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death" (Edgar Allan) Poe Susie	$800 [14] In May & June 1977 this first lady visited the leaders of 7 nations in the Caribbean & Latin America Rosalynn Carter Brendan	$800 [19] This "Grand" Paris theatre closed in 1962, but its name is still synonymous with gruesome horror Grand Guignol Brendan	DD $1,000 [24] This artist known for his "Arrangements", once made maps for the U.S. Coast Survey James Whistler Brendan	—
$1,000 [10] In 1966 it became the first planet to be touched by a man-made object Venus Beth Brendan	$1,000 [5] "Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths", he wrote in "The Misanthrope" Moliere Susie	$1,000 [15] Although best known by a nickname, her given name was Dorothea Dolley Madison Susie	$1,000 [20] It's the type of summer headgear that's used to describe summer stock theatres straw hat	$1,000 [25] This artist's 1st major commission was "The Adoration of the Magi" for the monks of San Donato a Scopeto Leonardo da Vinci Susie	—

Final Jeopardy!

FASHION HISTORY

Listing the great men of the 19th century, Lord Byron ranked himself 3rd, Napoleon 2nd & this man 1st

Beau Brummel

Brendan "Who was Beau Brummel" — wagered $999

Susie "Who is Beau Brummel?" — wagered $5,000

Beth "Who was Chanel?" — wagered $3,801

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