Show #1788 1992-05-13 (taped 1992-03-09) College Championship

1992 College Championship semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Ken Kansa — a junior from George Washington University

Stephanie Leveene — a senior from the University of Delaware

Ernst Bell — a senior from the University of Florida

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ernst	$700	$2,300	$1,700	$1 3rd place: $5,000	$1,700 9 R, 3 W
Stephanie	$2,400	$4,000	$13,100	$8,500 Finalist	$11,100 21 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W
Ken	$1,300	$1,600	$8,800	$4,499 2nd place: $5,000	$8,800 26 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY	CELEBRITY COUPLES	THE ENVIRONMENT	SHAKESPEARE	SPORTS	PARTY TIME
$100 [2] It was the eastern boundary of the land bought in the Louisiana purchase the Mississippi River Ken	$100 [17] Though his wife, Patti Scialfa, has sung backup for him, we don't know if she calls him "The Boss" Bruce Springsteen Ken	$100 [30] Officials from 35 African countries met in January 1992 to try to save the vanishing herds of these elephants Stephanie	$100 [5] "Hamlet" opens at Elsinore castle, where a sentinel notes not a creature is stirring, not even this one a mouse Ken	$100 [1] She won a record 6 straight Wimbledon titles from 1982 through 1987 Martina Navratilova Ken	$100 [4] Alice went to a "mad" one a tea party Stephanie
$200 [6] In 1856 this party's first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont carried all but 5 of the northern states the Republican Party Ken	$200 [19] Her real-life romance isn't Gomez Addams but sculptor Robert Graham Anjelica Huston Ken	$200 [29] It's predicted that global temperatures will rise 2º by 2025, mostly from accumulation of this gas carbon dioxide Ernst	$200 [9] In "The Merchant of Venice", Portia says, "The quality of" this "is not strained" mercy Stephanie	$200 [3] This NFL team plays its home games at Arrowhead Stadium & has an arrowhead on its helmet the Kansas City Chiefs Ken	$200 [18] Uninvited guests who barge in on a party are said to do this, whether or not they wreck their cars crash it Ken
$300 [7] In the early 1800s this fur trader paid $25,000 for the area now known as Times Square John Jacob Astor Ernst	$300 [20] After canceling her 1991 wedding, Julia Roberts "rush"ed to Europe with this star of "Rush" Jason Patric Stephanie	$300 [28] Of about 2%, 44% or 99%, the amount of an aerosol hairspray that stays on the hair 2% Stephanie	$300 [10] In the famous balcony scene, this is the part of Juliet's face Romeo wishes he "might touch" her cheek Ken	$300 [8] It's the only class in professional boxing in which there's no upper weight limit heavyweight Stephanie	$300 [23] French for "good journey", or a type of party that's often held aboard ship a bon voyage Ken
$400 [15] The War of 1812 ended in this year 1815 (*1814) Stephanie Ken	$400 [21] Country singer Clint Black married this actress at his Texas ranch, not in Knots Landing Lisa Hartman	$400 [27] McDonald's replaced its burger containers made of this plastic with paper ones, which they recycle Styrofoam (polystyrene) Ernst	$400 [11] In "Henry IV, Part 2", the hostess wants him arrested for eating her "out of house and home" Falstaff Stephanie	$400 [13] In women's gymnastics, this Romanian won 5 Olympic gold medals, as well as 3 silver & 1 bronze Nadia Comaneci Ernst	$400 [24] Traditionally, these objects indicate where guests are to sit at a very formal dinner party place cards Stephanie
$500 [16] Boss Tweed offered this political cartoonist $500,000 to go to Europe & leave him alone Thomas Nast Ernst Ken	$500 [22] She was once engaged to Charlie Sheen, but she married John Travolta Kelly Preston Stephanie Ken	$500 [26] U.S. government project to clean up toxic sites; since 1981 it has spent over $7.5 billion & cleaned up 65 the Superfund Ernst	DD $1,000 [12] The dowry he got with Katharina was, after Baptista's death, half his lands & 20,000 crowns Petruchio Stephanie	$500 [14] The last of this Red Sox outfielder's 6 batting titles came in 1958 at age 40 Ted Williams Ken	$500 [25] The couple being feted at an anniversary party often stands in one of these lines to greet guests a receiving line Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY	MYTHOLOGY	SHORT STORIES	NUTS	PHILOSOPHERS	WORD ORIGINS
$200 [2] The Yucatan Channel connects the Caribbean Sea with this gulf the Gulf of Mexico Ken	$200 [16] This great Greek god was Apollo's father Zeus Ken	$200 [15] His macabre 1843 tale "The Black Cat" is one of his most gruesome (Edgar Allan) Poe Ken	$200 [1] This state ranks as the world's chief producer of macadamia nuts Hawaii Ernst	$200 [11] He called Hegel a "mighty thinker" in his afterword to the 2nd edition of "Das Kapital" Marx Ken	$200 [27] This primate is named for Rhesos, a mythical king of Thrace a rhesus monkey Ernst
$400 [3] More than 2/3 of this Danish island lies beneath an ice sheet within the Arctic Circle Greenland Ken	$400 [17] This Norse thunder god was depicted as a middle-aged warrior with a red beard Thor Ken	$400 [14] In a Washington Irving story this equestrian spectre is also known as the galloping Hessian the Headless Horseman Stephanie	$400 [7] About 1900 a fungus almost completely destroyed the American species of this "spreading" tree the chestnut tree Stephanie	$400 [12] First name shared by Kant & Swedenborg, though they spelled it differently Immanuel (Emanuel) Stephanie	$400 [30] The Greek embruon gave us this word for the fertilized egg of a vertebrate embryo Ken
$600 [4] After flowing through the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River empties into this sea the Dead Sea Ernst Ken	$600 [18] Faunus, a satyr-like woodland deity, was part human & part this horned animal a goat Stephanie	$600 [10] The title of O. Henry's 1906 collection "The Four Million" refers to the population of this city New York Ken	$600 [26] Used for furniture & gunstocks, this "color" walnut is the most valuable hardwood grown in the U.S. black Ken	$600 [13] One group of this early mathematician's followers was known as the Mathematikoi Pythagoras Ernst	$600 [29] A coverlet made of 2 layers of fabric with a layer of cotton between, from Latin culcita, "mattress" a quilt Ernst
$800 [5] This Polish city & port is also known as Danzig Gdansk Ken	$800 [24] Like the astrological sign Libra, Atropos, one of the Fates, was represented by a pair of these scales Ernst	$800 [8] You might enjoy reading this Russian playwright's "Motley Stories" in a "Cherry Orchard" (Anton) Chekhov Stephanie	$800 [25] The tree of this brown, 3-cornered South American nut may reach heights of 150 feet the Brazil nut Ken	$800 [19] Speusippus accompanied this man on his journey to Sicily & later became head of his academy Plato	$800 [28] A temporary platform used in the construction of buildings, it comes from Old North French escafaut scaffolding Ken
$1,000 [6] The ancient land of Nubia was located mostly in what is now this country, not far from Khartoum Sudan Ken	DD $1,500 [22] Some sources say a Corinthian mob killed Jason's children, but most blame this sorceress, their mother Medea Stephanie	DD $2,000 [9] This 19th century Frenchman's famous story "The Diamond Necklace" has an ironic twist ending Guy de Maupassant Stephanie	$1,000 [23] Due to an irritating oil, touching the shell of this C-shaped nut can cause blisters cashew Stephanie	$1,000 [20] This Jewish philosopher was born in Amsterdam in 1632 to Portuguese parents Spinoza Stephanie	$1,000 [21] Named for a region of Norway a telemark is a type of stop or turn in this sport skiing Stephanie

Final Jeopardy!

ZOOLOGY

The scientific name of this mammal is abbreviated H. amphibius

a hippopotamus

Ernst "What is the Frog?" — wagered $1,699

Ken "What is a whale?" — wagered $4,301

Stephanie "What is the platypus?" — wagered $4,600

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