Show #1766 1992-04-13 (taped 1991-12-17) Regular

Bruce Simmons game 1.

Contestants

Kathy Stone — a housewife from Austin, Texas

Bruce Simmons — a grad student from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ed Bryant — a lawyer from Springfield, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ed $600 $300 $600 $1,143
3rd place: Konica Z-Up 80 RC camera + NES with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy
$1,700
8 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Bruce $1,400 $3,400 $11,200 $16,900
New champion: $16,900
$10,700
30 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Kathy $1,300 $1,300 $2,700 $3,900
2nd place: trip on TWA to Hartford, Connecticut & stay at Killington Ski Resort in Vermont
$2,700
12 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIOLOGY TRANSPORTATION THEATRE HISTORY TEXTILES COUPLES "T" TIME
$100 [26]
Term for the process of releasing an egg for fertilization
ovulating
Bruce
$100 [11]
The first folding ones of these 2-wheeled vehicles were introduced around 1900
a bicycle
Bruce
$100 [7]
Emperor Ming Huang of this country founded an academy for actors in the 8th century
China
Kathy
$100 [14]
Dungaree is a coarse, usually blue type of this cloth
denim
Bruce
$100 [6]
In 1991 Roseanne Barr changed her professional name to this, her husband's last name
Arnold
Bruce
$100 [1]
Some of these hairy spiders have been known to live for 20 years
tarantulas
Kathy
$200 [28]
The three small bones found in this organ are known collectively as the ossicles
the ear
Kathy
$200 [16]
A moveable residence, or a residence for your movable Alexander Calder sculptures
a mobile (home)
Ed
$200 [9]
Bertolt Brecht attacked this dictator's regime in his play "The Private Life of the Master Race"
Hitler
Bruce
$200 [15]
This type of wool comes from the first shearing of sheep less than 8 months old
lamb's wool
Bruce
$200 [8]
Robert Urich's wife, former child actress Heather Menzies, played Louisa von Trapp in this film
The Sound of Music
Bruce
$200 [2]
This Australian island is known for its "devils"
Tasmania
Kathy
$300 [29]
In birds, this part of the alimentary canal is also known as the gastric mill
the gizzard
Kathy
$300 [17]
Truckers call these highway collection points "piggy banks"
toll booths
Bruce
$300 [10]
Pisistratus established a tragedy contest as part of this city's Great Dionysia Festival around 534 B.C.
Athens
Ed
$300 [20]
Cotton fibers grow on this part of the plant from which a gin separates them
the seed
Kathy
$300 [22]
Real estate developer Jon Eicholtz must "dream of Jeannie", since he married this actress in 1991
Barbara Eden
Bruce
$300 [3]
A squealer, or an awful shade of gray that tells the world your clothes are dirty
a tattletale
Ed
DD $500 [27]
Some mollusks & other lower creatures are acephalous, meaning they lack this body part
a head
Bruce
$400 [18]
An ATC is one of these people, as any pilot could tell you
an air traffic controller
Bruce
$400 [12]
Victorien Sardou wrote the 1882 play "Fedora" for this great French actress who triumphed in it
Bernhardt
Bruce
$400 [21]
The name of this puckered cloth comes from Persian "shir-o-shakar", meaning "milk & sugar"
seersucker
Kathy
$400 [23]
This playwright & actress Diane Lander got divorced in '88 & remarried in '90; what an "Odd Couple"
Neil Simon
Bruce
$400 [4]
From 1976-78 he was Bishop of Lesotho
(Desmond) Tutu
Kathy
$500 [30]
In humans, they're the two main processes of cell division
meiosis & mitosis
Ed
$500 [19]
These seats are often fitted with railings, which makes riding camel or elephant a little easier
a howdah
Ed Bruce
$500 [13]
Stanislavsky was born in this city, the home of the art theatre he founded in 1898
Moscow
Bruce
$500 [25]
This rough, irregular outerwear cloth is named for a river in Scotland
tweed
Ed
$500 [24]
Appropriately, these married actors have a daughter named Prentiss Benjamin
Paula Prentiss & Richard Benjamin
Bruce
$500 [5]
The leaves of this poi plant can be cooked & eaten like spinach or turnip greens
taro
Kathy

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY ARTISTS COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES POTPOURRI THE 20th CENTURY NAME THE AUTHOR
$200 [1]
In 1975 New York City's Richmond borough was renamed after this island
Staten Island
Bruce
$200 [20]
Modern artist Lucian Freud, grandson of this famous man, has been called "The Ingres of Existentialism"
Sigmund Freud
Bruce
$200 [6]
The largest completely open-stack university library in the U.S. is at this school nicknamed Penn
the University of Pennsylvania
Bruce
$200 [18]
"Scot" is an old word for tax or payment, so this phrase means to get away without payment or penalty
to get away scot-free
Bruce
$200 [13]
At 49 days, this 1981 sports strike was the longest in professional athletics history
the baseball strike
Bruce
$200 [3]
"Jubal Sackett"
Louis L'Amour
Kathy
$400 [2]
The northeastern New Jersey town of Irvington is named for this author
Washington Irving
Kathy
$400 [21]
Novelist George du Maurier also drew caricatures for this British humor magazine
Punch
Bruce
$400 [9]
Christ's College at this university was founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII
Cambridge
Ed Bruce
$400 [19]
Of the Guinea pig, Guinea worm or Guinea hen, the one that isn't native to Africa
the Guinea pig
$400 [14]
Prince Franz Josef II became head of state of this tiny European country in 1938
Liechtenstein
Ed
$400 [4]
"Sketches by Boz"
(Charles) Dickens
Bruce
$600 [25]
The western border of this state is formed by the Big Sioux & Missouri Rivers
Iowa
Bruce
$600 [22]
Jasper Johns once dreamed he was painting this symbol of the U.S.; now he's painted it many times
the U.S. flag
Bruce
$600 [10]
Laval University is named for Francois de Montmorency Laval, the 1st bishop of this Canadian city
Quebec
Ed Bruce
$600 [28]
In 1991 this cereal with a leprechaun on the box added green tree marshmallows
Lucky Charms
Kathy
$600 [15]
In 1973 construction was completed on this 1454-foot-tall Chicago building
the Sears Tower
Bruce
$600 [5]
"The Idiot"
Dostoyevsky
Ed
$800 [26]
It's the largest Texas city bordering Mexico
El Paso
Bruce
$800 [23]
The last name of this great English landscape painter could refer to a British policeman
(John) Constable
Ed Kathy
$1,000 [12]
This queen of Sweden founded what is now the University of Helsinki more than 3 1/2 centuries ago
Queen Christina
Kathy
$800 [29]
It's the official language of Mauritius
English
Bruce
$800 [16]
Until June 22, 1948, this British king was also emperor of India
George VI
Bruce
$800 [7]
"The Europeans"
(Henry) James
Bruce
DD $2,000 [27]
Sharing the name of an Italian region, this foothill plateau reaches its greatest extent in VA, NC & SC
the Piedmont
Bruce
$1,000 [24]
In 1578 a beautiful woman from Toledo bore a son by this Greek artist
El Greco
Bruce
DD $1,100 [11]
George Washington was this school's chancellor from 1788 until his death
the College of William and Mary
Ed
$1,000 [30]
This country's national library began as a subscription library, the Raffles Library
Singapore
Ed Kathy
$1,000 [17]
In 1944 it failed to renew the 1918 treaty of union with Denmark & declared itself a republic
Iceland
Bruce
$1,000 [8]
"Cimarron"
Edna Ferber
Kathy

Final Jeopardy!

AUSTRALIA

The flags of these 2 Australian states have crowns on them

Queensland & Victoria

Ed "What are Queensland & Victoria" — wagered $543
Kathy "What are Victoria & Queensland" — wagered $1,200
Bruce "What are Victoria and Queensland?" — wagered $5,700

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