Show #1815 1992-06-19 (taped 1992-02-04) Regular

Contestants

Hal Gladfelder — a teacher and grad student originally from Pasadena, California

Mary Ellen LaRubbio — a legal secretary originally from Brooklyn, New York

Toby Muller — a freelance copywriter originally from Hewlett, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Toby $1,400 $3,300 $12,300 $22,300
2-day champion: $31,800
$11,300
26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Mary Ellen $1,600 $1,400 $6,800 $2,599
3rd place: collection of Armitron All-Sport water-resistant sport watches + Nintendo Entertainment System with new editions of Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius Productivity Paks for Nintendo Game Boy
$6,700
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Hal $400 $3,400 $6,400 $12,400
2nd place: a vacation at historic Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs + Cazal 951 & 955 fashion sunglasses & sports systems
$6,400
18 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITALS FASHION DESIGNERS SPORTS LEONARDO DA VINCI POTPOURRI "DOWN"
$100 [1]
This capital of Texas was originally a village called Waterloo
Austin
Toby Mary Ellen Hal
$100 [23]
In the 1980s this princess of Monaco designed swimsuits & beach cover-ups
Princess Stephanie
Mary Ellen Hal
$100 [9]
In 1986 he became the 1st golfer to win the Masters tournament in 3 different decades
Jack Nicklaus
Hal
$100 [4]
In Verrocchio's "Baptism of Christ", parts of the landscape & one of these heavenly beings are by Leonardo
an angel
Hal
$100 [16]
The Cyclone at Coney Island has been called "the king of" these rides
a roller coaster
Hal
$100 [8]
This narrow London street runs from Whitehall to St. James Park
Downing Street
Toby
$200 [2]
Abraham Lincoln's tomb, completed & dedicated in 1874, is this city's greatest monument
Springfield
Toby
$200 [27]
She's a direct descendant of William C.C. Claiborne, who was governor of Louisiana during the War of 1812
Liz Claiborne
Hal
$200 [12]
In 1984 Cheryl Miller led USC to an NCAA title in this team sport
basketball
Toby
$200 [5]
To broaden his knowledge of anatomy, he performed these at a Florence hospital
autopsies
Mary Ellen
$200 [19]
A person or a nation that seems powerful but is actually weak is this kind of "tiger"
a paper tiger
Toby
$200 [11]
A sensible, practical person is said to be this
down-to-earth
Toby
$300 [3]
Polynesian settlers gave this capital its name, which means "protected bay"
Honolulu
Hal
$300 [28]
In 1952 Jacques Lenoir & Gaby Aghion founded the House of this, not the House of Daphnis
Chloé
Mary Ellen Hal
$300 [13]
Arie Luyendyk won this auto race in May 1990 averaging a record 185.984 mph
the Indianapolis 500
Toby
$300 [10]
The mural technique he created for this 1495-97 work hasn't held up very well
The Last Supper
Mary Ellen
$300 [20]
Recipes inspired by this film include Twelve Oaks plum pudding & Mammy's shrimp cakes
Gone with the Wind
Toby
$300 [24]
According to the title of a 1986 film, Nick Nolte was this "in Beverly Hills"
Down and Out
Hal
DD $500 [6]
It's located at the edge of the Laramie Mountains, more than 6,000 feet above sea level
Cheyenne
Mary Ellen
$400 [29]
We assume he created his "No-Bra" bra for those who were too timid to go topless
Rudi Gernriech
Hal
$400 [14]
In 1979 this woman tennis star's string of 125 consecutive clay-court victories was broken
Chris Evert Lloyd
$400 [17]
His monuments of Gian Giacomo Trivulzio & Francesco Sforza on these animals were never finished
horses
Hal
$400 [21]
Barbara Bush wore a coat of this, her signature color, to her husband's 1989 inauguration
blue
Hal
$400 [25]
A transmission path for data from a communications satellite to an Earth station
a downlink
Toby
$500 [7]
In Nov. 1991 a Fortune mag. survey ranked this so. capital the best place in the nation to do business
Atlanta (Georgia)
Mary Ellen
$500 [30]
This dynamic Frenchwoman who died in 1971 was known for her quilted handbags with chain handles
(Coco) Chanel
Hal
$500 [15]
In 1989, for a record 7th straight season, this Red Sox third baseman had over 200 hits
Wade Boggs
Toby
$500 [18]
They were left to his disciple Francesco Melzi & stayed together for the most part until 1600
his notebooks
Toby
$500 [22]
At age 66 he wrote new songs for the movie "There's No Business Like Show Business"
Irving Berlin
Toby
$500 [26]
This Chicago-based music magazine was founded in 1934
Downbeat
Hal

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE UNITED KINGDOM FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ANCIENT EGYPT LESSER-KNOWN NAMES BUSINESS & INDUSTRY "UP"
$200 [6]
The Roman name for this town was Aquae Sulis
Bath
Toby
$200 [1]
Kimball O'Hara befriends Teshoo Lama, an elderly holy man, in this Kipling story
Kim
Mary Ellen
$200 [14]
Reigning in Egypt from 51-30 B.C., she was the seventh queen to bear this name
Cleopatra
Toby
$200 [22]
Andrew Rowan carried a message to this man in Cuba at the start of the Spanish-American War
García
Toby Mary Ellen
$200 [11]
Charles Lazarus, founder of this toy store chain, was among the highest paid corporate exec. of the 1980s
Toys "R" Us
Toby
$200 [17]
An egg fried without breaking the yolk is said to be cooked this way
sunny-side up
Toby
$400 [7]
Donegal Square is in this capital
Belfast
Toby Mary Ellen
$400 [2]
This Saint-Exupery character is the only human inhabitant of a tiny, distant planet
the Little Prince
Hal
$400 [27]
Akhenaton's son-in-law, his life was short & his tomb was long hidden
(King) Tut
Toby
$400 [23]
German meteorologist Alfred Wegener was 1st to catch their drift when he saw the jigsaw pattern
the continents
Hal
$400 [12]
This St. Louis-based brewing dynasty was the subject of a recent book, "Under the Influence"
Anheuser-Busch
Toby
$400 [18]
In boxing this swinging blow is usually directed toward an opponent's chin
an uppercut
Toby
$600 [8]
Term for a person specifically from Glasgow
a Glaswegian
Toby
$600 [3]
Joseph Conrad based Mr. Kurtz in this novel on Georges-Antoine Klein. a man he met in Africa
Heart of Darkness
Hal
$600 [28]
When the star Sirius reappeared in the sky, the Egyptians noticed this annual event followed
the flooding of the Nile
Mary Ellen
$600 [24]
Carlos Pena Romulo, born around 1900 on Luzon, was this general's aide-de-camp in World War II
MacArthur
Mary Ellen
$600 [13]
Alcan, once a part of this aluminum company, has been on its own since 1928
Alcoa
Mary Ellen
$600 [19]
This 1967 5th Dimension hit begins, "Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon"
"Up, Up And Away"
Toby
$800 [9]
It's the council of about 300 who advise the Queen
the Privy Council
Toby
$800 [4]
The principal character of "Crime and Punishment", his first name is Rodion
Raskolnikov
Hal
$800 [29]
Horus & Ra were depicted with the head of this bird
a falcon (or hawk)
Mary Ellen
$800 [25]
As leader of this from 1886-1902, Richard Croker was the unofficial dictator of New York City
Tammany Hall
Hal
$800 [15]
The RCA Building in Rockefeller Center has since been renamed for this company which purchased RCA in 1986
General Electric
Toby
$800 [20]
It's the practice & technique of keeping a step ahead of a competitor
one-upmanship
Toby
DD $1,000 [10]
Wales hasn't been a kingdom since 1284; it's one of these
a principality
Toby
$1,000 [5]
Father Latour is the archbishop in the title of this Willa Cather work
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Toby Hal
$1,000 [30]
The Coffin Texts evolved into this book
the Book of the Dead
Mary Ellen
$1,000 [26]
Ignatius Donnelly, a founder of the Populist Party, wrote about this "antediluvian world" in 1882
Atlantis
Mary Ellen
DD $2,000 [16]
Dentsu Inc., which is based in Japan, is the world's largest agency in this field
advertising
Toby
$1,000 [21]
This Swedish city was the site of the country's capital in Viking times
Uppsala
Hal

Final Jeopardy!

IN THE NEWS

In an unannounced December 1991 speech at Columbia Univ., this author said, "Free speech is life itself"

Salman Rushdie

Hal "Who is Salman Rushdie?" — wagered $6,000
Mary Ellen "Who is" — wagered $4,201
Toby "Who is Salmun Rushdie?" — wagered $10,000

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