Show #1846 1992-09-21 (taped 1992-07-27) Regular

Linda Sheppard game 3.

Contestants

Marc Komisarow — a financial planner from Atlanta, Georgia

Phil Brown — an audio engineer originally from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,200)

Linda Sheppard — a housewife from Hayward, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Linda $1,000 $2,000 $10,600 $10,100
3-day champion: $27,000
$10,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Phil $1,500 $1,200 $5,400 $0
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! + Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy
$6,400
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Marc $1,200 $1,800 $2,000 $2,500
2nd place: a trip on Delta to St. Croix, Virgin Islands & stay at St. Croix by the Sea Hotel
$2,000
9 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ANIMALS '60s TV SCOTLAND CHOCOLATE "ISM"s
$100 [1]
By 2027 the qualifying age to receive full retirement benefits from this program will increase to 67
Social Security
Marc
$100 [12]
The emperor is the only one of these birds that breeds during the dark polar winter
the penguin
Linda
$100 [2]
In titles this word followed "Felony", "M" & "Mod"
Squad
Linda
$100 [22]
War songs & dirges called pibrochs are pieces of music composed for these musical instruments
bagpipes
Linda
$100 [15]
Of all the different kinds of chocolate, this "dairy" type is probably the most popular
milk chocolate
Linda
$100 [8]
Immersion is one method of performing this Christian rite
baptism
Phil
$200 [3]
Civil War troops unable to appear in person were the first U.S. servicemen to use this type of ballot
an absentee ballot
Linda
$200 [13]
Prairie dogs & woodchucks are considered "ground" species of this rodent
squirrels
Phil
$200 [7]
In the '50s he played Davy Crockett, in the '60s, Daniel Boone
Fess Parker
Linda
$200 [23]
In this city a road known as the Royal Mile connects Castle Rock with Holyrood Palace
Edinburgh
Phil
$200 [27]
The chocolate classified as "semi" this is often used to make homemade candy
sweet
Phil
$200 [16]
Lenin defined it as "Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country"
Communism
Phil Marc
$300 [4]
It's a formal request made to a higher court to review the finding of a lower court
an appeal
Marc
$300 [14]
Popularly used as fish food, this shrimp is named for the salty waters it inhabits
brine
Marc
$300 [9]
In "The Name of the Game" this former untouchable played a former FBI agent
Robert Stack
Phil
$300 [24]
Scottish foods include haggis & these, which are smoked herring
kippers
Phil
$300 [28]
Spaniards reported this Aztec emperor drank 50 cups of chocolate a day
Montezuma
Marc
$300 [19]
It's another term for boxing, or the art of fighting with fists
pugilism
Phil
$400 [5]
In 1795 he resigned as Supreme Court Chief Justice to become governor of New York
John Jay
Linda
$400 [20]
A warren refers to a colony of these or an area where they live & breed
rabbits
Linda
$400 [10]
In 1965 he moved up from ramrod to trail boss on "Rawhide"
Clint Eastwood
Phil
$500 [26]
These ancient non-Celtic people were named by the Romans for their painted bodies
the Picts
Linda
$400 [17]
From the name of a mythical character, it's an excessive love of oneself
narcissism
Linda
$500 [6]
This minor party grew out of the temperance movement and is currently the oldest 3rd party in the U.S.
the Prohibition Party
Marc
$500 [21]
Also called a Persian greyhound, it's believed to be the oldest purebred dog in the world
the saluki
Linda Phil
$500 [11]
During the 1966-67 season, "Peyton Place" & this other prime time show were on 2 nights a week
Batman
Phil
DD $1,000 [25]
Called the capital of the Highlands, it's also a type of coat with a detachable cape worn there
Inverness
Phil
$500 [18]
The "wild beasts" of this expressionist art movement included Matisse & Andre Derain
Fauvism
Marc

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY CHARACTERS COMPOSERS GENERAL SCIENCE ISLES THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXTILES
$200 [9]
He spends 24 years on a deserted island before he meets Friday
Robinson Crusoe
Linda
$200 [2]
On the same day his "Carmen" premiered, he was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
Bizet
Phil
$200 [1]
Pilots have reported seeing a rare form of this which strikes upward from a cloud rather than down
lightning
Linda
$200 [26]
The cow whose milk has the highest butterfat content was developed on this isle
Jersey
Phil
$200 [18]
With the Continental Army, George Washington first heard it read in this city
New York City
Phil
$200 [6]
After ginning, this fiber is pressed into 480-pound bales
cotton
Linda
$400 [10]
Magic transforms Tip into Princess Ozma in this author's "The Marvelous Land of Oz"
Frank Baum
Phil
$400 [4]
Many of Bach's clavier concertos were modeled on the works of this "Four Seasons" composer
Vivaldi
Linda
$400 [3]
Highly poisonous prussic acid is said to have the smell of these "bitter" nuts
almonds
Linda
$400 [30]
Called the Isles of the Blest in ancient Roman legend, they were named after dogs, not birds
the Canary Islands
$400 [19]
The National Archives has no record of it being sent to this king whose actions it condemns
George III
Phil
$400 [14]
The name of this stretchy man-made fiber is an anagram of "expands"
spandex
Marc
$600 [15]
This John Bunyan work follows Christian on his way to the Celestial City
The Pilgrim's Progress
Marc
$600 [5]
John S. Smith is often credited with composing "To Anacreon In Heaven", the tune later used for this song
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Marc
$600 [11]
Darwinism is the idea that evolution took place by this process
natural selection
Phil
$600 [27]
The Strait of Belle Isle is the northernmost entrance to this Canadian gulf
(the Gulf of) St. Lawrence
Phil Marc
$600 [21]
The date of this historic event was August 2, 1776
the signing of the Declaration
$600 [20]
Examples of this fabric made from flax have been found in Swiss Stone Age dwellings
linen
Linda
$800 [16]
Poet Delmore Schwartz was the model for Humboldt in this author's "Humboldt's Gift"
Saul Bellow
Linda
$800 [7]
This composer of the "Unfinished Symphony" gave his only public concert in March of 1828
Schubert
Linda
$800 [12]
The energy a body has because of its motion is this type
kinetic
Phil
$800 [28]
This capital city grew around Slotsholmen, or Castle Isle; Christiansborg Castle is there now
Copenhagen
Linda
DD $1,000 [22]
This is the first self-evident truth listed
all men are created equal
Linda
$800 [24]
Merino sheep the producers of the world's finest wool, were developed in this country c. 1400
Spain
Phil Marc
DD $1,200 [17]
The baron cuts off one of Belinda's curls for a keepsake in this Alexander Pope mock epic
The Rape of the Lock
Linda
$1,000 [8]
In 1945 he won a Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Spring"
Aaron Copland
Linda
$1,000 [13]
In the classification of animals, this grouping comes between kingdom & class
phylum
Phil
$1,000 [29]
A terrier originated on this isle, the largest isle in the Inner Hebrides
Skye
Linda
$1,000 [23]
Roger Sherman on the committee to draft the declaration also helped write this 1781 compact
the Articles of Confederation
Phil
$1,000 [25]
The cultivation of this fiber is called sericulture
silk

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. GEOGRAPHY

The name of this mountain chain means "bark eaters", a derogatory name the Iroquois gave their neighbors

the Adirondack chain

Marc "What is Adirondack?" — wagered $500
Phil "What are the Appalatchians" — wagered $5,400
Linda "What is Appalachian" — wagered $500

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