Show #2637 1996-02-06 Regular

Contestants

Gregg Lange — a management consultant from Montclair, New Jersey

Susan Rothberg — a tax preparer from Westbury, New York

Don Richardson — a software engineer from Haymarket, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Don $400 $2,300 $6,200 $12,400
2-day champion: $28,100
$8,700
22 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Susan $4,100 $5,000 $6,400 $400
2nd place: Gateway 2000 PC & Corel Draw! 5 software + GameTek Jeopardy!
$5,900
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Gregg $500 $400 $4,100 $100
3rd place: Helbros his & hers watches + GameTek Jeopardy!
$5,600
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY TELEVISION SICKNESS & HEALTH SAINTS TUNNELS CROSSWORD CLUES "R"
$100 [1]
The Gettysburg Address was delivered at the dedication ceremony of one of these
a cemetery
Don
$100 [11]
This Tim Allen sitcom finished the 1993-94 season as television's No. 1 show
Home Improvement
Gregg
$100 [6]
This speech disorder of repeated hesitation in uttering words is also called stammering
stuttering
Susan
$100 [22]
10 days after she joined the French army, it routed the English force besieging Orleans
Joan of Arc
Susan
$100 [21]
The world's first automobile tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, was completed under this river in 1927
the Hudson
Gregg
$100 [16]
Poe's crow(5)
a raven
Don
$200 [2]
This 1970s scandal was a major reason for the creation of the Federal Election Commission
Watergate
Gregg
$200 [12]
After shooting the first 4 episodes of the 1994-95 season, he left "NYPD Blue" to pursue a film career
(David) Caruso
Susan
$200 [7]
This is "taken" by pressing one or more fingers against the skin over an artery
the pulse
Gregg
$200 [27]
In 1093 St. Anselm was named archbishop of this by a gravely ill William II of England
Canterbury
Don
$200 [23]
The Channel Tunnel or Chunnel was constructed under the Strait of this
Dover
Don
$200 [17]
Welcome mat for a VIP (3,6)
a red carpet
Don
$300 [3]
Trying to defeat this man in 1840, the Whigs used the slogan "Van, Van, Van, Van is a used-up man"
Martin Van Buren
Susan
$300 [13]
On "In the Heat of the Night", Howard Rollins played this role that Sidney Poitier originated on film
(Virgil) Tibbs
Susan
$300 [8]
This viral infection of the nervous system may take months to develop after the bite of an infected dog
rabies
Don
$300 [28]
Like St. Stephen I, St. Ladislas I was king of this country
Hungary
Don
$300 [24]
3 tunnels under the Mersey River connect Birkenhead with this British port city
Liverpool
Gregg
$300 [18]
Maple leaf music(7)
ragtime
Susan
$400 [4]
As NYC's 99th mayor, this politician read the funnies on the radio during a newspaper strike
La Guardia
Susan
$400 [14]
Robert Young won 2 Emmys in the 1950s for "Father Knows Best" & another in 1970 for this drama
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Susan
$400 [9]
In spinal fusion 2 or more of these bones are joined
vertebrae
Susan
$400 [29]
This patron saint of children was bishop of Myra, Lycia
St. Nicholas
Don
$400 [25]
A string of tunnels runs under this Sierra Nevada pass named for a famous "Party"
the Donner Pass
Don
$400 [19]
Synthetic silk(5)
rayon
Don
$500 [5]
This Republican was elected Kansas governor in 1932 & 1934 despite Democratic wins nationwide
(Alf) Landon
Susan
$500 [15]
For 8 years this comedian played Dick Loudon, owner of the Stratford Inn
Bob Newhart
Susan
DD $1,000 [10]
Chromium works with this pancreatic hormone in the utilization of glucose
insulin
Susan
$500 [30]
The principal source of information about this saint is a biography by the Welsh scholar Rhygyfarch
(St.) David
Don
$500 [26]
More than 300 lives were lost building the St. Gotthard Tunnel connecting these 2 countries through the Alps
Switzerland & Italy
Susan
$500 [20]
Fabled fox(7)
Reynard
Gregg

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS AMERICANS MUSICAL THEATRE THE PLANETS FRENCH CUISINE POETRY "A" IN GEOGRAPHY
$200 [12]
Arriving in Australia from the Philippines in 1942, he said, "I came through and I shall return"
MacArthur
Gregg
$200 [17]
He was the King & Gertrude Lawrence was "I" when "The King and I" opened on Broadway in March 1951
Yul Brynner
Susan Gregg
$200 [1]
Hellas, an impact crater on this "Red" planet, is over 900 miles wide
Mars
Don
$200 [30]
Oeufs brouilles may sound fancy, but they're simply these items scrambled
eggs
Don
$200 [6]
In may 1888 DeWolf Hopper gave the first public reading of this Ernest Thayer baseball poem
Casey at the Bat
Susan
$200 [7]
This Canadian province's motto is "Fortis et Liber", "Strong and Free"
Alberta
Gregg
$400 [13]
This architect's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo rode out the 1923 earthquake because of its "floating" design
Frank Lloyd Wright
Gregg
$400 [18]
This 1968 show begins with the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Hair
Gregg
$400 [2]
Despite being closest to the Sun, this planet may have some ice in its polar regions
Mercury
Gregg
$400 [29]
These little fish are dusted with salt, quick-fried & marinated to make anchois Marines
anchovies
Don
$400 [22]
He wrote "Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight" & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Frost
Gregg
$400 [8]
Many Kabyles. a Berber people, live in Kabylla in this North African country
Algeria
Don Gregg
$800 [15]
In the 1840s this frontiersman guided John C. Fremont's 3 expeditions into the West
Kit Carson
Don
$600 [19]
This Frank Loesser musical was based on the stories of Damon Runyon
Guys and Dolls
Don
$600 [3]
Seen from space, this planet appears as a blue ocean sphere marked with brown, green & white areas
the Earth
Susan
$600 [28]
Named for its pale color, bombe dame blanche is typically made with this ice cream flavor
vanilla
Gregg
$600 [23]
His "One's-Self I Sing" was originally published in 1867 under the title "Inscription"
Whitman
Gregg
$600 [9]
Name shared by a former capital of Guatemala & a Caribbean island near Barbuda
Antigua
Susan
$1,000 [16]
After serving as president of the Continental Congress, he was elected governor of Massachusetts
John Hancock
Don
$800 [20]
In this musical J. Pierrepont Finch begins as a window washer & ends as chairman of the board
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Gregg
$800 [4]
The Magellan probe mapped 99% of this planet's surface
Venus
Don Susan
$800 [27]
Canard rouennais en chemise is the Rouen type of this bird, poached & served in a pig's bladder
duck
Don
$800 [24]
Believed written in the 8th c., this heroic Old English poem did not appear in print until 1815
Beowulf
Don
$800 [10]
The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in this capital is renowned for its Hittite collection
Ankara
Don
DD $1,500 [14]
This CEO of Occidental Petroleum was a co-owner of New York City's Knoedler Gallery
Armand Hammer
Gregg
$1,000 [21]
"Day By Day" is the most famous song from this musical based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew
Godspell
Don
$1,000 [5]
This planet was discovered in 1846; its largest moon, Triton, less than a month later
Neptune
Don Susan Gregg
$1,000 [26]
Fraises cardinal are these berries chilled, covered with raspberry puree & sprinkled with slivered almonds
strawberries
Don
DD $2,500 [25]
In the preface to "Adonais", Shelley wrote he "died at Rome of a consumption"
John Keats
Don
$1,000 [11]
The Kura, this former Soviet republic's main river, flows into the Caspian Sea
Azerbaijan
Don

Final Jeopardy!

SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare's 2 plays with "King" in the title & no numbers following

King Lear & King John

Gregg "What are King Lear & Preston" — wagered $4,000
Don "What are Lear + John?" — wagered $6,200
Susan "What are King Lear +" — wagered $6,000

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