Show #1779 1992-04-30 (taped 1992-01-14) Regular

Contestants

Don Westrich — an advertising executive from New York City, New York

Robin Pascale — a banker from Tivoli, New York

Joe Murphy — an attorney from Indianapolis, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $30,302)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $1,900 $3,600 $8,000 $799
2nd place: Orrefors stemware + Michael C. Fina Pembroke pattern fine English bone china service for eight + Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary computer game
$7,200
19 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Robin $400 $2,200 $7,200 $0
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary computer game
$7,200
17 R, 0 W
Don $1,600 $2,600 $7,000 $14,000
New champion: $14,000
$7,000
19 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. CITIES TOOLS THE 1991 TV SEASON BIBLICAL QUOTES CLOTHING FILE UNDER "Z"
$100 [6]
In this city, while brewers make beer, the Brewers play Major League Baseball
Milwaukee
Robin
$100 [13]
"Reptilian" name for a long, flexible wire used for cleaning drains
a snake
Don
$100 [7]
This British ex-model stars as one of the "Princesses"
Twiggy
Robin
$100 [18]
In Genesis 3:23 God "sent him forth from... Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken"
Adam
Joe
$100 [19]
This loose, draped garment was worn by Roman citizens on all formal occasions
a toga
Robin
$100 [1]
This drink is made with dark & light rum & any combination of fruit juices
a zombie
Don
$200 [9]
Built in 1672. the Castillo de San Marcos near this Florida city is the oldest masonry fort in the U.S.
Saint Augustine
Joe
$200 [14]
The metal rod used to stir up a fire
a poker
Robin
$200 [8]
This former host of "A Current Affair" joined a crowded field of talk show hosts
(Maury) Povich
Don
$200 [21]
"When the Queen of Sheba heard of" his fame, "she came to prove him with hard questions"
Solomon
Joe
$200 [20]
In 1746 the British Parliament banned the wearing of this plaid cloth pattern
a tartan
Joe Don
$200 [2]
A witty, often caustic remark
a zinger
Don
$300 [10]
In 1962 this city in Washington State was the site of the Century 21 Exposition
Seattle
Joe
$300 [15]
Mallet comes from the Latin "malleus" meaning this, a definition that hits the nail on the head
a hammer
Don
$300 [25]
Of "Pros & Cons", "Flesh 'n' Blood" or "Step by Step", the one that was a revamped show from last season
Pros & Cons
Robin
$300 [28]
Proverbs says, it "goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall"
pride
Joe
$300 [22]
First popular in the late 1950s, these knee-length pants are cut to resemble a skirt
culottes
Don
$300 [3]
This Pueblo Indian tribe of northwestern New Mexico is known for its turquoise jewelry
the Zuni
Don
$400 [11]
This New Mexico City's nuclear research lab was designated a nat'l landmark in 1965
Los Alamos
Joe
$400 [16]
A flat-bladed tool for smoothing mortar; we guess you "throw it in" when you're finished
trowel
Robin
$400 [26]
She moved from "Baby Talk" to adult talk on "Designing Women"
Julia Duffy
$400 [29]
On the sanctity of marriage, Jesus said, "What... God hath joined together, let not man" do this
put asunder
Joe
$400 [23]
A long skirt popular between 1910 & 1914, so narrow at the knees that women could hardly walk
a hobble (skirt)
Joe
$400 [4]
From German for "twice baked", it's a sweetened bread cut into slices & toasted
Zwieback
Don
$500 [12]
This Minnesota city is the westernmost port on the Great Lakes
Duluth
Joe
$500 [17]
A dibble is usually used to make holes in this
the earth (or soil)
Don
$500 [27]
Its ad reads "The weirdest spot on the entire planet... it's not just a town, it's an adventure"
Eerie, Indiana
Robin
DD $500 [30]
In Matthew 3:2 he urged, "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand"
John the Baptist
Joe
$500 [24]
Glospan, Lycra & Numa are trade names used for this manufactured stretch fiber
spandex
Robin
$500 [5]
This capital of Croatia dates back to the 11th century
Zagreb
Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR BALLET INSECTS ODDS & ENDS LITERARY CHARACTERS EVOLUTION
$200 [6]
On March 8, 1862 this Confederate ship came into Hampton Roads Harbor & destroyed 2 Union ships
the Merrimack
Don
$200 [26]
The dancers in the first part of the ballet "Jewels" represent these green gems
emeralds
Robin
$200 [17]
These "criminal" bees are a hybrid of African honeybees & wild Brazilian bees
killer bees
Don
$200 [9]
In 1985 this company introduced the world's largest television: the 80-by-150-foot Jumbo Tron
Sony
Robin
$200 [1]
In a trilogy by James T. Farrell, William Lonigan is better known by this nickname
Studs
Robin
$200 [14]
It's defined as the permanent loss of a species
extinction
Joe
$400 [7]
The Confederacy thought the power of this product would lure the European powers to its side
cotton
Robin
$400 [27]
The 1972 ballet "Sacred Grove on Mount Tamalpais" is set in Marin County in this state
California
Don
$400 [18]
Different species of this insect spread dengue fever & encephalitis as well as malaria
mosquitoes
Joe
$400 [10]
During the 1800s this Egyptian monument lost its 3-foot beard to the British Museum
the Sphinx
Don
$400 [2]
This Voltaire hero falls in love with Cunegonde, a baron's daughter
Candide
Joe
$400 [22]
Hereditary characteristics usually change by genetic recombination or this
mutation
Joe
$600 [8]
Surprisingly, the H.L. Hunley, which sank the Union Housatonic on Feb. 17, 1864, was this type of ship
a submarine
DD $400 [29]
This title body of water was formed by the tears of Odette's mother
Swan Lake
Joe
$600 [19]
Common types of these pests in U.S. homes are the German, American, Australian & brown-banded
cockroaches
Don
$600 [11]
In chess, it's the only piece that can jump over others
the knight
Robin
$600 [3]
By the end of this Erich Maria Remarque novel, Muller, Kat & Paul are all killed in WWI
All Quiet on the Western Front
Robin
$600 [23]
11-letter term given to the biblical account of the origin of life
creationism
$800 [15]
This Secretary of the Treasury tried to resign 4 times before Lincoln finally let him
(Salmon P.) Chase
Don
$600 [28]
In "Giselle", Giselle becomes one of the Wilis, the ghosts of girls who died before this special day
wedding day
Joe
$800 [20]
A giant species of this "hundred-legged" insect in the West Indies is fond of eating mice
a centipede
Robin
$800 [12]
While no longer music director for the N.Y. Philharmonic, he's the Israel Phil.'s music director for life
Zubin Mehta
Don
$800 [4]
This author of "The Jungle" wrote 11 novels about a heroic art dealer named Lanny Budd
Upton Sinclair
Joe
$1,000 [25]
In 1862 this French scientist proved that microorganisms are not generated spontaneously
Pasteur
Don
$1,000 [16]
When the war began, this 75-yr.-old was gen.-in-chief of the Union Army; he retired a short time later
Winfield Scott
Joe
$1,000 [30]
He was born in Marseille, but Marius Petipa is considered the father of this country's classical ballet
Russia
Joe Robin
$1,000 [21]
An insect's spiracles allow it to do this
breathe
Don
$1,000 [13]
A Chinese proverb states, "The nights are for" these "and the days are for fulfilling" them
dreams
Robin
$1,000 [5]
Gloucester's son Edgar, disguised as a madman, meets this king on the stormy heath
King Lear
Don
DD $2,000 [24]
This animal evolved from the Eohippus of 60 million years ago
the horse
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

He was the first Navy veteran to become president

Kennedy

Don "Who was Kennedy?" — wagered $7,000
Robin "Who wasCoolidgeRoosevelt?" — wagered $7,200
Joe "Who is Teddy Roosevelt" — wagered $7,201

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