Show #1668 1991-11-27 (taped 1991-09-12) Regular

Kirk Ditzler game 3.Contestant introductions missing from archiving tape.

Contestants

David Green — a semi-professional actor from San Francisco, California

Mike Kennedy — a former high school teacher from Torrance, California

Kirk Ditzler — a teacher from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kirk $2,700 $4,900 $10,500 $10,000
3-day champion: $28,200
$9,900
25 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Mike $-300 $300 $-1,100 $-1,100
3rd place: U-Line combo ice maker-refrigerator + Nintendo Entertainment System
$900
12 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs)
David $1,000 $1,800 $3,000 $0
2nd place: Broyhill entertainment center + Ross Simons bracelet
$3,000
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COLLEGE TEAM NICKNAMES TALK SHOW HOSTS SICKNESS & HEALTH PROVERBS ODDS & ENDS PEANUTS
$100 [26]
The Crimson Tide
Alabama
Kirk
$100 [6]
He takes over as permanent host of "The Tonight Show" in May 1992
Jay Leno
David
$100 [16]
It's an inflammation of the voice box resulting in hoarseness
laryngitis
Mike
$100 [18]
A Chinese proverb tells us, "A hasty man drinks" this steeped beverage "with a fork"
tea
Kirk
$100 [11]
Originally made from the bark of the willow tree, take 2 & call me with the answer
aspirin
Mike
$100 [1]
Snoopy uses this as his "Sopwith Camel"
his doghouse
Mike
$200 [27]
The Nittany Lions
Penn State
Kirk
$200 [7]
In 1983 she began her now nationally known talk show in St. Louis
Sally Jessy Raphael
Kirk Mike
$200 [17]
To the nearest minute, the time it takes blood to go from the heart thru the body & back to the heart
about a minute
$200 [19]
This can be "bliss", or "the night of the mind"
ignorance
Mike
$200 [12]
Feb. 2 could also be called "Woodchuck Day", since it's the same animal
groundhog
David
$200 [2]
1 of the offstage characters never seen in the strip is his blanket-hating grandmother
Linus
Mike
$300 [28]
The Cornhuskers
Nebraska
David
$400 [9]
"Another World" star Linda Dano is a host on "Attitudes" on this cable channel
Lifetime
Kirk
$300 [23]
The x-ray screening process used to detect breast cancer in women
mammography
Mike
$300 [20]
"God made the earth but" these people "made Holland"
the Dutch
$300 [13]
1942 cartoon feature noted for its forest fire sequence
Bambi
David
$300 [3]
Charles Schulz gave his daughter Meredith a toy piano that inspired this piano this character plays
Schroeder
Kirk
$400 [29]
The Razorbacks
Arkansas
Kirk
$500 [10]
This New York-based pair was named to co-host the 1991 Miss America Pageant
Regis Philbin & Kathie Lee Gifford
Kirk
$400 [24]
This former 97-pound weakling developed the Dynamic Tension exercise routine
Charles Atlas
Kirk David
$400 [21]
"Never marry for" this, "Ye'll borrow it cheaper"
money
David
$400 [14]
The U.S.A.'s 1st federal wood research center was established in 1910 in this Wisconsin capital
Madison
David
$400 [4]
Peppermint Patty's nickname for Charlie Brown
Chuck
Kirk
$500 [30]
The Boilermakers
Purdue
Kirk
DD $900 [8]
In 1991hegot his own syndicated talk show
Ron Reagan
Kirk
$500 [25]
Cooking destroys this vitamin whose scientific name is ascorbic acid
vitamin C
Kirk
$500 [22]
This "mother of invention" "and opportunity may make a coward valiant"
necessity
David
$500 [15]
Author who wrote about "The murmuring pines and hemlocks" in "the forest primeval"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
$500 [5]
Charles Schulz once said this little blonde girl was his "personal favorite of all the characters"
Sally
Mike

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE U.N. MAMMALS PERFUME & COLOGNE LANGUAGES NURSERY RHYMES MARCO POLO
$200 [1]
In the last 46 years, this nation has cast the most vetoes in the Security Council with over 100
the Soviet Union
Kirk
$200 [16]
Mohair comes from the angora species of this mammal
a goat
Kirk David
$200 [26]
Designer Liz' last name, or her fragrance for men
Claiborne
Mike
$200 [2]
The 2 official languages of Canada — eh?
French and English
David
$200 [11]
"Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie" did this to "the girls and made them cry"
kissed the girls
David
$200 [21]
Unlike most people, this explorer thought Polo's book was true & set off for Cathay in 1492
Columbus
David
$400 [7]
50 nations signed the U.N. Charter on June 26, 1945 at this city's War Memorial Opera House
San Francisco
Kirk
$400 [17]
The slowest of all mammals is the three-toed species of this
a sloth
Kirk
$400 [27]
Retailers say this designer's Eternity for Men & Obsession for Men are also worn by women
Calvin Klein
Kirk
$400 [3]
Thousands of Austrians speak Slovene, but a whopping 98% of them speak this official language
German
Mike
$400 [12]
She "tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, to tack each sheep to its tail"
Little Bo-Peep
Kirk
$400 [22]
One thing Marco didn't mention was this structure, built to keep invaders out of China
the Great Wall
Mike
$600 [8]
The U.N. Library is named for this Swedish Secretary-General who died in a plane crash
Dag Hammarskjold
Kirk
$600 [18]
They range in size from the royal, probably the smallest hoofed mammal, to the giant eland
antelopes
$600 [28]
We assume Jaclyn Smith likes this state because her cologne is named for it
California
$600 [4]
Most courses at the University of Helsinki are taught in Swedish or this language
Finnish
Kirk Mike
$600 [13]
In "Sing A Song Of Sixpence". it's where the king computes his cash
his countinghouse
Mike
$600 [23]
The tales of Marco bringing this food back to the West are just tales; it existed there before his trip
spaghetti (pasta, noodles)
Kirk
$800 [9]
On October 25, 1971 the U.N. voted to expel this nation
Taiwan (Nationalist China)
Mike
$800 [19]
The extinct quagga was a relative of this African mammal, but was striped on only part of its body
a zebra
David
$800 [29]
As far as we know, she's the only daughter of a Cubist who has a perfume named for herself
Paloma Picasso
Kirk
$800 [5]
Haitian Creole is the native language of the many people who live on this island
Hispaniola
Kirk
DD $1,000 [14]
This queen "is dead and gone...but left her lace to whiten on each weed-entangled way"
Queen Anne
Mike
$800 [24]
Kublai Khan asked Marco's father to bring some holy oil from a lamp in this city
Jerusalem
Kirk Mike
$1,000 [10]
Following the U.S., this country contributes more to the U.N.'s budget than any other nation
Japan
Mike
$1,000 [20]
The smallest of these mammals is the Kitti's hog-nosed or bumblebee species
bats
$1,000 [30]
His perfume, like his costumes for Carol Burnett & Cher, is "for the woman who dares to be noticed"
Bob Mackie
David
$1,000 [6]
The Tosk dialect is spoken widely in the southern part of this country, which borders Greece
Albania
Mike David
$1,000 [15]
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote of this, "He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head"
his shadow
Kirk
DD $1,000 [25]
Around 1275 Marco reached the Mongol summer capital Shang-Tu, known to Coleridge readers as this
Xanadu
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

SHAKESPEARE

In his diary Samuel Pepys described this play as silly, "and not related at all to the name or day"

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

David "What is Midsummer Night's Dream" — wagered $3,000
Kirk "What is A Midsummer Night's Dream" — wagered $500

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