Show #2150 1993-12-31 (taped 1993-09-20) Regular

Contestants

Bob Aumann — a decorating contractor from Palatine, Illinois

Jeff Frankel — a dentist from Fort Lee, New Jersey

Mickie Grover — a Ph.D. candidate from Yorktown Heights, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mickie $1,000 $2,000 $10,000 $10,000
2-day champion: $20,200
$10,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jeff $1,800 $900 $1,300 $2,600
3rd place: Maytag dishwasher and Wheel of Fortune / Jeopardy! video games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis system
$3,300
16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Bob $1,100 $4,500 $4,900 $5,000
2nd place: Dynamark Security System and Daniel Mink watches
$4,900
19 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

IN THE BOOKSTORE 1960s BROADWAY BUSINESS & INDUSTRY U.S.A. COOKING "BOX" LUNCH
$100 [1]
Photographer William Wegman’s version of this story features a Weimaraner dressed as the Fairy Godmother
"Cinderella"
Jeff
$100 [2]
Theatre World said this 1960 musical about King Arthur "couldn’t touch 'My Fair Lady'"
Camelot
Mickie
$100 [10]
Henry Ford introduced this model in 1908 & dropped all his other models the next year
the Model T
Bob
$100 [11]
If you’re not up to climbing this NYC building’s 1,860 steps, you can take one of 73 elevators
Empire State Building
Jeff
$100 [26]
This step in making cheese is a sign of spoilage in milk
curdling
Jeff
$100 [16]
It flies without a tail & you control it with a string
a box kite
Jeff
$200 [3]
She dedicated "Postcards from the Edge" to her brother Todd & her mother, Debbie Reynolds
Carrie Fisher
Mickie
$200 [5]
In 1967 she was "At Home at the Palace" with her kids Lorna & Joey Luft
Judy Garland
Bob
$200 [12]
Dorothy Hope Smith’s charcoal sketch of a baby is a trademark of this baby food company
Gerber
Mickie
$200 [14]
Some of the trees still standing on this Virginia Estate were planted by George Washington himself
Mount Vernon
Mickie
$200 [27]
To make chocolate ruffles, spread the chocolate on a chilled piece of this stone
marble
Bob
$200 [18]
In craps it's 6 of one die, half a dozen of the other
boxcars
Mickie Jeff
$300 [4]
Erica Jong called her book about this "Tropic of Cancer" author "The Devil at Large"
Henry Miller
Jeff
$300 [6]
Diane Keaton played a waitress & a parent in this "American tribal-love rock musical"
Hair
Mickie
$300 [17]
Cummins Engine Company is the world's largest maker of this type of truck engine
Diesel
Bob
$300 [15]
For a couple of pucks...er, bucks, you can visit a U.S. Hall of Fame for this sport in Eveleth, Minnesota
hockey
Bob
$300 [28]
These soft-dough quick breads may be baking powder, drop or buttermilk types
biscuits
Mickie
$300 [19]
A holder for flint & steel, or a potentially explosive place
a tinderbox
Bob
$400 [7]
This vampire novelist wrote "Exit to Eden" under the pseudonym Anne Rampling
Anne Rice
Jeff
$400 [8]
Pearl Bailey trod the boards in this musical in 1967-68
Hello, Dolly!
Jeff
$400 [24]
This second-largest U.S. breakfast cereal maker owns the Red Lobster & Olive Garden restaurant chains
General Mills
Bob
$400 [22]
Acadia & Evangeline are parishes in this state
Louisiana
Jeff Bob
$400 [29]
Use a little lemon juice on your freshly cut apples to stop this
browning
Bob
$400 [20]
In the early '60s people played a pin-this-hat-on Jackie Kennedy game
a pillbox hat
Bob
$500 [13]
"The Lost Boy", a novella by this "Look Homeward, Angel" author, wasn’t published in full until 1992
Thomas Wolfe
Bob
DD $500 [9]
This musical with Robert Morse opened October 14, 1961 & closed in 1965 after 1,415 performances
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Jeff
$500 [25]
This company markets paint under the Kem-Tone & Krylon labels as well as under its own hyphenated name
Sherwin-Williams
Jeff
$500 [23]
A memorial in Spillville, Iowa honors this composer who worked on his “New World” Symphony there
(Anton) Dvorák
Bob
$500 [30]
Traditional orange marmalade is made from these slightly bitter Spanish oranges
Sevilles
Mickie Jeff
$500 [21]
Fight yourself, or a shallow glass-fronted container that holds & displays items
a shadowbox (or shadow-box)
Jeff Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

1922 ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY AWARDS ARCHAEOLOGY HISTORIC NAMES POETS & POETRY
$200 [1]
This inventor of the telephone died in Nova Scotia on August 2
(Alexander Graham) Bell
Jeff
$200 [5]
Zeus became Leda's lover while disguised as one of these birds
a swan
Jeff
$200 [8]
In 1987 this actor won an Emmy for his role as David Addison on "Moonlighting"
Bruce Willis
Jeff
$200 [27]
Fossils of this primitive "man" have been found in France & Gibraltar as well as the Neander Valley
the Neanderthal Man
Bob
$200 [21]
In 325 A.D. this Christian Roman emperor presided over the council of Nicaea
Constantine
Bob
$200 [7]
Kipling called this regimental water-carrier "The finest man I knew"
Gunga Din
Jeff
$400 [2]
This empire came to an end in 1922 when Sultan Mehmed VI was deposed
the Ottoman Empire
Jeff Bob
$400 [17]
The nymph Callisto was turned into one of these animals, then placed in the sky as Ursa Major
a bear
Mickie
$400 [9]
This comedy team's 1932 short "The Music Box" won an Oscar for producer Hal Roach
Laurel & Hardy
Jeff
DD $200 [30]
Scholars say Hissarlik, a mount near the mouth of the Dardanelles in this country, is the site of Troy
Turkey
Mickie
$400 [22]
On April 15, 1889 this Catholic priest died of leprosy on the Hawaiian island of Molokai
(Father) Damien
Mickie
$400 [11]
"The Road Not Taken" is the opening poem in his "Mountain Interval"
(Robert) Frost
Mickie
$600 [3]
This memorial designed by Henry Bacon was dedicated in Washington on May 30
the Lincoln Memorial
Bob
$600 [18]
Odin gallops across the sky on one of these called Sleipnir, whose teeth are inscribed with runes
a horse
Mickie
$600 [10]
In 1929 this US Antarctic explorer was the recipient of the Boy Scouts' Silver Buffalo award
(Richard) Byrd
Mickie Bob
$400 [28]
Perhaps this country's most remarkable archaeological find is the Anglo-Saxon ship burial of Sutton Hoo
Great Britain (or England)
Mickie
$600 [23]
This soldier's conquest of Sicily and Naples in 1860 helped achieve Italian unity
(Giuseppe) Garibaldi
Jeff
$600 [12]
Completes the Joyce Kilmer couplet "Poems are made by fools like me..."
"...but only God can make a tree"
Bob
$800 [4]
On August 22 Michael Collins was ambushed by Independent Republicans in this country
Ireland
Mickie
$800 [19]
Echidna, who was half woman & half serpent, had many beastly children, including this Nemean beast
the Lion
Mickie
$800 [13]
Association that annually bestows the Melvil Dewey medal
the American Library Association
$600 [29]
Remains of this native dog are found in Australia but not in Tasmania
the dingo
Mickie
$1,000 [25]
Later head of Germany's Luftwaffe, he was an aerial ace during World War I
(Hermann) Göring
Jeff Bob
$800 [15]
Richard Lovelace wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars" this
a cage
Mickie
$1,000 [6]
This Indiana author won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Alice Adams"
(Booth) Tarkington
Mickie
$1,000 [20]
He's the 3-headed hound of Hades
Cerberus
Mickie Bob
$1,000 [14]
The International Committee of this organization has won 3 Nobel Peace Prizes: 1917, 1944, & 1963
the Red Cross
Mickie
$1,000 [26]
G.F. Grotefend and Sir Henry Rawlinson helped decipher forms of this wedge-shaped Sumerian writing
Cuneiform
Bob
DD $2,000 [24]
In 1890 this Ohio senator introduced a bill prohibiting the monopolization of a market
(John) Sherman
Jeff
$1,000 [16]
The poems in her 1971 collection "Winter Trees" date from the last year of her life
(Sylvia) Plath
Mickie

Final Jeopardy!

POLITICIANS

Elected to the House of Representatives in 1966, he was the first Republican to represent Houston

George Bush

Jeff "Who was G. Bush?" — wagered $1,300
Bob "Who is George Bush?" — wagered $100
Mickie "Who is Geo. Bush?" — wagered $0

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