Show #2089 1993-10-07 (taped 1993-08-02) Regular

Contestants

Tim Joyce — a criminal prosecutor from La Grange, Illinois

Laurie Neff — a market research manager from Milmont Park, Pennsylvania

Joy Bell — a registered nurse from Columbia, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joy $1,700 $2,700 $6,900 $2,599
2nd place: trip on Delta Puerto Vallarta, Mexico & stay at Krystal Vallarta + Jeopardy computerized version or home game
$7,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Laurie $1,600 $3,000 $5,600 $1,399
3rd place: Konica Aiborg camera & film + Jeopardy computerized version or home game
$5,600
19 R, 1 W
Tim $1,300 $1,900 $4,900 $2,700
New champion: $2,700
$5,900
18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES TV PRIVATE EYES ITALIAN FOOD & DRINK THE OLD TESTAMENT CONSERVATION & NATURE "X", "Y", "Z"
$100 [7]
It's America's "City of Witches"
Salem, Massachusetts
Tim
$100 [1]
Cybill Shepherd played Maddie Hayes, a model who became a detective, in this series
Moonlighting
Tim
$100 [12]
To get this beverage, ask for acqua minerale
mineral water
Laurie
$100 [19]
Cain was a tiller of the ground & Abel was a keeper of these animals
sheep
Joy
$100 [17]
The spectacled bear, the only bear native to this continent, is protected Peru's Manu National Park
South America
Laurie
$100 [6]
This musical instrument that resembles the marimba may have originated in Southeast Asia
xylophone
Laurie
$200 [8]
It's the "Empire City" of the Empire State
New York City
Tim
$200 [2]
This private eye was played by Darren McGavin in the 1950s & Stacy Keach in the 1980s
Mike Hammer
Tim
$200 [24]
Referring to hot or cold hors d'oeuvres, this term means "before the food"
antipasto
Joy
$200 [20]
During their 40 years in the wilderness, the Israelites ate this "bread" which fell from heaven
manna
Laurie
$200 [18]
Special devices called TEDs can keep these shelled reptiles from drowning in shrimpers' nets
turtles
Joy Tim
$200 [13]
A type of toy terrier, or a pudding
Yorkshire
Laurie
$300 [9]
The nickname "Crescent City" comes from the curve of the Mississippi River besides its French Quarter
New Orleans
Tim
$300 [3]
In return for helping with security, he got free living quarters on Robin Masters' estate
Magnum P.I.
Joy
$300 [25]
Beef is manzo & this related meat is vitello
veal
Laurie
$300 [21]
Before his death, he asked to be "avenged of the Philistines" for his 2 eyes
Samson
Joy
$300 [26]
At Nature Company stores, you can put coins in "zoo meters" made from these meters to save the rain forests
parking meters
Laurie
$300 [14]
In movie titles this word has preceded "Dillinger", "Doctors in Love" & "Frankenstein"
Young
Laurie
$400 [10]
This city on Tampa Bay is the "Sunshine City"
St. Petersburg
Tim
$400 [4]
In 1975 Mike Post's theme for this James Garner series reached No. 10 on the pop charts
The Rockford Files
Joy
$400 [29]
Sangiovese is the primary grape in this red Tuscan wine sometimes sold in straw-covered bottles
Chianti
Tim
$400 [22]
After he saw this bloody garment, Jacob believed that an evil beast had devoured Joseph
the coat of many colors
Joy
$400 [27]
This company donated 8.500 acres near its Florida theme park to the Nature Conservancy
Walt Disney
Tim
$400 [15]
He's the most famous man we know named Pinchas
Zukerman
Laurie
$500 [11]
This Alabama industrial city grew so fast it became known as the "Magic City"
Birmingham
Joy
$500 [5]
In this series detective Dan Tanna's office was located at the Desert Inn Hotel
Vegas
Joy
$500 [30]
Mortadella is a specialty of this Italian city for which a popular luncheon meat is named
Bologna
Laurie
DD $700 [23]
The Ten Commandments are listed twice in their entirety, first in Exodus, then in this book
Deuteronomy
Joy
$500 [28]
This "Golden Palace" actress won the James Herriot Award for inspiring public concern for animals
Betty White
Joy
$500 [16]
In "The Mikado" this "delectable" damsel has sisters named Peep-Bo & Pitti-Sing
Yum-Yum
Laurie

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES KOREA FASHION HISTORY CHEMISTRY NOVEL CHARACTERS ODDS & ENDS
$200 [5]
Yes sir! This "Little Tramp" was named a knight by Queen Elizabeth on New Year's Day 1975
Charlie Chaplin
Tim
$200 [20]
When these were held in South Korea in 1988, the host country placed sixth in medals
the Olympics
Laurie
$200 [16]
Some 16th century women dyed their hair this color in imitation of Elizabeth I
red
Laurie
$200 [18]
Chemically speaking, one of these sweet-tasting simple carbohydrates is called a saccharide
sugar
Tim
$200 [1]
This Boris Pasternak title character is sometimes called Yurochka
Dr. Zhivago
Joy
$200 [7]
Mittwoch, the German name for this, means "middle of the week"
Wednesday
Laurie
$400 [10]
When this publisher died, he left his San Simeon Castle to the Univ. of Ca. but they turned it down
(William Randolph) Hearst
Tim
$400 [21]
There are about 7 million followers of this religion in South Korea; 1 million are Catholic
Christianity
Laurie
$400 [17]
The praetexta type of this loose, draped outer garment of ancient Rome had a purple border
a toga
Joy
$400 [19]
Gustave Bemont helped this couple discover radium in the 1890s
the Curies
Laurie
$400 [2]
In Virginia Woolf's novel "The Waves", Percival dies when he falls from one of these animals
a horse
Tim
$400 [8]
A1L1F4R1E1D2B3U1T1T1S1who invented this game in 1931, died in April 1993
Scrabble
Laurie
$600 [11]
In 1801 Lady Hamilton bore this naval his first child, a daughter, named Horatia
Nelson
Joy
$600 [22]
Yakju is a Korean wine made primarily from this grain
rice
Tim
$600 [26]
19th c. women wore these ruffles to keep dirt off their skirts; you'll find similar ones on beds
dust ruffles
Tim
$600 [23]
It's defined as a substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by ordinary means
an element
Tim
$600 [3]
Married man George Hurstwood deserts his family for this Theodore Dreiser heroine
Sister Carrie
Joy
$600 [9]
A Colorado firm called Dog Gone vacuums these animals out of their burrows & resettles them
prairie dogs
Joy Tim
DD $1,000 [12]
Reporter Elizabeth Cochrane's pen name; she went around the world as a publicity stunt in 1889-1890
Nellie Bly
Joy
$800 [30]
A subway line connects Seoul to this port, site of a famous amphibious landing
Inchon
DD $1,000 [27]
Legends says this ultimate English dandy sometimes spent a whole morning having his cravat adjusted
Beau Brummell
Tim
$800 [24]
This positively-charged particle in a nucleus has 1,836 times the mass of an electron
a proton
Tim
$800 [4]
Jack London appears as a character in this "North and South" author's book "California Gold"
(John) Jakes
Laurie
$800 [14]
The Goths split into Ostrogoths, Eastern Goths, & these, the Western Goths
the Visigoths
Tim
$1,000 [13]
Begun in 1660, his diary includes accounts of the plague & Great Fire of London
Samuel Pepys
Tim
$1,000 [29]
Korea is divided into North & South by this parallel of latitude
the 38th parallel
Laurie Tim
$1,000 [28]
Collier's Encyclopedia says this beautiful wife of Napoleon III once wore a gown with 113 flounces
Eugénie
$1,000 [25]
In the Bayer process, purified aluminum oxide is obtained from this ore
bauxite
Joy
$1,000 [6]
The hero of his 1914 novel "Penrod" is a typical 12-year-old boy who lives in the Midwest
(Booth) Tarkington
Joy
$1,000 [15]
Someone described as vulpine resembles this creature
fox
Laurie

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY POLITICS

In 1872 he was the Liberal Republican Party's first & last presidential candidate; he lost

Horace Greeley

Tim "Who was William Jennings Bryant?" — wagered $2,200
Laurie "Who was Grant" — wagered $4,201
Joy "Who was Tilden?" — wagered $4,301

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