Show #1693 1992-01-01 (taped 1991-10-21) Regular

Contestants

Val Martinez — a foreign service officer from Burke, Virginia

Todd Lefkowitz — a physician from Scottsdale, Arizona

Jim Alverson — a legal assistant from Tustin, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $28,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jim	$2,500	$2,800	$7,800	$0 3rd place: Konica Z-Up 80RC camera with film + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy	$7,800 24 R, 2 W
Todd	$900	$2,200	$8,100	$599 New champion: $599	$8,100 18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Val	$300	$700	$6,000	$10 2nd place: a trip on Delta to Denver, Colorado & a week for 2 at Colony Hotels & Resorts Mountainside at Silver Creek	$4,100 9 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

NEW YEAR'S DAY	MYSTERIES	FRUIT	LIGHTS	CAMERAS	ACTION COMICS
$100 [3] This U.S. island opened its "Golden Door" to immigrants New Year's Day, 1892 Ellis Island Jim	$100 [12] "The Five Orange Pips" was one of the "Adventures of" this detective published in an 1892 collection Sherlock Holmes Jim	$100 [26] The Rio Grande Valley in Texas is a major producer of the pink varieties of this citrus fruit grapefruit Val	$100 [13] Most of these today are made out of wax & stearin candles Val	$100 [10] Sitting behind the lens, its speed can run from 30 seconds to 1/1000 of a second the shutter Jim	$100 [1] This alien hero made his debut in Action Comics No. 1, June 1938 Superman Jim
$200 [7] The U.S. formally resumed diplomatic relations with this Asian country January 1, 1979 China Jim	$200 [19] He also wrote mystery novels about district attorney Douglas Selby, as Perry Mason could tell you Erle Stanley Gardner Todd	$200 [27] Of strawberries, cranberries or raspberries, the one not an aggregate fruit cranberries Jim Todd	$200 [14] "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is" this the Sun Jim	$200 [15] Not to carp on the subject, but this is the name given to a lens with a 180-degree view a fisheye lens Jim	$200 [2] The name of this great Metropolitan newspaper first appeared in Issue 23 The Daily Planet Val
$300 [8] This Latin bandleader, once married to Charo, made his entrance into the world Jan. 1, 1900 Xavier Cugat Jim	$300 [20] This ex-jockey who wrote "Whip Hand" whips out an average of 1 mystery novel a year Dick Francis Todd	$300 [28] About 70% of the U.S. pear crop is of this variety Bartlett Val	$300 [16] A flicker of light, it follows "Shine! Little glow worm..." glimmer Jim	$300 [23] The size in common to the film in old home movie cameras & the tape in Sony CCD video cameras 8 millimeters Todd	$300 [4] Issue No. 282 was the last one at this price; today Issue 673 costs 10 times as much 10 cents Jim
$400 [9] On New Year's Day, 1975 he became the only attorney general ever convicted of a felony John Mitchell Todd	$400 [21] Frederic Dannay & Manfred B. Lee founded this mystery magazine in 1941 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine	$400 [29] This tropical fruit contains papain, an enzyme sometimes used in cleansing agents for contact lenses papayas Jim	$400 [17] A pyrotechnic device used to produce a bright signal light; you might have one in your car's emergency kit a flare Jim	$400 [24] The first Kodak camera in 1888 advertised, "You" do this, "we do the rest" press the button	$400 [5] In 1991 he was laid off from his job as a cub reporter Jimmy Olsen Jim
$500 [11] With trumpets blaring, she opened her Angelus Temple New Year's Day, 1923 Aimee (Semple) McPherson Todd	DD $700 [22] Wilkie Collins said this novel was inspired partly by the story of the Koh-i-Noor diamond The Moonstone Todd	—	$500 [18] Now used in auto headlights, these lamps containing iodine were 1st used on wing tips on planes halogen Todd	$500 [25] This name came from an acronym for Nippon Kogaku, a Japanese optics company Nikon Todd	$500 [6] Introduced in Action No. 252, she used the alter ego of Linda Lee & was adopted by Mr. & Mrs. Danvers Supergirl Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 1890s	JACQUES COUSTEAU	THE WHITE HOUSE	SOUTH CAROLINA	THE UNIVERSE	NOTORIOUS
$200 [1] Under the Sherman Act, his Standard Oil trust was dissolved by the Ohio Supreme Court in 1892 Rockefeller Jim	$200 [2] Cousteau's "middle name", it's actually part of his hyphenated first name Yves Jim	$200 [11] It was from the Diplomatic Reception Room that this president gave his fireside chats Roosevelt Val	$200 [16] Now South Carolina's senior senator, he was the state's governor from 1947 to 1951 Strom Thurmond Jim	$200 [17] Pope Callixtus III is said to have excommunicated this comet in 1456, calling it an agent of the devil Halley's Comet Jim	$200 [26] Boston Corbett, who allegedly shot this actor & assassin, was later sent to a mental hospital John Wilkes Booth Todd
$400 [5] During the Ghost Dance uprising in 1890, this Sioux leader was shot & killed Sitting Bull Jim	$400 [3] His film "The Silent World" won the grand prize at this French film festival in 1956 the Cannes Film Festival Jim	$400 [12] Traditionally, male guests of honor stay in this "presidential" bedroom the Lincoln Bedroom Todd	$400 [25] Opened in 1736, this port city's Dock Street Theater was the 1st in the U.S. used solely for dramatic plays Charleston Todd	$400 [18] In July 1991 Brit. scientists reported finding the 1st known one of these outside our solar system a planet Jim	$400 [27] John Nepomuk Schrank shot & wounded this Bull Moose presidential candidate in 1912 Teddy Roosevelt Jim
$600 [8] In 1899 he completed his painting "Two Tahitian Women" Gauguin Todd	$600 [4] For his work with this WWII group known as "Maquis", Cousteau got the Croix de Guerre with palm the Resistance Todd	$600 [13] This largest & most formal of the state reception rooms was once an office to Meriwether Lewis the East Room Todd	$800 [23] A national forest named for this "Swamp Fox" has a successful wild turkey refuge Francis Marion Val	$600 [19] The most luminous objects in the universe, their name comes from quasi-stellar quasars Jim	$800 [29] After his acquittal, this silent comedian directed some films under the name William Goodrich Fatty Arbuckle Val
$800 [9] In 1894 this French army captain was convicted of passing secrets to German agents & later acquitted Dreyfus Todd	$800 [6] In 1957 he was named a director of this Mediterranean principality's Musee oceanographique Monaco Todd	$1,000 [15] Most of the wooden furnishings in the library are attributed to this New York cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe	$1,000 [22] This state tree appears on the state seal a palmetto Jim	$800 [20] From analyzing red shifts, this astronomer proved in 1929 that the universe is expanding Edwin Hubble	$1,000 [28] Murder victim Elizabeth Short was given this "flowery" nickname for always dressing in black Black Dahlia Jim
$1,000 [10] In 1893 this 79-year-old composer's last opera, "Falstaff", premiered in Milan (Giuseppe) Verdi Todd	$1,000 [7] Long before marrying Candice Bergen this film director worked as a cinematographer for Cousteau Louis Malle Val	DD $1,500 [14] In 1917 this first lady set up what is now the China Room to display the ever-growing collection Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Todd	DD $2,500 [24] Used to make a blue dye, this plant was introduced in the 1740s & became one of S.C.'s staple crops indigo Val	$1,000 [21] For measuring distance, astronomers commonly use these 2 units abbreviated 1y & pc light-years & parsecs Todd	—

Final Jeopardy!

INSECTS

This pest escaped from a Mass. lab where it was brought in the 19th c. as a possible silkworm

the gypsy moth

Val "What is the boll weevil?" — wagered $5,990

Jim "What is a boll weevil" — wagered $7,800

Todd "What is the boll we" — wagered $7,501

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