Show #1409 1990-10-18 (taped 1990-08-27) Regular

Sara Cox game 2.Game entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

Steven Bonorris — a lawyer from Washington, D.C.

Sara Cox — a teacher from Bangor, Maine (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,400)

Joe Laboda — a teacher from Hudson Falls, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $2,400 $3,800 $7,000 $8,600
2nd place: Berkline Wallaway sofa & Aiwa X-71 mini component system + The Jeopardy! Book or Jeopardy! computerized version
$6,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Sara $800 $1,300 $7,700 $15,400
2-day co-champion: $32,800
$7,500
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Steven $700 $2,800 $8,600 $15,400
New co-champion: $15,400
$7,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS HEALTH & MEDICINE CELEBRITY BOOKS POTENT POTABLES PRO BASKETBALL COMMON BONDS
$100 [1]
This Syrian capital is believed to be the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world
Damascus
Steven
$100 [6]
It's reported that the QEII medical staff gives about 5,000 injections a year for this
seasickness
Joe
$100 [8]
"A-Team" co-star who subtitled his autobiography "The Man with the Gold"
Mr. T
Sara
$100 [21]
It can be stout, pilsner or lager
beer
Steven
$100 [13]
Nicknamed "The Stilt", this Philadelphia Warrior player scored 100 points in a game March 2, 1962
Wilt Chamberlain
Joe
$100 [26]
Upright, player, baby grand
types of piano
Sara
$200 [2]
A 1666 fire which broke out in a baker's shop nearly destroyed this capital
London
Joe
$200 [7]
Dr. René Laennec invented this piece of medical equipment by rolling a piece of paper into a tube
a stethoscope
Sara
$200 [9]
Composer who called his book "Did They Mention the Music?", not "Days of Wine and Roses"
Henry Mancini
Joe
$200 [22]
The Bartender's Guide calls it the Russian national drink
vodka
Steven
$200 [15]
By the time he retired in 1989, this Laker had been named the NBA's MVP a record 6 times
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Steven
$200 [27]
Billy, putty, string
sillies
Joe
$300 [3]
Over a third of Chile's people live in this capital city
Santiago
Steven
$400 [11]
Described as vermiform, or wormlike, it's attached to the right side of the large intestine
the appendix
Joe
$300 [14]
This actor titled Chapter 13 of his memoir "Hi There, Sherlock, How's Doctor Watson?"
Basil Rathbone
Steven
$300 [23]
Scotch gets its smoky flavor from this malted grain dried over peat fires
barley
Steven
$300 [16]
In 1966 Bill Russell became the NBA's first Black coach when he succeeded Red Auerbach as this team's coach
the Boston Celtics
Steven
$300 [28]
the red carpet, pie dough, the barrel
things you roll out
Joe
$400 [4]
In the late 1960s Islamabad replaced Rawalpindi as this country's capital
Pakistan
Joe
DD $500 [10]
After this was invented in the mid-15th century, the need for glasses became widespread
printing press
Joe
$400 [19]
Ziegfeld Follies humorist who called his 1927 book "There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia"
Will Rogers
Steven
$400 [24]
Bottled in Britain, this brand of gin calls itself, "the world's most imported gin"
Beefeater
Joe
$400 [17]
This NBA team's official logo features a stylized musical note
the (Utah) Jazz
Sara
$400 [29]
Tab, big game, Fred Dryer
Hunters
Steven
$500 [5]
In 1919, Soviet troops occupied this capital of Afghanistan
Kabul
Joe
$500 [12]
In childbirth classes you learn that Braxton Hicks contractions are commonly called this
false labor
Sara
$500 [20]
"Your Cheatin' Heart" has been called the consummate biography of this singer
Hank Williams
Joe
$500 [25]
Mix cream, rum, Cointreau & Blue Curaçao & you'll have this tropical cocktail named for a state
a Blue Hawaii
$500 [18]
This professional league folded in 1976 with four of its teams joining the NBA
the American Basketball Association (the ABA)
Steven
$500 [30]
Charlie McCarthy, Mr. Peanut, Colonel Klink
individuals wearing monocles
Steven

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY 6-LETTER WORDS ENGLISH LITERATURE MATH NURSERY RHYMES TRADEMARK NAMES
$200 [11]
After her husband collapsed at the Battle of Monmouth, she pitched in to fire his cannon
Molly Pitcher
Sara
$200 [16]
A geisha's garb
a kimono
Sara
$200 [1]
This Tennyson poem was written in 1854, a few weeks after the Crimean War battle it describes
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Steven
$200 [18]
The longest chord of a circle, it divides the circle into two equal parts
a diameter
Joe
$200 [6]
"There was a crooked man" and he went this distance
a crooked mile
Sara
$200 [26]
Now a generic term, it went originally by its trade name for acetylsalicylic acid
aspirin
Sara
$400 [12]
Ellen Gates Starr co-founded this settlement house with Jane Addams
Hull House
Sara
$400 [17]
Nonsense talk, or the technical language of a trade
jargon
Joe
$600 [3]
A.A. Milne's son Christopher was a friend of Frances Hodgson Burnett's son, on whom this character was based
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Sara Steven
$400 [19]
Raise a number to the 2nd power & you square it; raise it to the 3rd power & you do this
cube it
Joe
$400 [7]
It's where the little boy is who looks after the sheep
under the haystack fast asleep
Joe
$400 [27]
Since the 1870s petroleum jelly has been manufactured & sold under this famous name
Vaseline
Sara
$600 [13]
This colony was named for Queen Henrietta Maria, so it could have been called Henriettaland
Maryland
Sara
$600 [23]
Type of book in which debits, credits & money transactions are recorded
a ledger
Sara
$800 [4]
This "Empire of the Sun" author began as a science fiction writer in the 1950s
J.G. Ballard
$600 [20]
Derived from the Latin word for "finger", it describes a numeral from 0 to 9
a digit
Sara
$600 [8]
Little Jack Horner said, "What a good boy am I", after he did this to his pie
stuck in his thumb & pulled out a plum
Sara
$600 [28]
It's DuPont's name for a common air conditioning refrigerant
Freon
Steven
DD $1,000 [14]
He killed a lawyer named Charles Dickinson in a duel, 23 years before he became president
Andrew Jackson
Sara
$800 [24]
While equine pertains to a horse, this pertains to a bear
ursine
Steven
$1,000 [5]
His last novel, "Staying On", told the story of two minor characters in his "Raj Quartet"
(Paul) Scott
Sara
$800 [21]
2 angles are said to be this when their sum is 90 degrees
complementary
Joe
$800 [9]
"I had a little", one of these, "his name was Dapple Gray"
a pony
Sara
$800 [29]
In 1915, Corning coined this name for cookware made of heat resistant glass
Pyrex
Steven
$1,000 [15]
Because of the Alien & Sedition Acts this political party became known as a party of oppression
the Federalist Party
Steven
$1,000 [25]
A papal ambassador or representative
a nuncio (a legate)
Steven
DD $2,000 [2]
Nahum Tate's version of this play eliminates the Fool, makes Edgar & Cordelia lovers & ends happily
King Lear
Steven
$1,000 [22]
A bar placed over a Roman numeral indicates it should be multiplied by this number
1,000
Joe Sara
$1,000 [10]
He "went to bed with his stockings on; one shoe off, one shoe on"
diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John
Joe
$1,000 [30]
Nipper heard his master's voice over this trademarked phonograph which preceded the Victrola
a Gramophone
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

THE ZODIAC

Besides the archer, who can be a centaur, 2 of the 3 signs symbolized by human figures

(2 of) Gemini, Virgo & Aquarius

Joe "What are Gemini & Virgo?" — wagered $1,600
Sara "What are Gemini & Virgo?" — wagered $7,700
Steven "What are Aquarius & Gemini?" — wagered $6,800

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