Show #2073 1993-09-15 (taped 1993-07-20) Regular

John Cuthbertson game 2.

Contestants

Michelle Fishman — a grad student from Staten Island, New York

Larry Poster — a tax accountant from San Diego, California

John Cuthbertson — a physicist originally from Liberty, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $1,600 $1,100 $6,900 $12,000
2-day champion: $30,400
$7,900
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Larry $1,000 $2,600 $5,300 $200
3rd place: Samsung Electronics 4-head VCR + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! video games for the 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System & the Sega Genesis system + Jeopardy! home game
$5,800
14 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Michelle $1,400 $1,100 $5,200 $4,200
2nd place: Daniel Mink his & her Bolero Collection watches + Stanley Blacker men's & women's fashions + Jeopardy! home game
$5,700
21 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FLOWERS & TREES TV THEME SONGS BEVERAGES SHAKESPEARE CLOCKS POTPOURRI
$100 [26]
It's the color of the hibiscus casa blanca, sweetheart
white
Michelle
$100 [4]
The theme to this PBS series is titled "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Michelle
$100 [21]
It may be branch, spring or mineral
water
Michelle
$100 [1]
Lady Capulet complains that this 13-year-old should have children like other girls her age
Juliet
Michelle
$100 [16]
It's the bedroom equivalent of the army's Reveille bugler
an alarm clock
Michelle
$100 [2]
In 1965 Emilio Pucci designed clear plastic bubble helmets for these employees of Braniff Airlines
stewardesses
John
$200 [27]
The Pilgrims could have told you that the trailing arbutus is also known as this
a mayflower
Larry
$200 [5]
"This bold renegade carves a Z with his blade, a Z that stands for" this
Zorro
Michelle
$200 [22]
It used to be an ale; now it follows "egg" in a holiday drink
nog
Larry
$200 [9]
Like "Julius Caesar", "Coriolanus" opens on a street in this city
Rome
Larry
$200 [17]
Time on the clock in "Hickory, Dickory, Dock"
1:00
John Michelle
$200 [3]
In 1992 Johnson & Johnson introduced a new one of these called Reach Between
a toothbrush
Michelle
$300 [28]
This tree is so named because its nuts were used to treat equine respiratory ailments
a horse chestnut
John
$300 [6]
This series was "the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls"
The Brady Bunch
John
$300 [23]
Name shared by a drink from Campbell's & a type of car engine
V-8
$300 [10]
The great 19th c. actor Sir Henry Irving was noted for his portrayal of Shylock in this play
The Merchant of Venice
Larry
$300 [18]
It's often punched by office workers
a time clock
Larry
$300 [12]
Australians call these annoying creatures "mozzies" for short
mosquitos
John
$400 [29]
The Indian turnip looks like a preacher under a canopy, so it's also called "jack-in-" this
the-pulpit
John
$400 [7]
Sonny Curtis, who once toured with Buddy Holly wrote "Love Is All Around", this series' theme
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
John
$400 [24]
The sloe is a small, bitter one of these fruits used to make sloe gin
plum
John Michelle
$400 [11]
In "As You Like It", Jaques says, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely" these
players
Michelle
$400 [19]
Farmers carving clocks for tourists in the Black Forest created this clock around 1775
a cuckoo clock
Larry
$400 [14]
In the '30s part of the Great Plains became known as this because of all the soil that blew around
the Dust Bowl
Michelle
DD $1,000 [30]
This tree found in India can have thousands of trunks, making it resemble a small forest
a banyan tree
John
$500 [8]
He not only narrated "The Dukes of Hazzard", he wrote & sang the theme song as well
Waylon Jennings
$500 [25]
A New England term for a milk shake, it also refers to liqueur poured over shaved ice
a frappe (or frappé)
$500 [13]
In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Titania is the queen of these beings
the fairies
Larry
$500 [20]
Within women it ticks off the years when they can conceive children
the biological clock
Larry
$500 [15]
In this Japanese form of fencing, the swords are made of bamboo
kendo
John

Double Jeopardy! Round

"O" CANADA WORLD WAR II ROCKS & MINERALS SUPREME COURT JUSTICES UNREAL ESTATE
$200 [4]
Good or bad, it's a sign of things to come
omen
Larry
$200 [21]
An act passed in 1969 made these the 2 official languages of Canada
English & French
Michelle
$200 [1]
During the Potsdam Conference of 1945, this British prime minister was replaced by Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill
John
$200 [16]
Azurite got its name because it is the azure shade of this color
blue
Michelle
$200 [25]
She was once expected to run for governor of Arizona
Sandra Day O'Connor
Michelle
$200 [9]
Laputa is a flying island inhabited by somewhat useless philosophers in this Jonathan Swift classic
Gulliver's Travels
Michelle
$400 [5]
It was the middle name of poet Frederic Nash
Ogden
Michelle
$400 [22]
Played by 19th c. soldiers during the long winters, it's now considered the national sport
hockey
John
$400 [2]
This sobriquet applied to women working in defense plants was said to be based on Rosina Bonavita
Rosie the Riveter
Larry
$400 [17]
This mineral used by early man to make tools is actually a type of chert
flint
Michelle
$400 [26]
This former president's nephew Bushrod was appointed by John Adams in 1798
Washington
Michelle
$400 [10]
Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county in this real U.S. state
Mississippi
Larry
$600 [6]
It's slang for a slot machine
a one-armed bandit
Michelle
DD $500 [24]
Benedict Arnold owned a home on this island, which was also a summer home to Franklin Roosevelt
Campobello
Larry
$600 [3]
The British defeated this German general at El Alamein, Egypt in November 1942
Rommel
Michelle
$600 [18]
Heating it in an airtight oven turns this into coke
coal
Larry
DD $500 [29]
In 1965 Abe Fortas replaced this man, who resigned to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
Arthur Goldberg
Michelle
$600 [11]
It's the number of oaks in the name of Ashley Wilkes' family plantation
twelve
Michelle
$800 [7]
It's a collective name for the islands in the Pacific, including Polynesia & sometimes Australia
Oceania
John
$600 [23]
Held every August, Discovery Days celebrates the discovery of gold in this region of the Yukon
the Klondike
Larry
$800 [14]
A vital supply route to China, this "road" named for a country was closed by the Japanese in 1942
the Burma Road
John
$800 [19]
In 1973 the EPA banned the use of this fibrous mineral in insulation for schools
asbestos
John
$600 [27]
He told People magazine that his 1991 confirmation hearings were "brutal, just brutal"
Clarence Thomas
John
$800 [12]
Mr. Darcy lives in a Derbyshire estate called Pemberley in this Jane Austen novel
Pride and Prejudice
Michelle
$1,000 [8]
It describes an expression made up of 2 contradictory terms, such as "deafening silence"
an oxymoron
Michelle
$1,000 [30]
This province in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is sometimes referred to as "The Million Acre Farm"
Prince Edward Island
John
$1,000 [15]
In February 1943 U.S. troops freed this largest of the Solomon Islands from Japanese occupation
Guadalcanal
John Michelle
$1,000 [20]
The name of this soft mineral used for tobacco pipe bowls means "sea foam" in German
meerschaum
John
$800 [28]
This Chief Justice served as a captain in the Third Virginia Regiment during the American Revolution
Marshall
John Michelle
$1,000 [13]
This lord wrote 2 famous poems about a mansion called Locksley Hall, the first in 1842 & a sequel in 1886
(Lord) Tennyson
Larry

Final Jeopardy!

IN THE NEWS

Pres. Mitterand & Bishop Alanis signed a new constitution giving this country sovereignty in '93

Andorra

Michelle "What is Monaco?" — wagered $1,000
Larry "What is San Marino" — wagered $5,100
John "What is Andorra?" — wagered $5,100

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