Show #2335 1994-10-28 (taped 1994-08-30) Regular

Bill Pitassy game 5.

Contestants

Jihm Bukowski — an industrial hygienist from Baltimore, Maryland

Louise Tulloh — a credit manager from Arlington, Virginia

Bill Pitassy — a labor attorney from Cranford, New Jersey (whose 4-day cash winnings total $52,102)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $1,200 $3,000 $13,000 $20,600
5-day champion: $72,702
$13,000
30 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Louise $400 $500 $700 $1,350
3rd place: Service Merchandise gift certificate
$700
4 R, 2 W
Jihm $800 $3,300 $10,300 $19,199
2nd place: General Instrument satellite system + RCA 27" TV
$10,900
24 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WEREWOLF SAILING ALONG "ON" MOON LIGHT BAYS
$100 [17]
As 1994's "Wolf" he caused some strife in Michelle Pfeiffer's life
Jack Nicholson
Bill
$100 [28]
Flattop is a nickname for this type of military ship
an aircraft carrier
Jihm
$100 [7]
It's a synonym for spectator
looker-on (or onlooker)
Bill
$100 [12]
The largest completely visible one of these on the Moon is Bailly, about 183 miles wide
a crater
Bill
$100 [2]
In Einstein's famous formulation E=mc2, this letter represents the velocity of light
c
Bill
$100 [1]
It's the bay of the "City by the Bay"
San Francisco
Jihm
$200 [18]
In the 1941 classic "The Wolf Man", this "Dracula" star played the werewolf that bit Lon Chaney, Jr.
Bela Lugosi
Jihm
$200 [29]
Danforth & mushroom are 2 types of this heavy device that holds a vessel in place
anchors
Bill
$200 [22]
This phrase for abstaining from liquor once included the word "water"
on the wagon
Bill Louise
$200 [13]
Of 5, 45 or 845 pounds, the total amount of moon rock brought back by the Apollo missions
845 pounds
Bill Jihm
$200 [3]
Guinness says the lights atop this mid-Manhattan skyscraper are visible to aircraft 300 miles away
the Empire State Building
Jihm
$200 [8]
A major battle of the Spanish-American War was fought in this bay in the SW part of Luzon Island
Manila Bay
Bill
$300 [19]
In 1948 this title comedy pair met a werewolf at the same time they met Frankenstein
Abbott & Costello
Bill
$300 [26]
This vertical device for controlling a vessel's direction is usually attached to the sternpost
the rudder
Bill
$300 [23]
An honest person is said to be this, perhaps from the name of a device used by carpenters
on the square (or on the level)
Bill Louise
$300 [14]
Around 350 B.C. Aristotle used these events to prove that the Earth was spherical
eclipses (of the moon)
Bill
$300 [4]
In this process plants use sunlight to combine carbon dioxide & water to make food
photosynthesis
Bill
$300 [9]
Jean Nicolet tackled the job of reaching this Wisconsin bay in 1634
Green Bay
Bill
$400 [20]
He starred as 1985's "Teen Wolf"; Jason Bateman played "Teen Wolf Too"
Michael Fox
Louise Jihm
$400 [27]
This punishment consisted of pulling a man down one side of the ship, under the bottom & up the other side
keelhauling
Jihm
$400 [24]
The 2-letter abbreviation in this phrase regarding secrecy stands for "quiet"
on the Q.T.
Louise
$400 [15]
Man first orbited the moon in 1968 on this holiday
Christmas
Jihm
$400 [5]
This type of cable uses light to carry thousands of times as many phone calls as a copper wire
fiberoptics
Louise
$400 [10]
A famous April 17, 1961 incident occurred in this bay
the Bay of Pigs
Jihm
$500 [21]
The standard way to kill a werewolf is with one of these, the title of a Stephen King werewolf film
a silver bullet
Jihm
$500 [30]
The name of this type of sail comes from the Sphinx, the first ship to use one
a spinnaker
Bill
$500 [25]
This phrase that means not in working order includes a common nickname for Friedrich
on the Fritz
Bill
$500 [16]
It's the phase that falls between a half-moon & a full moon
a gibbous moon
Jihm
$500 [6]
Light can be described as a wave or as a particle called this
a photon
Jihm
DD $600 [11]
This bay near present-day Sydney was named for the varied vegetation found by naturalists with Capt. Cook
Botany Bay
Jihm

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY POTENT POTABLES PROVERBS EGYPT FOUNDERS PLAYWRIGHTS
$200 [2]
In January 1776 Thomas Paine called for American independence in this pamphlet
"Common Sense"
Louise
$200 [1]
Nelson's Blood is a British navy term for this spirit found in grog
rum
Bill
$200 [13]
"Idleness is the root of all evil" & so is "the love of" this
money
Bill
$200 [11]
Cairo gets only about 1 inch of this per year; the south gets even less
rain
Bill
$200 [21]
The official name of Boys Town includes the name of this founder
Father Flanagan
Jihm
$200 [30]
This "Plaza Suite" playwright's real first name is Marvin
Neil Simon
Jihm
$400 [4]
In 1757, during this war, the Marquis de Montcalm seized Fort William Henry in New York
The French and Indian War
Jihm
$400 [3]
Martinis & Manhattans contain the dry & sweet types of this wine respectively
vermouth
Jihm
$400 [17]
"The more cooks the worse potage" is a variation of this proverb
"too many cooks spoil the broth"
Bill Jihm
$400 [12]
Rubble from the tomb of Ramses VI helped protect this pharaoh's tomb from grave robbers
Tutankhamen
Jihm
$600 [22]
In the 5th century this saint founded a church in what's now the District of Down
St. Patrick
Bill
$400 [28]
Liv Ullmann starred in a 1982 revival of this fellow Norwegian's play "Ghosts"
Henrik Ibsen
Bill
$600 [5]
In 1844 U.S. expansionists used this slogan urging that Oregon should reach the So. border of Alaska
"fifty-four forty or fight"
Bill
$600 [8]
Bourbon whiskey is made from a mash that must not be less than 51% this grain
corn
Bill
$600 [18]
Margaret Mitchell ended "Gone with the Wind" with this proverb
tomorrow is another day
Jihm
$600 [14]
In 1914, partly to protect the Suez Canal, this country declared Egypt a protectorate
Great Britain
Bill
$800 [23]
In 1912 Henrietta Szold founded this women's Zionist organization
Hadassah
Jihm
$600 [24]
It was the native language of Emlyn Williams, whose play "The Corn Is Green" is semi-autobiographical
Welsh
Bill
$800 [6]
On Oct. 1, 1962 James Meredith became the first black student enrolled at this university
the University of Mississippi
Bill
$800 [9]
The name of this beverage goes back to Madhu, the Sanskrit word for honey
mead
Jihm
$800 [19]
According to a modern-day proverb, it's the age at which "life begins"
life begins at 40
Bill
$800 [15]
He was Deputy Minister of War during the 1973 conflict & was named vice president in 1975
Hosni Mubarak
Jihm
DD $1,000 [29]
Singer heard here, she founded Humanitas, a human rights organization:"The night they drove old Dixie down / And all the bells were ringing / The night they drove old Dixie down / And all the people were singing"
Joan Baez
Bill
$800 [27]
Her play "Toys in the Attic" begins at 6 P.M. on a summer Tuesday in New Orleans
Lillian Hellman
Bill
DD $2,000 [7]
Due to the Erie Canal, New York replaced this city as the nation's top port by the late 1840s
Philadelphia
Bill
$1,000 [10]
When found on a cognac label, the letters V.O. stand for this
very old
Bill
$1,000 [20]
"Go abroad and you'll hear news of" this
home
Bill
$1,000 [16]
The nation's largest religious minority is this monophysite Christian sect
the Coptics
Jihm
$1,000 [26]
This Mass. Ocean Institute was founded in 1930 with money from the Rockefeller Foundation
the Woods Hole Institute
Bill
$1,000 [25]
In the 1640s this comic playwright made his professional acting debut with the Illustre-Theatre
Moliere
Jihm

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

This term for a small place of worship goes back to the veneration of the cape of St. Martin of Tours

chapel

Louise "What is a chapel" — wagered $650
Jihm "What is ashrine? chapel" — wagered $8,899
Bill "What is a chapel?" — wagered $7,600

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