Show #2075 1993-09-17 (taped 1993-07-20) Regular

John Cuthbertson game 4.

Contestants

Andy Amster — a quality assurance specialist from Los Angeles, California

Kriss Reed — a planning assistant from Diamond Bar, California

John Cuthbertson — a physicist originally from Liberty, Missouri (whose 3-day cash winnings total $46,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $200 $3,000 $10,000 $18,000
4-day champion: $64,400
$10,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Kriss $-400 $-400 $-400 $-400
3rd place: DeLonghi pump-driven espresso/cappuccino & accessories + Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! for the 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System & the Sega Genesis system
$-400
4 R, 6 W
Andy $2,400 $3,500 $10,300 $500
2nd place: a trip to Maui on Delta Airlines & a week at the Sands of Kahana on the shores of West Maui
$9,100
28 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE 19th CENTURY MOVIE NOSTALGIA FRUITS & VEGETABLES I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN GHOULASH COMMON BONDS
$100 [2]
Under Roman Catholic auspices, this university was founded near South Bend, Indiana in 1842
Notre Dame
John
$100 [14]
Elizabeth Taylor's dying words in this film are "Antony, wait"
Cleopatra
Andy
$100 [26]
The shaddock is the largest citrus fruit & this is second
the grapefruit
Kriss
$100 [1]
The Delacorte Theater in this park is the summer home of the New York Shakespeare Festival
Central Park
Andy
$100 [21]
It's the Romanian region that was home to Count Dracula
Transylvania
Andy
$100 [15]
Ankle, tennis, charm
bracelet
Andy
$200 [3]
England took over this country & its canal in 1882 as a temporary measure & stayed for 40 years
Egypt
Andy
$200 [10]
In a 1948 film Gene Kelly pretended to be "Mack the Black", one of these dreaded nautical criminals
pirate
John Andy
$200 [27]
If exposed to too much sun, the head on this cabbage family member may turn purple instead of white
cauliflower
John Kriss
$200 [11]
New Yorkers call it "The Village"
Greenwich Village
John
$200 [22]
It's the term for a female ogre
an ogress
Andy
$200 [16]
Aztec, Julian, Lunar
calendars
John
$300 [4]
It's the famous 1848 declaration written by Marx & Engels
The Communist Manifesto
Andy
$300 [9]
This comic & Shirley Ross introduced the song "Two Sleepy People" in the 1938 film "Thanks for the Memory"
Bob Hope
John
$300 [28]
This "hearty" vegetable is also called a globe thistle
an artichoke
John
$300 [12]
Mott Street is the main street of this ethnic neighborhood that features pagoda-shaped phone booths
Chinatown
John Andy
$300 [23]
The wail of this Irish female spirit is a harbinger of death
a banshee
John
$300 [18]
Ink, oil, wishing
a well
Andy
$400 [5]
On October 4, 1830 Belgium declared its independence from this country
Holland (or the Netherlands)
Kriss Andy
$400 [8]
Marlene Dietrich played a saloon singer in this 1939 Western that starred Jimmy Stewart as Tom Destry
Destry Rides Again
Andy
$400 [29]
This salad vegetable comes in 3 main types: Belgian, curly & escarole
endive
Andy
$400 [13]
Fiorello La Guardia reportedly said he visited this place to "read between the lions"
the New York Public Library
Andy
$400 [24]
It's the voodoo spell or power to reanimate the dead as well as the dear reanimated departed
a zombie
John Kriss
$400 [19]
Sedan, rocking, electric
chairs
John
$500 [6]
In 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln & William Booth founded what is now this group
the Salvation Army
Andy
$500 [7]
Peter Ustinov directed the film version of this Herman Melville work & played Captain Vere
Billy Budd
John Andy
$500 [30]
The seckel, a small, brownish variety of this fruit, is often poached or canned in a spiced syrup
a pear
DD $500 [17]
There are several branches of this Museum of American Art, but the main museum is on Madison Avenue
the Whitney Museum
John
$500 [25]
It's the name of the devil to whom Goethe's "Faust" sells his soul
Mephistopheles
John
$500 [20]
Cynthia Gregory, Suzanne Farrell, Gelsey Kirkland
ballerinas
Kriss

Double Jeopardy! Round

1965 AIRLINES FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WEIGHTS & MEASURES DEM BONES OPERA
$200 [21]
Congress eliminated this metal from dimes & quarters & reduced it in half-dollars
silver
Andy
$200 [1]
This airline's AAdvantage program is the oldest frequent flyer program
American Airlines
Andy
$200 [18]
In "Lost Horizon" the High Lama tells Conway the history of this strange land
Shangri-La
Andy
$200 [9]
In Britain one of these is equal to about 4.5 liters; in the U.S., only about 3.8
a gallon
John
$200 [23]
The "middle" part of this organ is an air cavity in the temporal bone
the ear
Andy
$200 [20]
His works have inspired several operas, including "Pickwick"
Dickens
Andy
$400 [19]
This company introduced its $20 Swinger camera
Polaroid
John Andy
$400 [5]
Pierre Balmain designed the Malay sarongs worn by this airline's flight attendants
Singapore Airlines
John
$400 [14]
Solzhenitsyn chronicled "One Day in the Life of" this character whose last name is Shukhov
Ivan Denisovich
Kriss
$400 [10]
This mile is made up of 6,076 feet
a nautical mile
Andy
$400 [24]
Popularly called the shinbone, it's the larger of the 2 bones in the lower leg
the tibia
John Kriss Andy
DD $200 [29]
This Gian Carlo Menotti opera debuted on Christmas Eve, 1951
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Andy
$600 [4]
When one of these occurred on Nov. 9, 1965, it affected 30 million people in an 80,000-square-mile area
a blackout
John
$600 [6]
In July 1992 this bankrupt airline was found guilty of willful misconduct in the Lockerbie disaster
Pan Am
John
$800 [12]
Stingo is the narrator of this William Styron novel about a Polish survivor of Auschwitz
Sophie's Choice
Andy
$600 [17]
The longest measure of time, the Hindu kalpa, is equal to 4,320,000,000 of these
years
John
$600 [25]
While humans have 2 of these collarbones, dogs don't have any
clavicles
John Kriss
$400 [22]
Of Pasta, Paella or Panettone, the first woman to sing the title role of "Norma"
(Giuditta) Pasta
John Kriss Andy
$800 [3]
From the capsule, James McDivitt joked to this 1st U.S. spacewalker, "You smeared my windshield, you dirty dog!"
(Ed) White
Andy
$800 [7]
This airline was named for its Chicago airport hub
Midway Airlines
John
$1,000 [11]
Offred is chosen to be a handmaid in this author's "The Handmaid's Tale"
Margaret Atwood
Kriss
$800 [16]
The coulomb is the International System unit of this type of charge
electric charge
John
$800 [26]
Resting on the maxilla, the zygomatic is this bone in the face
the cheekbone
Andy
$600 [28]
This charismatic Greek-American was acclaimed for her 1947 performance as "La Gioconda" in Verona
Callas
Andy
$1,000 [2]
This PBS host may have written in his journal in July, "I replaced George Reedy as presidential press secretary"
Bill Moyers
John Andy
$1,000 [8]
This airline acquired both Piedmont & PSA in the 1980s
USAir
John Andy
DD $2,000 [13]
In the last chapter of this Steinbeck novel, Rose of Sharon delivers a stillborn child
The Grapes of Wrath
Andy
$1,000 [15]
A micron is one-millionth of this measure
a meter
John
$1,000 [27]
It's the collective name for the bones that form the fingers & toes
the phalanges
Andy
$1,000 [30]
Despite her parents' schemes, Marenka marries the man she loves in this Smetana opera
The Bartered Bride
John

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

Its population center is farther north than any other country's

Iceland

John "What is Iceland?" — wagered $8,000
Andy "What is Japan" — wagered $9,800

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