Show #2097 1993-10-19 (taped 1993-08-23) Regular

David Venderbush game 3.

Contestants

Steve Cartwright — a physicist from Dayton, Ohio

Julie Davidson — a broker from Brooklyn New York

David Venderbush — an attorney originally from Mequon, Wisconsin (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,499)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $2,600 $3,700 $8,700 $8,700
3-day champion: $24,199
$7,900
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Julie $1,200 $2,500 $3,300 $3,300
3rd place: Aiwa stereo system
$3,300
13 R, 2 W
Steve $1,100 $1,500 $12,200 $6,999
2nd place: Singer dining room set + RCR crystal stemware set
$8,900
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

MASSACHUSETTS THE 1993 GRAMMYS HAIRDOS NATURE INVENTORS LEGAL "E"s
$100 [8]
This Essex County seat is home to a witch house; it belonged to a judge who presided at their trials
Salem
David
$100 [26]
This former NBA star won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for "What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS"
Magic Johnson
David
$100 [5]
This dome of teased hair piled high on the head sounds as if it comes with its own "comb"
beehive
David
$100 [20]
Darkling beetles are so called because they are active at this time of day
dusk (nighttime)
Steve
$100 [16]
One of his first inventions at Menlo Park was the carbon transmitter
Edison
Julie
$100 [4]
This, the interrogation of a witness, can be "direct" or "cross"
an examination
Julie
$200 [9]
Ah, yes, my little dear, it's the state bird
the chickadee
Steve
$200 [27]
Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson won Best Pop Duo Vocal for the title track to this Disney film
Beauty and the Beast
Julie Steve
$200 [6]
It's a spiral twist of hair affixed to the cheek by saliva or another fixative
a spit curl
Julie
$200 [21]
Horses have 64 chromosomes, donkeys 62 & this cross between them, 63
the mule
David
$200 [17]
In 1851 Hermann von Helmholtz invented the ophthalmoscope used to view the interior of these organs
eyes
Steve
$200 [1]
This decree issued Jan. 1, 1863 declared freedom for slaves held in certain regions
the Emancipation Proclamation
David
$300 [10]
Henry David Thoreau built a simple cabin next to this body of water near Concord
Walden Pond
David
$300 [28]
In accepting his Grammy Legend Award, he stated that "Me and Janet really are two different people"
Michael Jackson
Julie
$300 [7]
In this style the scalp is shaved except for a line of upright hair running back from the forehead
a Mohawk
David
$300 [23]
Yellowfin, bigeye, bluefin & albacore are 4 of the 7 species of this fish
tuna
Julie
$300 [18]
When Helen Keller was 6, her parents took her to meet this inventor
Alexander Graham Bell
Steve
$300 [2]
In the U.S. this title is commonly appended to the names of attorneys
Esquire
David
$400 [11]
The first modern version of this sports event was held in 1903 in Massachusetts; the Pilgrims beat the Pirates
World Series
$400 [29]
Among his 6 Grammys was one for an acoustic version of "Layla"
Eric Clapton
Julie
$400 [14]
They hang around Rastafarians
dreadlocks
Julie
$400 [24]
The squab, the young of this bird, is sometimes eaten
pigeon
David
$400 [19]
Richard Arkwright used this man's steam engine to power textile machinery
(James) Watt
David
$400 [3]
One of the people who form the "College" that chooses the U.S. president
electors
Steve
DD $1,300 [12]
After John Quincy Adams, he was the next U.S. president born in Massachusetts
John (F.) Kennedy
David
$500 [30]
U2 won a Grammy for Best Rock Group Vocal for this album
Achtung Baby
$500 [15]
This cut shares its name with the regal title character of a Harold Foster comic strip
a Prince Valiant
Steve
$500 [25]
This insect is named for its resemblance to a moving twig
a walking stick
Steve
$500 [22]
Charles Wheatstone & Oliver Wendell Holmes invented forms of these 3-D picture viewers
stereoscopes
Steve
$500 [13]
Legally speaking, this is entering a private place with intent to listen to private conversations
eavesdropping
Julie

Double Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD BEANS ROYAL RELATIVES DRAMA U.S. HISTORY LITERATURE
$200 [6]
In 1963 the Dutch turned over West New Guinea to this island nation
Indonesia
David
$200 [26]
One recipe for Boston baked beans calls for these seafaring legumes
navy beans
Steve
$200 [21]
This queen's husband, Prince Philip, is also her third cousin
Elizabeth II
Steve
$200 [11]
Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" centers around an East River pier in this city
New York
David
$200 [2]
Truman's & Eisenhower's doctrines pledged money to countries resisting this political philosophy
Communism
Steve
$200 [13]
A 1936 operetta, "The Headless Horseman", was based on this Washington Irving work
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Steve
$400 [7]
Provinces in this South American country include Cordoba, Mendoza & La Pampa
Argentina
David
$400 [27]
It's the popular Japanese name for bean curd
tofu
Steve
$400 [22]
George V was king of England while his first cousin Wilhelm II ruled this country
Germany
Steve
$400 [12]
The title characters of this 1899 Shaw play first meet at a sphinx
Caesar and Cleopatra
$400 [3]
Cider presses in Pennsylvania were this 19th century pioneer planter's seed source
Johnny Appleseed
Steve
$400 [14]
"A Moveable Feast", published posthumously, told of his life & friends in Paris in the 1920s
Hemingway
Steve
$600 [8]
This largely Arab country has 3 Kurdish autonomous regions in the north
Iraq
David
$600 [28]
Before cooking your lima, fava or azuki beans you have to do this to them, maybe overnight
soak them
Julie
$600 [23]
Ivan the Terrible's first wife, Anastasia, was a member of this family that later ruled Russia
the Romanovs
Julie
$800 [19]
This author of "The Prince" wrote one of the best Italian comedies, "La Mandragola"
Machiavelli
David
$600 [4]
Officially, it's the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, but it's more commonly called this
the G.I. Bill
Julie
$800 [16]
"Myron" was a 1974 sequel to this Gore Vidal novel
Myra Breckinridge
Steve
$800 [9]
The former Soviet state of Byelorussia is now known by this name
Belarus
Steve
$800 [29]
This bean with a mottled coat is "refried" in Mexican cooking
pinto beans
David
$800 [24]
This Austrian family's prominent lower lip reportedly came from Emperor Frederick III's mother, Cymbarka
the Hapsburgs
Julie
$1,000 [20]
He gained fame as a playwright with his second produced play, "Come Back, Little Sheba"
(William) Inge
David
$800 [5]
In March 1937 U.S. Steel recognized this union headed by John L. Lewis
the United Mine Workers
Julie Steve
$1,000 [17]
He was managing editor of The New Yorker before he published "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
James M. Cain
$1,000 [10]
Christiansborg Palace is the home of this country's parliament as well as its Supreme Court
Denmark
Steve
$1,000 [30]
Also called turtle beans, they're used in dips & in Cuban food
black beans
Steve
$1,000 [25]
This Spaniard married 2 of Henry VII's sons: Arthur, Prince of Wales & Henry VIII
Catherine of Aragon
Steve
DD $1,500 [18]
This Thornton Wilder play calls for no scenery other than 2 arched trellises
Our Town
Steve
$1,000 [1]
This son of a railroad magnate was a chief negotiator at the Vietnam peace talks
(Averell) Harriman
David Julie
DD $3,000 [15]
In this Edgar Allan Poe story, Prince Prospero tries to avoid a deadly plague
"The Masque of the Red Death"
Steve

Final Jeopardy!

LAST WILLS & TESTAMENTS

He left $50,000 to the "poor of Walldorf near Heidelberg in the Grand Duchy of Baden"

John Jacob Astor

Julie "Who is Hitler?" — wagered $0
David "Who was Marx" — wagered $0
Steve "Who is King Ludwig" — wagered $5,201

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