Show #2138 1993-12-15 (taped 1993-09-13) Regular

Contestants

Mike Burdette — an energy analyst from Mount Airy, Maryland

Liz Lockerby — a registered nurse from Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Sandy Silk — a certified financial planner originally from Fall River, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,001)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Sandy	$0	$1,800	$7,400	$4,799 2-day champion: $15,800	$7,400 20 R, 3 W
Liz	$200	$600	$5,000	$0 3rd place: Samsung camcorder + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis	$5,100 15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Mike	$2,300	$3,800	$8,700	$2,599 2nd place: Singer dining room set + Pfaltzgraff bone china set	$9,200 21 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 1960s	MOVIES	GUINNESS RECORDS	NATURE	POTENT POTABLES	WORDPLAY
$100 [6] The report presented by Chief Justice Warren in 1964 said this man "acted alone" in killing JFK Lee Harvey Oswald Liz	$100 [11] Playing weatherman Phil Connors, he lived February 2 over & over again in 1993's "Groundhog Day" Bill Murray Mike	$100 [26] The fastest-moving major one of these, the Quarayaq on Greenland, flows 65-80 feet per day a glacier Mike	$100 [21] This Australian "bear"s pouch opens from the bottom, not the top a koala Sandy	$100 [16] The Jamaican type of this spirit is sometimes served hot & buttered rum Mike	$100 [1] Children who speak Pig Latin ask if they can ride iggybackpay, which means this in English piggyback Liz
$200 [7] The most powerful earthquake recorded in North America hit this state March 27, 1964 Alaska Mike	$200 [12] He played George Armstrong Custer in 1941's "They Died with Their Boots On" Errol Flynn Liz	$200 [27] Tiananmen Square in this city is the world's largest, covering 98 acres Beijing Sandy	$200 [22] The Cyclops, a tiny crustacean, is named for the fact that it has only 1 of these an eye Sandy	$200 [17] Zubrowka, a Polish type of this spirit, is flavored with a wild grass vodka Sandy	$200 [2] It's the kind of phrase, such as "she sells seashells...", that throws your lingual organ for a loop a tongue twister Liz
$300 [8] Soviet & other Communist forces invaded this country in August 1968 Czechoslovakia Mike	$300 [13] This Hammett tale was filmed with Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade 10 years before the Bogie version The Maltese Falcon Mike	$300 [28] With over 300 million visitors since 1955, this is the world's most attended "amusement resort" Disneyland Liz	$300 [23] Unlike insects, arachnids don't have these; they can only get around on foot wings Sandy	$300 [18] Lighter in color than porter or stout, this type of beer is America's most popular lager Sandy	$300 [3] Duke Ellington said, "Playing 'bop' is like playing" this board game "with all the vowels missing" Scrabble Liz
$400 [9] In 1966 he got 1,405 out of 1,425 votes cast for president in the National Assembly in Taipei, Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek Liz	$400 [14] Madonna, Jodie Foster & John Malkovich appeared in this director's "Shadows and Fog" Woody Allen	$400 [29] One of these in a Japanese 60-story building is the world's fastest, going almost 23 miles per hour an elevator Mike	$400 [24] This fiber has been described as "the fleece of tiny lambs growing on trees" cotton Liz	$400 [19] From the German, it's a drink made with white wine & soda water a spritzer Mike	$400 [4] This word that describes the toves in "Jabberwocky" is a combination of "lithe" and "slimy" slithy Mike
DD $1,100 [10] Shortly after Kuwait was freed by Britain in 1961, this country claimed it Iraq Liz	$500 [15] George Burns' first movie role since 1939 was as Al Lewis in this 1975 film written by Neil Simon The Sunshine Boys Mike	$500 [30] The largest air- supported structure is the Silverdome in this Michigan city Pontiac Sandy	$500 [25] It's the hardest substance known that occurs in nature a diamond Liz	$500 [20] It gives a Blue Hawaii its blue color Blue Curacao Mike	$500 [5] An "equine" word for boisterous fun & games, or a theatrical production such as "Equus" horseplay Mike

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. CITIES	VITAMINS & MINERALS	DANCE	RUSSIAN RULERS	ARCHITECTURE	VICTORIAN LITERATURE
$200 [2] World-famous for its zoo, it's also the "Birthplace of California" San Diego Mike	$200 [21] Fortified milk & cod liver oil contain vitamin A & this one to regulate the growth of bones vitamin D Sandy	$200 [12] Anglaise, the name of a 17th & 18th century dance, is the French word for this nationality English Mike	$200 [1] Crimea was annexed by Russia during the reign of this empress Catherine the Great Sandy	$200 [7] This American architect's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was completed in 1922 Frank Lloyd Wright Liz	$200 [26] In "Wuthering Heights", this gypsy foundling is given the name of a boy who died in childhood Heathcliff Sandy
$400 [3] It's the largest city in Tennessee that's named for an ancient city Memphis Liz	$400 [22] Too little of this trace mineral & you become anemic iron Sandy	$400 [13] The Kathakali dances of this country dramatize Hindu epics India Sandy	$400 [8] In August 1918 this Communist was shot twice in an assassination attempt Lenin Sandy Mike	$400 [17] Callicrates & Ictinus designed the Parthenon, built atop this Athenian site the Acropolis Sandy	$400 [27] Thomas Hardy heroine who asks her mother, "Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk?" Tess of the d'Urbervilles Liz
$600 [4] Boscobel, Wisconsin calls itself the birthplace of this Bible the Gideon Bible Sandy	$600 [23] There's no RDA for this macromineral found in bananas & raisins potassium Mike	$600 [14] 1960s disco dancers went "ape" over this dance made popular by the Miracles & Major Lance the monkey Sandy	$600 [9] Already Czar, he traveled incognito to Western Europe as Pyotr Mikhailov in the 1690s Peter the Great Liz	$600 [18] Alvar Aalto designed Finland's pavilion for this city's 1939 World's Fair New York Sandy Mike	DD $500 [30] 1 of the 4 men who served as England's Poet Laureate during Victoria's reign (1 of) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Southey, Wordsworth or Alfred Austin Mike
$800 [5] The Mountaineer Balloon Festival is an annual event in Morgantown in this state West Virginia Mike	$800 [24] Some say this vitamin also called tocopherol can slow the aging process E Sandy Liz	$800 [15] The "hesitation" style of this dance became popular in the U.S. around 1915 the waltz Sandy	$800 [10] Once Khrushchev's protege, he replaced Khrushchev as 1st Sec'y of the Comm. Party in '64 Brezhnev Liz	$800 [19] Asher Benjamin designed this American city's Charles Street Meeting House & West Church Boston Mike	$600 [28] This "Vanity Fair" author left his novel "Denis Duval" unfinished when he died in 1863 Thackeray Sandy
$1,000 [6] The Smith Brothers made their first cough drops in this city that's now the home of Vassar Poughkeepsie Sandy	DD $2,000 [25] It's next in the sequence of names of B vitamins: thiamin, riboflavin... niacin Liz	$1,000 [16] Historically, it's the most famous dance associated with an arachnid the tarantella Sandy	$1,000 [11] A grand prince of Moscow, he had himself crowned czar of Russia in 1547 Ivan the Terrible	$1,000 [20] This American developed the geodesic dome, a hemispheric type of space-frame Buckminster Fuller Sandy	$800 [29] This author of "Tancred, or the New Crusade" was a Victorian novelist & a Victorian prime minister Disraeli Liz Mike

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN ARTISTS

"Diego and I" by this artist was the 1st painting by a Latin American to sell for more than $1 million

Frida Kahlo

Liz "Who was" — wagered $5,000

Sandy "Who is O'Keef" — wagered $2,601

Mike "Who is" — wagered $6,101

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