Show #2146 1993-12-27 (taped 1993-09-20) Regular

Contestants

Kate Charlesworth-Miller — a homemaker from Dublin, Ohio

Harold Katz — a real estate broker originally from Sharon, Pennsylvania

Debbie Peryea — a waitress from Keeseville, New York

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Debbie $600 $1,000 $4,100 $8,199
New champion: $8,199
$4,600
13 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Harold $300 $1,500 $4,900 $1,599
2nd place: trip to Fort Myers, Florida
$5,300
18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Kate $800 $3,900 $4,100 $0
3rd place: pair of MCI video phones + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$6,100
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHIC POTPOURRI THE OSCARS SEWING FRUIT GUINNESS RECORDS RHYME TIME
$100 [6]
This seaway connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic
The St. Lawrence Seaway
Harold
$100 [1]
When Dimitri Tiomkin "scored" with a 1954 Oscar, he thanked these 3 Bs of classical music
Brahms, Beethoven & Bach
Kate
$100 [2]
The embroidery or crewel type of this implement has a long eye for easier threading
a needle
Debbie
$100 [26]
Popular sweet varieties of this fruit include Jaffa, blood & navel
oranges
Kate
$100 [13]
Since 1909 his head has been on over 250 billion U.S. coins
Abe Lincoln
Harold
$100 [16]
An extremely chubby winged mammal
a fat bat
Kate
$200 [7]
Biscuit tortoni isn't bread but a frozen dessert that originated in this country
Italy
Kate
$200 [3]
It was the first color film to win a "Best Picture" Oscar &, fittingly, it had a "Scarlett" heroine
Gone with the Wind
Kate
$200 [4]
The sewing of pieced or patchwork kinds of these was a popular folk art in preindustrial America
a quilt
Debbie
$200 [27]
A monument to this type of grape stands in the Massachusetts town where it was developed
Concord
Kate
$200 [14]
The barrow ground squirrel of Alaska does this for 9 months of the year
hibernates
Harold
$200 [17]
If you wear this kind of knapsack across your front, its name becomes a misnomer
a backpack
Kate
$300 [8]
Raj Gondi is one of the major dialects of Gondi, a language spoken chiefly in this country
India
Kate
$300 [5]
He was an Oscar-winning producer before he won an acting Oscar for his performance in "Wall Street"
Michael Douglas
Harold
$300 [23]
"Reptilian" name for a high turnover collar that hugs the throat
a turtleneck
Kate
$300 [28]
Mexican & Key are other names for the West Indian variety of this fruit
limes
Harold
$300 [15]
Leo Pisker has collected over 135,000 of these, so no one will ever leave a ring on his furniture
coasters
Debbie
$300 [18]
An adorable woodwind
a cute flute
Kate
$400 [9]
You'll find Sevastopol, the site of a famous 1854-55 battle, on this peninsula
the Crimean Peninsula
DD $400 [11]
"Babette's Feast", based on a story by this woman, was the 1st Danish winner as "Best Foreign Language Film"
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Harold
$400 [24]
The accordion type of these have folds resembling the bellows of that instrument
pleats
Harold
$400 [29]
About 60% of U.S. pear production is of this variety named for the man who introduced it
Bartlett
Harold Kate
$400 [20]
In 1990 Dale Lyons ran a marathon in 3 hours, 47 minutes carrying one of these on a spoon
an egg
Debbie
$400 [19]
In a famous song, this title phrase precedes "Where'd ya get those peepers?"
"Jeepers Creepers"
Harold
$500 [10]
A tower outside Dublin visited by this novelist in 1904 now houses a museum dedicated to him
James Joyce
Harold
$500 [12]
Never nominated for "Best Director", he got a Supporting Actor nomination for "Sunset Boulevard"
Erich von Stroheim
Harold
$500 [25]
Meaning to mend by weaving yarn or thread across a hole, it's the method used to repair socks
darning
Harold
$500 [30]
Americans consume more of this fruit than any other, yet it was little known in the U.S. before 1870
bananas
Kate
$500 [21]
In 1990-91 Philips Classics celebrated the 200th anniversary of his death with all his works on 180 CDs
Mozart
Kate
$500 [22]
Mrs. Onassis' attendants
Jackie's lackeys
Kate

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPANISH HISTORY SAINTS MONEY MATTERS ANIMAL HOMES SCULPTURE ENGLISH LITERATURE
$200 [22]
She was the heiress & half sister of King Henry IV when she married Ferdinand in 1469
Queen Isabella
Harold
$200 [10]
St. Bridget, a patron saint of this Emerald Isle, founded a double abbey there
Ireland
Debbie
$200 [14]
Term for the signature on the back of a check
an endorsement
Debbie
$200 [6]
It's any place swarming with activity, not just a bee's home
a hive
Harold
$200 [8]
Praxiteles was among the first to humanize this country's gods & goddesses in sculpture
Greece
Debbie
$200 [1]
John Milton's sequel to it was "Paradise Regained"
Paradise Lost
Debbie
$400 [23]
He was appointed head of the Nationalist forces in the Civil War October 1, 1936
Franco
Harold
$400 [11]
St. Andrew's Cross isn't T-shaped; it's shaped like this letter
an X
$400 [27]
The Nikkei Stock Average is an index based on the prices of 225 stocks on this exchange
the Tokyo exchange
Harold
$400 [7]
A form is a resting place for one of these animals & it may come in handy after it races a tortoise
a hare
Harold
$400 [18]
A hand holding an apple found on the island of Melos may have belonged to this marble statue
the Venus de Milo
Debbie
$400 [2]
Mr. Kurtz' dying words in this Joseph Conrad novel are "The horror! The horror!"
Heart of Darkness
Debbie
$600 [24]
Spain became the 16th member of this western treaty group in 1982
NATO
Harold
$600 [15]
After "carrying" this saint for years on the calendar, the Roman Catholics dropped his July 25 feast day in 1969
St. Christopher
Kate
DD $500 [29]
The theory of this University of Chicago economist is populary called Monetarism
Milton Friedman
Debbie
$600 [9]
The name of this horse house is from the Latin for "standing place"
a stable
Debbie
$600 [19]
Augusta Savage sculpted "Lift every voice and sing", a tribute to Black music, for this city's 1939 World's Fair
New York
Harold
$600 [3]
Her unfinished novel "The Watsons" is regarded by some as an early version of "Emma"
Jane Austen
$800 [25]
This name by which Spanish national hero Rodrigo Diaz is known means "lord" or "master"
El Cid
Harold
$800 [16]
Hey, he's the patron saint of lost causes
St. Jude
Kate
$600 [28]
A premium is the sum of money paid to buy this type of policy
insurance
Debbie
$800 [12]
After soaring an eagle comes home to roost in this nest
an aerie
Harold
$800 [20]
In 1902 this "Bronco Buster" sculptor published his first novel, "John Ermine of the Yellowstone"
Remington
Kate
$800 [4]
Anthony Burgess' "Nothing Like the Sun" is a novel about this Elizabethan playwright
Shakespeare
Debbie
$1,000 [26]
The fall of this city in 1492 marked the end of the reconquest of Spain from the Moors
Granada
Kate
DD $2,000 [17]
Murdered in 1170, he was canonized in 1173
Thomas a Becket
Kate
$1,000 [30]
His law states that bad money forces good money out of circulation
Thomas Gresham
Harold
$1,000 [13]
This term for the breeding ground of penguins is named for another bird
a rookery
$1,000 [21]
This British abstract sculptor's first major commission was "North Wind", completed in 1929
Henry Moore
$1,000 [5]
Part II of this allegory deals with the journey of Christian's wife & children to the Celestial City
Pilgrim's Progress
Kate

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

This English innkeeper kept 40 horses ready for customers but gave them no choice in the one they got

Hobson

Debbie "Who was Hobson?" — wagered $4,099
Kate "Who was Chaucer" — wagered $4,100
Harold "Who is Lord Byron?" — wagered $3,301

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