Show #2147 1993-12-28 (taped 1993-09-20) Regular

Contestants

George Chesney — a small business owner from Tempe, Arizona

Norm Horner — an elementary school teacher from Pointe-Claire, Canada

Debbie Peryea — a waitress from Keeseville, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Debbie $1,100 $2,400 $6,800 $12,800
2nd place: trip to Maui, Hawaii
$4,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Norm $1,900 $1,800 $5,200 $100
3rd place: Wallace Silversmiths silver serving dish
$5,200
18 R, 6 W
George $800 $2,900 $9,600 $13,601
New champion: $13,601
$9,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIOLOGY TV NURSES FOOD & DRINK MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS RELATIVES WORDS OFF THE MAP
$100 [14]
DDT has endangered many carnivorous birds because it causes the shells of these to become paper thin
their eggs
Debbie
$100 [1]
As Nurse Christine Chapel, Majel Barrett assisted "Bones" on this science fiction series
Star Trek
Debbie
$100 [15]
This salad contains romaine, anchovies & garlic croutons, but no emperors
a Caesar salad
Norm
$100 [4]
The sheng, a wind instrument from this country, consists of 17 bamboo tubes
China
Norm
$100 [19]
Different branches of your family appear on this kind of chart with an "arboreal" name
a family tree
Debbie George
$100 [8]
This word for perfumed toilet water refers to the city on the Rhine where it was first made
Cologne
Norm
$200 [27]
A deciduous tree drops these in the autumn & produces new ones in the spring
leaves
Norm
$200 [2]
The real first name of this "M*A*S*H" head nurse was Margaret
Hot Lips Houlihan
Debbie
$200 [17]
Manzanilla is a dry, delicate type of sherry that originated in this country
Spain
George
$200 [5]
This carpentry tool is played as a folk instrument by bowing or by striking with a mallet
a saw
Debbie
$200 [20]
Genealogists call the child of your first cousin a "first cousin once" this
removed
George
$200 [9]
A term for a horse's gait is from the pace set by Pilgrims headed to this English city
Canterbury
Debbie
$300 [28]
Dentin is the calcified tissue surrounding the pulp of one of these
a tooth
George
$300 [3]
Jane Dulo played Nurse Murphy on "Medical Center" & nurse Molly Turner on this Ernest Borgnine sitcom
McHale's Navy
Norm
$300 [18]
English breakfast tea is classified as this "color" tea
black
Norm George
$300 [7]
The Gamelan Orchestras of this nation's Bali & Java Islands include bonangs, sulings & rebabs
Indonesia
George
$300 [24]
Nepote is a Scottish word for this relative whom a nepotist might hire
a nephew
Norm
$300 [10]
The cravat, a type of necktie, derives its name from this newly independent republic
Croatia
Debbie
$400 [29]
The coelacanth, a primitive type of this animal, has lobed as well as ray types of fins
a fish
Debbie Norm
$400 [6]
Nurse Daniels shot rapist Dr. Peter White on this series set in a Boston hospital
St. Elsewhere
Norm
$400 [21]
Blancmange is a dessert originally made with this nut milk; what a "joy"
almond
Debbie
$400 [12]
Wynton Marsalis is well known as a virtuoso on this instrument
the trumpet
Norm
$400 [25]
The Spanish term for this relative is Tia
an aunt
George
$400 [16]
This lustrous linen or silk fabric derives its name from Syria's capital
damask
Debbie Norm
$500 [30]
This type of "heap" is a pile of vegetable material allowed to break down & used to improve soil
a compost heap
George
$500 [11]
She played widowed nurse Julia Baker on "Julia"
Diahann Carroll
Norm
$500 [22]
Found in health food stores, this chocolate substitute is also known as locust bean
carob
George
$500 [13]
The earliest surviving harpsichord was built in this country, where it was called a cembalo
Italy
George
DD $800 [26]
It's the term for your mother's mother's mother's mother
great-great-grandmother
George
$500 [23]
Rugs, shawls & even a hound are named this, after a Middle Eastern country
Afghans
Norm

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY LANGUAGES COMPOSERS INVENTORS GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BOOKS & AUTHORS
$200 [4]
In April 1859 ground was broken for the building of this Middle East waterway
the Suez Canal
Debbie
$200 [12]
The name of this international language is actually the pen name under which Dr. Zamenhof wrote about it
Esperanto
Debbie George
$200 [1]
The 1945 film "Rhapsody in Blue" is a biography of this composer
(George) Gershwin
Debbie
$200 [6]
In 1929 Hans Berger developed this device that measures & records brain wave patterns
electroencephalograph
George
$200 [18]
The Ames Research Center & the Jet Propulsion Lab. are under the jurisdiction of this space agency
NASA
George
$200 [3]
She subtitled "Aunt Erma's Cope Book" "How to get from Monday to Friday...in twelve days"
Erma Bombeck
George
$400 [8]
Marie Antoinette was among those executed during this "reign" of the French Revolution
the Reign of Terror
George
$400 [13]
The language of this North Atlantic island nation is similar to Old Norse, the Viking language
Iceland
George
$400 [2]
Call him Sir when addressing this "Cats" composer; he was knighted in 1992
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Debbie
$400 [7]
Dorothy Rodgers, wife of composer Richard Rodgers, invented the Jonny-Mop, a cleaner for this device
the toilet
George
$400 [19]
The Bureau of Mines is an agency of this cabinet department
the Department of the Interior
George
$400 [5]
He appeared in the film of his book "Paper Lion", but not as himself—Alan Alda got the role
George Plimpton
Norm
$600 [9]
The Haganah, a volunteer militia formed after WWI, became this country's Nat'l Army in 1948
Israel
George
$600 [14]
Frisian, considered English's nearest neighbor, is spoken in the northern part of this Low Country
Holland (the Netherlands)
George
$600 [16]
Giacomo Puccini decided to write operas after hearing a performance of this composer's "Aida"
Verdi
Norm
$600 [17]
This inventor of dynamite studied in the U.S. for 4 years
Nobel
George
$600 [20]
Democrat Sam Nunn has represented this state in the U.S. Senate since 1972
Georgia
George
$600 [22]
"Beds I Have Known" is Martha Smith's book about this outdoor hobby
gardening
Norm
$800 [10]
After killing his son in a fit of rage, this czar tried to abdicate but was refused
Ivan the Terrible
Norm George
$800 [15]
Speakers of this language of the United Kingdom call it Cymraeg
Welsh
Norm
$800 [27]
A trip to this country inspired Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture"
Scotland
Debbie Norm
$800 [23]
In 1947 this company got the rights to the photocopying process invented by Chester Carlson
Xerox
Norm
$800 [21]
This Colorado city is headquarters to the Consumer Information Catalog of Fed. Publications
Pueblo
Debbie Norm George
$800 [28]
"Queen of Romance" who wrote "The Penniless Peer", "The Cruel Count" & "The Ruthless Rake"
Barbara Cartland
Debbie
$1,000 [11]
In 1980 this country granted limited self-rule to Flanders & Wallonia
Belgium
Norm
$1,000 [26]
After the Muslim conquest of this country, Coptic was gradually replaced by Arabic
Egypt
Norm
$1,000 [30]
This Austrian composer wrote over 140 songs in 1815, including 8 lieder in a single day
Franz Schubert
Norm
$1,000 [24]
French inventor Charles Brun used compressed air to expel water from the ballast tanks of one of these ships
a submarine
George
DD $1,300 [25]
The father-in-law of Senator Howard Baker, he served as Senate minority leader from 1959 to his death in 1969
Everett Dirksen
George
DD $3,000 [29]
"From the South Seas" is a 1939 collection of her anthropological writings
Margaret Mead
Debbie

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN IN BUSINESS

This woman who began selling her products in the 1930s is estimated to be America's richest self-made woman

Estée Lauder

Norm "Who is Helena Rubinstein?" — wagered $5,100
Debbie "Who Estee Lauder?" — wagered $6,000
George "Who is Estee Lauder?" — wagered $4,001

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