Show #2158 1994-01-12 (taped 1993-09-27) Regular

Contestants

Dennis O'Brien — a computer programmer from East Meadow, New York

Pat Stockhausen — a consultant from New York City, New York

Steve Ashworth — a financial consultant from Mount Kisco, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $2,100 $5,300 $8,100 $8,400
2nd place: General Instrument satellite TV system + RCA 27" color TV
$7,100
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Pat $700 $2,200 $3,200 $3,400
3rd place: Krieger watch + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$3,200
14 R, 2 W
Dennis $1,700 $2,300 $8,400 $16,201
New champion: $16,201
$6,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR FRUITS & VEGETABLES U.S. COINS CHINA KLINE "NIGHT" MUSIC
$100 [3]
On May 10, 1865 this Confederate president was captured by Union troops in southern Georgia
Jefferson Davis
Dennis
$100 [11]
The temple variety of this citrus fruit has many seeds
an orange
Steve
$100 [26]
It's the residence that replaced the bison on the back of the nickel
Monticello
Dennis
$100 [16]
From 1912-1949 it was the Republic of China; in 1949 this word was added to the name
People's
Steve
$100 [21]
Lawrence Kasdan directed Kevin in "Silverado" & this 1983 film about college chums reunited for a funeral
The Big Chill
Dennis
$100 [1]
The only Top 40 hit by the Beatles that fits the category
"A Hard Day's Night"
Pat
$200 [4]
Shooting began in this Penn. battle when Confederates searching for shoes ran into Union cavalry
Gettysburg
Dennis
$200 [12]
The blossoms of these gourds are edible & sometimes are stuffed & deep-fried
squash
Pat
$200 [27]
A coin of this value was minted 1864–1873, so if you wanted to put its worth into a conversation...
2 cents
Steve Pat
$200 [17]
The Chengdu Zoo is known for its display of these giant endangered animals
pandas
Pat
$200 [22]
Kevin made his film debut in this 1982 Meryl Streep film about an Auschwitz survivor
Sophie's Choice
Steve
$200 [2]
Frank Sinatra sang about them "exchanging glances"
"Strangers In The Night"
Dennis
$300 [5]
About his campaign, this general later wrote, "Behind us lay Atlanta, smoldering and in ruins"
Sherman
Dennis
$300 [13]
Indian corn can have red, blue, brown & purple kernels; butter & sugar corn has these 2 colors
white & yellow
Steve
$300 [28]
There are no quarters dated 1975 & the 1976 quarters also have this year on them
1776
Pat
$300 [18]
Over 2,000 years ago, the Chinese read books made from strips of this plant
bamboo
Steve
$300 [23]
In this 1993 film, Kevin Kline impersonates the President of the United States
Dave
Pat
$300 [8]
Kris Kristofferson wrote this impassioned plea that begins, "Take the ribbon from your hair"
"Help Me Make It Through The Night"
Steve
$400 [6]
This Black orator helped organize 2 Black regiments from Massachusetts during the War
(Frederick) Douglass
Dennis
$400 [14]
The 2 main categories of melon are muskmelon & this large type
watermelon
Steve
$400 [29]
Some say the design on the 1992 Olympic baseball dollar was copied from a baseball card of this Texas pitcher
Nolan Ryan
Steve
$400 [19]
Reuters reports that these formerly P.C. jackets are now gathering dust in Chinese warehouses
Mao jackets
Steve
$400 [24]
Kline sang & danced in the 1983 film version of this Gilbert & Sullivan classic
The Pirates of Penzance
Dennis
$400 [9]
This Cole Porter classic begins, "Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom, when the jungle shadows fall"
"Night And Day"
Pat
$500 [7]
Before Mobile Bay, his naval victories included New Orleans & Port Hudson
(Admiral) Farragut
Steve
$500 [15]
The English is the common garden variety of this legume
a pea
Steve
DD $1,500 [30]
From 1948-1963 the half-dollar had this object on its back
the Liberty Bell
Steve
$500 [20]
Preparation of this fowl dish may begin more than 2 days before it's served
Peking duck
Steve
$500 [25]
In "I Love You To Death", Kevin runs into this woman, his real-life wife
Phoebe Cates
Pat
$500 [10]
This potent potable discovery tune is from "Gigi"
"The Night They Invented Champagne"
Dennis

Double Jeopardy! Round

HEADS OF STATE ANTONYMS NOBEL SCIENTISTS CATHEDRALS HORROR NOVELS POTPOURRI
$200 [6]
King Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz as-Saud
Saudi Arabia
Pat
$200 [1]
This opposite of frantic comes "before a storm"
calm
Steve
$200 [27]
In 1987 Susumu Tonegawa became the first man from this country to win the prize for Physiology or Medicine
Japan
Dennis
$200 [7]
This kind of natural disaster damaged the dome of Hagia Sophia in 558, 989 & 1346
an earthquake
Pat
$200 [12]
Bram Stoker wrote this novel after hearing stories about Walachian ruler Vlad the Impaler
Dracula
Pat
$200 [17]
Winning entries in this contest have included an apple nut lattice tart & snappy turtle cookies
the Pillsbury Bake-off
Steve Dennis
$400 [22]
President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Italy
Pat
$400 [2]
3-letter antonym of straightforward for Stone or Stallone
sly
Dennis
$400 [28]
Sir Ronald Ross won the award for discovering how this disease is transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito
malaria
Steve
$400 [8]
The Duke of Wellington is buried in a crypt under the floor of this London cathedral
St. Paul's
Pat
$400 [13]
In this modern classic, fathers Merrin & Karras try to rid Regan MacNeil of a demon
The Exorcist
Steve
$400 [18]
Sam Gutowitz, who founded a famous record store chain, was better known by this name
Sam Goody
Dennis
$600 [23]
President Fidel V. Ramos
the Philippines
Dennis
$600 [3]
Antonyms in Kentucky's state motto are united & divided & this pair
stand & fall
$600 [30]
Richard Willstatter won in 1915 "for his researches on plant pigments, especially" this one
chlorophyll
Steve
$600 [9]
Giuliano de Medici was assassinated inside Il Duomo, the magnificent cathedral in this city
Florence
Steve Dennis
$600 [14]
The setting for this 1967 Ira Levin novel, a gloomy Manhattan apt. building, is based on one where he had lived
Rosemary's Baby
Pat
$600 [19]
The oldest one known, the Codex Vaticanus, was written in Greek around 350 A.D.
a Bible
Dennis
$800 [24]
President Ion Iliescu
Romania
Steve
$1,000 [5]
This antonym for imaginative is also a term for one who walks
pedestrian
Pat
$800 [29]
It took 50 years but in 1986 Ernest Ruska was finally honored for his development of this microscope
the electron microscope
Dennis
$800 [10]
This world-famous landmark on Red Square is actually a combination of 9 chapels
St. Basil's (Cathedral)
Steve Dennis
$800 [15]
Jack Torrance terrorizes his family after they move into a haunted hotel in this Stephen King novel
The Shining
Pat
$800 [20]
In folklore this cowboy is the inventor of roping, branding & the six-shooter
Pecos Bill
DD $1,000 [25]
Emir Shaikh Jabir al-Ahmad as-Sabah
Kuwait
Steve
DD $2,700 [4]
These 2 antonyms anagram to "eats stew"
east & west
Dennis
$1,000 [26]
Richard Taylor, Jerome Friedman & Henry Kendall were honored in 1990 for proving the existence of this particle
the quark
Dennis
$1,000 [11]
This city's beautiful cathedral stands near the Alcazar Palace, as Carmen could have told you
Seville
Steve
$1,000 [16]
This author of "Koko" & "Ghost Story" grabs readers by "The Throat" in a 1993 thriller
Peter Straub
$1,000 [21]
The Althing, Europe's oldest parliament, was established by Vikings in this country in 930
Iceland
Dennis

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NAMES

The town in which he was born in 1870 was later renamed Ulyanovsk

Vladimir Lenin

Pat "Who is Lenin?" — wagered $200
Steve "Who is Lenin" — wagered $300
Dennis "Who was Lenin?" — wagered $7,801

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