Show #2169 1994-01-27 (taped 1993-11-01) Regular

Contestants

Annie Gottlieb — a freelance writer from New York City, New York

Joe Shaefer — an investment advisor and author from Honolulu, Hawaii

Andrew Zarutskie — a press secretary originally from Newburgh, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andrew $1,800 $1,800 $1,400 $2,800
3rd place: Olympus 35mm camera
$3,400
17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Joe $500 $800 $2,200 $4,200
2nd place: Bassett bedroom furniture + Bassett mattress
$2,200
7 R, 1 W
Annie $2,000 $3,900 $9,500 $5,700
New champion: $5,700
$10,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

JFK MOVIE DIRECTORS THE EARTH FOOTWEAR WHAT THE "H" HODGEPODGE
$100 [1]
The popular vote by which JFK beat this man in 1960 was the closest since 1888
Richard Nixon
Annie
$100 [8]
In 1984 this "E.T." director formed a production company & named it for his 1969 short "Amblin'"
Steven Spielberg
Annie
$100 [2]
Of about 500 active ones of these, Cotopaxi & Guallatiri are among the most active
volcanoes
Andrew
$100 [17]
Insulting military wear for mothers
combat boots
Andrew
$100 [26]
Drew Berkowitz called it "the only thing that will really prevent baldness"
hair
Joe
$100 [16]
A digestive enzyme called bromelain comes from this Hawaiian fruit
pineapple
Annie
$200 [3]
In 1960 he offered the VP slot to this man to appease Southerners & was surprised that he accepted
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson)
Annie
$200 [12]
This director's then wife Marcia served as editor on his 1977 film "Star Wars"
George Lucas
Annie
$200 [4]
Term for the valleys that are the deepest parts of the ocean floors
trenches
Andrew
$200 [20]
These shoes come in light brown & white; Pat Boone wears the white ones
bucks
Joe
$200 [27]
Walter Winchell described it as "a town where they place you under contract instead of observation"
Hollywood
Annie
$200 [18]
This heavily armored Union warship was said to look like a "cheese box on a raft"
the Monitor
Annie
$300 [5]
JFK had been president for less than 3 months before the disastrous landing at this Cuban site
the Bay of Pigs
Andrew
$300 [13]
He appeared in "The Birds" as a man in front of a pet shop with white terriers
Alfred Hitchcock
Andrew
$300 [9]
The bulk of the Earth is contained in this silica-rich layer
the mantle
Annie
$300 [22]
They're the metal projections on the soles of athletic shoes, or the shoes themselves
cleats
$300 [28]
It's the kind of pipe the Caterpillar was smoking when he met Alice in Wonderland
a hookah
Annie
$300 [19]
One explanation for this Penn. nickname is that it's centrally located among the 13 original states
"The Keystone State"
Annie
$400 [6]
This boat commanded by JFK collided with the Japanese destroyer Amagiri in August 1943
PT-109
Andrew
$400 [14]
This Swede's first English-language film was "The Touch" in 1971
Ingmar Bergman
Annie
$500 [11]
These land masses are generally classified as continental or oceanic
islands
Andrew Joe
$400 [23]
On the Roman military types of these, the laces go up the calf
sandals
Annie
$400 [29]
Mary Baker Eddy said this is "not a condition of matter, but of mind"
health
Annie
$400 [21]
In 1892 a Denver lawyer created this breakfast cereal, using a machine that pressed wheat into thin strips
Shredded Wheat
Andrew
$500 [7]
Recovering from a double spinal fusion in 1954, he began work on this Pulitzer Prize-winning book
Profiles in Courage
Andrew
$500 [15]
He could have titled his 1971 autobiography "It's A Wonderful Life" instead of "The Name Above the Title"
Frank Capra
Andrew
DD $700 [10]
This language gave us the words erg, a sandy desert, & hammada, a rocky desert
Arabic
Annie
$500 [24]
Its "Instapumps" cost about $200 & feature a device that injects CO2into a bladder
Reebok
Andrew Joe Annie
$500 [30]
Oscar Wilde said, "Anybody can make" this; "only a great man can write it"
history
Annie
$500 [25]
Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine & Palatine
the seven hills of Rome
Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEDIEVAL TIMES ARCHITECTURE OPERA BODIES OF WATER ASTRONAUT LINGO WOMEN AUTHORS
$200 [11]
To produce those charming smiles, these were generally cleaned with a green hazel twig
the teeth
Andrew
$200 [12]
Often fitted with glass, it's an opening in a ceiling to let the sunshine in
a skylight
Annie
$200 [23]
It's the English title of the ever-popular Mozart opera "Le Nozze di Figaro"
The Marriage of Figaro
Annie
$200 [1]
Countries bordering on this gulf include Qatar & Saudi Arabia
the Persian Gulf
Andrew
$200 [14]
A single one of these by a spacecraft is called a pass
an orbit
Annie
$200 [6]
She first told the tale of Peter Rabbit in a letter to her former governess' son
Beatrix Potter
Andrew
$400 [15]
These fairs held in the Champagne area included annual ones for cloth & leather
trade fairs
$400 [13]
It's the combined structure atop a church that includes the tower & spire
a steeple
Joe
$400 [24]
"Nothung! Nothung!" is Siegfried's song about his sword in this composer's opera "Siegfried"
Wagner
Joe
$400 [2]
The Bay of Tangier on Africa's northern coast is an inlet of this strait
the Strait of Gibraltar
Andrew
$400 [25]
Term for the time in its descent when a capsule comes back into the earth's atmosphere
reentry
Andrew
$400 [7]
This author of "The Age of Innocence" was born Edith Newbold Jones in 1862
Edith Wharton
Annie
$600 [16]
The Duke of Apulia first issued this coin in the mid-1100s; the clue here is "Duke"
a ducat
Andrew
$600 [19]
A style of window popular in commercial buildings of the 1890s is named for this Illinois city
Chicago
$600 [28]
This ragtime composer's opera "Treemonisha" is about a baby found under a tree by a woman named Monisha
Scott Joplin
Annie
$600 [3]
During WWI 2 famous battles took place near this longest tributary of the Seine
the Marne
Andrew Annie
$1,000 [22]
The passengers, cargo, supplies, etc. that are carried up by the rocket
a payload
Annie
$600 [8]
Flannery was this "Wise Blood" author's middle name; her first name was Mary
(Flannery) O'Connor
Joe
$800 [17]
In the 1122 Concordat of Worms, Henry V gave up the right to appoint these church leaders
bishops (& abbots)
Andrew Annie
$800 [20]
Architect Sir John Soane's eccentric home in this capital city features mock ruins & an Egyptian crypt
London
Andrew
DD $1,000 [27]
A soprano plays the role of the Sandman in this 1893 Humperdinck opera
Hansel and Gretel
Annie
$800 [4]
Lisbon lies on this river, the longest on the Iberian Peninsula
the Tagus River
$800 [9]
This author of "The Thorn Birds" published "The First Man in Rome", a historical novel, in 1990
Colleen McCullough
Annie
$1,000 [18]
At the turn of the 13th century, St. Francis of Assisi & this Spaniard founded friar movements
St. Dominic
Andrew
DD $2,000 [21]
N. Hawksmoor assisted John Vanbrugh in designing this palace for the Duke of Marlborough
Blenheim Palace
Andrew
$1,000 [26]
This "Peter and the Wolf" composer was only 9 when he wrote his first opera, "The Giant"
Prokofiev
Annie
$1,000 [5]
Noted for its high tides, this bay separates Nova Scotia from New Brunswick
the Bay of Fundy
Annie
$1,000 [10]
"The Sisters Rosensweig" is a recent play by this writer of "The Heidi Chronicles"
Wendy Wasserstein
Annie

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY

Name shared by the southernmost province of Belgium, a country on its border & a capital city

Luxembourg

Andrew "What is Luxembourg?" — wagered $1,400
Joe "What is Luxembourg" — wagered $2,000
Annie "What is Flem" — wagered $3,800

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