Show #2223 1994-04-13 (taped 1994-01-11) Regular

Contestants

Jay Delehanty — an attorney from Washington, D.C.

Bob Sliman — a physician from Canton, Ohio

David Stewart — a songwriter from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $1,500 $1,700 $6,600 $5,700
2-day champion: $19,800
$5,700
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Bob $700 $2,500 $7,300 $300
3rd place: Vivitar 440PZ camera + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$7,300
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Jay $1,500 $2,500 $8,900 $3,200
2nd place: AST notebook computer + Sergio Valente watches
$8,900
25 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITALS AWARDS MEAT WEIGHTS & MEASURES WORD ORIGINS "F" IN HISTORY
$100 [2]
In 1867 Nebraska's capital was moved from Omaha to Lancaster, which was renamed this
Lincoln
Jay
$100 [13]
In 1993 this former U.S. president received Kuwait's highest civilian medal, the Mubarak the Great Award
Bush
Jay
$100 [26]
In the U.S. these are divided by weight & age into categories like broiler, fryer & roaster
chickens
Jay
$100 [21]
It's 1/12 of a foot
an inch
David
$100 [9]
This bony supporting structure of animals is from a Greek expression for "dried up"
a skeleton
Bob
$100 [1]
He sired at least 2 illegitimate children during his marriage to Isabella
Ferdinand
Jay
$200 [3]
This capital of Washington was laid out in 1851 & first called Smithfield
Olympia
Bob Jay
$200 [14]
Established in 1976, the Rocky Marciano Award honors outstanding achievement in this sport
boxing
David
$200 [27]
The Cajuns of this "Bayou State" relish squirrel meat
Louisiana
David
$200 [22]
yd. is short for yard & rd. is short for this measure
a rod
Jay
$200 [10]
Originally the supervisor of the crown's pleas, this officer now investigates deaths
a coroner
David
$200 [4]
In 1564 a group of Huguenots built a colony called Fort Caroline in what is now this U.S. state
Florida
Jay
$300 [5]
This Texas city is known for its "artificial moonlight", mercury vapor street lamps atop iron towers
Austin
Jay
$300 [15]
Juno Awards given by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences are equivalent to these U.S. awards
Grammys
David
$300 [28]
Cured & smoked, a leg of pork becomes this
ham
Bob
$300 [23]
The torr, a unit of this, is named for Evangelista Torricelli, who invented the barometer
pressure
Jay
$300 [18]
From the Latin for "to wash in hot water", it now means to heat almost to the boiling point
scald
David Bob
$300 [7]
This U.S. president was known as "The American Louis Philippe"
(Millard) Fillmore
David
$400 [6]
It's nicknamed "The Green Mountain City"
Montpelier
Bob
$400 [16]
At the Oscars in 1993, this Italian director was given a special Lifetime Achievement Award
Fellini
Bob
$400 [29]
Alberto Fujimori should know that guinea pig provides much of the animal protein eaten in this country
Peru
David Bob Jay
$400 [24]
The carrying capacity of a large ship is measured in this
deadweight tons
Jay
$400 [19]
Latin for "provided", this clause in a document allows a qualification or restriction
a proviso
Jay
$400 [11]
In 1987 Sitiveni Rabuka led a military coup that overthrew the government of this Pacific island country
Fiji
Jay
DD $500 [8]
Settled in 1837, this city was first called Michigan, but was later named for an area in New York state
Lansing
David
$500 [17]
In May 1992 the Freedom Forum gave its first Free Spirit award to this AP correspondent & former hostage
Terry Anderson
Bob
$500 [30]
Type of meat you need to make roti de cheval a la cannelle
horse
Bob
$500 [25]
This adjective the precedes gallon means the measure is part of the British system
Imperial
Bob
$500 [20]
A character in the Nicholas Rowe play "The Fair Penitent" gave us this term for a womanizer
a lothario
Bob
$500 [12]
The Rothschilds opened their first bank in the late 1700s, in this city
Frankfurt
Jay

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY THE LIBERTY BELL TRANSPORTATION BALLET LESSER KNOWN NAMES POETS
$200 [1]
France's Cotentin Peninsula extends northward into this channel
the English Channel
Bob
$200 [6]
The Liberty Bell tolled the death of this President in December 1799
Washington
Bob
$200 [18]
It's popularly referred to as a hook and ladder
a fire engine
Jay
$200 [26]
At the end of the ballet "Liebeslieder Walzer", the dancers listen to a song sung in this language
German
Jay
$200 [14]
The work of Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz influenced this man's special theory of relativity
Einstein
Jay
$200 [7]
This poet helped compile "The Scots Musical Museum", an 18th c. collection of Scottish folk songs
(Rabbie) Burns
Jay
$400 [2]
The Rhine forms the western border of this 62-square-mile country nestled between Austria & Switzerland
Liechtenstein
David Jay
$400 [8]
This part of the bell is 3'2" long
the clapper
Jay
$400 [19]
Term for the triangular frame at the front of a locomotive that clears the track of obstructions
a cowcatcher
David
$400 [27]
Yves Saint Laurent designed the costumes for a 1961 ballet based on this Edmond Rostand play
Cyrano de Bergerac
Bob
$400 [17]
Col. Edward House wasn't part of Wilson's cabinet but did help draw up this treaty at the end of WWI
the Treaty of Versailles
Jay
$400 [10]
In 1386 this poet was elected to Parliament as a Knight of the Shire for Kent
Chaucer
David
$600 [3]
Citizens of this European territory in the Far East are called Macanese
Macau
Jay
$600 [9]
It was first cast in 1752 by Thomas Lester's foundry of Whitechapel in this city
London
Bob
$600 [23]
It's the national airline of Denmark, Norway & Sweden
SAS
David
DD $600 [28]
Maya Plisetskaya choreographed a 1972 ballet based on this Tolstoy novel & danced the title role herself
Anna Karenina
Bob
$600 [20]
T. Dobzhansky wasn't a fly-by-night name in this field of biology, but more of a "fruit fly-by-night"
genetics
David Jay
$800 [12]
After her death in 1886, this poet's sister Lavinia found her poems & had them published
Emily Dickinson
Bob
$800 [4]
Newfoundland's highest peak, Mount Caubvick, lies on the border with this province to the west
Quebec
Bob
$800 [15]
This metal makes up about 2/3 of the bell; the other 1/3 consists mostly of tin & silver
copper
Bob Jay
$800 [24]
In 1732 America's first regular stagecoach line began service between Amboy & Burlington in this colony
New Jersey
Jay
$800 [29]
In 1954 Margot Fonteyn played the "avian" title character of this Stravinsky-Fokine ballet
The Firebird
Jay
$800 [21]
The capital of this Australian island state was named for Robert Hobart
Tasmania
Jay
$1,000 [13]
This English poet was the inspiration for Shelley's elegy "Adonais"
Keats
David Bob
$1,000 [5]
When Eritrea became independent on May 24, 1993, this nation lost its border on the Red Sea
Ethiopia
David
$1,000 [16]
On Jan. 26, 1763 the Liberty Bell was rung to signify the end of this war
the French and Indian War
Jay
$1,000 [25]
During the 1930s France launched its Normandie luxury liner & England launched these 2 "royal" ones
the Queen Elizabeth & the Queen Mary
Jay
$1,000 [30]
Scene 2 of this 1942 ballet features a pas de trois by a roper, a wrangler & a cowgirl
Rodeo
Bob
$1,000 [22]
In the 18th c. Tobias Furneaux became the first explorer to accomplish this...both ways
go around the world
David
DD $1,500 [11]
Soon after his 1809 birth, his parents died & he was taken to the Richmond, Va. home of Mr. & Mrs. John Allan
Edgar Allan Poe
David

Final Jeopardy!

1990s BESTSELLERS

The pivotal item in a 1992 bestseller, it was written by Darby Shaw

the Pelican Brief

David "What is ?" — wagered $900
Bob "What is a Will" — wagered $7,000
Jay "What is the" — wagered $5,700

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