Show #2275 1994-06-24 (taped 1994-02-08) Regular

Contestants

Darel Engen — a graduate student from Los Angeles, California

Kim Smith — a ticket counter originally from Sedalia, Missouri

Elliot Cohen — a researcher from Oakland, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,901)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Elliot $900 $1,400 $5,200 $0
3rd place: Ricardo Beverly Hills luggage set + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$4,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Kim $600 $2,500 $9,200 $7,400
New champion: $7,400
$8,500
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Darel $500 $1,800 $5,400 $50
2nd place: trip to Oasis Water Resort Villa Hotel in Palm Springs + Pinseeker golf clubs
$6,700
23 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE CONTINENTS COMEDIANS ANNUAL EVENTS THE 1970s PHOBIAS ABBREVIATIONS
$100 [2]
Continent in the name of the treaty debated by Gore & Perot November 9, 1993
North America
Darel
$100 [7]
Before he became Mork from Ork, he studied acting with John Houseman at Juilliard
Robin Williams
Darel
$100 [19]
Traditionally, the egg roll on the White House lawn is the held the day after this holiday
Easter
Darel
$100 [12]
In 1974 postage for first-class letters rose to 10 & this became the nationwide highway speed limit
55 miles per hour
Kim
$100 [1]
Here's the buzz--if you have apiphobia, you're afraid of these
bees
Darel
$100 [22]
It's the part of the body abbreviated app.
the appendix
Darel
$200 [3]
There are no representatives from this continent in the U.N.
Antarctica
Elliot
$200 [8]
Ford Sterling is best remembered as the leader of this silent movie police force
the Keystone Cops
Darel
$200 [27]
There's a whole lot of shuckin' going on when Oyster Bay in this state hosts its annual oyster Festival
New York
Elliot Kim
$200 [13]
He succeeded Pope Paul VI in 1978 but died 34 days later
John Paul I
Darel
$200 [17]
At a ball, someone who is chorophobic wouldn't do this
dance
Kim
$200 [23]
It's the sports organization abbreviated NHL
the National Hockey League
Kim
$300 [4]
The labor force on this continent is over 900,000,000 people
Asia
Elliot
$300 [9]
After the end of the Monty Python TV show, he co-wrote & starred in "Fawlty Towers"
John Cleese
Elliot
$300 [28]
Induction ceremonies & parades are part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Festival in this Ohio city
Canton
Darel
$300 [14]
On Oct. 6, 1973, this Jewish holiday, a full- scale war broke out in the Middle East
Yom Kippur
Darel
$300 [18]
Phasmophobia is the fear of these, friendly or not
ghosts
Elliot
$300 [24]
Your PIN, which allows you access to an ATM, is an abbreviation for this
Personal identification Number
Kim
$400 [5]
Its lowest point is Lake Assal in Djibouti
Africa
Darel
$400 [10]
This comedian, born Charles Elmer Taylor, said, "Confetti is my life"
Rip Taylor
Elliot Darel
$400 [29]
These 2 universities compete against each other in a annual regatta held in New London, Conn.
Yale and Harvard
Darel
$500 [16]
In 1971 Lt. Wm. Calley Jr. was convicted of the premeditated murder of civilians in this Vietnamese village
My Lai
Kim
$400 [20]
As Erica Jong could tell you, aviophobia is this
fear of flying
Darel
$400 [25]
This Latin abbreviation is commonly used in footnotes to refer to a book or article cited just before
Ibid.
Kim
$500 [6]
This continent has hosted the Olympics only once
Australia
Kim
$500 [11]
For 20 years Mark Russell was based at this city's Shoreham Hotel
Washington
Elliot
$500 [30]
The Color Purple Ball held in Eatonton, Georgia helps support a scholarship fund founded by this author
Alice Walker
Kim
DD $1,300 [15]
The last known natural case of this disease was reported in 1977 in Somalia
Smallpox
Darel
$500 [21]
It's the fear of fire
pyrophobia
Kim
$500 [26]
When it comes to recording, VHS stands for this
Video Home System
Kim

Double Jeopardy! Round

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY BUSINESS & INDUSTRY GOVERNMENT & POLITICS TRAVEL & TOURISM CAUSTIC QUOTES GREAT SCOTTs
$200 [1]
In 1903 the U.S. signed a treaty giving it the right to establish a naval base at this Cuban site
Guantanamo Bay
Kim
$200 [6]
The first "M" in 3M's name stands for this state where the company began
Minnesota
Kim
$200 [8]
By the mid-1790s the U.S. had 2 major political parties: the Democratic-Republican party & this one
the Federalists
Elliot
$200 [16]
An Oklahoma turnpike is named for this humorist
Will Rogers
Elliot
$200 [21]
Andy Rooney said, "The average" one of these pets "is a nicer person than the average person"
a dog
Darel
$200 [22]
This weatherman for the "Today" show was America's First Ronald McDonald
Willard Scott
Darel
$400 [2]
In 1989 Alfredo Cristiani was elected to succeed Jose Napoleon Duarte as president of this country
El Salvador
Elliot
$400 [7]
This footwear company introduced the slogan "Just Do It" in 1988
Nike
Darel
$400 [12]
The House of Burgesses first met on June 30, 1619 in this settlement, then the capital of Virginia
Jamestown
Elliot Kim
$400 [17]
If you're an avid golfer, try the links of Royal Troon & Prestwick in this country
Scotland
Darel
$400 [30]
H.L. Mencken compared this, a person's "inner voice", to "a mother-in-law whose visit never ends"
a conscience
Darel
$400 [23]
His "Maple Leaf Rag" was named for the Maple Leaf Club, where he once performed
Scott Joplin
Elliot
$600 [3]
The Central American nation now known as this was a British colony from 1862 to 1981
Belize
Elliot
$600 [9]
In 1958 Nissan Motor Co. started marketing its cars in the U.S. under this brand name
Datsun
Kim
$600 [13]
The Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management is part of this Cabinet department
the Department of Energy
Kim
$600 [18]
4 varieties of gumbo can be found at K-Paul's Louisiana kitchen, owned by this famed chef
Paul Prudhomme
Darel
$600 [29]
Publilius Syrus counseled, "Treat your friend as if he might become" one of these
your enemy
Kim
$600 [24]
In his third bestseller, this author of "Presumed Innocent" was "Pleading Guilty"
Scott Turow
Elliot
$1,000 [5]
In 1824 this Brazilian emperor granted his country a constitution
Dom Pedro
Kim
$800 [10]
This has been the official airline of Walt Disney World since 1987
Delta
Kim
$1,000 [15]
In the Confederate cabinet, 6 different men acted as Secretary of this; it was a tough job
(Secretary of) War
Darel
$800 [19]
Fort Bowie in this state was headquarters for the operations against Geronimo
Arizona
Kim Darel
$800 [27]
Martyrdom is "the only way in which a man can become famous without ability", said this "Saint Joan" playwright
Shaw
Elliot
$800 [25]
In 1962 he became the second American astronaut to orbit the Earth
Scott Carpenter
Elliot Darel
DD $1,200 [4]
In 1921 the United States agreed to pay this country $25 million for its loss of Panama
Colombia
Elliot
$1,000 [11]
This company that publishes USA Today also owns the Louis Harris polling business
Gannett
Darel
DD $1,500 [14]
William French Smith was this president's first Attorney General
Ronald Reagan
Kim
$1,000 [20]
This basilica in the Piazza San Giovanni is the pope's cathedral in his capacity as Bishop of Rome
St. John Lateran
Elliot Darel
$1,000 [28]
Viscount Montgomery was described as "in defeat, unbeatable; in" this, "unbearable"
victory
Darel
$1,000 [26]
From 1841 until the start of the Civil War, he was general in chief of the U.S. Army
Winfield Scott
Darel

Final Jeopardy!

LAST LINES

A J.M. Synge play ends, "Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only" one of these

Playboy of the Western World

Elliot "What isFather" — wagered $5,200
Darel "What is the only boy I had" — wagered $5,350
Kim "What is True Love" — wagered $1,800

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