Show #2481 1995-05-22 (taped 1995-01-18) Regular

Contestants

Patrick Landers — a litigation attorney originally from Wakefield, Massachusetts

Carol Billerbeck — a freelance writer from San Francisco, California

Ron Lindsay — a philosophy professor from Alexandria, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ron $1,500 $1,500 $4,700 $9,300
2-day champion: $28,800
$4,700
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Carol $700 $1,400 $2,200 $2,200
3rd place: Dykstra grandfather clock
$2,200
11 R, 3 W
Patrick $1,100 $1,400 $4,000 $4,703
2nd place: Broyhill Fontana living room set + Carpet One wall-to-wall carpeting
$5,000
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY BUSINESS LOGOS & TRADEMARKS FAMOUS FIRSTS LONDON HEADWEAR DOUBLE TALK
$100 [5]
In 1969 Lin Piao was designated successor to this man by the 9th Party Congress
Mao Tse-tung
Carol
$100 [25]
This trio made its debut in 1945, noisily touting Rice Krispies
Snap, Crackle & Pop
Patrick
$100 [17]
The 1st machine to automatically make these was introduced in 1920; now we need an automatic dunker
donuts
Carol
$100 [18]
Room 12 of this museum contains sculpture from the mausoleum at Halicarnassus
the British Museum
Carol
$100 [28]
Great Scot! Tam is short for this
a tam-o'-shanter
Ron
$100 [30]
"Hey!" it precedes "The Cat and the Fiddle"
diddle diddle
Ron
$200 [4]
On March 12, 1930 he began the Salt March in defiance of British rule in India
Gandhi
Patrick
$200 [24]
In the 1940s Borden made this bovine its symbol for its new white glue
Elmer
Ron
$200 [16]
In 1923 Calvin Coolidge lit the 1st national one of these, starting a yearly tradition
a Christmas tree
Patrick
$200 [12]
There's a windmill museum in this suburb famous for the All-England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club
Wimbledon
Patrick
$200 [27]
Fezzes & mortarboards both have one of these decorations
tassels
Ron
$200 [26]
Mediocre or passable
so-so
Carol
$300 [1]
Pope Leo III crowned this Frankish king in Rome on Christmas Day, 800
Charlemagne
Patrick
$300 [6]
Sailor Jack & his dog Bingo are featured on its boxes
Cracker Jacks
Carol
$300 [13]
In 1940 65-year-old Ida Fuller received the 1st of these benefit checks & got them until her death at age 100
a Social Security check
Ron
$300 [9]
London's monument is a 202-foot monument to this 1666 event
the Great Fire of London
Ron
$300 [20]
A fool's cap is usually tipped with these, so you can hear him coming
bells
Carol
$300 [21]
This sauce served with fish is made with mayonnaise, chopped onion, pickles, olives & capers
tartar
$400 [2]
Lon Nol was president of this country from 1972 until he fled the advancing Khmer Rouge in 1975
Cambodia
Patrick
$400 [7]
To model for this product, 9-year-old Michael Brady, of Irish descent, donned a cap, overalls & wooden shoes
Dutch Boy paint
Carol
$400 [14]
In 1978 the first legal casino in the Eastern U.S. opened in this state
New Jersey
Carol
$400 [10]
Lord's, near Regent's Park, is the London headquarters for this sport
cricket
Ron
$400 [19]
One may be sun or war
a bonnet
$400 [22]
The name of this lemur of Madagascar sounds like Navy lingo for "I understand and will comply"
aye-aye
Ron
$500 [3]
Princely absolutism gave way to constitutional gov't in this Mediterranean country in 1911
Monaco
Carol Patrick
$500 [8]
This company's hands first held just a car; a house was added later
Allstate
Ron
$500 [15]
In 1976 Nadia Comaneci scored the 1st perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics in this city
Montreal
Patrick
$500 [11]
Tourists may visit the court dress collection of this palace, the London home of the Princess of Wales
Kensington Palace
$500 [29]
It's what holds an Arab's kaffiyeh in place
a cord (the band)
DD $600 [23]
Member of the Society Islands seen here:
Bora Bora
Ron

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES BACTERIA TRAVEL & TOURISM PHILOSOPHERS MUSIC & LITERATURE THE BIBLE
$200 [5]
When she met her future husband, she thought, "He looks as good in person as he does on the screen!"
Nancy Reagan
Patrick
$200 [6]
This sour liquid is produced by the action of bacteria on wine
Vinegar
Ron Carol
$200 [21]
Among its state parks are Berlin-Ichthyosaur & Lake Tahoe
Nevada
Ron
$200 [12]
This American philosopher lived with R.W. Emerson before & after his time at Walden Pond
Thoreau
Patrick
$200 [16]
Now seldom performed, "The Canterbury Pilgrims" is an 1884 opera based on this literary work
The Canterbury Tales
Patrick
$400 [25]
It's the city in which Lot lived
Sodom
Patrick
$400 [4]
Dolley Madison was partial to a pinch of this, a habit that shocked some of her friends
snuff
Carol
$400 [15]
The U.S. CDC identified Legionella pneumophila as the cause of this form of pneumonia
Legionnaires' disease
Patrick
$600 [26]
At Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, you can visit the grave of this "Big Red" horse who died in 1947
Man O' War
$400 [11]
Ernst Haeckel's work popularized this British naturalist's ideas to German speakers
Charles Darwin
$400 [17]
This epic 1667 poem is the basis for Igor Markevitch's 1935 oratorio "Le Paradis Perdu"
Paradise Lost
Carol
$600 [24]
This Hittite was Bathsheba's first husband
Uriah
$600 [3]
Mamie Eisenhower's favorite one of these was Bolivia
card game
Carol
$600 [8]
Like legumes, alders have bacteria living on their roots that fix this gas from the atmosphere
nitrogen
Ron
$800 [27]
This natural granite formation on New Hampshire's Profile Mountain is about 40 feet high
the Man of the Mountain in Franconia (the Great Stone Face)
Carol
$600 [10]
The influence of Schopenhauer can be seen in the early work of this "Beyond Good and Evil" philosopher
Nietzsche
Ron
$600 [18]
Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite based on "The Arabian Nights" is named for this storyteller
Scheherazade
Patrick
$800 [22]
This last Old Testament book concludes with a prophecy of the "great and dreadful day of the Lord"
Malachi
Ron
DD $1,000 [1]
She was once a dancer with the auxiliary troupe of Martha Graham's company
Betty Ford
Patrick
$800 [13]
A bacteriophage, one of these disease-causing agents, can infect bacteria
a virus
Patrick
$1,000 [28]
What is believed to be the world's longest covered bridge spans the St. John River in this Canadian province
New Brunswick
Patrick
$800 [7]
In his 1762 treatise "The Social Contract", this Swiss-French philosopher made a case for civil rights
Rousseau
Patrick
$800 [19]
This Sir Walter Scott novel inspired Heinrich Marschner's opera "The Templar and the Jewess"
Ivanhoe
Ron
$1,000 [23]
A verse from the Song of Solomon says, "I am" this rose, "and the lily of the valleys"
The rose of Sharon
$1,000 [2]
Her son Thomas, born in 1772, became a chief justice in Massachusetts
Abigail Adams
Ron
$1,000 [14]
In 1883 Robert Koch discovered the bacterium responsible for this waterborne disease common in southern Asia
cholera
Ron
DD $1,600 [9]
In 1911 Ludwig Wittgenstein went to Cambridge to study with this philosopher- mathematician
Bertrand Russell
Ron
$1,000 [20]
The cello concerto "Ode to the West Wind" was inspired by this author's poem of the same name
Shelley
Patrick

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

The name of this type of food is derived from the Roman goddess of agriculture

cereal

Carol "What is cereal?" — wagered $0
Patrick "What is cereal?" — wagered $703
Ron "What is cereal?" — wagered $4,600

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