Show #1843 1992-09-16 (taped 1992-07-21) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording.Missing prizes.

Contestants

Jose Gracia-Medrano — an accountant and musician from Covina, California

Teresa Anderson — an accounts receivable clerk originally from Deerfield, Illinois

Diane O'Keefe — a hospital librarian from Southgate, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Diane $1,500 $3,200 $9,200 $1,500
2nd place
$10,700
24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Teresa $300 $2,000 $8,400 $3,400
New champion: $3,400
$8,400
17 R, 1 W
Jose $700 $2,200 $2,000 $1
3rd place
$2,000
16 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

FROM THE OLD WORLD SPORTS NICKNAMES ARCHITECTURE ANIMALS GIRL SCOUT BADGES ENDS ON "OO"
$100 [6]
If this bird hadn't been introduced, today you might be eating KFC, Kentucky Fried Cod
chicken
Jose
$100 [7]
This 7-foot-1-inch athlete is nicknamed "The Stilt"
Wilt Chamberlain
Jose
$100 [13]
Christopher Wren authorized or made designs for more than 50 churches in this city
London
Jose
$100 [18]
The Weddell seal, which can remain underwater for over 40 minutes, is native to this continent
Antarctica
Diane Jose
$100 [1]
Fittingly, the emblem found on this badge is a camera; say cheese!
Photography
Teresa
$100 [22]
According to Britannica, an experienced Eskimo can build one of these homes in 1 to 2 hours
an igloo
Teresa
$200 [9]
If these green items hadn't come over, martini drinkers would be hard pressed for a garnish
olives
Jose
$200 [8]
Nickname given to the legion of fans who follow golfer Arnold Palmer around the course
Arnie's Army
Diane Teresa
$200 [14]
The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza in this country features feathered serpent columns
Mexico
Jose
$200 [19]
A Maasai bull, slightly under 20 feet in height, was the tallest recorded mammal of this type
a giraffe
Teresa Jose
$200 [2]
For the Books badge, Scouts are encouraged to visit this establishment or volunteer to work at one
the library
Diane
$200 [23]
Jim Backus was famous for playing the voice of this myopic cartoon character
Mr. Magoo
Teresa
$300 [10]
Columbus brought this sweet crop to the Caribbean where plantations were set up to grow it
sugarcane
Jose
$300 [28]
This tennis player's court histrionics earned him the nickname "Superbrat"
John McEnroe
Jose
$300 [15]
Gargoyles are most associated with this style of architecture
Gothic
Jose
$300 [20]
Named for mountains in Southwestern France, this great dog was used to guard sheep
the (Great) Pyrenees
Teresa
$300 [3]
To earn the Textiles & Fibers badge, a scout can learn types of these, like the clove hitch
knots
Diane
$300 [24]
It's something forbidden or prohibited, usually by religious or social convention
taboo
Jose
$400 [11]
This lawn weed with a crustacean name arrived from the Old World
crabgrass
Teresa
$400 [29]
Nickname of football star Elroy Hirsch
"Crazy Legs"
Jose
$400 [16]
Style whose name comes from French words for "stonework" & "shells", rocaille & coquille
rococo
Diane
$400 [21]
This striped rodent, Tamia striatus, carries food in cheek pouches & is classified as a ground squirrel
a chipmunk
Diane
$400 [4]
Scouts going for the Art in the Round badge have a chance to learn this Japanese art of paper folding
origami
Diane
$400 [25]
Derived from a Spanish word, it's another name for a cowboy
a buckaroo
Teresa
$500 [12]
When green & tender, this African vegetable is used to thicken soup
okra
Diane
$500 [30]
This Boston Bruins center was called "The Garbage Man"
Phil Esposito
Jose
$500 [17]
On a castle, a turret is a small one of these, usually forming part of a larger structure
a tower
Teresa
$500 [27]
About 3' tall at the shoulder, the Dama species is the largest of these graceful antelopes
agazelle
Jose
DD $400 [5]
To earn the Girl Scouting in the USA badge, one must read & learn about this Girl Scouts founder
Juliette Low
Diane
$500 [26]
It's the seat of Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo
Diane

Double Jeopardy! Round

FROM THE NEW WORLD THE BIBLE WORLD WAR II VOCABULARY BRITISH AUTHORS U.S. PRESIDENTS
$200 [23]
While ice cream came from the Old World, these 2 most popular flavorings came from the New
chocolate & vanilla
Diane
$200 [21]
In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warned of false prophets which come to you in this clothing
sheep's clothing
Teresa
$200 [8]
It was the only battleship permanently lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor
the Arizona
Diane
$200 [2]
An archaic phrase, "alack the day", gave rise to this word meaning "lacking spirit"
lackadaisical
Jose
$200 [16]
Both Robert Louis Stevenson & Sir Walter Scott were born in this Scottish capital
Edinburgh
Diane
$200 [1]
He was nicknamed "The Wielder of the Big Stick"
Theodore Roosevelt
Jose
$400 [24]
Both the bell & chili varieties of these were taken to Europe
peppers
Diane
DD $200 [30]
The 7th & 8th books of the New Testament are Paul's epistles to these Greek Christians
the Corinthians
Diane
$400 [9]
This nation in the British Isles was the only member of the British Commonwealth to stay out of WWII
Ireland
Diane
$400 [3]
This Australian mammal gets its name from the Greek for "flat-footed"
the platypus
Diane
$400 [17]
Her career as a children's book writer & illustrator effectively ended with her marriage in 1913
Beatrix Potter
Diane
$400 [4]
In the 1840s, all 4 of this president's grandparents left Kentucky for what's now Kansas City, Mo.
Truman
Teresa
$600 [25]
Catherine the Great pushed this as an antidote to famine & vodka soon followed
the potato
Diane
$400 [22]
The book of 2 Chronicles says it was on Mount Moriah that he built his temple
Solomon
Diane
$600 [10]
On June 6, 1944, the armies of Operation Overlord stormed ashore at this region in N.W. France
Normandy
Jose
$600 [13]
This consomme was named for the city of Madrid
Madrilène
Teresa
$600 [18]
Contemptuous of "Peter Pan", he wrote "Androcles & the Lion" to show Barrie "how it's done"
Shaw
Teresa
$600 [5]
In his Mar. 4, 1901 inaugural address, he said that the US & Cuba must remain close friends
William McKinley
Diane
$800 [26]
Columbus took back this vegetable, calling it most tasty boiled, roasted or ground into flour
corn
Teresa
$600 [28]
In Exodus, it's the 10th & final plague brought upon Egypt
the death of the first-born sons
Jose
$800 [11]
On Sept. 28, 1939, Germany & this country signed a treaty dividing Poland between them
the USSR
Diane
DD $600 [15]
This adjective for a melancholy disposition comes from the planet which is said to cause that temperament
Saturnine
Diane
$800 [19]
In Hampstead, Britain, you can visit the garden where he heard the nightingale that inspired his ode
Keats
Teresa
$800 [6]
After serving as US President, he became rector of the University of Virginia in 1826
James Madison
Diane Jose
$1,000 [27]
Since the Ital. "pomodoro" means "golden apple", the 1st of these to reach Eur. were probably yellow
tomatoes
Teresa
$800 [29]
In every listing in the New Testament of Jesus' female followers, she is mentioned first
Mary Magdalene
Diane
$1,000 [12]
Located 1,300 miles N.W. of Hawaii, it was the site of a major American naval victoryover Japan in '42
Midway
Teresa
$800 [14]
The name of this muse of dancing comes from 2 Greek words for "delight" & "dance"
Terpsichore
Diane
$1,000 [20]
He took the title of his novel, "The Razor's Edge", from the Katha Upanishad, a Hindu text
Somerset Maugham
Teresa Jose
$1,000 [7]
In 1833, this president forced removal of the federal deposits from the vaults of the Bank of the U.S.
Andrew Jackson
Diane

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD LEADERS

This dictator's original surname was Al-Tikriti

Saddam Hussein

Jose "Who is Gaddafi?" — wagered $1,999
Teresa "Who was Atilla the Hun?" — wagered $5,000
Diane "Who is Gaddafi?" — wagered $7,700

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