Show #1848 1992-09-23 (taped 1992-07-27) Regular

Linda Sheppard game 5.Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Marty Brophy — a physicist from Urbana, Illinois

Rosemary Hutton — a retail manager from Orchard Park, New York

Linda Sheppard — a housewife from Hayward, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $39,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Linda $600 $1,700 $7,900 $900
3rd place
$5,900
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Rosemary $1,300 $3,200 $5,200 $1,500
2nd place
$6,200
13 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Marty $2,300 $4,000 $8,800 $1,800
New champion: $1,800
$8,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE AGE OF CHIVALRY PEOPLE -OLOGIES KIDDY LIT HODGEPODGE WORLD AIRLINES
$100 [1]
In 1155, Wace, a Norman poet, became the first author to write about this legendary table
the Round Table
Marty
$100 [2]
In 1989 ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected in 1970, returned to dance in this country
the Soviet Union
Marty
$100 [3]
It deals with the influence of the stars & planets on a person's life
astrology
Marty
$100 [8]
"A Little Bush Maid" is the first of the "Billabong" books set in this country
Australia
Marty
$100 [17]
As a frequent flyer, this Secretary of State racked up over 180,000 miles in 1991
(James) Baker
Marty
$100 [9]
Alitalia
Italy
Rosemary
$200 [12]
Count Baldwin of Flanders won the Byzantine throne during the fourth one of these expeditions
the Crusades
Marty
$200 [16]
This former wife of a Massachusetts senator is on the board of Children's Hospital in Boston
Joan Kennedy
Linda
$200 [4]
It's the study or art of applying makeup
cosmetology
Marty
$200 [27]
It's the nursery rhyme that describes the ineptness of all the king's horses
"Humpty Dumpty"
Rosemary
$200 [18]
It reportedly has the most meanings of any Eng. word; they include "to put in place" & "a group of tennis games"
set
Linda
$200 [10]
Olympic Airways
Greece
Rosemary
$300 [13]
Pages learned the rules of this sport that uses trained birds of prey for hunting
falconry
Linda
$300 [24]
They're Siskel & Ebert's first names
Gene & Roger
Rosemary
$300 [5]
Ethnology, which compares the cultures of various peoples, is part of this field
anthropology
Marty
$300 [28]
He began writing his "Just So Stories" to amuse his daughter Josephine
(Rudyard) Kipling
Linda
$300 [19]
In 1986, France, like the U.S., issued coins celebrating the centennial of this structure
the Statue of Liberty
Marty
$300 [11]
Aer Lingus
Ireland
Linda
$400 [14]
Minnesingers were the German equivalent of these French minstrels
troubadours
Marty
$400 [25]
He put on his first professional magic show at age 14 in Norfolk, Nebraska; he earned $3
Johnny Carson
Rosemary
$500 [7]
This specialty of criminology studies criminal rehabilitation & prison management
penology
Rosemary
$400 [29]
This "Earnest" playwright wrote the fairy tale "The Happy Prince" for his own children
(Oscar) Wilde
Marty
$400 [22]
This type of humorous verse is indicated by the rhyme scheme AABBA
a limerick
Linda
$400 [20]
KLM
the Netherlands
Marty
$500 [15]
In Gothic churches, these floral windows were often built at the west end of the nave
rose windows
Rosemary
$500 [26]
In 1957, this future U.S. President won the Hollywood Citizenship Award
Ronald Reagan
Linda
DD $800 [6]
This major field of biology concerns the body's defenses against disease & foreign substances
immunology
Marty
$500 [30]
It's the color in the title of Andrew Lang's first fairy book; Pinocchio would approve
blue
Rosemary
$500 [23]
While Nelson Rockefeller was governor of N.Y., his brother Winthrop became governor of this state
Arkansas
Linda Rosemary
$500 [21]
Sabena World Airlines
Belgium
Marty

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CARIBBEAN THE SUPREME COURT THEATER OUTER SPACE HISTORY ODD WORDS
$200 [14]
After the 1983 invasion, USAID allowed this country to complete its first jet airport
Grenada
Linda
$200 [3]
As a member of the Arizona State Senate, she voted in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment
Sandra Day O'Connor
Linda
$200 [8]
This Peter Shaffer play opens in 1823, 32 years after Mozart's death
Amadeus
Marty
$200 [9]
This nebula is in the constellation Taurus, though with the name it has, it should be in Cancer
Crab (Nebula)
Linda
$200 [15]
In 1980, this country attacked Iran, beginning a bloody 8-year struggle
Iraq
Marty
$200 [1]
A party giver might take out pluvius insurance in case this cancels the festivities
rain
Marty
$400 [18]
Spanish Town, 20 miles from Kingston, was this island's capital during Spanish rule
Jamaica
Linda
$400 [4]
He served 14 years as an associate justice before becoming Chief Justice in 1986
Rehnquist
Linda
$400 [10]
This "My Fair Lady" lyricist's 8th wife, Liz Robertson, starred in a 1979 revival of the play
(Alan Jay) Lerner
Linda
$400 [21]
It's what varies on a variable star
brightness
Marty
$400 [23]
This country became a grand duchy of Russia after Russia defeated Sweden in an 1808-09 war
Finland
Linda
$400 [2]
A sempstress does this for a living
sews
$600 [17]
This country takes up two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola
the Dominican Republic
Marty
$600 [5]
Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority decision in this landmark 1973 abortion case
Roe v. Wade
Marty
$600 [11]
A.R. Gurney named his 1982 play for this room; much of the action takes place around a table
The Dining Room
Rosemary
$600 [22]
Over 2,000 of these have been cataloged, including Ceres, Pallas, & Vesta
asteroids
Marty
$600 [24]
John Bradshaw presided over the high court that sentenced this British king to death in 1649
Charles I
Linda
$600 [26]
A katana is one of these used by a samurai
a sword
Linda
$800 [19]
This island is the A in the ABC Islands
Aruba
Rosemary
$800 [6]
In 1983, David Souter was appointed to this state's Supreme Court
New Hampshire
Rosemary
$800 [12]
A 1924 production of "The Guardsmen" was 1 of the 1st great successes for this famed acting couple
Lunt & Fontanne
Rosemary
$800 [28]
The 7 stars of this group in Ursa Major range from Megrez, 65 light years away, to Alkaid, 210 light years away
the Big Dipper
Marty
$800 [25]
In the 14th century, Grand Duke Gediminas made Vilnius the capital of this country
Lithuania
Marty
$800 [29]
Something combustible can be burned; something comestible can be this
eaten
Linda
$1,000 [20]
Some 500 offshore banks are located in Georgetown, the capital of this British island group
the Cayman Islands
Marty
DD $1,000 [7]
Appointed in 1962, he is the longest serving member of the current court
Byron "Whizzer" White
Rosemary
$1,000 [13]
With Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay adapted this Clarence Day book for the stage & played the role of father himself
Life with Father
Linda
$1,000 [30]
Our sun will expand to become one of these someday, then contract into a white dwarf
red giant
Linda Marty
DD $3,000 [27]
After Caligula's murder, this man, later the subject of two Robert Graves novels, became emperor
Claudius
Linda
$1,000 [16]
This is a German term for a child prodigy
a wunderkind
Linda

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTING EVENTS

In 1911, it took 6 hours, 42 minutes to win this event; in 1991, 2 hours, 50 minutes

the Indianapolis 500

Rosemary "What is the Boston Marathon?" — wagered $3,700
Linda "What is the Boston Marathon?" — wagered $7,000
Marty "What is the Boston Marathon?" — wagered $7,000

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