Show #1849 1992-09-24 (taped 1992-07-27) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

James Garrett — a sommelier from Charlotte, North Carolina

Joan Steinberg — a senior programmer analyst from Peaks Island, Maine

Marty Brophy — a physicist from Urbana, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marty $1,400 $3,600 $11,000 $16,001
2-day champion: $17,801
$8,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Joan $1,200 $1,500 $6,700 $8,000
3rd place
$5,700
12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
James $1,000 $3,000 $8,000 $13,001
2nd place
$7,100
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE U.S. STATES NURSERY RHYME FOOD HISTORY LESSER-KNOWN NAMES 4-LETTER VERBS
$100 [3]
The 2 Soviets to win a Nobel Peace Prize are Andrei Sakharov & this man
Gorbachev
Joan
$100 [5]
Fred Allen said of this state, "It's a great place if you happen to be an orange"
California
Marty James
$100 [16]
Little Jack Horner pulled this fruit out of his Christmas pie
a plum
James
$100 [10]
At age 17, she commanded the Dauphin's troops & liberated the city of Orleans in 1429
Joan of Arc
Joan
$100 [9]
In 1979, Vinoba Bhave fasted to compel India to enforce the religious law against killing these
cows
Marty
$100 [1]
To misuse your energy is to do this up the wrong tree
bark
Marty
$200 [4]
In 1983, he became the first Pole to win a Nobel Peace Prize
Lech Wałęsa
Marty
$200 [12]
Although Walden Pond is not this state's largest pond, it's probably the most famous
Massachusetts
Marty
$200 [21]
Simple Simon met him going to the fair
a pieman
James
$300 [19]
On May 20th, 1927, this aviator left New York's Roosevelt Field for Paris
Lindbergh
Joan
$200 [22]
On March 18, 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk here
space
Marty
$200 [2]
Quickly move the second finger down against the thumb to produce a sharp noise
snap
Marty James
$300 [6]
Americans who won for their plans include Charles Dawes for 1925 & this man for 1953
(George) Marshall
Marty
$300 [26]
This state's first governor was Charles N. Haskell of Muskogee, who was elected in 1907
Oklahoma
James
$300 [13]
The 2 items Little Miss Muffet was eating
curds & whey
Marty
$400 [27]
From 697 to 1797, this Italian city-state was ruled by a doge
Venice
James
$300 [24]
Hugo Eckener built 88 of these for the German Navy & once commanded the one that burned May 6, 1937
a dirigible (or zeppelin)
Marty
$300 [8]
Most people eat; gourmets do this
dine
James
$400 [11]
She lived through the Civil War & WWI, founded a settlement house, fought for peace, & won the prize for 1931
Jane Addams
James
$400 [29]
In 1524, Verrazzano became the first Eur. explorer to reach what's now this state when he visited Cape Fear
North Carolina
Marty
$400 [20]
Jack Sprat's wife couldn't eat this
lean
Marty
$500 [28]
On December 12, 1937, planes from this nation sank the U.S. gunboat Panay
Japan
James
$400 [25]
In 1922, Jef Denyn established the first school to teach people how to play this set of tuned bells
carillon
Marty
$400 [18]
A forensic expert will do this to a room to check for fingerprints
dust
James
$500 [15]
In October 1961, the committee awarded the prize to this late United Nations leader
(Dag) Hammarskjöld
Joan
$500 [30]
Founded in 1817, Fort Smith in this state was one of the first military posts in the Missouri Territory
Arkansas
$500 [14]
"The king was in his counting-house, counting out his money, the Queen was in the parlor eating" these 2 items
bread & honey
Joan
DD $1,100 [17]
At a U.S. exhibit in Moscow in 1959, these 2 men held their famous kitchen debate
Khrushchev & Nixon
James
$500 [23]
We bet you know U Nu was premier of this country three times
Burma
Marty
$500 [7]
To lie in the warmth of the sun, you might do it on the beach in Spain
bask
Marty

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE PRESIDENTS MUSICAL THEATER SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN WORLD GEOGRAPHY ZEUS
$200 [22]
Cinnabar, the most important ore of mercury, is this bright color
red
Marty
$200 [16]
In a 1787 letter, Henry Knox addressed this man as "the father of your country"
Washington
Marty
$200 [11]
1965 play in which you'd hear the lyrics, "I am I, Don Quixote"
Man of La Mancha
Joan
$200 [1]
"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east &" she "is the sun"
Juliet
James
$200 [19]
This St. Petersburg, Russia museum has 25 paintings by Rembrandt
the Hermitage
Marty
$200 [2]
Appropriately, this part of a mountain was sacred to Zeus
the top
James
$400 [23]
Named for a German bacteriologist, this vessel is used to culture microorganisms
a Petri dish
Marty
$400 [18]
His campaign plane was called Peanut One
Jimmy Carter
James
$400 [12]
This Herbert & Dorothy Fields play was produced in Paris in 1950 as "Annie du Far Ouest"
Annie Get Your Gun
Joan
$400 [6]
Her first line in Othello is, "My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty"
Desdemona
Joan
$400 [25]
In French, this capital of East Flanders is called Gand
Ghent
Marty
$400 [3]
Zeus disguised himself as a cuckoo to seduce this goddess, but she married him anyway
Hera
James
$600 [24]
It's the aerodynamic force that resists the forward motion of an object
drag
James
$600 [21]
William Henry Harrison was nicknamed "Old Tip"; Tip was short for this
Tippecanoe
Marty
$600 [13]
When it premiered in 1957, Mickey Callan played Riff & Ken LeRoy played Bernardo
West Side Story
Joan
$600 [7]
King Henry V falls in love with a princess from this country
France
James
$600 [30]
Mount Gunnbjorn is the highest point on this Danish island that's much larger than Denmark itself
Greenland
James
$600 [4]
The statue of Zeus at Olympia depicted him holding a scepter on which this bird was perched
the eagle
$800 [26]
This branch of physics studies the effect of extreme cold on matter
cryogenics
Marty
$800 [20]
The motto on his seal was, "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God"
Thomas Jefferson
$800 [14]
She played the leading role in the 1960 Broadway musical "Wildcat"
Lucille Ball
Joan
$800 [9]
This title character is the daughter of a Trojan priest named Calchas
Cressida
James
$800 [29]
Jubayl, Lebanon is the site of this ancient city whose name gave us the word Bible
Byblos
Marty James
$800 [5]
After Zeus swallowed his consort, Metis, this goddess of wisdom was born from his head
Athena
Joan
$1,000 [27]
These particles are the smallest energy units of light
photons
James
DD $3,800 [17]
This New Yorker was the 8th President & the 8th Vice President
Martin Van Buren
Marty
DD $2,000 [15]
Act 1, Scene 1 of this play takes place in Nonnberg Abbey
The Sound of Music
Joan
$1,000 [10]
2 of the 3 women in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" whose names start with the letter H
(2 of) Hippolyta, Hermia & Helena
James
$1,000 [28]
This Laotian capital is also called Viangchan
Vientiane
James
$1,000 [8]
This queen of the underworld was Zeus' sister-in-law, as well as his daughter
Proserpina (or Persephone)
James

Final Jeopardy!

THE 20th CENTURY

Containing Army surplus food, the first of these arrived in France in 1946 & cost $15 a box to send

care packages

Joan "What are care packages?" — wagered $1,300
James "What are care packages?" — wagered $5,001
Marty "What are care packages?" — wagered $5,001

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