Show #1867 1992-10-20 (taped 1992-08-17) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Gavin Reardon — a Marine Corps officer originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Chuck Wills — an editor from Fishkill, New York

Brett Geer — a law student from St. Petersburg, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Brett $500 $1,300 $8,000 $16,000
2nd place
$7,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Chuck $1,600 $2,400 $8,800 $16,800
New champion: $16,800
$8,800
18 R, 3 W
Gavin $300 $1,900 $7,600 $5,600
3rd place
$5,700
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES ARTISTS BEATLES LYRICS CANADA INTERNATIONAL CUISINE "T" BIRDS
$100 [6]
The Romans dedicated this day to a 2-faced god who looked forward & backward
New Year's Day
Brett
$100 [11]
This playwright praised the Italian master Giulio Romano in his play "The Winter's Tale"
Shakespeare
Gavin
$100 [1]
"One day you'll look to see I've gone, for tomorrow may rain, so I'll" do this
"follow the Sun"
Brett
$100 [16]
In 1980, Canada's national anthem was changed from this song to "O Canada"
"God Save The Queen"
Brett
$100 [26]
This condiment was first bottled in Worcester, England
Worcestershire sauce
Chuck
$100 [21]
Among the varieties you might serve for Thanksgiving are the White Holland, Bronze, & Narragansett
turkey
Brett
$200 [7]
On this holiday, Punxsutawney Phil, king of the weather prophets, shines even if the sun doesn't
Groundhog Day
Gavin
$200 [12]
Eugene Boudin was one of the Impressionists known for painting en plein air, which means this
outdoors
Chuck
$200 [2]
"She says" this, "& you know that can't be bad"
"she loves you"
Brett Chuck
$200 [17]
This bay, Canada's largest, covers an area larger than Texas
Hudson Bay
Chuck
$200 [27]
Nasi goreng is an Indonesian dish that combines this fried grain with meat & vegetables
rice
Brett
$200 [22]
With an 8-inch long bill, the male toco is the largest of these colorful tropical birds
a toucan
Gavin
$300 [8]
This Missouri city hosts the National Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Contest in July
Hannibal, Missouri
Brett
$300 [13]
Whistler's low grades in chemistry got him discharged from the U.S. military academy here
West Point
Brett
$300 [3]
The lyrics of "Glass Onion" say the Walrus was this man
Paul
Brett Chuck
$300 [18]
Canada's most densely populated province is this small island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Prince Edward Island
Chuck
$300 [28]
To make Maltese sauce, add orange juice & orange rind to this Dutch sauce
Hollandaise
Gavin
$300 [23]
The 12 Days of Christmas mentions 2 of these birds & the partridge in a pear tree
turtle doves
Chuck Gavin
$400 [9]
On Sept. 16, 1993, this state will observe Cherokee Strip Centennial Day
Oklahoma
Chuck
$400 [14]
In the 1890s Monet completed a famous series of paintings of the cathedral in this French city
Rouen
Gavin
$400 [4]
"Now, somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota, there lived a young boy named" this
Rocky Raccoon
Chuck
$400 [19]
In 1608, this French explorer founded Quebec City, Canada's first permanent settlement
Champlain
Brett
$400 [29]
This country wasn't yet known as Myanmar when its people started pickling tea leaves & eating them
Burma
Brett
$400 [24]
In North America, common ones of these ducks include the green-winged & blue-winged
teals
Gavin
$500 [10]
This Christian feast held on the 7th Sunday after Easter has been recognized since the 3rd c.
Pentecost
Brett
$500 [15]
This Frenchman who painted fabulous jungle scenes such as "The Dream" probably never left France
Rousseau
Gavin
$500 [5]
This 1967 #1 hit starts off with the word "love" repeated nine times
"All You Need Is Love"
Chuck
DD $700 [20]
1 of 2 national parks located in southwest Alberta, along the border with British Columbia
Banff or Jasper National Park
Brett
$500 [30]
The Scotch Whiskey Information Center suggests drinking Scotch with this sheep's stomach entree
haggis
Chuck Gavin
$500 [25]
It's the family of songbirds to which robins & nightingales belong
the thrush

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE HUMAN BODY STATE TREES FAMOUS NAMES PHOTOGRAPHY FICTIONAL DETECTIVES WORLD HISTORY
$200 [11]
2 skull cavities called the orbits house these organs
the eyes
Chuck Gavin
$200 [26]
This state's official tree is known scientifically as Sequoia sempervirens
California
Brett
$200 [16]
In 1984, he was elected the first black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg
Desmond Tutu
Brett
$200 [1]
He hired Henry Reichenbach to develop a transparent base to be used in his Kodaks
(George) Eastman
Gavin
$200 [21]
Some experts say he was born January 6, 1854, on the farmstead of Mycroft in Yorkshire, England
Sherlock Holmes
Gavin
$200 [4]
The 1980 Mariel boatlift brought thousands of refugees from this country to the U.S.
Cuba
Chuck
$400 [12]
A sphincter at the end of this tube allows swallowed food to enter the stomach
the esophagus
Brett
$400 [27]
Georgia's state tree is not the pecan, but the live variety of this
the oak
Brett Gavin
$400 [17]
As was Hindu custom, this Indian leader married his wife, Kasturba, when they were both 13
Gandhi
Gavin
$400 [2]
The ASA scale measures the speed of this
film
Gavin
$400 [22]
This spinster sleuth was loosely based on Agatha Christie's own grandmother
Miss Marple
Chuck
$400 [5]
In 1961, his body was removed from the Red Square tomb where it had lain with Lenin's
Stalin
Gavin
$600 [13]
The pulmonary artery carries blood from the right ventricle of the heart to this organ pair
the lungs
Brett
$600 [28]
Nevada has 2 state trees, the pinyon & bristlecone varieties of this
the pine
Chuck
$800 [19]
In 1927, this World War I ace became president of the Indianapolis Speedway
Rickenbacker
Brett
$600 [3]
W. Eugene Smith's book "Minamata" showed a fishing village in this country devastated by mercury
Japan
Chuck
$600 [23]
In a series of books by Harry Kemelman, it is Jewish crime solver David Small's occupation
a rabbi
Gavin
$600 [7]
This financial institution was founded in 1694 with capital of 1.5 million pounds
the Bank of England
Gavin
$800 [14]
Much of the bile made by the liver is stored in this pear-shaped sack
the gallbladder
Brett
$800 [29]
South Carolina's state tree; its leaves can be used to make baskets & thatch roofs
the palmetto
Gavin
$1,000 [20]
Last name of twin brothers Francis & Freeland, who built their first steamer in 1897
Stanley
Brett
$800 [6]
Press photographer Arthur Feilig's nickname; it sounds like a spiritualist's board
Weegee
Brett Chuck
$800 [24]
A boat called the Busted Flush is home base to this John D. MacDonald detective
Travis McGee
Brett
$800 [9]
In addition to his nickname of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Edward was called "The Young" this
Pretender
Gavin
DD $2,300 [15]
From the Greek for snail shell, it's the spiral-shaped part of the inner ear
the cochlea
Brett
$1,000 [30]
Flowering state tree of Missouri & Virginia
dogwood
Chuck Gavin
DD $2,500 [18]
1 of the world's great conductors, this maestro was also the father-in-law of Vladimir Horowitz
Toscanini
Gavin
$1,000 [8]
This Life photographer was the first accredited female war photographer
Margaret Bourke-White
Chuck
$1,000 [25]
This author's "Coyote Waits" reunites Navajo detectives Jim Chee & Joe Leaphorn
(Tony) Hillerman
Chuck
$1,000 [10]
He declared himself Indonesia's president for life in 1963, but was deposed in 1966
Sukarno
Chuck

Final Jeopardy!

MEN OF SCIENCE

In 1927, a year after his death, his autobiography "Harvest of the Years" was published

Luther Burbank

Gavin "Who is Doug Goff?" — wagered $2,000
Brett "Who is Burbank?" — wagered $8,000
Chuck "Who Burbank?" — wagered $8,000

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