Show #1900 1992-12-04 (taped 1992-08-25) Regular

Dennis Donohue game 3.

Contestants

Mike Petersen — an insurance operations manager originally from Chicago, Illinois

Eugene Lebowitz — an actor and writer from Los Angeles, Californi

Dennis Donohue — an administrative services officer from Litchfield Park, Arizona (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dennis $1,300 $2,300 $8,700 $17,000
3-day champion: $33,600
$9,300
26 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Eugene $-100 $1,000 $3,400 $3,300
3rd place: Michael C. Fina decanter & goblet set + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$2,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Mike $1,500 $1,200 $7,300 $14,600
2nd place: trip to San Diego, California + Panasonic palmcorder
$7,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ENGLAND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS PEOPLE WE'RE NO. 2 RELIGION ABBREVIATIONS
$100 [1]
It's the common name of the national flag of the United Kingdom
the Union Jack
Mike
$100 [26]
Types of these include the Northumbrian Small Pipe & Scottish Highland
bagpipes
Eugene
$100 [16]
During a tearful ceremony in February 1992, the L.A. Lakers retired his uniform, No. 32
Magic Johnson
Dennis
$100 [11]
The Second Amendment concerns the right of the people to keep these
arms
Dennis
$100 [6]
Muslims have never sanctioned a translation of this holy book; it should be read in Arabic
the Koran
Dennis Eugene
$100 [21]
On a technical drawing, WV can stand for wall vent; on an envelope, it stands for this state
West Virginia
Dennis
$200 [2]
Hey, speak of this author; he's on the new £10 note
Charles Dickens
Dennis
$200 [27]
The tenor version of this instrument with a sliding tube is the most often played
the trombone
Eugene
$200 [17]
In 1986 this Philippine president was named Time Magazine's "Woman of the Year"
Corazon Aquino
Dennis
$200 [12]
The second tallest bulding in this U.S. city is One Peachtree Center
Atlanta
Dennis
$200 [7]
In the U.S., this Mennonite group can be traced back to the early 1700s in Berks County, Pennsylvania
the Amish
Dennis
$200 [22]
This shade of blue is abbreviated az.
azure
Mike
$300 [3]
Legend says that if these birds leave the Tower of London, England will fall
ravens
Dennis
$300 [28]
The baritone, euphonium & helicon are varieties of this big instrument
the tuba
Eugene
$300 [18]
At a gala in 1980 this "bubbly" soprano made her final appearance, playing Rosalinde in "Die Fledermaus"
Beverly Sills
Dennis
$300 [13]
Karol Wojtyla was the second person to take this name as pope
John Paul
Dennis
$300 [8]
The First Council of Nicaea set the date of this observance on the Sunday after Passover
Easter
Dennis
$300 [23]
A physician who treats a variety of illnesses may be called a G.P., which stands for this
general practitioner
Eugene
$400 [4]
The Ashmolean museum houses this univ.'s collections of fine & applied arts, archaeology & numismatics
Oxford
Dennis
$400 [29]
A standard piano type has 41 keys, 120 bass buttons, from 2 to 15 registers & a bellows
an accordion
Dennis Eugene
$400 [19]
In March 1992 this Nebraska senator dropped out of the presidential race, citing a lack of funds
Bob Kerrey
Mike
$500 [15]
Of the top 10 mountains, the only one not in the Himalayas is this second tallest
K2 (Godwin Austen)
Mike
$400 [9]
This Protestant reformer brought Calvinism to Scotland
(John) Knox
Dennis Mike
$400 [24]
In 1972 the U.S. & the USSR signed a treaty limiting deployment of these missiles abbreviated ABMs
antiballistic missiles
Eugene Mike
$500 [5]
For his bravery in the Baltic Sea June 21, 1854, Lt. C.D. Lucas was the first to receive this decoration
the Victoria Cross (the V.C.)
Mike
$500 [30]
If the valves weren't added to this in 1813, Wynton Marsalis would be playing a bugle today
a trumpet
Eugene
$500 [20]
While in high school, this costumer to the stars designed clothes for schoolmate Vikki Carr
(Bob) Mackie
Eugene
DD $600 [14]
It's the second-smallest planet in our solar system
Mercury
Dennis
$500 [10]
The only 2 sacraments recognized by United Methodists are the Lord's Supper & this
baptism
Mike
$500 [25]
When taking out a loan, make sure you know the APR which stands for this
the annual percentage rate
Dennis

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 19th CENTURY WEIGHTS & MEASURES BOOKS & AUTHORS LIBRARIES FAMOUS SPEECHES POTPOURRI
$200 [1]
In 1861 this pres.-elect said, "I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number"
Abraham Lincoln
Mike
$200 [18]
In the U.S. this is equal to 20 hundredweights
A ton
Dennis
$200 [16]
Sei Shonagon, who wrote "The Pillow Book" circa 1000 A.D., was a lady in waiting in this country
Japan
Eugene
$200 [11]
This state's largest public libraries are in Bangor & Portland
Maine
Dennis
$200 [6]
On January 8, 1918 this president presented his Fourteen Points speech
Woodrow Wilson
Mike
$200 [26]
The first fossil of this early human was found at Neander Valley in Germany in 1856
Neanderthal man
Eugene
$400 [2]
Curley, a scout, was the only man under Custer's direct command to survive this 1876 battle
the Little Bighorn
Dennis
$400 [22]
This metric unit was originally defined as 1 ten-millionth of the meridian from the North Pole to the equator
a meter
Dennis
$400 [17]
Jane Austen satirized this "architectural" genre in her novel "Northanger Abbey"
Gothic
Eugene
$400 [12]
The nation's first reference library for state legislators was founded in 1901 in this Wisconsin capital
Madison
Dennis Eugene
$400 [7]
In his last public address, he said, "I've been to the mountaintop...and I've seen the Promised Land"
Martin Luther King, Jr
Dennis
$400 [27]
In the Tuskegee National Forest there's a replica of this educator's childhood home
Booker T. Washington
Mike
$600 [3]
In 1889 this oil company built one of the world's largest oil refineries in Whiting, Indiana
Standard Oil
Dennis
$600 [23]
This system used to weigh gold, silver & precious metals was begun in France in the Middle Ages
troy
Dennis Eugene
$600 [19]
James Jones called his 1962 sequel to this novel "The Thin Red Line"
From Here to Eternity
Mike
$600 [13]
This largest Alabama city's public library owns the Agee Collection of rare maps & atlases
Birmingham
Mike
$600 [8]
After writing "J'Accuse", he went before a jury declaring, "Dreyfus is innocent I swear it!"
(Émile) Zola
Eugene
$600 [28]
King James thought it a "stinking weed... dangerous to the lungs" and he was right
tobacco
Dennis
$800 [4]
On January 18, 1871 the new German Empire crowned him its first Kaiser
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Mike
$800 [24]
In ancient Rome 5 feet equaled 1 pace & 1,000 paces was equivalent to this
a mile
Eugene Mike
$800 [20]
Though the heroine of this 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser becomes a star, happiness eludes her
Sister Carrie
Mike
$800 [14]
In 1966 the Dwight D. Eisenhower library opened in this Kansas town
Abilene
Dennis
$1,000 [10]
In a 1928 speech he said, "I do not want any Catholic in the U.S.A. to vote for me...because I am a Catholic"
Al Smith
Mike
$800 [29]
Until the 1840s golf balls were made of leather casings stuffed with these
feathers
Mike
DD $1,100 [5]
This family was restored to power in the 1870s when Alfonso XII ascended the Spanish throne
the Bourbons
Mike
$1,000 [25]
This Egyptian unit was equal to the width of 28 fingers
a cubit
Dennis
$1,000 [21]
It's Kathleen Winsor's novel about the amorous Amber St. Clare, who becomes a king's mistress
Forever Amber
$1,000 [15]
The Harry S. Truman Library contains an important work by this Missouri muralist
(Thomas Hart) Benton
Dennis
DD $1,600 [9]
In May 1962 he delivered his "Duty, Honor, Country" speech
(Douglas) MacArthur
Eugene
$1,000 [30]
In 1849 David Livingstone led the first European crossing of this South African desert
the Kalahari
Dennis

Final Jeopardy!

LANGUAGES

The official langauge shared by Niger, Rwanda & Senegal

French

Eugene "What isSwahiliSwahili" — wagered $100
Mike "What isSwaFrench" — wagered $7,300
Dennis "What is French?" — wagered $8,300

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