Show #1938 1993-01-27 (taped 1992-10-26) Regular

Diane Siegel game 3.

Contestants

J.C. Carson — a retired government employee from Honolulu, Hawaii

Roberta Johnson — a library clerk from Chicago, Illinois

Diane Siegel — a homemaker from Northridge, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Diane $800 $2,800 $7,800 $15,579
3-day champion: $43,379
$6,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Roberta $900 $3,900 $9,700 $3,799
3rd place: Marco Gianni French leather trench coat + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$9,700
24 R, 2 W
JC $900 $1,800 $4,000 $8,000
2nd place: trip to Killington, Vermont with TWA flight to Hartford, Connecticut
$3,500
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

BOATS & SHIPS WEATHER BROADWAY LYRICS COLORS TREATIES "UP"S & "DOWN"S
$100 [26]
One of these boats designed to push & pull larger craft can move 10 to 20 barges at a single time
a tugboat
Diane
$100 [21]
"Rainbow at night, sailor's delight; rainbow in the morning, sailors" do this
take warning
Roberta
$100 [1]
"You're the cream in" this, "you're the salt in my stew"
"my coffee"
Roberta JC
$100 [2]
At 7,242 feet, Harney Peak in these South Dakota hills is the highest U.S. mountain east of the Rockies
the Black Hills
Diane
$100 [11]
In the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, this country ceded eastern Florida to the U.S.
Spain
Roberta
$100 [16]
This continuing drama on "Masterpiece Theatre" told the story of the Bellamys & their servants
Upstairs, Downstairs
Roberta
$200 [27]
For fishing & transportation, Indonesians commonly use an outrigger, a type of this boat
a canoe
Roberta
$200 [22]
This is defined as the interface of 2 air masses of different temperatures or densities
a front
Diane
$200 [3]
"I won't" do this, "I don't want to go to school. Just to learn to be a parrot"
"grow up"
JC
$200 [4]
In years past, this color dye was added to laundry to neutralize the yellow in white fabrics
bluing
Diane
$200 [12]
The framework for the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt & Israel was worked out at this retreat
Camp David
JC
$200 [17]
He hosted the daytime version of the game show "Concentration" from 1958 to 1969
Hugh Downs
Diane
$300 [28]
In 1959 Mamie Eisenhower christened the N.S. Savannah, the first merchant vessel powered by this
nuclear power
Diane
$300 [23]
Triangular flags on a weather map show the direction of this
the wind
Roberta
$300 [5]
Alan Jay Lerner wrote, "I was born under" this type of "star"
"a wandering star"
Diane
$300 [8]
"Riders of the Purple Sage" was this prolific writer's most popular novel
Zane Grey
Diane
$300 [13]
Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with these 2 Axis nations in September 1940
Germany & Italy
JC
$300 [18]
Ogden Nash said, "Only the gamefish swims" here, "but the sensible fish swims down"
upstream
Diane
$400 [29]
According to Guinness, the most expensive one, the Abdul Aziz, belongs to the King of Saudi Arabia
a yacht
Roberta
$400 [24]
The name of this curly white cloud comes from a Latin prefix meaning "curl"
cirrus
Roberta
$400 [6]
"Take my hand, I'm" one of these, "all lost in a wonderland"
"a stranger in paradise"
Diane
$400 [9]
The Oscar-winning score of this 1984 film included the song "When Doves Cry"
Purple Rain
Roberta JC
$500 [15]
On May 31, 1902 the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in Pretoria, ending this conflict
the Boer War
Roberta
$400 [19]
In the early 1950s, this author of "The Centaur" edited the Harvard Lampoon
John Updike
Diane
$500 [30]
Among the more famous of these swift sailing ships were the Flying Cloud & the Cutty Sark
a clipper ship
Diane
$500 [25]
This fishing ground off Newfoundland is the world's foggiest place
the Grand Banks
Roberta
$500 [7]
"We kiss in" one of these, "We hide from the moon, our meetings are few and over too soon"
"a shadow"
Diane JC
$500 [10]
The Door Peninsula separates Lake Michigan from this Wisconsin inlet
Green Bay
Roberta
DD $900 [14]
Great Britain & the U.S. agreed to stop the slave trade in the Treaty of Ghent, which ended this war
the War of 1812
JC
$500 [20]
It's the former name of Burkina Faso
Upper Volta
Roberta

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY DINOSAURS MUSEUMS THE BIBLE WORLD FACTS SHAKESPEARE
$200 [12]
The origin of Delaware's name goes back to this titled Englishman, a cousin of the Earl of Essex
de la Warr
JC
$200 [1]
Rex is the best-known species of this genus that includes the largest-ever land carnivore
Tyrannosaurus
Roberta
$200 [8]
This state's state museum is in the old Carson Mint building across the street from a casino
Nevada
JC
$200 [30]
At the beginning of the Gospel of John, John the Baptist twice calls him "The Lamb of God"
Jesus
Diane
$200 [6]
These long, narrow inlets make Norway's coast one of the most jagged in the world
fjords
Roberta
$200 [20]
As you might expect, it's the first city mentioned in "Romeo and Juliet"
Verona
Roberta
$400 [13]
Several of Chief Powhatan's daughters were known by this nickname which means "playful one"
Pocahontas
Diane
$400 [2]
Like all theropods, Allosaurus walked on this many legs, using its tail for balance
2
Roberta
$400 [14]
You can see gris-gris bags & other voodoo charms at the Voodoo Museum in this Louisiana city
New Orleans
JC
$400 [29]
Exodus 30:34 lists the ingredients of this compound burned for its fragrance
incense
Diane JC
$400 [7]
Baghdad is the largest city on this river's banks
the Tigris
Diane Roberta JC
$400 [21]
Act IV of this play opens in Petruchio's country house
Taming of the Shrew
Roberta
$600 [15]
In 1977 he became the first former attorney general to serve time in prison
John Mitchell
JC
$600 [3]
This plated dinosaur was about 8 feet tall, 20 feet long & had a brain the size of a walnut
Stegosaurus
Roberta
$600 [17]
This world-famous museum named for a Frenchwoman is next door to London's Planetarium
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Roberta
$600 [28]
The Book of Acts begins at the same point that this third gospel ends
Luke
JC
$600 [9]
In German this country's name is Schweiz
Switzerland
Roberta
$600 [22]
Of Slowly, Quickly or Gently, the one who's Pistol's wife in "Henry V"
Mistress Quickly
Roberta
$800 [16]
General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded in 1755 during this war; his burial site is unknown
the French and Indian War
Diane
$800 [4]
This 3-horned, plant-eating dinosaur was one of the last to evolve & to become extinct
Triceratops
Roberta
$800 [18]
This city's American Museum of Natural History is attached to the Hayden Planetarium
New York City
Diane
$800 [27]
The King James Version uses this name for the word meaning "light bringer" or "morning star"
Lucifer
Roberta
$800 [10]
Nepal's ruling dynasty since 1769, its name also refers to a Nepalese soldier in the British Army
a Gurkha
Roberta
$800 [23]
Legend says "The Merry Wives of Windsor" was inspired by this queen's wish to see Falstaff in love
Queen Elizabeth I
Diane
$1,000 [25]
Sam Houston's first wife, Eliza Allen, left him while he was governor of this southeast central state
Tennessee
JC
$1,000 [5]
This dinosaur got its name from the resemblance of its teeth to an iguana's
Iguanodon
JC
$1,000 [19]
Petrus Cuypers designed the Gothic revival building that's housed this Dutch museum since 1885
the Rijksmuseum
DD $4,000 [26]
He was married to sisters Leah & Rachel
Jacob
Diane
$1,000 [11]
Until recently this African country's constitution allowed only 1 legal political party, Kanu
Kenya
JC
DD $2,000 [24]
This cardinal's farewell speech in "Henry VIII" may have been written by John Fletcher
Cardinal Wolsey
Diane

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CITIES

The name of this California college town is Spanish for "tall tree"

Palo Alto

JC "What is Palo Alto?" — wagered $4,000
Diane "What is Palo Alto?" — wagered $7,779
Roberta "What is ?" — wagered $5,901

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