Show #1647 1991-10-29 (taped 1991-09-10) Regular

Contestants

Rita Connolly — a medical technologist from Williamstown, New Jersey

Greg Shepherd — a college music instructor from Honolulu, Hawaii

Jim Baughman — a fine arts printer from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jim $1,200 $2,700 $1,400 $2,800
3rd place: Pacific Kinematics Nextstep 500 exerciser + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy Challenger
$5,900
19 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Greg $2,100 $2,800 $6,000 $9,001
New champion: $9,001
$6,000
20 R, 4 W
Rita $-300 $400 $3,000 $6,000
2nd place: The Greif Companies her & hers clothing + Julie Jurgensen mens watch + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy Challenger
$3,400
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD WEST SONG LYRICS ASTROLOGY PLANTS & TREES 12-LETTER WORDS AREA CODES
$100 [1]
After Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall was followed around by people hoping he would find more of this
gold
Greg
$100 [10]
"I'm wearing second hand hats — second hand clothes — that's why they call me" this
second hand Rose
Rita
$100 [11]
Red is considered a harmonious color for people born under this sign of the ram
Aries
Jim
$100 [4]
Of the 900 million bulbs we import from this country each year, only about 1/3 are tulips
the Netherlands
Greg
$100 [25]
In 1991 Vermont marked this, its 200th anniversary of statehood
bicentennial
Rita
$100 [28]
The area code for this entire state is 602, whether you're calling Apache Junction or Yuma
Arizona
Jim
$200 [26]
Records indicate between 1859 & 1872 Mexican bandits stole 145,298 of these from the King & Kenedy Ranches
cattle
Jim
$200 [2]
"If you ever plan to motor west — travel my way, take the highway that's the best, get your kicks" here
Route 66
Greg
$200 [12]
Appropriately, this sign is characterized by a "goat"like ability to climb over life's obstacles
Capricorn
Jim
$200 [21]
Until the 20th century, its main uses were for floats, shoe soles & bottle stoppers
cork
Jim
$200 [5]
Optical toy consisting of a tube with bits of colored glass reflected by mirrors
a kaleidoscope
Jim
$200 [7]
In area it's the largest state that has just 1 area code: 907
Alaska
Greg
$300 [14]
It's the protuberance on a Western saddle around which a rope could be dallied or tied
a horn
Jim
$300 [3]
"Oh my darlin', knock three times on" this "if you want me; twice on the pipe if the answer is no"
the ceiling
Rita
$300 [13]
Of Cancer, Pisces, or Aquarius, the one that isn't classified as a water sign
Aquarius
Greg Rita
$300 [22]
It's the most abundant natural textile fiber
cotton
Greg Rita
$300 [6]
It can describe a sophisticated, worldly woman, or the magazine she reads
cosmopolitan
Greg
$300 [27]
It's the area code for our offices at "Jeopardy!"
213
Rita
$400 [15]
Though these Indians had scalped Mormons, Brigham Young said he would not attack & made peace
the Utes
Jim
$400 [8]
"I'm going to buy" one of these "that I can call my own"
a paper doll
Greg Rita
$400 [17]
The opal is a suggested stone for women born under this sign; you might wear 1 on each hand for "balance"
Libra
Greg
$400 [23]
The part of a chicory plant that is roasted with coffee beans
the root
Jim Greg
$400 [19]
It's the proper medical term for high blood pressure
hypertension
Jim
$400 [29]
"The Bronx is up but the Battery's down" & this is the area code for both of them
212
Rita
$500 [16]
This gunslinger born in 1853 was named after the founder of the Methodist Church, John Wesley
John Wesley Hardin
Greg
$500 [9]
John Lennon wrote. "It's like we both are falling in love again, it'll be just like" doing this
starting over
Greg
$500 [18]
This sign is known for directness—as direct as an arrow speeding to its mark, you might say
Sagittarius
Jim
DD $400 [24]
Ikebana is the Japanese art of this
flower arranging
Rita
$500 [20]
It's a person who makes his living collecting & analyzing numerical data
a statistician
Jim
$500 [30]
If you want to call our nation's capital, this is the area code you need to know
202
Greg

Double Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD LITERATURE FAMOUS NAMES FEDERAL AGENCIES FOOD LEFTOVERS
$200 [1]
Both the franc & the peseta are legal tender in this small mountainous nation
Andorra
Jim
$200 [10]
Berzelius Windrip is elected president of this country in "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis
the United States
$200 [20]
Karl Doenitz briefly led this country in 1945, presiding over its surrender
Germany
Greg
$200 [30]
Established in 1934, it licenses & regulates all radio & TV stations
the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
Greg
$200 [11]
It's the "shell" of a burrito
a tortilla
Jim Rita
$200 [16]
The first Winter Olympics were held at Chamonix in this country in 1924
France
Greg
$400 [2]
Goteborg is this country's principal seaport & shipbuilding center
Sweden
Jim
$400 [9]
The 1904 novel "Green Mansions" is set in this continent's tropics
South America
$400 [21]
Alexander Gardner began his career shooting the Civil War for this more famous photographer
Mathew Brady
Greg
$400 [18]
This agency not only ensures the safety of edibles & medicines but of cosmetics as well
the FDA (Food & Drug Administration)
Jim
$400 [12]
This brownish-black liquid is used in making pumpernickel, pumpkin pie & Boston baked beans
molasses
Greg
$400 [17]
This word for the highest ranking bureaucrats of imperial China comes from Portuguese
Mandarin
Greg
$600 [3]
This North African country's 3 main regions are Cyrenaica, Tripolitania & Fezzan
Libya
Jim
$600 [6]
Frank R. Stockton's story "The King's Arena" was renamed "The Lady or" this
the Tiger
Jim
$600 [22]
The grandfather of this mobile sculptor made the statue of Wm. Penn atop Philadelphia's city hall
(Alexander) Calder
Jim
$600 [19]
In addition to issuing patents, the U.S. Patent Office also registers these
trademarks
Greg Rita
$600 [13]
Usually made of the Royal Ann variety, this treated fruit is the garnish in a Shirley Temple
a maraschino cherry
Rita
$600 [27]
On August 22, 1989 Rickey Henderson became the 5,000th person struck out by this pitcher
Nolan Ryan
Jim
$800 [4]
This Latin American country leads the world in the production of silver
Mexico
Greg Rita
$1,000 [8]
Like "The Luck of Roaring Camp", his novella "M'liss" is set in a mining camp
Bret Harte
Rita
$1,000 [24]
This Hawaiian swimming star was sheriff of Honolulu 1932-61
Duke Kahanamoku
Greg
$800 [26]
Among its functions are to control air traffic & to write & enforce air safety regulations
the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)
Jim Greg
$800 [14]
When talking about crushed grains, it's hominy grits & buckwheat these
groats
$800 [28]
Andrew Young was our ambassador to this from 1977-79, before serving as Atlanta's mayor
the U.N.
Jim
$1,000 [5]
About 1/3 of this Mideast country's foreign trade earnings comes from sales of cut diamonds
Israel
Greg
DD $2,000 [7]
Magnolia Hawks runs off with Gaylord Ravenal in this Edna Ferber novel
Show Boat
Jim
DD $2,500 [23]
This Norwegian explorer was killed trying to rescue Italian Arctic explorer Umberto Nobile
Roald Amundsen
Jim
$1,000 [25]
A part of the Treasury, this agency designs & issues postage stamps & Federal Reserve notes
the Bureau of Printing & Engraving
$1,000 [15]
Small, light, shell-shaped, spongy cakes immortalized by Proust
madeleines
Rita
$1,000 [29]
In 1988 President Reagan gave the National Medal of Arts to this "Humboldt's Gift" author
Saul Bellow

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTORS

In 1852 he invented an automatic safety device to prevent the fall of hoisting machinery

(Elisha) Otis

Jim "Who was Otis?" — wagered $1,400
Rita "Who was Otis" — wagered $3,000
Greg "Who was Otis" — wagered $3,001

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