Show #1666 1991-11-25 (taped 1991-09-12) Regular

Kirk Ditzler game 1.Missing introductions.

Contestants

Todd Gander — from

Kirk Ditzler — a teacher from Houston, Texas

Josh Vincent — a waiter and a chef from Brigantine, New Jersey (whose 4-day cash winnings total $58,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Josh $3,300 $5,500 $8,500 $0
3rd place: Sebastian Show-Off makeup collection + Nintendo Entertainment System with Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games + InfoGenius for the Nintendo Game Boy
$7,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Kirk $-200 $1,100 $6,600 $6,600
New champion: $6,600
$5,700
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Todd $400 $2,300 $10,500 $3,000
2nd place: FlexSteel Industries sofa + S&S Mills carpeting
$8,300
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT CHINA FAMOUS NAMES BOOKS OF THE BIBLE DANCES "WITH" WOLVES
$100 [1]
This current capital is located near the site of the B.C. capital of Yen
Beijing (Peking)
Josh
$100 [3]
On Dec. 24, 1990 he married Nicole Kidman, his "Days of Thunder" co-star
Tom Cruise
Kirk
$100 [23]
It's "the first book of Moses"
Genesis
Josh
$100 [16]
A ceremonial dance around a tall one of these hung with ribbons is a May Day tradition
a Maypole
Josh
$100 [21]
This hyphenated slang term means up-to-date or hip
with-it
Kirk
$100 [11]
Unlike the womanizers known as wolves, it's believed wolves do this for life
mate
Josh
$200 [2]
Ts'ai Lun is credited w1th inventing this material in 105 A.D.; printing on it came later
paper
Kirk
$200 [4]
It was Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford who dubbed this Reds player "Charlie Hustle"
Pete Rose
Josh
$200 [30]
"Tehillim" meaning "Songs of Praise" is the Hebrew name for this Biblical book
Psalms
Josh
$200 [17]
Originally, the basic floor pattern of the minuet was shaped like this number: "figure" it out
8
Josh
$200 [22]
The literal translation of the musical direction "con amore"
with love
Todd
$200 [12]
The "wolf" type of this arachnid chases & pounces on its prey like a wolf, hence its name
a spider
Josh
$300 [5]
His real name was K'ung Ch'iu but it's considered disrespectful to call him that
Confucius
Josh
$300 [8]
Walter Hickel, interior sec'y under this president, was elected Gov. of Alaska in 1990
Richard Nixon
Josh
$300 [29]
From the Greek word for "Revelation", it's another name for the Book of Revelation
the Apocalypse
Todd
$400 [19]
The Landler got its name from Das Landl, part of the upper region of this Alpine country
Austria
Josh Kirk
$300 [24]
In "America the Beautiful", this lyric follows "and crown thy good..."
with brotherhood
Kirk
$300 [13]
A type of wolf, or a shout of warning to someone near a falling tree
timber
Josh
$400 [6]
Bolts of this fabric were used as money well into the T'ang dynasty
silk
Josh
$400 [9]
He marked his 10th year as French pres. in '91 & discovered 8 out of 10 Frenchmencan't spell his name
Mitterand
Todd
$400 [28]
This book which follows 1 & 2 Samuel begins just before the death of David
1 Kings
Todd
$500 [20]
These Polynesian people of New Zealand swing poi balls when they do their poi dances
the Maoris
Kirk
$400 [25]
This 9-letter adjective describes a person who's isolated or socially detached
withdrawn
Josh
$400 [14]
Legend says a she-wolf suckled these sons of the god Mars
Remus & Romulus
Josh
$500 [7]
He is considered the father of Taoism & author of its basic text, the "Tao Te Ching"
Lao Tzu
Josh
$500 [10]
Beat poet who probably 1st "Howl"ed in 1926 when he was born in Newark
Allen Ginsberg
Josh Kirk
$500 [27]
The title figures in this book include Deborah, Jephthah & Samson
Judges
Todd
DD $1,600 [18]
Mazurka dancers know this Polish-French composer wrote more than 50 mazurkas for the piano
Frederic Chopin
Josh
$500 [26]
A tax payment that's deducted from income at the source
withhold
Todd
$500 [15]
2 wolves named Teddy & Buck played this wolf named for its white paws in "Dances With Wolves"
Two Socks

Double Jeopardy! Round

FREUD QUOTES MUSEUMS ASTRONOMY WEIGHTS & MEASURES HISTORICAL OPERAS
$200 [7]
Born in Moravia, Freud moved to this city in 1859 & spent most of the next 78 years there
Vienna
Josh
$200 [17]
In "Silent Spring" she wrote, "the 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance"
Rachel Carson
Josh
$200 [6]
This Arizona capital is home to the Hall of Flame, the world's premier museum of fire-fighting
Phoenix
Kirk
$200 [14]
Known for his law of universal gravitation, he devised the 1st reflecting telescope in the 17th c.
Newton
Kirk
$200 [28]
This abbreviation for pound comes from the libra, a Roman unit of weight
lb.
Kirk Todd
$200 [1]
Gounod's first opera centers on this poetess from Lesbos
Sappho
Kirk
$400 [9]
In 1910 Freud wrote a profile of this Renaissance artist & inventor
Da Vinci
Kirk
$400 [21]
An 1864 quote attributed to this President says, "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell"
Abraham Lincoln
Josh
$400 [8]
The Stedelijk Museum, known for its modern art, is in this city, also the home of the Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
Kirk
$400 [15]
1 of the 2 times during the year when the sun crosses the celestial equator
the vernal equinox (or the autumnal equinox)
Josh
$400 [27]
Used mostly for horse racing today, this is based on the length of an average plowed furrow
a furlong
Todd
$400 [2]
Milhaud's opera about this South American liberator is seldom performed today
Bolivar
Kirk
$600 [10]
Freud was the first to use this 6-letter term for urges that are satisfied pleasurably
libido
Kirk
$600 [22]
In "Science and Health" this Christian Scientist wrote "spirit is the real and eternal"
Mary Baker Eddy
Todd
$600 [18]
If you want to visit the Louvre, you should know this is the French word for museum
musée
Todd
$600 [16]
From the Latin for "great", this term refers to the brightness of stars
magnitude
Kirk
$600 [26]
In the U.S. this measure of wheat officially weighs 60 pounds
a bushel
Kirk
$800 [4]
Shaporin's opera "the Decembrists" is set in this country in 1825
Russia
Kirk
$800 [11]
A few weeks after the outbreak of WWII, Freud died in this country to which he'd fled from Nazism
Great Britain (England)
Todd
$800 [24]
Robert Frost said, "she's one of the two best states in the union. Vermont's the other"
New Hampshire
Todd
$800 [20]
The Temple of Dendur, a shrine to Isis built circa 15 B.C., is now housed in this Manhattan museum
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Josh
$1,000 [13]
In 1973 this new comet became the 1st to be studied from space when photographed by Skylab
Kohoutek
Josh
$800 [25]
There are this many months in a millennium
12,000
Todd
$1,000 [5]
At the end of "I Puritani", this lord protector of England sets Lord Arthur free
Cromwell
Josh
$1,000 [29]
Freud developed this analytic process where the patient is encouraged to express random thoughts
free association
Todd
$1,000 [30]
Israel Zangwill wrote, "America is God's Crucible, the great" one of these
melting pot
Josh Todd
$1,000 [19]
Dumbarton Oaks in this city boasts one of the world's finest collections of Byzantine art
Washington, D.C.
Todd
DD $3,000 [12]
The steady flow of charged particles from the sun's corona into space is called this
the solar wind
Todd
$1,000 [23]
This unit of weight used for precious metals is abbreviated oz. t.
troy ounce
Kirk
DD $1,500 [3]
She signs the title character's death warrant in Donizetti's opera "Maria Stuarda"
(Queen) Elizabeth I
Kirk

Final Jeopardy!

THE CENSUS

This state has the highest percentage of Hispanics — 38%

New Mexico

Kirk "What is Texas?" — wagered $0
Josh "What isTexasTexas" — wagered $8,500
Todd "What isCalifTexas" — wagered $7,500

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