Show #1911 1992-12-21 (taped 1992-09-14) Regular

Contestants

Israel Yarchun — a U.S. Air Force rescue coordinator originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Victoria Bassetti — a law student from New Orleans, Louisiana

Lillian Bosworth — a teacher from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lillian $1,000 $1,100 $5,000 $100
2nd place: Daniel Mink his & hers watches + Greif Companies his & hers fashions
$6,300
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Victoria $1,500 $4,200 $9,600 $9,199
New champion: $9,199
$9,500
24 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Israel $1,500 $3,100 $3,900 $100
3rd place: Ray-Ban sunglasses + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
$3,900
14 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

BOSTON LANDMARKS METALS MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES FAMOUS RODENTS CHEESE IT THE COPTS
$100 [1]
A 221-foot obelisk completed in 1843 honors this famous 1775 battle
Bunker Hill
Israel
$100 [6]
Liquid at room temperature, this metal is used in electrical switches & dental alloys
Mercury
Israel
$100 [11]
A herm is a pillar often topped with a head or bust of this god for whom it was named
Hermes
Israel
$100 [16]
Mickey Rooney claims that this famous rodent was named for him
Mickey Mouse
Israel
$100 [21]
Named for a village in England, this cheese, is popular on nachos
Cheddar
Victoria
$100 [26]
The head of the Coptic Church resides in this Egyptian capital city
Cairo
Lillian
$200 [2]
The Hatch Shell on the Charles River is home to its summer concert series
the Boston Pops
Lillian
$200 [7]
Radiation from an isotope of this metal, symbol Co, is used to kill cancer cells
cobalt
Israel
$200 [12]
A bribe can be called "a sop to Cerberus", an allusion to a 3-headed one of these who guarded Hades
a dog
Victoria
$200 [17]
"Here I come to save the day! means that this mouse is on his way
Mighty Mouse
Israel
$200 [22]
The taste & texture depend on 3 things: the type of milk, the treatment after coagulation & this process
aging
Victoria
$200 [27]
There's a Coptic style of this musical form as well as a Gregorian style
a chant
Lillian
$300 [3]
What Paul Revere knew as Christ Church is more commonly called this
the Old North Church
Victoria
$300 [8]
Pewter is an alloy that consists of antimony, copper & at least 90% this metal
tin
Victoria
$300 [13]
She's the goddess of grain for whom cereal was named
Ceres
Victoria
$300 [18]
Her coachman was an enchanted rat, and he turned back into a rat at midnight
Cinderella
Israel
$300 [23]
Gorgonzola & Stilton are lumped together in this color category
blue
Lillian Victoria
$300 [28]
The Copts used a high-warp loom to produce some of the finest of these wall hangings in ancient times
tapestries
Victoria
$400 [4]
A red line tracing the Freedom Trail begins at this 51-acre park
the Boston Common
Victoria
$400 [9]
Identified in gold-bearing deposits in 1735, this valuable metal is used in jewelry & medical instruments
platinum
Lillian
$400 [14]
It's the male counterpart of the Electra complex
the Oedipus Complex
Lillian
$400 [19]
The "Reading Buddies" family reading program chose this star of "An American Tail" as its "Mousecot"
Fievel
Victoria
DD $500 [24]
Made from the whey drained from provolone, this cheese by-product's name is Italian for "recooked"
Ricotta
Victoria
$400 [29]
The use of these passed from the Semites to the Greeks to the Copts, where they replaced the old hieroglyphics
the alphabet (or letters)
Lillian Victoria
$500 [5]
The Sacred Cod is displayed in the State House on this hill
Beacon Hill
Israel
$500 [10]
Light bulb filaments made of this whitish metal were patented by a General Electric scientist in 1913
tungsten
Israel
$500 [15]
He was willing to give his life for his friend Pythias & they became symbols of true friendship
Damon
Israel
$500 [20]
This author who called his son "Mouse" wrote about a water rat in "The Wind in the Willows"
Kenneth Grahame
Lillian
$500 [25]
This Greek "pickled" cheese is made from goat's or sheep's milk
feta cheese
Israel
$500 [30]
After being conquered in the 600s, a large number of Copts copped out & embraced this religion
Islam
Victoria

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ROARING '20s BLACK FIRSTS WORLD GEOGRAPHY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS ONCE & FUTURE KINGS
$200 [26]
In the spring of 1927 the 15,000,000th of these rolled off the assembly line at Ford
the Model T
Victoria
$200 [16]
In September 1983 Vanessa Williams became the 1st Black woman to win this beauty title
Miss America
Israel
$200 [21]
A peninsula called Calabria forms the "toe" of this country's "boot"
Italy
Lillian
$200 [1]
Legend has it that if a groundhog sees this on February 2, there'll be 6 more weeks of winter
his shadow
Israel
$200 [6]
He's set several of his works in Castle Rock, Maine but "Needful Things" is reportedly the last
Stephen King
Lillian
$200 [11]
Exiled King Michael of Romania is now a stockbroker; he lives near Lake Geneva in this country
Switzerland
Victoria
$400 [27]
Helen Morgan, Belle Livingston & Texas Guinan were among those who ran these
speakeasies
Lillian Victoria
$400 [17]
In 1949 Wesley A. Brown became the 1st Black Midshipman to graduate from this service academy
the Naval Academy
Israel
$400 [22]
The Laccadive Islands in the Arabian Sea & the Nicobars in the Bay of Bengal are territories of this country
India
Lillian
$400 [2]
In the Roman Catholic Church, this first day of Lent is marked by the burning of palms
Ash Wednesday
Victoria
$400 [7]
Shelby Foote wrote several novels before publishing his 3-volume history of this war
the Civil War
Victoria
$400 [12]
Crown Prince Alexander, heir to the throne of what was once Yugoslavia, is this English queen's godson
Elizabeth II
Lillian
$600 [28]
A Jewish man falls for an Irish woman in this play that opened May 23, 1922
Abie's Irish Rose
Lillian
$600 [18]
In 1966 Andrew F. Brimmer became the 1st Black member of this government banking system's Board of Governors
the Federal Reserve
Victoria
$600 [23]
This strait was named for a Spanish promontory formerly called Jebel Tariq
Gibraltar
Victoria
$600 [3]
In Scotland this day of practical jokes is known as Huntigowk Day
April 1
Lillian
$600 [8]
In 1984 Ronald Reagan awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to this man known for Western novels
Louis L'Amour
Lillian Victoria
$600 [13]
Grand Duke Vladimir, a close relative of Nicholas II, was the heir to this throne
Russia
Victoria
$800 [29]
In August 1926 it took this 19-year-old 14 hours & 31 minutes to swim the English Channel
Gertrude Ederle
Lillian
$800 [19]
No relation to Jackie, he became Major League Baseball's first Black manager in 1974
Frank Robinson
Lillian Victoria
$800 [24]
Hekla, the best-known volcano in this island nation, erupted in 1991 for the first time in 10 years
Iceland
$800 [4]
Citizenship Day, September 17, is celebrated on the anniversary of the signing of this
the Constitution
Victoria
$800 [9]
"Murder at the Pentagon" is the 11th novel in her Capital Crime series
Margaret Truman
Lillian
$800 [14]
Archduke Otto, a member of this family, is heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne but doesn't want it
the Hapsburgs
Victoria
$1,000 [30]
After Leopold & Loeb confessed, this lawyer helped them escape the death penalty
Clarence Darrow
Lillian
$1,000 [20]
Her "A Raisin in the Sun" was the 1st play by a Black author to win a New York Drama Critics Circle Award
Lorraine Hansberry
DD $1,000 [25]
These 3 states meet Arizona at the Four Corners
New Mexico, Colorado & Utah
Victoria
$1,000 [5]
National Maritime Day celebrates the 1819 transatlantic voyage of this Southern ship
the Savannah
DD $1,300 [10]
She's Britain's Queen of Romance, & her daughter Raine is Princess Diana's stepmother
Barbara Cartland
Lillian
$1,000 [15]
Now exiled, Simeon II became king of this Balkan country at age 6 after his father, Boris, was poisoned
Bulgaria

Final Jeopardy!

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

Founded by a Philadelphia Baptist in 1884 as an evening college, it became a university in 1907

Temple

Israel "What is Penn State" — wagered $3,800
Lillian "What is Duke?" — wagered $4,900
Victoria "What is Villanova?" — wagered $401

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