Show #1914 1992-12-24 (taped 1992-09-14) Regular

Contestants

Ann Kleese — a substitute teacher from Marion, Indiana

Brigid Smith — a corporate communications manager from Fairfield, Connecticut

Joe Santora, Jr. — a teacher from Newton, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $300 $2,600 $12,000 $7,399
2-day champion: $16,398
$9,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Brigid $2,100 $4,100 $8,300 $3,300
3rd place: Pulsar his & hers watches
$8,300
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Ann $700 $1,700 $3,700 $3,700
2nd place: trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$3,700
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

JAPAN STEPHEN FOSTER LYRICS HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES 1992 IN THE SOUP 4-LETTER WORDS
$100 [1]
The highest denomination of Japanese paper currency is 10,000 of these
the yen
Joe
$100 [6]
"It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was" this
dry
Joe
$100 [21]
This North African country observes Sinai Liberation Day on April 25
Egypt
Joe
$100 [10]
Margaret Thatcher entered this house of Parliament as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
the House of Lords
Brigid
$100 [20]
Borscht is usually served with some of this dairy product on top
sour cream
Joe
$100 [15]
Robin Hood had one of Merry Men, Les Brown had one of renown
a band
Brigid
$200 [2]
The Japanese call this hot beverage kohi
coffee
Joe
$200 [7]
"All up and down the whole creation, sadly I roam, still longing for the old plantation and for" them
the old folks at home
Joe
$200 [22]
On February 11 Iran commemorates the fall of this ruler
the Shah
Ann
$200 [11]
H. Lawrence Garrett, secretary of this armed service, resigned over the "Tailhook" scandal
The Navy
Brigid
$200 [29]
This variety of clam chowder contains tomatoes
Manhattan
Joe
$200 [16]
Superman can do this to "steel in his bare hands"
bend
Brigid
$300 [3]
Many Japanese bars feature karaoke, where patrons entertain themselves by doing this
singing
Joe
$300 [8]
"I dream of" her, "borne, like a vapor, on the summer air"
Jeanie (with the light brown hair)
Brigid
$300 [23]
April 18 commemorates the end of white minority rule in this country, once Rhodesia
Zimbabwe
Joe
$300 [12]
Tina Brown was named to replace Robert Gottlieb as editor of this literary magazine
The New Yorker
Ann
$300 [26]
The name of this vegetable soup translates literally from the Italian as "big soup"
minestrone
Joe
$300 [17]
To make book is to take a bet; to make a book, i.e. put pages between covers, is to do this
to bind
Ann
$400 [4]
A monument located south of Yokohama commemorates the landing of this American commodore
Perry
Joe
$400 [9]
Title preceding "Wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee"
"Beautiful Dreamer"
Ann
$400 [24]
This country observes Chulalongkorn Day on October 23
Thailand
Brigid
$400 [13]
By the end of his first term on the Supreme Court, he had written 9 majority opinions
Clarence Thomas
Brigid
$400 [27]
Though named for a town in France, vichyssoise was invented in this country
the U.S.A.
$400 [18]
A top grade of white paper made from rag pulp
bond
Brigid
$500 [5]
Komei Tenno was the last Japanese emperor to reign in this city, not Tokyo
Kyoto
Joe Brigid
DD $1,300 [30]
"The corntop's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom" here
"My Old Kentucky Home"
Joe
$500 [25]
On July 15 this oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo celebrates the Sultan's birthday
Brunei
Ann
$500 [14]
This grunting gal lost the Wimbledon women's singles title to Steffi Graf
Monica Seles
Joe Brigid
$500 [28]
The elegant French soup billi-bi is flavored with these bivalves the French call moules
mussels
Brigid
$500 [19]
German for "league", it was a pro-Nazi German- American league of the 1930s
a Bund
Brigid

Double Jeopardy! Round

MOUNTAINS BELLS & WHISTLES 19th CENTURY AMERICA SILENT MOVIES THE VIRGIN MARY QUOTES
$200 [2]
The Tibetans know this mountain as Chomolungma, or "Goddess Mother of the World"
Everest
Ann
$200 [1]
When rung on Washington's birthday in 1846, it cracked beyond repair
the Liberty Bell
Joe
$200 [20]
In 1876 he helped found the American Library Association & came up with a decimal system
Melvil Dewey
Joe Brigid
$200 [21]
Albert Roscoe played Uncas in the 1920 version of this James Fenimore Cooper tale
The Last of the Mohicans
Brigid
$200 [22]
Music for this prayer has been composed by Schubert & Gounod
the Ave Maria
Brigid
$200 [30]
Sir Ralph Richardson called this profession the art "of keeping the audience from coughing"
acting
Brigid
$400 [6]
Mount Elbert, the highest mountain in the Rockies, rises 14,433 feet in this state
Colorado
Brigid
$400 [3]
The diaphone, a big one of these found in lighthouses, can be heard up to 8 miles away
a foghorn
Brigid
$400 [15]
In 1868, his title was Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed
Brigid
$400 [19]
Last name of sisters Dorothy & Lillian, who starred in D.W. Griffith's "Orphans of the Storm"
Gish
Joe
$400 [4]
Tradition says Mary was a member of this royal house of Israel
the House of David
Joe Brigid
$400 [25]
Keats not only said that this "is truth" but that "a thing of" it "is a joy forever"
beauty
Ann
$600 [9]
Alaskan Indians know this mountain as Denali, the "Great One"
Mt. McKinley
Joe
$600 [29]
A theatrical superstition says whistling here is a no-no
in the dressing room
Joe Brigid
$800 [12]
In February 1865 this Confederate vice president met with Lincoln at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference
(Alexander) Stephens
Joe
$600 [18]
This Swede starred as an accused murderess in "The Kiss", MGM's last silent movie
Greta Garbo
Ann
$600 [7]
At the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D., the Bishops gave Mary this maternal title
Mother of God
Brigid Ann
$600 [23]
H.L. Mencken defined this emotion as "the triumph of imagination over intelligence"
love
Ann
$800 [10]
These mountains of North Africa are separated from Spain's Sierra Nevada by the Strait of Gibraltar
the Atlas Mountains
Ann
$800 [28]
According to the nursery rhyme, its bells say "oranges and lemons"
St. Clement's
Ann
$1,000 [13]
In 1896 he was nominated for president by both the Democratic & Populist parties—& still lost
William Jennings Bryan
Joe
$800 [17]
She played Betty Lou, a shopgirl who wins the heart of a department store owner, in "It"
Clara Bow
Ann
$800 [5]
The vision that appeared to this 14-ear-old in 1858 called herself the Immaculate Conception
Bernadette of Lourdes
Joe
$800 [24]
In an 1818 story she wrote, "I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created"
Mary Shelley
Joe
$1,000 [11]
The capital of this small republic in the Apennines lies near the top of Mount Titano
San Marino
Joe
$1,000 [27]
Science books illustrate this sonic effect with the well-known "train-whistle-passing-you" experiment
the Doppler effect
Joe
DD $2,000 [14]
It didn't agree to be annexed by the U.S. until months after its annexation in 1845
Texas
Joe
DD $1,000 [16]
1916's "Joan the Woman" is considered this director's first historical epic
Cecil B. DeMille
Brigid
$1,000 [8]
At his crucifixion Jesus turned over the care of his mother to this "Beloved Disciple"
John
Joe
$1,000 [26]
This Pulitzer Prize winner said, "I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes" in his 1918 poem "Prairie"
Carl Sandburg
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES

Author DuBose Heyward was born in this city & set his most famous work on its waterfront

Charleston

Ann "What is New Orleans?" — wagered $0
Brigid "What is New York" — wagered $5,000
Joe "What is N.Y.C." — wagered $4,601

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