Show #1918 1992-12-30 (taped 1992-09-15) Regular

Jack Mahoney game 4.

Contestants

Theresa Wrobel — a housewife and student from Kansas City, Missouri

Fred Glasser — an attorney from Orange, California

Jack Mahoney — an actor originally from Newport, Rhode Island (whose 3-day cash winnings total $21,104)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jack $800 $3,600 $11,500 $11,300
4-day champion: $32,404
$9,800
31 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Fred $-400 $1,400 $1,800 $101
2nd place: Broyhill 6-piece cherry bedroom + Waverly Home Fashions Nantucket Collection bedding ensemble + Jeopardy! home edition
$1,800
12 R, 5 W
Theresa $900 $500 $5,600 $100
3rd place: Samsung remote-control 4-head VCR with on-screen programming + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis system + Jeopardy! home edition
$4,300
8 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

LONDON SONG LYRICS FOOD & DRINK SICKNESS & HEALTH GAMBLING "HO"-POURRI
$100 [6]
Royal Festival Hall is part of the South Bank Centre, an arts complex on the south bank of this river
the Thames
Jack
$100 [21]
"The corn is as high as" this "an' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky"
an elephant's eye
Jack
$100 [12]
If you order "pigs' trotters" in a restaurant, you'll get these
pigs' feet
Fred
$100 [8]
This stimulant occurs in kola nuts & cocoa beans as well as in coffee beans
caffeine
Jack
$100 [1]
In blackjack a hand begins with this many cards
2
Jack
$100 [14]
A square dance, or the kind of party where you dance it
a hoe-down
Jack
$200 [7]
The banners of the Knights of the Bath hang in the Henry VII chapel in this historic abbey
Westminster Abbey
Fred
$200 [22]
"Just kiss me once, then kiss me twice, then kiss me once again, it's been" this
a long, long time
Jack Fred
$200 [23]
Even the French eat only these parts of a frog, les cuisses
frogs' legs
Jack
$200 [13]
In atrial fibrillation the upper chambers of this organ beat rapidly & irregularly
the heart
Jack
$200 [2]
It's the American equivalent of the British "fruit machine"
a slot machine
Jack
$200 [15]
All "Jeopardy!" contestants belong to this species, though we've never said it's a requirement
Homo sapiens
Jack
$300 [9]
This queen might have said of herself, "We were born in Kensington Palace on May 24, 1819"
Victoria
Jack
$300 [27]
"Why, O why, O why O, why did I ever leave" this state
Ohio
Fred
$300 [24]
To make a very dry martini, use plenty of gin but just a little of this potent potable
vermouth
Jack
$300 [17]
This condition where the ear becomes painful, swollen & distorted is most common in boxers
cauliflower ear
Fred
$300 [3]
Rank of the card in the middle of a Royal Flush
the queen
Fred
$300 [16]
This Hawaiian began his singing career more than 30 years ago at his parents' bar on Oahu
Don Ho
Fred
$400 [10]
The cross on the massive dome of this cathedral towers 365 feet above the ground
St. Paul's Cathedral
Jack Fred Theresa
$400 [29]
"Mamma may have, papa may have, but God bless" this person "that's got his own!"
the child
Jack
$400 [25]
Havarti is a type of this dairy product named for the Danish area where it was developed
cheese
Jack
$400 [18]
Jerry Lewis could tell you Duchenne is the most common form of this disorder
muscular dystrophy
Jack Theresa
$400 [4]
Though an American roulette wheel has 38 spaces, this is the highest number
36
Jack
$400 [19]
Hokey-Pokey may be an alteration of this term a magician might pull out of his hat
hocus-Pocus
Jack
DD $500 [11]
From 1698 to 1837 this "saintly" palace as the official royal residence
St. James
Theresa
$500 [30]
"Dress in style and go hog wild, me oh my oh son of a gun, we'll have big fun on" this
the bayou
Fred
$500 [26]
The oldest brewery in Venezuela makes a beer named for these mountains
the Andes
$500 [28]
This pink substance of zinc & iron oxides is made into a lotion used for poison ivy
calamine
Fred
$500 [5]
In 1946 Benjamin "Don't Call Me Bugsy" Siegel opened this first of the luxury hotel-casinos in Vegas
the Flamingo
Fred
$500 [20]
These dairy cattle have black and white markings, but their milk is just plain white
Holsteins
Jack

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ANCIENT WORLD LANGUAGES FOUNDERS STRINGED INSTRUMENTS POETS & POETRY HAIL TO THE CHIEF
$200 [8]
Roman emperor Julian renounced this religion & tried to reinstate paganism
Christianity
Jack
$200 [18]
This language is officially called Nederlands
Dutch
Jack
$200 [19]
In the 1830s Henry Miller Shreve founded a port city in this state
Louisiana
Jack
$200 [11]
In the 1940s Les Paul pioneered the solid-body type of this electrical instrument
the guitar
Fred
$200 [1]
Some of his early poems like "The Brigs of Ayr" imitated those of another Scottish poet, Robert Fergusson
Robert Burns
Jack
$200 [2]
This president's name is believed to be a contraction of "Pollok", the ancestral name in Britain
(James) Polk
Jack
$400 [9]
By the 3rd dynasty Memphis had become the preeminent city of this country
Egypt
Jack
$400 [23]
The name jai alai comes from this language spoken in the mountain regions of Spain & France
Basque
Theresa
$400 [20]
This movie studio was founded in 1919 by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin & D.W. Griffith
United Artists
Fred
$400 [12]
Stringed instrument associated with comedian Steve Martin
the banjo
Jack
$400 [6]
The white oak which is said to have inspired his "Trees" poem was located at Rutgers University
Joyce Kilmer
Jack
$400 [3]
At 6'3" this Texan was the second-tallest president
Lyndon Johnson
Jack
$600 [10]
Ancient writers called this militaristic Greek state Lacedaemon
Sparta
Fred
$600 [24]
It's the only country whose official language is Magyar
Hungary
Theresa
$600 [21]
He broke with Freud to found analytic psychology
(Carl) Jung
Jack
$600 [13]
He made his last violin in 1737 at the age of 93 in Cremona, Italy
Stradivarius
Jack
$600 [27]
In poem No. 712 she wrote, "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
Emily Dickinson
Jack
$600 [4]
In 1796 this future president helped draft Tennessee's first constitution
Andrew Jackson
Jack
$800 [14]
The wall in Britain named for this emperor ran from Solway Firth to Wallsend on the Tyne
Hadrian
Jack
$800 [25]
Most Indian Muslims speak this language
Urdu
Jack Fred Theresa
$800 [22]
In 1808 Louis Bonaparte founded what is now this Amsterdam museum
the Rijksmuseum
Theresa
$800 [16]
The name of this instrument popular in the Renaissance is from the Arabic ud, meaning "wood"
the lute
$800 [29]
Ethel Lynn Beers' famous poem about a Civil War soldier begins, "All quiet along" this river
the Potomac
$800 [5]
On July 4, 1826 these 2 presidents died within hours of each other
Thomas Jefferson & John Adams
Theresa
$1,000 [15]
Cyrus the Great founded this empire by conquering Lydia & Babylonia in the 6th century B.C.
the Persian Empire
Fred
DD $2,300 [26]
It's the easternmost of all Slavic languages
Russian
Theresa
$1,000 [28]
A group led in NYC by John Lamb & Isaac Sears, founded in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act
the Sons of Liberty
Jack
$1,000 [17]
In 1950 Anton Karas had a hit with his recording of "The Third Man" theme on this instrument
the zither
Fred
$1,000 [30]
On the death of John Keats in 1821, this poet wrote "Adonais"
Shelley
Theresa
DD $2,700 [7]
He was the last of 3 presidents to serve in 1881
Arthur
Jack

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

Volume 1 of the New Book of Knowledge Ency. has an article on this man written by Danny Kaye

Hans Christian Andersen

Fred "Who is Will Rogers" — wagered $1,699
Theresa "Who is Laurence Olivier" — wagered $5,500
Jack "Who was Bing Crosby?" — wagered $200

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