Show #1961 1993-03-01 (taped 1992-11-10) Regular

Contestants

Bill Roche — a junior high school teacher from Ashland, Montana

Robin Leidner — a sociologist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Susie Macksey — a stand-up comic from Cambridge, Massachusetts (whose 3-day cash winnings total $27,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Susie $900 $2,400 $5,600 $100
3rd place: Busnell binoculars + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis
$6,600
24 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Robin $1,600 $2,100 $4,500 $8,500
New champion: $8,500
$4,500
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Bill $100 $400 $5,800 $200
2nd place: trip on Delta to Puerto Vallarta & stay at the Krystal Vallarta
$4,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FISH BUSINESS & INDUSTRY CARDS MUSICAL THEATRE BIOGRAPHIES CLICHES
$100 [16]
The rainbow species of this salmon relative gets its name from the broad red band along its side
a trout
Susie
$100 [18]
Turner Broadcasting launched this 24-hour information service in 1980
CNN
Susie
$100 [26]
In order, cards can be counted one, two, three or ace, deuce, this
trey
Susie
$100 [1]
In 1970, Groucho was a consultant on "Minnie's Boys", the story of these brothers & their mother
the Marx brothers
Bill
$100 [11]
In 1931 Clara Clemens published a memoir of this author, her father
Mark Twain
Robin
$100 [6]
According to the cliche, a man who lacks perception can't do this past the end of his nose
see
Robin
$200 [17]
This common carp kept in bowls was developed by the Chinese perhaps as early as the 10th century
the goldfish
Robin
$200 [19]
Swedish automaker Volvo owns about 1/4 of the stock of this largest car rental company
Hertz
Robin
$200 [27]
Ogier the Dane, who slew giants with his sword, is supposed to be this one-eyed fellow
the Jack
Susie
$200 [2]
This musical was based on a book called "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant"
Damn Yankees
Susie
$200 [12]
"Glory Days" by Dave Marsh has been called "the most complete" book ever written about this rock star
Bruce Springsteen
Susie
$200 [7]
Gardeners know "to nip" something "in" this means to stop it from developing
the bud
Robin
$300 [22]
In the U.S. the fish-and-chips franchise business uses this fish almost exclusively
cod
Bill
$300 [20]
In 1967 McDonnell Aircraft merged with this aircraft firm
Douglas
Robin
$300 [28]
Most games use 52 cards; standard pinochle uses this many
48
Robin
$300 [3]
Act I of this 1970s musical ends with the song "You Won't Be An Orphan For Long"
Annie
Susie
$300 [13]
A double biography of Aaron Burr & this man is subtitled "Their Lives, Their Times, Their Duel"
Hamilton
Susie
$300 [8]
It often precedes "in the mouth" or "on his luck"
down
Robin
$400 [23]
Commercially, one of the most important species of this food fish is the skipjack, or oceanic bonito
the tuna
Susie
$400 [21]
Bayer, BASF & Hoechst are the big 3 of this country's chemical industry
Germany
Susie Bill
$400 [29]
In baccarat face cards & tens are worth this many points
0
Robin Bill
$400 [4]
In a 1964 musical, the waiters at the Harmonia Gardens sing this title song to Mrs. Levi
"Hello, Dolly!"
Susie
$500 [15]
They're the subject of Anne Edwards' book "Royal Sisters"
Queen Elizabeth & Princess Margaret
$400 [9]
A person newly in office may make sweeping changes, hence "a new" one of these "sweeps clean"
a broom
Robin
$500 [25]
This sharp-toothed fish with an American-Spanish name has been called the "Tiger of the Sea"
the barracuda
Susie
$500 [24]
This magazine founded by Lila & DeWitt Wallace has never carried cigarette ads in its U.S. editions
Reader's Digest
Susie
$500 [30]
In 1937 a fifth suit of these birds was added to the deck for 5-suit bridge in the U.S.
eagles
Robin
$500 [5]
This 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was based on "Liliom", a Hungarian play by Ferenc Molnar
Carousel
Robin
DD $1,000 [14]
Albert Schweitzer, an authority on this Baroque composer, published a biography of him in 1905
Johann Sebastian Bach
Susie
$500 [10]
The phrase "Love me, love" this pet dates all the way back to St. Bernard
my dog
Susie

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 1930s AMERICAN LITERATURE WORLD FACTS SCIENCE MYTHOLOGY TOWER OF LONDON PRISONERS
$200 [1]
A popular song of 1932 asked, "Brother, can you spare" one of these
a dime
Susie
$200 [2]
This novel by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War"
The Red Badge of Courage
Susie
$200 [11]
This largest Italian island is separated from Tunisia by about 90 miles of the Mediterranean Sea
Sicily
Bill
$200 [16]
For Tungsten it's 3410º C., the highest of any metal
the melting point
Bill
$200 [18]
One of his labors involved capturing a team of man-eating horses
Hercules
Susie
$200 [25]
She was Henry VIII's second wife, though she was the first he locked in the Tower
Anne Boleyn
Susie
$400 [7]
On October 5, 1931 Hugh Herndon & Clyde Pangborn completed the first nonstop flight across this ocean
the Pacific Ocean
Bill
$400 [3]
In 1972 some of his Nick Adams stories were published for the first time
Hemingway
Susie
$400 [12]
This hieroglyphic tablet was found in 1799 at Ft. St. Julian, Egypt & named for a nearby town
the Rosetta Stone
Robin
$400 [17]
Roentgenography refers to photography by use of these
X-rays
Susie
$400 [19]
The Graiae were sisters who shared a single one of these; how Cyclopean
an eye
Susie
$400 [26]
This future queen was imprisoned there by Bloody Mary
Elizabeth I
Robin
$600 [8]
In December 1933 this lady of Lourdes was made a saint
Bernadette
Susie
$600 [4]
"Sons", about the children of Wang Lung, was a sequel to this Pearl Buck novel
The Good Earth
Susie
$600 [13]
The descendants of the Bounty mutineers were moved from this island to Norfolk Island in 1856
Pitcairn Island
Bill
$600 [22]
It's the branch of physics that deals with light & vision
optics
Bill
$600 [20]
A bronze giant named Talos guarded this island of King Minos
Crete
Bill
$600 [27]
She spent more time in the tower in 1553 & 1554 than the 9 days she spent on the throne of England
Lady Jane Grey
Robin
$800 [9]
In March 1939 this nation ceased to exist for awhile; it was split up between Hungary & Germany
Czechoslovakia
Susie Robin Bill
$800 [5]
The title of his 1847 novel "Omoo" is Polynesian for a person who wanders from island to island
Melville
Robin
$800 [14]
Van Cao wrote this Southeast Asian nation's national anthem, "Forward, Soldiers"
Vietnam
Bill
$800 [23]
The stannous fluoride found in toothpaste is a compound of fluorine & this metal
tin
Bill
$800 [21]
The Polynesian god who fished the Hawaiian islands up from the ocean, or the island Lahaina's on
Maui
Susie
$800 [28]
After 13 years in the Tower, he convinced James I to release him on the promise he'd find a gold mine
Sir Walter Raleigh
$1,000 [10]
Charles Lindbergh helped develop the Perfusion Pump, an artificial one of these
a heart
Bill
DD $1,000 [6]
Trying to repeat the success of his earlier anthology, he published "The New Spoon River" in 1924
(Edgar Lee) Masters
Robin
DD $2,000 [15]
Columbus discovered the island of Dominica on this day of the week, hence the name
Sunday
Bill
$1,000 [24]
These are substances such as salts, acids & bases which conduct electricity when dissolved in water
electrolytes
$1,000 [29]
The Epigoni were the sons of the "Seven Against" this city
Thebes
Susie
$1,000 [30]
It held prisoners as late as 1941, when this German P.O.W. was there
Rudolf Hess
Susie Bill

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CITIES

To shorten its name to fit a newspaper's masthead, this Ohio city lost an "A" in 1832

Cleveland

Robin "What is Cleveland?" — wagered $4,000
Susie "What is Akron?" — wagered $5,500
Bill "What is Akron?" — wagered $5,600

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