Show #1998 1993-04-21 (taped 1992-12-14) Regular

Walt Senterfitt game 4.

Contestants

Rusty Sachs — a lawyer from Norwich, Vermont

Rowena Fenstermacher — a Latin and fencing teacher from Katonah, New York

Walt Senterfitt — a registered nurse from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $49,502)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Walt $2,000 $4,600 $11,800 $13,599
4-day champion: $63,101
$13,300
30 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Rowena $1,100 $2,900 $5,000 $100
3rd place: Gibson refrigerator + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! home game
$7,100
18 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Rusty $800 $1,300 $3,300 $6,490
2nd place: trip on Delta to Honolulu & stay at the Sheraton Moana Surfrider + Jeopardy! home game
$3,300
8 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

"F" IN HISTORY TELEVISION HEALTH & MEDICINE LEGENDARY CREATURES LIBRARIES WORD ORIGINS
$100 [11]
This was a very popular name among kings of Castile, & that's no bull
Ferdinand
Rusty
$100 [26]
On a 1992 visit to this late night show, Bill Clinton showed off his musical talents with a sax solo
The Arsenio Hall Show
Rusty
$100 [1]
To stop these, it's suggested that you hold your breath, or drink a glass of water without stopping
hiccups
Rowena
$100 [16]
The wyvern is a fabulous winged creature that resembles this fire breather
a dragon
Walt
$100 [13]
One of the world's largest genealogical libraries is maintained by this church in Salt Lake City
The Church of the Latter-day Saints
Walt
$100 [2]
An enlisted person in the U.S. Armed Forces, it's an abbreviation of "government issue"
G.I.
Walt
$200 [12]
In 1380 Charles the Mad succeeded his father, Charles the Wise, as king of this country
France
Rowena
$200 [27]
This reality show hosted by Robert Stack has reportedly solved about 1/4 of the cases it has presented
Unsolved Mysteries
Rowena
$200 [3]
Nearsighted people are more prone than others to having this part of the eye become detached
the retina
Walt
$200 [20]
The Gorgons had a bad hair day every day, they had these on their heads, which were hard to comb
snakes
Rowena
$200 [14]
This state's first public library was established in Alexandria in 1794
Virginia
Walt
$200 [5]
This informal name for a violin may come from the goddess of victory, Vitula
a fiddle
Rowena
$300 [15]
Alexander Hamilton was a leader of this political party
the Federalist Party
Rowena
$300 [28]
Title team played by Joe Penny & William Conrad
Jake and the Fatman
Walt Rowena
$300 [4]
Sufficient amounts of this mineral before age 35 are vital in preventing osteoporosis later in life
calcium
Rowena
$300 [21]
These half-human, half- equine creatures were expelled from their home after misbehaving at a wedding
centaurs
Rowena
$300 [19]
Opened in 1922, the 1st library for kids in the Brit. Commonwealth was Boys & Girls House in this Ontario capital
Toronto
Rowena
$300 [6]
A sheepskin prepared for writing, its name comes from the ancient city of Pergamum
parchment
Rusty
$400 [17]
1 of the 2 U.S. presidents whose last names fit the category
Millard Fillmore (or Gerald Ford)
Rusty
$400 [29]
On this show's 1991-'92 season finale, Whitley left Byron standing at the altar & married Dwayne
A Different World
$400 [8]
About 1 baby in 10 suffers from this condition of irritability & severe abdominal discomfort
colic
Rusty
$400 [22]
Popular in Arabian folklore, this enormous bird appears in the story of Sinbad the sailor
the roc
Walt
$400 [23]
After the 1871 fire, Queen Victoria donated books to help start this U.S. city's Public Library
Chicago
Walt
$400 [7]
Oddly, the name of this layered Italian pasta dish comes from Greek for "chamber pot"
lasagna
Walt
$500 [18]
In 1790 20,000 people attended his funeral in Philadelphia, & you can "print" that
Benjamin Franklin
Walt
$500 [30]
Sam Waterston plays a southern prosecuting attorney in the 1950s on this acclaimed drama
l'll Fly Away
Rowena
$500 [10]
In 1989 scientists identified the gene that causes this disease, abbreviated CF
cystic fibrosis
Walt
$500 [25]
These sea seductresses were so jealous of Orpheus' superior singing that they dove to their deaths
sirens
Walt
DD $1,000 [24]
The world's largest library on the art & history of glass can be found in this town in Steuben County, N.Y.
Corning
Walt
$500 [9]
From lacrima, Latin for "tear", it means weeping or inclined to weep
lachrymose
Walt

Double Jeopardy! Round

1992 COMPOSERS ROCKS & MINERALS NEWSPAPERS RUSSIAN LITERATURE LEFTOVERS
$200 [1]
The young version of this singer won the stamp election by a landslide--851,200 to 277,723 votes
Elvis Presley
Walt
$200 [13]
After the death of Hammerstein, he wrote the musical "Do I Hear A Waltz?" with Stephen Sondheim
Richard Rodgers
Walt
$200 [26]
The most extensively occurring igneous rock, a lot of things are "taken for" it
granite
Walt
$200 [6]
In 1876 this state's Bismarck Tribune became the 1st paper to report the Battle of the Little Bighorn
North Dakota
Walt
$200 [21]
Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 is featured in this 1865-'69 Tolstoy novel
War and Peace
Rowena
$200 [11]
Now that there's a travel version of this detective game, you can take Miss Scarlet on vacation
Clue
Walt
$400 [2]
In July he announced that he would not seek the U.S. presidency after all; in October he changed his mind
Ross Perot
Walt
$400 [14]
Igor Stravinsky wrote "Circus Polka" for this "fraternal" U.S. circus
the Ringling Brothers
Walt
$400 [27]
Obsidian can only be found in areas where this activity has recently occurred
a volcano eruption
Rowena
$400 [7]
This state's first newspaper, the Du Buque Visitor, began publishing in 1836
Iowa
Walt
$400 [22]
Boris Pasternak was ejected from the union of Soviet writers because of the furor caused by this novel
Doctor Zhivago
Rusty
$400 [12]
Clark Gable sang this song on film in 1939, Taco sang it in 1983 & we're not "puttin'" you "on"
"Puttin' On The Ritz"
Walt
$600 [3]
The Bush administration refused to sign the biodiversity treaty at the environmental summit in this city
Rio de Janeiro
Walt
$600 [15]
"Neptune, The Mystic" is 1 of the 7 movements of this Gustav Holst work
The Planets
Rowena
$600 [28]
Cuprite is one of the right ores from which to get this metal
copper
Rusty
$600 [8]
This city's La Presse is one of Canada's largest French-language dailies
Montreal
Walt
$600 [23]
This dramatist's last play, "The Cherry Orchard", was 1st performed on Jan. 17, 1904, about 6 months before his death
Chekhov
Rowena
$600 [16]
Steve McQueen starred in this campy sci-fi flick about a giant ball of goop from outer space
The Blob
Rowena
$800 [4]
On Feb. 24 this auto company announced it had a record yearly loss for 1991—$4,450,000,000
General Motors
Walt
$1,000 [20]
He devised a method of composing with 12 notes related only to one another
Schoenberg
Walt
$800 [29]
To aid in recognizing iron minerals, you might take one of these common items with you
a magnet
Walt
$800 [9]
This Indianapolis newspaper is Indiana's largest
The Star
Walt
$1,000 [25]
He began writing his classic verse novel "Eugene Onegin" while stationed in Kishinev in 1823
Aleksandr Pushkin
$800 [17]
In names of perfumes, this bright color precedes "Roor" or stands alone
Red
Rowena
$1,000 [5]
This former defense secretary succeeded Corazon Aquino as Philippine President in June
Fidel Ramos
Walt
DD $2,000 [19]
Heard in "Fantasia", this orchestra scherzo is Paul Dukas' most famous work
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Walt
$1,000 [30]
The presence of this element in halite makes it turn a flame yellow
sodium
Rusty
$1,000 [10]
This city's only daily newspaper is the Plain Dealer
Cleveland
Rowena
DD $2,100 [24]
In 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was exiled due to the publication of this work
The Gulag Archipelago
Rowena
$1,000 [18]
This adjective that means cross-shaped often refers to church design
cruciform
Walt

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

The highest point in this South American country is Julianatop in the Wilhelmina Mountains

Suriname

Rusty "What is Surinam?" — wagered $3,190
Rowena "What is Guiana?" — wagered $4,900
Walt "What is Surinam?" — wagered $1,799

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