Show #2001 1993-04-26 (taped 1992-12-15) Regular

Contestants

Richard Beaton — a prep school teacher from St. Petersburg, Florida

Robert Brewer — a lawyer originally from Santa Monica, California

Carl Courant — an economist from New York City, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carl $600 $2,300 $3,300 $3,500
2nd place: Singer bedroom set + Dakotah bedding
$3,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Robert $1,500 $1,900 $1,500 $2,900
3rd place: Panasonic mini component system + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis
$3,500
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Richard $2,000 $4,400 $12,800 $18,800
New champion: $18,800
$11,000
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

POLITICAL TERMS THE MOVIES MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD FOOD POTPOURRI
$100 [4]
The Spartacists, a German radical socialist group, took their name from this ancient slave leader
Spartacus
Richard
$100 [15]
In different adaptations of this play, Fairbanks tamed Pickford & Burton tamed Taylor
The Taming of the Shrew
Robert
$100 [1]
Common instruments run from A-accordion to Z- this fretted instrument with 22-45 strings
a zither
Carl
$100 [9]
If you're a Shropshire lad, you live in a county also known as Salop in this country
England
Richard
$100 [19]
The name of this Scottish quick bread is akin to the German for "beautiful", Schon
a scone
Robert
$100 [22]
Born in Hawaii September 11, 1992, Iniki Faamaufila was named after one of these that occurred at the time
a hurricane
Carl Robert Richard
$200 [5]
Outside the U.S., this term refers to any American; inside the U.S., it refers to a Northerner
a Yankee
Carl
$200 [16]
In this 1973 film, tourists also romped with robots in Romanworld & Medievalworld
Westworld
Robert
$200 [2]
The bull fiddle is also known as the double this
a bass
Robert
$200 [10]
Radishes carved in odd shapes are a highlight of the festival of the radishes in Oaxaca in this country
Mexico
Richard
$200 [20]
It's the most common variety of head lettuce sold in the U.S.--BRRRRR!
iceberg
Carl
$200 [23]
Wild Bill Hickok toured with this man's Wild West show
Buffalo Bill
Robert
$300 [7]
Savak was this country's secret police before its Islamic revolution
Iran
Carl
$300 [17]
Of "Springtime", "Summertime" or "Wintertime", the David Lean film that starred Katharine Hepburn
Summertime
$300 [3]
A flue pipe on this instrument can be stopped to produce a flutelike sound
a pipe organ (an organ)
Richard
$300 [13]
The Kerry Blue Terrier was named for a county in this country where it's been bred since the 1800s
Ireland
Richard
$300 [27]
Made from brown seeds, the Chinese prepared version of this condiment is hotter than most
mustard
Richard
$300 [24]
It's the last word in the rhyme "Humpty Dumpty"
again
Carl
$400 [11]
The Reconquista, or Reconquest, freed this country from Moorish control by 1492
Spain
Robert
$400 [18]
Maureen Stapleton won an Oscar for portraying anarchist Emma Goldman in this Warren Beatty film
Reds
Richard
$400 [6]
It can be an instrument by itself or the flared part of a trumpet or French horn
a bell
Robert
$400 [14]
This country competed in the Winter Olympics for the 1st time in 1956 & won 6 events, including ice hockey
the Soviet Union
Robert
$400 [28]
This vegetable is the only major cereal native to the Americas
corn
Richard
$400 [25]
Made by the S.F.-based Names Project, it was featured in a story line on "One Life to Live"
the AIDS Quilt
Richard
$500 [12]
In feudal times pontage was a tax imposed for repair & maintenance of these
bridges
Richard
$500 [26]
After "Brazil" & "Time Bandits", Terry Gilliam directed "The Adventures of" this baron
Baron Munchausen
Richard
$500 [8]
This instrument of India has 20 metal frets, 6 to 8 strings & about 15 resonating strings
a sitar
Richard
DD $800 [21]
Much of artist Piet Mondrian's work is in the Gemeente Museum in this, his native country
the Netherlands
Carl
$500 [29]
When certain fruits are cooked, they yield this substance which thickens jams & jellies
pectin
Richard
$500 [30]
Tenzin Gyatso, who won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, was named this religious leader in 1940 at age 5
the Dalai Lama
Carl

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY OLD TESTAMENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES EXPLORATION CHILDREN'S LITERATURE FILE UNDER "Z"
$200 [2]
In 1949 the U.S., Canada, Iceland & 9 Western European nations formed this organization
NATO
Robert
$200 [11]
In Exodus 31:18 he was given "two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God"
Moses
Richard
$200 [10]
This Ivy League school leads all U.S. colleges in the value of its endowment
Harvard
Robert
$200 [8]
The Polos followed this trade "route" to China in 1271 & returned by sea 24 years later
the Silk Road
Richard
$200 [26]
Babar & his cousin Celeste were elected king & queen of these animals
elephants
Richard
$200 [1]
It's often referred to as Italian squash
zucchini
Richard
$400 [4]
People thought his Alaska purchase silly, so he reminded them that it was cheap
Seward
Richard
$400 [15]
His having 700 wives didn't anger God; his turning to idol worship did
Solomon
$400 [19]
Founded in 1954, it's the newest of the U.S. service academies
the Air Force Academy
Richard
$400 [9]
Herodotus wrote that while sailing for Egypt, the Phoenicians rounded this southern cape--2,000 years before Dias
the Cape of Good Hope
Carl
$400 [27]
Legend says he based the prince in "The Little Mermaid" on a girl who rejected him for another man
Hans Christian Andersen
Carl
$400 [3]
Actor Samuel Mostel earned this nickname because as a student he didn't amount to much
Zero
Richard
$600 [5]
The first of these wars began in November 1817 when U.S. troops in Florida attacked local Indians
the Seminoles (the Seminole Wars)
Richard
$800 [17]
There are 2 Deborahs in the Old Testament: one is Rebekah's nurse & the other has this profession
a judge
$600 [23]
This West Lafayette, Indiana school's Hall of Music is the USA's largest college auditorium
Purdue
$600 [12]
16th century lawyer- turned-explorer Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada founded this Colombian capital
Bogotá
Carl Robert
$600 [28]
In the Grimms' "Jorinda & Joringel", Jorinda turns into one of these "nocturnal" singing birds
a nightingale
Robert
$600 [20]
The country formerly known as the Belgian Congo is now called this
Zaire
Richard
$800 [6]
In 1800 this Democratic-Republican candidate for vice president almost became president
Aaron Burr
Richard
$1,000 [18]
After getting no response from God about the Philistines camped nearby, he went to Endor to consult a witch
(King) Saul
$800 [24]
This school's College of Medicine is housed in the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Penn State
Carl
$800 [13]
Juan Diaz de Solis, like this Italian explorer of New York Bay, was killed & eaten by cannibals
Verrazano
Richard
$800 [21]
In cooking, it's the outermost part of an orange or lemon rind used for flavoring
zest
Richard
DD $2,800 [7]
His improvements in the steel industry in the late 1800s cut his production costs by about 80%
Andrew Carnegie
Richard
DD $2,000 [16]
This survivor of the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah is also mentioned prominently in the Koran
Lot
Robert
$1,000 [25]
This university in Oxford, Ohio is known as the "Mother of Fraternities" & the "Cradle of Coaches"
Miami of Ohio
Robert
$1,000 [14]
This Briton, looking for a so. continent, traveled all the way around Antarctica but never saw it
(Captain James) Cook
Carl Robert
$1,000 [22]
He founded the Greek school of philosophy known as Stoicism
Zeno
Carl

Final Jeopardy!

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

Peter J. McGuire, this holiday's originator, set its date to fall about midway between July 4th & Thanksgiving

Labor Day

Robert "What is Labor Day?" — wagered $1,400
Carl "What is Labor Day?" — wagered $200
Richard "What is Labor Day?" — wagered $6,000

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