Show #2023 1993-05-26 (taped 1993-01-12) Regular

Contestants

Janet Morgan — a marketing consultant from Atlanta, Georgia

Jeff Lesemann — a flea merchant from St. Petersburg, Florida

Linda Pierce — a homemaker from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Linda	$500	$1,900	$2,100	$2,100 2nd place: Wallace Silversmiths 5-piece tea service & 5-candelabra + the Jeopardy! home game	$3,100 14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Jeff	$1,900	$5,100	$10,600	$4,300 New champion: $4,300	$8,400 24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Janet	$2,100	$2,900	$5,700	$1 3rd place: Braun coffeemaker, food processor & in-cup blender + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis + the Jeopardy! home game	$5,700 17 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

RUSSIAN HISTORY	TV TOONS	TRANSPORTATION	GODS & GODDESSES	NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES	5-LETTER WORDS
$100 [6] In March 1985 he became General Secretary of the Communist Party Gorbachev Jeff	$100 [1] Casper isn't usually described as "the sociable spectre" but as this the friendly ghost Jeff	$100 [11] Mode of transport that got Yankee Doodle to town a pony Jeff	$100 [16] Hermes was also known for conducting souls to this wretched place Hades Linda	$100 [19] Her home in Glen Echo, Maryland was built to accommodate Red Cross workers & supplies Clara Barton Janet	$100 [24] In 1927 Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the libretto for one of these called "The King's Henchman" an opera Jeff
$200 [7] In 1903 the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party split into the Mensheviks & this group the Bolsheviks Linda	$200 [2] Boris Badenov's favorite femme, her last name is Fatale Natasha Fatale Jeff	$200 [12] This warehouse vehicle has prongs that can raise pallets & loads a forklift Jeff	$200 [17] This Greek god of war wasn't nearly as popular as his Roman counterpart, Mars Ares Janet	$200 [20] The National Historic Site at this Alabama school includes the home of Booker T. Washington the Tuskegee Institute Janet	$200 [25] The philosopher Heraclitus said, "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and" this peace Linda
$300 [8] During her reign in the 1700s, this empress legalized serfdom in Ukraine Catherine the Great Janet	$300 [3] Like the families on "The Guiding Light", this animated family lives in Springfield in an unknown state the Simpsons Linda	$300 [13] It's a passenger-carrying vehicle, or where the driver sits in a truck a cab Jeff	$300 [18] Julius Caesar regarded this love goddess, the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite, as one of his ancestors Venus Jeff	$300 [21] Allegheny Portage Railroad in this state is the largest national historic site in the eastern U.S. Pennsylvania Linda	$300 [26] An ice cream dessert, or a "Little Deuce" car a coupe Janet
$400 [9] When Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt married Nicholas II in 1894, she took this Russian first name Alexandra Jeff	$400 [4] The first cartoon series this duo created for network TV was about a cat & dog named Ruff and Reddy Hanna–Barbera Janet	$400 [14] It's a kids' vehicle made up of a floorboard mounted on 2 wheels & controlled by an upright handle a scooter Janet	$400 [27] Thor had a magic hammer, & this chief Norse god had a magic ring Odin Linda	$400 [22] Fort Union trading post in Montana & North Dakota was a fur-trading post on this river the Missouri Jeff	$400 [29] The name of this piece of tableware is an old-fashioned synonym for neck, pet or woo spoon Linda
$500 [10] The 1905 treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War was named for this New Hampshire seaport Portsmouth Jeff	$500 [5] Though Odie Colognie's name implies he smells sweet, he's one of these animals a skunk Janet	$500 [15] The type of transport involved in a Nantucket sleigh ride a whaler Janet	$500 [28] To save the baby Zeus from certain death, his mother hid him on this largest Greek island Crete Jeff	DD $1,400 [23] A historic site in this U.S. territory consists of 27 acres along the waterfront in Christiansted the Virgin Islands Jeff	$500 [30] A warrior known as the Black Douglas carried this organ of Robert the Bruce's in battle his heart Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASTRONOMY	RELIGION	THE 20th CENTURY	FICTIONAL CHARACTERS	AMERICANA	CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
$200 [21] This comet returned in 1066, the year of the Battle of Hastings Halley's Comet Janet	$200 [11] This sect was so named because George Fox told a judge to "tremble at the word of the Lord" the Quakers Linda	$200 [16] 32 prisoners & 11 guards & civilians died as a result of the 1971 riot at this New York prison Attica Janet	$200 [1] Among his followers are George-a-Greene & Allan-a-Dale Robin Hood Jeff	$200 [2] 5 generations of this family lived at Stratford Hall Plantation in Virginia; Robert E. was born there the Lees Linda	$200 [26] In 1679 Henry Purcell succeeded John Blow as organist of this London abbey Westminster Abbey Janet
$400 [22] The event horizon is the boundary of one of these massive, dark objects a black hole Janet	$400 [12] Buddha taught that people should devote themselves to achieving this state of peace & happiness Nirvana Linda Jeff	$400 [17] The Chinese democracy movement was crushed in the 1989 massacre at this Beijing square Tiananmen Square Janet	$400 [3] Marlow narrates 4 of his stories, including "Lord Jim" & "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad Linda	$400 [7] The Red Room in this famous building was once known as the President's Antechamber the White House Linda	$400 [27] Though deaf, he conducted the 1824 premiere of his choral Ninth Symphony Beethoven Janet
$600 [23] This is the most distant of the giant planets Neptune Jeff	$800 [14] Some Jews observe Taanit Esther the day before this festival Purim Linda Jeff Janet	$600 [18] In 1963 this French leader rejected Britain for membership in the European Economic Community de Gaulle Linda	$600 [4] This John Fowles title is what the locals call Sarah Woodruff The French Lieutenant's Woman Linda	$600 [8] Ed Reed may have been the gunman who killed this "Belle" of the Old West, who was his mother Belle Starr Jeff	$600 [28] Before he was 10, this Austrian had played for Maria Theresa & France's Louis XV Mozart Linda
$800 [24] This space research institution run by Caltech is abbreviated JPL the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Linda	$1,000 [15] Many in this religion founded in Jamaica wear their hair in ropelike braids called dreadlocks the Rastafarians Jeff	$800 [19] This ousted Nicaraguan president was assassinated in Paraguay in 1980 Somoza Jeff	DD $1,000 [5] Shaw created Major Barbara & this author created Major Major Joseph Heller Linda	$800 [9] He was a native of Albany, New York, but he was famous for writing about Poker Flat Bret Harte Jeff	$800 [29] In 1985 the world celebrated the 300th birthday of this German master of counterpoint Bach Janet
$1,000 [25] The outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere is called this the corona Jeff	DD $1,900 [13] Before the rise of Islam in the 600s, this was Syria's predominant religion Christianity Jeff	$1,000 [20] In the U.S. presidential election of 1912, this socialist received 6% of the vote Eugene Debs Jeff	$1,000 [6] In this Thomas Berger book, Jack Crabb, age 111, tells about his life with the Cheyenne Little Big Man Jeff	$1,000 [10] Georgia was named for this man who granted the colony a charter in 1732 George II Linda Janet	$1,000 [30] For the most part he forbade performances of "The Carnival of the Animals" during his lifetime Camille Saint-Saëns Jeff

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN'S FIRSTS

In 1992 Mona Van Duyn became the first woman named this by the Library of Congress

poet laureate of the United States

Linda "What is librarian?" — wagered $0

Janet "What is Head Librarian?" — wagered $5,699

Jeff "What is Head Librarian" — wagered $6,300

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