Show #2043 1993-06-23 (taped 1993-02-03) Regular

Contestants

Dave Gordon — an attorney originally from Santa Ana, California

Ann Carter — a production editor from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Ray Agran — an attorney from Yardley, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ray $800 $3,200 $5,500 $10,500
2-day champion: $29,701
$4,600
24 R (including 2 DDs), 9 W
Ann $400 $1,000 $5,200 $4,000
3rd place: Lanier fax machine + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! home game
$5,200
15 R, 4 W
Dave $1,800 $2,500 $4,300 $5,600
2nd place: trip on Delta to London & a stay at the St. James Court + Jeopardy! home game
$5,300
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PAUL REVERE TRANSPORTATION EGGS ITALIAN MENU BODIES OF WATER RHYME TIME
$100 [1]
Revere was born in 1735 on this holiday which the Romans dedicated to the god Janus
January 1st (New Year's Day)
Ray Ann
$100 [2]
In the U.S. this company's bestselling car is the Camry; worldwide, it's the Corolla
Toyota
Dave
$100 [7]
Most frog eggs don't hatch into frogs but into these larvae
tadpoles
Ray
$100 [13]
In Italy orangeade is aranciata & this summer drink is limonata
lemonade
Ray
$100 [8]
Cayman Trench near Jamaica contains this sea's deepest known point
the Caribbean
Ann
$100 [18]
Mickey or Minnie's mansion
a mouse house
Ray
$200 [3]
The Provincial Congress commissioned Revere to make this explosive for the war effort
gunpowder
Dave
$200 [23]
According to Guinness, the largest of these are built by a Belgian firm & can carry 44 patients
an ambulance
Ann
$200 [27]
It's the Latin for "egg"
ova (ovum)
Dave
$200 [14]
Polpette is the Italian word for these spherical spaghetti toppers
meatballs
Ray
$200 [9]
It's the better-known name of Cuba's Bahia de Cochinos, the site of a 1961 invasion
the Bay of Pigs
Ann
$200 [19]
A superior epistle; Cyrano might write one for his friend Christian
a better letter
Dave
$300 [4]
In 1808 & 1809 Revere's foundry made copper plates for this man's steamboat boilers
Fulton
Dave
$300 [24]
Major types of this vehicle include utility, touring & racing
bicycles
Ray Ann Dave
$300 [28]
Of 1,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000, the number of eggs 1 cod lays in 1 spawning season
1,000,000
Ray
$300 [15]
Baby ones of these are called calamaretti; adults are calamari
squid
Ray Ann Dave
$300 [10]
Snowy River, which rises on the slopes of Mt. Kosciusko, is one of the most scenic rivers on this continent
Australia
Dave
$300 [20]
A person who acts like a fool, especially if his given name is William
silly Billy
Dave
$400 [5]
Revere's father, a member of this Protestant group, left France due to religious persecution
the Huguenots
Ray Dave
$400 [25]
These airships went into service in 1910, flying between various German cities
Zeppelins
Ray
$400 [29]
Parthenogenesis is the process by which an egg can develop without this happening first
fertilization
Ray
$400 [16]
Zabaglione is a delicious dessert made with egg yolks, sugar & the Marsala type of this
wine
Ray
$400 [11]
The Cape of Good Hope is sometimes considered the boundary between these 2 oceans
the Indian & the Atlantic
Ray
$400 [21]
An Aesop fable about an animal that forms reefs would end with one of these
a coral moral
Ray
$500 [6]
In 1779 Revere served in the failed Penobscot expedition that tried to regain land in this future NE state
Maine
Dave
$500 [26]
The Trans-Andine Railroad of South America provides service between Argentina & this country
Chile
Ann
$500 [30]
The eggs of this 9-banded creature split to produce 4 offspring of the same sex
an armadillo
Ray
$500 [17]
The toppings on pizza Margherita represent these 3 colors found on Italy's flag
red, white & green
Ann
DD $500 [12]
Though called a "sea", it's really the world's largest lake
the Caspian Sea
Ray
$500 [22]
A spotted wild cat after he's rolled around in cayenne
a peppered leopard
Ray

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY CANADIAN CAPITALS 1950s TV THE BIBLE COINS AMERICAN LITERATURE
$200 [2]
Bohemond I, a medieval lord of Otranto, was one of the leaders on the first of these expeditions
the Crusades
Ann
$200 [22]
Over 90% of this capital's people have French ancestors
Quebec
Ray
$200 [16]
This beautiful Oscar winner's dramatic anthology series was originally titled "A Letter to Loretta"
Loretta Young
Ray
$200 [1]
This Israelite slew 1,000 Philistines with a new jawbone of an ass
Samson
Ray
$200 [17]
In the 17th c. Ireland's St. Patrick's halfpenny featured this stringed instrument on the reverse
a harp
Ray
$200 [11]
Civil War historian Shelby Foote's favorite Civil War novel is this one by Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Ray
$400 [7]
Nurse Edith Cavell said, "I am glad to die for my country" before she was executed during this war
World War I
Ray
$400 [23]
This capital's name comes from the Cree Indian words win & nipee, meaning "muddy water"
Winnipeg
Ann
$400 [24]
Hume Cronyn & this wife starred in 1954's "The Marriage", one of the first series telecast in color
Jessica Tandy
Ann
$400 [3]
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall" do this
inherit the Earth
Ann
$400 [18]
Named for an emperor, this French 20-franc gold coin was first minted in 1805
a Napoleon
Ray Dave
$400 [12]
"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for", he wrote in "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Hemingway
Dave
$800 [9]
Felix V is usually last on a list of these men whose claim to be pope was disputed
the antipopes
Ray
$600 [28]
Earlier called York, this Ontario capital's name is Huron Indian for "place of meeting"
Toronto
Ray
$600 [25]
Roy Campanella, Gloria Vanderbilt & Leopold Stokowski were his first guests on "Person to Person"
Edward R. Murrow
Ann
$600 [4]
Jesus told Peter that he should forgive his brother "unto seventy times" this number
seven
Dave
$600 [19]
In 1928 a Hawaiian sesquicentennial coin was issued with this explorer on the obverse
Captain Cook
Dave
$800 [14]
This Sinclair Lewis title character seduces a female evangelist named Sharon Falconer
Elmer Gantry
Ray Ann Dave
$1,000 [10]
This dynasty that ruled Milan is the most famous family we know whose name starts with "SF"
the Sforza
Ray
$800 [29]
The capital of Saskatchewan was renamed this in 1882 to honor Queen Victoria
Regina
Ray
$800 [26]
In 1958 Clint Walker walked out of this series; Ty Hardin filled his saddle as Bronco Layne
Cheyenne
Ray Ann
$800 [5]
This eldest son of Saul met his friend David soon after David killed Goliath
Jonathan
Ann
$800 [20]
The Franklin half dollar featured this symbol on the reverse
the Liberty Bell
Ray
DD $1,000 [13]
The narrator of a Poe story describes this title structure as a "mansion of gloom"
the House of Usher
Dave
DD $1,500 [8]
This king of England was born at Sandringham in 1895 & died there in 1952
George VI
Ray
$1,000 [30]
The oldest Protestant church in Canada is St. Paul's Church in this Nova Scotia capital
Halifax
Ann Dave
$1,000 [27]
On "Father Knows Best", it was Jim Anderson's "pet" name for his daughter Kathy
Kitten
Ann
$1,000 [6]
"And Cush begat" this man, a "mighty hunter before the Lord"
Nimrod
Dave
$1,000 [21]
This state's tercentenary half dollar was issued in 1935 with a depiction of the Charter Oak
Connecticut
$1,000 [15]
His books "Daisy Miller" & "The Portrait of a Lady" are both about young American ladies in Europe
(Henry) James
Ray Ann

Final Jeopardy!

POETS & POETRY

He was buried in a country churchyard in Buckinghamshire, England in 1771

Thomas Gray

Dave "Who is Gray" — wagered $1,300
Ann "Who is Byron" — wagered $1,200
Ray "Who is Grey?" — wagered $5,000

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