Show #2028 1993-06-02 (taped 1993-01-19) Regular

Contestants

Charli Winking — an attorney and law professor originally from Quincy, Illinois

Jim Dendy — a grad student originally from LaFayette, Georgia

David Simpson — a Ph.D. candidate from Ventura, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $400 $1,400 $9,500 $17,701
2-day champion: $29,501
$7,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Jim $-500 $800 $6,000 $10,000
2nd place: a trip on Trans World Airlines to Honolulu, Hawaii & 1-week stay at the Pacific Beach Hotel + Jeopardy! home game
$5,900
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Charli $2,200 $5,000 $8,200 $3,700
3rd place: MCE compact home stereo system with dual cassette decks, high-speed dubbing, AM/FM stereo, turntable & wide-range speakers + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! home game
$8,200
26 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY POP MUSIC WOMEN'S FIRSTS INSECTS DOTS CROSSWORD CLUES "B"
$100 [1]
This California valley once provided almost all of the USA's domestic borax
Death Valley
Charli
$100 [11]
"So, if your baby leaves and you have a tale to tell, just take a walk down Lonely Street to" this place
Heartbreak Hotel
Charli
$100 [2]
After earning her M.D. in 1874, Sarah Stevenson became the 1st woman admitted to this organization
the AMA (American Medical Association)
Charli
$100 [17]
Royal titles given to the 2 termites that mate to start a new nest
king & queen
David
$100 [16]
In speedwriting this 3-letter article is just a dot
the
David
$100 [26]
Vote container(6,3)
a ballot box
David
$200 [4]
The first bridge linking the Cambridge area & Boston was built over this river in 1793
the Charles
Charli
$200 [12]
The last of this female group's 12 No. 1 hits was "Someday We'll Be Together" in 1969
the Supremes
Charli
$200 [3]
Though she came in 15th, in May 1970 Diane Crump was the 1st woman to ride in this horse race
the Kentucky Derby
David
$200 [18]
This insect comes in click, pleasing fungus & Goliath varieties... no Ringo
a beetle
Charli
$200 [22]
This fabric pattern was named after a fad dance
polka dot
Charli
$200 [27]
Tonsorial palace(10)
a barbershop
Charli
$300 [6]
This state's highest point, Mount Davis, lies in the Allegheny Mountains
Pennsylvania
Charli
$300 [13]
A 1965 No. 1 hit by the Rolling Stones said to "get off of" this
my cloud
Charli
$300 [5]
In 1948 N.Y. lawyer Frieda B. Hennock became the 1st woman appointed to this broadcasting agency
the FCC
David
$300 [19]
Silverfish have cerci, an extra set of these, at the back end of their bodies
antennae
Jim
$300 [23]
The 2 lower-case letters that need dots to be complete
i & j
Charli
$300 [28]
A tradesman's 13(6,5)
a baker's dozen
David
$400 [8]
This state's Otter Creek River runs 100 miles from near East Dorset to Lake Champlain
Vermont
Charli
$400 [14]
In 1963 Peter Noone joined this group, then called the Heartbeats
Herman's Hermits
Charli
$400 [7]
In 1878 people began "calling on" Emma Nutt, the 1st woman in this profession
telephone operator
David
DD $500 [20]
As their common name implies, Drosophila tend to congregate wherever pieces of this are stored
fruit
Jim
$400 [24]
The Library of Congress publishes Playboy in this writing system of raised dots
Braille
David
$400 [29]
Alcoholic John(10)
Barleycorn
$500 [10]
The Continental Divide provides a portion of the boundary between Montana & this state
Idaho
Charli
$500 [15]
His solo career began in 1971 at age 13 with the release of the No. 4 hit "Got To Be There"
Michael Jackson
Charli
$500 [9]
A contemporary of Susan B. Anthony, she's credited with being the 1st married woman to keep her maiden name
Lucy Stone
David Jim
$500 [21]
The Ency. of Insects calls them "the insect equivalent of rats and mice", as they live well with man
cockroaches
Charli
$500 [25]
Term for the dots on a die
pips
Charli
$500 [30]
Sucker-seeking showman(6)
Barnum
Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN CITIES ART HISTORIC NAMES ISLAM NOVEL CHARACTERS THE ITALIAN CINEMA
$200 [5]
Missionary Saint Francis Xavier landed at Kagoshima in this country in 1549
Japan
Jim
$200 [7]
Antonio Canova carved a monument to Pope Clement XIII for this basilica
St. Peter's
Charli
$200 [18]
Though he was in Spain at the time of Columbus' 1st & 2nd voyages, America was named for him anyway
Vespucci
Jim
$200 [8]
Most Muslims who visit Mecca also go to Medina, where this prophet's tomb is located
Mohammad
David
$200 [1]
Kate Nickleby works for a dressmaker named Madame Mantalini in this Dickens novel
Nicholas Nickleby
Charli
$200 [26]
This producer discovered Sophia Loren in a beauty contest when she was about 14 & later married her
Carlo Ponti
Jim Charli
$600 [10]
Surabaya is this country's second-largest city & capital of its East Java province
Indonesia
David
$400 [12]
Some of his water lily paintings hang in the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris
Monet
Charli
$400 [19]
Elizabeth I signed this queen's death warrant February 1, 1587
Mary, Queen of Scots
David
$400 [13]
Like the Bible, this holy book of Islam forbids lying, stealing & murder
the Koran
David
$400 [2]
In "Doctor Zhivago" Larisa Feodorovna Guishar is better known by this nickname
Lara
Charli
$400 [27]
This romantic leading man earned his 1st Oscar nomination in 1962 for "Divorce - Italian Style"
Marcello Mastroianni
David
$800 [11]
Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital of this oil-rich sultanate on Borneo
Brunei
Jim
$600 [15]
This substance is melted & used as a binder for encaustic painting, which was popular in ancient Greece
wax
Jim
$600 [20]
Much of what we know about this king comes from a 9th c. biography, the "Vita Karoli Magni"
Charlemagne
David
$600 [23]
The 2 major branches of Islam are Sunni & this
Shiite
Jim
$600 [3]
This Tolstoy heroine has a daughter named Anny & a maid named Annushka
Anna Karenina
Charli
$600 [28]
Ingrid Bergman's relationship with this "Stromboli" director erupted into romance & they were married in 1950
Rossellini
Charli
$1,000 [14]
Dhaka was a mogul capital long before it became capital of this country
Bangladesh
David
$800 [16]
Jan Van Eyck's great 12-panel Ghent Altarpiece is in a church in this country
Belgium
Charli
$1,000 [22]
Ulrich Zwingli, a priest from this country, led the Protestant Reformation there
Switzerland
Jim
$800 [24]
Individuals who cannot fast during this holy month may feed 30 poor people a day instead
Ramadan
Charli
$800 [4]
Emma covers one of her affairs by pretending to take music lessons in this Flaubert novel
Madame Bovary
David
$800 [29]
The 1976 film "Seven Beauties" is considered this female director's masterpiece
Lina Wertmuller
David
DD $1,400 [9]
This port, China's most populous city, lies on the Huangpu River
Shanghai
David
$1,000 [17]
Reviving an ancient custom, John Gibson tinted some parts of his 1847 statue of this queen
Queen Victoria
Jim
DD $1,500 [21]
During the 1500s he visited Catherine de Medici's court & cast horoscopes of her children
Nostradamus
David
$1,000 [25]
Muslims pray toward Mecca & toward this shrine which houses the black stone
the Kaaba
Jim
$1,000 [6]
In "Little Women" this shy, timid sister is nicknamed "Little Tranquillity"
Beth
Jim Charli
$1,000 [30]
The first Shakespearean film this Italian directed was "The Taming of the Shrew" with Burton & Taylor
Franco Zeffirelli
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

AFRICA

Blantyre, the largest city in Malawi, is named after this missionary's birthplace

David Livingstone

Jim "Who is Livingstone?" — wagered $4,000
Charli "Who was Schweitzer?" — wagered $4,500
David "Who is Livingston?" — wagered $8,201

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