Show #2029 1993-06-03 (taped 1993-01-19) Regular

Contestants

Richard Joseph — a teacher from Great Neck, New York

Bernie Shearon — an attorney from Dunwoody, Georgia

David Simpson — a Ph.D. candidate from Ventura, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,501)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $600 $2,100 $6,100 $12,200
2nd place: a trip on Delta Airlines to Tampa, Florida & stay at the Radisson Suite Resort on Sand Key + computerized version of Jeopardy! or the Jeopardy! home game
$6,100
21 R, 4 W
Bernie $900 $2,300 $8,500 $12,500
New champion: $12,500
$8,500
19 R, 2 W
Richard $700 $2,100 $6,100 $0
3rd place: Bausch & Lomb Bushnell compact binoculars + computerized version of Jeopardy! or the Jeopardy! home game
$6,500
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT TIMES FLAGS TV TRIVIA GREENFIELD VILLAGE THE HAND COLORFUL PHRASES
$100 [11]
The Mesopotamians had hundreds of these; the Israelites had just 1
a god
Richard
$100 [1]
This country's flag has had stars added to it over 25 times
the United States
David
$100 [26]
Her variety show's theme song began, "I'm so glad we had this time together"
Carol Burnett
Bernie
$100 [21]
Henry Ford made the Menlo Park laboratory of this inventor, his hero, the focal point of the village
Edison
David
$100 [12]
Hand part that precedes "down" & "under" & follows "brass"
the knuckles
David
$100 [4]
It's the Moscow location of Lenin's tomb & St. Basil's Cathedral
Red Square
David
$200 [13]
Around 500 B.C. Greek kids were playing with this toy popularized in the U.S. by Donald Duncan in the 1920s
a yo-yo
Bernie
$200 [2]
Its flag has "The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven" on it
the Vatican
Bernie
$200 [27]
In this series William Daniels provided the voice of KITT, a customized black Pontiac Trans Am
Knight Rider
Bernie
$200 [22]
You don't have to "fly" from their bicycle shop to their 19th century home: it's next door
the Wright Brothers
David
$200 [17]
Term for the art of fortune telling by reading the lines & marks on the front of the hand
palmistry
David
$200 [7]
College examinations are sometimes written in this book
a blue book
Bernie
$300 [14]
The Aryans introduced these vehicles to the Indus Valley
the chariot
David
$300 [3]
The one on the Argentine flag has a face on it; the one on the Japanese flag doesn't
the sun
Richard
$300 [28]
According to Tonto, it means "trusty scout"
kemo sabe
David
$300 [23]
There's a memorial to this composer near the Suwanee Park restaurant
Stephen Foster
Bernie
$300 [18]
In Matthew 27:24 he washes his hands of the problem with Jesus
Pontius Pilate
Bernie
$300 [8]
The modern version of this military medal was established in 1932 for those wounded or killed in action
the Purple Heart
Richard
$400 [15]
Acrobatic leaping over charging bulls was popular in this civilization on Crete c. 1600 B.C.
the Minoan civilization
David
$400 [5]
Haiti used this country's tricolor as a model for its flag, but took off the center white stripe
France
Bernie
$400 [29]
When Louise Lasser left this series in 1977, it continued under the title "Forever Fernwood"
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
David
$400 [24]
The Connecticut home he lived in while compiling his American dictionary lies near a 17th cen. English cottage
Webster
David
$400 [19]
Nickname given the aces & eights once held by Wild Bill Hickok
the dead man's hand
Richard
$400 [9]
This cocktail is made by mixing 2 parts vodka with 1 part coffee liqueur
a black Russian
Bernie
$500 [16]
During the Zhou Dynasty in China, life was explained as a blend of these 2 opposing forces
yin & yang
David Bernie Richard
$500 [6]
1 of the several foodstuffs on the flag of Fiji
(1 of) bananas, sugar cane, coconuts, cocoa & olive
David
$500 [30]
Talent show on which you'd hear the line "Round and round she goes, and where she stops, nobody knows"
The Original Amateur Hour
Bernie
$500 [25]
The Ohio farmhouse where this tire magnate was born is a magnet for tourists
(Harvey) Firestone
Bernie
DD $500 [20]
An oft-quoted koan of Zen Buddhism asks the meditator to imagine this sound
one hand clapping
Richard
$500 [10]
For this 1941 film, an entire Welsh village was constructed in the Ventura Hills near Los Angeles
How Green Was My Valley
David Bernie

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CITIES FRENCH MENU 1970 TREES THEATRE JUNIORS
$200 [1]
This South American city was capital of the Portuguese Empire from 1808 to 1821
Rio de Janiero
David
$200 [3]
One recipe for the soup called potage aux grenouilles calls for 36 of these amphibian appendages
frogs' legs
Richard
$200 [13]
He resigned from the board of directors of the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. he'd founded
Colonel Sanders
Richard
$200 [11]
The wood from this tree is used to make black piano keys & knife handles
ebony
David Bernie
$200 [14]
Originally one of the "Four Cohans", he wrote his first full-length musical in 1901
George M. Cohan
David
$200 [23]
In 1953 he married Coretta Scott & his first son is III
Martin Luther King Jr.
David
$400 [2]
Saskatoon in this Canadian province was named for a berry that grows near the river on which it lies
Saskatchewan
Richard
$400 [4]
In France this fishy food used in American sandwiches is salade de thon
tuna salad
Richard
$400 [15]
On December 1 Luis Echeverria Alvarez was sworn in as president of this country
Mexico
Richard
$400 [12]
The brown pods of this tree produce a sticky pulp which is used as a chocolate substitute
carob
David
$400 [16]
In 1984 Jack Klugman starred in a one-man show about this Texas-born president
LBJ
Richard
$400 [24]
In the 1912 Olympics, this future general had the blood & guts to place 5th in the pentathlon
(George) Patton
Richard
$600 [6]
Jaffa, now combined with this Israeli city, was founded by the ancient Phoenicians
Tel Aviv
David
$600 [5]
The pulp of this fruit goes into souffle aux pommes
apples
David
$600 [19]
This Ethiopian emperor visited Italy for the first time since it deposed him in 1936
Haile Selassie
Bernie
$600 [20]
This "bald" swamp tree has projections above the water called "knees" which supply air to the roots
the (bald) cypress
David Bernie
$600 [17]
He appeared in the 1927 musical "Golden Dawn" under his real name, Archie Leach
Cary Grant
Richard
$600 [28]
He financed a major center in New York City & it was named for his family
(John D.) Rockefeller
Richard
$800 [7]
Dakar, the capital of this country, is the westernmost city on the African mainland
Senegal
Richard
$800 [8]
Aubergines a l'egyptienne are these prepared "Egyptian style" with onions & tomatoes
eggplant
David Richard
$1,000 [27]
Henri Charriere, who wrote this book about his escape from Devil's Island, was pardoned
Papillon
Bernie
$800 [21]
Most turpentine is produced from the longleaf & slash species of this tree
pine trees
Bernie
$800 [18]
In 1946 this actress wrote a play called "Years Ago" & her husband Garson Kanin directed it
Ruth Gordon
David
$1,000 [30]
His first published novel was "Player Piano" in 1952
(Kurt) Vonnegut (Jr.)
David
$1,000 [9]
This city, the United Kingdom's second largest, was a center of the Industrial Revolution
Birmingham
Bernie Richard
$1,000 [10]
Tarte aux abricots is an apricot tart, while tarte aux cerises contains this fruit
cherries
Bernie
DD $2,400 [26]
This Nobel Prize-winning scientist said the common cold could be warded off with vitamin C
Linus Pauling
Richard
$1,000 [22]
The sap of the sapodilla tree of Central America provides this chewing gum ingredient
chicle
Bernie
$1,000 [25]
Argan, the title character in his 1673 comedy "The Imaginary Invalid", is a hypochondriac
Molière
Richard
DD $2,000 [29]
He was the last U.S. president to fit the category
James Earl Carter Jr.
Richard

Final Jeopardy!

ENGLISH LITERATURE

In this 1653 work, Piscator tries to convince Venator, a hunter, that fishing is the better sport

The Compleat Angler

David "What is The Compleat Angler" — wagered $6,100
Richard "What is The Rape of the Lock" — wagered $6,100
Bernie "What is The Compleat Angler?" — wagered $4,000

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