Show #1650 1991-11-01 (taped 1991-09-10) Regular

Contestants

Bill Gerardi — a physician and management consultant originally from Waterbury, Connecticut

John McGill — an electrical lineman from Wallingford, Pennsylvania

Greg Shepherd — a college music instructor from Honolulu, Hawaii (whose 3-day cash winnings total $25,802)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Greg $1,900 $300 $800 $0
3rd place: Dahon Classic folding bike + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Nintendo Game Boy
$3,300
18 R, 9 W (including 2 DDs)
John $900 $2,400 $4,200 $2,200
New champion: $2,200
$4,200
11 R, 2 W
Bill $-100 $1,700 $2,800 $0
2nd place: a trip on Delta Airlines to Tampa, Florida with stay at Safety Harbor Spa & Fitness Center
$2,100
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

KENTUCKY 4-LETTER WORDS ACTORS & ACTRESSES MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NONFICTION HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
$100 [26]
You can tour the Hillerich & Bradsby plant in Louisville where these baseball bats are made
Louisville Sluggers
Greg
$100 [21]
It precedes puss to indicate a sullen person
sour
Bill
$100 [14]
In 1937 this "Platinum Blonde" became the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine
Jean Harlow
Bill
$100 [1]
Give yourself a hand if you know this name for the tongue of a bell
a clapper
John
$100 [2]
Mark Lane's "Rush to Judgment" was a critique of this commission's inquiry into the death of JFK
the Warren Commission
Bill
$100 [9]
A period of penitence, or the past tense of lend
Lent
Bill
$200 [27]
A facility in Bowling Green is the only place where this Chevrolet sports car is manufactured
the Corvette
Bill
$200 [22]
Chess piece whose name is a synonym for hock
pawn
John Bill
$200 [15]
Michael Caine took his stage name from the title of this 1954 Humphrey Bogart film
The Caine Mutiny
Bill
$200 [4]
Beethoven's title was "3 Equali for 4" of this instruments, not 76
trombones
Greg
$200 [3]
Author Suzy Becker believes "All I Need to Know I Learned from" this pet
my cat
Greg Bill
$200 [10]
The 3-word phrase most associated with Halloween
trick or treat
Bill
$300 [28]
The courthouse in Washington County houses the marriage certificate of this president's parents
Lincoln
Greg
$300 [23]
The British spell this farm implement with 6 letters; we replaced the "ugh" with a "W"
plow
Bill
$300 [16]
This actor received Oscar nominations for playing Henry II in both "Becket" & "The Lion in Winter"
Peter O'Toole
Bill
$300 [5]
Musically, not the piper's son, but a double-headed barrel drum from Asia
a tom tom
John
$300 [6]
Though British-born, his "America", based on his 13-part miniseries, has become a U.S. history classic
Alistair Cooke
Greg
$300 [11]
In England it's an old custom not just to eat this animal's head at Christmas but to sing about it
the boar's head
Greg
$500 [30]
Governor from 1979 to 1983, this Democrat is married to former Miss America Phyllis George
(John Y.) Brown (Jr.)
Bill
$400 [24]
A scenery-shifting stagehand or a handhold on a hammer
a grip
John
$400 [17]
This "Bionic Woman" once was the babysitter for Glen Campbell's children
Lindsay Wagner
John
$400 [7]
Add an "A" to the end of a word for "overtone" & you get this instrument
a harmonica
$400 [19]
Her books "North to the Orient" & "Listen! The Wind" describe flights she took with Charles
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Bill
$400 [12]
On January 5, the day that honors him, you might try eating some of the peanut products he developed
George Washington Carver
Greg Bill
DD $1,000 [29]
In 1991 this national park marks its 50th anniversary
Mammoth Cave National Park
Greg
$500 [25]
A blue-green color or a small duck
teal
John
$500 [18]
Film comedian who used such pseudonyms as Mahatma Kane Jeeves & Otis Criblecoblis for his screenplays
W.C. Fields
Greg
$500 [8]
A marimba is a large, more mellow-sounding one of these instruments
a xylophone
Greg
$500 [20]
Perhaps she foresaw her book, subtitled "My Seven Years as White House Astrologer", selling well
Joan Quigley
Greg
$500 [13]
The date on which you're most likely to hear a Frenchman say, "A bas la Bastille!"
July 14
John

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS GOVERNMENT & POLITICS GRAB BAG HISTORY COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY BOTANY
$200 [9]
Marcus Andronicus is this title character's brother
Titus Andronicus
Greg Bill
$200 [6]
A person unable to go to his polling place on Election Day can cast this type of ballot
absentee
Greg John
$200 [21]
Pecorino romano cheese is made from this animal's milk, not cow's milk
sheep's milk
Greg
$200 [1]
The Soviet Venera 7 probe landed on this planet on Dec. 15, 1970
Venus
Greg
$200 [8]
This forest is actually a mountainous region of southwest Germany
the Black Forest
Greg
$800 [26]
The field of agriculture that deals with the growth of crops & the proper use of soil
agronomy
Greg
$400 [10]
At the beginning of "Richard III", Richard is the duke of this
Gloucester
Greg
$400 [7]
Title shared by the heads of the U.S. Army, Navy & Air Force Health Services & the head of the Public Health Service
the surgeon general
John
$400 [22]
Despite its name, this London weekly deals with general news, not just economics
The Economist
Bill
$400 [2]
This Chinese dynasty was in power when Europeans first arrived by ship
Ming
Greg
$400 [17]
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic is also known by this "colorful" name
White Russia
Greg
$1,000 [25]
This organism consists of an alga & a fungus living together as a single unit
a lichen
Greg
$600 [11]
This Amazon is the first woman to speak in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Hippolyta
Greg
$600 [16]
Election '88 candidate who is currently chairman of the Senate Finance Committee
Lloyd Bentsen
John
$600 [23]
Carl Jung, Harry Houdini & J.P. Morgan appear as characters in this author's "Ragtime"
Doctorow
Greg
$600 [3]
Henry VIII's fourth wife, Anne, was the daughter of the duke of this city
Cleves
Greg Bill
$600 [18]
20 miles wide at the mouth & 120 miles in length, it's the largest arm of Lake Michigan
Green Bay
$800 [12]
In "The Tempest" Prospero calls this grotesque character "Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself"
Caliban
$1,000 [14]
In 1991 Ron Brown had the flag at Democratic HQ flown at half-staff when this former GOP chairman died
Lee Atwater
Bill
$1,000 [24]
At the Lenai festival in Greece this playwright's "Wasps" won 2nd prize in 422 B.C.; his "Frogs" came in 1st in 405 B.C.
Aristophanes
Greg
$800 [4]
This Florentine navigator saw the Hudson River 85 years before Hudson
Giovanni da Verrazano
John
$800 [19]
Iron oxides give this Vietnamese river its color & its name
the Red River
Greg John
DD $1,500 [13]
At the end of this comedy, Rosalind says, "When I make curtsy, bid me farewell"
As You Like It
Greg
DD $1,500 [15]
2 of the 3 Supreme Court associate justices appointed by President Ronald Reagan
Sandra Day O'Connor & Antonin Scalia (& Anthony Kennedy)
Bill
$1,000 [5]
Sedan in the Ardennes Dept. of France was the site of the decisive battle of this 1870-71 war
the Franco-Prussian War
John
$1,000 [20]
This capital of Canada's Northwest Territories was founded in 1935 after gold was discovered
Yellowknife
Bill

Final Jeopardy!

ASIAN CAPITALS

This city was designed in 1912 by English architect Edwin Lutyens

New Delhi

Greg "What is Singapore?" — wagered $800
Bill "What is Singapore?" — wagered $2,800
John "What is Singapore?" — wagered $2,000

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