Show #1681 1991-12-16 (taped 1991-09-30) Regular

India Cooper game 1-B.

Contestants

Bruce Merhige — a clinical psychologist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

India Cooper — an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado

Jay Marhoefer — a management consultant from Dallas, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jay $200 $1,200 $2,800 $1,199
3rd place: Moulinex deluxe 11-piece kitchen machines including deep fryer, hand blender, juice extractor, food processor & can opener + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Nintendo Game Boy
$4,400
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
India $1,700 $3,100 $9,900 $10,000
New champion: $10,000
$9,300
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Bruce $700 $600 $4,400 $1,700
2nd place: a trip on Delta Airlines to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with a week's stay at the Krystal Vallarta
$5,200
11 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE AGE OF CHIVALRY SCIENCE & NATURE MOVIE SONGS MEXICO BALLERINAS LETTER PERFECT
$100 [1]
The Teutonic Knights originated during the third one of these military expeditions
the Crusades
India
$100 [5]
He was first to prove the connection between electricity & lightning
Ben Franklin
Bruce
$100 [7]
"Start spreadin' the news, I'm leaving today, I wanna be a part of it" in this place
New York
India
$100 [26]
Though about 95% of Mexicans are of this denomination, no church can own land in Mexico
Catholic
India
$100 [12]
Her sister Marjorie Tallchief is a ballerina, too
Maria Tallchief
Bruce
$100 [13]
It precedes -stop, Murray Abraham & Scott Fitzgerald
F
Bruce
$200 [2]
The idealization of women stemmed from the increasing devotion to this biblical woman
the Virgin Mary
Jay
$200 [6]
A bandicoot carries its young in one of these
a pouch
$200 [8]
"For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her it's the kiss of death from" this Bond villain
Goldfinger
Bruce
$200 [27]
Often, your father & this baptismal stand-in call each other "compadre", meaning co-father
godfather
Jay
$200 [20]
Dame Alicia Markova was ballet director of this American opera company from 1963-69
the Met
$200 [14]
Lee Marvin headed this "Squad" on TV
M
Bruce
$300 [3]
Chretien de Troyes wrote the earliest extant literary work about the quest for this holy object
the Holy Grail
India
$300 [17]
Polishing this removes the thiamine so a constant diet of it may result in beriberi
rice
$300 [9]
"No it isn't very pretty what" this type of town "can do"
a town without pity
India
$300 [28]
The resort town of Cabo San Lucas is at the southern tip of this peninsula
the Baja Peninsula (Baja California)
Bruce
$300 [21]
Antoinetta Dell'era was the 1st ballerina to play the role of this fairy in "The Nutcracker", in 1892
the Sugarplum Fairy
India
$300 [15]
On a compass this consonant is found 270° from N
W
Jay
$400 [4]
The medieval institution of knighthood spread to England with this conquest
the Norman Conquest
India
$400 [18]
It's what the archerfish shoots to bring down insects
water
$400 [10]
"Don't go walking down" this thoroughfare "with anyone else but me"
Lovers' Lane
$400 [22]
Look up "plie" in Britannica & you'll find a photo of Gelsey Kirkland as this Stravinsky bird
the Firebird
Bruce
$500 [24]
I is the only English vowel & this the only consonant that's dotted in lower case
J
India
$500 [16]
Add 3 letters to the French word for "horse" to get this French word for a knight
chevalier
India
$500 [19]
The Henry Draper Catalogue contains measurements of over 400,000 of these
stars
$500 [11]
"How can I ignore" this person; "I love him more than I can say"
the boy next door
India
$500 [25]
Suzanne Farrell has been called the "muse" of this late choreographer known as "Mr. B."
George Balanchine
Jay
DD $800 [23]
In spelling out the numbers from 1-999 you never use this vowel
A
Bruce

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES CONTEMPORARY NOVELS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS THE ELEMENTS THE 50 STATES MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES
$200 [1]
She changed her name in 1744, we figure because Empress Sophie the Great didn't sound good
Empress Catherine the Great
India
$200 [3]
At the beginning of this Larry McMurtry novel, the pigs are eating a rattlesnake
Lonesome Dove
India
$200 [25]
Bongos, congas & tom-toms are types of these
drums
India
$200 [8]
This radioactive element is named for the ninth planet
plutonium
India
$200 [14]
Colorful landmarks include the Painted Desert in Arizona & the Rainbow Bridge in this state
Utah
Jay India
$200 [15]
Tall, powerful women are sometimes called these after the name of a race of female warriors
Amazons
India
$400 [2]
She said, "I can train any dog in 5 minutes... it's training the owner that takes longer"
Barbara Woodhouse
$400 [4]
"Royal Poinciana" revolves around the Royal Poinciana Hotel in this elegant Florida resort city
Palm Beach
$400 [26]
The Scottish Highland version of this instrument has 3 drones
the bagpipe
Jay
$400 [9]
Used to control goiter, this element was discovered in seaweed by a French chemist in 1811
iodine
India
$400 [24]
Of all state mottos in English, this state's is, appropriately, the shortest
Rhode Island
India
$400 [16]
A style of masonry that uses large, irregular stones was named for these 1-eyed giants
the Cyclopes
Jay
$600 [7]
Savonarola forced this famous Florentine family into exile in 1494
the Medicis
Jay
$800 [6]
Chapter IX of this James Michener novel is titled "The Golden Beaches of Nome"
Alaska
Jay
$600 [29]
The Neapolitan type of this lute-like instrument is tuned the same as a violin
a mandolin
$600 [10]
In 1766 Henry Cavendish called this gas with 1 proton & 1 electron "inflammable air"
hydrogen
Jay
$600 [22]
Its state flower is the Rocky Mountain columbine
Colorado
India
$600 [23]
Blue succory, a plant once thought to have love potion powers, is also called this god's "dart"
Cupid
Jay
$800 [11]
Robert Ford, who killed this outlaw in St. Joseph, Mo. in 1882, got a big reward & a pardon
Jesse James
India
$1,000 [12]
In "Jitterbug Perfume" this novelist said, "The beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable"
Tom Robbins
India
$800 [28]
Albert Schweitzer was a key figure in reviving interest in this instrument in the early 1900s
the organ
India
$800 [17]
Used to galvanize iron & steel, its name is from the German for "prong" or "spike"
zinc
$800 [21]
This state's first radio station, WOK, began operating in Pine Bluff in 1922
Arkansas
Bruce
$800 [30]
Wife of Odysseus whose weaving has become a metaphor for an endless task
Penelope
India
$1,000 [13]
Tho a Republican, Harold Ickes was Interior Sec'y for this president's whole tenure
Franklin Roosevelt
Bruce
DD $1,200 [5]
He dedicated "QB VII" "To my darling wife Jill on her twenty-third birthday"
Leon Uris
India
$1,000 [27]
The name of this wind instrument, also called a sweet potato, comes from Italian for goose
the ocarina
Bruce
DD $1,600 [18]
Reflecting 95% of the light that strikes it, this precious metal is the most lustrous of metals
silver
Jay
$1,000 [20]
It's the only state that modeled its court system on civil law, not English common law
Louisiana
$1,000 [19]
A sculptured figure of a man used as a support & named for a Titan; the plural is "Atlantes"
Atlas
Bruce

Final Jeopardy!

ANCIENT WORLDS

In the early 1800s hieroglyphics were first translated by an Egyptologist from this country

France

Jay "What is Great Britain?" — wagered $1,601
Bruce "What is England?" — wagered $2,700
India "What is France?" — wagered $100

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