Show #1682 1991-12-17 (taped 1991-09-30) Regular

India Cooper game 2.

Contestants

Mitch Fox — an editor from Brooklyn, New York

Mark Rhone — a consultant from Port Neches, Texas

India Cooper — an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
India $1,400 $4,100 $13,900 $24,001
2-day champion: $34,001
$12,500
31 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Mark $2,600 $3,100 $10,100 $100
3rd place: Panasonic HP600 personal cellular phone with 90 minutes of continuous talk time + the Jeopardy! home game or the Jeopardy! Challenger
$8,900
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Mitch $600 $2,100 $5,100 $5,000
2nd place: Michael C. Fina Co. service for 8 fine handcrafted china in the Hancock pattern + Retroneu Center Stage service for 8 flatware + the Jeopardy! home game or the Jeopardy! Challenger
$4,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY FOOD GEOGRAPHIC TERMS TELEVISION WINNING LOSING
$100 [20]
At his death, Chaucer became the first poet buried in this London church
Westminster Abbey
India
$100 [3]
This sparkling mineral water comes from a spring in Vergeze, France
Perrier
Mark
$100 [24]
An administrative division of a country, such as the ten that make up Canada
a province
India
$100 [13]
On Feb. 21, 1991, this series introduced Danny DeVito as the voice of Herb, Homer's half-brother
The Simpsons
India
$100 [1]
When winning, you "take the cake" or "bring home" this food
the bacon
India
$100 [9]
Suffering a humiliating or embarrassing defeat is "losing" this part of your head
face
India
$200 [21]
In 1947 the Allied Control Council legally abolished this once powerful state of Germany
Prussia
India
$200 [4]
The meat of a young sheep is lamb; the meat of an adult sheep, this
mutton
India
$200 [25]
A small one is called a cascade while a large one is a cataract
a waterfall
India
$200 [14]
According to the theme song, "They're creepy & they're kooky, mysterious & spooky, they're altogether ooky"
the Addams Family
Mitch
$200 [2]
"For when the one great scorer comes to write against your name he marks--not that you won or lost--but" this
how you played the game
Mark
$200 [10]
When the Giants' Bobby Thomson hit a home run to win the 1951 N.L. playoff, this was the team he beat
the Dodgers
Mark
$300 [22]
In 1094 this Spanish soldier & hero conquered Valencia & ruled there until his death
El Cid
Mitch
$300 [5]
Blintzes, blinis & crepes are 3 types of these
pancakes
India
$300 [26]
It's Spanish for a saw & for a jagged mountain range
sierra
India
$300 [15]
From 1982 to 1988, Dr. Donald Westphall was chief of staff of this Boston hospital
St. Elsewhere (St. Eligius)
India
$300 [6]
From an American Indian tradition, when you win it's one of these "in your cap"
a feather
Mark
$300 [11]
According to Hoyle, the losing player in this kids' game is the one left with the odd queen
Old Maid
India
$400 [29]
Signed on 5/14/55, it was known officially as a "treaty of friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance"
the Warsaw Pact
India
$400 [18]
You must have this powdered pepper to make authentic goulash
paprika
Mitch
$400 [27]
It's a ring-shaped coral island nearly or completely surrounding a lagoon
an atoll
India
$400 [16]
"Gabriel's Fire" star who says, "This is CNN"
James Earl Jones
Mark
$400 [7]
The flag you take in winning the Indy 500
the checkered flag
Mark
$400 [12]
In 348-47 B.C. he lost out to Plato's nephew to head the Academy; 12 years later he lost again, to Xenocrates
Aristotle
Mitch
$500 [30]
From 1438 until the empire's dissolution, all Holy Roman Emperors but 1 came from this royal house
Hapsburg
Mark
DD $800 [23]
In the U.S. only this fish can be classified as white meat tuna
albacore
Mitch
$500 [28]
Greek for "chief sea", it's a sea with a chain of islands, or the islands themselves
an archipelago
India
$500 [19]
Few know that this kindly old "Gunsmoke" physician's first name was Galen
Doc Adams
India
$500 [8]
A victory won at a heavy price, like what happened to the king of Epirus at Asculum
a Pyrrhic victory
Mark
$500 [17]
About 20 of 33 French & Spanish ships were taken in this October 21, 1805 battle; the English lost none
Trafalgar
Mark

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE RELIGION NAME'S THE SAME OPERA HAWAII RECONSTRUCTION
$200 [1]
Alec d'Urberville seduces her but she marries Angel Clare
Tess
India
$200 [21]
A dramatic reenactment of the final events of Jesus' life is known as this type of play
a passion play
India
$200 [6]
A fictional Charles Dickens character, or a real illusionist-magician
David Copperfield
Mark
$200 [16]
Scratch-&-sniff cards with assorted scents enhanced a 1989 production of "The Love for 3" of these fruits
oranges
India
$200 [26]
A whole roasted pig is the centerpiece of this Hawaiian feast
A luau
India
$200 [7]
At this man's impeachment trial, Senator Ben Wade came within 1 vote of becoming president
Andrew Johnson
India
$400 [2]
He wrote music reviews under the name "Corno di Bassetto"--basset horn--& under his initials, G.B.S.
George Bernard Shaw
Mitch
$400 [22]
It's a string of beads used for counting prayers, or the prayers themselves
a rosary
India
$400 [12]
The founder of Behaviorist Psychology, or Sherlock Holmes' trusted assistant
Dr. Watson
Mark
$400 [17]
A marriage broker named Kecal is outwitted in this Smetana opera
The Bartered Bride
India
$400 [27]
The Big Island's Kona Coast is known for its farms which produce the Kona type of this
coffee
Mitch
$400 [8]
Formed in Tennessee soon after the war, it called itself the "Invisible Empire" of the South
the Ku Klux Klan
Mark
$600 [3]
Coleridge poem that ends with: "A sadder and a wiser man he rose the morrow morn"
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Mark
$600 [23]
Kol Nidre, a special prayer of Atonement, is chanted at the outset of this Jewish holiday
Yom Kippur
Mitch
$600 [13]
A 16th century, Italian-born explorer & navigator, or Mr. French on TV's "Family Affair"
Sebastian Cabot
India
$800 [19]
This Mozart opera concludes with a song in praise of Isis & Osiris
The Magic Flute
India
$600 [28]
This Democrat is the first U.S. senator of Japanese ancestry
Dan Inouye
Mitch
$800 [10]
"Rascally" word used by Southern Democrats for useless cattle & Southern white Republicans
Scalawags
Mark
$800 [4]
This 1989 John le Carre novel opens at a small British trade fair in Moscow
The Russia House
India
$800 [24]
Founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, it's the largest Roman Catholic religious order of men
the Jesuits
India
$800 [14]
An 18th c. Scottish engineer & inventor, or President Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior
James Watt
Mark
$1,000 [20]
This British composer's 1951 opera "Billy Budd" is set on a man-o'-war & there are no female roles
Benjamin Britten
Mitch
$800 [29]
Waialeale Peak on this island, "The Garden Isle", is the world's wettest spot
Kauai
$1,000 [11]
Reconstruction ended in 1877, when this new president removed the last federal troops from the South
Hayes
Mark
$1,000 [5]
This Czech author of "R.U.R." wrote several plays & short stories with his brother Josef
Karel Čapek
India
$1,000 [25]
It's the term for Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 A.D.
the Hegira
India
$1,000 [15]
A leader of the Chicago School of Architecture, or the current Secretary of Health & Human Services
Louis Sullivan
India
DD $2,000 [18]
"Der Rosenkavalier" is set in this city during the reign of Maria Theresa
Vienna
India
$1,000 [30]
In 1778 Captain James Cook landed at Waimea Bay & named the islands for his sponsor, this earl
the Earl of Sandwich
Mark
DD $1,800 [9]
His son was compensated for his Arlington estate that had been turned into a cemetery
Robert E. Lee
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES

He's the grandson of one president & the son-in-law of another

David Eisenhower

Mitch "Who was Ben Harrison?" — wagered $100
Mark "Who is E. Roosev" — wagered $10,000
India "Who is David Eisenhower?" — wagered $10,101

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