Show #1746 1992-03-16 (taped 1991-12-04) Regular

Phil Yellman game 2.

Contestants

Mike Monahan — a telecommunications specialist from West Springfield, Massachusetts

Sue O'Neil — a child support specialist from Patterson, New Jersey

Phil Yellman — a word processor from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Phil $500 $2,000 $12,700 $14,001
2-day champion: $29,001
$10,200
24 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Sue $700 $1,400 $4,400 $100
2nd place: trip on Delta & stay at Smugglers' Notch Ski Resort in Vermont
$4,400
12 R, 2 W
Mike $2,200 $3,400 $7,000 $0
3rd place: Vivitar 320Z camera + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy
$7,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

FIRES RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN SONGS HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES VEGETABLES & IN OTHER NEWS... TOMORROW
$100 [1]
Most of Chicago burned in 1871 but the house of this family, in whose barn the fire began, was undamaged
O'Leary
Mike
$100 [2]
"Climb ev'ry mountain, ford ev'ry stream, follow ev'ry rainbow till you find" this
your dream
Mike
$100 [8]
It's a tradition to wear this 3-leafed plant on St. Patrick's Day
a shamrock
Mike
$100 [16]
Its stalks may be chopped fine for use in salads or eaten whole stuffed with cream cheese
celery
Mike
$100 [21]
Ted Turner is replacing the cows on his Montana ranch with 7,000 head of these plains animals
bison
Sue
$100 [26]
The place in southern California in which you'd find Tomorrowland
Disneyland
Phil
$200 [4]
The historian Tacitus said this emperor returned to Rome in time to see his palace burn
Nero
Mike
$200 [3]
"Getting to know you, putting it my way, but nicely you are precisely my cup of" this
tea
Phil
$200 [9]
In England Cinderella pantomimes are a popular feature of this holiday season
Christmas
$200 [17]
Popular varieties of this garden vegetable include Jubilee, Early Girl & Red Cherry
tomatoes
Sue
$200 [22]
Dianne Neale of N.Y. made the news when she said this "E.T." host's voice triggered her seizures
(Mary) Hart
Phil
$200 [27]
According to the proverb it's what shouldn't be "put off till tomorrow"
what you can do today
Mike
$300 [11]
Fewer than 10 people died in this city's Great Fire of 1666 & all the houses were rebuilt in 10 years
London
Sue
$300 [5]
"Younger than" this "are you, softer than starlight are you"
springtime
Mike
$300 [10]
On Guadalupe Day worshippers walk on their knees to Tepeyac Hill in this capital city
Mexico City
Phil
$300 [18]
This popular curly- leafed garnish is a member of the carrot family
parsley
Phil
$300 [23]
TV Guide reports this '70s female detective show is Saddam Hussein's all-time favorite TV show
Charlie's Angels
Phil
$300 [28]
This 1936 book ends "After all, tomorrow is another day"
Gone with the Wind
Phil
$400 [12]
A 1990 fire at this city's Happy Land Club brought on the U.S.'s biggest mass-murder charge
New York City
Mike
$400 [6]
"June is" doing this "all over"
bustin' out all over
Sue
$400 [14]
Dragon-boat races are held all over this country on the 5th day of the 5th moon
China
Sue
$400 [19]
Red varieties of this vegetable are often canned as pimiento
a pepper
Mike
$400 [24]
In 1991 he became the 1st U.S. Secretary of State to address the Mongolian Parliament
Baker
Phil
$400 [29]
It's Spanish for tomorrow, as Peggy Lee could sing to you
mañana
Phil
DD $500 [13]
In September 1812 this city set itself on fire rather than be taken by Napoleon's troops
Moscow
Mike
$500 [7]
"It's a Grand Night for" doing this; "the moon is flying high"
singing
Mike
$500 [15]
Legend says that witches ride to the Brocken, a mountain peak in this country, on Walpurgis Night
Germany
Sue
$500 [20]
Also called cos lettuce, it originated on the Greek island of Cos, not in ancient Rome
Romaine
Mike
$500 [25]
Trying to make the smallest & lightest one of these, Motorola came up with a new 7.7-ounce microTAC
a cellular telephone
Phil Sue
$500 [30]
Position played by Tomorrow in "Who's On First?"
the pitcher

Double Jeopardy! Round

PITTSBURGH NOVELS HISTORY FAMOUS SCIENTISTS COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES THE BLUE & THE GRAY
$200 [23]
A variety of concerts are put on at the center donated by this 57 varieties family
Heinz
Mike
$200 [2]
In 1615 he published a sequel to his 1605 work "Don Quixote"
Cervantes
Phil
$200 [1]
The ducat of Venice & the florin of this city were new gold coins circulated in the 13th c.
Florence
Mike
$200 [3]
In 1885 9-year-old Joseph Meister became the 1st person saved by his rabies treatment
Pasteur
Phil
$200 [19]
The University of Nevada has two campuses, one in Las Vegas, the other in this city
Reno
Mike
$200 [14]
The North hired John Ericsson to design this ship after learning the South had an ironclad
the Monitor
Phil
$400 [25]
In 1760 the largest seam of this ever struck in Pennsylvania was discovered on Mt. Washington
coal
Sue
$400 [8]
These 2 members of the Lafayette Escadrille collaborated on "Mutiny on the Bounty"
Nordhoff & Hall
$400 [10]
In 1975 Khmer Rouge Communists led by Pol Pot took control of this country
Cambodia
Phil
$400 [4]
Among this naturalist's works is "Variations in Animals & Plants Under Domestication"
Darwin
Sue
$400 [20]
Graduates of Radcliffe actually receive their degrees from this college
Harvard
Mike
$400 [15]
Watching at Fredericksburg, he noted, "It is well that war is so terrible--we should grow too fond of it"
(Robert E.) Lee
Phil
$600 [26]
He was prime minister of Britain when troops built a fort on the city's site in the 1750s
(William) Pitt the Elder
Phil
$600 [9]
She's the beautiful Gypsy girl who "rang" Quasimodo's bells
Esmeralda
Sue
$800 [12]
This Dane in the service of Peter the Great established Russia's claim to Alaska in 1741
(Vitus) Bering
Sue
$600 [5]
This bacteriologist was knighted in 1944 for his discovery of penicillin
Fleming
Phil
$600 [21]
When it first opened in 1881, it consisted of a shanty, about 40 students & one teacher, Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
Sue
$800 [17]
He was relieved as general-in-chief in March 1862 & as Commander of the Army of the Potomac in November
McClellan
Mike
$800 [27]
This stadium is home to Pittsburgh's pro baseball & football teams
Three Rivers Stadium
Phil
$800 [22]
His "Sometimes a Great Notion" tells the tale of an Oregon logging family
Ken Kesey
Phil
$1,000 [13]
In 1926, this Norwegian, an Italian pilot & an American flew over the North Pole in a dirigible
(Roald) Amundsen
Phil
$800 [6]
Last name of father & son physicists Niels & Aage who won Nobel Prizes 53 years apart
Bohr
Phil
$800 [29]
Built in 1752, Connecticut Hall is this university's oldest building
Yale
Sue Mike
$1,000 [18]
This state began the Civil War with about 65,000 sq. miles & finished with about 41,000
Virginia
Phil
$1,000 [28]
Bell started this new phone service in Pittsburgh in 1970, but no one saw much in it
video telephone communication
Phil
$1,000 [24]
Maugham novel in which orphan Philip goes to live with his aunt & Uncle, Louisa & William Carey
Of Human Bondage
Sue
DD $2,300 [11]
In 1521 Councilors of the Holy Roman Empire met as the diet of this German city, to check the Reformation
Worms
Phil
$1,000 [7]
This Swedish botanist coined the term Homo sapiens to classify humans
(Carolus) Linnaeus
Mike
$1,000 [30]
The Missouri College where Churchill gave his "Iron Curtain" speech & London's Gov't District share this name
Westminster
Phil
DD $1,400 [16]
John Burns was the only civilian of this Pennsylvania town to fight in the July 1-3, 1863 battle there
Gettysburg
Phil

Final Jeopardy!

FRANCE

The name of this coastal city is believed to be derived from the Greek for "victory"

Nice

Sue "What is Marseilles?" — wagered $4,300
Mike "What is Calais?" — wagered $7,000
Phil "What is Nice?" — wagered $1,301

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