Show #1743 1992-03-11 (taped 1991-12-03) Regular

Contestants

Jack Tomarchio — an attorney from Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania

Al Levy — an engineer originally from Brooklyn, New York

Ann Wright — an immunologist from Agua Dulce, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $26,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ann $1,800 $3,600 $4,800 $9,600
3rd place: Armani sculpture from Miller Import + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy
$4,800
19 R, 3 W
Al $-200 $700 $5,200 $10,201
New champion: $10,201
$4,900
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jack $600 $700 $5,100 $10,200
2nd place: Jules Jurgensen man's watch + Ross Simon bracelet
$6,600
19 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPE RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS SPIDERS ACTORS AND ACTRESSES HOMOPHONES AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES
$100 [6]
Senate Square is the center of the older section of this Finnish capital
Helsinki
Jack
$100 [17]
In this religion, Shivaratri is celebrated by fasting & telling stories of Shiva
Hinduism
Ann
$100 [16]
Funnel, sheet, orb & scaffold are some of the types of these spiders build to capture prey
webs
Al
$100 [1]
The leading characters in Michael Korda's novel "Curtain" remind readers of Vivien Leigh & this husband
Laurence Olivier
Ann
$100 [26]
The duration of a king's rule, or precipitation that falls from the sky
reign/rain
Al
$100 [11]
He was born in NYC on May 8, 1940; we assume he opened his "Jaws" and cried
Peter Benchley
Jack
$200 [7]
The Arch of Hadrian is in Athens & Hadrian's Wall is in this country
England
Ann
$200 [19]
This Jewish holiday begins with a special meal called a seder
Passover
Jack
$200 [18]
This is blue even in low-class spiders because it contains hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin
blood
Al
$200 [2]
This TV wife of Bill Cosby made her Las Vegas debut in 1990 as his opening act
Phylicia Rashad
Ann
$200 [27]
An image that's worshipped, or to run a motor out of gear
idol/idle
Jack
$200 [12]
A hotel was named for O. Henry in his hometown, Greensboro, in this state
North Carolina
Ann
$300 [8]
This Italian city is known for its chocolates & vermouth as well as its shroud
Turin
Jack
$300 [20]
St. Joseph's Day, March 19, marks the return of the swallows to this California mission
San Juan Capistrano
Jack
$300 [23]
The poisonous Loxosceles reclusa spider is more commonly called by this colorful name
a brown recluse
Jack
$300 [3]
This TV "Golden Girl" told TV Guide, "I think that I was 5'7" when I was 5 years old"
Bea Arthur
Al Jack
$300 [28]
The estate of a medieval lord, or his way of behaving
manor/manner
Ann
$300 [13]
His "Remembrance of Things Past" might have included his birth in Paris in 1871
(Marcel) Proust
Ann
$400 [9]
The capital of this country was named for 1 of its landmarks, the Church of St. Sofia
Bulgaria
Jack
DD $500 [21]
In Roman Catholicism, Holy Thursday commemorates this event in Jesus' life
the Last Supper
Jack
$400 [24]
Though some have 6, most spiders have 8 of these organs arranged in 4 pairs
eyes
Ann Jack
$400 [4]
He said people in India treated him like an icon & carried him through the streets after he played Gandhi
Ben Kingsley
Ann
$400 [14]
Alex Haley's roots go back to this city, the home of Cornell University
Ithaca
Ann
$500 [10]
It's the largest university in Austria
the University of Vienna
Al
$500 [22]
Meaning "50th day", it's the end of the full ecclesiastical observance of Easter
Pentecost
Al
$500 [25]
A spider's body has 2 principal parts: a cephalothorax & this
an abdomen
Ann
$500 [5]
This star of "L.A. Story" is a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Steve Martin
$500 [15]
This native of Hartford, Connecticut is married to Sacramento-born Joan Didion
John Gregory Dunne
Ann

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE POT LUCK MOUNTAINS SHIPS QUOTES NORSE MYTHOLOGY
$200 [2]
Galvanizing iron or steel helps prevent it from doing this
rusting
Jack
$200 [12]
Expo 67, this city's World's Fair, was held on 2 islands in the St. Lawrence River
Montreal
Jack
$200 [1]
There is no permanent snow on this continent, including its highest peak, Mt. Kosciusko
Australia
Ann
$200 [4]
The names of U.S. naval ships are preceded by U.S.S., the names of British naval ships by these 3 letters
H.M.S
Ann
$200 [19]
Dan Aykroyd said that "being with him was electric, really electric"
John Belushi
Al
$200 [26]
2 ravens named "Thought" & "Memory" are messengers of this chief god
Woden (Odin)
Jack
$400 [3]
These retinal cells are more sensitive than cones but provide no color information
rods
Jack
$400 [13]
The Japanese conquered this Chinese region in 1931 & renamed it Manchukuo
Manchuria
Jack
$400 [8]
New York's highest point, Mount Marcy, is located in these mountains in the northeast
the Adirondacks
Ann Jack
$400 [6]
After the Titanic Disaster an international patrol to look for these was set up in 1914
icebergs
Ann
$400 [20]
Called "Old Blood and Guts", he wrote, "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood"
Patton
Jack
$400 [27]
Mead from the she-goat Heidrun was 1 of the taste treats at this hall of the slain
Valhalla
Al
$600 [5]
The computer language "Formula Translation" is better known by this shortened name
Fortran
Jack
$600 [14]
Bought by Elvis in 1957, it's now claimed to be the 2nd most recognized house in the U.S.
Graceland
Al
$600 [16]
The wine made from grapes grown on the slopes of this Italian volcano is known as Lacrima Christi
Vesuvius
Jack
$600 [7]
It's a 2-masted square- rigged ship or the jail aboard it
a brig
Ann
$600 [21]
In the 17th century Thomas Fuller noted, "He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of" these
oysters
$600 [28]
Of Asgard, Midgard or Rightgard, the one that's the Earth in Norse mythology
Midgard
Ann Al
$800 [9]
The resistance of a fluid to flow; syrup has a greater degree of it than water
viscosity
Jack
$800 [24]
In 1950 he was named the greatest race horse of the first half of the 20th century
Man o' War
Al
DD $1,000 [17]
The name of this mountain in the Bernese Alps is German for maiden or virgin
the Jungfrau
Jack
$800 [10]
In 1819 it became the 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic, though most of the trip was by sail
the Savannah
$800 [22]
Daniel Webster said God grants this "only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it"
liberty
Al
DD $1,100 [29]
Thor had one of these called Mjolnir that returned to his hand like a boomerang after he threw it
a hammer
Al
$1,000 [15]
Einstein used this theory, introduced by Max Planck in 1900, to help explain the photoelectric effect
the quantum theory
Ann
$1,000 [25]
This Jay Anson book told of supernatural occurrences at 112 Ocean Avenue in a town on Long Island
The Amityville Horror
Jack
$1,000 [18]
The world's tallest mountain, measured from base to peak, is located on this island
Hawaii
Ann
$1,000 [11]
Columbus' Santa Maria was this type of seagoing vessel whose name begins with "C"
a caravel
Ann
$1,000 [23]
"Will you love me in December as you do in May" asked this NYC mayor in the 1920s
(Jimmy) Walker
Ann Jack

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS

With 10 letters, his middle name was the longest of any U.S. president

(John Fitzgerald) Kennedy

Ann "Who is Kennedy?" — wagered $4,800
Jack "Who was John Fitzgerald Kennedy" — wagered $5,100
Al "Who is Kennedy?" — wagered $5,001

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