Show #1969 - Thursday, March 11, 1993

Contestants

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Brian McCarthy, a civil engineer originally from Cranston, Rhode Island

Michael Kane, a business owner from Chicago, Illinois

John Abrams, a farmer from Tabernacle, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

PLANT PESTS
HIEROGLYPHICS
QUOTES
GREEN THINGS
HISTORIC SITES
"GOOD" MOVIES
    $100 5
"The Gardener's Companion" says if you see these structures, your spider mite infestation is serious
    $100 1
Some trace this letter back to the symbol for an ox, Aleph being a Semitic term for "ox"
    $100 10
Pete Townshend of this rock group said, "I smash a guitar because I like them"
    $100 6
Dr. Seuss served them up with ham
    $100 2
6 days after Yorktown, one of the last battles of this war was fought at Johnstown, N.Y.
    $100 26
This Robin Williams movie may be the funniest film ever set in Saigon
    $200 19
Earworms a attack the ears on these plants
    $200 15
The symbol or ideograph of this object could be used to signify day or light
    $200 11
In "Lord Jim" he wrote, "You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends"
    $200 7
According to the proverb, it's where "the grass is always greener"
    $200 3
This country's presidents resided in Chapultepec Castle from the 1860s until 1940
    $200 27
Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach & Lee Van Cleef were the title trio in this film set during the Civil War
    $300 22
The Japanese variety of this insect munches on the leaves & flowers of rosebushes
    $300 16
The word hieroglyphic isn't Egyptian, it's from this language
    $300 12
In a 1920 editorial, this future leader wrote, "The Italian proletariat needs a bloodbath"
    $300 20
According to Shakespeare, it's the green part of the monster known as jealousy
    $300 4
The grave of this American Indian princess is in Gravesend, England, where she died in 1617
    $300 28
Robert Donat won an Oscar for playing a schoolteacher in this 1939 classic
    $400 23
Got aphids? This toxic extract from tobacco will bump them off
    $400 17
It wasn't until this century that hieroglyphics were deciphered
    $400 13
Emile Coue had inscribed at his sanitarium "Every day, in every way, I'm getting" this
    $400 21
Pliny the Elder said no serpent will touch this plant--another reason for no snakes in Ireland
    $400 8
By 1953 all the prisoners on this tiny island off French Guiana had been repatriated to France
    $400 29
Louis B. Mayer allegedly said of this 1937 film, "Who wants to see a picture about Chinese farmers?"
    $500 24
The armyworm & cutworm are part of this group of moth & butterfly larvae
    $500 18
In ancient times symbols & sounds were combined like these puzzles on "Concentration"
    $500 14
In the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" Eugene Field wrote, "He could whip his weight in" these creatures
    $500 25
Barium nitrate added to the bursting powder in these makes them green
    DD: $400 9
The 1746 battle at Culloden Moor in this country ended Jacobite hopes of a Stuart restoration
    $500 30
Ali MacGraw's first leading role was in this movie based on a Philip Roth novel

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

John Michael Brian
$1,000 $1,300 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

John Michael Brian
$3,000 $3,500 $500

Double Jeopardy! Round

POLITICIANS
BIOGRAPHIES
ITALIAN CUISINE
BALLET
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
    $200 3
This senator won an Olympic gold medal in basketball in 1964
    $200 9
Written by his brother Robert, "Lee" is a portrait of this accused assassin
    $200 14
Any dish described as "con funghi" is served with these
    $200 26
In French this Tchaikovsky ballet is "Le Lac des cygnes"
    $200 18
Peace Memorial Park now occupies what was the center of this Japanese city
    $200 1
In this Neil Simon play, Oscar makes his first entrance carrying Fritos, peanuts, pretzels & beer
    $400 4
Miami mayor Xavier Suarez came to the U.S. as a refugee from this country in 1960
    $400 11
Kitty Kelley titled her unauthorized biography of this entertainer "His Way"
    $400 15
The steak dish known as bistecca alla Fiorentina is a specialty of this city
    $400 27
Hershy Kay arranged & orchestrated this man's music for the ballet "Stars and Stripes"
    $400 19
The Shatt-al-Arab connects the Tigris & Euphrates rivers with this gulf
    $400 2
"Stop it! Stop it! You insufferable great brute!" is the last line of his play "Private Lives"
    $600 6
In 1962 he was 30, the minimum age necessary, when elected to the U.S. Senate from Mass.
    $600 13
This host of "Cosmos" was the subject of a 1987 biography subtitled "Superstar Scientist"
    $600 20
Saltimbocca, a veal dish, comes from salta in bocca, meaning "jumps into" this body part
    $600 28
"Leningrad Symphony" was first performed in Leningrad by this company in 1961
    $600 22
Bauxite, an ore of this light metal, makes up much of Greece's mineral wealth
    $600 5
His first play, "Farther Off from Heaven", debuted in a Dallas theatre, not at a "Bus Stop"
    $800 10
This House Minority Whip from Georgia won his 1992 GOP primary by less than 1,000 votes
    $800 16
"Henry & Clare", a biography by Ralph G. Martin, is "An Intimate Portrait" of this couple
    $800 21
This squid relative is served in its own ink in Italy; you'll find its "bone" in canary cages
    DD: $1,000 29
This Russian dancer's sister Bronislava choreographed "Les Biches" & "Les Noces"
    $800 24
Pico Cristobal Colon is the highest peak in this country named for Cristobal Colon
    $800 7
Edward G. Robinson played the button-molder in a 1923 production of this playwright's "Peer Gynt"
    $1000 12
She served 5 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives before her 1986 election to the Senate from Maryland
    $1000 17
This author of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" was the subject of a 1991 biog., "Talking at the Gates"
    $1000 23
It's the most famous of Italy's blue-veined cheeses
    $1000 30
In 1976 Marcia Haydee became director of this German troupe where she'd been a dancer since the '60s
    DD: $3,000 25
This, the second-highest peak in the world, is on disputed territory controlled by Pakistan
    $1000 8
In this drama Christine Mannon, who poisons her husband, is O'Neill's version of Clytemnestra

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

John Michael Brian
$7,600 $9,500 $6,900

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Final Jeopardy! Round

POPULATION
With almost 9 million residents, this is the U.S.A.'s most populous county

Final scores:

John Michael Brian
$0 $16,000 $12,900
3rd place: Krieger watch + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version New champion: $16,000 2nd place: Insight 386X PC + Panasonic fax machine & personal stereo cassette player + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

John Michael Brian
$7,400 $9,600 $4,900
19 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $21,900

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Game tape date: 1992-11-17
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