Show #1589 1991-06-27 (taped 1991-03-18) Regular

Contestants

Mark Wasley — a computer consultant from Atlanta, Georgia

Maggi Walker — a public relations consultant from Los Angeles, California

Fred Andrus — a programmer analyst from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Fred $400 $800 $4,000 $7,999
2nd place: trip on America West to San Antonio & stay at Menger Hotel + Jeopardy! how game or computerized version
$4,000
12 R, 2 W
Maggi $0 $1,400 $8,400 $400
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Jeopardy! how game or computerized version
$6,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Mark $1,300 $4,200 $12,600 $17,200
New champion: $17,200
$10,000
27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS ARKANSAS OLYMPICS POTPOURRI ARCHITECTURE ANAGRAMS
$100 [1]
This author lived at 23 Montague Place facing the British Museum, not at 221B Baker Street
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mark
$100 [7]
Confederate forces set up a state capital in the town of Washington while a pro Union regime was here
Little Rock
Mark
$100 [2]
In this event, discontinued after 1920, the first team to pull the other past the line, won
the tug of war
Mark
$100 [24]
People magazine said the guys in Mötley Crüe sport about 60 of these dermal decorations
a tattoo
Fred
$100 [21]
These deep ditches filled with water were a feature of Norman castles
moats
Fred
$100 [16]
Beth & Norman pooled their money and bought one of these dogs
a poodle (from pooled)
Maggi Mark
$200 [12]
He published "Black Spring" between "Tropic of Cancer" & "Tropic of Capricorn"
Henry Miller
Maggi
$200 [8]
The Red, the St. Francis & this river act as natural borders
the Mississippi
Mark
$200 [3]
The five interlocking circles on the Olympic flag stand for this
the five continents
$200 [25]
This company introduced its new Kiss with almonds by dropping a giant replica in Times Square
Hershey
Fred
$200 [22]
The domes on St. Basil's Cathedral are often described as being shaped like this vegetable
an onion
Maggi
$200 [17]
The original London cast of this musical included Elaine Paige as Grizabella
Cats (from cast)
Mark
$300 [13]
Author of "Caravans" & "The Source", he was foundling adopted by Pennsylvania Quakers
(James) Michener
Mark
$400 [10]
About 1820 the Dwight Mission was set up to teach these Indians, who had been forced out of the east
the Cherokee
Fred Mark
$300 [4]
This winter event shares its name, originally French, with the sled used for it
luge
Fred
$300 [28]
Old Smuggler, Scoresby & Clan MacGregor are three brands of this
Scotch whisky
Maggi
$300 [23]
A turret used for ventilation on the roof of a medieval building, or an art museum in Paris
the Louvre
Maggi
$300 [18]
Elsa is such a devoted shopper that she never misses one of these
a sale (from Elsa)
Mark
$400 [14]
W.H. Auden married Erika Mann, this novelist's daughter, so she could leave Nazi Germany
Thomas Mann
Mark
DD $500 [9]
When it was a territory the name didn't end in "S", but with this letter
a W
Mark
$400 [5]
In 1984 Joan Benoit of the U.S. was the first to win this new event
the women's marathon
Mark
$400 [26]
An adava, or bullseye one of these, is round or oval with bars that radiate from a central eye
window
Mark
$400 [19]
Valerie Harper might hoard video tape of this sitcom
Rhoda (from hoard)
Mark
$500 [15]
This Briton wrote his famous diary in cipher & it wasn't decoded until 1825
(Samuel) Pepys
Mark
$500 [11]
The federal government made it a health resort 89 years before it became a national park in 1921
Hot Springs
Fred
$500 [6]
In 1988 this East German swimmer won 6 gold medals, the most ever by a woman
Kristin Otto
Mark
$500 [27]
He was an astronomy professor at Oxford but the first building he designed was a chapel at Cambridge
Christopher Wren
Maggi
$500 [20]
I was disappointed when my aunt gave me a can of it for my birthday
tuna (from aunt)
Mark

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS ASIA MOVIE QUOTES INVENTORS LANGUAGES SOUP'S ON
$200 [24]
This president told Harriet Beech Stowe, "I shall never live to see peace, this war is killing me."
Lincoln
Fred
$200 [13]
This Thai capital is the home of Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
Fred
$200 [3]
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
The Wizard of Oz
Mark
$200 [1]
There already was a machine to remove the seeds of coastal cotton; he invented one for inland cotton
Eli Whitney
Mark
$200 [2]
This U.S. lexicographer was the first to delete the "U" from words like "colour" in his 1806 dictionary
Noah Webster
Maggi
$200 [12]
Bouillon is from "to boil", but the word for this fish soup means "to boil it & then lower the heat"
bouillabaisse
Mark
$400 [25]
From 1780-83 James Monroe studied law under this man, then governor of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
Mark
$400 [14]
Sri Lanka's minority Tamil are mostly Hindu & the majority Sinhalese mostly this religion
Buddhist
Maggi Mark
$400 [5]
"Pinch me, Rosie, here we are going down the river like Antony and Cleopatra on that barge"
The African Queen
Mark
$400 [22]
He came up with a gyroscopic stabilizer for ships before his company merged with Remington Rand
Sperry
Fred
$400 [4]
Russian uses this 32-letter alphabet developed from the Greek alphabet
the Cyrillic alphabet
Maggi
$400 [17]
Instead of sipping this reptilian soup you can make a mock version flavored with veal
turtle
Maggi
$600 [26]
This president was the 1st inductee into the Conservation Hall of Fame
Teddy Roosevelt
Fred
$600 [15]
The governor of Macau is appointed by the governor of this European country
Portugal
Mark
$600 [9]
"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!"
The King and I
Mark
$600 [23]
He may have understood gravity, but the steam-powered car he built in 1680 didn't work
Newton
Mark
$800 [7]
While English does not, Cornish, Welsh & Gaelic do belong to this language group
the Celtic language
$800 [19]
These stuffed noodles, the Jewish version of raviolis, are usually served in soup
kreplach
Maggi
$800 [27]
In 1935 he played on the college all star football team against the Chicago Bears
Gerry Ford
Mark
$800 [16]
The island of Singapore is separated from this peninsula to the north by the Strait of Johor
the Malay Peninsula
Maggi
$800 [10]
"Now that we're through with "Humiliate the Host"... how about a little round of "Get the Guests?"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Maggi
$800 [29]
No one knows who invented the razor but we know this man invented the safety razor
(King) Gillette
Fred
$1,000 [8]
According to the World Almanac this international language could shortly have 2 million speakers
Esperanto
Maggi
$1,000 [20]
From the Tamil for "pepper water" it's a spicy curry soup
mulligatawny soup
Maggi
$1,000 [28]
During his administration the U.S. acquired Puerto Rico, Guam & the Hawaiian Islands
McKinley
Mark
$1,000 [21]
It's Burma's new 7-letter name
Myanmar
Fred
$1,000 [11]
"Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there"
The Grapes of Wrath
Fred Maggi
$1,000 [30]
Ottmar Mergenthaler's machine for producing printing bars is better known as this
the linotype
Fred
DD $3,000 [6]
It's the most widely spoken romance language
Spanish
Mark
DD $3,000 [18]
A madrilène is a consommé flavored with this kind of juice
tomato juice
Maggi

Final Jeopardy!

COMPOSERS

He originally titled his work "How Petya Outwitted the Wolf", but that gave away the end

Prokofiev

Fred "Who was Prokofiev?" — wagered $3,999
Maggi "Who is Tchaikovsky?" — wagered $8,000
Mark "Who is Prokofiev?" — wagered $4,600

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