Show #1486 1991-02-04 (taped 1991-01-07) Regular

Leslie Frates game 2.

Contestants

Scott Holliday — a legal word processor from Hoboken, New Jersey

Jim McLeod — a regional sales manager from San Antonio, Texas

Leslie Frates — a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,198)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Leslie $1,000 $2,700 $8,000 $7,000
2-day champion: $13,198
$10,300
27 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jim $0 $0 $800 $0
3rd place: Magnavox 20" stereo color TV with universal remote + a Nintendo Entertainment System with Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy! , & Fisher-Price preschool games + Wheel of Fortune for the Nintendo Game Boy
$1,800
8 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Scott $1,200 $3,000 $3,000 $6,000
2nd place: Whirlpool microwave/range with self-cleaning oven + 7-piece set of Bra Oro-Inox stainless steel cookware with brass handles & diffuser bottoms
$2,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 7 W

Jeopardy! Round

FILE UNDER "A" NONFICTION DIRECTIONS THE OSCARS TRAINS POTPOURRI
$100 [1]
Target & field as well as flight shooting are popular versions of this sport
archery
Leslie Jim Scott
$100 [6]
Dee Brown's "Indian History of the American West" is called "Bury My Heart at" this place
Wounded Knee
Scott
$100 [11]
It's the opposite of larboard
starboard
Jim
$100 [16]
When he won for the first time in 1970, he said he should have put on that eye patch 35 years earlier
John Wayne
$100 [19]
You can be sure it was this manufacturer & inventor who 1st patented the railroad air brake
Westinghouse
Leslie
$100 [26]
The Key Reporter is a newsletter published by this college & university honor society
Phi Beta Kappa
Leslie
$200 [2]
A "heavenly" herb, or a dessert wine said to have originated near Los Angeles, for which it's named
Angelica
Leslie
$200 [7]
In 1941 a collection of his speeches was published under the title "Blood, Sweat, and Tears"
Winston Churchill
Scott
$200 [12]
Besides a young man, Horace Greeley also told the unemployed in New York City to head this way
West
Leslie
$300 [18]
The only Oscar-winning song sung by a cricket
"When You Wish Upon A Star"
Jim
$200 [20]
The track consists of 2 rails held by these supports "that bind" them
the ties
Leslie
$200 [27]
Shorthand teacher Emma Dearborn originated this "fast" form of shorthand around 1924
speedwriting
Scott
$300 [3]
It's a violent dance performed by Parisian couples, not by American Indians as its name implies
an Apache dance
Scott
$300 [8]
"Hit Men" is F. Dannen's 1990 book about "Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside" this "Business"
the music business
Leslie Scott
$300 [13]
According to the kids' joke you don't get it from an elephant, you get it from a duck
down
Jim Scott
$400 [24]
These 2 actors have won Oscars only as directors--in 1980 & 1981
Robert Redford & Warren Beatty
Leslie
$300 [21]
Term for the uniform distance between the rails; each country has a standard one
the gauge
Leslie
$400 [4]
The name of this island precedes "and Barbuda" in the name of a Caribbean country
Antigua
Leslie
$400 [9]
In "History of My Calamities" he wrote about his tragic romance with Heloise
Abelard
Leslie
$400 [14]
If you own a watch, you might know this direction is also known as with ershins
counterclockwise
Scott
$500 [25]
She broke an Academy ban when she walked up to receive her "Darling" Oscar in 1966 in a mini-dress
Julie Christie
Leslie
$400 [22]
Running from Paris to Constantinople, it was called the "king of trains and the train of kings"
the Orient Express
Leslie
$500 [5]
This Egyptian god of the dead is often depicted with the head of a jackal
Anubis
Scott
$500 [10]
This author of "Our Man in Havana" published a volume of his letters to the editor in 1990
Graham Greene
Scott
$500 [15]
In general the Nile flows in this direction
north
Scott
DD $1,000 [17]
These 2 "Becket" stars have each been nominated 7 times without winning
Peter O'Toole & Richard Burton
Scott
$500 [23]
The world's longest railroad line connects Vladivostok to this city 5600 miles away
Moscow
Leslie

Double Jeopardy! Round

1958 SCIENCE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WORLD CAPITALS HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES FAMOUS QUOTES
$200 [1]
The IRS approved this form for use by all persons whose income was $10,000 or less
the short form
Leslie
$200 [9]
On June 1, 1831 James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down
the magnetic north pole
Leslie Jim Scott
$200 [7]
The saxophone belongs to this family, not the brass
woodwinds
Leslie
$200 [2]
The University of San Marcos, Peru's oldest school of higher learning, was founded here in 1551
Lima
Leslie
$200 [26]
Not surprisingly, in 1892 this state became the 1st to make Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday
Illinois
Jim
$200 [16]
In "The Compleat Angler", Izaak Walton wrote, "I have laid aside business and gone" to do this
fishing
Leslie
$400 [13]
In December, he became head of state of France for the second time
de Gaulle
Jim Scott
$400 [11]
Newton figured the Earth should be an oblate spheroid with an equatorial bulge because it does this
spin (on its axis)
Jim
$400 [8]
If someone showed you his Fender Stratocaster, you'd be looking at one of these
a guitar
Jim
$400 [3]
From 1936 to 1961, this capital of the Dominican Republic was called Ciudad Trujillo
Santo Domingo
Leslie
$400 [27]
In Canada the Monday before May 25th is a holiday named for this queen
Victoria
Leslie
$400 [19]
When crowned in 1804, he told the Pope, "I am the successor, not of Louis XIV, but of Charlemagne"
Napoleon
Scott
$600 [23]
The World's Fair, symbolized by a 334'-high "Atomium", was opened April 17 by King Baudouin in this capital
Brussels
Leslie
$600 [12]
From the Greek for "number", it's the science of numbers
arithmetic
Leslie Scott
$600 [10]
Term for the various strands of gut, nylon or wire stretched over the head of a side drum
a snare (snares)
Jim
$600 [4]
This city was founded in 1434 to succeed Angkor Thom as capital of the Khmer Empire
Phnom Penh
Leslie
$600 [28]
In 1889 the 2nd Socialist International designated this day to honor the world's workers
May 1st
Leslie
$600 [20]
In March 1964 he said, "For the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty"
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Scott
$800 [24]
Jordan's King Hussein's cousin was overthrown & killed in this neighboring country
Iraq
Jim Scott
$800 [14]
A lean, small-boned person is an ectomorph; an endomorph is round & this type is muscular
a mesomorph
Leslie
$1,000 [18]
The pitch of 1 of the 2 standard orchestra clarinets
B-flat (or A)
Leslie
$800 [5]
Windhoek is the capital & largest city of this newly independent former mandate of South Africa
Namibia
Leslie
$800 [21]
American wit who said Puritanism was "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"
H.L. Mencken
Jim
DD $1,000 [25]
This Russian made news on October 29 when he turned down a cash prize worth $41,420
Boris Pasternak
Jim
$1,000 [15]
In this pre-birth procedure, a small amount of fluid is withdrawn from the sac in the uterus & tested
amniocentesis
Scott
DD $2,300 [17]
In a famous opera, the Queen of the Night gives Tamino this instrument
the Magic Flute
Leslie
$1,000 [6]
When in this European capital, don't forget to see the Antonin Dvorak Museum & the tomb of St. Wenceslas
Prague (Czechoslovakia)
Leslie
$1,000 [22]
Failing to corner the silver market in 1980, he said, "A billion dollars is not what it used to be"
(Bunker) Hunt
Leslie

Final Jeopardy!

NOVEL CHARACTERS

Striking "soft chords on the piano", he says, "Like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart"

Dorian Gray ( The Picture of Dorian Gray )

Jim "Who was ?" — wagered $800
Scott "Who was Dorian Grey?" — wagered $3,000
Leslie "Who is ?" — wagered $1,000

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