Show #1324 1990-05-10 (taped 1990-04-21) College Championship

1990 College Championship quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Amy Zucker — a senior from Wesleyan University (Connecticut)

Penny Prior — a sophomore from Georgetown University

Joey Burgoon — a senior from Georgia Tech

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Joey	$600	$3,000	$6,400	$10,300 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$6,400 19 R, 1 W
Penny	$1,000	$2,500	$6,300	$4,300 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$6,300 15 R, 0 W
Amy	$2,600	$3,300	$7,000	$12,801 Automatic semifinalist	$7,200 19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC TRIVIA	RHYMES WITH CREEP	ENERGY	RELIGION	POP MUSIC	SHARK!
$100 [21] This military marquis' full name was Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette Penny	$100 [24] It follows "lover's" & precedes "frog" Leap Penny	$100 [1] Nearly all artificial satellites are powered by batteries charged by this Sun Amy	$100 [2] The angel Moroni told him about the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated Joseph Smith Joey	$100 [5] This group's "Beauty & the Beat" album was the first by a female rock band to reach No. 1 The Go-Go's Penny	$100 [16] Unlike most sharks, the nurse shark does not have to constantly do this Swim Amy
$200 [22] Wm. Bradford's first wife drowned while this ship was anchored before the colonists went ashore Mayflower Amy	$200 [25] Lincoln, Leicester, Romney & Shropshire are breeds of these raised in England Sheep Penny	$200 [3] Gamma rays produced by nuclear fission are best blocked by a thick shield of this metal Lead Amy	$200 [10] Officially, any practicing Roman Catholic male can be elected to this high office Pope Joey	$200 [6] "Dancing in the Street" from the Live-Aid concert paired David Bowie with this rock legend Mick Jagger Penny	$200 [17] When old ones are lost new ones quickly move in & replace them Teeth Joey
$300 [23] James Monroe was the third president to die on this date July 4 Penny	$300 [26] Last name of the actress who played Alan Alda's lover in "The Seduction of Joe Tynan" (Meryl) Streep Penny	$300 [4] Coal, natural gas & oil, which are remains of preshistoric plants & animals, are called this kind of "fuel" Fossil fuel Penny	$300 [12] Dating from 1763, the oldest synagogue in the U.S. is in this resort town in Rhode Island Newport Amy	$300 [7] In 1984 this comic parodied Michael Jackson's "Beat It" with record & video versions of "Eat It" "Weird Al" Yankovic Joey	$300 [18] The Chinese dry & use this part of the shark in soup Fin Joey
$400 [29] William Penn wrote "No Cross, No Crown", an explanation of Quaker beliefs, while he was imprisoned in this Tower of London	$400 [27] This type of tide occurs during the first & third quarters of the moon Neap Amy	$400 [8] Environmentalists are critical of this method of mining that removes coal found near the surface Strip mining Penny	$500 [14] House of worship in which prayer is led by an imam Mosque Penny	$400 [9] When David Lee Roth left Van Halen, he jumped in Sammy Hagar Amy	$400 [19] Sharks have no swim bladder so this oil-filled organ helps keep them from sinking Liver Joey
$500 [30] Ludovico Manin, the last person to hold this office in Venice, was deposed in 1797 Doge	$500 [28] Sometimes it means profound, but other times it means abysmal Deep Joey	$500 [11] The capacity of an air conditioner is measured in BTUs, which are these British thermal units Amy	DD $1,100 [13] John Calvin's followers in England were "Puritans"; his followers in France were called this Huguenots Amy	$500 [15] These "Sultans of Swing" did "The Walk of Life" in 1985 Dire Straits Joey	$500 [20] This, not the great white, is the largest shark; & it eats only plankton & little fish Whale shark Joey

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY	LITERARY RELATIVES	THE ELEMENTS	NICKNAMES	THE 15th CENTURY	WORDPLAY
$200 [16] The Marne joins this river at Paris Seine Amy	$200 [1] His great-granddaughter Monica, who's a novelist too, probably never called him an "old curiosity" Charles Dickens Joey	$200 [9] Seashells are made of its carbonate, your bones of its phosphate Calcium Joey	$200 [11] The British tabloids refer to the Duchess of York by this 6-letter nickname Fergie Joey	$200 [21] It was captured by the Ottoman Turks & renamed Istanbul in 1453 Constantinople Joey	$200 [26] His name spells out the initials of "I am chairman of Chrysler Corporation, America" Lee Iacocca Joey
$400 [17] This city, the Soviet Union's second largest, was founded at the mouth of the Neva River in 1703 Leningrad Amy	$400 [4] Famous sisters whose brother, Branwell, tried to become an author but fell into a dissolute life Bronte sisters Penny	$400 [8] Chemically like iron, this element, symbol "Co", is used in a blue pigment Cobalt Amy	$400 [12] Armed forces branch called "leathernecks" because of the leather bands once worn around their throats Marines Joey	$400 [22] In 1482 he submitted his plans for exploration to King John of Portugal Christopher Columbus Amy	$400 [27] The name of this extinct bird is a musical note said twice Dodo Amy
$800 [19] This port, Japan's second largest city, is only 20 miles from Tokyo Yokohama Joey	$600 [5] Writer & artist Frieda Hughes is the daughter of Ted Hughes & this poet who committed suicide Sylvia Plath Joey	$600 [7] By mass it's the most abundant element in Earth's hydrosphere Oxygen Joey	$600 [13] This U.S. president's yacht was called "Honey Fitz" after his maternal grandfather John F. Kennedy Penny	$800 [24] A 15th C. antipope had the same name as this popular 20th C. pope, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Pope John	$600 [28] Its pluralis beeves Beef Amy
$1,000 [20] Channel that's between the 2 land masses the Romans called "The Pillars of Hercules" Strait of Gibraltar	$800 [6] Mark Twain's grandniece Jean Webster wrote this 1912 novel about an orphan, not a "paternal spider" "Daddy-Long-Legs"	$800 [3] The next element on the periodic table in the sequence uranium, neptunium.... Plutonium Amy	$800 [14] This rock star, nicknamed "Captain Fantastic", has over $50,000 worth of eyeglasses Elton John Amy	DD $1,000 [23] The notebooks he left containing his anatomical drawings are written in mirror writing Leonardo da Vinci Amy	$800 [29] This palindromic word is a synonym for "midday" Noon Penny
DD $1,300 [18] City in which you can see the following view:[Sugarloaf Mountain] Rio de Janeiro Amy	$1,000 [10] Author of "The House of the Seven Gables", his son Julian published a biography of him in 1884 Nathaniel Hawthorne Penny	$1,000 [2] The most common of the noble gasses, it's used to fill electric light bulbs Argon Joey Amy	$1,000 [15] Broad-shouldered but barely 5 ft. tall, this 19th century Illinois senator was known as the "Little Giant" Stephen Douglas Amy	$1,000 [25] The marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon to Isabella of this kingdom led to Spanish unity Castille Joey	$1,000 [30] Add a letter to the middle of "round" to get this other word that means "round" Rotund Penny

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CITIES

Massachusetts city named for an industrialist whose family included several poets & an astronomer

Lowell

Penny "What is Boston?" — wagered $2,000

Joey "What is Lowell?" — wagered $3,900

Amy "What is Lowell?" — wagered $5,801

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