Show #9 1990-08-11 (taped 1990-06-20) Super Jeopardy!

Super Jeopardy!quarterfinal game 7.

Contestants

Yael Sofaer — a programmer and analyst originally from Israel

Ron Black — an attorney from Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Dave Traini — a high school administrator from Medford Lakes, New Jersey

Chuck Forrest — a foreign service officer originally from Grand Blanc, Michigan

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chuck $800 $1,600 $11,600 $20,901
2nd place: $5,000
$11,600
10 R, 1 W
Dave $1,200 $3,000 $20,000 $24,000
Semifinalist
$10,500
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Ron $2,800 $7,000 $10,450 $20,900
3rd place: $5,000
$10,500
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Yael $2,600 $4,400 $10,400 $16,801
4th place: $5,000
$10,400
15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CURRENT EVENTS NON-POTENT POTABLES SPORTS PROVERBS WORLD CAPITALS ODDS & ENDS
$200 [4]
Animal-rights activists have accused the navy of using these mammals as underwater “hit men”
dolphins
Chuck
$200 [20]
To make lemon juice into lemonade, these 2 ingredients must be added
sugar and water
Ron
$200 [8]
In May 1990 this Lakers player became the first guard in NBA history to win 3 MVP awards
Magic Johnson
Dave
$200 [11]
“East, west”, this “is best”
home
Yael
$200 [1]
King Christian IV built the Round Tower in this Danish capital as an astronomical observatory
Copenhagen
Dave
$200 [5]
The huge African goliath frogs entered in this May 1990 event in Angels Camp, CA. lost big
Calaveras County frog jumping contest
Dave
$400 [15]
After Lithuania & Estonia, it became the final Baltic republic to proclaim its independence
Latvia
Yael
$400 [23]
This powder mixed with milk is made from ground, kiln-dried, sprouted barley
malt
Quadruple Stumper
$400 [14]
In 1978 he won the heavyweight boxing title; 7 years later, his brother Michael did the same
Leon Spinks
Yael
$400 [18]
“The nearer” this, “the sweeter the flesh”
the bone
Chuck Quadruple Stumper
$400 [2]
Yarralumla House in this Australian capital is the residence of the governor-general
Canberra
Yael
$400 [9]
The pluribus, or many, in our motto “E Pluribus Unum” originally referred to this number
13
Yael
$600 [16]
In March, for the first time, it reached $3 trillion
national debt
Ron
$600 [24]
The color of this coffee drink reminded Italians of the color of a monk's habit, hence its name
cappuccino
Chuck
$600 [17]
1 of 3 jockeys who have won the Kentucky Derby 4 or more times
(1 of) Willie Shoemaker, Bill Hartack or Eddie Arcaro
Dave
$600 [19]
Alexander Pope's “Essay on Criticism” gave us this proverb on the recklessness of fools
fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Chuck
$600 [3]
The name of Martinque's capital includes the name of this country which colonized it
Fort-de-France
Chuck
$600 [10]
Though she stopped wearing those pantaloons in 1859 her name is still synonymous with them
(Amelia) Bloomer
Dave
$800 [21]
For health reasons, she stepped down as head of the Missionaries of Charity
Mother Teresa
Ron
$800 [29]
Introduced into Spain by Cortes, in the 17th century it became a fashionable drink
chocolate
Dave Yael
$800 [26]
This Oakland A's pitcher was the only man with 3 20-win seasons in the 1980s
Dave Stewart
Ron
$800 [25]
One of these “is never known till needed” & one “to all is” one “to none”
friend
Ron
$800 [6]
The churches & convents in this capital of Ecuador are renowned for their art treasures
Quito
Ron
$800 [12]
On May 5, 1960 the U.S. claimed it was a weather plane
U2
Yael
$1,000 [22]
In an upset victory, she was voted in as Nicaragua's new president
(Violeta) Chamorro
Dave
$1,000 [30]
Named for the peer it was created for, this black tea is often flavored with oil of bergamot
Earl Grey
Yael
$1,000 [27]
Randy Barnes, world record holder in this event, has licensed plates that read “80 feet”
shot put
Ron
$1,000 [28]
“No man is” one of these “to his valet”
hero
Dave
DD $1,000 [7]
The mausoleum of Kemal Attaturk in this city wasn't completed until 1953, 15 years after his death
Ankara
Ron
$1,000 [13]
After digging about 76 million cubic yards of earth to build a Panama canal, his firm went bankrupt in 1889
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Ron

Double Jeopardy! Round

PSYCH 103 ANCIENT HISTORY AUTHORS ROCKS & MINERALS PRESIDENTS SAMMY DAVIS JR.
$500 [7]
In 1938 this biologist was asked to teach a course on sex & marriage at Indiana Univ.
Kinsey
Ron
$500 [3]
By 221 B.C. the Ch'in state had defeated the Ch'u to form this country's 1st unified empire
China
Ron
$500 [22]
Ellis Weiner is listed as the co-author of her “Mayflower Manners”
Sydney Biddle Barrows
Chuck
$500 [10]
Originally these were quartz pebbles found in the Rhine River
rhinestones
Dave
$500 [23]
A month after taking office, he granted former president Nixon a full pardon
Ford
Dave
DD $50 [8]
This song, a hit for Sammy in 1969, was played at his memorial service: [Audio]Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong..
"I've Gotta Be Me"
Ron
$1,000 [14]
The digit-span test doesn't measure the width of your hand but how many of these you can recall
numbers
Yael
$1,000 [6]
Linus, the second to hold this office, reigned circa 69-79 A.D.
pope
Yael
$1,000 [21]
This marine biologist also wrote “The Sea Around Us”, but she's better known for “Silent Spring”
(Rachel) Carson
Yael
$1,000 [26]
There are deposits of this type of coal under half of West Virginia
bituminous
Chuck Dave
$1,000 [25]
His sudden death in 1923 led some to believe that he had been poisoned by his wife
Harding
Ron
$500 [29]
3-letter title of Sammy's last film, or a type of dancing at which he excelled
tap
Yael
$1,500 [15]
Swiss psychiatrist who said there is a “collective unconscious” shared by all manking
(Carl Gustav) Jung
Chuck
$1,500 [5]
The Seleucid Kingdom which once stretched from Thrace to India was a fragment of his empire
Alexander the Great
Dave
$1,500 [20]
His reporting job in D.C. provided him with material for his novel “Advise and Consent”
(Allen) Drury
Yael
$1,500 [12]
Some of these fine-grained laminated sedimentary rocks are a source of oil
shales
Ron
$1,500 [11]
After his son Willie died, he participated in several seances to try to contact him
Abraham Lincoln
Dave
$1,000 [30]
After he nearly died in an auto accident, Sammy converted to this religion
Judaism
Yael
$2,500 [19]
John B. Watson founded this school of psychology that studies human actions and reactions
behaviorism
Chuck
$2,000 [4]
Almost all of the Roman supply of this metal came from Cyprus, so they named it for the island
copper
Chuck
$2,000 [9]
He grew up in Hollywood & his first novel, “What Makes Sammy Run?”, was about an amoral studio exec
(Budd) Schulberg
Dave Yael
$2,000 [13]
Connemara, Ireland is famous for the green-streaked variety of this stone
marble
Yael
$2,000 [16]
His wife, M.W. Skelton, died 18 years before he took office, making him the 1st widower president
Thomas Jefferson
Quadruple Stumper
$2,000 [28]
The 1956 musical that Sammy starred in wasn't “Mr. Entertainment” but “Mr.” this
Wonderful
Dave Quadruple Stumper
DD $11,500 [24]
In this type of study, first done at McGill Univ., students were paid to feel, see, hear & touch nothing
sense deprivation
Dave
$2,500 [1]
Cambyses II of this country ruled Egypt during its 27th dynasty
Persia
Chuck
$2,500 [2]
When he won his Nobel Prize this author of “100 Years of Solitude” said Faulkner influenced him
(Gabriel Garcia) Marquez
Dave
$2,500 [18]
Now under the Coronation Chair, this stone came to England from Scotland
Stone of Scone
Dave
$2,500 [17]
He's nicknamed the “Era of Good Feeling President”
Monroe
Dave Ron
$2,500 [27]
Sammy performed in vaudeville with his father & his “adopted uncle” in this trio
Will Mastin
Ron Quadruple Stumper

Final Jeopardy!

THE CIVIL WAR

Re-admitted to the Union under Andrew Johnson, this Confederate state avoided Reconstruction

Tennessee

Yael "What is TN" — wagered $6,401
Ron "What is Tennessee?" — wagered $10,450
Chuck "What is Tennessee?" — wagered $9,301
Dave "What was Tennessee?" — wagered $4,000

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