Show #1303 1990-04-11 (taped 1989-11-14) Regular

Contestants

Roy Jimenez — a software developer from Sonoma, California

Bill Schwartz — a deputy district attorney from San Pedro, California

Ed Borasky — a supercomputer programmer from Aloha, Oregon (whose 3-day cash winnings total $38,025)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ed $1,500 $3,000 $7,800 $0
3rd place: Sears Lighthouse Collection curio cabinet
$9,800
21 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Bill $600 $1,000 $1,600 $3,100
2nd place: Profile vertical blinds & Hartco parquet floor tiles
$1,600
9 R, 4 W
Roy $700 $2,500 $9,900 $15,601
New champion: $15,601
$7,500
23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY SINGERS & THEIR ROLES LEGAL LINGO MEDICAL MATTERS COMMON BONDS MARK TWAIN
$100 [27]
Of the Greek city-states, it was the 1st to raise a standing army
Sparta
Bill
$100 [30]
She played Betsy Booth to Mickey Rooney's "Andy Hardy"
Judy Garland
Roy
$100 [13]
Larceny is usually divided into these 2 classes depending on the value of the stolen property
petty & grand
Bill
$100 [11]
You have hypertension when this is abnormally high
blood pressure
Roy
$100 [9]
T.E., Vicki, Welk
the name of Lawrence
Roy
$100 [1]
In "Pudd'nhead Wilson", Twain said a classic is "a book which people praise & don't" do this
read
Roy
$200 [26]
Their marriage in 1469 began the unification of nearly all of present-day Spain
Ferdinand & Isabella
Bill
$200 [29]
On stage, he was Ziggy Stardust, the king of space rock, & on film, an alien in "The Man Who Fell to Earth"
David Bowie
Roy
$200 [28]
"At the time in question I was on a retreat in the Himalayas" is an example of one
alibi
Ed
$200 [16]
It's what the "P" stands for in G.P.
practitioner
Roy
$200 [20]
The Rainbow Coalition, Operation Breadbasket, PUSH
Jesse Jackson's projects
Bill
$200 [6]
In 1894 Twain took this title character "Abroad" & 2 years later he became a "Detective"
Tom Sawyer
Roy
$300 [4]
The ancient Romans called this land "Hibernia"
Ireland
Roy
$300 [24]
She was the Acid Queen in "Tommy" & Auntie Entity in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"
Tina Turner
Roy
$300 [14]
Paying an attorney to insure that his services will be available puts him "on" this
retainer
Bill
$300 [25]
Before becoming a resident, most medical college graduates spend a year in this capacity
intern
Roy
$300 [23]
Gravure, silkscreen, offset
styles of printing
Roy
$300 [8]
He worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi until traffic was curtailed due to this
outbreak of the Civil War
Ed Bill
$400 [2]
This republic immediately preceded Hitler's 3rd Reich
Weimar Republic
Roy
$400 [5]
He made 2 films, "Come September" & "That Funny Feeling", with his wife, Sandra Dee
Bobby Darin
Ed
$400 [10]
In this type of law school "court", 2 teams of students take opposing sides of an imaginary case
moot court
Ed
$400 [15]
This sugar is the body's chief source of energy for cell metabolism
glucose
Ed
$400 [18]
A piano, a kite, a marionette
all stringed
Bill
$400 [21]
Samuel Clemens 1st used the name Mark Twain in 1863 while writing for this Nevada town's newspaper
Virginia City
Ed
$500 [3]
This French city's Palace of the Popes was the center of Christianity for most of the 14th century
Avignon
Bill
$500 [7]
She acted & sang in "Pete Kelly's Blues" & provided the voices of the Siamese cats in "Lady & the Tramp"
Peggy Lee
Ed
$500 [12]
Middle English for "to shut out", it means to bar one's right to redeem mortgaged property
foreclose
Ed Roy
DD $900 [17]
This most common suffix in medicine means "inflammation of "
-itis
Roy
$500 [19]
Bilge water, gasoline, iron
things you pump
Ed
$500 [22]
When 1st published, this book of Twain's travels to Europe was sold mainly by door-to-door salesman
The Innocents Abroad
Bill Roy

Double Jeopardy! Round

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES DRAMA COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD REFERENCE BOOKS PEOPLE WHALES
$200 [1]
Phrase used to describe an 18th century German literary movement, it means "storm & stress"
Sturm und Drang
Roy
$200 [3]
Eugene O'Neill wrote about a "Long Day's Journey into" this
Night
Roy
$200 [11]
In Pre-Columbian times the region that's now this country was called Quito, for the Quitu Indian natives
Ecuador
Ed
$200 [9]
Leslie Halliwell & Leonard Maltin are both known for writing guides to these
movies
Bill
$200 [8]
The cast of "L.A. Law" refers to these married co-stars as "The Tuckerberries"
Michael Tucker & Jill Eikenberry
Ed Bill
$200 [7]
Experts can identify species of whales by the height & share of water vapor exhaled through this
blowhole
Ed
$400 [2]
Spanish for "little war", it describes limited attacks behind enemy lines
guerrilla
Ed
$400 [12]
Robert Sherwood told about Duke Mantee in "The Petrified Forest" & this man "in Illinois"
Abe Lincoln
Ed
$400 [13]
This country's Olympic Stadium features a statue of long distance runner Paavo Nurmi
Finland
Ed
$400 [10]
As the credits indicate, many "Jeopardy!" clues are verified using this ency. from Macmillan
Collier's
Ed Bill Roy
$400 [14]
In 1964 Anthony Blunt secretly admitted to being a spy, but he kept his job as art advisor to her
Queen Elizabeth II
Roy
$400 [17]
This country accounts for the most whales killed each year
Japan
Ed
$600 [4]
French for "to know what to do"; you've got it if you're sophisticated & self-confident
savoir-faire
Roy
$600 [15]
In the 1st line of this 1949 work, Linda calls with some trepidation, "Willy!"
Death of a Salesman
Roy
$600 [21]
The former German colony of South West Africa is now known by this name
Namibia
Ed
$600 [19]
Irma S. Rombauer & Marion Rombauer Becker 1st published this cookbook in 1931
( The ) Joy of Cooking
Roy
$600 [18]
In 1938 this wrestler married Babe Didrikson
George Zaharias
Ed
$600 [22]
Also known as the sulfur-bottom whale, it's the largest animal that ever lived
blue whale
Roy
$800 [5]
Chinese phrase meaning "work together", it's come to mean unswervingly loyal or enthusiastic
gung-ho
Roy
$800 [16]
Noel Coward's "Bitter Sweet" opened in 1929 & this play of his with the same initials opened in 1941
Blithe Spirit
Ed
$800 [23]
In the 19th century this Asian nation was divided into 3 regions: Annam, Tonkin & Cochin China
Vietnam
Roy
$1,000 [27]
All doctors in the U.S. receive a free copy of the PDR, this book of pharmaceutical information
Physicians' Desk Reference
Ed
$800 [25]
She graced the June 19, 1989 cover of People holding her baby daughter, Danielle Riley Keough
Lisa Marie Presley
$1,000 [28]
This Arctic whale, identified by its long tusk, is also called the unicorn whale
narwhal
Ed
$1,000 [6]
From the Persian word for "give", it's a gift of money used as a tip or bribe in the Mideast
baksheesh
Ed
DD $3,000 [20]
A Longfellow poem & a Lillian Hellman play share this timely title
The Children's Hour
Roy
$1,000 [24]
A 15-mile causeway connects this Persian Gulf island nation with Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
$1,000 [26]
This comedian directed 3 films before receiving his 1st Oscar nomination, for acting in "Broadcast News"
Albert Brooks
Bill
DD $2,000 [29]
Common name of the whale seen here, its scientific name means "big-winged New Englander"
humpback
Ed

Final Jeopardy!

THE ROARING '20s

Term given to the flowering of Black American arts & letters

the Harlem Renaissance

Bill "What is Harlem Renaissance" — wagered $1,500
Ed "What is Harlem Night" — wagered $7,800
Roy "What was the Harlem Renaissance" — wagered $5,701

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