Show #1563 1991-05-22 (taped 1991-02-25) Regular

Contestants

Barbara Komansky — a teacher-in-training from New York City, New York

Ken DeBusk — a computer instructor from Coldwater, Michigan

Mickey Tennenbaum — a teacher originally from The Hague, Holland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mickey $1,800 $3,100 $7,500 $500
3rd place: Killer Whale statue by Boehm Porcelain
$7,500
19 R, 2 W
Ken $300 $1,700 $8,900 $17,800
New champion: $17,800
$8,900
19 R, 2 W
Barbara $200 $2,400 $8,200 $1,400
2nd place: a trip to Calgary, Canada
$4,700
20 R (including 3 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPH"E" TV NOSTALGIA MOTHERHOOD TECHNOLOGY ANIMALS EPONYMS
$100 [5]
A castle built on top of Castle Rock dominates the central part of this Scottish city
Edinburgh
Barbara
$100 [1]
Of "Bewitched", "Bothered" or "Bewildered", the series that starred Elizabeth Montgomery
Bewitched
Mickey
$100 [3]
The 2-word phrase that describes a mother's natural desire to bear & care for children
mothering instinct
Barbara
$100 [16]
By the end of the 17th century the English upper crust were using the 3-prong type of these
forks
Barbara
$100 [10]
These 60 lb. rodents are known for their broad flat tails & their engineering feats
beavers
Barbara
$100 [22]
When upper Peru became an independent country, it took this name, after its liberator
Bolivia
Ken
$200 [6]
This Dutch city known for its cheese was an important port until its harbor silted up
Edam
Mickey
$200 [2]
When this TV family made yet another comeback in 1990, Leah Ayres took over the role of Marcia
The Brady Bunch
Barbara
$200 [4]
This kind of flower is traditionally worn to honor your mother on Mother's Day
carnation
Ken
$200 [26]
Antron & Cordura are 2 types of this synthetic fiber made by Du Pont
nylon
Ken
$200 [12]
Wolverines are members of this animal family, Pop
weasels
Ken
$200 [23]
This popular hairstyle of the 18th century was named for the mistress of King Louis XV
Pompadour
Barbara
$300 [19]
Jabal Katrinah, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, is the highest point in this country
Egypt
Ken
$300 [7]
J. Fred Muggs, who made his debut on this show in 1953, is alive & well & living in retirement
The Today Show
Mickey
$300 [11]
Indian super mom who set out to guide Lewis & Clark with an infant strapped to her back
Sacajawea
Mickey Barbara
$300 [27]
General Electric introduced this form of office illumination in the 1930s
fluorescent lighting
Barbara
$300 [13]
Bull snakes have a small flap in front of the opening of the windpipe that lets them make this sound
hissing
$400 [25]
A French writer & statesman gave his name to this thick filet steak, often prepared for two
Chateaubriand
Ken Barbara
$400 [20]
Portoferraio is the chief town on this island where Napoleon was exiled
Elba
Ken
$400 [8]
In the 1960s Jerry Van Dyke of "Coach" starred in this series about an automobile that talked
My Mother the Car
Mickey
$400 [17]
Bertolt Brecht's title character who symbolizes motherly suffering when her 3 children are killed
Mother Courage
Mickey
$400 [29]
Still used after 2,000 years, a quern is a set of 2 stones, one on the other, used to do this
milling
Mickey
$400 [14]
The only member of this order native to the New World is the opossum
marsupials
Ken
$500 [28]
Thermos is actually a trademark for this flask, named for the chemist who invented it
Dewar flask
Ken
$500 [21]
Cuenca is sometimes called the "Athens of" this South American country
Ecuador
Barbara
$500 [9]
"Brambly" nickname of Ozzie & Harriet's TV neighbor played by Don DeFore
Thorny
Mickey
$500 [18]
It finishes the quote from the book of Proverbs, "Despise not thy mother when she is..."
old
Ken Barbara
$500 [30]
The vitascope patented by Thomas Armat in 1895 was an early one of these
motion picture projector
Mickey
$500 [15]
As a tom is a male turkey, this is a male duck
drake
Ken
DD $1,000 [24]
A long-sleeved knitted sweater honors this earl who led the Charge of the Light Brigade
(the 7th Earl of) Cardigan
Barbara

Double Jeopardy! Round

1959 POETS BIBLICAL PEOPLE PENNSYLVANIA PLAYS MONTHS
$200 [9]
This VP engaged in the "Kitchen Debate" with Khrushchev at the U.S. exhibition in Moscow
Nixon
Mickey
$200 [22]
His wife, Aline Kilmer, was a poet, too
Joyce Kilmer
Barbara
$200 [1]
His sons, Ham, Shem & Japeth, were not born until he was over 500 years old
Noah
Ken
$200 [18]
You could call them Pennsylvania Dutch Masters as they grow $14 mil. worth of this crop yearly
tobacco
Mickey
$200 [15]
The setting for Tom Stoppard's "Night and Day" is Kambawe, a fictional country on this continent
Africa
Mickey
$200 [3]
England's Charles II, the merry monarch, was born in this merry, merry month
May
Barbara
$400 [10]
Chicago's city council raised this mayor's salary from $25,000 to $35,000 a year
(Richard J.) Daley
Mickey
$400 [23]
This title was bestowed on Edith Sitwell in 1954
Dame of the British Empire
Mickey Barbara
$400 [2]
Before she was named Eve, Eve was called this, meaning "out of man"
woman
Barbara
$400 [27]
Landmarks in this city include Heinz Hall & the Monongahela Incline
Pittsburgh
Ken
$400 [16]
In "Golden Boy" a violinist gives up his musical dreams to compete in this sport
boxing
Barbara
$600 [5]
In Roman myth his blessing was asked for at the beginning of each month, not just the first
Janus
Ken
$600 [11]
On March 26, Elizabeth Taylor, who was raised as a Christian Scientist, converted to this religion
Judaism
Barbara
$600 [24]
Clarence Darrow was once a law partner of this poet, who wrote "The New Spoon River" in 1924
Edgar Lee Masters
Mickey
$600 [6]
His name means "one laughs" because Sarah laughed about giving birth to him at her advanced age
Isaac
Mickey Ken
$600 [28]
About 50 miles of Pennsylvania's border is on this Great Lake
Lake Erie
Barbara
$600 [19]
"Funny Girl" is based on incidents in this woman's life shortly before & after WWI
Fanny Brice
Barbara
$800 [12]
In this month in 1917 U.S. papers first printed reports of the Bolshevik Revolution
November
Mickey Ken Barbara
$800 [13]
On Jan. 25 he announced plans to call an ecumenical council, the first in nearly a century
Pope John XXIII
Ken
$800 [25]
He wrote, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Keats
Mickey Barbara
$800 [7]
The mother of John the Baptist, she greeted Mary, "Blessed art thou among women"
Elizabeth
Ken
$800 [29]
The state's name means Penn's these
woods (sylvania)
Barbara
$1,000 [21]
Robert E. Sherwood won his second Pulitzer Prize for this play about Lincoln
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Mickey
$1,000 [17]
Gerald Ford & Calvin Coolidge were the only 2 men to become president during this month
August
Ken
$1,000 [14]
He remained British prime minister when the Conservatives won their 3rd election in a row
(Harold) Macmillan
Mickey
$1,000 [26]
"Letters Home", a volume of her correspondence, was published in 1975, 12 years after her suicide
Sylvia Plath
Mickey
$1,000 [8]
The Roman official mentioned in the Bible who is also mentioned in the Apostles' Creed
Pontius Pilate
Ken
$1,000 [30]
If you consider the original 13 colonies as an arch, Pennsylvania is in this position
the keystone
Ken
DD $2,500 [20]
This T. Williams play is set on the verandah of the Costa Verde, a "very Bohemian" hotel in Mexico
The Night of the Iguana
Barbara
DD $1,500 [4]
The 2 animals mentioned in the proverb about the weather in the month in which spring begins
lion & lamb
Barbara

Final Jeopardy!

QUOTES

Nobel Laureate & Reagan advisor who titled 1 of his books "There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch"

Milton Friedman

Mickey "Who is ?" — wagered $7,000
Barbara "Who is David Stockman" — wagered $6,800
Ken "Who is Milton freidman?" — wagered $8,900

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