Show #1336 1990-05-28 (taped 1990-01-29) Regular

Richard Neale game 5.

Contestants

Jim Vichench — a railroad clerk from Brooklyn, New York

Dan Sadoff — a veterinarian from Saint Paul, Minnesota

Richard Neale — a taxpayer service representative from Concord, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $56,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Richard $500 $800 $8,200 $0
3rd place: a pedal boat + a Nintendo Entertainment System
$5,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Dan $2,100 $4,100 $8,300 $0
2nd place: a trip to Orlando and cruise
$8,300
22 R, 1 W
Jim $800 $4,900 $11,200 $5,800
New champion: $5,800
$8,700
22 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

IN THE NEWS DIRECTORS HODGEPODGE LITERARY TERMS TEXAS HATS
$100 [14]
You can punch in the chapter & verse you want in the hand-held computer version of this book now available
the Bible
Jim
$100 [2]
This director said he followed the format of "Anna Karenina" in writing "Hannah and Her Sisters"
Woody Allen
Dan
$100 [8]
The finest of these red gems, July's birthstone, are found in Burma
rubies
Dan
$100 [4]
Formerly a long narrative about chivalric heroes, today it's a love story
romance
Dan Jim
$100 [1]
In addition to the city, a national forest & a fort in Texas are named for him
Sam Houston
Dan
$100 [19]
This is said to be put on by a ponderer
a thinking cap
Richard
$200 [15]
Maya Lin, the architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed one for this movement in Montgomery, Al.
the civil rights movement
Jim
$200 [3]
This late director-choreographer married Mary-Ann Niles, Joan McCracken & Gwen Verdon
Bob Fosse
Jim
$200 [9]
Botanically speaking, it's the female, seed-bearing part of a flower, not a weapon
a pistil
Jim
$200 [23]
Words that sound the same but have different meanings are called this
homophones (or homonyms)
Dan
$200 [13]
In 1901 this was discovered at Spindletop
oil
Jim
$200 [24]
1 of the basic silhouettes from which women's hats are derived, it's all wound up
a turban
Richard
$300 [16]
Paul Tagliabue succeeded Pete Rozelle as commissioner of this league
the NFL
Dan
$300 [5]
Italian who directed "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "Once Upon a Time in America"
Sergio Leone
Dan
$300 [10]
The adrenal glands are found on top of this pair of organs
the kidneys
Dan
$300 [25]
Style of writing in which the writer is outside of the action
third person
Jim
$300 [20]
1 of the 2 men born in Texas who were vice presidents of the United States
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Jim
$300 [28]
For masons, it holds cement; for grads, a tassel
a mortarboard
Jim
$400 [17]
In 1989 Money Magazine & Places Rated Almanac listed this N.W. city as the best U.S. city in which to live
Seattle
Jim
$400 [6]
He directed Joanne Woodward in "Rachel, Rachel" on film & "The Shadow Box" on TV
Paul Newman
Dan
$400 [11]
The "blood" variety of this is known as black pudding
sausage
Dan
$400 [26]
A short poem describing rural life, its name sounds a bit inactive
an idyll
Dan
$400 [21]
The third largest city in Texas is named after this saint of Padua, Italy
San Antonio
Jim
$400 [29]
In cricket a bowler who took this many wickets in the same number of balls got a free hat--hence hat trick
three
Dan
$500 [18]
This champion of the Prague Spring reforms was elected Speaker of Parliament in Czechoslovakia
Alexander Dubcek
Dan
$500 [7]
Norman Jewison, Arthur Hiller & Mack Sennett were all born in this country
Canada
Jim
$500 [12]
Elizabeth II was visiting this continent when she found out that she had become queen
Africa
Richard Jim
$500 [27]
Type of monologue in which a character describes his thoughts & feelings
a soliloquy
Dan
DD $1,900 [22]
With over 1,400, including 1 built jointly by Dallas & Fort Worth, Texas has more of these than any state
airports
Jim
$500 [30]
Wearing Perseus' Helmet of Hades rendered you this
invisible
Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS ITALIAN HISTORY NONFICTION BALLET PRIME MINISTERS AMERICANS IN PARIS
$200 [1]
In 1755 the first opera house in this Portuguese capital was leveled by an earthquake
Lisbon
Jim
$200 [13]
Gold coin first minted in Florence in 1252, named not for Florence but after the Italian for "flower"
florin
Richard
$200 [18]
Published in 1742, "The Complete Housewife" was the first of this type of book in the U.S.
a cookbook
Dan
$200 [27]
"Double Exposure" is a ballet based on this "picturesque" Oscar Wilde novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Richard
$200 [2]
This country's prime minister Charles Haughey is a son-in-law of it's former prime minister Sean Lemass
Ireland
Richard
$200 [7]
In 1961 he described himself as "the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris"
John Kennedy
Richard Jim
$400 [3]
This city was famous for it's linen years before becoming the capital of Northern Irealnd
Belfast
Dan
$400 [14]
Foreign Minister from 1936-43, Galeazzo Ciano was a son-in-law of this man, who had him executed in 1944
Mussolini
Jim
$400 [22]
"Lady Sings the Blues" is her autobiography
Billie Holiday
Dan
$400 [30]
The battement is this specific movement, & can be high or low
kick
$400 [9]
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected P.M. of Ceylon in 1960, 1 year after this relative was assassinated
her husband
Jim
$400 [8]
Some 100,000 people were on hand to greet him at Le Bourget Airport in 1927
Lindbergh
Jim
$600 [4]
Some of the architecture in this Liberian capital is reminiscent of the southern U.S.
Monrovia
Dan
$600 [15]
19th century guerilla fighter whose "red shirts" fought for the "risorgimento", or resurrection, of Italy
Garibaldi
Richard
$600 [23]
Her 1970 book "Sexual Politics" was quite popular among feminists
Kate Millet
Richard Dan Jim
$600 [29]
Last name of American Indian ballerinas Marjorie & Maria, who are sisters
Tallchief
Richard
$800 [11]
David Lange, former P.M. of this island country, is famous for his anti-nuclear politics
New Zealand
Richard
$600 [19]
All of Paris adored this U.S. Minister to France, who served from 1778-85
Benjamin Franklin
Dan
$800 [5]
The Grand Ducal Palace in this city is the ceremonial residence of Grand Duke Jean
Luxembourg
Richard
$1,000 [17]
He was canonized 2 years after his death in 1226 &, with Catherine of Sienna, is Italy's patron saint
Saint Francis of Assisi
Jim
$800 [24]
Piers Paul Read story of 1974 that was subtitled "The Story of the Andes Survivors"
Alive
Dan
$800 [28]
In 1989 this Soviet-born dancer resigned as dance director of the Paris Opera Ballet
Rudolf Nureyev
$1,000 [12]
This country's prime minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd was stabbed to death in 1966
South Africa
Jim
$800 [20]
While living in poverty in Paris, Henry Miller was inspired to write this, his first published work
Tropic of Cancer
Dan
$1,000 [6]
In former years pearl diving was important to the economy of this capital of the United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Dan
DD $3,400 [16]
In the middle ages the Ghibillines supported the Holy Roman Emperor & the Guelphs supported him
the pope
Richard
$1,000 [25]
In "Being and Nothingness", his 1943 philosophical work, he investigated the nature of existence
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
Richard
$1,000 [26]
The Ballets Russes disbanded after this impresario died in 1929
Diaghilev
Jim
DD $1,700 [10]
She had never held public office before becoming Prime Minister of Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
Jim
$1,000 [21]
They entertained everyone from Ezra Pound to Picasso at their studio at 27 rue de Fleurus
Alice B.Toklas & Gertrude Stein
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

London's College of Heralds granted this American college a coat of arms in 1694

William & Mary

Richard "What is Columbia Uni" — wagered $8,200
Dan "What is Harvard?" — wagered $8,300
Jim "What's Harvard?" — wagered $5,400

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