Show #1346 1990-06-11 (taped 1990-02-05) Regular

Contestants

David Nixon — a personnel supervisor from San Antonio, Texas

Stuart Nulman — a newspaper editor and columnist from Saint-Laurent, Montreal

Russ Harris — a writer originally from Lincoln, Nebraska (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Russ $1,800 $4,600 $10,500 $20,998
2nd place: Dresher brass bed + Cicena Art-Deco radio
$7,600
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Stuart $200 $1,000 $4,400 $3,000
3rd place: Magnavox bar code/ remote control VCR + Nintendo Entertainment System featuring the Family & Junior Editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune
$4,400
11 R, 1 W
David $1,000 $2,100 $10,900 $21,800
New champion: $21,800
$10,700
22 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

"P"s & "Q"s FAIRY TALES JAPAN FOOD COWBOYS INDIANS
$100 [21]
Don't worry if you're sleeping under one of these: not all of them are "crazy"
quilts
David
$100 [6]
On a visit to town this country animal loved the food but ran home after escaping from a cat
mouse
$100 [1]
The Japanese refer to Japan by this word which means "source of the sun"
Nippon
Russ
$100 [16]
The 3 most popular ice cream flavors
strawberry, vanilla & chocolate
Stuart
$100 [10]
A cowboy "packing iron" was carrying one of these
gun
Russ
$100 [11]
After Little Big Horn he escaped to Canada, later to return & tour w/ Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Sitting Bull
Stuart
$200 [22]
This word commonly precedes line & pooper
party
David
$200 [7]
Freudians say this Little Red Riding Hood character represents infantile fear of the father
the wolf
David
$200 [2]
Financially, this automaker is Japan's largest industrial corporation
Toyota
Russ
$200 [26]
Guinness reports this is America's best-selling candy with over 33 billion rolls sold since 1913
Life Savers
Russ Stuart
$200 [17]
This name of part of a saddle comes from the Latin for "apple"
pommel
Russ
$200 [12]
The ghost dance was supposed to bring back dead Indian heroes & make them disappear
the white men
David
$300 [23]
Peter's last name in "The Turn of the Screw", or 1/5 of the Dionnes
Quint
Russ
$300 [8]
In "Hansel & Gretel" it was this person who made their father abandon them in the woods
the stepmother
David
$400 [4]
In 1972 the Winter Olympic Games were held in this city, the capital of Hokkaido
Sapporo
Russ
$300 [27]
Russian soup made with beets or cabbage, served hot or cold, often with sour cream
borscht
Russ
$300 [18]
On a ranch it was the building in which the hired hands lived
bunkhouse
Russ
$300 [13]
The Pueblos taught weaving to this tribe who became famous for it
the Navajo
Stuart David
$400 [24]
The one presented at Oberammergau is probably the most famous in the world
passion play
David
$400 [9]
At the wedding at the end of this tale, the bride is 100 years older than the groom but doesn't look it
"Sleeping Beauty"
Stuart
DD $500 [3]
The crest of the Japanese imperial family is a 16-petaled version of this flower
chrysanthemum
Russ
$400 [30]
The N.Y. Times & the Good Housekeeping recipes for this type of bread both call for caraway seeds
rye
Russ
$400 [19]
On a cattle drive the trail boss & this wagon led the way
chuckwagon
David
$400 [14]
When Jamestown was founded, the Indians in the region were in a confederacy led by this man
Powhatan
$500 [25]
These 2 6-letter synonyms for "tremble" differ by just 1 letter
quiver & quaver
$500 [28]
"Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman" is a line from this story
"Jack and the Beanstalk"
Stuart
$500 [5]
Former P.M. Tanaka was convicted of bribery in a 1983 scandal involving this U.S. aircraft corp.
Lockheed
Russ
$500 [29]
Green fruit closely related to the banana that is usually served boiled or fried
plantain
Russ
$500 [20]
Writing on cowboy life, easterners referred to these as "soiled doves"
prostitutes
Russ
$500 [15]
From an Algonquian word for "brother", it's an animal a clan considers its supernatural patron
totem
Russ

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES ART AVIATION FIRSTS COMPOSERS U.S. GEOGRAPHY AGATHA CHRISTIE
$200 [1]
"Surveyor President"
George Washington
Stuart
$200 [24]
It's said that when Leonardo da Vinci lay dying, this portrait was at his bedside
the "Mona Lisa"
David
$200 [6]
On September 20, 1904 he flew the first complete circle by an airplane while Orville watched
Wilbur Wright
Russ
$200 [21]
Tho he remained a bachelor for all his life, he's most famous for his "Wiegenlied" or "Lullaby"
Johannes Brahms
David
$200 [7]
The 2 highest waterfalls in North America, Yosemite & Ribbon Falls, are both in this state
California
Russ
$200 [12]
The novel in which Mr. Ratchett is stabbed on a train--12 times
"Murder on the Orient Express"
Russ
$400 [2]
"Father of the University of Virginia"
Thomas Jefferson
David
$400 [27]
When WWI began, both W. Kandinsky & Marc Chagall returned to this, their native country
Russia
Stuart
$400 [15]
In 1968 this German airline was the first to put the Boeing 737 into service
Lufthansa
David
$400 [22]
William Herschel, who is famous in this field of science, also did a little composing
astronomy
David
$400 [8]
Mt. Mitchell near Asheville in this state's Black Mountains is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River
North Carolina
David
$400 [13]
Dame Agatha thought this play might run for 8 months; it opened in 1952 & it's still running
The Mousetrap
Stuart
$600 [3]
"Hero of New Orleans"
Andrew Jackson
Stuart
$600 [28]
Paul Cezanne's work consisted mostly of still lifes & these, called "paysages" in French
landscapes
Russ
$600 [16]
In 1952 this country's de Havilland Comet became the 1st jet plane in commercial service
Great Britain
David
$600 [23]
Donizetti made his mark with an opera based on this wife of Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
Russ
$600 [9]
Lake Pontchartrain is this state's largest lake
Louisiana
Russ
$600 [14]
Much of this book takes place aboard the S.S. Karnak during an Egyptian cruise
"Death on the Nile"
David
$800 [4]
"Trust Buster" & "Four Eyes"
Theodore Roosevelt
David
$1,000 [30]
Impressionist born in Pennsylvania in 1844, she died near Paris in 1926
Mary Cassatt
Russ
$800 [17]
In 1933 he became the first man to fly solo around the world; 2 years later he died in a crash in Alaska
Wiley Post
David
DD $1,000 [25]
He didn't finish his Oratoria trilogy & wrote only 5 of his 6 planned "Pomp & Circumstance" marches
Edward Elgar
David
$800 [10]
The old courthouse in this Virginia port city houses the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Memorial
Norfolk
$800 [19]
Christie said this female detective always expected the worst of everyone, & was usually right
Miss Marple
Stuart
$1,000 [5]
"Butcher from Galena" & "Old Three Stars"
Ulysses S. Grant
David
DD $3,500 [29]
After more than 40 years at N.Y.'s Museum of Modern Art, this huge Picasso painting was returned to Spain
"Guernica"
Russ
$1,000 [18]
The first airship to make a round trip crossing of the Atlantic was one of these in 1919
zeppelin (or dirigible)
Stuart
$1,000 [26]
His "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" is a tone poem based on a written poem
Claude Debussy
David
$1,000 [11]
The huge lake created by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River is named for this conservationist
John Wesley Powell
Russ
$1,000 [20]
Many people wanted her to change the surprise ending of this '53 courtroom drama, but she refused
Witness for the Prosecution
David

Final Jeopardy!

MINERALS

These 2 nations lead the world in the production of gold

South Africa & USSR

Stuart "What are South Africa and India?" — wagered $1,400
Russ "What are S. Africa &CanadaUSSR?" — wagered $10,498
David "What are S. Africa & USSR" — wagered $10,900

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