Show #1273 1990-02-28 (taped 1989-10-11) Regular

Contestants

Barbara Lieberman — a librarian from Pinebrook, New Jersey

Jim Hennessy — a writer and consultant from San Clemente, California

Deborah Hummel — a proofreader from York, Pennsylvania

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Deborah $1,900 $3,300 $6,300 $11,400
New champion: $11,400
$6,300
23 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Jim $700 $1,500 $5,700 $11,398
2nd place: a Bassett Old World bedroom set
$5,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Barbara $300 $3,000 $1,400 $2,800
3rd place: Excel exercise machines
$1,100
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

EARLY AMERICA THE COMICS "H" ON THE MAP PERFUME WORDS THE SPORT PLAYED
$100 [15]
In 1790 the 1st of these was issued; it went to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a new method of making potash
a patent
Deborah
$100 [8]
From 1913-45 Arthur "Pop" Momand drew a comic strip called "Keeping Up with" them
the Joneses
Jim
$100 [10]
This section of San Francisco was a hotbed of the hippie movement in the late 1960s
Haight-Ashbury
Deborah
$100 [20]
In a woman's perfume, this word precedes "Secret"; in a man's cologne, it comes before "Copenhagen"
Royal
Barbara
$100 [6]
Vinyl & vintage are both derived from "vinum", the Latin word for this
grape
Jim
$100 [1]
Isiah Thomas, Patrick Ewing &Manute Bol
basketball
Jim
$200 [16]
It's "Common Sense" that he was the 1st to write an article regarding women's rights in America, in 1775
Thomas Paine
Deborah
$200 [9]
Jerome Siegel & Joe Shuster created this superhero when they were teenagers
Superman
Barbara
$200 [11]
The name of this mountain range comes from the Sanskrit word for "abode of snow"
Himalayas
Deborah
$200 [21]
A huge pair of lips adorns bottles of this late Spanish surrealist's perfume
Salvador Dalí
Barbara
$200 [7]
Meaning "light bringer", it was originally the Latin name for the Morning Star, not Satan
Lucifer
Deborah
$200 [2]
John Elway, Lawrence Taylor &Marcus Allen
football
Barbara
$300 [17]
Folk hero who became widely known thru the book "Discovery, Settlement & Present State of Kentucky"
Daniel Boone
Jim
$300 [25]
This expression for newspaper sensationalism came from "The Yellow Kid" which ran in the N.Y. World
yellow journalism
Deborah
$300 [12]
Also called the Yellow River, it flows over 3,000 miles to the Gulf of Chihli
Hwang-Ho
Deborah
$400 [23]
Geoffrey Beene's perfume named for this color didn't succeed, but now Giorgio is selling 1 with the same name
red
Deborah
$300 [27]
This English cry probably comes from the French cry "taiaut", used to excite the hounds when deer hunting
Tally-ho!
Deborah
$300 [3]
Mike Schmidt, Christy Mathewson &Ernie Banks
baseball
Deborah
$400 [18]
In the 18th c. William Savery, John Goddard & Duncan Phyfe became famous in this field
furniture making
Deborah
$400 [26]
The Dale Messick strip about this red-haired reporter came with cut-out paper doll outfits for her
Brenda Starr
Barbara
$400 [13]
It's the southernmost & westernmost major city in the U.S.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Jim
$500 [24]
These 2 mammals are pictured on boxes of Lauren perfume
horse & man
$400 [29]
This type of tree from the Greek kalyptein, to cover, covers over 500 species
eucalyptus
Barbara
$400 [4]
Rick Mears, Darrell Waltrip &Al Unser
auto racing
Barbara
$500 [19]
New Yorker who wrote at least 50 of the 85 "Federalist Papers"
Alexander Hamilton
Barbara
$500 [28]
A 1960 No. 1 hit song was based on this V.T. Hamlin cave man strip
Alley Oop
Barbara
$500 [14]
This N. American lake is said to have more islands than any other lake in the world, some 30,000
Lake Huron
Deborah
DD $600 [22]
This singer's new perfume is called "Only" & he might dedicate it by singingthe following:"To all the girls who cared for me, and filled my nights with ecstasy..."
Julio Iglesias
Barbara
$500 [30]
A Savoyard is a fan of this duo's works, which were 1st presented at the Savoy Theater
Gilbert & Sullivan
Jim
$500 [5]
Mark Roth, Marshall Holman &Nelson Burton Jr.
bowling
Barbara

Double Jeopardy! Round

MYTHS & LEGENDS MAMMALS ARCHITECTURE WASHINGTON STATE ACTORS & ACTRESSES REFERENCE BOOKS
$200 [6]
Our word museum came from places associated with this group that included Erato, Calliope & Clio
the Muses
Jim
$200 [18]
These flying mammals aren't really "blind"; most have small eyes concealed by fur
bats
Jim
$200 [11]
Politician Andrew Hamilton designed this building that housed the Liberty Bell
the Old Philadelphia State House
Deborah Jim
$200 [26]
The country's 1st municipal monorail line was built for this 1962 event
the 1962 Seattle World's Fair
Jim
$200 [1]
In jr. high school this "Rambo" star was voted the student most likely to end up in the electric chair
Sylvester Stallone
Jim
$200 [16]
Her granddaughter-in-law, Elizabeth, has updated her book on etiquette
Emily Post
Jim
$400 [7]
This Phrygian king who had the power to turn all into gold was later given donkey ears by an angry Apollo
King Midas
Deborah
$400 [20]
These "river" mammals secrete a pinkish fluid that makes them appear to be sweating blood
hippos
Deborah Jim
$400 [12]
Metal beams, electric motors & this invention made the construction of skyscrapers possible
the elevator
Deborah
$400 [27]
Carbon, one of these on Mt. Ranier, is over 6 miles long
a glacier
Deborah Barbara
$400 [2]
His son Patrick appeared with him in "The Searchers" & "The Comancheros"
John Wayne
Deborah
$400 [17]
Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator was the 1st to call a book of maps this
an atlas
Deborah
DD $600 [8]
He was the Greek equivalent of Cupid, the Roman god of love
Eros
Deborah
$600 [21]
This most complex of mammalian sense organs sits in a bony socket
eyes
Deborah Jim Barbara
$600 [13]
In 1947 architects from 5 countries were engaged to design this complex
the United Nations headquarters
Jim
$600 [28]
This pres. may not be famous for much, but he did sign the 1853 bill creating the Washington Territory
Millard Fillmore
Jim Barbara
$600 [3]
He was a trapeze artist & a model before he played the Lone Ranger on TV
Clayton Moore
Deborah
$600 [19]
Collier's calls it the most quoted of Shakespeare's plays & it fills almost 8 pages in Bartlett's
Hamlet
Deborah
$800 [9]
Roman goddess of crafts & war, she was identified with the Greek Athena, but was probably native to Italy
Minerva
Deborah
$800 [24]
Anteaters feed mainly on ants & these other insects
termites
Deborah
DD $1,000 [14]
The world's largest church, newly opened in the Ivory Coast, is said to resemble this 1, now 2nd largest
St. Peter's Basilica
Jim
$800 [29]
Its state tree, the western hemlock, helps give Washington this nickname
"The Evergreen State"
Deborah Barbara
$800 [4]
Kate Hepburn said of this dance team's mystique, "He gives her class and she gives him sex"
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
Deborah
$800 [22]
Webster's Elementary Spelling Book was better known by this more colorful name
"The Blue-Back Speller"
$1,000 [10]
The killing of the god of sunlight by this Norse god of mischief caused long winter nights
Loki
$1,000 [25]
Despite their incredibly long necks, giraffes have only this many neck bones, the same as humans
7
$1,000 [15]
Few examples remain of China's early architecture because most of it was made of this material
wood
Deborah Jim
$1,000 [30]
Named for the nearby mountains, this city has an oyster named for it
Olympia (named for the Olympic Mountains)
Deborah Jim
$1,000 [5]
On TV he's played RFK in "The Missiles of October" & JFK in the miniseries "Kennedy"
Martin Sheen
Jim
$1,000 [23]
Sir George Grove is most famous for his massive dictionary on this subject
music & musicians

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD TRADE

3 of the 5 founding members of OPEC

(3 of) Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia & Venezuela

Barbara "What is Iran, Saudi Arabia & Iraq?" — wagered $1,400
Jim "What is Saudi Arabia, Iran & Iraq?" — wagered $5,698
Deborah "What is Saudi Arabia, Venezuela & Kuwait?" — wagered $5,100

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