Show #1281 1990-03-12 (taped 1989-10-24) Regular

Contestants

Sarah Stegall — a writer from Austin, Texas

Ken Mitchell — a naval officer from The Philippines

Jamie Orenstein — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jamie $700 $1,700 $5,400 $3,399
2-day champion: $4,798
$4,900
20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Ken $0 $-100 $-1,900 $-1,900
3rd place: Retronel Flatware service for 8
$-1,900
9 R, 8 W
Sarah $500 $1,400 $3,700 $100
2nd place: Zenith Portable Computer & Magnavox Color TV
$2,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

IT'S "MAGIC" VOCABULARY MONEY THE CONSTITUTION GAMES SHOW BIZ BIOGRAPHIES
$100 [14]
This trademarked felt-tip pen was the 1st of its kind when introduced in the 1920s
Magic Marker
Jamie
$100 [12]
From "casa", it once meant "little house", but now refers mostly to a gambling house
Casino
Sarah
$100 [9]
West African country in whose mountains you could spend leones
Sierra Leone
Jamie
$100 [1]
The 1st Amendment gives people the right to do this peacefully
Assemble
Jamie
$100 [6]
"Chicken Out" is a board game based on the riddle "Why did the chicken" do this
Cross the road
Sarah
$100 [23]
"Finch, Bloody Finch" is the life story of this "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" star
Peter Finch
Jamie
$200 [20]
A Lansing, Mich. sportswriter gave this future superstar his nickname when he was in high school
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Jamie
$200 [13]
Once used as a formal title, it means "my lady" in Italian
Madonna
Jamie Ken Sarah
$200 [10]
Besides the Balboa, this currency is also legal tender in Panama
U.S. Dollar
Ken
$200 [2]
The final wording of the Constitution is due mostly to the literary skill of this Gouverneur
Gouverneur Morris
Jamie
$200 [7]
In "The Batman Game", you join Batman to fight crime in this city on a glow-in-the-dark board
Gotham City
Sarah
$200 [27]
She's the subject of "Billie's Blues"
Billie Holiday
Sarah
$300 [24]
Invented in the 17th c., it was a predecessor of the modern slide projector
the magic lantern
Ken
$300 [17]
To surrender, to give up all resistance, from the Latin word for "small head"
Capitulate
Jamie Sarah
$300 [11]
In 1967 Marie Curie was honored on a 10 zlotych piece by this, her native country
Poland
Sarah
$300 [3]
John Dickinson of Delaware had George Read do this for him
Sign the Constitution
Jamie
$300 [8]
Milton Bradley calls its game of "Chutes &" these "an exciting up and down game for little people"
Ladders
Jamie
$400 [25]
This song was a Top 10 hit for The Police in the fall of 1981
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
Jamie Ken
$400 [18]
Annuity plan in which the last survivor inherits all, named for Lorenzo Tonti, a Neopolitan banker
Tontine
Jamie
$400 [15]
In 1926 he became the only living president to appear on a U.S. coin, a sesquicentennial half dollar
Calvin Coolidge
$500 [5]
The 7th Amendment preserves a right to this in lawsuits with more than $20 in question
A Jury
Jamie
$400 [21]
The "apologetic" name of Parker Brothers' "Slide Pursuit Game"
Sorry!
Jamie
$500 [26]
Thomas Mann's classic story of a young man's 7-year stay at a sanitarium
"The Magic Mountain"
Jamie
$500 [19]
A word used for any lighthouse, from the island where a famous ancient one was located
Pharos
Sarah
$500 [16]
Term for paper currency issued for temporary use in an emergency
Scrip
Ken
DD $600 [4]
Title given the president in Article II Section 2 of the Constitution
Commander-In-Chief of the Army & the Navy
Jamie
$500 [22]
To win this game named for an avuncular rabbit, you have to be 1st to reach Dr. Possum's house
Uncle Wiggily
Ken Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

19THCENTURY AMERICANS THE BODY HUMAN RELIGION PLAYWRIGHTS POTPOURRI NEW YORK CITY
$200 [17]
This educator's "Compendious Dictionary of the English Language" was 1st published in 1806
Noah Webster
Sarah
$200 [19]
The endocardium is a thin membrane that lines the interior of this organ
Heart
Ken
$200 [8]
The most conservative of the 3 major branches of Judaism is not conservative, but this
Orthodox
Jamie
$200 [11]
In 1899 he reinterpreted the story of Caesar & Cleopatra using modern allusions
George Bernard Shaw
Sarah
$200 [1]
Students who don't want to dissect a real one of these can order a cloth one named "Ribbit"
Frog
Ken
$200 [5]
If you want to know who's buried in this president's tomb, you can find out in Riverside Park
Grant's Tomb
Jamie
$400 [18]
In 1850 this showman began promoting U.S. tours for opera singer Jenny Lind
P.T. Barnum
Jamie
$400 [20]
The parathyroid glands regulate the blood level of phosphates & this mineral necessary for bone growth
Calcium
Ken
$400 [13]
Members of this religion commonly touch their foreheads to the ground to acknowledge God's majesty
Islam
Sarah
$400 [12]
The 1961 comedy "Come Blow Your Horn" was his 1st Broadway play
Neil Simon
Ken
$400 [2]
In flowers, the anther is part of the stamen in which this is produced
Pollen
Sarah
$400 [6]
Luxury cruise lines depart from docks along this river on Manhattan's west side
Hudson River
Jamie
$600 [22]
Nicknamed "Gentleman Jim", this bank teller won the heavyweight boxing title from John L. Sullivan in 1892
Jim Corbett
$600 [21]
The rectus femoris & the biceps femoris muscles are located in this part of the body
the thigh
Ken Sarah
$600 [14]
The Deseret News is the daily paper published by this church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
Sarah
$600 [24]
She married fellow playwright Arthur Kober but never tied the knot with Dashiell Hammett
Lillian Hellman
Jamie
$600 [3]
The 12 divisions of a horoscope are known by this "homey" name
Houses
Ken
$600 [7]
The Promenade, The Sullivan Street Theatre & The Cherry Lane Theatre, among others
Off-Broadway
Ken
$800 [23]
He was in command of the U.S.S. Fulton, an early naval steamship, when he opened U.S. trade with Japan
Matthew Perry
Jamie Ken Sarah
$800 [25]
This purplish lymphatic organ is a major filtering element for the blood
Spleen
Ken Sarah
$1,000 [16]
Brown & the University of Chicago were both established by members of this Protestant denomination
Baptists
Sarah
$800 [27]
His play "Winterset" is based on the case of Sacco & Vanzetti
Maxwell Anderson
$800 [4]
The Havana brown cat is so named because its coat resembles the color of these
Cigar
Jamie
$800 [9]
It parallels 5th & 7th Avenues, & long-time New Yorkers still call it 6th Avenue
The Avenue of the Americas
Jamie
$1,000 [26]
This carbohydrate is stored in the liver & provides the body with a reserve of energy
Glycogen
Sarah
DD $2,500 [15]
The 3 great traditional religions of China
Buddhism, Confucianism & Taoism
Sarah
$1,000 [28]
Centenarian playwright known for the musicals "The Pajama Game" & "Fiorello!"
George Abbott
Ken
$1,000 [29]
It's the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi
Georgia
Jamie Ken Sarah
DD $2,100 [10]
Travel writer Stephen Birnbaum calls this building"The Princess of the Skyline"
the Chrysler Building
Jamie

Final Jeopardy!

THE NOBEL PRIZE

The only peace prize awarded posthumously went to this man in 1961

Dag Hammarskjold (the secretary-general of the UN who was killed in the plane crash in Africa)

Sarah "Who was Mahatma Gandhi?" — wagered $3,600
Jamie "Who was FDR?" — wagered $2,001

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