Show #1624 1991-09-26 (taped 1991-08-13) Regular

Contestants

Rand Owen — a librarian originally from Nashville, Tennessee

Charles Kaufman — a writer from Woodland Hills, California

Seth Davis — an environmental lawyer from Croton-on-Hudson, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $53,801)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Seth	$2,100	$4,900	$7,000	$7,301 3rd place: Maytag dishwasher + Jeopardy home game or computerized version	$9,200 26 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Charles	$800	$1,300	$7,100	$14,200 2nd place: Bassett desk & chair + American Spectrum Encyclopedia & home reference library + Jeopardy home game or computerized version	$4,900 14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Rand	$1,600	$3,300	$7,300	$14,500 New champion: $14,500	$7,300 15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

1926	POETS & POETRY	NASHVILLE	WORD ORIGINS	WEIGHTS & MEASURES	COMPLETES THE FILM TITLE
$100 [1] He helped pioneer the 40-hour work week by introducing it at his Michigan auto factories Henry Ford Seth	$100 [21] This Walt Whitman work began as a collection of 12 poems in 1855; by 1892 it contained hundreds Leaves of Grass Seth	$100 [6] This president's home, the Hermitage, is located on Rachel's Lane Andrew Jackson Seth	$100 [16] From the Old French for "crib", it's a representation of a Nativity scene a crèche Seth	$100 [26] Originally, the ell was a measurement from the fingertip to this the elbow Seth Rand	$100 [11] "Paint Your..." Wagon Seth
$200 [2] He fired the first liquid fuel rocket; it went up about 40 feet (Robert) Goddard Seth	$200 [22] This Scottish poet wrote an ode to "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785" (Rabbie) Burns Seth	$200 [7] In 1873 Central University was renamed this for the "Commodore" who gave it a $1 million gift Vanderbilt Seth	$200 [17] From Old English for "One that breaks faith", it's a male witch a warlock Rand	$200 [27] A candela is a measurement of the intensity of this light Rand	$200 [12] "Take the Money and..." and Run Seth
$300 [3] A composite photo of this film star with Caruso in Heaven was circulated after he died on August 23 Valentino Seth	$400 [24] Ludovico Ariosto wrote the romantic epic about this "furioso" paladin Orlando Seth	$300 [8] This singer's museum near Nashville has a section featuring the Carter family Johnny Cash Rand	$300 [18] This term for a little angel often depicted as a rosy-cheeked child comes from Hebrew a cherub Charles	$300 [28] The boiling point of water at sea level is 212 on the Fahrenheit scale & this on the Celsius scale 100 Charles	$300 [13] "The Asphalt..." Jungle Rand
$400 [4] This "colorful" football star was paid $300,000 for his role in "One Minute to Play" Red Grange Seth	$500 [25] He said his title for "The Waste Land" was suggested by a book on the Grail legend T.S. Eliot Seth	$400 [9] From 1943 to 1974, Ryman auditorium was the broadcast site of this radio program the Grand Ole Opry Charles	$400 [19] From Sanskrit meaning "Great Queen", it's the wife of a Majarajah a Majarani Charles	$400 [29] Equivalent to 39.37 inches, its name comes from a Latin word meaning "measure" a meter Rand	$400 [14] "My Stepmother is..." an Alien Charles
$500 [5] On November 1 this, company, the 1st radio network, was formed under Pres. David Sarnoff NBC Seth	DD $1,600 [23] This Scotsman's original title for "A Child's Garden of Verses" was "Penny Whistles" Robert Louis Stevenson Seth	$500 [10] Nashville's Parthenon has a 42-foot replica of this goddess Athena Rand	$500 [20] Our word "bog" probably came from this language; it helps if you think of peat bogs Gaelic Rand	$500 [30] The ancient Romans used this unit of weight, which they called a "libra" a pound Charles Rand	$500 [15] "Tell Me That You Love Me..." Junie Moon Rand

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT GREECE	ISLANDS	NOTORIOUS	NOVELS & NOVELISTS	AMERICANA	THE HUMAN BODY
$200 [6] In the 5th C. BC Athens headed the Delian & this militaristic city, the Peloponnesian League Sparta Charles	$200 [17] The name of these South American islands is Spanish for "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego Charles	$200 [12] In 1890 William Kemmler became the first person executed in this shocking manner electrocution Seth	$200 [8] The German title of this Franz Werfel novel is called Das Lied von Bernadette The Song of Bernadette Charles	$200 [26] Several states, including Virginia & Maryland, still ban most hunting on this day of the week Sunday Charles	$200 [1] The myocardium muscle performs the main work of this organ the heart Seth
$400 [7] When the Roman Empire split in two in 395 A.D., Greece remained in the half called this Byzantium Rand	$400 [18] Once a great whaling base, this island is Massachusetts' southeasternmost point Nantucket Seth	$400 [13] In 1964 he was convicted of misappropriating $1.7 million in Teamster pension funds Jimmy Hoffa Seth	$400 [22] "The 42nd Parallel" by John Dos Passos depicts the U.S. on the eve of this war World War I Charles Rand	$400 [27] He was born in Burlington, New Jersey, not in Cooperstown, New York, which his father founded James Fenimore Cooper Rand	$400 [2] The brain stem connects the cerebrum with this part of the nervous system the spinal cord Charles
$600 [9] Mathematician & philosopher who discovered the intervals in an octave & probably played a mean triangle Pythagoras Charles	$600 [19] An orange-flavored liqueur is named for this island, the largest of the Netherlands Antilles Curaçao Seth	$800 [15] "Mad Bomber" George Metesky terrorized this city in the 1950s New York City	$600 [23] Charlotte & Emily's sister who wrote "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" Anne Brontë Seth	$600 [28] Georgia's Stone Mountain sculpture depicts 3 men & 3 of these animals horses Charles	$600 [3] A delicate membrane called the pleura covers each of these organs the lungs Seth
$800 [10] The possession of Amazon Queen Hippolyta that is captured by Hercules her girdle Seth	$800 [20] These two main islands of New Zealand are separated by the Cook Strait the North & South Island Seth	$1,000 [16] This legendary highwayman was finally hanged as a horse thief at York in 1739 Dick Turpin	$800 [24] Russian who based the character Karmazinov in "The Possessed" on his rival, Ivan Turgenev Dostoyevsky Rand	$1,000 [30] Nickname for a police van that may derive from the name of a woman who ran a seedy Boston boarding house a Black Maria Rand	$800 [4] The hypothalamus controls this "master gland" which in turn controls others the pituitary Charles
$1,000 [11] In the 4th century BC it was thought if this creature of Asklepios licked your eyes it might cure blindness a snake Seth Rand	$1,000 [21] Canada's St. John's Island was renamed this in 1799 in honor of the Duke of Kent Prince Edward Island Seth	DD $3,500 [14] Implicated in the Lincoln assassination, this doctor was sent to a prison in the Dry Tortugas Samuel Mudd Seth	$1,000 [25] Aramis is the Bishop of Vannes in his novel "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" Alexandre Dumas	DD $3,000 [29] The Sioux call this Wyoming national monument "The Bad God's Tower" the Devils Tower Charles	$1,000 [5] This largest part of the large intestine includes sections called the transverse & descending the colon Seth

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. GOVERNMENT

12 of the 15 persons impeached by the federal gov't held this position

(federal) judge(s) (judgeship)

Seth "What is federal judge?" — wagered $301

Charles "What were judges?" — wagered $7,100

Rand "What was a judgeship?" — wagered $7,200

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