Show #1299 1990-04-05 (taped 1989-11-13) Regular

Contestants

Kathy Fuller — a graduate student from Baltimore, Maryland

Tom Berg — a lawyer from Chicago, Illinois

Joel Goldberg — a CPA and financial officer from Fort Lee, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $25,202)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joel $900 $2,000 $6,800 $7,799
4-day champion: $33,001 + Jeopardy! box or computer game
$6,100
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Tom $600 $2,400 $2,900 $5,800
2nd place: a trip for two to Orlando on Delta Airlines + Jeopardy! box or computer game
$4,400
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Kathy $1,400 $1,900 $1,800 $3,600
3rd place: a Lloyd Flanders wicker chair, love seat & end table + Jeopardy! box or computer game
$3,300
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SOCIAL SCIENCE THEATER LEFTOVERS FICTIONAL INDIANS FIRST AID HISTORY
$100 [18]
Term for a mock tribunal that ignores justice; it can be held anywhere, not just in Australia
a kangaroo court
Joel
$100 [13]
"Why Mary?" by Jesse Lynch Williams was the first play to win this, in 1918
a Pulitzer Prize
Joel Tom
$100 [11]
If one of these mammal sprays you, you can neutralize the distinctive odor with tomato juice
a skunk
Joel
$100 [12]
Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn watched him kill the town doctor & place the knife in Muff Potter's hand
Injun Joe
Tom
$100 [6]
The best way to control this is to press directly on the wound
a cut (bleeding)
Kathy
$100 [1]
After Peter, the next ruler of Russia who was called "the Great"
Catherine
Joel
$200 [23]
In anthropology, the used word for a member of any human group whose males are less than 4'11' in average height
pygmies
Joel
$200 [14]
"The 3 Sisters" dream of moving to this city, where Chekov graduated from medical school
Moscow
$200 [27]
The Dance Theatre of Harlem performs a ballet about this legendary black railroad builder
John Henry
Kathy
$200 [19]
Though there was an historic Uncas, this author's fictional Uncas wasn't like him at all
(James Fenimore) Cooper
Joel
$200 [7]
The least severe burns are classified as this degree
first
Joel
$200 [2]
When he died he was using the name Wm. H. Bonney, but that probably wasn't the one he was born with
Billy the Kid
Joel
$400 [25]
Family member who's the biggest winner under the inheritance system known as primogeniture
the eldest son
Tom
$300 [15]
This musical features the songs "Slide Some Oil to Me", "Funky Monkeys" & "Mean Old Lion"
The Wiz
Kathy
$300 [28]
1 of 2 presidents whose sons graduated from West Point
Grant or Eisenhower
$300 [20]
Buffalo Bob often said "Howdy" to this Indian princess
Princess Summerfallwinterspring
$300 [8]
Before you administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the victim should be in this position
lying flat on the ground with their head back
Kathy
$300 [3]
In 732 at the Battle of Tours, the Frankish ruler Charles Martel halted their drive into Europe
the Moors
$500 [26]
"Misogyny" is from the Greek for "to hate women" & this is from the Greek "to hate mankind"
misanthropy
Tom
$400 [16]
Vanessa Redgrave starred in a 1989 revival of this playwright's "Orpheus Descending"
Tennessee Williams
Joel
$400 [21]
This future superstar played police lieutenant John Hawk, an Iroquois, on the mid 1960s TV series "Hawk"
Burt Reynolds
Tom
$400 [9]
The parts of the head most often affected by frostbite are the ears, chin, cheek & this
the nose
Joel
$400 [4]
After this British bacteriologist died in March 1955 he was interred in a crypt in St. Paul's
(Sir Alexander) Fleming
Tom
DD $1,000 [24]
Term for the hierarchy within a social group or community based on the social behavior of chickens
the pecking order
Joel
$500 [17]
"Spooky" title of Ibsen's play about inherited disease, insanity & euthanasia
Ghosts
Tom
$500 [22]
Little Beaver was the Navajo sidekick of this movie cowboy
Red Ryder
$500 [10]
One symptom of a concussion is when these are of unequal size
the pupils
Kathy
$500 [5]
Having no male heir, Julius Caesar adopted this grandnephew
Augustus (Octavius)
Kathy

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LITERATURE WYOMING 6-LETTER WORDS ROCKS & MINERALS SINGERS HERSTORY
$200 [11]
This Victor Hugo title can be translated as "The Wretches"
Les Misérables
Tom
$200 [16]
Frontier Days, featuring one of America's largest rodeos, is held each July in this capital city
Cheyenne
Joel Tom
$200 [22]
You might hear someone yell this word in the forest just before a loud crash
timber
Joel
$200 [15]
This mineral used by Michelangelo for his sculptures was supplied by the Carrara quarry in Tuscany
marble
Joel
$200 [6]
The 2 country stars who recorded the album "Ernie Sings and Glen Picks"
Tennessee Ernie Ford & Glen Campbell
Kathy
$200 [1]
Alice Paul picketed the White House from 1917-19 until this amendment was passed
the women's suffrage amendment (the 19th)
Joel
$400 [12]
A theme of 14th century literature was the quest for this wine vessel used at the Last Supper
the Holy Grail
Tom
$400 [17]
Oil fields north of Casper include this one which gave its name to a scandal in Harding's admin.
Teapot Dome
Tom
$400 [23]
Word that can precede lancer or tiger
Bengal
Joel
$400 [21]
The largest known reserves of this oil-producing rock are found in the Piceance Creek Basin in Colorado
shale
Joel
$400 [7]
Despite her similar name, people probably don't confuse this opera singer with Brigitte Nielsen
Birgit Nilsson
Tom
$400 [2]
Among charges against her in 1430 was that she "had dressed & armed herself in the state & habit of a man"
Joan of Arc
Kathy
$600 [13]
In "The Lay of Ludwig" & "The Lay of the Nibelungs", "Lay" means this
song
Kathy
$600 [18]
2 animals which are paired in "Home On The Range" that are among the most widespread large animals in the state
the deer and the antelope
Joel
$600 [24]
Americans say it when they want you to hurry; Italians say it when they answer the telephone
pronto
$600 [25]
When gypsum is ground, heated & dehydrated, it forms this white powder used in making molds & casts
plaster of Paris
$600 [8]
in their last No. 1 hit, "The Long and Winding Road", he's the only Beatle heard singing
Paul McCartney
Tom
$600 [3]
Rose Greenhow, Belle Boyd & S. Emma Edmonds worked as spies during this war
the Civil War
Kathy
$800 [14]
In "The Book of Reynard", a collection of medieval fables, Reynard is one of these animals
a fox
Joel
$800 [19]
Wyoming city where you'd find the Buffalo Bill Museum
Cody
Joel
$800 [27]
A bank employee, or Penn's partner in prestidigitation
a teller
Kathy
$800 [26]
This frothy volcanic glass can float in water for months before disintegrating
pumice
$1,000 [10]
Though she was a professional singer, her voice was dubbed in both "Porgy & Bess" & "Carmen Jones"
Dorothy Dandridge
$1,000 [5]
Considered one of Austria's ablest rulers, she still had time to have 16 kids, including Marie Antoinette
Maria Theresa
Tom
$1,000 [20]
The only national park located entirely within Wyoming is this one just south of Yellowstone
Grand Teton National Park
Joel
DD $1,500 [9]
Singer of the following1989 hit, he's said he's finally put his teen idol image to rest:"Like a thief in the night who can't get enough /I am willing to fight 'cause I'm a soldier of love /Like a shot in the dark when the going gets rough /It's a state of the heart, you're a soldier of love..."
Donny Osmond
Tom
DD $1,500 [4]
Though a staunch anti-communist, this Maine sen. led early Senate opposition to McCarthyism
Margaret Chase Smith
Kathy

Final Jeopardy!

CANADA

Early documents & maps referred to this future Canadian province as "Terra Nova"

Newfoundland

Kathy "What is Newfoundland?" — wagered $1,800
Tom "What is Newfoundland" — wagered $2,900
Joel "What was Newfoundland" — wagered $999

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