Show #1562 1991-05-21 (taped 1991-02-25) Regular

Contestants

Donald Carter — a retired academician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dorothy Judd — a teacher and writer from West Orange, New Jersey

Mickey Tennenbaum — a teacher originally from The Hague, Holland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mickey $1,700 $4,500 $12,100 $10,100
2-day champion: $27,600
$10,100
25 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Dorothy $1,300 $2,200 $3,400 $100
3rd place
$3,400
12 R, 1 W
Donald $0 $900 $7,000 $1,000
2nd place
$5,900
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY SEWING PROVERBS ZOOLOGY SPORTS TRIVIA TV DADS
$100 [22]
The official residence of the prime minister of Canada is in this city
Ottawa
Donald
$100 [2]
Three basic types of these are set-in, kimono & raglan
sleeves
Dorothy
$100 [5]
"It's a silly" one of these "that is caught with the same bait twice"
a fish
Donald
$100 [16]
The pygmy hippopotamus of this continent is in danger of becoming extinct
Africa
Mickey
$100 [26]
While men use foils, epees & sabres in this Olympic event, women use only foils
fencing
Mickey
$100 [1]
James B. Sikking of "Hill Street Blues" plays this teenage doctor's dad
Doogie Howser
Dorothy
$200 [24]
Thessaloniki in this country was named for Alexander the Great's sister
Greece
Mickey
$200 [3]
Department where you'd find needles, buttons, seam tape & all the other little things you need to sew
notions
Mickey
$200 [6]
Edward Young said, "Procrastination is the thief of" this
time
Mickey
$200 [17]
A female wolf spider encloses these in a sac, attaches it to her spinnerets & drags it behind her
her eggs
Donald
$200 [27]
The team that wins the Super Bowl is awarded the trophy named for him
the Vince Lombardi Trophy
Donald
$200 [4]
James Noble, who plays Larry's dad on "Perfect Strangers", was Governor Gatling on this sitcom
Benson
Donald
$300 [21]
This Brazilian landmark overlooking Guanabara Bay is called Pao de Acucar in Portuguese
Sugarloaf (Mountain)
Mickey
$300 [9]
Use this type of stitch on hems & facing where you don't want the stitches to show
a blind stitch
Dorothy Donald
$300 [7]
"Lucky at cards, unlucky in" this
love
Mickey
$300 [18]
Some of these mollusks related to the octopus are also known as sea arrows
squids
Donald
$300 [28]
Baseball's Western League disbanded in 1900 & reformed as this league
the American League
Mickey
$300 [12]
Higgins on "Magnum, P.I."; he went on to play Sandy Duncan's dad on "The Hogan Family"
John Hillerman
DD $400 [25]
Abu Dhabi is the largest of the 7 states that make up this Persian Gulf country
the United Arab Emirates
Mickey
$400 [10]
A small spool for holding thread, or a type of lace made with such spools
a bobbin
Dorothy
$400 [8]
This many "feet of earth make all men equal"
six feet
Dorothy
$400 [19]
The lesser panda is also known as this color panda
the red panda
Dorothy
$400 [29]
In 1938 Don Budge became the first player to achieve the Grand Slam in this sport
tennis
Mickey
$400 [13]
Darren McGavin's performance as her father won him an Emmy in 1990
Murphy Brown (Candy Bergen)
$500 [23]
These mountain extend from the Bay of Biscay on the NW to the Mediterranean Sea on the SE
the Pyrenees
Mickey
$500 [11]
The Bayeux Tapestry is an example of this "mean" type of embroidery done with woolen yarn
crewel
Mickey
$500 [15]
"He gets a double victory, who conquers" this person
himself
Dorothy
$500 [20]
Gypsy moths are most destructive at this stage of development
the larval stage
Donald
$500 [30]
He's the only boxer to have won the World Heavyweight Title three separate times
Muhammad Ali
Mickey
$500 [14]
Formerly Gonzo Gates on "Trapper John, M.D.", in 1990 he became a dad on "Family Man"
Gregory Harrison
Mickey

Double Jeopardy! Round

FILE UNDER "A" FAMOUS RUSSIANS MODERN HISTORY ARCHITECTURE AMERICAN LITERATURE THE SUN
$200 [2]
In this family Richard directed "Gandhi" & his brother David wrote "Life on Earth"
Attenborough
Mickey
$200 [16]
Time Magazine named him "Man of the Decade" for the 1980s
Mikhail Gorbachev
Donald
$200 [1]
In 1978 Pres. Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to this Confederate president
Jefferson Davis
Dorothy
$200 [19]
1 of Palladio's most famous churches is San Giorgio Maggiore in this canal city
Venice
Dorothy
$200 [11]
"Raintree County" opens in this Hoosier State in 1892 & then flashes back to pre-Civil War days
Indiana
Mickey
$600 [26]
About 93 million miles
How far is the sun from the earth?
Dorothy
$400 [3]
The first of these highways was completed in 1935 between Darmstadt & Frankfurt
the Autobahn
Mickey
$400 [18]
When he was nine, Anatoly Karpov was rated a first-category player of this game
chess
Dorothy
$400 [7]
When Francois Mitterrand 1st ran for pres. of France in 1965, he was defeated by this man
de Gaulle
Mickey
$400 [20]
In 1932 he organized the Taliesin Fellowship, a training program for architects
Frank Lloyd Wright
Donald
$400 [12]
The Mark Twain novel that feature Merlin & Morgan le Fay
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mickey
$800 [27]
Another name for the sun or the name of the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun god Helios
Sol
Donald
$600 [4]
From the Greek for "star finder", it was used to measure the altitude of stars
an astrolabe
Donald
$600 [17]
He's appeared in films, had his own sitcom & is now a spokesman for Best Western; what a country!
Yakov Smirnoff
Mickey
$600 [8]
The Mukden Incident in 1931 began Japan's occupation of this region of China
Manchuria
Donald
$800 [24]
From the Arabic "al-qubbah", the vault, it's a recessed chamber within or connected to a room
an alcove
Donald
$600 [13]
His novel "The Pathfinder" is subtitles "The Inland Sea"
James Fenimore Cooper
Mickey
$1,000 [28]
Scientific term for the visible surface of the Sun
the photosphere
Dorothy
$800 [5]
The Nez Perce Indians developed this breed of horse
the Appaloosa
Dorothy
$800 [22]
His crusade for nuclear disarmament & Soviet democracy earned him the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize
Andrei Sakharov
Mickey
$800 [9]
He named his revolutionary group the 26th of July Movement for the date of his 1st revolt in 1953
(Fidel) Castro
Mickey
$1,000 [25]
Of the 3 classical Greek orders of architecture, this one, named for a city, was the most ornate
Corinthian
Donald
$800 [14]
"The Natural", his first novel, was first published in 1952
Bernard Malamud
Mickey
$1,000 [6]
Opposed to a fraternal order, it was the first third party in U.S. history
the Anti-Masons
Donald
$1,000 [23]
61 years after leaving Russia, this piano virtuoso returned in 1986 for a series of performances
Horowitz
Mickey
$1,000 [10]
In May 1981 riots broke out in Belfast following the hunger strike & death of this IRA member
Bobby Sands
Donald
DD $1,700 [21]
His 1682 design for the Royal Hospital at Chelsea was inspired by the Hotel des Invalides
(Christopher) Wren
Donald
DD $3,000 [15]
This collection of short stories about life in a small town was S. Anderson's 4th book
Winesburg, Ohio
Mickey

Final Jeopardy!

THE 1950s

He died October 9, 1958 at Castel Gandolfo

Pope Pius XII

Dorothy "Who is I wish I knew?" — wagered $3,300
Donald "Who was Pope John XXIII" — wagered $6,000
Mickey "Who was King George VI" — wagered $2,000

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