Show #1312 1990-04-24 (taped 1989-12-04) Regular

Contestants

Gary Klein — an attorney and writer originally from New York City, New York

Anne Connell — an assistant professor and artist from Portland, Oregon

Robin Corkery — a financial consultant from Spokane, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robin $1,400 $1,700 $6,900 $13,800
2nd place: Seragraph & Punch Bowl Set
$5,700
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Anne $300 $700 $3,300 $6,200
3rd place: Emerson 19-inch Color TV
$4,100
10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Gary $0 $1,900 $7,700 $13,801
New champion: $13,801
$8,800
23 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS QUOTES THE SUPREME COURT GOLDEN OLDIES NONFICTION ZOOLOGY DESSERTS
$100 [18]
In "Frank Fairlegh" Francis Edward Smedley wrote "All's fair in" these 2 activities
Love & War
Gary
$100 [1]
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes opposed this president's attempt to "pack" the court
FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Robin
$100 [7]
Country star Jeannie C. Riley's only hit on the pop charts; it was about a small town's P.T.A.
"Harper Valley P.T.A."
Robin
$100 [23]
Fiction writer who titled his memoirs about his early days in Paris "A Moveable Feast"
Ernest Hemingway
Gary
$100 [3]
In Texas the most common variety of these armored mammals is the nine-banded one
Armadillo
Anne
$100 [14]
Because of its cold ice cream interior & hot meringue covering, it was once called "Alaska-Florida"
Baked Alaska
Anne
$200 [19]
"Be nice to people on your way up" for this reason
"You may meet them on your way down"
Gary
$200 [2]
This president appointed the most members of the current court
Ronald Reagan
Robin Anne
$200 [9]
Jimmy Webb song about a "park" that was a No. 2 hit for Richard Harris & a No. 1 hit for Donna Summer
"MacArthur Park"
Gary
$200 [24]
Historian Simon Schama wrote the '89 book "Citizens, A Chronicle Of" this 18th century event
The French Revolution
Gary
$200 [4]
The term for a female rabbit, it can also refer to a female deer
Doe
Robin
$200 [15]
Joy of Cooking says whether this cake is "round or rectangular, the cutting begins at the lowest tier"
Wedding Cake
Gary
$300 [20]
"When the one great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks--not that you won or lost--but" this
How you played the game
Robin
$300 [13]
He handed down the famous Brown v. Board of Education ruling 7 months after becoming chief justice
Earl Warren
Anne
$400 [12]
New Jersey & North Carolina each have a Surf City, but California, home of this "Surf City" duo, doesn't
Jan & Dean
Robin
$300 [25]
He wrote "I Gave Them A Sword" based on his 1977 interviews with ex-president Richard Nixon
David Frost
Gary
$300 [5]
Of all bears, this one is the best swimmer
Polar Bear
Robin
$400 [21]
Completes "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like" this
a Woman scorn'd
Gary
$400 [16]
Known as the "Great Chief Justice", he had served under Washington at Valley Forge
John Marshall
Gary
$500 [11]
Born Frederick Picariello, his first 2 hits were "Tallahassee Lassie" & "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans"
Freddy Cannon
Robin
$400 [26]
"The American Spelling Book" was the first part of his "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language"
Noah Webster
$400 [6]
A pit viper's pits are highly sensitive to this & help it find its prey in the dark
Heat
Gary
$500 [22]
In 1940, U.S. poet Alice D. Miller wrote, "In a world where" this country "is...dead, I do not wish to live"
England
$500 [17]
First Republican president after Taft, he appointed Taft chief justice
Warren G. Harding
Gary
DD $1,100 [10]
Heard here, it was British star Petula Clark's last Top 10 hit in the U.S.:"You wander around, on your own little cloud, when you don't see the whys or the where fores..."
"Don't Sleep In The Subway"
Gary
$500 [27]
He won a 1962 Pulitzer Prize for "The Making of the President 1960"
Theodore White
Gary
$500 [8]
Sometimes called the bird spider, it's the largest of all spiders
Tarantula
Gary

Double Jeopardy! Round

19TH CENTURY AMERICA POLAND LITERATURE ON FILM ROYALTY ASTRONOMERS FROM THE LATIN
$200 [16]
Hetty Green, the richest woman of her day, was known as the "Witch Of" this street
Wall Street
Anne
$200 [6]
Over 90% of Poles are followers of this religion, first adopted by Poland in 966
Roman Catholicism
Gary
$200 [3]
Ray Bradbury & producer-dir. John Huston co-wrote the screenplay based on this Melville classic
"Moby Dick"
Gary
$200 [11]
She has 2 children, David & Sarah Armstrong-Jones
Princess Margaret
Robin
$200 [19]
Born Niklas Koppernigk, he was a canon of Frauenberg Cathedral from 1497 until his death in 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Gary
$200 [5]
From the Latin "denigrare", to blacken, it means to belittle or blacken a character
Denigrate
Robin
$400 [17]
On July 5, 1846 John C. Fremont was chosen to direct the affairs of this "Bear Flag" republic
California
Robin
$400 [18]
Poland's longest one is the Vistula
River
Gary
$400 [4]
In a 1941 film based on R.L. Stevenson's horror classic, Spencer Tracy played these 2 title characters
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Anne
$400 [12]
She may have been a cousin of her husband Akhenaton; you can see the resemblance in her bust
Nefertiti
Robin
$400 [20]
Astronomer Frank Drake set up Project Ozma about 1960 to search for this--didn't work
Extraterrestrial Intelligence/Life Elsewhere
Anne
$400 [2]
Meaning "to bear", Hamlet did it with "slings & arrows of outrageous fortune"
Suffer
Gary
$600 [25]
In 1892 the Edison Co. merged with the Thomson-Houston Electrical Co. to form this company
General Electric
Robin
$600 [28]
As a result of WWII, Poland gained land in the west from Germany & lost land in the east to this country
the Soviet Union (USSR)
Gary
$600 [7]
Rod Taylor traveled from the year 1899 to 802,701 A.D. in this film based on an H.G. Wells book
"The Time Machine"
Gary
$600 [13]
Prince Bernhard of this country is a former president of the World Wildlife Fund
Holland/The Netherlands
Robin
$600 [22]
In 1675 Danish astronomer Olaus Roemer announced the 1st real measurement of the speed of this
Light
Gary
$600 [1]
Body tissues named for their "mouselike" movements
Muscles
Anne
$800 [26]
2 of the 4 people the Clanton gang went up against October 26, 1881
Morgan, Virgil & Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday
Gary
$800 [8]
James Dean & Raymond Massey starred in this Cain & Abel fable based on a novel by John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Anne
$1,000 [15]
In 1080 Canute IV succeeded his brother Harold Hen as king of this country
Denmark
Robin
$800 [23]
While teaching at the Univ. of Padua in 1610, he discovered 4 moons of Jupiter using a 30-power telescope
Galileo
Gary
DD $800 [9]
Originally meaning "concealed", it now refers to the supernatural
Occult
Anne
$1,000 [27]
In 1887 while librarian at Columbia U., he founded the first school for training librarians
Melville Dewey
Anne
$1,000 [10]
This 1880 novel by Lew Wallace was made into a film in 1907, 1926 & 1959
"Ben-Hur"
Robin
DD $2,000 [14]
The last Anglo-Saxon king of England was killed in this battle
Battle of Hastings (which Harold II lost)
Robin
$1,000 [24]
This Italian astronomer discovered the division in Saturn's rings that bear his name
Giovanni Cassini
$1,000 [21]
To show we know "Ain't" ain't proper usage, we can use this 3-letter word in parentheses after it
sic
Gary

Final Jeopardy!

PLAYWRIGHTS

His most famous play was first produced in 1895, the year he was sent to jail, & he never wrote another

Oscar Wilde ( The Importance of Being Earnest )

Anne "Who was Oscar Wilde" — wagered $2,900
Robin "Who was Oscar Wilde?" — wagered $6,900
Gary "Who is Oscar Wilde" — wagered $6,101

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