Show #1343 1990-06-06 (taped 1990-01-30) Regular

Contestants

Paul Thomas — a law student from San Francisco, California

Anne Kanter — a homemaker from McLean, Virginia

Mary Jane Wright — an administrator originally from Lima, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mary $2,100 $4,200 $5,800 $10,000
2nd place: CSR 286 computer & Franklin Language Master
$5,800
17 R, 1 W
Anne $700 $1,200 $8,200 $16,400
New champion: $16,400
$7,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Paul $1,300 $2,900 $8,900 $50
3rd place: Panasonic stereo monitor & receiver + Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior versions of Jeopardy! + Wheel of Fortunte
$8,700
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

"HORSE"PLAY ANCIENT ROME THE BEATLES FOOD FACTS WEAPONS IN THE BOOKSTORE
$100 [13]
A pungent relish is made from the sharp-tasting root of this member of the mustard family
horseradish
Paul
$100 [24]
At least 19 of the first 50 of them, including Galba & Caligula, were assassinated
emperors
Anne
$100 [1]
George Harrison said, "As far as I am concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as" he "remains dead"
John Lennon
Paul
$100 [5]
The upper hind leg of a porker that's salted, smoked & sometimes aged becomes this meat
ham
Paul
$100 [16]
Large-caliber weapons, they can be heavy, field or siege
artillery
Mary
$100 [23]
First Lady who dedicated her book "The Times of My Life" "To Jerry"
Betty Ford
Anne
$200 [12]
This first No. 1 hit by America was inspired by homesickness for the California desert
"A Horse with No Name"
Mary
$200 [25]
The Flavian Amphitheater, popularly known as this, is the world's largest standing ancient amphitheater
Colosseum
Paul
$200 [2]
This 1964 film is a fictional account of 2 days in the life of The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Mary
$200 [7]
Similar to English muffins, they're often served in England with tea
crumpets
Mary
$200 [17]
First weapon mentioned in "The Star-Spangled Banner"
rockets
Anne
$200 [15]
"The Queen of Mean" is an unauthorized biography of this hotel queen
(Leona) Helmsley
Anne
$300 [6]
It's another name for the king crab
horseshoe crab
Anne
$300 [28]
Roman life centered around these public facilities, called the "thermae"
baths
Mary
$300 [3]
"The girl that's driving me mad is going away. She's got" one of these
a ticket to ride
Mary
$300 [8]
If you're dining on hasenpfeffer, you're eating a stew made of this meat
rabbit
Mary
$300 [18]
In the Marine Corps the next rank up from PFC has this weapon in its name
lance
Anne
$400 [21]
Curly-haired songwriter who called his book "Still Water", not "Troubled Water"
Art Garfunkel
Mary Anne
$400 [29]
The book of Revelation says, "Behold" this "and his name that sat on him was Death"
pale horse
Mary
$400 [27]
This word for a popular vote comes from resolutions voted by the Plebeian Assembly of Rome
plebiscite
Paul
$400 [4]
He's currently playing Mr. Conductor on PBS' "Shining Time Station"
Ringo Starr
Anne
$400 [9]
These grow on a single tall cabbage on which miniature heads develop at stem joints
Brussels sprouts
Mary
$400 [19]
This cavalry weapon was inspired by the Turkish scimitar
saber
Mary
DD $500 [14]
Thinking of her imprisoned husband, Nelson, she titled her book "Part of My Soul Went with Him"
Winnie Mandela
Paul
$500 [30]
Dale Robertson owned a railroad in this mid 1960s TV western
Iron Horse
$500 [26]
Though it was considered unlucky, these priestesses could marry after 30 years of service
Vestal Virgins
Paul
$500 [11]
"Someday you'll know I was the one, but tomorrow may rain, so I'll" do this
follow the sun
Paul
$500 [10]
Dry types of this processed meat include Holsteiner, mortadella & salami
sausages
Mary
$500 [20]
Weapon that killed Achilles
arrow
Mary
$500 [22]
"Trash Trio", a collection of screenplays by this director, includes "Pink Flamingos"
John Waters
Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

POETRY AFRICA THE CABINET THEATER HISTORIC NAMES ART
$200 [6]
The word that completes the title of Tennyson's poem "Flower in the Crannied..."
Wall
Mary
$200 [1]
A mint variety of this is the national drink of Morocco
tea
Paul
$200 [26]
This cabinet post has produced the most U.S. Presidents--6
Secretary of State
Anne
$200 [11]
In the title of M. Anderson's play based on the Sacco & Vanzetti case, this season precedes "Set"
Winter
Anne
$200 [25]
Upon signing the Declaration of Independence, he said, "There, King George will be able to read that"
John Hancock
Anne
$200 [20]
Term taken from the title of Claude Monet's "Impression: Sunrise" of 1872
Impressionism
Paul
$400 [7]
A. E. Housman wrote, "About the woodlands I will go to see the cherry hung with" this
snow
$400 [5]
In London in 1989 his 73-year-old son announced his ascension to the throne of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Anne
$400 [27]
This embattled HUD director was the only cabinet officer in the Reagan administration to serve 8 years
Sam Pierce
Anne
$400 [12]
This Peter Shaffer play requires 6 actors to play horses
Equus
Anne
$400 [23]
Not to be confused with Bluebeard, this pirate also had many wives but treated them courteously
Blackbeard
Mary
$400 [19]
Henri Matisse unwittingly coined this word when criticizing a painting by Georges Braque
Cubism
Paul
$600 [8]
Advising men about women, Ogden Nash said, "In real life it takes only" this many "to make a quarrel."
one
Anne
$600 [2]
Afrikaners were known formerly by this Dutch name
Boers
Paul
$600 [28]
In 1947 Sec'y of the Navy James V. Forrestal became the head of this newly created dept.
Department of Defense
Anne
$600 [13]
Gwen Verdon & Chita Rivera played murderesses in this musical named for a Midwest city
Chicago
Mary
$600 [21]
When Robert Scott arrived at the South Pole in January 1912 he found the tent this man had left
(Roald) Amundsen
Mary Anne
$600 [15]
This 19th century U.S. painter also made bronze figures of his favorite subjects: men & horses
(Frederic) Remington
Anne
$800 [9]
In "The Waste Land" the line "I do not find the hanged man" alludes to these cards
tarot
Anne
$800 [4]
The official language of the Sudan, whose population is at least 70% Sunni Muslim
Arabic
Paul
$1,000 [30]
This president's attorneys general were Griffin Bell & Benjamin Civiletti
Jimmy Carter
Paul
$800 [14]
She was only 19 when she starred in the musical "Flora, The Red Menace" & she won a Tony, too
Liza Minnelli
Paul
$800 [22]
A promoter of the Erie Canal, this statesman was New York governor when the canal opened in 1825
DeWitt Clinton
Paul
$800 [16]
Delacroix's painting glorifying the Revolution of 1830 is titled "Liberty" doing this
Liberty Leading the People
Paul
$1,000 [10]
Emily Dickinson said this "is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul"
hope
Mary
$1,000 [3]
Encyclopedia Americana says the name of this capital of Uganda means "impala hill"
Kampala
Paul
DD $4,000 [29]
The 2 cabinet posts Elizabeth Dole has held
Secretary of Transportation & Secretary of Labor
Anne
$1,000 [18]
This author & illustrator of "Where the Wild Things Are" wrote the script & lyrics for "Really Rosie"
(Maurice) Sendak
Paul
$1,000 [24]
This 2nd century Greek anatomist 1st demonstrated that arteries carry blood, not air as had been earlier thought
Galen
DD $2,000 [17]
The 1st U.S. artist to have an exhibition at London's Tate Gallery, he painted thefollowing
Roy Lichtenstein
Anne

Final Jeopardy!

LANDMARKS

First identified in 1741, it split while being dragged to Liberty Pole Square in 1774

Plymouth Rock

Mary "What is Plymouth Rock?" — wagered $4,200
Anne "What is Plymouth Rock?" — wagered $8,200
Paul "What is the Liberty Bell" — wagered $8,850

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