Show #1331 1990-05-21 (taped 1989-12-12) Regular

Contestants

Joe Esparza — a cathecetical center associate director from San Antonio, Texas

Deborah Peters — a trial lawyer originally from Media, Pennsylvania

Michelle Collier — an office account manager from New York City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michelle $500 $1,900 $4,900 $1
2nd place: Chromcraft Table & Chairs set
$4,700
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Deborah $800 $2,100 $6,500 $0
3rd place: Sunset Southwestern Table Lamp
$9,500
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Joe $100 $3,400 $8,000 $2,999
New champion: $2,999
$7,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BEST SELLERS ROCK GROUPS FISH THE AUTO INDUSTRY FAMOUS COUPLES FILE UNDER "M"
$100 [5]
"Hey, Wait A Minute (I Wrote A Book!)" by this former Raiders coach was a best seller in 1984
John Madden
Joe
$100 [1]
In 1971 this lead singer of The Doors was buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Jim Morrison
Joe
$100 [21]
Like birds, all species of salmon & trout build these
Nests
Joe
$100 [2]
In 1908 William Durant founded this company that included Oldsmobile & Buick
General Motors
Joe
$100 [12]
When her spouse was found guilty on Oct. 5, 1989, she sang a religious song for the press
Tammy Faye Bakker
Michelle
$100 [17]
The driver of this "train" at Disneyland needs a one-track mind
Monorail
Michelle
$200 [6]
In 1987 a Soviet magazine ran excerpts from this B. Pasternak novel--29 years after it was banned
"Doctor Zhivago"
Michelle
$200 [7]
Kenny Rogers & other members of the New Christy Minstrels left the group to form this one in 1967
The First Edition
Michelle Deborah
$200 [22]
Southern California fish that come ashore to spawn & then run back into the ocean
Grunion
Joe
$200 [3]
Built by Carl Benz in 1885, the first internal combustion car had this many wheels
3
Michelle Deborah Joe
$200 [13]
Chef whose wife, K, is the "K" in K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen
Paul Prudhomme
Deborah
$200 [18]
It's the liquid that remains after sugar crystals are removed from concentrated cane juice
Molasses
Deborah Joe
$300 [11]
His "Kids Say The Darndest Things!" topped the best-seller lists in both 1957 & 1958
Art Linkletter
Michelle
$300 [8]
This group's "Nights In White Satin" appeared on an album 5 yrs. before the single hit No. 2 in 1972
The Moody Blues
Michelle
$300 [23]
The Walking, Electric & Pencil species of this fish have "whiskers"
Catfish
Joe
$300 [4]
The first true example of this automobile was introduced in 1906 & called the Silver Ghost
Rolls-Royce
Deborah
$300 [14]
Dr. Jonas Salk's wife, Francoise Gilot, was once the companion of this late, great modern artist
Pablo Picasso
Deborah
$300 [28]
His resume included Archduke of Austria & Emperor of Mexico
Maximillian
Joe
$400 [26]
"Made In America" was this businessman's memoir of the 1984 Olympics
Peter Ueberroth
Joe
$400 [9]
Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons & Peter Criss formed this rock group
KISS
Deborah
$400 [24]
The Portuguese got the name for this toothed fish from the Tupi Indians who live along the Amazon
piranhas
Joe
$400 [19]
A Ford model that came out in '68, or the Italian name of the city that's home to Fiat
Torino
Joe
$400 [15]
"Major Dad" star Gerald McRaney must have had designs on this "Designing Woman" because he married her
Delta Burke
Michelle
$500 [30]
From the French for "a mixture", it's a free-for-all battle
Melee
Deborah
$500 [27]
This Lloyd C. Douglas novel of the crucifixion was a best seller in '43 & '53 when the movie came out
"The Robe"
Deborah
$500 [10]
4 hit singles came from this group's "Hi Infidelity" album
REO Speedwagon
Deborah
$500 [25]
The largest species of this fish is the bluefin; the smallest, the skipjack
Tuna
$500 [20]
August Horch founded 2 car companies - Horch & this one that's the Latin translation of his surname
Audi
$500 [16]
Their daughter Linn Ullmann married an Oslo lawyer in 1989
Liv Ullmann & Ingmar Bergman
Michelle
DD $1,000 [29]
It begins "John, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy & Aquitaine...."
Magna Carta
Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

EARLY AMERICA PLAYS WORLD GEOGRAPHY POLITICAL TERMS GREEK MYTHOLOGY NUTMEGGERS
$200 [13]
On March 10, 1775 this frontiersman began blazing the Wilderness Road
Daniel Boone
Deborah
$200 [1]
In the title of a play by Robert Anderson, it's paired with "sympathy"
Tea
Michelle
$200 [12]
The Paraguay River divides Paraguay into 2 major regions: Occidental Paraguay & this
Oriental Paraguay
Deborah
$200 [24]
Politically speaking, it's a cause that looks promising; you can join by "jumping on" it
Bandwagon
Michelle Joe
$200 [7]
One legend claims they fought in the Trojan War under their queen, Penthesilea
Amazons
Michelle
$200 [6]
This "good" guy who discovered vulcanization was born in New Haven
Charles Goodyear
Michelle
$400 [14]
In early colonial Boston only men belonging to this religious sect could vote or hold office
Puritans
Michelle Deborah
$400 [2]
In "Painting Churches", the churches aren't buildings but these
People
Deborah
$400 [16]
The Denmark Strait is located between Iceland & this Danish possession
Greenland
Michelle
$400 [27]
A special-interest group, named for the place in a capital building that is frequented by them
Lobby
Joe
$400 [8]
It starts life again as a small worm that crawls out of the ashes of its own funeral pyre
The Phoenix
Michelle
$400 [18]
Born in Winsted, he practiced law in Connecticut before he wrote "Unsafe At Any Speed"
Ralph Nader
Deborah
$600 [15]
Drawn up in 1620, this document formed the basis of Plymouth Colony's legal system
The Mayflower Compact
Joe
$600 [3]
Anita Loos wrote the non-musical stage adaptation of this Colette novel
"Gigi"
Michelle
$600 [17]
Cristoforo Colombo Int'l Airport serves this city, Italy's busiest port
Genoa
Deborah
$600 [28]
Someone who votes for candidates of different parties on the same ballot votes this kind of "ticket"
Split Ticket
Joe
$600 [9]
To make her son invulnerable, Achilles' mother bathed all but the famous heel in this river
The Styx
Michelle
$600 [19]
His character, Radar O' Reilly, was from Iowa, but this actor was born in Bristol, Connecticut
Gary Burghoff
Deborah
$800 [22]
1797 "affair" in which 3 agents for France demanded a $250,000 bribe from U.S. diplomats
"XYZ" Affair
Deborah
$800 [4]
"Dial 'M' For Murder" takes place in the living room of an apartment in this foreign capital
London
$800 [25]
75 times the size of Belgium, the former Belgian Congo is now known by this name
Zaire
Joe
$800 [29]
A candidate who's nominated by his home state at a convention, often as an honorary gesture
Favorite Son
Deborah
DD $1,000 [10]
After she fell in love with him, Circe lifted the spell that had changed men into swine
Odysseus
Michelle
$800 [20]
Her "immediate family" raised her mostly in Greenwich & also briefly in Africa
Glenn Close
DD $3,000 [23]
On March 1, 1781 Maryland became the last state to ratify this document
Articles of Confederation
Deborah
$1,000 [5]
"Regina" was a 1949 musical version of this Lillian Hellman play
"The Little Foxes"
Deborah
$1,000 [26]
More American Indians live in this country on South America's Pacific coast than any other
Peru
Joe
$1,000 [30]
The "privilege" exercised by Congress & the executive branch to use the Postal Service free of charge
Franking
Deborah
$1,000 [11]
Her sisters Stheno & Euryale are mentioned in myth, but we don't know if they were as ugly
Medusa
Joe
$1,000 [21]
This Watergate judge born in Waterbury was Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1973
John Sirica
Deborah

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENTISTS

When Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics, he was a naturalized citizen of this country

Switzerland (He came to the U.S. later on)

Michelle "What is the USA" — wagered $4,899
Deborah "What is Germany?" — wagered $6,500
Joe "What is the U.S.?" — wagered $5,001

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