Show #1355 1990-06-22 (taped 1990-02-06) Regular

Contestants

Bill Heins — a graduate student originally from Whiting, Iowa

Philis Curlender — a homemaker from Los Angeles, California

Gary Harvey — an accounts payable supervisor originally from Baltimore, Maryland

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gary $2,400 $2,400 $400 $50
3rd place: Secrets of the Unknown VHS set & NES with Family & Junior editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune
$-300
4 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Philis $-400 $500 $900 $899
2nd place: trip on Delta to Las Vegas & stay at Flamingo Hilton
$1,100
12 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Bill $900 $1,100 $3,300 $4,300
New champion: $4,300
$4,300
17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES BEER GEOGRAPHY CHILDREN'S LITERATURE MUSEUMS "OF" SONGS
$100 [21]
She defected from the Soviet Union in 1967 after assuming her mother's maiden name, Alliluyeva
Svetlana Stalin
Philis
$100 [2]
In the U.S. this type of beer has a maximum alcoholic content of .5%
near beer
Bill
$100 [13]
3 of this country's 4 districts are Fontvielle, La Condamine & Monte Carlo
Monaco
Philis
$100 [11]
She drank the poison that Captain Hook had intended for Peter Pan
Tinker Bell
Bill
$100 [25]
A furnished Hoosier log cabin can be found in the world's largest kids museum in this capital
Indianapolis
Philis Bill
$100 [1]
Song in which "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord"
"Battle Hymn of the Reublic"
Bill
$200 [22]
Soon after the United Arab Republic was established on Feb. 1, 1958, he became its first president
(Gamal Abdel) Nasser
Philis Bill
$200 [3]
This Japanese rice drink is listed under "beer" in both Britannica & Encyclopedia Americana
sake
Bill
$200 [17]
Port cities on this lake include Toledo, Cleveland & Buffalo
Erie
Bill
$200 [12]
In a Kipling story, the camel got his hump by being lazy & making this contemptuous sound
humph
$200 [7]
A 1936 hit ends, "That's the story of, that's" this
the glory of love
Bill
$300 [23]
Spy who said, "People came to see me because I was the first who dared to show myself naked to the public."
Mata Hari
Philis
$300 [4]
The U.S. imports more beer from this country, the home of Heineken, than any other
Holland
Bill
$300 [18]
This country borders the White Sea on the north & the Black Sea on the south
Soviet Union
Philis
$300 [14]
A donkey, a hound, a cat & a cock are these title characters in a Grimm's fairy tale
Bremen Town Musicians
$300 [8]
No. 1 Hit by Simon Garfunkel that begins "Hello darkness, my old friend"
"The Sound of Silence"
Gary
$400 [24]
This fifth child of Emperor Hirohito was born on December 23, 1933
Akihito
Bill
$400 [5]
Wine is made from substances rich in sugar while beer's ingredients are high in this
carbohydrates
Philis Bill
$400 [19]
This region of NW France was founded by Celts fleeing the Anglo-Saxon invasion
Brittany
Philis
$400 [15]
Chee-Chee the monkey told Dr. Dolittle this was "the rarest animal of the African jungle"
pushmi-pullyu
$400 [9]
To avoid a broken heart, in 1965 The Supremes gave this order
"Stop in the Name of Love"
Gary
$500 [6]
Guinness makes a bitter variety & Mackeson a sweet variety of this dark beer
stout
Gary
$500 [20]
There's a neutral zone between Iraq & this large neighbor to its south
Saudi Arabia
Bill
$500 [16]
Under the name Victor Appleton, Edward Stratemeyer created the adventures of this inventive boy
Tom Swift
Bill
DD $1,200 [10]
It's what Matt Monro was describing in the followingsong:"She walks like an angel walks / She talks like an angel talks / And her hair has a kind of curl..."
"My Kind Of Girl"
Gary

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY WEATHER QUOTES ZOOLOGY U.S. GOVERNMENT CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS
$200 [11]
This emperor was in his villa at Antium, 35 miles from the city, when Rome burned
Nero
Philis
$200 [4]
Weighing up to 2 1/4 pounds, the largest ones on record reportedly killed 92 people in Bangladesh in '86
hailstones
Philis
$200 [18]
He said, "I left my capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philis
$200 [1]
These members of the phylum Porifera can be used for cleaning & bathing
sponges
Bill
$200 [12]
Ezra Taft Benson, Earl Butz & John R. Block have held this cabinet post
Agriculture Secretary
Bill
$200 [25]
Harry the Horse, Angie the Ox, Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Sky Masterson, Mission Band
Guys and Dolls
Philis
$400 [13]
The 2 modern nations that occupy the land that nurtured the Indus Valley civilization about 2300 B.C.
India & Pakistan
$400 [7]
The American Midwest sees more of these storms than any other place in the world
tornadoes
Bill
$400 [19]
In 1899 Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote, "I know why the caged bird" does this
sings
Philis
DD $200 [5]
A viviparous insect differs from an oviparious insect in this way
the way they give birth
Philis
$400 [16]
In the Presidential Oath of Office the word "swear" may be replaced by this word
affirm
$600 [14]
The Romans called this country Helvetia & established garrisons & colonies at Nyon, Augst & Avenches
Switzerland
Philis Bill
$600 [8]
The terms El Niño and La Niña were coined to describe warm & cold water pools in this ocean
Pacific
Bill
$600 [20]
Wilfred Scawen Blunt called this "the famed rock, which Hercules & Goth & Moor bequeathed us."
Rock of Gibraltar
$400 [2]
The flying fox of Southeast Asia isn't a fox at all but one of these
bat
Philis Bill
$600 [17]
The National Security Act of 1947 created this agency first directed by Lt. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg
C.I.A.
Philis
DD $1,000 [15]
When Mark Antony gave Roman lands to his children by Cleopatra, this man made war on her
Augustus Caesar (Octavius)
Bill
$800 [9]
During daylight hours, a single red pennant warns boaters that these are in effect
small craft warnings
$800 [21]
Completes the line from "How do I love thee": "I love thee to the depth & breadth & height..."
my soul can reach
$600 [3]
It's theorized this class of animals evolved as ponds dried up; they learned to also live on land
amphibians
Bill
$800 [23]
Unless another day is appointed, Congress begins its sessions on this date
January 3rd
$1,000 [10]
A thermograph records temerature & a hydrograph records this
humidity
Philis
$1,000 [22]
The author who wrote "I am a camera with its shutter open"
Christopher Isherwood
Gary
$1,000 [6]
Animals that are dormant in winter are said to hibernate; those dormant in summer are said to do this
aestivate
Bill
$1,000 [24]
Seigniorage is the profit the government makes by doing this
minting coins
Gary

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN WRITERS

The only American woman awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, she won hers in 1938

Pearl Buck

Gary "Who was Margaret Mitchell?" — wagered $350
Philis "Who is Edna Ferber?" — wagered $1
Bill "Who is Pearl Buck?" — wagered $1,000

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