Show #1107 1989-05-30 (taped 1989-02-06) Regular

Contestants

Nancy Dorn — a housewife from Denver, Colorado

Morgan Spector — an attorney originally from Los Angeles, California

Robert Windeler — a writer from Beverly Hills, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robert $2,200 $4,500 $6,300 $7,601
2-day champion: $13,701
$6,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Morgan $300 $900 $1,900 $1,800
2nd place: Merillat oak modular shelving system & Baldwin Brass accessories + Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$1,900
12 R, 4 W
Nancy $700 $1,800 $3,800 $0
3rd place: Skyway luggage + Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$3,800
11 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

MARCH AMERICAN INDIANS WINE MULTIPLE MEANINGS TV ACTORS & ROLES DR. SEUSS
$100 [1]
It's frequently said that March comes in like a lion & goes out like this animal
lamb
Robert
$100 [21]
Iroquois villages were often surrounded by these water barriers
moats
$100 [16]
Perhaps the most important European contribution to wine since Roman days was the use of this stopper
a cork
Morgan
$100 [4]
Times off from work, or falling objects in the fall
leaves
Nancy
$100 [11]
Folksy actor who's played Andy Thompson, Andy Sawyer & Andy Taylor--as well as Ben Matlock
Andy Griffith
Robert
$100 [23]
The good-hearted elephant who heard a "Who" & hatched an egg
Horton
Nancy
DD $300 [2]
On March 26, 1955this"Ballad" hit No. 1 on the charts & stayed there for 5 weeks:"Born on a mountain top in Tennessee /Greenest state in the land of the free /Raised in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree /Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three..."
"Davy Crockett", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
Robert
$200 [22]
During the Revolutionary War, the Cherokee fought for this side
the British
Robert Morgan
$200 [17]
It's this gas that makes crackling rosé crackle
carbon dioxide (carbonic acid gas)
Nancy
$200 [5]
A narrow strip of land that juts into water, or the rod stuck through meat to be broiled
spit
$200 [12]
Emmy-winning actress who played Kunta Kinte's mother, M. L. King's wife & Miss Jane Pittman
Cicely Tyson
Nancy
$200 [24]
"And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street", which was rejected 28 times
Dr. Seuss's first book
Morgan
$300 [3]
March 19 is the traditional day the swallows return to this California mission
San Juan Capistrano
Morgan
$300 [28]
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been an arm of this government department since 1849
the Department of the Interior
Robert
$300 [18]
The Palomino grape is the classic variety used in making this fortified Spanish wine
sherry
Robert
$300 [6]
The banner that sets apart one beauty queen from another, or the frame in which a window-pane is set
sash
$300 [13]
Her best-known characters are man-hungry Sue Ann Nivens & just-plain-batty Rose Nylund
Betty White
Robert
$300 [25]
Famous for his 500 hats, he saved a kingdom from gooey, green, destructive oobleck
Bartholomew Cubbins
$400 [9]
According to the Julian calendar, Caesar died on this day in 44 B.C.
Ides of March, March 15th
Nancy
$400 [29]
The birth of her son, Baptiste, was recorded by Meriwether Lewis February 11, 1805
Sacajawea
Morgan Nancy
$400 [19]
Lacrima Christi, or "tears of Christ", is made from grapes grown on this Italian volcano
Vesuvius
Nancy
$400 [7]
As an adjective it means fast of foot, as a noun a group of taxicabs or warships
fleet
Robert
$400 [14]
"Dallas" star who also starred as Mark Harris, "The Man from Atlantis"
Patrick Duffy
Robert
$400 [26]
Dr. Seuss created this Oscar-winning cartoon character who made sounds like "boing"
Gerald McBoing-Boing
$500 [10]
This used to be Inauguration Day in the U.S. until the 20th Amendment changed it to January 20
March 4th
Robert
$500 [30]
A city near Detroit is named for this Ottawa chief who united the Great Lakes tribes in 1763
Pontiac
Robert
$500 [20]
If you watch "Falcon Crest" you may know all true Chianti wines come from this Italian region
Tuscany
Robert
$500 [8]
A metal pan for holding charcoal, or someone who works in brass
brazier
Robert
$500 [15]
She's played Prymaat, mother of Connie Conehead & Allie, mother of Jennie & Chip Lowell
Jane Curtin
Robert
$500 [27]
When Dr. Seuss got an honorary degree, the audience quoted from this book about Sam-I-Am
Green Eggs and Ham
Morgan

Double Jeopardy! Round

COLONIAL AMERICA PUBLISHING DOGS THE EARTH LANGUAGES BROADWAY SONGS
$200 [17]
Though he was a real military leader, Longfellow's poem about his "Courtship" is fictitious
Miles Standish
Robert
$200 [9]
Special Report is a series of magazines specifically designed for waiting rooms of these people
doctors
Morgan
$200 [1]
Though the city is now known as Beijing, this dog isn't called a Beijingese
a Pekingese
Robert
$200 [12]
A peneplain is a once hilly or mountainous area that has almost been leveled by this process
erosion
Morgan
$200 [26]
In 1974 it became the only official language of Canada's Quebec province
French
Morgan
$200 [2]
In "South Pacific", you'll hear this island "call you: come away, come away"
Bali Hai
Nancy
$400 [21]
The rich could afford to buy this sweetener, but ordinary folk were stuck with molasses & honey
sugar
Robert
$400 [18]
Believing folks liked pictures more than print, Gardner Cowles Jr. started this magazine
Look
Robert Nancy
$400 [5]
A small dog with a short nose, or the character Robert Mitchum played in "War & Remembrance"
a pug
Morgan
$400 [13]
Nickname for the circum-Pacific belt where 3/4 of all the world's earthquakes occur
the Ring of Fire
$400 [3]
In "My Fair Lady", Freddy felt this high when walking "On The Street Where You Live"
several stories high
$600 [23]
It was a wooden framework used to expose people to ridicule
a stock (pillory)
Nancy
$600 [19]
In 1987 the international edition of this extinct NYC paper celebrated its 100th birthday
the Herald Tribune
Robert
$600 [6]
Dark-tongued doggie whose name is a synonym for "food"
Chow
Robert
$600 [14]
This European island's largest glacier, Vatnajökull, is as big as all other glaciers in Europe combined
Iceland
Robert
$600 [4]
In "September Song", this month, not October, follows September
November
Robert Morgan
$800 [24]
Limners were itinerant ones who usually had little formal training
artists
Robert Morgan
$800 [20]
The 1st Chinese issue of this French fashion magazine debuted in 1988
Elle
Nancy
$800 [10]
In its native Tibet it's called "apso seng kye", which means "bark lion sentry dog"
a Lhasa apso
Nancy
$800 [15]
The 3 fuels formed of fossilized organic matter & known as "fossil fuels"
coal, gas & oil
Morgan
DD $600 [8]
The "Music Man" instrument "having his big fat say" in "76 Trombones"
a big bassoon
Robert
$1,000 [25]
Anne Bradstreet, a Puritan, & Phillis Wheatley, a Black slave, both became famous by writing these
poems
Morgan
$1,000 [22]
This national weekly paper calls itself "America's family publication"
Grit
$1,000 [11]
It's also called "the barkless dog of Africa"
a Basenji
Morgan
$1,000 [16]
Deposits of lime shells from protozoans form the primary ingredient of this sedimentary rock
chalk (limestone)
Morgan
$800 [7]
Anthony Newley sang, "Why can't I fall in love like any other man and maybe then I'll know" this
"What Kind Of Fool I Am"
Robert

Final Jeopardy!

COINS

She became the only monarch to appear on a U.S. coin, when a commemorative quarter was issued in 1893

Queen Isabella

Morgan "Who was Queen Victoria?" — wagered $100
Nancy "Who was Queen Victoria" — wagered $3,800
Robert "Who was Queen Isabella of Spain?" — wagered $1,301

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