Show #1521 1991-03-25 (taped 1991-01-30) Regular

Tom Halpern game 2.3/4s of game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Roz Jay — a housewife from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Michael Hairston — an accountant originally from Charleston, West Virginia

Tom Halpern — a researcher and writer from New York City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $1,700 $3,000 $8,900 $8,401
2-day champion: $23,602
$10,400
23 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $300 $2,000 $4,200 $8,200
2nd place
$4,900
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Roz $100 $1,900 $3,100 $6,200
3rd place
$3,100
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ARCHITECTURE BUSY BEAVERS DANCE WORLD LEADERS THE JACKSONS
$100 [4]
After Mr. Hyde kills a member of Parliament, he reveals the secret of his dual identity to a friend
Dr. Jekyll
Tom
$100 [9]
A small New England-style home with a gabled roof, named for a Massachusetts peninsula
Cape Cod
Tom
$100 [21]
A beaver slaps this body part on the water to warn other beavers of danger
a tail
Michael
$100 [16]
This singer popularized not only the twist but also the fly & the limbo
Chubby Checker
Michael
$100 [1]
Due to a scandal, Sosuke Uno lost his job as this country's prime minister
Japan
Tom
$100 [12]
Born in New Orleans in 1911, she became the most famous gospel singer of her time
Mahalia Jackson
Roz
$200 [7]
The vicious Mordaunt beheads King Charles I in "Twenty Years After", Dumas' sequel to this
The Three Musketeers
Tom Roz
$200 [10]
Bats & bells both hang in this upper story of a church tower
belfry
Tom
$200 [27]
Beavers build these dome-shaped homes in the water but the living chambers are above the water
lodges
Roz
$300 [18]
Name for the heavy shoes used to hammer out its heavy rhythm, it was a forerunner of tap dancing
clog dancing
Roz
$200 [2]
Before her death in 1978, this Israeli said, "I forbid any eulogies or anything named for me"
Golda Meir
Tom
$200 [22]
In 1990 he was elected a shadow U.S. senator to lobby for D.C. statehood
Jesse Jackson
Roz
$300 [8]
Wang Lung has a concubine named Lotus & a pretty slave named Pear Blossom in this Pearl Buck novel
The Good Earth
Tom
$300 [11]
These accessories can be bulls-eye, bow or bay
window
Michael
$300 [28]
There are more beavers in these 2 countries than anywhere else in the world
the United States & Canada
Tom
$400 [19]
Some believe this fast Italian dance derived from mad movement caused by a tarantula's bite
the tarantella
Roz
$300 [3]
This debonair Canadian, a former P.M., has written several books, including "Two Innocents in Red China"
Pierre Trudeau
Roz
$300 [23]
She could have been our first bigamist first lady but she died before her husband took office
Rachel Jackson (Mrs. Andrew Jackson)
Roz
$400 [13]
Budgie, the title character of children's books writen by the Duchess of York, is one of these
a helicopter
$400 [15]
The gothic style began in this country in the 12th century
France
Michael
$400 [29]
When "Beavers", an IMAX film opened at the Science Museum of Virginia this TV actor came to promote it
Jerry Mathers
Michael Roz
DD $500 [17]
Title dance you'd do to thefollowingmusic:
the (Pennsylvania) polka
Michael
$400 [5]
In 1961 the Vatican excommunicated this Haitian president for harassing the clergy
Duvalier
Tom
$400 [25]
She often acts with her husband Eli Wallach
Anne Jackson
Roz
$500 [14]
Clyde is sentenced to death after the pregnant Roberta drowns in this T. Dreiser novel
An American Tragedy
Tom
$500 [24]
Architect who observed, "No house should be on any hill but of the hill"
Frank Lloyd Wright
Michael
$500 [30]
The capybara is the only member of this mammal group that's larger than the beaver
rodents
Tom
$500 [20]
In ballet the French name for a dance that takes two to do
a pas de deux
Tom
$500 [6]
In 1905 Prince Carl of Denmark was elected king of this Scandinavian country
Norway
Roz
$500 [26]
In 1957 this macabre female author wrote humorously about raising children in "Raising Demons"
Shirley Jackson
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

1941 EDUCATION U.S. GEOGRAPHY WORD ORIGINS CHEMISTRY FATHERLY NICKNAMES
$200 [3]
In September it was mistakenly announced that thousands of craters here were caused by volcanic activity
the Moon
Tom
$200 [11]
The Kalamazoo case of 1874 established this state's right to use local taxes to establish high schools
Michigan
Michael
$200 [12]
Except for Hawaii, this Hoosier state is the smallest west of the Appalachians
Indiana
Michael
$200 [1]
An abbreviation for the Latin "quando", mean "when", it's on scripts to tell an actor when to speak
cue
Michael
$200 [10]
A noble gas, not Superman's home planet, the length of a meter is based on its 86 isotope
krypton
Roz
$200 [13]
"The Father of the University of Virginia"
Jefferson
Michael
$400 [4]
His 56-game hitting streak was ended on July 17th
Joe DiMaggio
Tom
$400 [22]
The Mayo Graduate School of Medicine is in this city
Rochester, Minnesota
Tom
$400 [17]
Isle Royale is the largest island in this largest Great Lake
Superior
Tom
$400 [2]
Volume came from the Latin "voldare", "to roll", as a volumen was this type of rolled book
a scroll
Tom
$400 [14]
By volume it makes up about 20% of the atmosphere, by mass about 2/3rds of your body & 90% of water
oxygen
Michael
$400 [26]
This French novelist has been designated "The Father of Science Fiction"
Jules Verne
$800 [6]
Irish novelist who died in Zurich on January 13th
(James) Joyce
Michael
$600 [23]
A DVM is a doctoral degree in this field of study
veterinary medicine
Roz
$600 [18]
Spuyten Duyvil Creek joins the Hudson & Harlem Rivers & separates this island from the mainland
Manhattan
Tom Roz
$600 [7]
Recap as in retell a story in a short form is a short form of this word
recapitulation
Tom
$600 [15]
The color of litmus when it comes in contact with a substance that has a Ph value below 4.5
red (pink)
Michael
$600 [27]
"The Father of Angling"
Izaak Walton
$1,000 [8]
In February this general arrived in Libya to command of German & Italian forces there
Rommel
Tom
$800 [24]
In England it's equivalent to high school; in the U.S. it's another name for an elementary school
a grammar school
Tom Michael
$800 [19]
This state with the 3rd most Native Americans has Navajo, Cochise & Apache Counties
Arizona
$800 [9]
Word first used at a place in San Luis Obispo, California that rented accommodations with garages
a motel
Michael
$800 [16]
They're said to form a cloud around the nucleus of an atom
electrons
Tom
$800 [28]
"The Father of the Soviet Hydrogen Bomb"
Sakharov
Tom
DD $1,500 [5]
This island declared its independence from Denmark on May 19th
Iceland
Tom
$1,000 [25]
This famous 19th century educator was the 1st Secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education
Horace Mann
Roz
$1,000 [20]
This river starts in Pennsylvania, flows north into New York & then turns southwest into Pittsburgh
the Allegheny
Michael
DD $1,000 [21]
It's Greek for "sacred carving", if you get the picture
hieroglyphic
Michael
$1,000 [30]
It's what the "P" stands for in Boyle's law: PV=K
pressure
$1,000 [29]
Englishman called "The Father of the New Economics"
Keynes
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS

He was 61 when he made his acting debut in 1 of his own plays, "Small Craft Warnings", in 1972

Tennessee Williams

Roz "Who is Tennessee Williams?" — wagered $3,100
Michael "Who was T. Williams?" — wagered $4,000
Tom "Who is O'Neill?" — wagered $499

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