Show #1146 1989-09-04 (taped 1989-06-12) Regular

First game of Season 6.

Contestants

Ed Landler — a filmmaker and production consultant from Los Angeles, California

Gordon Taylor — a bus driver from Seattle, Washington

Kevin Glynn — a writer and teacher from Glendale, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $1,000 $3,000 $8,000 $15,000
2-day champion: $27,000
$6,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Gordon $1,000 $500 $3,900 $7,800
2nd place: vacation to Portugal
$3,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Ed $600 $200 $6,800 $100
3rd place: Lucien Piccard his & hers watches
$6,800
15 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN ISLANDS RECENT TELEVISION MINING FOOD FACTS FASHION DESIGNERS "C.C."
$100 [4]
To get there from Brooklyn or N.J. you can cross a bridge, but you have to take a ferry from Manhattan
Staten Island
Gordon
$100 [26]
"Domestic Goddess" who stars opposite John Goodman in an ABC sitcom
Roseanne Barr
Kevin
$100 [1]
The rock in which these are found is called blue ground, not Zales
diamond
Gordon
$100 [17]
Brioche, popular for continental breakfasts, is a type of this food
bread
Ed
$100 [9]
Pierre Cardin's 1st boutique for women was called "Eve" & his men's store was named this
Adam
Ed
$100 [10]
Geraldine was the 1st child of this little tramp's 4th marriage
Charlie Chaplin
Kevin
$200 [5]
Some descendants of Jean Lafitte's pirate crew live on Grand Isle in this state
Louisiana
Ed
$200 [27]
With "The Cosby Show" as its lead-in, this "Cosby" spin-off finished No. 2 in the '87-'88 ratings
A Different World
Gordon
$200 [2]
It's also called opencut mining & no, the machine operators don't take their clothes off
strip mining
Gordon
$200 [18]
The flippers of this marine reptile featured in soups are often eaten separately
a sea turtle
Kevin
$200 [22]
James Galanos designed the one-shouldered sheath she wore to her 1st presidential inaugural ball
Nancy Reagan
Kevin Gordon
DD $100 [14]
The song heardhereis the only No. 1 hit this group has had in the U.S.:"Desert loving in your eyes all the way / If I listened to your lies would you say..."
Culture Club
Gordon
$300 [6]
If you float down this North American river, you'll actually find about 1,500, not 1,000 islands
St. Lawrence River
Gordon
$300 [3]
In the 1890s prospectors headed for the Klondike region in this country
Canada
Ed
$300 [19]
A famous Italian meat sauce is named for this "sausage" city
Bologna
Gordon
$300 [23]
Oscar de la Renta was born in Santo Domingo in this country
the Dominican Republic
Kevin
$200 [11]
Roll out the dough so it's very thin, then stamp it with this metal tool so the pastries all look alike
a cookie cutter
Gordon
$400 [7]
Theo. Roosevelt Island, a National Memorial, serves as a wildlife refuge in this river
the Potomac
Kevin
$400 [15]
In 1935 it didn't dig the AFL, so it joined the CIO, & in 1942 it tunneled out of that group
United Mine Workers
Kevin
$400 [20]
In Jewish cooking, "latkes" commonly enjoyed on Hanukkah, are these
potato pancakes
Kevin Gordon
$400 [24]
A former President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, his initials are B.B.
Bill Blass
Kevin
$300 [12]
You could-could have seen this dance performed for the 1st time in Paris' Moulin Rouge
the can-can
Gordon
$500 [8]
100 billion gallons of rain fall annually in the Caribbean National Forest, a.k.a. El Yunque, on this island
Puerto Rico
Kevin Gordon
$500 [16]
19th century English chemist Sir Humphrey Davy's contribution to mining was this invention
safety lamp
Gordon
$500 [21]
Creme d'ananas is a liqueur flavored with this fruit
pineapples
Gordon Ed
$500 [25]
While "Coco" was her nickname, this was Chanel's real first name
Gabrielle
$400 [13]
It's a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., & you're not
Chevy Chase
Gordon

Double Jeopardy! Round

1982 BIOGRAPHIES RELIGION BOTANY LONDON NAME THE PLAY
$200 [23]
Barney Clark made headlines when he was given one of these at the Univ. of Utah medical center
an artificial heart
Kevin
$200 [11]
His widow Pilar subtitled her book "My Life with the Duke"
John Wayne
Gordon
$200 [1]
Any religion described as polytheistic worships more than 1 of these
gods
Kevin
$200 [15]
Positive phototropism is the bending of plants towards this stimulus
light
Kevin
$200 [17]
Claridge's, the Dorcester & the Savoy are 3 of the most luxurious ones in London
hotels
Gordon
$200 [6]
Bill Walker & Salvation Army members Adolphus Cusins & Barbara Undershaft
Major Barbara
Gordon
$400 [24]
This colorful national newspaper made its debut in September 1982
USA TODAY
Kevin
$400 [12]
This star is the subject of Anne Edwards' "A Remarkable Woman" & Charles Higham's "Kate"
Katharine Hepburn
Kevin
$400 [2]
Pride, anger, envy, sloth, covetousness, gluttony & lust
the seven deadly sins
Ed
$400 [16]
Despite its name, this plant is found hanging from trees in the southern U.S., not Iberia
Spanish moss
Ed
$400 [18]
It's served as a keep, fortress, palace, prison, observatory, mint, arsenal & royal treasury
Tower of London
Ed
$400 [7]
Alan Strang, Dr. Martin Dysart & a horse named Nugget
Equus
Gordon
$600 [28]
Though it was still about 1 billion miles from Earth, it was 1st sighted in October from Mt. Palomar, Calif.
Halley's Comet
Gordon
$600 [13]
Her daughter Gail wrote "The Hornes: An American Family"
Lena Horne
Ed
$600 [3]
This word can describe the body of Jewish literature & oral tradition, or, specifically, the Pentateuch
Torah
Ed
$600 [27]
Though its natural habitat is a rain forest, this Ficus elastica makes an excellent indoor plant
a rubber plant
Ed
$600 [20]
This should be called "King Thutmose's Needle" since it was carved in his honor
Cleopatra's Needle
Kevin
$800 [9]
Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez, Charles Wykeham & Amy Spettigue
Charley's Aunt
Ed
$800 [30]
In 1982 Kodak introduced this innovative camera, roughly the size of a pack of cigarettes
disc camera
Kevin Gordon
$1,000 [19]
"The Rattigan Version" profiles this playwright who wrote "The Browning Version"
Terrence Rattigan
Ed
$800 [4]
In 1966 Swami Prabhupada founded this religious movement in the U.S.--not in India or at an airport
Hare Krishna
Ed
$800 [26]
If a flowering plant contains these 2 reproductive organs, botanists call it perfect
stamen and a pistil
Kevin
$800 [21]
A replica of Houdon's famous statue of this American president stands outside the National Gallery
George Washington
Ed
DD $1,000 [8]
George Gibbs, Emily Webb & the Stage Manager
Our Town
Gordon
$1,000 [29]
George Shultz became Secretary of State after his resignation
Alexander Haig
Kevin
DD $2,000 [14]
While "King Cohn" was about movie mogul Harry Cohn, "Citizen Cohn" is about this man
Roy Cohn
Kevin
$1,000 [5]
The number of days after his resurrection that Jesus ascended into Heaven
40
Ed
$1,000 [25]
Plants which consist of both algae & fungi are known by this name
lichens
$1,000 [22]
In the 1940 film of the same name, Vivien Leigh died on this London bridge
Waterloo Bridge
Ed
$1,000 [10]
Larry Slade, Harry Hope & Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
The Iceman Cometh
Ed

Final Jeopardy!

SOVIET HISTORY

He was Premier when Yuri Gagarin, the 1st cosmonaut, went into space

Nikita Khrushchev

Gordon "Who was Khrushchev?" — wagered $3,900
Ed "Who was Alexie Kosygin?" — wagered $6,700
Kevin "Who is Nikita Sergeyevich Khruschev" — wagered $7,000

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