Show #1627 1991-10-01 (taped 1991-08-19) Regular

Introductions and first 11 clues entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

Ron Reisman — a public relations executive from New York City, New York

Ed Vallay — a writer from Richmond, Virginia

Rand Owen — a librarian originally from Nashville, Tennessee (whose 3-day cash winnings total $39,301)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rand $1,400 $2,900 $8,400 $7,199
2nd place: trip for 2 to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
$7,700
25 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Ed $2,000 $1,900 $3,100 $0
3rd place: Typhoon International wicker furniture
$3,100
13 R, 3 W
Ron $300 $700 $4,800 $8,400
New champion: $8,400
$4,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THEATER FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES POTPOURRI ISLANDS FAMOUS FOLKS SAY CHEESE
$100 [1]
The Michiyuki, or "staged journey", is a tradition in the drama of this country
Japan
Rand
$100 [6]
It's what a Spanish bartender would serve if you ordered "Vino blanco"
white wine
Ed
$100 [26]
There are 3 museums in this city's Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Rand
$100 [11]
Pak Yue Chau & Lantau are 2 of the less-famous islands of this British colony
Hong Kong
Rand
$100 [14]
Her brother Christopher Ciccone was this artistic director for her "Blond Ambition" tour
Madonna
Ron
$100 [12]
"Anatomical" term for the holes in Swiss cheese
eyes
Rand
$200 [2]
Patrick Dennis' real-life aunt, Marion Tanner, inspired this real-life character
Auntie Mame
Rand
$200 [7]
This Italian word for "baby" was one of Babe Ruth's nicknames
bambino
Rand
$200 [27]
The headquarters of the United Steelworkers of America is in this city
Pittsburgh
Ron
$200 [16]
The Blue Grotto is on this island in the Bay of Naples
Capri
Rand
$200 [15]
In March 1991 Lesley Stahl was named the 3rd female correspondent in this TV series' history
60 Minutes
Ed
$200 [13]
This rubbery Italian cheese is an important ingredient in pizza & lasagna
mozzarella
Ron
$300 [3]
Shirley Booth starred in the 1959 musical "Juno", based on this Sean O'Casey play
Juno and the Paycock
Ed
$300 [8]
It's the German word for "forbidden" or "prohibited"
verboten
Rand
$300 [28]
This magazine for people who want to get in shape & stay there is sometimes abbreviated WWM
Weight Watchers Magazine
Rand Ed
$300 [17]
Mt. Hekla is 1 of more than 100 volcanoes on this North Atlantic island
Iceland
Rand
$300 [20]
Love and Desire and Hate" is this ex-"Dynasty" star's steamy second novel
Joan Collins
Ron
$300 [23]
The soft pot cheese, or schmierkase, is better known by this name
cottage cheese
Rand Ron
$400 [4]
Sir Benjamin Backbite is the nephew of the odious Crabtree in Sheridan's 1777 play "The School for" this
The School for Scandal
Ed
$400 [9]
Mikhail Gorbachev used this term to describe his program of political & economic reforms
perestroika
Rand
$400 [18]
The United States agreed to buy this group from Denmark in 1902 but didn't get them until 1917
the U.S. Virgin Islands
Ron
$400 [21]
This person became Great Britain's youngest prime minister of the 20th C. at age 47
John Major
Rand Ed Ron
$400 [24]
The town of Meaux is reputed to produce the best of this soft French cheese
Brie
Ron
$500 [5]
Lawrence Olivier starred in this beastly Ionesco play in London; Zero Mostel on Broadway
Rhinoceros
Ed
$500 [10]
It's French for a sensationalized law case, trial, or controversy
cause célèbre
Ed
DD $700 [19]
The Roosevelt Memorial Bridge connects this New Brunswick island to Maine
Campobello
Ron
$500 [22]
He sold mail order footprint patters before he opened his first dance studio at age 18 in 1913
Arthur Murray
Ron
$500 [25]
You might want to serve this spiced Dutch cheese on the blue & white pottery of the same name
Delft
Rand

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN NOVELS ANCIENT TIMES DENTISTRY ART BUSINESS & INDUSTRY GEORGIA
$200 [9]
The 1st American novel to sell more than 1 million copies was this 1852 antislavery work
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ron
$200 [21]
This Hun invaded Italy in 452 but was persuaded to turn back by Pope Leo I
Attila
Ed
$200 [26]
A Chinese dentist in 1498 came up with the first modern bristled one of these
a toothbrush
Ron
$200 [1]
Gainsborough's "Blue Boy" now hangs in the Huntington in this state
California
Rand
$200 [5]
The 3 Ms in 3M stand for this
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
Rand
$200 [2]
Now a Braves' official, he hit home run no. 715 off Dodger Al Dowling in Atlanta
Hank Aaron
Ed
$400 [10]
This 1st novel in a trilogy was followed by "Men Against the Sea" & "Pitcairn's Island"
Mutiny on the Bounty
Ron
$400 [22]
This Thracian slave & gladiator was finally defeated by Crassus in 71 B.C.
Spartacus
Ed
$400 [27]
Common name of the third molars
your wisdom teeth
Rand Ron
$400 [4]
A bunch of bored prostitutes is the subject of his "In the Parlor at the Rue des Moulins"
Toulouse-Lautrec
Ed
$400 [15]
On April 17, 1991 the Dow closed above this "barrier" for the first time
3,000
Ron
$400 [3]
In 1868 Atlanta became the state capital & Colonel C.W. Styles founded this Atlanta newspaper
The Constitution
Ron
$800 [12]
James Michener novel in which an American pilot in the Korean War falls in love with a Japanese girl
Sayonara
Rand
$600 [23]
This country's 28th dynasty consisted of a single king, Amyrtaeus of Sais
Egypt
Rand
$600 [28]
In the Old West a pole of these two colors indicated a barber who did dentistry
red and white
Rand
$600 [14]
Michelangelo's teacher Bertoldo was taught by this great Italian sculptor
Donatello
Ed
$600 [18]
In Fort Worth there's a statue of this man who made Radio Shack a national chain
(Charles) Tandy
Rand
$600 [6]
In 1912 Juliette Gordon Low founded this organization in Savannah
the Girl Scouts
Rand
$1,000 [13]
His 1873 novel "The Gilded Age", was co-written by fellow Hartford, Conn. writer Charles Dudley Warner
Mark Twain
Rand
$1,000 [25]
This greatest of Greek orators killed himself by taking poison in 322 B.C.
Demosthenes
Rand Ed
$800 [29]
Heloise hints & your dentist agrees you can use this cooking ingredient instead of toothpaste
baking soda
Rand
$800 [16]
Flemish family of artists that included the elder & younger Pieters & Jan
the Brueghels
Rand Ed Ron
$800 [19]
On April 24, 1991 Pizza Hut delivered pizzas to each U.S. family they could find with this name
Domino
Ed
$800 [7]
Based on a James Dickey novel, this movie in which Dickey played a sheriff was filmed on the Chattooga River
Deliverance
Rand
DD $1,700 [11]
This Allen Drury novel about confirming a Sec'y of State was the fiction best seller of 1960
Advise and Consent
Ron
DD $1,500 [24]
In 331 B.C. his troops plundered Persepolis & burned the palace of Xerxes
Alexander the Great
Rand
$1,000 [30]
1 of the American Dental Association's 8 specialties; it corrects cleft palates & harelips
oral surgery
$1,000 [17]
In 1989-90 the Louvre displayed works of this artist associated with the French Revolution
(Jacques Louis) David
Rand Ron
$1,000 [20]
For its "World's Biggest Offer" this airline gave away 50,000 tickets for people to fly free April 23, 1991
British Airways
Ron
$1,000 [8]
Jimmy Carter is a distinguished professor at this university
Emory
Rand

Final Jeopardy!

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Last name of the 2 brothers from Virginia who signed the Declaration of Independence

Lee

Ed "What is Randolph" — wagered $3,100
Ron "What is Lee?" — wagered $3,600
Rand "What is Randolph?" — wagered $1,201

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