Show #1454 1990-12-20 (taped 1990-09-24) Regular

Contestants

David Hewitt — a minister from Mount Pulaski, Illinois

Elaine Smith — a registered nurse from Ocala, Florida

Mitch Gerber — an editor originally from Buffalo, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mitch	$400	$1,000	$3,600	$7,200 2nd place: trip on America West to New York City & stay at Halloran House + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version	$3,600 15 R, 5 W
Elaine	$1,300	$2,800	$4,000	$1,000 3rd place: Jean d'Eve watch + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version	$4,900 22 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W (including 1 DD)
David	$900	$1,300	$7,700	$8,100 New champion: $8,100	$7,700 17 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE	SPORTS LINGO	FAMOUS PAULs	MAMMALS	GRIMM FAIRY TALES	MAKING BEDS
$100 [10] In Joshua, when the 12 men carrying the Ark of the Covenant set foot in this river, the river parted the Jordan Elaine	$100 [1] This word for a football is a misnomer, since it's not made of that material pigskin Elaine	$100 [24] In '86, this actor's "Crocodile Dundee" was the top money-making foreign film in the U.S. Paul Hogan Elaine	$100 [17] This flying mammal is not blind; some can see almost as well as humans a bat Elaine	$100 [4] In the story "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids" the kids were these animals goats Elaine	$100 [2] It has been improved since the 1960s by leakproof liners & baffles for wave control a waterbed Mitch
$200 [12] The second time Moses climbed Mount Sinai he had to bring a new pair of these with him tablets Mitch	$200 [3] Of bantam, fly & feather, the word used to describe the lightest boxing weight flyweight Elaine	$200 [25] His father, Apollos de Revoire, anglicized his name to make it easier on the "bumpkins" Paul Revere Mitch	$200 [18] These "sluggish" tree-dwelling mammals rarely descend to the ground the sloth David	$200 [5] She pushed the witch who lived in the edible abode into the oven Gretel Mitch	$200 [20] Any pretense, or a pillow cover that's a pretense for the pillow itself a sham Elaine
$300 [14] The stories of Deborah, Gideon & Samson are found in this book Judges David	$300 [6] A horse's gait, so named because it was the favorite of pilgrims riding to Becket's cathedral canter Mitch Elaine	$300 [26] His company "will sell no wine before its time" Paul Mason Mitch Elaine	$300 [19] Macaques, marmosets & mandrills are all varieties of this primate a monkey Mitch Elaine	DD $200 [8] His fee the first time was a necklace, the second, a ring, the third, the firstborn child Rumpelstiltskin Elaine	$300 [21] Latin for "mosquito net", it's now the name for the decorative cloth suspended over a bed a canopy Elaine
$400 [15] Solomon also ordered fir & algum trees from this country for the temple Lebanon David	$400 [7] Sportscaster Chick Hearn coined this phrase for W. Chamberlain's forceful scoring shot a slam dunk Mitch Elaine	$400 [27] Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite" was first performed by this "King of Jazz" & his orchestra Paul Whiteman Mitch	$400 [29] The largest marsupial a kangaroo Elaine	$400 [9] Her punishment for letting a prince into the tower was a haircut & a one-way ticket to the desert Rapunzel David	$400 [22] This bed, named for its inventor, has come out of the closet for years a Murphy bed Elaine
$500 [16] Though Romans comes 1st in the Bible, chronologically the earliest of his epistles is I Thessalonians Paul Elaine	$500 [13] A golf fairway laid out at an angle, named for a canine's appendage a dogleg David	$500 [28] Germany's supreme military commander during WWI; he later became its president Paul Hindenburg Mitch	$500 [30] Though called a honey bear, this mammal, native to Latin America, is a member of the raccoon family a kinkajou Elaine David	$500 [11] When the king's daughter dropped her golden ball down the well, this animal retrieved it the frog Elaine	$500 [23] The American empire style of bed named for the horse-drawn vehicle it resembles the sleigh bed Mitch

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORERS	CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS	MODERN LITERATURE	FOREIGN EXCHANGE	THE WIND	POTENT QUOTABLES
$200 [8] William Adams, the first Englishman to visit this country, was made a nobleman by the Shogun Japan David	$200 [7] Che, Peron, People of Argentina Evita David	$200 [16] His novel, "Islands in the Stream" was published posthumously in 1970 Hemingway Mitch	$200 [12] The renminbi of this country is commonly known as the yuan China Mitch Elaine	$200 [23] The name of this brief, violent windstorm with rain or snow may be from the Old Norse "skvala", squeal a squall Elaine	$200 [1] It finishes George Young's warning, "The lips that touch liquor must never..." touch mine Mitch
$400 [9] King Charles of Spain made him a marques, but refused to make him Governor of Mexico in 1528 Cortés David	$400 [6] Sir Dinadan, Sir Sagramore, King Pellinore Camelot Mitch	$400 [18] Umberto Eco's 1980 novel "Il nome della rosa" translates to this The Name of the Rose Elaine	$400 [17] The pataca is the currency of this Portuguese territory west of Hong Kong Macau Elaine	$400 [24] This abrupt shift in wind speed was found to be a cause of a 1985 crash at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport a wind shear Mitch	$400 [2] This title of a cautionary film with Jack Lemmon & Lee Remick is from a poem by Ernest Dowson Days of Wine and Roses David
$600 [10] In 1851 David Livingstone discovered this river on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border the Zambezi Elaine David	$600 [5] Lady Thiang, Anna Leonowens, Lun Tha The King and I David	DD $600 [19] In 1920, at age 24, this author established his reputation with "This Side of Paradise" F. Scott Fitzgerald Elaine	$600 [25] This republic in the Apennines uses the Italian lira San Marino Mitch	$600 [28] Thanks to ocean winds from the west, this state produces over 90% of U.S. wind-generated energy California David	DD $800 [13] 2 items that accompany Omar Khayyam's "Jug of Wine" a jug of wine, a loaf of bread & thou (a book of verse) Elaine
$800 [11] Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral is credited with discovering this South American country Brazil Mitch	$800 [4] Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd, Melvin P. Thorpe, Miss Mona's girls The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Elaine	$800 [20] "Whistle", published in 1978, completed the James Jones trilogy that began with this novel From Here to Eternity David	$800 [26] This monetary unit of El Salvador is named for Christopher Columbus the Colon Mitch Elaine	$800 [29] Island group in the West Indies named for the fact that they're sheltered from the trade winds the Leeward Islands David	$800 [14] It' completes the rhyming proverb, "What soberness conceals..." drunkenness reveals Elaine
$1,000 [22] After claiming the Mississippi Valley for France, he named the region Louisiana La Salle David	$1,000 [3] Action, Gee-Tar, Big Deal, Diesel, Tiger, Riff, Tony West Side Story David	$1,000 [21] Richard Wright's first novel, it tells of a Black youth named Bigger Thomas Native Son David	$1,000 [27] These 2 countries have units called the won North & South Korea Mitch	$1,000 [30] In classical mythology, the west wind Zephyr David	$1,000 [15] A character in his "Candida" admits, "I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler." George Bernard Shaw David

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

2 of the 4 Americans who negotiated the Treaty of Paris with the British in 1782

(2 of) Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, or Henry Laurens

Mitch "Who are B. Franklin and J. Adams" — wagered $3,600

Elaine "Who are T. Jefferson & B Franklin" — wagered $3,000

David "Who are B. Franklin & J. Adams?" — wagered $400

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