Show #1714 1992-01-30 (taped 1991-11-12) Regular

Dave Willis game 5.

Contestants

Mary Anne Green — a housewife originally from Merrillville, Indiana

Drew Zimmerman — an artist and performer originally from Newark, Delaware

Dave Willis — a manager from Ventura, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $45,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $1,100 $4,000 $6,600 $12,600
5-day champion: $58,001
$5,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Drew $1,000 $2,900 $9,900 $6,599
3rd place: Michael C. Fina flatware + Jeopardy home game or computerized version
$10,900
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Mary Anne $1,000 $2,400 $3,800 $7,300
2nd place: Krementz bracelet + Pierre Cardin ladies & gents watches + Jeopardy home game or computerized version
$3,800
15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S.A. FAMOUS HARDYS HERALDIC BEASTS NOTORIOUS AN HOUR HOMOPHONES
$100 [11]
The 15th step on the Capitol in Denver has a plaque indicating it's exactly this
a mile high
Drew
$100 [3]
Any member of the Sons of the Desert could tell you his nickname was "Babe"
Oliver Hardy
Drew
$100 [1]
It's not known for toreros, but the City of Turin's arms show this animal rampant
a bull
Dave
$100 [4]
Benjamin Siegel's cronies called him Ben; you probably know him by this famous nickname
Bugsy
Dave
$100 [26]
Early ones of these sometimes used mercury, but people found that sand flowed better
an hourglass
Mary Anne
$100 [10]
A man with no hair, or what he did when he lost it
bald/bawled
Mary Anne
$200 [19]
The Sternwheel Regatta is an annual river festival celebrated in this capital of West Virginia
Charleston
Dave
$200 [16]
Edward Stratemeyer created this adventurous pair as well as Nancy Drew
the Hardy Boys
Mary Anne
$200 [2]
Nepal's coat of arms depicts one of these birds under the sun, not under glass
a pheasant
Mary Anne
$200 [5]
This "motherly" outlaw's real name was Arizona Clark
Ma Barker
Dave
$200 [27]
The term for the time in a bar when drink prices are reduced & free snacks are served
happy hour
Mary Anne
$200 [12]
A thin layer of gold, or a sense of remorse for wrongdoing
gilt/guilt
$300 [20]
Sedona in this state is famous for its beautiful red rock formations
Arizona
Dave
$300 [17]
In a 1962 Hanna-Barbera cartoon he was Lippy the Lion's friend & partner
Hardy Har Har
Drew
$300 [9]
Appropriately, one of these animals appears on the coat of arms of the Ivory Coast
an elephant
Drew
$300 [6]
Acquitted of axing her father & stepmother, she was eventually buried beside them
Lizzie Borden
Dave
$300 [28]
It's the hour Wilson Pickett sang about in 1965
the midnight hour
Drew
$300 [13]
To empty water out of a boat or put hay into a bundle
bail/bale
Mary Anne
$400 [21]
It's the only state that touches the Chukchi Sea
Alaska
Dave
$400 [18]
His ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey & his heart is buried in a cemetery in Wessex
Thomas Hardy
Mary Anne
$400 [23]
A heraldic animal that is "vorant" is doing this to another creature
eating it
Drew
$400 [7]
This Wild West dentist had a notorious girlfriend & lady of the evening called Big Nose Kate
Doc Holliday
Dave
$400 [29]
In 1968 it began as a biweekly show alternating with "The CBS News Hour"
60 Minutes
Drew
$400 [14]
Reduce the number, or something a teacher prepares
lessen/lesson
Mary Anne
DD $1,500 [22]
It's Alabama's only seaport
Mobile
Dave
$500 [25]
The Hardy in his famous "Kiss me, Hardy" was his flag captain
Lord Nelson
Mary Anne
$500 [24]
Bolivia's & Peru's coats of arms feature smaller relatives of this South American animal
the llama
Drew
$500 [8]
This descendant of a noble family was guillotined at age 24 after stabbing Marat
Charlotte Corday
$500 [30]
Now referring to late afternoon or evening prayers, it was the 6th of the 7 canonical hours
vespers
Dave
$500 [15]
Quote a specific paragraph about vision at a specific location
cite/sight/site
Drew

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES U.S. PRESIDENTS FRUITS & VEGETABLES THE 20th CENTURY PLAY SETTINGS NUCLEAR PHYSICS
$200 [16]
This picture weekly folded in 1972 & returned as a monthly 6 years later
Life
Dave
$200 [9]
In 1989 he was made an honorary knight by Queen Elizabeth II
Reagan
Drew
$200 [1]
The scientific name of this salad green, Lactuca sitiva, comes from the Latin word for milk
lettuce
Dave Mary Anne
$200 [19]
In 1942 the Germans appointed Vidkun Quisling "Minister President" of this country
Norway
Mary Anne
$200 [30]
At the beginning of this play, "It is night over the Keller homestead"
The Miracle Worker
Drew
$200 [5]
Uranium is the heaviest natural element; this is the lightest
hydrogen
Dave Mary Anne
$400 [17]
Moderator of "Firing Line" who founded the Conservative journal National Review in 1955
(William) Buckley
Dave
$400 [10]
After a June 1991 autopsy, coroners concluded that this president did not die by poisoning
(Zachary) Taylor
Dave
$400 [2]
Cultivation of these sweet palm fruits didn't begin in California until about 1902
dates
Mary Anne
$400 [20]
In 1984, when neither Likud nor Labor won a clear majority, this country received a National Unity gov't
Israel
Drew
$400 [29]
This play has 1 setting: "the top floor of a warehouse and office building in Amsterdam
The Diary of Anne Frank
Drew
$400 [7]
Scientists refer to the 6 types of quarks as these, like the 31 at Baskin-Robbins
flavors
Drew
$600 [18]
William Randolph Hearst took over management of this San Francisco paper when he was 24
The Examiner
Dave Drew Mary Anne
$600 [13]
As a college senior, he won the Michigan Wolverines Most Valuable Player Award
Ford
Drew
$600 [3]
The part of this member of the cabbage family that's eaten is the firm, white "curd"
cauliflower
Mary Anne
$600 [21]
On May 11, 1948 Howard Hughes bought a controlling interest in this movie studio
RKO
Drew
$600 [24]
The script of this musical says it's set partly in "certain reaches of John Adams' mind"
1776
Drew
$600 [8]
Most U.S. reactors use this liquid as a moderator; Canada's use the heavy kind
water
Drew
$800 [27]
For over 29 years Sergio Aragones has been drawing marginal cartoons for this satirical magazine
Mad
Drew Mary Anne
DD $600 [14]
At 83 he completed what many consider to be his finest book, "The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson"
Herbert Hoover
Drew
$800 [4]
Also called a Chinese gooseberry, this is the basis of the New Zealand dessert pavlova
the kiwi
Dave
DD $600 [23]
The April 1937 bombing of this Basque village became the subject of a Picasso masterpiece
Guernica
Drew
$800 [25]
The town of Glorious Hill, Mississippi is the setting for his play "Summer and Smoke"
(Tennessee) Williams
Drew
$800 [11]
In a closed system, the total amount of mass & this stays constant as one changes into the other
energy
Dave
$1,000 [28]
Founded in 1764, this Hartford, Connecticut paper was bought by the Times Mirror Company in 1979
The Hartford Courant
$1,000 [15]
As a congressman, he was the first House member to go into uniform during WWII
Lyndon Baines Johnson
$1,000 [6]
In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Eliot asks "Do I dare to eat" this fruit
a peach
Drew
$800 [22]
In 1924 U.S. states elected 2 women governors: Miriam Ferguson in Texas & Nellie Tayloe Ross here
Wyoming
$1,000 [26]
His play "Fool for Love" takes place in a "stark... motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert"
(Sam) Shepard
Drew
$1,000 [12]
Also called thermonuclear, this reactor type is fueled on plasma
a fusion reactor
Dave

Final Jeopardy!

ART

Rodin originally conceived "The Thinker" as a seated portrait of this author for "The Gates of Hell"

Dante

Mary Anne "Who is Dante?" — wagered $3,500
Dave "Who is Dante" — wagered $6,000
Drew "Who is Balzac?" — wagered $3,301

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