Show #1780 1992-05-01 (taped 1992-01-14) Regular

Contestants

Kip Keller — a bookstore clerk from Austin, Texas

Clay Harris — a journalist from London, England

Don Westrich — an advertising executive from New York City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Don	$1,000	$3,200	$12,100	$16,201 2-day champion: $30,201	$11,000 23 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Clay	$1,700	$2,500	$6,900	$13,798 3rd place: a Panasonic Palmcorder + a Nintendo Entertainment System + Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy	$6,900 19 R, 2 W
Kip	$1,800	$3,300	$8,100	$16,200 2nd place: a trip to the Cayman Islands	$7,100 18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

"G" IN HISTORY	BOATS & SHIPS	TV TOWNS	AUTHORS	PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS	COMMON BONDS
$100 [1] In 1986 this man came up with a new plan of openness he called "Glasnost" Gorbachev Clay	$100 [7] Basic types of this ship include oil, ore-bulk-oil & liquefied-gas carrier tankers Clay	$100 [26] Based on a real-life bar called the Bull and Finch, "Cheers" is set in this city Boston Don	$100 [6] He dedicated his novel "1876" to Claire Bloom, not Myra Breckinridge Gore Vidal Clay	$100 [16] This part of a bell is also the name of another type of percussion instrument the clapper Don	$100 [18] Simple truss, cantilever, suspension a bridge Don
$200 [2] The Gibson Girl was popular in the decade nicknamed this the Gay Nineties Kip	$200 [8] In Venice, motorboats have largely replaced these vessels as the main means of transportation gondolas Kip	$200 [27] She left "Alice" and Mel's Diner to start her own eatery in Cowtown, Texas Flo Kip	$200 [9] After receiving electroshock treatment for depression, he took his own life in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 Ernest Hemingway Kip	$200 [17] When not being played, the wires of this drum are loosened so they won't vibrate & make unwanted sounds a snare drum Clay Kip	$200 [22] Shingles, Dancer & Prancer, rain things you find on the roof Don
$300 [3] This international environment organization was founded in Canada in 1971 Greenpeace Kip	$300 [11] In his "Travels", Marco Polo described these Chinese sailing ships, praising their system of bulkheads junks Clay	$300 [28] This ghoulish TV family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in Mockingbird Heights the Munsters Don	$300 [10] This native of Odense was known primarily as a novelist before his 1st fairy tales were published Hans Christian Andersen Clay	$400 [20] These small Afro-Cuban drums are yoked in pairs & usually tuned greater than thirds apart bongos Don	$300 [23] The Lone Ranger, the Phantom of the Opera, Johnny Bench people who wear masks Kip
$400 [4] In 1919 this father of rocketry published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" Robert Goddard Kip	$400 [12] The earliest form of this boat was a barge or raft pulled across a stream by ropes a ferry Clay	$400 [29] In "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", Mary Richards worked at WJM-TV in this Midwestern city Minneapolis Kip	$400 [14] Even after her divorce & remarriage, she continued to use the last name of her ex-husband Edwin P. Parker II Dorothy Parker Clay	DD $500 [19] Percussion instrument featured in thefollowing: a steel drum Don	$400 [24] Swords, sketches, lottery numbers things that are drawn Kip
$500 [5] These Nepalese mercenaries have fought in British & Indian armies the Ghurkas Kip	$500 [13] This Scottish-named clipper, first launched in 1869, is now preserved in England as a museum the Cutty Sark Don	$500 [30] Ben Cartwright's Ponderosa Ranch was located near this Nevada town Virginia City Clay	$500 [15] As a child, he said a "long goodbye" to the U.S. & moved to England with his Irish mother (Raymond) Chandler Don	$500 [21] The Zildjian family in Turkey have made these instruments for more than 300 years; they're sold in pairs cymbals Don	$500 [25] Archibald Crossley, Elmo Roper, George Gallup pollsters Clay

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE	LANGUAGES	EXPLORERS	IOWANS	10-LETTERS WORDS	GEORGE V
$200 [2] In the metric system this prefix means "thousand" kilo Don	$200 [7] This familiar French phrase translates to "if you please" s'il vous plait Don	$200 [18] A direct descendant of this explorer was chosen to be a grand marshal of the 1992 Rose Parade Christopher Columbus Clay	$200 [13] John L. Lewis was the first president of this labor group that merged with the AFL in 1955 the CIO Clay	$200 [12] 1 of 4 offspring born in a single birth a quadruplet Clay	$200 [1] After George changed this, the Kaiser joked he was going to see "The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" his last name (the family name) Don
$400 [3] During cell reproduction, one of these splits into 2 identical strands called chromatids chromosomes Kip	$400 [8] Most of the 400,000 volumes in the Library at Alexandria circa 250 B.C. were in this language Greek Kip	$400 [19] In 1616 Willem Schouten discovered the tip of this continent South America Don Clay Kip	$400 [14] The movie version of this Meredith Willson musical premiered in Mason City, his hometown Music Man Clay	$400 [22] The sudden overthrow of a political system: Iran had one in 1979 revolution Clay Kip	$400 [27] After his father ascended the throne in 1901, George was created prince of this Wales Clay
$600 [4] Used chiefly as a solvent, this is a liquid extracted by the distillation of pine tree resin turpentine Don	$600 [9] Russonorsk was a pidgin language used prior to WWI between fishermen of Russia & this country Norway Clay Kip	$800 [21] Bartolomeu Dias, who never made it to India, helped build the ships for this man who did Vasco da Gama Kip	$600 [15] MacKinlay Kantor won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel about this Civil War prison camp Andersonville Don	$600 [24] The period when a person suspected of carrying a disease is put under enforced isolation quarantines Clay	$600 [28] As a child, she called George "Grandpapa England"; he called her "Lilipet" Queen Elizabeth II Don
$800 [5] It's the unit of force whose symbol is N the Newton Clay	$800 [10] The Ethiopian language Amharic, like Hebrew, is part of this language group Semitic Kip	$1,000 [23] He died in 1542 near the junction of the Mississippi & Red Rivers after a 3-year quest for gold de Soto Don	$800 [16] Both this president and his wife Lou were born in Iowa: he in West Branch & she in Waterloo Hoover Don	$800 [25] This can be a widely accepted dramatic device or an assembly of delegates of a political party convention Kip	$800 [29] George had 2 coronation ceremonies: 1 in England & 1 in this country of which he was emperor India Don
$1,000 [6] The enzyme zymase allows these one-celled organisms to convert sugar into alcohol & CO2 yeast Don	DD $2,000 [11] Serbo-Croatian is written in 2 alphabets: the Croats use the Roman & the Serbs this one Cyrillic Kip	DD $1,500 [20] In 1500 Vicente Pinzon & Pedro Cabral landed in the New World in what is now this country Brazil Don	$1,000 [17] This "American Gothic" painter was made an associate professor of art at the University of Iowa in 1934 Grant Wood Clay	$1,000 [26] It's literature distributed by the advocates of a specific doctrine propaganda Kip	$1,000 [30] George's career in this branch of the service was cut short when he became heir to the throne in 1892 the (Royal) Navy Don

Final Jeopardy!

OSCAR WINNING FILMS

It ends as the main character, Don Birnam, begins work on a new novel, "The Bottle"

The Lost Weekend

Clay "What is Lost Weekend?" — wagered $6,898

Kip "What is The Lost Weekend?" — wagered $8,100

Don "What is The Lost Weekend?" — wagered $4,101

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