Show #1637 1991-10-15 (taped 1991-08-26) Regular

Leszek Pawlowicz game 4.

Contestants

Paul Redford — a graphic artist and copywriter from Denver, Colorado

Steve Kamin — a physician originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Leszek Pawlowicz — a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Leszek $1,700 $6,000 $16,600 $20,199
4-day champion: $55,200
$15,100
41 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Steve $500 $900 $6,500 $13,000
2nd place: trip on Delta to the Bahamas & stay at Divi Bahamas Resort + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$6,300
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Paul $500 $400 $0 $0
3rd place: Pro-Form 3001-STX stepper + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$0
4 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE MATHEMATICS GEMS THEATRE FLAGS DUELING
$100 [20]
Moses stretched forth his rod & an east wind brought these grasshoppers as a plague on Egypt
locust
Leszek
$100 [1]
Number of quarters in $2.25
9
Leszek
$100 [6]
Small parasitic worms & grains of sand are among the irritants which help these gems form in a shell
a pearl
Leszek
$100 [11]
The last installment of his semi-autobiographical trilogy was "Broadway Bound"
Neil Simon
Paul
$100 [14]
If this tropical bird could talk, & some do, it would tell you it's on Dominica's flag
a parrot
Leszek
$100 [22]
He killed a man with a knife in 1827; we don't know if he used the type that bears his family name
(Jim) Bowie
Leszek
$200 [27]
The queen of this city visited Solomon to test his wisdom
Sheba
Leszek
$200 [2]
A binary system is based on 2 & this is a system based on 10
decimal
Leszek
$200 [7]
The name of this gem comes from the Sinhalese word for carnelian, "toramalli"
tourmaline
Leszek
$200 [12]
"Man and Superman" was the first play he wrote in the 20th century
Shaw
Leszek
$200 [15]
Of the 3 major countries in North America, the one that doesn't have a leaf on its flag
the U.S.
Leszek
$200 [23]
He fled to Philadelphia to escape arrest after fatally wounding A. Hamilton in a duel
Aaron Burr
Leszek
$300 [28]
He was Abraham & Sarah's only son
Isaac
Leszek
$300 [3]
As an angles increases from 0 to 90 its sine increases from 0 to 1 & this decreases from 1 to 0
the cosine
Leszek
$300 [8]
Chatoyance, a lustre resembling feline orbs, is found in these "feline orb" gems
cat's eyes
Leszek
$400 [19]
Christopher Marlowe's play "The Massacre at Paris" deals with the massacre on this saint's day in 1572
the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Steve
$300 [16]
Symbol that's common to the flags of Norway, Sweden & Finland
a cross
Leszek
$300 [24]
In 1712 the Duke of Hamilton & Lord Mohun killed each other in a duel in this city's Hyde Park
London
Leszek
$400 [29]
In the book of Revelation, this horse represents Death
the pale horse
Leszek
$400 [4]
To divide one fraction by another you do this to the divisor, then multiply
invert it
Leszek
$400 [9]
Australia's Lightning Ridge is known for its fine black ones
opals
Leszek Paul
DD $500 [13]
"Confessions of a Nightingale" is a 1-man show about this playwright
Tennessee Williams
Leszek
$400 [17]
The 11 stripes on this African country's flag honor the 11 signers of its 1847 Declaration of Independence
Liberia
Paul
$400 [25]
The distance between duelists was measured in these "steps", usually ranging from 8 to 30
paces
Leszek
$500 [30]
Jesus said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for" these people
his friends
Leszek
$500 [5]
The formula for a circle is pi•r2; the formula for its circumference is this
2(pi)r
Leszek
$500 [10]
The "Star of the South" diamond was discovered in this South American country in 1853
Brazil
Steve
$500 [21]
Peter Shaffer's play "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" concerns the conquest of this country in 1533
Peru
Leszek Paul
$500 [18]
Bhutan means "land of" this mythical creature, hence its flag has one on it
a dragon
Leszek
$500 [26]
The bullet Charles Dickinson fired into this future president in an 1806 duel was never removed
Andrew Jackson
Leszek

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY AMERICA 10-LETTER WORDS EARTH SCIENCE SONNETS MOVIE DIRECTORS GEOGRAPHIC CAPES
$200 [23]
This boss of NYC's Tammany Hall was imprisoned 3 times in the 1870s & died in jail
Boss Tweed
Leszek
$200 [11]
From the French for "present yourself", it can be a meeting of spacecraft or lovers
a rendezvous
Leszek
$200 [4]
Two regions, one liquid, one solid, are thought to make up this innermost part of the Earth
the core
Leszek
$200 [1]
This bard's sonnets 153 & 154 are believed to be adaptations of Greek epigrams
Shakespeare
Steve
$200 [12]
His late composer-father, Carmine, worked with him on the "Godfather" films
Francis Ford Coppola
Leszek
$200 [7]
Cape Town, South Africa is some 30 miles north of this cape
the Cape of Good Hope
Steve
$400 [24]
Secretary of State who bought Alaska from Russia
Seward
Leszek
$400 [20]
Term for an author of a gospel. or one who zealously preaches the gospel
an evangelist
Steve
$400 [5]
A compass needle aligns itself with these 2 points on the Earth's surface
the Magnetic North & South Poles
Leszek
DD $600 [2]
In a famous sonnet, the question "How do I love thee?" was meant for him
Robert Browning
Steve
$400 [13]
He's been called "The Father of Italy's Spaghetti Westerns"
Sergio Leone
Leszek Paul
$400 [8]
With its cold climate you may think it's the tip of the iceberg as well as of South America
Cape Horn
Leszek
$800 [26]
Mass. social worker who, in a 3-year period in the 1840s, visited over 800 jails, asylums & almshouses
Dorothea Dix
Paul
$600 [28]
A tribe or society where the dominant authority is held by women
a matriarchy
Leszek
$600 [6]
It's the more common name for the Earth's glacial period
the ice age
Steve
$600 [3]
Last name of sibling poets Christina Georgina & Dante Gabriel, who both wrote sonnets
Rossetti
Leszek
$600 [14]
His wife, Julie Andrews, accompanied him when his star was unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
Blake Edwards
Leszek
$600 [16]
As the saying goes, standing on this cape on the Juan de Fuca Strait in Washington will get you no where
Flattery
$1,000 [27]
In 1886 this cigar-maker was elected President of the American Federation of Labor
(Samuel) Gompers
Leszek
$800 [29]
Boldly creative, like the titan who gave fire to man
Promethean
Leszek
$800 [9]
From the Latin meaning "to flow together", it's the point at which two streams meet
the confluence
Leszek
$800 [21]
The first groups of love poems known as sonnet sequences were written in this language
Italian
Leszek Paul
$800 [15]
His cavalry films John Wayne starred in include "Fort Apache" & "Rio Grande"
John Ford
Steve
$800 [17]
1 of America's oldest ocean resorts, this N.J. cape was named for a Dutch explorer, not a month
Cape May
Steve
DD $2,600 [25]
Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas were vying for this office when they had their famous debates
Senator from Illinois
Leszek
$1,000 [30]
It's a mound of earth or stone built to hold water back; London has 1 named for Victoria
an embankment
Steve
$1,000 [10]
It's the point directly below the epicenter where an earthquake originates
the focus
$1,000 [22]
Petrarch is noted for sonnets about his love for this woman in life & after her death
Laura
Steve
$1,000 [19]
This director of "Goodfellas" called himself "a failed priest who fell in love with the movies"
(Martin) Scorsese
Leszek
$1,000 [18]
In 1975, after 500 years of its rule, Portugal gave this island group off Africa's west coast its independence
the Cape Verde Islands
Leszek

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

This president kept a personally significant coconut shell on his White House desk

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Steve "Who was J F Kennedy?" — wagered $6,500
Leszek "Who was J F Kennedy" — wagered $3,599

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