Show #2536 1995-09-18 Regular

Len Krisak game 5.

Contestants

Albina Moran — an administrative assistant from Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Herb Metzler — an art handler from Evanston, Illinois

Len Krisak — an editor from Newton, Massachusetts (whose 4-day cash winnings total $43,399)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Len	$3,900	$4,400	$5,600	$11,199 2nd place: Broyhill Fontana living room set & Dale Tiffany lamp + Jeopardy! home game & Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo	$5,000 25 R (including 1 DD), 7 W
Herb	$0	$-300	$3,300	$6,599 3rd place: Samsung 27" TV + Jeopardy! home game & Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo	$5,300 12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Albina	$400	$2,300	$7,800	$11,800 New champion: $11,800	$6,900 17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS	SONGS	COLORS	WORLD FACTS	FAMOUS FIRSTS	"A" IN HISTORY
$100 [1] Salerio is a messenger from this city & Antonio is "The Merchant of" it Venice Len	$100 [6] He's told to "mind the music and the step, and with the girls be handy" Yankee Doodle Dandy Len	$100 [23] It's the top level of alert red Albina	$100 [12] The greatest concentration of islands in this ocean is in the Caribbean region the Atlantic Albina	$100 [16] Last name of the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy the Dionne Albina	$100 [7] This king of the Huns was described as a short, squat man with a large head & a scraggly beard Attila (the Hun) Len
$200 [2] After this queen dies, her attendant Charmian also kills herself with an asp Cleopatra Len	$200 [22] This ex-Supreme's 1985 hit "Missing You" was a tribute to Marvin Gaye Diana Ross Len	$200 [24] This color is very "putt upon" green Len	$200 [13] It's the only Portuguese- speaking nation in the Western Hemisphere Brazil Albina	$200 [17] The first stockings made of this fiber went on sale in the U.S. in 1940 nylon Herb	$200 [8] The initial section of this road, begun in 312 B.C., ran 132 miles from Rome to Capua the Appian Way Len
$300 [3] Among the characters in "Richard III" are the Sheriff of Wiltshire & the Lord Mayor of this city London Len	$300 [26] This singer was nominated for a 1980 Oscar for writing "On The Road Again", but lost to the song "Fame" Willie Nelson Albina	$300 [25] When Elizabeth Barrett put some meat under the broiler to darken it, she was doing this browning Len	$300 [14] At 500,000 square miles, this desert covers most of Mongolia the Gobi Len	$300 [18] James Naismith not only invented this game, he also wrote its first rule book basketball Len	$300 [9] While passing through Phrygia in 333 B.C., he's said to have cut the Gordian Knot Alexander the Great Len
$400 [4] In this play Malcolm & Donalbain are the sons of King Duncan Macbeth Len	$400 [29] Peggy Lee recorded her first big hit, "Why Don't You Do Right?", with this "King of Swing" Benny Goodman Len	$400 [27] This name for a color & a fruit goes back to the Sanskrit word naranga orange Herb Albina	$500 [21] Bluefields, Nicaragua is the principal town on this coast named for Indians, not for insects the Mosquito Coast Len Albina	$400 [19] This language was first laid out in an 1887 book called "Lingvo Internacia" Esperanto Len Herb	$400 [10] It's the former name of Ethiopia Abyssinia Len Albina
$500 [5] Phrynia & Timandra are mistresses to Alcibiades in the play about this title Athenian Timon of Athens Albina	$500 [30] In 1983 he sang "We've Got Tonight" with Sheena Easton & "Islands In The Stream" with Dolly Parton Kenny Rogers Len	$500 [28] It's the color of the streak left by the mineral chalcanthite or by a fast talker blue Len	DD $1,000 [15] The 4 largest countries in population are China, India, the U.S. & this island nation Indonesia Len	$500 [20] In 1939 he became the first British monarch to visit the U.S. George VI Herb Albina	$500 [11] During the French occupation of Spain, some of the towers of this Moorish palace were blown up the Alhanbra Len

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRIME MINISTERS	SCIENCE & NATURE	1994 OBITS	ART	THEATRE	WINE & CHEESE
$200 [11] Morarji Desai, imprisoned under her "emergency rule" of India, succeeded her as P.M. in 1977 Indira Gandhi Len	$200 [18] A 1919 solar eclipse confirmed this theory of Albert Einstein's relativity Herb	$200 [16] This former president's funeral cost the U.S. military $311,039 Nixon Herb	$200 [2] American artist Benjamin West painted "Death on a Pale" one of these animals a horse Len	$200 [1] The only characters in this Alfred Uhry play are Daisy Werthan, her chauffeur & her son Driving Miss Daisy Len Albina	$800 [25] The tawny type of this fortified Iberian wine may be aged in wood for many years port Albina
$400 [12] This man who became Canada's P.M. in 1968 earned a master's degree from Harvard in 1945 Pierre Trudeau Len	$400 [22] Around 1660 Marcello Malpighi became the first to see blood flow in these small vessels capillaries Herb	$400 [17] Sadly, this "Birdman of Alcatraz" star went "From Here to Eternity" Burt Lancaster Len	$400 [3] The title of his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" refers to a Spanish street known for its brothels Picasso Herb	$400 [7] Much of Stephen Sondheim's 1976 musical "Pacific Overtures" was modeled on this form of Japanese theatre kabuki Herb	$1,000 [27] It's best to drink this country's Moselle wines when they are about 4 years old Germany Len
$600 [13] Under David Lange, this country was suspended from the ANZUS Pact New Zealand Albina	$600 [26] This Australian tree produces a resin called Botany Bay kino that protects wood against worms the eucalyptus Albina	$600 [19] She was the mother of the 42nd U.S. president Virginia Kelley Len Albina	$600 [4] Durer's "Four Apostles" shows his Protestant leanings; John holds this man's translation of the Bible Luther Albina	$600 [8] William Ball founded the ACT in Pittsburgh in 1965 but moved it to this Northern California city in 1967 San Francisco Herb Albina	—
$800 [14] Lee Kuan Yew was its P.M. both before & after it was part of the Federation of Malaysia Singapore Len	$800 [24] This dainty insect that lives for a few hours or a few days is also called a dayfly a mayfly Herb	$1,000 [21] When this "Invisible Man" author died in 1994 at age 80, his 2nd novel was still unfinished Ralph Ellison Len Herb	$800 [5] Van Eyck was one of many to paint this event, Gabriel telling Mary she would be the mother of the son of God the Annunciation Herb	$1,000 [10] Edith Evans played the serpent in the 1923 cast of this playwright's "Back to Methuselah" (George Bernard) Shaw Herb	—
$1,000 [15] This assassinated Swedish prime minister was a protege of previous P.M. Tage Erlander Olof Palme Len	$1,000 [23] For discovering Uranus, he was awarded the Copley Medal from the Royal Society of London Herschel Albina	DD $2,000 [20] In 1960 she won a record 3 track & field gold medals at the Rome Olympics Wilma Rudolph Herb	$1,000 [6] The drawings for Vesalius's famous book on this subject may have been done in Titian's studio anatomy Len Herb	DD $1,700 [9] This Southerner's play "Tiger Tail" is a reworking of his screenplay for the Carroll Baker film "Baby Doll" Tennessee Williams Albina	—

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD WAR II

On Jan. 29, 1944 Margaret Truman, accompanied by her senator father, christened this battleship

USS Missouri

Herb "What was the USS Missouri" — wagered $3,299

Len "What is the Missouri?" — wagered $5,599

Albina "What is the Missouri?" — wagered $4,000

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