Show #1367 1990-07-10 (taped 1990-02-26) Seniors Tournament

1990 Seniors Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

Arnold Yellin — a manufacturer from Chicago, Illinois

Cecelia Moore — a teacher from San Pedro, California

Marge Mayer — a real estate property manager from Orange County, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marge $1,100 $1,600 $1,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$1,900
12 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Cecelia $700 $1,500 $10,400 $13,400
Automatic semifinalist
$10,900
22 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Arnold $1,200 $2,500 $6,700 $2,700
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$6,700
18 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES HUMOROUS QUOTES TELEVISION NIAGARA FALLS POTPOURRI SING-ALONG SONGS
$100 [9]
Her name was Goldie Myerson before she Hebraized it to this
Golda Meir
Marge Arnold
$100 [8]
Oscar Wilde said, "I like men who have a future and women who have" this
a past
Cecelia
$100 [6]
"Dynasty" character who's been married to Blake Carrington, Cecil Colby & "Dex" Dexter
Alexis
Marge
$100 [1]
Cities named Niagara Falls are opposite each other in this state & province
New York & Ontario
Marge
$100 [14]
Field in which the name Georges-Auguste Escoffier is legendary
cooking
Cecelia
$100 [26]
"Oh! How we" did this "on the night we were wed"
dance
Cecelia
$200 [10]
This British ruler sponsored a translation of the Bible that now bears his name
King James I
Marge
$200 [17]
P.T. Barnum once punned, "Every crowd has a silver" one of these
a lining
Marge
$200 [7]
On TV, Timothy Hutton's father, Jim, played this detective created by Frederic Dannay & Manfred Lee
Ellery Queen
Arnold
$200 [2]
These can be viewed from behind in the Cave of the Winds
the American Falls
Marge
$200 [15]
Scientists say in the Devonean Period, 350 mil. years ago, the length of this was about 22 hours
a day
Arnold
$200 [27]
Girl who'll "look sweet, on the seat, of a bicycle built for two"
Daisy
Marge
$300 [11]
On March 24, 1958 he became Army G.I. No. 53310761
Elvis Presley
Arnold
$300 [18]
Thomas A, Edision quipped, "When down in the mouth, remember" this biblical prophet, "He came out all right."
Jonah
Marge
$300 [19]
Actress who's starred as Coretta King, Marva Collins, Harriet Tubman & Jane Pittman
Cicely Tyson
Cecelia
$300 [3]
Experts figure in about 25,000 years the falls will cut all the way back to this lake, their source
Lake Erie
Marge
$300 [16]
In 1980, 6 others were tried with this group that supported Mao, making a total of 10
the Gang of Four
DD $700 [28]
Title of thefollowing, 1950's biggest hit: "Last Saturday night I got married / Me and my wife settle down / Now me and my wife are parted / I'm gonna take another stroll downtown"
"Goodnight, Irene"
Marge
$400 [12]
He was killed in his red Fokker plane near Amiens, France
the Red Baron
Marge
$400 [22]
U.S. Grant said, "I only know 2 tunes; one of them is" this patriotic ditty "and the other isn't."
"Yankee Doodle"
Cecelia
$400 [20]
In the 1950s Sherman Billingsley was host as well as owner of this elegant Manhattan "Club"
the Stork Club
Arnold
$400 [4]
To keep up the spectacle there's a limit on the water that can be diverted into these plants
the electric generating plants
Arnold
$400 [24]
Gasohol is a 9-to-1 mixture of gasoline with either ethanol or this other type of alcohol
methyl alcohol
Arnold
$500 [13]
His father, a violinist, was a founder of the Bombay String Quartet & Bombay Symphony
Zubin Mehta
Cecelia
$500 [23]
Paraphrasing Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker called it "the soul of lingerie"
brevity
Marge
$500 [21]
Jon Hall was this character "of the Jungle", whose name meant "white medicine man"
Ramar
$500 [5]
The tourist boats that go around the pool at the base of the falls are all named this
the Maids of the Mist
Marge
$500 [25]
Olympic sport in which opponents face each other on a measured strip called a piste
fencing
Arnold

Double Jeopardy! Round

MAGAZINES THE 1980s ARTISTS GRAMMAR ANATOMY THE SOUTH
$200 [7]
In 1941 a "Guaranty Seal" replaced this magazine's "Seal of Approval"
Good Housekeeping
Arnold
$200 [26]
After victory in this 1982 war, Margaret Thatcher said, "Those islands belong to us."
the Falkland Islands
Cecelia
$200 [12]
This artist's "Manao Tupapau" depicts a superstitious Tahitian girl terrified of a dead spirit
Gauguin
Cecelia
$200 [1]
The 2 voices in English grammar are active & this
passive
Arnold
$200 [6]
Because it contains no nerves, it doesn't hurt the baby or mother when it's cut
the umbilical cord
Arnold
$200 [21]
You can see gators jumping for food at the Gator Jumparoo Show at Kissimmee in this state
Florida
Arnold
$400 [8]
This humor magazine's price is "$1.75 cheap"
Mad
Marge
$400 [27]
On September 1, 1983 the Soviets shot down this airline's flight 007
Korean Air Lines
Cecelia
$400 [13]
Augustus John's portrait of this man in a kaffiyeh headdress looks a lot like Peter O'Toole
Lawrence of Arabia
Cecelia
$400 [2]
The 3 interrogative pronouns are which, what & this one
who
Marge Cecelia
$400 [17]
The waterproof layer of your skin
the epidermis
Arnold
$400 [22]
Of all the southern states, this one is first alphabetically
Alabama
Marge
$600 [9]
Founded by DeWitt Wallace as a reprint magazine, it began printing some original material in 1930
Reader's Digest
Cecelia
$600 [28]
This author's novel, "The Garden of Eden" was published in 1986, 25 years after his death
Ernest Hemingway
$600 [14]
His "Burial of the Conde de Orgaz" pictured his son & members of Toledan society
El Greco
Cecelia
DD $500 [5]
English has 6 tenses: present, past, future & these 3
present perfect, past perfect & future perfect
Cecelia
$600 [18]
The leg proper is only the segment between the ankle & this
the knee
Arnold
$600 [23]
You might say Avery Island is one of Louisiana's hot spots; it's the home of this famous hot sauce
Tabasco
Cecelia
$800 [10]
Time Inc.'s 2nd successful magazine was this business publication which debuted in 1930
Fortune
Marge Arnold
$800 [29]
"Energy Turns the World" was the theme of this Tennessee city's World's Fair which opened in '82
Knoxville
Cecelia
$800 [15]
His art can be divided into Paris, Arles, & Saint-Remy periods
van Gogh
Cecelia
$600 [3]
A complex sentence contains 1 or more dependent ones
a clause
Arnold
$800 [19]
Blood enters this organ through the hepatic artery
the liver
Cecelia
$800 [24]
It's Virginia's state flower & its state tree; we assume its bark is worse than its bite
the dogwood
Cecelia
$1,000 [11]
It calls itself "The International Magazine of Fine Interior Design"
Architectural Digest
Cecelia Arnold
$1,000 [30]
The 1981 Oscar ceremonies were postponed from March 30th to the 31st due to this
the attempted assassination of President Reagan
Cecelia Arnold
DD $1,000 [16]
He painted "Fog Warning" & other seascapes after moving to a lonely point on the Maine coast
Winslow Homer
Cecelia
$800 [4]
A participle is a verb form used at this part of speech without losing its character as a verb
an adjective
Cecelia
$1,000 [20]
You don't need stones in the gall bladder or kidneys; you do need the otoliths, stones in these
the ear
Arnold
$1,000 [25]
This state's largest lake, Lake Sidney Lanier, is named for a poet & native son
Georgia

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

President with the most recent birth date

Jimmy Carter

Marge "Who is Kennedy" — wagered $1,200
Arnold "Who is G Washington" — wagered $4,000
Cecelia "Who is Jimmy Carter?" — wagered $3,000

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