Show #1827 1992-07-07 (taped 1992-02-24) Seniors Tournament

1992 Seniors Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

Hugh Mulvaney — a technical writer from Plainfield, New Jersey

Carolyn Meek — a high school English teacher from Houston, Texas

Jim Baehler — a negotiations consultant from New York City, New York

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jim	$600	$1,200	$9,600	$10,600 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$8,200 21 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Carolyn	$900	$3,400	$5,800	$10,800 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$5,800 19 R, 3 W
Hugh	$1,300	$2,500	$8,100	$11,100 Automatic semifinalist	$7,900 16 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

ART	SONG LYRICS	COLORFUL FOOD	NATURE	GUINNESS RECORDS	ANAGRAMS
$100 [17] Over 300 castings have been made of his 1895 "Bronco Buster" Remington Jim	$100 [1] Marilyn Monroe sang that this "belongs to daddy, so I simply couldn't be bad" my heart Hugh	$100 [6] Collective term for the edible leaves of the turnip, beet and collard greens Carolyn	$100 [22] Pond scum & most seaweed are forms of this simple plant algae Carolyn	$100 [11] Howard Helmer made 427 2-egg ones of these in 30 minutes, & we're not yolking an omelet Carolyn	$100 [12] The material used by a Pueblo Indian to build an abode adobe (from abode) Jim
$200 [18] The Detroit Institute of Arts, founded in 1885, features murals by this Mexican artist (Diego) Rivera Carolyn	$200 [2] Song that opens with the lyric "Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree" "Misty"	$200 [7] It puts the brown in brown sugar molasses Jim Carolyn	$200 [23] When mature, the yellow flower on this lawn weed turns to fluff & is blown away by the wind a dandelion Jim	$200 [27] The tallest castle made of this using hands, buckets & shovels was 17'6" high sand Carolyn	$200 [13] Pancakes should be served with an ample amount of this syrup maple (from ample) Jim
$300 [19] Kandinsky's "Improvisations" & "Compositions" are considered the 1st pure example of this type of painting abstract Hugh	$400 [4] The first 2 adjectives used to describe "The Girl From Ipanema" tall & tan Hugh	$300 [8] Cajun fish isn't burnt, it's this blackened Hugh	$300 [24] Night-blooming cereus, a type of this spiny plant, usually flowers once a year & lasts one night cactus Carolyn	$300 [28] Robert Turcot of Quebec created one of these comprising 82,951 squares — how puzzling a crossword puzzle Jim	$300 [14] Stan drove his sedan in these mountains Andes (from sedan)
$400 [20] This whimsical 20th century Swiss artist is known for works like "The Twittering Machine" Paul Klee Carolyn	DD $500 [3] The George M. Cohan song that ends with "I'll be there, ere long" "Give My Regards To Broadway" Hugh	$400 [9] This "color" of chocolate is a mix of sugar, cocoa milk solids, lecithin & vanilla white chocolate Jim Carolyn	$400 [25] In most invertebrates & young plants, this outer layer of skin is only 1 cell thick the epidermis Carolyn	$400 [29] The highest price paid at auction for one of these toys was £90,200 for a 1909 bisque one a doll Carolyn	$400 [15] I wish I could float on one a cloud (from could) Hugh
$500 [21] His "Olympia" was accepted for the Salon of 1865, where it caused an uproar (Édouard) Manet Carolyn	$500 [5] "I'm a lonely little" one of these "in an onion patch, and all I do is cry all day" a petunia Carolyn	$500 [10] This small Atlantic oyster's name comes from a Long Island site where it's said they were first found Blue Point Jim	$500 [26] The majority of the world's cork comes from an evergreen species of this stately tree oak	$500 [30] In the Bible, the shortest one of these is the 117th; it has only 2 verses a psalm Hugh	$500 [16] There are two of these in the word "wolves" vowels (from wolves)

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE HUMAN BODY	FILMS OF THE '40s	AUTHORS	THE 1930s	BUSINESS & INDUSTRY	WORLD CAPITALS
$200 [17] It's the collective term for the 8 bones of the skull which house the brain the cranium Jim	$200 [7] This film in which Edmund Gwenn played Kris Kringle was released in 1947 in June Miracle on 34th Street Jim	$200 [2] Poe once edited a magazine in this Virginia city & a statue of him still broods over the Capitol grounds there Richmond Carolyn	$200 [22] FDR turned on the lights in Crosley Field 5/24/35 to allow the 1st Major League one of these in the U.S. night baseball Hugh	$200 [1] This company urges you to use its service "when it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight" Federal Express Carolyn	$200 [18] The National Palace in this capital is located near the former site of Montezuma's palace Mexico City Jim Hugh
$400 [27] The root of each tooth is up to three times as long as this upper, visible part the crown Jim	$400 [8] Jane Wyman won an Oscar for playing Belinda McDonald in this 1948 film Johnny Belinda Hugh	$400 [3] He was from Manhattan, Kansas, not New York, & Damon was his middle name, not his first name Damon Runyon Jim	$400 [24] Built to relieve crowding in the Holland tunnel, this one opened under the Hudson in 1937 the Lincoln Tunnel Jim	$400 [12] Founded in 1968, it's America's second-largest long-distance telephone company MCI Jim Carolyn Hugh	$400 [26] This Swiss capital ranks as a leading producer of cheese & milk chocolate Bern Carolyn
$600 [28] It's the substance which gives red blood cells their color & enables them to carry oxygen hemoglobin Jim	$600 [9] Rex Harrison played the ghost of sea captain Daniel Gregg in this 1947 film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Carolyn	$600 [4] This ex-corset maker published his celebrated "Rights of Man" in 1791 Thomas Paine Jim	$800 [21] In March 1933 Engelbert Dollfuss dissolved this country's parliament & banned parades Austria Jim	$600 [13] One of the top accounting firms, it's handled the Academy Awards balloting since 1935 Price Waterhouse Jim	$600 [16] Spanish colonists named this South American capital for the "good winds" which brought them there Buenos Aires Carolyn
$800 [29] Located behind the stomach, & prone to rupturing, it's the body's largest lymphatic organ the spleen Carolyn	$800 [10] His role as Raven in "This Gun for Hire" made this actor a star Alan Ladd Jim	$800 [5] Among the Indians he wrote about were Susquesus, Chingachgook & Uncas (James Fenimore) Cooper Hugh	DD $1,000 [25] In 1936 Drew Pearson & Robert Allen coined this term to describe the Supreme Court's makeup Nine Old Men Jim	$800 [14] In 1987 this co. added the optima card to its green, gold & platinum cards for more flexible payments American Express Hugh	$800 [19] The present Indonesia Sheraton, 14 stories high, was this capital city's 1st high-rise building Jakarta Hugh
$1,000 [30] Goiters may develop when this gland is either too active, or not active enough the thyroid Jim	DD $2,000 [11] In "The Jolson Story" Scotty Beckett played Jolson as a boy & this actor played him as an adult Larry Parks Jim	$1,000 [6] Female expatriate who wrote, "Chicken, alas a dirty word, alas a dirty third... alas a dirty bird" Gertrude Stein Carolyn	$1,000 [23] Gandhi was arrested after a 1930 march to break up the government's monopoly on this salt Jim	$1,000 [15] In the early 1980s it surpassed BankAmerica in assets to become the largest banking corp. in the U.S. Citicorp Hugh	$1,000 [20] A museum honoring artist Edvard Munch can be found in the ostkant or east side of this capital city Oslo Jim Carolyn Hugh

Final Jeopardy!

1991

Time's 1991 Man of the Year, he made viewers around the world "instant witnesses to history"

Ted Turner

Carolyn "Who is Ted Turner?" — wagered $5,000

Hugh "Who is Turner?" — wagered $3,000

Jim "Who is Ted Turner" — wagered $1,000

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