Show #1478 1991-01-23 (taped 1990-10-15) Regular

Lynne Wexler game 1.

Contestants

Lynne Wexler — a librarian from Evanston, Illinois

Al Easter — a data processor from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mark Parthemer — an attorney and bookseller originally from Portland, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,399)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mark	$300	$2,500	$6,100	$12,199 2nd place: Keller bedroom furniture + Northwestern Bell phones	$6,100 16 R, 3 W
Al	$2,200	$2,800	$5,800	$11,575 3rd place: Allen Edmonds executive attaché case + Nintendo Entertainment System with games	$5,800 17 R, 0 W
Lynne	$1,500	$1,500	$9,800	$12,201 New champion: $12,201	$9,300 20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD FACTS	DOUBLE TALK	SPORTS GREATS	1960s TV	JEWELRY	AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY
$100 [12] About 1/4 of all the people in Denmark live in this city or its suburbs Copenhagen Mark	$100 [7] An abnormal sound of the heart, or to grumble in a low voice a murmur Al	$100 [22] In 1987 this 49ers quarterback completed an NFL record 22 consecutive passes Joe Montana Al	$100 [2] Known as "Mr. Warmth", he played Bald Eagle on TV's "F Troop" Don Rickles Lynne	$100 [17] The largest known gem of this type weighs 14 pounds & was found in a giant clam a pearl Al	$100 [1] The 1940 Oldsmobile was the first car to offer this alternative to a stick shift automatic transmission Lynne
$200 [13] For Senegal it's "Pluck Your Koras, Strike The Balafons" the national anthem Mark	$200 [8] Passable; neither very good nor very bad so-so Al	$200 [23] She was the Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year in 1932, '45, '46, '47, '50 & '54 "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias Lynne	$200 [3] The title of this series was Swahili for "doctor" Daktari Al	$200 [18] You won't find this store putting men's diamond rings in its blue boxes; it won't sell them Tiffany's Lynne	$200 [25] In 1956 this family-owned U.S. auto company began to sell shares of stock Ford Mark
$300 [14] The people of this South American city are called Cariocas Rio de Janeiro Mark	$300 [9] The Temptations topped the charts in '72 when they sang that he "was a rollin' stone" Papa Lynne	$300 [24] He finished his 20-season NBA career in 1989 with a record 38,387 points (Kareem Abdul-)Jabbar Mark	$300 [4] The No. 1 series for the 1967-68 season was "The Andy Griffith Show"; this spin-off series was No. 3 Gomer Pyle Mark	$400 [20] British peers & kind hearts wear these red-velvet-lined silver crowns with their robes coronets Lynne	$300 [26] 16 years before he built the sports car that bears his name, his father designed the first Volkswagen Porsche Mark
$400 [15] Of all national flags, the one has the greatest number of stars the United States flag Al	$400 [10] A deficiency of vitamin B1can cause this disease of the peripheral nervous system beri-beri Al	$400 [29] This Cincinnati Reds catcher was National League Rookie of the Year in 1968 & MVP 2 years later Johnny Bench Al	$400 [5] This ABC prime-time serial aired 3 nights a week from June 1965 to August 1966 Peyton Place Al	$500 [21] Greeks & Romans used their fibulae to do this to their clothes fasten	$400 [27] Inspired by the P-38 fighter plane, this design feature appeared in 1948 & reached its peak in 1959 tailfins Mark
$500 [16] The 2 straits that lead out of the Sea of Marmara; 1 goes to the Black Sea, 1 to the Aegean the Bosporus & the Dardanelles Al	$500 [11] In the title of Ed Graczyk's Broadway play, it follows "Come Back to the Five & Dime" Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Lynne	$500 [30] This American set a long jump record in 1935 that stood for 25 years Jesse Owens Mark	$500 [6] Patrick McGoohan was known only as Number 6 in this CBS series filmed in England The Prisoner Lynne	DD $800 [19] It can mean a connoisseur of gems, a cutter of gems or the art of cutting gems a lapidary Lynne	$500 [28] In 1954 Nash-Kelvinator & Hudson combined to form this company American Motors Mark

Double Jeopardy! Round

MUSICAL TERMS	VEGETABLES	POETS & POETRY	VICE PRESIDENTS	LIBRARIES	NOVEL CHARACTERS
$200 [14] French for "stick", it's the wand a conductor uses to make magical musical moments a baton Al	$200 [20] You can buy both the "summer" & "winter" varieties of this vegetable most times of the year squash Lynne	$200 [8] A.E. Housman heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas but not" this "away" your heart Al	$200 [12] Before & after his term as Johnson's VP, he served as a Minnesota senator Humphrey Lynne	$200 [4] This city's Clark County Library is located about 2 miles east of the Strip Las Vegas Mark	$200 [1] Wackford Squeers, Smike, Kate Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby Lynne
$400 [21] Harry Belafonte popularized this type of rhythmical song from Trinidad calypso Mark	$400 [24] The rutabaga is believed to be a cross between a cabbage & this root vegetable a turnip Al	$400 [9] He "howled", "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" Allen Ginsberg Lynne	$400 [15] After Gerald Ford succeeded to the presidency, he named this man vice president Nelson Rockefeller Al	$400 [5] In 1524 Michelangelo was commissioned to build the Laurentian Library in this city Florence Mark Lynne	$400 [2] Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, Hepzibah & Phoebe The House of the Seven Gables Al
$800 [27] The ability to identify a musical tone by name or sing it without hearing any other tone perfect pitch Lynne	$600 [25] Some markets now carry broccoflower, a hybrid of these two vegetables broccoli & cauliflower Lynne	$800 [11] Completes R.L. Stevenson's line "Home is the sailor, home from the sea and the hunter..." home from the hill Al	$600 [16] Vice president under James Polk, he was born in Pennsylvania, not Texas George Dallas	$600 [19] The Austrian National Library in Vienna was enriched by gifts from this ruling family the Hapsburgs Al	$600 [3] O'Brien, Mr. Charrington, Winston Smith 1984 Mark
$1,000 [28] "mp" the musical mark meaning "moderately soft", stands for this mezzo piano Lynne	$800 [29] The brief cooking time of this vegetable led to the expression "Quicker than you can cook..." asparagus Mark	DD $1,000 [10] Shelley wrote "to a Skylark", but Keats wrote an "Ode to" this songbird a Nightingale Lynne	$800 [17] As VP during FDR's first two terms, he helped put through the New Deal program John Nance Garner Mark	$800 [22] This library was founded in the 15th century by Nicholas V the Vatican Library	$800 [6] Jurgis Rudkus, a stockyard worker; Ona Rudkus, his wife; Antanas Rudkus, his father The Jungle Mark
DD $1,500 [26] A free-form mood piece; Liszt wrote some "Hungarian" style rhapsodies Lynne	$1,000 [30] Varieties of this crisp salad vegetable include the cherry belle & scarlet globe the radish	$1,000 [13] Wordsworth said this "is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" the world Lynne	$1,000 [18] After resigning as VP in 1832, he served in the Senate & later became sec'y of state under John Tyler John C. Calhoun Mark	$1,000 [23] Over 12 million printed volumes & 500,000 magazines are contained within this Paris library the Bibliothèque nationale Mark	$1,000 [7] Hugh Conway, a British consul; Chang, a Chinese monk; Father Perrault, the high lama Lost Horizon Lynne

Final Jeopardy!

MYTHOLOGY

The Oracle at Delphi was believed to be speaking the words of this god

Apollo

Al "Who was Apollo?" — wagered $5,775

Mark "Who was Apollo?" — wagered $6,099

Lynne "Who was Apollo?" — wagered $2,401

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