Show #1775 1992-04-24 (taped 1992-01-13) Regular

Contestants

Jan Jarvies — an actuarial analyst from Clementon, New Jersey

Sean Devitt — an estimator and actor originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Michael Brossette — a landscaper from Arabi, Louisiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $-300 $500 $1,300 $2,300
3rd place: Vivitar 320Z camera & Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy
$1,300
7 R, 3 W
Sean $-500 $1,200 $8,500 $10,500
New champion: $10,500
$6,600
16 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Jan $3,100 $3,600 $2,000 $2,601
2nd place: Mastervoice home automation system & Sanyo cordless telephone
$1,900
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

SEATTLE COSMETICS & PERFUME THE VOICE WORLD LITERATURE TRANSPORTATION MUSICAL NOBILITY
$100 [1]
Compton's Encyclopedia says what wind is to Chicago, this is to Seattle
rain
Michael
$100 [26]
Heavenly body whose name precedes "Drops" in a line of cosmetics by Revlon
Moon
Jan
$100 [15]
'The lowest order of vertebrates to have a larynx, they probably have "ribbiting" conversations
frogs
Michael
$100 [3]
His poem "The Legend of Good Women" is less famous than his "Canterbury Tales"
Chaucer
Sean
$100 [10]
This motorized bicycle has pedals in addition to a low-powered gas engine
a moped
Michael
$100 [21]
The"Count"
Count Basie
Jan
$200 [2]
Seattle nicknamed itself this in 1982, so gather up a tin man, lion & scarecrow & go visit
(the) Emerald City
Michael Sean
$200 [27]
The name of "L'Heure Bleue" perfume means this in English
the blue hour
$200 [16]
The Zulus, Maoris & Eskimos practice this art, but it's hard to imagine Nanook & Mortimer Snerd
ventriloquism
Jan
$200 [4]
Kahlil Gibran wrote his early works in Arabic but wrote "The Prophet" in this language
English
$200 [11]
These wagons named for a valley in Pennsylvania had both ends built higher than the middle
Conestoga wagons
Jan
$200 [22]
The"Queen of Soul"
Aretha Franklin
Michael
$300 [7]
Travel expert Stephen Birnbaum said the best view of Seattle is from the top of this structure
the Space Needle
Jan
$300 [28]
Of Joe Montana, Claude Montana or the state of Montana, what the fragrance "Montana" is named for
Claude Montana
Sean
$300 [17]
Also called the bellman, this colonial news bearer's shout was "Oyez! Oyez!"
town crier
Sean
$300 [5]
The title of this classical tale of India means "Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty"
the Mahabharata
Michael Sean
$300 [12]
The first railway powered by this opened in Berlin about 1880
electricity
Jan
$300 [23]
The"King of Swing"
Benny Goodman
Sean Jan
$400 [8]
Henry Yesler built the first steam-powered sawmill on this Seattle sound
Puget Sound
Jan
$400 [29]
Ads for this handsome actor's Suncare System say he sports "the world's most famous tan"
(George) Hamilton
Sean
$400 [19]
Optimum pitch & range of pitch are determined by the length & mass of these
vocal cords
Sean
$400 [6]
Prince Nekhlyudov seduces & deserts Katyusha Maslova in this count's novel "Resurrection"
Tolstoy
Jan
$400 [13]
This Ohio city's international airport actually lies in Boone County, Kentucky
Cincinnati
Jan
$400 [24]
The"Polish Prince"
Bobby Vinton
Jan
DD $600 [9]
The city lies between these 2 mountain ranges
the Olympics & the Cascades
Jan
$500 [30]
In 1990 this actress marketed cosmetics called "Passion for Color"
Elizabeth Taylor
$500 [20]
This 2-word Latin phrase has come to mean popular opinion or sentiment
vox populi
Michael
$500 [18]
The German title of this Gunter Grass novel is "Die Blechtrommel"
The Tin Drum
$500 [14]
The world's 3 largest transportation manufacturers are GM, Ford & this Japanese firm
Toyota
Sean Jan
$500 [25]
"Empress of the Blues"
Bessie Smith

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARTISTS FAMOUS ALICES PROVERBS SAINTS ANCIENT ROME THE ARCTIC
$200 [4]
Jasper Johns has been called the father of this type of art whose name also means "father"
pop art
Sean
$200 [1]
This 1865 Lewis Carroll book was inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Christ Church
Alice in Wonderland
Jan
$200 [8]
In a William Congreve proverb, this "has charms to soothe a savage breast"
music
Jan
$200 [13]
This founder of the Order of Preachers was the subject of a No. 1 hit song by the Singing Nun
St. Dominic
Jan
$200 [21]
The center of Rome since the 8th century B.C., Caesar added the law court to it
the Forum
Sean
$800 [25]
The U.S.'s Thule Air Force Base was built on this island with the knowledge it would sink
Greenland
$400 [5]
His chief Tahitian work was "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We going?"
(Paul) Gauguin
Jan
$400 [2]
Presidential daughter who said Calvin Coolidge looked "as if he had been weaned on a pickle"
Alice Roosevelt
Jan
$400 [9]
"One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than 20 pounds of" this
vinegar
$400 [14]
In 1866 this saint joined a convent at Nevers & never returned to Lourdes
(St.) Bernadette
Sean
$600 [22]
In a Roman domus or house, the atrium was the courtyard, the hortus was the garden & the culina, this
the kitchen
Sean
$1,000 [26]
A point, cape & strait are named for this English administrator & geographer
John Barrow
Jan
$600 [15]
Marcel Duchamp caused a scandal at the 1913 Armory Show in NYC with his "Nude Descending" this
a Staircase
Sean
$600 [3]
Among the writings of this confidante of Gertrude Stein are a cookbook & an autobiography
(Alice B.) Toklas
Sean
$600 [10]
It precedes "Weep, and you weep alone"
Laugh, and the world laughs with you
Jan
$600 [18]
A patron of sailors, his name is given to electrical discharges sometimes seen at ships' mastheads
St. Elmo
Sean Jan
$1,000 [24]
He was the first emperor to be assassinated
Caligula
Jan
$1,000 [17]
This "Fog Warning" artist's 1st assignment for "Harper's Weekly" was to sketch Lincoln's inauguration
Winslow Homer
Sean
$800 [6]
Her novel "The Color Purple" won both a Pulitzer Prize & an American Book Award in 1983
Alice Walker
Michael
$800 [11]
This happens "when poverty comes in at the door"
love flies out the window
$800 [19]
John Baptist de La Salle, founder of the Christian Brothers, is patron of this learned profession
school teachers
DD $2,000 [23]
In addition to ruling Rome as its first emperor, he ended the reign of the pharaohs
Augustus (Caesar) (Octavius)
Sean
DD $1,500 [16]
His "Allegory of Spring" & "The Birth of Venus" were painted for Lorenzo de Medici's villa
Botticelli
Sean
$1,000 [7]
This actress, once a film rival of Betty Grable, has been married to Phil Harris since 1941
Alice Faye
$1,000 [12]
"It is better to be envied than" this
pitied
Michael Jan
$1,000 [20]
St. John (Fisher) of Rochester shares his feast with this other English saint also martyred in 1535
(St. Thomas) More
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

VICE PRESIDENTS

2 of only 6 vice presidents who served 2 full terms in office

(2 of) Adams, Nixon, Bush, Tompkins (Monroe's), Marshall (Wilson's) or Garner (FDR's 1st & 2nd terms)

Michael "Who is Bush & Nixon?" — wagered $1,000
Jan "Who are Bush & John Adams?" — wagered $601
Sean "Who are Adams & Nixon" — wagered $2,000

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