Show #1678 1991-12-11 (taped 1991-09-24) Regular

Contestants

Eric Goldner — an attorney originally from Queens, New York

Gail Bullion — a designer from Houston, Texas

Glenn Gillis — a film student from San Antonio, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Glenn $2,400 $3,000 $7,600 $11,601
2-day champion: $17,600
$8,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Gail $1,200 $2,400 $5,800 $0
3rd place: Armitron Deauville watch collection + Nintendo Entertainment system
$5,800
13 R, 0 W
Eric $100 $1,000 $1,400 $1
2nd place: Amisco Paris loveseat and armchair + Eureka floor care assortment
$2,400
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ARCHAEOLOGY COUNTRY MUSIC OCCUPATIONS PIRATES GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES COMMON BONDS
$100 [15]
This monument near Salisbury, England is the best-known late Neolithic structure
Stonehenge
Glenn
$100 [26]
From 1980 to 1982, this singer & her sisters Louise & Irlene had their own TV variety series on NBC
Barbara Mandrell
Glenn
$100 [2]
It's the occupation of a person who uses shorthand or a machine to record trial proceedings
stenographer
Glenn
$100 [1]
Some pirates flew red flags, but this background color was the preference of most pirates
black
Eric
$100 [9]
A beautiful princess breaks the spell that turned a handsome prince into one of these amphibians
a frog
Gail
$100 [21]
Wayne, Isaac, Fig
Newtons
Eric
$200 [16]
Dendrochronology uses the growth rings of these to try to determine a wooden object's age
trees
Gail
$200 [27]
He's been called the "Baron of Bakersfield" & his band is the Buckaroos
Buck Owens
Glenn
$200 [3]
Truck and cab drivers are sent out to their destinations by workers called these
dispatchers
Glenn
$200 [6]
In 67 B.C., Pompey the Great led a fleet that temporarily cleared this sea of pirates
the Mediterranean
Glenn
$200 [10]
The elves desert this craftsman after his wife makes tiny little clothes for them
the shoemaker
Gail
$200 [22]
Shoe, fog, flugel
horns
Gail
$300 [17]
A shard is a broken piece of this
pottery
Glenn Gail
$300 [28]
Born Virginia Wynette Pugh, she was the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year in 1968, '69 & '70
Tammy Wynette
Glenn
$300 [4]
On a film, the director of photography or chief cameraman goes by this title
cinematographer
Glenn
$300 [7]
You can see the trial of pirate Israel Hands reenacted in this restored colonial capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
Glenn
$300 [11]
Snow White lay for a long time in a glass one of these until a piece of apple fell bout of her throat
a coffin
Glenn
$300 [23]
Karolyi, Bartok, Lugosi
Belas
Eric
$400 [18]
More than 600 statues or Moai have been found on this small Pacific island, most 12-25 feet tall
Easter Island
Glenn
$500 [30]
This singer's "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" was the 1st No. 1 country hit by a female
Kitty Wells
$400 [5]
It's an official authorized to certify documents & take depositions
a notary
Eric
$400 [8]
Despite his protest that he was "the innocentest...of them all", this sea captain was hanged in 1701
Captain Kidd
Gail Eric
$400 [12]
It was this relative who suggested that Hansel & Gretel be left alone in the woods
the stepmother
Glenn
$400 [24]
Silver Hatchet, South American Leaf, Siamese Fighting
fish
Glenn
$500 [19]
In 1911 Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu, an Inca fortress city, in this country
Peru
Glenn
DD $1,000 [29]
A piano-playing cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, he crossed over onto the pop charts in 1980 with "Stand By Me"
Mickey Gilley
Glenn
$500 [20]
A person who uses statistics to calculate risks & premiums for an insurance co. is called this
an actuary
Eric
$500 [14]
This hirsute pirate was caught & beheaded off the coast of North Carolina in 1718
Blackbeard
Gail
$500 [13]
Her mother craved rampion, which sealed this long-haired character's fate
Rapunzel
Glenn
$500 [25]
Dutchman, saucer, buttress
flying
Gail

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE PLANETS GARDENING LITERATURE PEOPLE PHILOSOPHY DUBLIN
$200 [5]
The astronomical symbol for this planet is a trident
Neptune
Eric
$200 [16]
Marigolds are an example of this type of plant which completes its life cycle in a year or less
an annual
Glenn
$200 [11]
Ma & Pa Joad have 4 sons:Al, Noah, Winfield & this son
Tom Joad
$200 [6]
Asked what he was going to do after retiring in 1991, this justice said, "Sit on my rear end"
Thurgood Marshall
Eric
$200 [21]
Hedonism is the belief that this is the greatest good
pleasure
Eric
$200 [26]
The national cathedral of the Church of Ireland is named for him
St. Patrick
Glenn
$400 [4]
In 1979 Voyager I photographed volcanoes erupting on Io, a moon of this large planet
Jupiter
Glenn
$400 [17]
Chlorosis, caused by an iron deficiency, turns a plant's leaves this color
yellow
Glenn
$400 [12]
Shakespeare wrote this tragedy to appeal to James I's fascination with witchcraft
Macbeth
Eric
$400 [7]
She came in fourth in the 1991 80-meter dash for mummies at Wetherby School
Princess Di
Gail
$400 [22]
This 4th century saint drew inspiration for his "The City of God" from Plato & St. Paul
St. Augustine
Eric
$400 [27]
The Liffey, which has been called "The Sniffey Liffey", is one of these
a river
Gail
$600 [3]
It's orbital speed of 30 miles per second is the fastest of any planet
Mercury
Eric
$600 [18]
A fertilizer is said to be complete it if contains phosphorus, potassium & this element
nitrogen
Glenn
$600 [13]
There are 2 Isoldes in this German medieval poem, Isolde of Ireland & Isolde of the White Hands
Tristan und Isolde
Eric
$600 [8]
This former Surgeon General wrote the article on smoking in the 1990 edition of The Book of Knowledge
C. Everett Koop
Glenn
$600 [23]
A leading rationalist, his philosophy became known as Cartesianism
(René) Descartes
Eric
$600 [28]
Founded in Dublin in 1759, this brewery is among the largest private employers in Ireland
Guinness
Glenn
$800 [2]
In August 1991 the Magellan probe found a channel longer than the Nile on this planet
Venus
Glenn
DD $1,000 [19]
Using this propagation method, you can grow several kinds of fruit on one tree
grafting
Glenn
$800 [14]
Robert Louis Stevenson novel subtitled "Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751"
Kidnapped
Gail Eric
$800 [9]
Trying to get back into office after 11 years, this ex-mayor of Philadelphia died in 1991 while campaigning
Frank Rizzo
Glenn
$800 [24]
This branch of philosophy studies the principles of art & beauty
aesthetics
Eric
$800 [29]
In 1988 Dublin celebrated this milestone anniversary
its 1000th year anniversary
Gail
DD $1,000 [1]
This planet's only known moon, Charon, was discovered by James W. Christy in 1978
Pluto
Eric
$1,000 [20]
Flowers like the larkspur that hold their shape & color when dried are termed this
immortelles
Eric
$1,000 [15]
G.K. Chesterton wrote "The Wisdom...", "The Secret..." & "The Innocence..." of this sleuthing cleric
Father Brown
Gail
$1,000 [10]
He's in the U.S. Inventors Hall of Fame for his peach, not his potato
Luther Burbank
Glenn
$1,000 [25]
Jeremy Bentham & John Stuart Mill developed this, which seeks the greatest good for the most people
utilitarianism
$1,000 [30]
In the 1920s it became the 1st state-subsidized theatre in an English-speaking country
Abbey Theatre

Final Jeopardy!

THE SOVIET UNION

The head of the Leningrad Communist Party in the 1920s; an opera & ballet theatre is named for him

Sergei Kirov

Eric "Who was Malenkov?" — wagered $1,399
Gail "Who was Bolshoi?" — wagered $5,800
Glenn "[Who is Kirov?]" — wagered $4,001

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