Show #1679 1991-12-12 (taped 1991-09-24) Regular

Contestants

Ron Brashear — a curator from Pasadena, California

Jay Marhoefer — a management consultant from Dallas, Texas

Glenn Gillis — a film student from San Antonio, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Glenn $500 $400 $4,000 $4,000
3rd place: Cuisinart Espresso machine
$4,500
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jay $1,800 $1,900 $9,500 $18,900
New champion: $18,900
$7,100
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Ron $1,800 $2,300 $9,400 $18,800
2nd place: his and her clothing from The Greif Companies + a Panasonic word processor
$8,900
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

"A" IN ASTRONOMY SHAKESPEARE FOOD GOVERNMENT & POLITICS 5-LETTER WORDS CRIME & PUNISHMENT
$100 [1]
1 of the first 2 men to pick up rocks on the moon
Neil Armstrong (or Edwin Aldrin)
Jay
$100 [2]
She says "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; thou art thyself, though not a Montague"
Juliet
Ron
$100 [17]
This is sometimes called a Wimpy after a character in "Popeye" who loves them
a hamburger
Jay
$100 [12]
Within days of a new session of Congress, the president delivers this address
the State of the Union Address
Ron
$100 [7]
This name for a female goat is derived from a nickname for Anne
nanny
Jay
$100 [23]
Term for a group of prisoners shackled together leg to leg
a chain gang
Jay
$200 [3]
Also called "minor planets", thousands of these circle the sun
asteroids
Ron
$200 [8]
Richard III asks this saint to "inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons"
St. George
Jay
$200 [22]
The converted type of this grain is only partly polished with some bran left on
rice
Glenn Jay
$200 [13]
The Sherman Act is perhaps the most famous of these laws designed to prevent a monopoly
antitrust acts
Glenn
$200 [18]
This word can precede "de chine", "myrtle" or "suzette"
crepe
Ron
$200 [24]
Mildred Gillars was convicted of treason for broadcasting Nazi propaganda under this name
Axis Sally
Glenn Jay
$300 [4]
In the sky & on the astrological chart, it lies between Taurus & Pisces
Aries
Glenn
$300 [9]
In this play, Falstaff disguises himself as a Windsor stag, "the fattest... i' the forest"
Merry Wives of Windsor
Jay
$300 [14]
Permanent members of the Nat'l Security Council include the VP & these two cabinet secretaries
the Secretary of State & the Secretary of Defense
Jay
$300 [19]
You can do this to a painting or to an innocent person, if you want to incriminate him
frame
Jay
$300 [25]
"Fishy" name for the usurious crime of lending money at extremely high rates of interest
loan sharking
Ron
$400 [5]
You must "strain" to see this galaxy, the most distant object visible to the naked eye
the Andromeda Galaxy
Ron
$400 [10]
Hamlet says of her, "A beast, that wants discourse of reason, would have mourn'd longer"
Gertrude
Jay
$400 [15]
It runs from October 1 through the following September 30
the fiscal year of the United States
Jay
$400 [20]
A plume that adorns the top of a helmet, or a brand of toothpaste
a crest
Ron
$400 [26]
This chair fastened to a plank & held over water was once used to punish witches
a dunking chair (or dunking stool)
Glenn
$500 [6]
This triple star includes the closest star to the sun
Alpha Centauri
Ron
$500 [11]
This historical play about a Tudor king may have been co-written by John Fletcher
Henry VIII
$500 [16]
Agency of the Interior Dept. whose functions include the study of earthquakes & publishing maps
the U.S. Geological Survey
Ron
$500 [21]
A brilliant burst of fire, a white mark on a horse's face, or an intense outburst "of glory"
blaze
DD $500 [27]
Title of the followingfolk song that takes place in prison:"Well, now, the sheriff, he'll grab you / And the boys will pull you down / And then before you know it / You're penitentiary bound..."
"The Midnight Special"
Glenn

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY AMERICA COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ACTRESSES SICKNESS & HEALTH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS AUSTRALIA
$200 [8]
The Library of Congress has the 1st & 2nd drafts of this short November 19, 1863 speech
the Gettysburg Address
Ron
$200 [13]
Philosopher & Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson entered this univ. near Boston at age 14
Harvard
Jay
$200 [1]
Hayley Carr, who was named for this actress, played her daughter in the TV movie "Back Home"
Hayley Mills
Glenn
$200 [25]
Trichinosis is most often caused by eating this meat when it's undercooked
pork
Jay
$200 [15]
Philip Nolan, who was exiled from the U.S. in 1807 & died at sea in 1863, was "The Man Without" one
a country
Glenn
$200 [3]
When Edward Hargraves found this at Bathurst in 1851, the whole continent felt a rush
gold
Ron
$400 [9]
In the 1890s she took to the vaudeville circuit to promote her campaign of "Hatchetation"
Carrie Nation
Glenn
$400 [18]
This university's basketball team is nicknamed the Runnin' Rebels
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ron
$400 [2]
Casting director Rudolf Sieber was married to this German sex goddess for over half a century
Marlene Dietrich
Ron
$400 [27]
Surgery can usually repair this birth defect, a split in the roof of the mouth
a cleft palate
Ron
$400 [21]
Jack London's cunning canine who was brought to the screen by Disney in 1991
White Fang
Jay
$400 [4]
Australia participated in both world wars on this side
the Allies
Ron
$600 [11]
From 1883-91 Billy Sunday was a professional one of these before turning evangelist
a baseball player
Glenn Jay
$600 [19]
The highest college campus in the U.S. is located at 10,100 feet in Leadville in this state
Colorado
Glenn
$600 [14]
You could say that playing Norma Jennings on "Twin Peaks" was this ex-"Mod Squad"der's cup of tea
Peggy Lipton
Jay
$600 [28]
A fever blister that occurs at the corner of one's mouth is more commonly called this
a cold sore
Jay
$800 [23]
When the "bewitching" Gillian Holroyd, heroine of this play, falls in love, she loses her magic powers
Bell, Book and Candle
$600 [5]
In 1911 New South Wales ceded the land for this capital to the Commonwealth
Canberra
Jay
$800 [10]
In February 1805 Meriwether Lewis acted as midwife & delivered her baby
Sacajawea
Ron
$800 [20]
From 1948 to '53, Dwight D. Eisenhower served as president of this Ivy League university
Columbia
Jay
$800 [16]
This star of "Vertigo" raises llamas with her husband, veterinarian Robert Malloy
Kim Novak
Jay
$800 [29]
Graves' disease patients are often treated with radioactive iodine, which destroys this gland
the thyroid
Glenn
$1,000 [24]
Nathanael West novel in which Tod Hackett paints a mural, "The Burning of Los Angeles"
The Day of the Locust
Glenn
$800 [6]
Named for a monarch, this 2nd-smallest state contains Australia's 2nd largest city, Melbourne
Victoria
Ron
DD $1,500 [12]
It was caused by the collapse of a dam on the Conemaugh River May 31, 1889
the Johnstown flood
Ron
$1,000 [26]
The stone on which Joan of Arc prayed prior to her death is in the chapel on this Milwaukee school's campus
Marquette
Jay
$1,000 [17]
Esquire called this star of "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" "The Thinking Man's Bombshell"
Blair Brown
Ron
$1,000 [30]
Term for the class of drugs that helps remove excess water from the body
diuretics
Glenn
DD $3,000 [22]
The horse-like Houyhnhnms keep the man-like Yahoos as beasts of burden in a work by this author
Jonathan Swift
Jay
$1,000 [7]
If you put a map of Australia on a dart board this town would be in the bull's-eye
Alice Springs
Ron

Final Jeopardy!

BRIDGES

In 1941 the Rainbow Bridge replaced the Honeymoon Bridge over this river

the Niagara River

Glenn "What is the Idaho" — wagered $0
Ron "What is the Niagara River" — wagered $9,400
Jay "What is theAcoNiagara" — wagered $9,400

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