Show #1615 1991-09-13 (taped 1991-08-06) Regular

Contestants

Randy Kaplan — a commodities broker from Los Angeles, California

David Lasiter — a systems analyst from Thousand Oaks, California

Ellen Jaffe McClain — a teacher from West Hollywood, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,300)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ellen	$1,000	$2,700	$7,800	$5,900 3rd place: camping gear and a Nintendo Entertainment System	$6,900 17 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
David	$500	$600	$4,800	$9,599 2nd place: trip to Cancún	$4,800 11 R, 3 W
Randy	$1,300	$2,900	$4,800	$9,600 New champion: $9,600	$5,900 20 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FILE UNDER "T"	WORLD CITIES	FURNITURE	NO. 1 HITS	TRANSPORTATION	MARK TWAIN
$100 [13] An expert crow or blackfoot can assemble or disassemble one of these dwellings in minutes a tepee Randy	$100 [8] You can let Saigons be bygones as it was renamed this in 1975 Ho Chi Minh City Ellen	$100 [22] Chests used to store woolens are often lined with this wood to keep moths away cedar Randy	$100 [4] 1 of 5 solo No. 1 hits for Diana Ross after she left the Supremes Theme from Mahogany Ellen	$100 [3] George Bush has banned broccoli from this presidential jet Air Force One Randy	$100 [1] Twain said, "I believe that our Heavenly Father invented" this "because he was disappointed in the monkey" man Randy
$200 [14] In 1941 Congress reset the day on which this annual holiday is observed Thanksgiving Randy	$200 [9] In 1868 Edo, Japan's largest city, was renamed this, meaning "Eastern Capital" Tokyo Randy	$200 [23] Appropriate "anatomical" name for the lower extremity of a furniture leg the foot Randy	$200 [27] 1 of 4 No. 1 hits for the Temptations (1 of) "My Girl", "I Can't Get Next to You", "Just My Imagination" or "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"	$200 [18] A clarence is a 4-wheeled one of these named for the Duke of Clarence, who became King William IV a carriage Randy	$200 [2] This friend of Tom Sawyer is based on Twain's "ignorant, unwashed" friend Tom Blankenship Huck Finn David
$300 [15] In baseball it's a double-header in which the first game is played in the late afternoon a twi-night doubleheader Randy	$300 [10] This Spanish city known for its bull run was named after the Roman general Pompey Pamplona David	$300 [24] The "drum" style of this usually has a round top & a deep apron that may contain drawers a table Randy	$300 [28] 1 of 3 No. 1 hits for the Carpenters (1 of) "Please Mr. Postman", "Close to You" or "Top of the World" Ellen	$300 [19] Some people call these rotary-wing aircraft "eggbeaters" helicopters Randy	$300 [5] According to Twain, "The art" of frying chicken "cannot be learned north of" this line the Mason-Dixon line Randy
$400 [16] It's defined as a small, shallow drum with a single head & metallic jingles in its rim a tambourine Randy	$400 [11] Well I'll be doggone, under Benito Juarez this city served briefly as capital of Mexico Chihuahua Ellen	$400 [25] A chair back's central support; it sounds like the noise spilled soup makes when it hits the floor a splat (slat accepted) Ellen Randy	$400 [29] 1 of 2 No. 1 pop chart hits for Glen Campbell "Rhinestone Cowboy" or "Southern Nights" David Randy	$400 [20] These vehicles, popular in circuses, are called giraffe cycles when they're over 6 feet tall unicycles Ellen Randy	$400 [6] Twain's mother was the inspiration for this character in "Tom Sawyer" Aunt Polly Ellen
$500 [17] It's the process of toughening glass, as well as steel tempering David	$500 [12] It merged with Jaffa in 1950 Tel Aviv David Randy	$500 [26] A Girandole is a wall sconce made to hold these a candle Ellen	—	DD $700 [21] This tiny locomotive was named for a tiny P.T. Barnum star Tom Thumb Ellen	$500 [7] Twain claimed he knew this author's books better than his own & read "Kim" every year (Rudyard) Kipling David

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR	LITERARY TERMS	NATURE	GRAB BAG	SEASONAL QUOTES
$200 [1] It broke away from Virginia over the issue of secession in 1861 & became the 35th state in 1863 West Virginia David	$200 [10] A lyric poem of elaborate structure that celebrates a single subject, like a Grecian urn an ode David Randy	$200 [6] Bees live in a apiary & these live in a vespiary wasps Ellen	$200 [8] This title rabbit didn't heed the warning "Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden" Peter Rabbit David	$600 [21] He wrote about "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot" in "The Crisis" in 1776 Thomas Paine Ellen
$400 [2] After the war, Henry Wirz, the commandant of this prison, was executed an a war criminal Andersonville Ellen	$400 [14] It's the buzz word that describes words like buzz that imitate a sound onomatopoeia Ellen	$400 [7] Little pollywogs become frogs; little elvers mature into these eels Randy	$400 [9] Floral road that's the easy way, or path, of pleasure & self-indulgence the primrose path Ellen	$1,000 [23] The poet who wrote "The year's at the spring and day's at the morn" in "Pippa Passes" Robert Browning Ellen
$600 [3] On April 19, 1861 Mass. soldiers on their way to defend Washington, D.C. were attacked in this MD city Baltimore David	$600 [15] It's the omission of words in a text or the series of 3 dots put in their place ellipsis Ellen	$800 [19] Though it's called the unicorn of the sea, it doesn't have a horn but a long tooth a narwhale David	$600 [11] Author of the 1633 book of English religious poems "The Temple", or our President's first 2 names George Herbert Randy	DD $1,500 [22] Title character who mentions winter & summer in the first lines of Shakespeare's play about him Richard III Ellen
$800 [4] 2 leading Confederate generals, 1 named Joseph, the other Albert Sidney, both had this last name. Johnston David	$800 [16] For a limerick, it's AABBA a rhyme scheme David	$1,000 [20] Its genus, Ornithorhynchus, means bird-snout; its common name means flat-footed a platypus Ellen	$800 [12] 19th c. economist W.S. Jevons tied economic ups & downs to this astronomical 11-year cycle the sunspot cycle Randy	—
$1,000 [5] After the war this Louisiana Creole general was invited to command the armies of Romania & Egypt Beauregard David	$1,000 [17] Shaw's plays are comedies of ideas; Congreve's plays are comedies of these manners Randy	DD $1,100 [18] Collier's Encyclopedia calls this southern African animal "extremely ugly": warthog Randy	$1,000 [13] This man, whose first & middle names were Albert Blake, invented a mimeograph machine in 1887 A.B. Dick Ellen	—

Final Jeopardy!

THE 20th CENTURY

He was attacked by R. Mercader, a Spanish Communist agent, on Aug. 20, 1940 & died the following day

Leon Trotsky

David "Who was Trotsky?" — wagered $4,799

Randy "Who was Leon Trotsky?" — wagered $4,800

Ellen "Who was Tolstoy?" — wagered $1,900

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