Show #1566 1991-05-27 (taped 1991-02-26) Regular

Contestants

Barrie Creedon — a writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eric Newman — an attorney from New York City, New York

Archie Parker — a data management specialist from Merchantville, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Archie $3,700 $3,900 $8,900 $13,900
2-day champion: $24,500
$9,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Eric $1,100 $1,700 $9,100 $300
3rd place: San Francisco Music Box Company grand piano music box + Nintendo Entertainment System with Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy! & Fisher Price preschool games + Wheel of Fortune for Game Boy
$7,100
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Barrie $200 $1,000 $4,000 $8,000
2nd place: trip on Delta to San Francisco & stay at Savoy Hotel
$4,000
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MUSIC SPORTS FOOD PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES TELEVISION "OLD" HAT
$100 [17]
When the abbreviation "o.p." is followed by a number, op. stands for this
opus
Eric
$100 [21]
In bowling it's getting all the pins down at once without any to "spare"
a strike
Eric
$100 [16]
Traditionally, junket is served for this course
dessert
Barrie
$100 [1]
This president's farewell to his mother in 1789 is reenacted every Mother's Day in her Virginia home
George Washington
Archie
$100 [6]
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the Nickelodeon network tinted 4 episodes of "My Three Sons" this color
green
Archie
$100 [11]
They "never die; they just fade away"
old soldiers
Archie
$200 [18]
In German, these holiday songs are known as Weihnachtslieder
Christmas carols
Barrie
$200 [22]
The sport in which you carry your projectiles in a quiver
archery
Barrie
$200 [24]
You can thicken a thin sauce by adding beurre manie, a kneaded mixture of flour & this
butter
Eric
$200 [2]
He dropped out of Yale & became a ballet dancer
Ron Reagan Jr.
Archie
$200 [7]
This NBC series' youngest guest host was 7-year-old Drew Barrymore in 1982
Saturday Night Live
Barrie
$200 [12]
An iced cocktail made with whiskey, a dash of soda, bitters, sweetening & bits of fruit
an old fashioned
Archie
$300 [19]
Tchaikovsky's "Hamlet" is a "tone" one of these
a tone poem
Barrie
$300 [26]
A hot dog can shoot the tube in this sport
surfing
Archie Eric
$300 [25]
Salsify, which is eaten as a vegetable, has another name which tells you it tastes like this mollusk
an oyster
$300 [3]
Zachary Taylor was a second cousin of this fourth president
James Madison
Archie
$300 [8]
Henry Winkler is an executive producer of this series that stars Richard Dean Anderson
MacGyver
Archie
$300 [13]
Jews divide it into three sections called the law, the prophets & the writings
the Old Testament
Eric
$400 [20]
This city's controversial new opera house opened in '90 with a production of "The Trojans" by Berlioz
Paris
Eric
$400 [27]
A twist, a gaineror a swan
a dive
Barrie
$400 [29]
Cumberland sauce, which is often served with game, contains a red jelly made from this fruit
currant
Barrie
$400 [4]
He was the first son of a president to become a senator
John Quincy Adams
Archie
$400 [9]
When this show about show biz premiered in 1981, R. Chamberlain was the 1st celebrity interviewed
Entertainment Tonight
Eric
$400 [14]
Though it was made of wood, the U.S.S. Constitution was called this
"Old Ironsides"
Eric
$500 [23]
The George M. Cohan song that ends with "I'll be there, ere long"
"Give My Regards To Broadway"
Archie
$500 [28]
The number of innings in a regulation Little League baseball game
6
Archie
$500 [30]
This word, Italian for "cooked", describes a type of salami
cotta
Archie Eric
DD $1,000 [5]
The first names of 2 of JFK's sisters
(2 of) Eunice & Rosemary (Kathleen, Patricia & Jean)
Archie
$500 [10]
They were married on"The Tonight Show" in 1969
Tiny Tim & Miss Vicki
Archie
$500 [15]
For his love of formality & flamboyant dress, Winfield Scott's troops called him this
Old Fuss and Feathers
Archie

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER QUOTES ART BOTANY U.S. HISTORY LEGENDARY CREATURES
$200 [13]
Bangladesh's coastline extends about 350 miles along this bay
the Bay of Bengal
Archie
$200 [2]
Campaigning for president, Oct. 24, 1952 in Detroit, he said, "I shall go to Korea"
Eisenhower
Archie
$200 [18]
The group of expressionists known as Der Blaue Reiter, or The Blue Rider, formed in this country in 1911
Germany
Eric
$200 [26]
Ferns reproduce by means of these microscopic cells
spores
Eric
$200 [3]
1857 Supreme Court case that nullified parts of the Missouri Compromise & the Compromise of 1850
the Dred Scott decision
Archie
$200 [1]
In ancient China they came in different colors, & yellow ones were superior
dragons
Eric
$400 [14]
An arm of the Mediterranean, this sea separates Italy from Yugoslavia
the Adriatic
Archie
$400 [10]
Jacob Riis' 1890 indictment of slum conditions was titled "How the Other Half" does this
Lives
Barrie
$400 [22]
Of Hedda Hopper, Dennis Hopper or Edward Hopper, the one who painted "Nighthawks"
Edward Hopper
Eric
$400 [27]
The USSR is the top grower of these tall flowers grown for their edible seeds & oil
sunflowers
Eric
$400 [4]
The Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in 1911 in this city led to demands for improved working conditions
New York City
Barrie
$400 [8]
This bird gathers up the ashes of its former self & carries them to the Egyptian altar of the sun
the Phoenix
Barrie
$600 [15]
One of two South American countries that border on the Caribbean Sea
(1 of 2) Venezuela (or Colombia)
Archie
$600 [19]
Gelett Burgess wrote of his famous poem about this colorful bovine, "I'll kill you if you quote it"
the purple cow
Barrie
$600 [23]
The tiny bits of glass & stone used to create this type of art are called tesserae
mosaics
Barrie
$600 [28]
Diatoms are single-cell varieties of these water plants
algae
Barrie
$600 [5]
It's said this 1925 trial caused William Jennings Bryan's death
the Scopes trial
Eric
$600 [9]
Long before Bram Stoker, Alexandre Dumas wrote a play about this kind of creature
a vampire
Eric
$800 [16]
You'll find the cities of Florence & Pisa on the banks of this river
the Arno
Archie
$800 [20]
Henry Kissinger called this "the great aphrodisiac"
power
Eric
$800 [24]
His 1910 painting "Violin and Pitcher" is an example of Analytic Cubism, which he & Picasso invented
Georges Braque
Eric
$800 [29]
The "L." attached to the scientific names of numerous plants refers to this Swedish botanist
(Carolus) Linnaeus
Archie
$800 [6]
March 27, 1964 is memorable in Alaskan history for this reason
major earthquake
Eric
$800 [11]
It was once believed if one of these slips a magic cap on a mortal's head, the human could live undersea
a mermaid
Archie
$1,000 [17]
The French call this strait connecting the North Sea & the English Channel "Pas de Calais"
the Strait of Dover
Archie Barrie
$1,000 [21]
Churchill said of Gen. Montgomery, "In defeat, unbeatable; in victory," this
unbearable
Eric
DD $3,000 [25]
Livorno-born 20th-c. artist whose elongated figures reflected his interest in African sculpture
Modigliani
Eric
DD $1,000 [30]
First found as a vine on trees, this plant was given a Greek name meaning "lover of trees"
philodendron
Archie
$1,000 [7]
The Patrons of Husbandry, founded in 1867, were popularly known as this
the Grange
Barrie
$1,000 [12]
Though this multi-headed monster could grow 2 new heads for each 1 cut off, Hercules slew it
a Hydra
Archie

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY CHARACTERS

2 characters in this American classic were named for a king of Israel & the oldest son of Abraham

Moby-Dick

Barrie "WhatareisAhabMoby Dick?" — wagered $4,000
Archie "What is Moby Dick?" — wagered $5,000
Eric "What is [2 words illegible]" — wagered $8,800

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