Show #1567 1991-05-28 (taped 1991-02-26) Regular

Game partially entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

Mary Anne Lyons — a nautical bookseller from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Michael Vaughn — a mortgage banker from Jersey City, New Jersey

Archie Parker — a data management specialist from Merchantville, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Archie $2,600 $3,400 $7,600 $15,200
2nd place: Summer Wildflowers lithograph by Adolf Sehring & Amisco love seat + arm chair + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$7,600
22 R, 2 W
Michael $0 $800 $8,800 $15,201
New champion: $15,201
$7,400
19 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W
Mary Anne $800 $1,600 $2,000 $2,000
3rd place: General Marble vanity flair collection + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$1,500
10 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY ACTORS & THEIR ROLES ANNUAL EVENTS BIOLOGY NAMES A ROUND OF RUM
$100 [6]
After 16 years in office, Pierre Trudeau resigned as this country's prime minister in 1984
Canada
Mary Anne
$100 [7]
Former TV Academy president Diana Muldaur plays attorney Rosalind Shays on this series
L.A. Law
Archie
$100 [21]
This state's championship chariot races are held each March in Pocatello
Idaho
Archie
$100 [26]
The seed-containing fruit of the dandelion is designed so it can be dispersed by this
the wind
Michael
$100 [1]
This flowery Anglo-Saxon name literally means "the day's eye"
a daisy
Archie
$100 [14]
Coffee-flavored rum liqueur from Jamaica whose name translates, "Aunt Mary"
Tia Maria
Mary Anne
$200 [8]
Every bank in America had to close the day after he took office as president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Michael
$200 [11]
Harvey Fierstein provided the voice of Homer's sec'y in a 1990 episode of this comedy series
The Simpsons
Archie
$200 [22]
Frog jumping & fence painting are highlights of an annual festival, held in this Missouri city
Hannibal
Michael Mary Anne
$200 [27]
The 3 substances in cell walls that make up the woody tissue of trees are pentosan, lignin & this
cellulose
Mary Anne
$200 [2]
8 English kings had this name which means "ruler of the home"
Henry
Archie
$200 [15]
Classic cocktail of rum, lime juice & sugar, served shaken or "frozen"
a daiquiri
Mary Anne
$300 [9]
On Halloween night 1961 the body of this Georgian was removed from display in Lenin's tomb
Stalin
Michael
$300 [13]
Her sister Debbie Allen played her aerobics instructor on "The Cosby Show"
Phylicia Rashad
Archie
$300 [23]
A pageant in Lincoln, New Mexico is named for this 19th century outlaw
Billy the Kid
$400 [29]
Specialty that is concerned with bacteria, molds, yeasts & viruses among others
microbiology
$300 [3]
After "wrestling with the Lord", Jacob was given this new name
Israel
Archie
$300 [18]
Cholesterol counters might prefer making this warm Trader Vic specialty "margarined"
hot buttered rum
Archie
$400 [10]
In 1936 Mussolini first used this word to describe the Rome-Berlin alliance
the Axis
Mary Anne
$400 [16]
This publishing heiress had a cameo role as a mom in John Waters' 1990 film "Cry-Baby"
Patty Hearst
$400 [24]
Alaska's annual world-classic Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race runs from Anchorage to this city
Nome
Archie
$500 [30]
One theory holds they developed from overlapping fringed extentions on the ends of reptiles' scales
feathers
Michael
$400 [4]
Name of the pope who succeeded St. Peter, its also the name of a blanket-toting "Peanuts" character
Linus
Archie
$400 [19]
Watered-down rum, from the nickname of Admiral Vernon, who ordered it served to his sailors
grog
Michael
$500 [12]
The U.S. had a mutual security pact with this island nation until 1978, when we no longer recognized it
Taiwan
Archie Michael
$500 [17]
"I Love You to Death" featured this actor's 3rd wife Joan Plowright, as T. Ullman's Yugoslavian mom
Sir Laurence Olivier
$500 [25]
1 of the annual events in this state is the Walking Horse Celebration in Shelbyville
Tennessee
Michael
DD $800 [28]
Humans typically have a set of 46 in most of their cells
chromosomes
Mary Anne
$500 [5]
Elvis Presley was given this middle name, but it was spelled with only one "A" on the birth certificate
Aron
Archie
$500 [20]
For a Cuba Libre, you could overthrow Castro, or serve rum with this soft drink
Coca-Cola
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLAYWRIGHTS RIVERS MAGAZINES WEIGHTS & MEASURES COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES PSYCH 101
$200 [8]
John Fletcher of Beaumont & Fletcher was 1 of thousands killed by this dread epidemic in the 1600s
the bubonic plague
Michael
$200 [1]
This river's Parker Dam created Lake Havasu
the Colorado River
Michael
$200 [6]
In 1975 this news magazine began giving articles bylines; Time followed suit 5 years later
Newsweek
Archie
$200 [20]
The name of this nautical unit of depth comes from faedn, Danish for "outstretched arms"
a fathom
Mary Anne
$200 [13]
It was formerly known as the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas
Texas A&M
Archie
$200 [26]
The libido is seated in this part of the psyche that's found in the word "libido"
the id
Michael
$400 [9]
Peter Weiss wrote the play known as "Marat/Sade" in this, his native language
German
Archie Michael Mary Anne
$400 [2]
It's Europe's longest river but not the longest in the Soviet Union
the Volga
Archie Michael
$400 [7]
Chevy Chase has starred in 3 of this humor magazine's comedy films
the National Lampoon
Mary Anne
$400 [21]
The centigrade temperature scale was officially renamed this in 1948
Celsius
Archie
$400 [14]
Members of this "friend"ly religion founded Swarthmore College; now it's nonsectarian
the Quakers
Archie
$400 [27]
William James said this was continuously flowing, a stream
consciousness
Michael
$800 [19]
"Picnic" author who was on the teaching staff of USC's drama dept. when he died in 1973
(William) Inge
Archie
$800 [4]
South Africa's longest, this "colorful" river rises in Lesotho & borders Namibia
the Orange River
Michael
$600 [10]
In 1922 Nat Fleischer founded this sports magazine that's still making the "rounds" today
Ring magazine
Archie Mary Anne
$600 [22]
A long hundredweight is actually 112 of these
a pound
Michael
$600 [15]
Founded in 1575, the State University of Leiden is the oldest university in this country
the Netherlands
Michael
$600 [28]
Term for an unconscious restraining of an impulse; drunks tend to lose theirs
inhibitions
Archie
$1,000 [25]
Some say he wrote "An Enemy of the People" in response to the negative criticism of his play "Ghosts"
Ibsen
Mary Anne
$1,000 [5]
One of the largest nuclear materials plants in the U.S. is named for this river on the S.C.-GA border
the Savannah River
Michael
$800 [11]
This business publication is known as "the magazine for growing companies"
Inc.
Michael
$800 [23]
1 square miles equals 640 of these
an acre
Michael
$800 [16]
New England College is in this New England state; you'll find it in Henniker, near Manchester
New Hampshire
Michael
$800 [29]
E Thorndike found that an animal learned its way through a maze better if this was involved
the reward
Mary Anne
DD $1,200 [18]
1 of the 2 plays for which Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize
(1 of) Our Town (or The Skin of Our Teeth )
Michael
DD $1,400 [3]
When this river flooded in 1928, the storerooms of the Tate Gallery were inundated
the Thames
Michael
$1,000 [12]
In the name of a magazine this publisher's name precedes "Traveler"
Conde Nast
Archie
$1,000 [24]
This 16 1/2-foot length is also called a perch or pole
rod
Archie Michael
$1,000 [17]
This country's only university is the University of the South Pacific in Suva
Fiji
Mary Anne
$1,000 [30]
Freeman, Newman & Holzinger studied them to determine what's hereditary & what's environmental
identical twins
Archie

Final Jeopardy!

BEST SELLERS

1 of 2 authors to have 3 books among the Top 10 Fiction Best Sellers of the 1980s

(1 of) Stephen King or Tom Clancy

Mary Anne "Who is Stephen King?" — wagered $0
Archie "Who is Steven King?" — wagered $7,600
Michael "Who was Tom Clancy" — wagered $6,401

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