Show #1381 1990-09-10 (taped 1990-07-31) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Ed Allen — a writer and teacher from Memphis, Tennessee

Marc Pais — a pension consultant originally from Brazil

Ken Marks — a proofreader and umpire originally from Eastchester, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ken $1,200 $2,800 $6,000 $5,000
2nd place
$5,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Marc $900 $1,100 $3,300 $1,995
3rd place
$3,300
7 R, 1 W
Ed $1,100 $2,600 $12,100 $12,001
New champion: $12,001
$8,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AMERICA POP MUSIC DRAGONS ISLANDS COMIC STRIPS ANAGRAMS
$100 [21]
On his 1st full day as president he pardoned most of the Vietnam War draft evaders
(Jimmy) Carter
Ed
$100 [1]
In 1966, he had 4 Top 40 hits including "It Was A Very Good Year"
Frank Sinatra
Ed
$100 [22]
These sea-going warriors were noted for the carved dragon heads on the prows of their ships
the Vikings
Ken
$100 [10]
They're made up of 3 main island groups, the Bahamas & the Greater & Lesser Antilles
the West Indies
Ken
$100 [16]
Crimestoppers' Textbook is a Sunday feature of this detective strip
Dick Tracy
Ed
$100 [6]
Stan acts like he had these insects in his pants
ants (from Stan)
Ken
$200 [23]
For those who held some illegally, May 1, 1933 was the last day to return it to the Treasury
gold
Ed
$200 [2]
After Big Brother and the Holding Company she sang with the Full Tilt Boogie Band
Janis Joplin
Ken
$200 [27]
In 1911 when it became a republic this country removed the dragon from its flag
China
Marc
$200 [12]
Australia's smallest state, it's separated from the mainland by Bass Strait
Tasmania
Ken
$200 [17]
Playing hip college student Joe Cool is among this Peanuts character's many fantasies
Snoopy
Ken
$200 [7]
A sheep noise one shouldn't make at the dinner table
bleat (from table)
$300 [24]
After Gov. Faubus shut down the schools in this city Sept. 1958, classes continued via television
Little Rock
Ed
$400 [4]
Velvety-voiced male singer who starred with Dorothy Dandridge in the 1954 film "Carmen Jones"
Harry Belafonte
Ken
$300 [28]
He saved the daughter of king of Libya from becoming dragon food; what a saint
(St.) George
Ed
$300 [13]
The Isle of Pines in this Caribbean country has been renamed the Isle of Youth
Cuba
Ed
$300 [18]
Murat Young, creator of the successful "Blondie" strip, was better known by this nickname
"Chic"
Ken
$300 [8]
You'll be in danger if you walk into this section of my yard
garden (from danger)
Ed
$400 [25]
In 1937 Philadelphia threw a 4-month-long celebration to mark its 150th anniversary
the Constitutional Convention
Ken
DD $500 [3]
Heard here, this singer's last No. 1 single was released posthumously in 1973:"If I could save time in a bottle / The first thing that..."
Jim Croce
Ken
$400 [14]
Napoleon was born on Corsica, exiled to Elba & died on this island off the coast of Africa
St. Helena
Ed
$400 [19]
When this strip began during the Depression, it was called "Apple Mary"
Mary Worth
Ken
$400 [9]
Sadie never has original ones
ideas (from Sadie)
Marc
$500 [26]
The U.S. decided not to take part in the 22nd Olympic games after the Soviets did this
invaded Afghanistan
Ed
$500 [5]
Freda Payne sang with Duke Ellington in the 1960s & in 1970 had her 1st hit with this song about a wedding ring
"Band Of Gold"
Ken
$500 [15]
In 1602 explorer Bartholomew Gosnold named this Massachusetts island for either his daughter or his mother-in-law
Martha's Vineyard
Ken
$500 [20]
Chiquita Banana & the Campbell's Soup Kids were drawn by this "Hagar the Horrible" cartoonist
(Dik) Browne
Ken
$500 [11]
When I visited this Connecticut town it rained
Darien (from rained)
Marc

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE SHAKESPEARE WORLD LEADERS FASHION HISTORY HIGHER EDUCATION THE STAGECOACH
$200 [1]
1 of 2 planets in our solar system that have no moons
Mercury (or Venus)
Ed
$200 [6]
Well, well, this play has 2 "Well"s in its title
All's Well That Ends Well
Ed
$200 [12]
At 14, this future Cuban leader sent a letter to FDR asking him for a $10 bill because he'd never seen one
Castro
Ed
$200 [17]
17th & 18th century women carried fancy little boxes full of these which they stuck on their faces
mouches (beauty marks)
Ed
$200 [11]
This city is home to the main campus of the University of Hawaii
Honolulu
Ken
$600 [23]
An 1825 article in England thought the prospect of these traveling twice as fast as stages absurd
trains
Ken
$600 [3]
In biology, the beats of the heart; in botony, the seeds of a pea
pulses
$400 [7]
Cressida's uncle, Pandarus, calls him "the prince of chivalry"
Troilus
Ed
$400 [13]
This first Indian prime minister partly embraced the non-violent philosophy of Gandhi but not his asceticism
Nehru
Ken
$400 [20]
The Japanese are credited with creating the first fans you could do this to
fold
Marc
$400 [15]
Your hair doesn't have to be this shade of reddish-brown to attend this Alabama university of the same name
Auburn
Ken
$800 [24]
In 1858, John Butterfield began his service between the Mississippi & this state
California
Marc
$800 [4]
CaCO3, it's the main ingredient in limestone
calcium carbonate
Marc
$600 [8]
Hamlet tells him, "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
Horatio
Ed
$600 [14]
In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron mentions the court of Ali Pasha in this country
Turkey
Ed
$600 [22]
A hennin was a tall cone-shaped headdress with one these accessories hanging from the top
a scarf (a veil)
Ken
$600 [18]
Washington College was renamed in 1871 to honor this general, its president from 1865-1870
Lee
Ed
$1,000 [25]
This Texan & his gang regularly held up the stage near Deadwood, South Dakota
Sam Bass
$1,000 [5]
Type of physics to which Planck's constant is fundamental
quantum physics
Ed
$800 [9]
Banquo says to them, "You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so"
the Three Witches
$800 [16]
Though this 20-year-old may have resented his father Philip II, he took no part in his murder
Alexander the Great
$1,000 [27]
A knight's hauberk, a long tunic, was usually made of this
mail
Ed
$800 [19]
This German university was founded in 1386 by Rupert the Elder, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
Heidelberg
Marc
DD $1,500 [2]
The hormone epinephrine is also called this, from the name of the glands that produce it
adrenaline
Ed
DD $4,000 [10]
The title of this comedy refers to Mistress Ford & Mistress Page
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Ed
$1,000 [21]
In June 1943, he & Henri Giraud became co-chairs of the French Committee for National Liberation in Algeria
de Gaulle
Marc
$1,000 [26]
He was a faculty member at Tuskegee Institute for 47 years
(George Washington) Carver
Ken Ed

Final Jeopardy!

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Helen Keller dedicated "The Story of My Life" to this man who "taught the deaf to speak"

Alexander Graham Bell

Marc "Who is Braille?" — wagered $1,305
Ken "Who is Edison?" — wagered $1,000
Ed "Who is Thomas Edison?" — wagered $99

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