Show #1385 1990-09-14 (taped 1990-07-31) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Mike Reynolds — a child abuse investigator from San Diego, California

Rob Schweitzer — a banker originally from Piedmont, California

Kyle Freeman — a teacher and proofreader from San Francisco, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kyle $600 $800 $7,000 $8,601
3-day champion: $25,202
$5,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Rob $1,100 $2,300 $4,300 $100
3rd place
$4,300
14 R, 3 W
Mike $1,700 $3,600 $2,100 $4,100
2nd place
$4,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPE MUSIC GAMES 7-LETTER WORDS PEOPLE PENCILS
$100 [2]
In 1977 a major earthquake struck this Romanian capital, killing over 1,300 people
Bucharest
Rob
$100 [1]
A piece of music that serves as an introduction to an opera, oratorio or play
an overture
Mike
$100 [25]
Most of the properties in Monopoly are named for streets in this New Jersey resort
Atlantic City
Kyle
$100 [17]
It can refer to an arithmetic mean, or median, or just the typical guy
average
Kyle
$100 [7]
His daughter, Amy Dolenz, "Monkeed" around as Tony Danza's kid in the film "She's Out of Control"
Micky Dolenz
Kyle
$100 [14]
3 out of every 4 pencils made in America are painted this color
yellow
Kyle
$200 [3]
Zagreb, the second largest city in this country, is the capital & cultural center of Croatia
Yugoslavia
Rob
$200 [8]
Prokofiev's piece about a little Homo sapiens & a Canis lupis
Peter and the Wolf
Kyle
$200 [26]
After cards are shuffled the player to the dealer's right does this to them
cut them
Rob
$200 [18]
In his 1964 State of the Union Address Lyndon Johnson declared war on it
poverty
Kyle
$200 [10]
She said, "Me and John Goodman are the hottest couple on TV, the total sex machine"
Roseanne Barr
Kyle
$200 [21]
He was making the best pencils in America before he wrote "Walden"
Thoreau
Mike
$300 [4]
St. Bridget, who founded the Bridgettine Order, is this Scandinavian country's patron saint
Sweden
Mike
$300 [9]
The Italian term for the middle category of the female voice, it means "half soprano"
mezzo-(soprano)
Rob Mike
$300 [28]
Made up word that's the name of the Milton Bradley game of drawing definitions
Pictionary
Mike
$300 [19]
A siren who lured sailors to their death or a role played by Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
Lorelai
Kyle Mike
$300 [11]
Every July he hosts Snoopy's Senior Hockey Tournament at his own ice arena in Santa Rosa, California
Charles Schulz
Rob
$300 [22]
The most common pencil carries this number, which is a measure of the hardness of its lead
number 2
Mike
$400 [5]
This ore is Luxembourg's most valuable natural resource
iron ore
$400 [12]
If a violinist is playing in the pizzicato style he's plucking the strings with these
fingers
Rob
$500 [30]
In this spooky spelling game players are penalized when they complete a word
Ghost
Kyle
$400 [20]
1 of 2 months of the year that fit the category
(1 of) October (or January)
Kyle Mike
$400 [15]
He was a pilot for Pan Am & an L.A. policeman before he created "Star Trek"
Gene Roddenberry
Rob
$400 [23]
Pencil lead isn't lead but a mixture of clay, water & this form of carbon
graphite
Mike
$500 [6]
In Belgium 100 centimes are equal to one of these
a (Belgian) franc
Mike
$500 [13]
This famous flautist was born in Belfast in 1939
James Galway
Mike
DD $600 [29]
This game whose name means "ethical consideration" has you deal with moral dilemmas
Scruples
Mike
$500 [27]
The name of the Greek letter psi is found within the name of these 2 Greek letters
epsilon & upsilon
$500 [16]
When she resigned her job as Columbia Pictures president, one headline said, "Dawn with the wind"
Dawn Steel
Rob
$500 [24]
Nowadays most pencils have this many sides
six
Rob

Double Jeopardy! Round

GENESIS THE CIVIL WAR MAGAZINES ARTISTS AUTHORS' RESTING PLACES
$200 [1]
According to Genesis Chapter 6 verses 14 & 15 it was made of gopher wood, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide & 30 cubits high
Noah's Ark
Mike
$200 [6]
This northernmost major battle of the war saw over 40,000 casualties
Gettysburg
Rob
$200 [12]
For its first 14 years this family magazine was given away in grocery stores
Family Circle
Kyle Rob
$200 [11]
His father, Jan Rubens, was imprisoned for having an affair with William the Silent's wife
Peter Paul Rubens
Rob
$200 [21]
Having served in both World Wars, Dashiell Hammett is buried in this cemetery
Arlington National
Kyle
$400 [2]
Abraham wouldn't even take a shoe-latchet as a reward from the king of this wicked city
Sodom
Kyle
$400 [7]
Southern states had to ratify the 14th Amendment before this could happen
readmission to the Union
Mike
$400 [13]
The National Geographic Society publishes this magazine for kids
National Geographic World
$400 [16]
Raphael was this city's leading artist when he died suddenly at the age of 35; he was buried in the Pantheon
Rome
Rob
$400 [22]
The Russians would have to tear down this wall to disturb John Reed's resting place
the Kremlin Wall
Rob
$600 [3]
The first time Isaac saw Rebekah she was riding one of these
a camel
Kyle
$600 [8]
These laws provided for the return of runaway slaves to escape from one state to another
the Fugitive Slave Laws
Kyle
$600 [14]
In 1983 excerpts from bogus Hitler diaries were published by this West German news magazine
der Stern
Kyle
$600 [17]
He was born in Canton, New York in 1861 but he's famous for painting the American West
Remington
Kyle
$600 [23]
Her name on her tombstone at Green Hills Farm near Perkasie, Pennsylvania is in English & Chinese
Pearl Buck
Mike
$800 [4]
Laban's well-favored daughter, Jacob served 14 years to marry her
Rachel
Kyle
$800 [9]
He was appointed official military photographer by the federal government
Mathew Brady
Kyle
$800 [15]
This magazine devoted to the rock music culture is published by Bob Guccione Jr.
Spin
$800 [18]
After her husband's death in 1946, Georgia O'Keeffe settled permanently in this state
New Mexico
Kyle
$1,000 [25]
Appropriately, Washington Irving is buried in this cemetery in North Tarrytown, New York
Sleepy Hollow
Rob
DD $2,600 [5]
He interpreted dreams of Pharaoh's chief butler & chief baker while in jail with them
Joseph
Kyle
$1,000 [10]
Famed for her earlier work in mental institutions she served as superintendent of the U.S. Army nurses
Dorothea Dix
Mike
$1,000 [20]
Appropriately, "The Progressive" is published in this Midwestern state, home of the LaFollettes
Wisconsin
Rob Mike
$1,000 [19]
One of Hieronymus Bosch's most famous works is a bizarre painting called "The Garden of" these
Earthly Delights
Rob
DD $2,700 [24]
On December 24, 1968, some of his ashes were scattered into Whalers Bay from Point Lobos, California
John Steinbeck
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

He was the last president who was not a college graduate

Harry Truman

Mike "Who was Harry Truman?" — wagered $2,000
Rob "Who was Lincoln?" — wagered $4,200
Kyle "Who was Harry S. Truman?" — wagered $1,601

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