Show #1387 1990-09-18 (taped 1990-08-06) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Judy Alster — a publications planning manager from New York City, New York

David McKinstry — a banker and student originally from Newton Falls, Ohio

Kyle Freeman — a teacher and proofreader from San Francisco, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $36,003)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kyle $1,300 $3,300 $4,500 $0
3rd place
$4,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
David $300 $800 $5,600 $1
2nd place
$6,600
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Judy $2,500 $4,100 $9,400 $7,599
New champion: $7,599
$7,700
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

TRAVEL & TOURISM PROVERBS HISTORY SPORTS ART TV SHOW OPENINGS
$100 [11]
You can see a 2,500-year-old ski at the Ski Museum in this Norwegian capital
Oslo
Judy
$100 [6]
In "Hamlet" Polonius calls this "the soul of wit"
brevity
Kyle
$100 [14]
Holy Spanish city, it fell to King Alfonso VI in 1085
Toledo
Judy
$100 [16]
In 1989 Michael Chang became the youngest man to win a Grand Slam event in this sport
tennis
Kyle
$100 [1]
His sculpture "The Thinker" is part of a larger work called "The Gates of Hell"
Rodin
Kyle
$100 [23]
A sheriff & his son carry their fishing poles to a lake
The Andy Griffith Show
David
$200 [12]
Kyoto is the home of this beverage ceremony & tourists can take classes there to learn it
tea ceremony
Judy
$200 [7]
"Rats desert" this
a sinking ship
Kyle
$200 [15]
He floated like a butterfly, stung Napoleon's troops like a bee & was made viceroy of Egypt 1-2-3
Muhammad Ali
Kyle
$200 [17]
This former N.Y. Giants player has been an announcer on Monday Night Football for 19 seasons
Frank Gifford
David
$200 [2]
Both Donatello's & Michelangelo's statue of David are in this city
Florence
Kyle
$200 [24]
A comedy writer walks in the door & trips over an ottoman
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Kyle
$300 [13]
Hey! hot stuff, Laredo in this U.S. state has a jalapeno eating contest in its Jalapeno Festival
Texas
David
$300 [8]
"He that would the daughter win must with" this woman "first begin"
her mother
Judy
$300 [18]
Barron's World History says he was killed January 30, 1948 by a confused & frustrated fanatic
(Mahatma) Gandhi
Judy
$300 [25]
In 1967 & 1968 the Alpine World Cup was won by this famous skier from France
(Jean-Claude) Killy
David
$400 [4]
Spill some of this type of paint on your shirt & the yolk's on you
tempera
Judy
$300 [26]
A gun firing, a locomotive & a skyscraper
Superman
Kyle
$400 [21]
In 1990, this worldwide network of vacation villages celebrated its 40th birthday
Club Med
Judy
$400 [9]
A modern corruption of this proverb is "Marry in haste and repent in the summer"
Marry in haste and repent in leisure
Judy
$400 [19]
In 1895 the area run by the British South Africa Company was named this, after a British statesman
Rhodesia
Judy
$400 [27]
Heavyweight champ Gene Tunney & this former champ were involved in boxing's Long Count bout
(Jack) Dempsey
Kyle
DD $500 [3]
In addition to portraits of Nicholas Roots, Jan Six & an elephant, he did many of himself
Rembrandt
Kyle
$400 [29]
9 squares containing a father, a mother, a housekeeper & 6 kids
The Brady Bunch
David
$500 [22]
This ancient Greek architectural wonder was the main temple of Athena
the Parthenon
Judy
$500 [10]
He said "Fish and visitors smell in three days"
Ben Franklin
Judy
$500 [20]
In 1952, Dr. Prio Socarras, the last freely-elected Cuban president, was overthrown by this man
(Fulgencio) Batista
David
$500 [28]
On July 29, 1989, Cuba's Javier Sotomayor became the first high jumper in history to reach this mark
8 feet
Kyle David
$500 [5]
"Dots nice" would describe this technique used by Seurat
pointillism
Judy
$500 [30]
A 20-mule team
Death Valley Days
Kyle David

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASTRONOMY LANGUAGES RELIGION POLITICAL PARTIES U.S.A. MEN OF LETTERS
$200 [22]
In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered this planet from photographic plates taken two moths earlier
Pluto
Kyle
$200 [11]
Liechtenstein's inhabitants speak the Alemannic dialect of this language
German
Kyle
$200 [6]
The diaspora refers to the dispersion of these people after the Babylonian exile
the Jews
Judy
$200 [1]
John Greenleaf Whittier supported the Liberty Party founded in 1840 to oppose this
slavery
David
$200 [16]
Most of the world's northern fur seals go to the Pribilof Islands in this state during breeding season
Alaska
David
$200 [12]
Many a student has been required to read his novel "The Catcher in the Rye"
J.D. Salinger
Kyle
$400 [23]
It can be traced back to the Pahlavi language & before that the Avestan of the Zoroastrian rich
Farsi
Kyle Judy
$400 [7]
In Japanese the name of this religion is kami no michi, meaning "the way of the gods"
Shinto
David
$600 [3]
This party, named for the paper money issued during & after the Civil War, elected 18 men to Congress in 1878
the Greenbacks
David
$400 [17]
Antoine's, Arnaud's & the Commander's Palace are among the fine restaurants in this city
New Orleans
Judy
$400 [13]
The movies "A Passage to India" & "A Room with a View" were based on his novels
E.M. Forster
Judy
$600 [24]
Modern Portuguese was derived from this language of Portugal's ancient conquerors
Latin
Judy
$600 [8]
The queen of the California missions is named for this woman saint
St. Barbara (Santa Barbara)
$800 [4]
In 1948 the Progressive Party chose this FDR VP as its presidential candidate
Henry Wallace
Kyle
$600 [19]
Water Tower Place, a 74-story hotel, office & shopping center boasts a great view of this Midwest city
Chicago
$600 [14]
He wrote about the honorable Bertie Wooster & his impeccable valet, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
Judy
$1,000 [26]
This American Indian language has the most speakers in the U.S.
Navajo
Judy
$800 [9]
After a schism in this group Ballington & Maud Booth founded the Volunteers of America in 1896
the Salvation Army
David
DD $1,000 [2]
This party's main goal was met with the passage of the 18th Amendment
the Prohibition Party
David
$800 [20]
Kentucky is called a commonwealth after this state which used to own it
Virginia
David
$800 [15]
A noted essayist, he also spun the tale of "Charlotte's Web"
E.B. White
David
DD $2,500 [25]
Unlike English, Irish, Welsh & Cornish belong to this group of languages
Celtic
Judy
$1,000 [10]
They, not the Shiites, are the majority sect in Islam
Sunnis
Kyle
$1,000 [5]
In this state the two major parties are the Republicans & the Democratic Farmer Labor Party
Minnesota
$1,000 [21]
Mystics & non-mystics can find Mystic Seaport, the largest maritime museum in the U.S. in this state
Connecticut
David
$1,000 [18]
His book "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" was one of seven tales about the land of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
David

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHY

It's bordered by 4 countries, the most of any Central American nation

Guatemala

Kyle "What is Belize? That's all folks" — wagered $4,500
David "What is Honduras?" — wagered $5,599
Judy "What is Honduras?" — wagered $1,801

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