Show #1581 1991-06-17 (taped 1991-03-13) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

Brad Colgate — a college health physician from Grove City, Ohio

Jessie Hill — a tour guide originally from Washington, D.C.

Jonathan Heller — an archivist from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jonathan $400 $1,300 $5,300 $10,500
2nd place: trip on Delta to stay at Westin Resort on Hilton Head Island
$5,300
17 R, 4 W
Jessie $500 $2,300 $7,300 $100
3rd place: Sentry safe & Nintendo Entertainment System with Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy! & Fisher Price preschool + Wheel of Fortune for Game Boy
$6,300
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Brad $1,200 $3,500 $9,400 $14,601
New champion: $14,601
$8,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

USA TEXTILES RELIGION THE EMMYS HISTORIC NICKNAMES ANAGRAMS
$100 [9]
In 1965 Actors' Equity set salaries & work conditions for this offshoot of off-Broadway
off-off-Broadway
Jonathan
$100 [5]
This lightweight cotton fabric originated in the India seaport of Calicut
Calico
Brad
$100 [14]
Shiite Muslims believe he picked his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor
Muhammad
Jessie
$100 [3]
In 1962 the heads of the news departments of ABC, CBS & NBC got a special award for coverage of his orbital flight
John Glenn
Brad
$100 [1]
This president's grandfather was called "Honeyfitz"
JFK
Brad
$100 [2]
The best place to play water polo is in one of these
a pool (from polo)
Jonathan
$200 [10]
You're not allowed to use this invention of Samuel Colt in the park named for him in Hartford, Connecticut
a gun (revolver)
Jonathan
$200 [19]
This loose-piled cotton fabric is commonly used for Turkish towels & beach robes
terrycloth
Jessie
$200 [15]
The sacrament of communion commemorates this event
the Last Supper
Brad
$200 [27]
This daytime talk show host won Emmys in 1977, '78, '79, '80, '82 , '83, '85, '86 & '88
Phil Donahue
Jonathan
$200 [23]
Of the Rough Riders, TR or Teddy, the nickname that Theodore Roosevelt disliked intensely
Teddy
Brad
$200 [4]
Thelma told me this is her least favorite Shakespeare tragedy
Hamlet (from Thelma)
Jessie Brad
$300 [11]
Southwest Airlines now has 3 planes painted to look like this SeaWorld star
Shamu
Jessie
$300 [20]
The patterns of tartan are used to identify individual clans in this country
Scotland
Jessie
$300 [16]
The Douay version is a 16th century Catholic translation of the Bible into this language
English
Jonathan
$300 [28]
This PBS British import picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series 1974-75
Upstairs, Downstairs
Jonathan Jessie
$400 [25]
Perennial 19th century candidate called "The Peerless Leader" & "The Boy Orator of the Platte"
William Jennings Bryan
Jonathan
$300 [6]
Olaf wants a new colt so he's waiting for his mare to do this
foal (from Olaf)
Brad
$400 [12]
In 1907 the Bronx Zoo donated 15 of these animals to an Oklahoma preserve
(American) buffalo (bison)
Brad
$400 [21]
In this pattern 2 adjacent lines form a V resembling the skeletal structure of a fish
herringbone
Brad
$400 [17]
One of the 10 Commandments says you shouldn't take this in vain
the Lord's name
Jessie
$400 [29]
Jay Thomas was nominated in 1990 for his role as loud mouth talk show host Jerry Gold on this sitcom
Murphy Brown
Jonathan
$500 [26]
Among his nicknames were "Prince Hal", "Harry of the West" & "The Great Pacificator"
Henry Clay
Brad
$400 [7]
It would be stupid to bury one of these corundums
a ruby (from bury)
Brad
$500 [13]
On May 18, 1897, this man who extracted bromine from brine, founded his chemical company
(Herbert) Dow
Jonathan
$500 [22]
Sometimes called Hessian cloth, this coarse, heavy fabric is woven from the fibers of jute or hemp
burlap
Jessie
$500 [18]
This northern neighbor of Utah has the USA's 2nd highest percentage of Mormons
Idaho
Jonathan
$500 [30]
This "Who's the Boss?" star won 2 Daytime Emmys for her role on "One Life to Live"
Judith Light
DD $1,000 [24]
Group that was referred to as "The Nine Old Men", so the sobriquet doesn't apply anymore
the Supreme Court
Brad
$500 [8]
Electra pours this sticky molasses blend on everything
treacle (from Electra)
Jonathan

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAME THE AUTHOR FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES THE VIETNAM WAR COMPOSERS THE BIRDS THE BEES
$200 [11]
"The Dead Zone"
Stephen King
Jonathan
$200 [6]
In Japanese the name of this martial art means "empty hand"
karate
Brad
$200 [12]
Game pieces used to describe the theory that if one Southeast Asian nation fell they all would
dominoes
Jessie
$200 [1]
This "Bolero" composer wrote a concerto for left hand alone for one-arm pianist Paul Wittgenstein
(Maurice) Ravel
Jonathan
$200 [13]
This bird has the largest eye of any living land animal
the ostrich
Brad
$200 [24]
Common name of the hairy social bee of the genus Bombus
the bumblebee
Brad
$400 [14]
"Murder at the Vicarage"
Agatha Christie
Jonathan
$400 [7]
This word for durable work pants made of blue denim is from the Hindi for a type of coarse cloth
dungarees
Jessie
$400 [15]
Peace talks opened in this city in 1968, a cease fire was signed in 1973, but fighting lasted until 1975
Paris
Jonathan
$400 [2]
This great Baroque composer's last work was "Die Kunst der Fuge", or "The Art of the Fugue"
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
Jessie
$400 [20]
The bald eagle's is designed for tearing; the oyster catcher's for prying things open
the bill or the beak
Jessie
$400 [27]
The shortest route back to the hive, that has come to mean the shortest route to anywhere
a beeline
Jonathan
$600 [19]
"Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories"
Garrison Keillor
Jonathan
$600 [8]
In an Italian gift shop a sign reading "non toccare" means this
do not touch
Brad
$600 [16]
It was the most widely-used herbicide in the war
Agent Orange
Jonathan
$600 [3]
This composer's great-grandfather immigrated from Scotland to Norway in the 18th century
(Edvard) Grieg
Brad
$600 [21]
He was the 1st person to band a bird in the U.S. to track its habits
(John) Audubon
Brad
$600 [28]
One of the chores of these female bees is to fan the air at the entrance to the hive
workers
Jessie
$800 [22]
"Windmills of the Gods"
Sidney Sheldon
$800 [9]
This French expression for knick-knacks means "odds & ends"
bric-à-brac
Brad
$800 [17]
He served as superintendent of West Point before becoming U.S. commander in South Vietnam in 1964
Westmoreland
Brad
$800 [4]
This composer of "Fanfare for the Common Man" died at age 90 in 1990
Aaron Copland
Jonathan Jessie Brad
$800 [25]
Budgie is short for this 10-letter name
a budgerigar
Jessie
$800 [29]
Bee product used to make candles & cosmetics
beeswax
Jessie
$1,000 [23]
"Chariots of the Gods"
Erich von Däniken
Jonathan
$1,000 [10]
Of Santa Claus' reindeer, the 2 whose name are German for thunder & lightning
Donner & Blitzen
Brad
$1,000 [18]
The playwright who turned his Vietnam experiences into "Sticks and Bones" & "Streamers"
David Rabe
Jonathan
DD $2,000 [5]
He died about a week after the premiere of his "Pathetique" symphony in St. Petersburg
Tchaikovsky
Jessie
DD $1,700 [26]
A flower native to Southern Africa & 40 species of birds native to New Guinea share this name
bird of paradise
Brad
$1,000 [30]
The 2 items that bees gather from flowers
nectar & pollen
Jessie

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD LEADERS

In 1969 he became Peru's first ambassador to the Soviet Union

(Javier) Pérez de Cuéllar

Jonathan "Who is Perez de Cuellar?" — wagered $5,200
Jessie "Who is" — wagered $7,200
Brad "Who is Perez de Cuellar?" — wagered $5,201

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