Show #1569 1991-05-30 (taped 1991-02-26) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Angela Tangredi — a physician from New York City, New York

Fred Ketteman — a purser from San Francisco, California

Beth Elliott — a writer and computer specialist from Oakland, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Beth $800 $3,000 $11,000 $17,000
2nd place
$11,000
23 R, 0 W
Fred $2,400 $3,000 $11,400 $22,500
New champion: $22,500
$8,400
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Angela $1,300 $3,000 $4,800 $4,800
3rd place
$4,500
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS THE OSCARS CITY QUOTES WORLD HISTORY ODDS & ENDS SPELL THAT NAME
$100 [1]
This noted astronomer's lists of works include "Comet", "Contact" & "Cosmos"
Carl Sagan
Fred
$100 [3]
At 80, she won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy", making her the oldest Best Actress winner ever
Jessica Tandy
Angela
$100 [22]
Washington Irving said it was the "renowned & ancient city of Gotham
New York
Beth
$100 [9]
3 days after the Korean War began this capital fell to invaders
Seoul
Fred
$100 [16]
You might have 32 of these in your mouth but a music box can have several hundred
teeth
Beth
$100 [21]
If you can spell this "Road House" star's last name he might take you "Dirty Dancing"
S-W-A-Y-Z-E
Angela
$200 [2]
This Mark Twain novel starts a few days before the death of Henry VIII
The Prince and the Pauper
Angela
$300 [5]
After winning for this film Sissy Spacek thanked Loretta Lynn
Coal Miner's Daughter
Beth Fred
$200 [27]
William Cooper Brand wrote this city "runs to brains as well as to bread and baked beans"
Boston
Angela
$200 [10]
He was born July 12, 100 B.C. but it wasn't called July yet
Julius Caesar
Beth
$200 [17]
The cosmetic kind is made to be rinsed or peeled off, unlike the gas or Halloween kind
a mask
Angela
$200 [23]
Formerly Allie on "Kate & Allie", she is no plain Jane
(Jane) C-U-R-T-I-N
Beth
$300 [6]
H.H. Munro got his pen name, Sake, from this Persian collection of quatrains
the Rubáiyát (of Omar Khayyám )
Beth
$400 [14]
His role as a troubled ex-colonel in "Separate Tables" earned him the 1958 Best Actor Oscar
David Niven
Fred
$300 [28]
Carl Sandburg called it "Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders"
Chicago
Angela
$300 [11]
In 1651, the Dutch East India Co. sent Jan van Riebeeck to establish a settlement on this cape
the Cape of Good Hope
Fred
$300 [18]
This university's alumni association offers a Visa card that sports a color photograph of Tommy Trojan
the University of Southern California
Fred
$300 [24]
The last name of the Congresswoman who was Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984
(Geraldine) F-E-R-R-A-R-O
Fred
$400 [7]
Nathan Zuckerman appears in the 6th of his novels starting with "My Life as a Man" through "The Counterlife"
Philip Roth
Fred
DD $500 [4]
Heard here, he won a 1984 Oscar for writing the following song:"I just called to say I love you..."
Stevie Wonder
Angela
$400 [29]
"They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one"
Kansas City
Angela
$400 [12]
Louis-Philippe replaced this family's white flag with the tricolour as the emblem of France
the Bourbon
Fred
$400 [19]
The National Honey Board honored David Letterman, Johnny Carson & Willard Scott with busts made out of this
beeswax
Beth
$400 [25]
"Golden Girl" Rue
(Rue) M-C-C-L-A-N-A-H-A-N
Beth
$500 [8]
This Belgian-born French novelist wrote over 200 novels, many about Inspector Maigret
George Simenon
Fred
$500 [15]
The son of a British Poet Laureate, he won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in "My Left Foot"
Daniel Day-Lewis
Angela
$500 [30]
"North Beach to Tenderloin, over Russian Hill, The grades are something giddy, and the curves are fit to kill!"
San Francisco
Angela
$500 [13]
In 1780 Prussia was ruled by this "Great" man, Russia by this "Great" woman
Frederick & Catherine
Fred
$500 [20]
Umberto Nobile flew over the North Pole in a dirigible 3 days after he flew over it in a plane
Admiral Byrd
Beth
$500 [26]
The surname of evangelists Jim & Tammy Faye
B-A-K-K-E-R
Beth

Double Jeopardy! Round

6-LETTER WORDS CHEMISTRY PRESIDENTS AUSTRALIA FOOD & DRINK ORCHESTRAS
$200 [18]
The title of a 1982 book said "Real Men Don't Eat" this pastry shell filled with custard
quiche
Fred
$200 [26]
The cyanide process is used to extract this precious metal from its ore
gold
Beth
$200 [12]
When Stephen Douglas called him two-faced he said, "If I had another do you think I would wear this one?"
Lincoln
Angela
$200 [7]
George Bass proved this was an island & the strait separating it from the mainland was named for him
Tasmania
Beth
$200 [3]
Lap cheong, chorizo & knackwurst are 3 types of these
sausages
Angela
$200 [1]
This country's philharmonic orchestra was formed in 1936 as the Palestine Symphony
Israel
Fred
$400 [20]
It can be a pointed post, a worker on strike or a sentinel
a picket
Angela
$400 [27]
Chemistry books warn you not to add this common substance to sulfuric acid; it may cause it to blow up
water
Beth
$400 [14]
After Medicare was passed this retired Missourian was issue Medicare care No. 1
Harry Truman
Beth
$400 [8]
In 1966 Australia went from the British system of pounds, shillings & pence to this
dollars & cents
Beth
$400 [4]
Porter is a dark, strongly-flavored type of this potent potable
ale (beer)
Fred
$400 [2]
Eugene Ormandy conducted this city's orchestra for a record 42 years
Philadelphia
Angela
$600 [21]
To consult with someone or to bestow an honor
confer
Beth
$600 [28]
These 2 things are standard at STP conditions
temperature & pressure
Angela
$600 [15]
As vice president he was spared April 14, 1865 when his would-be assassin had a change of heart
Andrew Johnson
Fred
$600 [9]
Construction of this city began in 1913 & 14 years later Parliament moved there
Canberra
Beth
$600 [13]
The French call this hot cake, ice cream & meringue dessert "Omelette norvegienne"
baked Alaska
Beth
$800 [6]
In 1977 the "Star Wars Theme" as performed by John Williams & this British orchestra became a pop hit
the London Symphony Orchestra
Beth
$800 [22]
The East, or cause to face toward the east
the Orient
Fred
$800 [29]
The quick type of this substance is slaked by adding water to it
slaked lime
$800 [16]
His last words were "Edith, I'm a broken machine, but I'm ready"
Woodrow Wilson
Fred
$800 [10]
The country began a year-long celebration of this on Jan. 26, 1988
its bicentennial
Beth
$1,000 [25]
Pinar is an Italian aperitif flavored with this thistle-like vegetable
an artichoke
Beth
$1,000 [19]
The Boston Symphony's Berkshire Music Center was established in 1940 on this Lenox, Massachusetts estate
Tanglewood
Angela
$1,000 [23]
Now a tyrant or dictator, it was once an honorary title applied to the Byzantine emperor
a despot
$1,000 [30]
Used for purification, this is the process of boiling a liquid & condensing the vapor
distillation
Beth
$1,000 [17]
Since he & his wife were mourning their son they cancelled the inaugural ball when he took office in 1853
Franklin Pierce
Beth Angela
$1,000 [11]
In 1942 the Japanese bombed this capital of the Northern Territory named for a naturalist
Darwin
Fred
DD $2,000 [24]
Most crustaceans eaten in the U.S. are these
shrimp
Fred
DD $2,400 [5]
Edvard Grieg co-founded this capital city's philharmonic orchestra in 1871
Oslo
Fred

Final Jeopardy!

FINAL RESTING PLACES

More than 100 years after his death, he was reburied with honors at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1913

John Paul Jones

Angela "Who was?" — wagered $0
Beth "Who is John Paul Jones?" — wagered $6,000
Fred "Who was John Paul Jones?" — wagered $11,100

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