Show #1573 1991-06-05 (taped 1991-03-11) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Tobe Benz — a business executive from Germantown, Maryland

Tom Aldrich — a lawyer from Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Bill Blose — a clergyman originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $400 $2,600 $6,400 $12,799
3rd place
$6,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Tom $1,500 $2,100 $9,100 $18,200
2nd place
$8,900
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Tobe $1,300 $3,000 $9,500 $18,201
New champion: $18,201
$7,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL MUSICIANS CELEBRITY BOOKS COOKING HODGEPODGE SPORT OF KINGS ____ THE ____
$100 [1]
Born Maria Kalogeropoulos, this temperamental star soprano died of a heart attack in 1977
Maria Callas
Tom
$100 [6]
"Call Her Miss Ross" is an unauthorized biography of this woman
Diana Ross
Tom
$100 [14]
Recipes for souffles often tell you to beat these until stuff but not dry
egg whites
Tobe
$100 [24]
In mid-August 1977, a Soviet nuclear-powered ship became the 1st surface ship to reach this point
the North Pole
Bill
$100 [11]
In horse racing it can be fast, heavy or sloppy
the track
Tom
$100 [19]
It's where you don't want to be without a paddle
up the creek
Tom
$200 [2]
Yehudi Menuhin is a virtuoso on this instrument
violin
Bill
$200 [7]
Roxanne Pulitzer's 1st book wasn't called "The Pulitzer Prize" but this
The Prize Pulitzer
Tobe
$200 [15]
Mix ginger, coriander, cardamom, cayenne & turmeric for a simple version of this powder
curry
Bill Tobe
$200 [25]
Of Front St., Back St. or Side St., the major shopping street in Bermuda
Front St.
$200 [12]
The Run for the Roses
the Kentucky Derby
Tom
$200 [20]
Remarks made to a reporter prefaced by this phrase can't be printed
off the record
Bill
$300 [3]
Most beautiful baby of 1932, in Brooklyn, this opera diva is nicknamed "Bubbles"
Beverly Sills
Tom
$300 [8]
Part 7 of his autobiography is titled "On the Road Again"
Willie Nelson
Tom
$300 [16]
An entree served a la Florentine contains this vegetable, but Florentine cookies don't
spinach
Tobe
$300 [26]
It's the official language of Antigua & Barbuda
English
Bill
$300 [13]
In 1977, at the age of 17, he became the 1st jockey to win more than $6 million in one year
Steve Cauthen
Tobe
$300 [21]
Shake hands with the voters while campaigning
press the flesh
Bill
$400 [4]
In 1989, 11 years after retiring, & 30 years after winning the Tchaikovsky Competition, he made a comeback
Van Cliburn
Bill
$400 [9]
"Growing Up Happy" is an advice book by this kid's show star known for jangling his keys
Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo)
Tom
$400 [17]
The liquid left after cooking meat, greens or other vegetables is known as this kind of liquor
pop liquor
Bill
$400 [27]
Many houses in this Icelandic capital are made of concrete to withstand earthquakes
Reykjavik
Tobe
$400 [29]
He became the only jockey to ride two Triple Crown winners, on Whirlaway in 1941 & Citation in 1948
Eddie Arcaro
Bill
$500 [23]
Make a solemn promise not to drink alcoholic beverages or steal furniture polish
take the pledge
Tobe
$500 [5]
2 of 3 tenors whose "In Concert" album hit an unprecedented No. 1 on Britain's pop chart in 1990
(2 of) Luciano Pavarotti & Plácido Domingo (or José Carreras)
Tobe
$500 [10]
Madonna said of this comedienne's "Confessions of a Pretty Lady", "This book saved my life"
Sandra Bernhard
$500 [18]
All you need to make a basic fondant is sugar, water & cream of this
tartar
Tobe
$500 [28]
This Italian city is of Etruscan origin & its name may have come from the Etruscan god Manto
Mantua
Bill
$500 [30]
The English org. formed around 1750 that wrote the complete rules for horse racing
the Jockey Club
Tom
DD $800 [22]
Title of thefollowing, one of the biggest hits of the big band era:
"In The Mood"
Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD WEST THE MIDDLE EAST MYTHOLOGY NEW JERSEYIANS ARCHITECTS 2-CHARACTER PLAYS
$200 [13]
The Book of the American West says most of these pack animals seem to come from Missouri
mules
Tom
$200 [8]
In 1973 this Hashemite kingdom finally gave women the right to vote
Jordan
Tom
$200 [7]
In Norse mythology Fenrir is a huge one these lupine animals
a wolf
Bill
$200 [14]
Born in what's now Trenton, this explorer never reached the top of the Colorado peak that bears his name
Pike
Tobe
$200 [1]
Thomas Walter designed an iron dome to replace this D.C. building's original one
the Capitol
Tom
$200 [6]
Alan Alda personified this title bird captured by a pussycat in the 1964 Broadway hit
The Owl and the Pussycat
Tom
$400 [12]
The Sharps rifles preacher Henry Ward Beecher sent to Kansas settlers were nicknamed this
Beecher's Bibles
Tom
$400 [19]
The Gulf of Oman is connected with the Persian Gulf by this strategic strait
the Strait of Hormuz
Tom
$400 [23]
We assume that Themis, a consort of Zeus, was destined to the mother of this trio
the Fates
Bill
$400 [24]
His large estate in Hopewell was the site of the famous 1932 kidnapping
Charles Lindbergh
Tobe
$400 [2]
Buckminster Fuller designed this type of dome for the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 67
a geodesic dome
Bill
$400 [15]
Anne Bancroft won a Tony for her Broadway debut as 1 of the "Two for" this playground toy
a seesaw
Tobe
$600 [9]
In 1858 Lt. Joseph Ives led the 1st party 1 mile down to the bottom of this
the Grand Canyon
Tom
$600 [20]
Tabriz is the largest city in this country's part of Azerbaijan
Iran
Tom Tobe
$600 [28]
Greek goddess of wisdom who invented the flute but didn't like the way it puffed out her cheeks
Athena
Tobe
$600 [25]
This senator spent two years at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship before playing for the N.Y. Knicks
Bill Bradley
Tobe
$600 [3]
This Doric temple on the Acropolis was built by Ictinus & Callicrates
the Parthenon
Tom
$600 [16]
In Willy Russell's play Frank is an English tutor who tried educating this hairdresser
Miss Rita
Tobe
$800 [10]
With a band playing "Garryowen" he led the 7th Cavalry against Black Kettle in 1868
George Armstrong Custer
Tom
DD $1,000 [21]
When this Saudi king was assassinated by a nephew in March 1975 he was succeeded by his brother Khalid
King Faisal
Tom
$800 [29]
It was the name of the Acadian goddess of fertility engaging ancient Babylon & a 1987 film flop
Ishtar
Tom
$800 [26]
This scientist lived at 112 Mercer St. in Princeton from 1935 until his death in 1955
Albert Einstein
Tobe
$800 [4]
Ludwig Mies appended this, his mother's surname, to his own
van der Rohe
Bill
$1,000 [18]
Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy got to know each other over the title pastime in this 1977 play
The Gin Game
Tobe
$1,000 [11]
Nevada town that was the business center for the Comstock Mine
Virginia City
Bill Tom
$1,000 [22]
The Beqaa Valley is this small country's main agricultural region
Lebanon
Tom
$1,000 [30]
For a time Creon thought that both Ismene & this sister were guilty of burying Polynices
Antigone
$1,000 [27]
This poet died at 330 Mickle St. in Camden in 1892
Walt Whitman
Bill
$1,000 [5]
"Inside the Third Reich" is a memoir by this man, Hitler's chief architect
Albert Speer
Tom
DD $2,500 [17]
The entire action of this 1951 play takes place in a bedroom & much of it on the title bed
The Fourposter
Tobe

Final Jeopardy!

VICE PRESIDENTS

He was the last vice president who didn't serve a full 4-year term

Nelson Rockefeller

Bill "Who was Nelson Rockefeller?" — wagered $6,399
Tom "Who is Nelson Rockefeller?" — wagered $9,100
Tobe "Who isGerald FordRockefeller?" — wagered $8,701

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