Show #1141 1989-07-17 (taped 1989-02-28) Regular

1989 Senior Tournament semifinal game 1.

Contestants

Markee Bourget — a housewife from West Saint Paul, Minnesota

Gil Hennegar — an accountant from Baltimore, Maryland

Bob Drez — a teacher from Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Bob	$1,800	$3,600	$4,200	$6,200 Finalist	$7,200 22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Gil	$-100	$1,600	$2,600	$5,100 2nd place: $5,000	$2,600 9 R, 5 W
Markee	$1,800	$1,500	$900	$1,800 3rd place: $5,000	$2,600 12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PENNSYLVANIANS	EARTHQUAKES	WINE	FILM FACTS	CRIME & PUNISHMENT	"T" TIME
$100 [13] "Little Women" was based on her own "poor but happy" family of mom, dad, 3 sisters & herself Louisa May Alcott Markee	$100 [23] About 90% of the world's seismic energy is released in a belt girdling this ocean the Pacific Ocean Bob	$100 [1] Hawaiian wine is made from grapes or this other fruit pineapple Bob	$100 [11] Appropriately, this James Bond villain's first name is Auric Goldfinger Gil Markee	$100 [18] The Library Awareness program is an effort by this bureau to flush out Soviet spies the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)	$100 [6] It commonly precedes lashing, tied & -in-cheek tongue Bob
$200 [14] In 1869 Philadelphia's John Wanamaker founded one of the 1st of these in the U.S. the department store Bob	$200 [24] Of 300, 3.000 or 11,000, the No. of quakes recorded in southern Calif. by Caltech in an average year 11,000 Bob Gil Markee	$200 [2] Wine that's soured has turned to this, from the French for "sour wine" vinegar Bob	$200 [12] Parts of "Rambo: First Blood Part III" were actually filmed in Sodom in this country Israel Bob	$200 [19] Jean Valjean was sentenced to prison for stealing a loaf of bread in this Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables Gil	$200 [7] A seesaw a teeter-totter Bob
$300 [15] An educator & writer of 19th century "Readers", he began teaching at age 13 (William) McGuffey Bob	$300 [25] In 1935 this seismologist devised a system of measuring the magnitude of earthquakes (Charles) Richter Bob	$300 [3] A Magnum holds the equivalent of this many standard bottles of wine 2 Bob	$300 [28] Paul Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty & Elaine May all wrote songs for this 1987 comedy Ishtar	$300 [20] It's what the "con" in con man stands for confidence Gil	$300 [8] An 8-letter word for a forum of justice, like the dreaded Spanish Inquisition tribunal
$400 [16] His water colors are set almost entirely in the Brandywine Valley & Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (Andrew) Wyeth Gil	$400 [26] The Jan. 1989 quake in Tadzhikistan was the 2nd major one in this country within 2 months Russia (the Soviet Union) Bob Markee	$400 [4] The name of this white German table wine means "holy mother's milk" liebfraumilch Markee	$400 [29] In "Casablanca", after Ingrid Bergman's plane takes off, he & Bogey walk into the misty night Claude Rains Markee	$400 [21] This author of "The Gift of the Magi" served over 3 years in prison for embezzlement O. Henry Bob	$400 [9] An "insignificant" sponge cake & custard dessert a trifle Markee
$500 [17] Surnames of the philanthropists who founded 2 Pittsburgh institutes which merged into 1 univ. in 1967 Carnegie (and) Mellon Bob Markee	$500 [27] It's the part of the Earth's surface directly above the origin of an earthquake the epicenter Gil	$500 [5] Young red wine whose name can be followed by "nouveau", "superior" or "villages" beaujolais Bob	—	$500 [22] In '77 this French singer was given a 30-day sentence for accidentally shooting her ski instructor/lover to death Claudine Longet Gil	DD $800 [10] In America, it's overly sweet sentiment; in England, it's molasses treacle Markee

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS PAIRS	AMERICAN HISTORY	NEWSPAPERS	EUROPEAN CITIES	SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA
$200 [1] Open your readers & see this famous pair. See their baby sister, Sally, & their dog, Spot. Dick & Jane Gil	$200 [4] Although a Rep. president, Abraham Lincoln earlier served in Congress as a member of this party a Whig Markee	$200 [14] In 1974 the Knight brothers merged their newspapers with those of this family Ridders Markee	$200 [9] The people of this Scottish city are known as Glaswegians Glasgow Bob	$200 [16] Experts are not sure who numbered the 154 of these but they're pretty sure they're in the wrong order the sonnets Bob
$400 [2] Country singers Naomi & Wynonna, who look more like sisters than the mother & daughter they are Judds	$400 [5] Because of his work on the Mo. Compromise, this Kentuckian became known as "The Great Pacificator" Henry Clay Bob	$400 [15] Adolph Ochs passed the reins of this paper to his son-in-law, who passed it to his son-in-law the New York Times Bob	$400 [10] La Scala, one of the leading opera houses in Europe, is located in this Italian city Milan Markee	$600 [18] Queen Elizabeth reportedly requested a play about Sir John Falstaff in love, & the bard wrote this The Merry Wives of Windsor Gil
$600 [3] He his partner, Siegfried, made an elephant disappear in their popular Las Vegas act Roy	$600 [6] On Dec. 2, 1859 Stonewall Jackson commanded the VMI cadets at the hanging of this abolitionist John Brown Bob	$600 [21] Title of W. A. Swanberg's 1961 biography of a publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Citizen Hearst	$600 [11] It's said Columbus announced his discovery of the New World in this largest Spanish port city Barcelona Gil	$800 [19] About the time Shakespeare was plotting King Lear, this man was arrested in a plot to kill James I Guy Fawkes Gil
DD $2,000 [24] "Virtuous" sisters heard here, singing this 1956 song, their only Top 10 hit:"I know (I know) / You belong to somebody new / But tonight you belong to me" Patience and Prudence Markee	$800 [7] The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended this war the Mexican War Bob	$800 [22] Grandson & namesake of the department store founder, he founded the Chicago Sun Marshall Field Gil Markee	$800 [12] From 1980-86 Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov was exiled to this city, off limits to foreigners Gorky Markee	$1,000 [20] The 3 plays of Henry VI are set during this conflict the War(s) of the Roses Bob Gil
—	$1,000 [8] FDR dumped this vice president from his ticket in 1944 but made him Commerce Secretary in 1945 Henry Wallace Bob	$1,000 [23] He used his paper "Negro World" to promote his "Back to Africa" movement around 1920 Marcus Garvey Bob	$1,000 [13] Nearly all the French kings were crowned in this city's cathedral Reims Gil Markee	DD $3,000 [17] This title character of a tragedy appears in 3 scenes & is killed off before the play is half over Julius Caesar Bob

Final Jeopardy!

OPERA

Based on a French novel by Henri Murger, its title refers to the carefree life artists lead

La bohème

Markee "What is "La Bohème?" — wagered $900

Gil "What is La Boheme?" — wagered $2,500

Bob "What is La Boheme?" — wagered $2,000

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