Show #1587 1991-06-25 (taped 1991-03-18) Regular

Mark Born game 4.Game entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

David White — an English teacher from Upper Darby, Pennsylvania

Gary Bennett — a beverage company executive from Columbia, Maryland

Mark Born — an investment analyst from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $54,499)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $2,200 $3,200 $11,900 $13,900
4-day champion: $68,399
$11,400
27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Gary $1,100 $2,900 $4,900 $5,700
2nd place: trip on Delta to Orlando & stay at Delta Orlando Resort + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$5,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
David $-100 $600 $2,000 $4,000
3rd place: Panasonic word processor + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$2,000
9 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AUTHORS GOLDEN OLDIES LEFTOVERS INVENTIONS & DISCOVERIES MUSEUMS HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
$100 [1]
"There is no contentment on the road" says this CBS correspondent in "A Life on the Road"
Charles Kuralt
Gary
$100 [21]
His last solo No. 1 hit came in 1962 with a country song, "I Can't Stop Loving You"
Ray Charles
David
$100 [11]
In honor of Mother's Day, Nick at Nite aired the 7-day "Donna-thon", 140 episodes of this series
The Donna Reed Show
Mark
$100 [2]
These were developed from microwave amplifying devices called masers
lasers
David
$100 [16]
This New York resort village has a Farmer's Museum & the James Fenimore Cooper Home
Cooperstown
Mark
$300 [26]
A previously viewed part of a play
a seen scene
Mark
$200 [7]
"The Old Gringo" fictionalizes Ambrose Bierce's last mysterious days in this country
Mexico
Mark
$200 [22]
In January 1962, this twist song by Joey Dee and the Starliters replaced Chubby Checker's "The Twist" at No. 1
"The Peppermint Twist"
Gary
$200 [12]
The scalare, a fish popular in home aquariums, is also known by this heavenly name
the angelfish
Mark
$200 [3]
The aqualung was invented by Emile Gagnan & this man who explored the undersea world
Jacques Cousteau
Mark
$200 [17]
This city's Museum of Gems features 16 rooms filled with items owned by the Medicis
Florence
Mark
$400 [27]
The correct religious ceremony
the right rite
David
$300 [8]
"Darkness Visible" is "A Memoir of Madness" by this author of "Sophie's Choice"
William Styron
David
$300 [23]
It begins, "See the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long"
"Honey"
Gary David
$300 [13]
Harvard & MIT stand on the banks of this river
the Charles
Mark
$300 [4]
In 1930 Thomas Midgley discovered this refrigerant that has become an environmental hazard
freon
Mark Gary
$300 [18]
This Madrid museum has the art collections of the Spanish Hapsburgs & Bourbon monarchs
the Prado
Gary
$500 [28]
Apportion out T-bones & roasts
mete meat
Gary David
$400 [9]
The 3rd volume of Bruce Catton's "Army of the Potomac" trilogy was called "A Stillness at" this place
Appomattox
Gary
DD $500 [24]
She had her last U.S. No. 1 hit with thefollowing:"My love is warmer than the warmest sunshine, softer than a sigh / My love is deeper than the deepest..."
Petula Clark
Gary
$400 [14]
He named his famous mime character Dip after Pip in "Great Expectations"
Marcel Marceau
Gary
$400 [5]
Before these saddle parts were invented, foot soldiers, not knights on horses, did most of the fighting
stirrups
Gary
$400 [19]
The Denver home of this Titanic survivor is now a museum
Molly Brown
Mark
$500 [10]
This Tom Robbins' novel is dedicated in part to "all cowgirls everywhere"
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Mark Gary
$500 [25]
This futuristic Zager & Evans song was subtitled "Exordium & Terminus"
"In The Year 2525"
David
$500 [15]
This Roman emperor banished his scandalous daughter Julia to an island in 2 B.C.
Augustus
Mark David
$500 [6]
He invented the self-cleaning steel plow, the company he founded is No. 1 in the U.S. in farm equipment
John Deere
Mark
$500 [20]
A Cleveland suburb named for this religious sect has a museum devoted to their history
the Shakers
David

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN IN HISTORY PLAYWRIGHTS METALS BODIES OF WATER U.S. GOVERNORS TITLED NAMES
$200 [12]
King James V of Scotland died about one week after the birth of this daughter in 1542
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mark
$200 [26]
She wrote "Witness for the Prosecution" as well as "The Mousetrap"
Agatha Christie
Gary
$200 [6]
Electrum is a natural alloy of gold & this precious metal
silver
David
$200 [1]
Although 252 miles long, this river is only navigable near Rome
the Tiber
Mark
$200 [11]
A father & son served as governor of this state before & after Ronald Reagan
California
Gary
$200 [17]
This man, not John Wayne, endowed the Durham, North Carolina university that bears his family name
(James) Duke
Mark
$400 [13]
At age 19, this humanitarian established the Dix Mansion school for girls in Boston in 1821
Dorothea Dix
Gary
$400 [27]
First name, shared by playwrights Wycherley & Congreve, who were famous for their comedies of manner
William
Mark
$400 [7]
In 1985 the EPA ruled that compounds of this metal in gasoline be reduced by 90%
lead
Gary
$400 [2]
Crater Lake in this state is America's deepest lake
Oregon
Gary
$400 [22]
Though he didn't accept donations over $100 Lawton Chiles won his bid for governor of this state
Florida
Mark
$400 [18]
Authors Lee & Dannay used the pen name Barnaby Ross as well as this royal one
Ellery Queen
Mark
$600 [14]
In her 70s this French actress performed at the front for World War I soldiers
Sarah Bernhardt
Mark
$600 [28]
He acted in "The Count of Monte Cristo" with his father before he started writing plays
Eugene O'Neill
Mark
$600 [8]
In the United States recycling accounts for 1/4 of the production of this metal
aluminum
Gary
$600 [3]
The high tides of this bay cause the flow of Canada's St. John River to reverse
the Bay of Fundy
Mark
$600 [23]
Lowell Weicker is the 1st independent governor there since 1856
Connecticut
Mark
$600 [19]
DJ Jazzy Jeff's other half who moved to Bel-Air in a 1990 NBC series
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
David
$800 [15]
In the 1920, this dancer known for her flowing tunics, went to the USSR where she married an unstable poet
Isadora Duncan
Gary
$800 [29]
This South African playwright published his first novel "Tsotsi" in 1980
Athol Fugard
Mark
$800 [9]
When used in fireworks barium gives off a green color & sodium emits this color
yellow
Mark
$800 [4]
The Yucatan Channel separates the Yucatan Peninsula from this island country
Cuba
Mark
$800 [24]
New Alaska governor, who as Secretary of the Interior, insisted oil companies pay for their spills
Walter Hickel
David
$800 [20]
He played '60s writer Terence Mann in the movie "Field of Dreams"
James Earl Jones
Mark David
DD $1,000 [16]
A beautiful painted bust of her was found at Tell el-Amarna in 1912, many centuries after her death
Nefertiti
Gary
DD $1,500 [30]
In 1938, Eugène Ionesco left Romania & went on to settle permanently in this country
France
Mark
$1,000 [10]
Sometimes used for fine tableware, pewter consists mainly of this metal
tin
Mark Gary
$1,000 [5]
In Ireland Lower Lake & Upper Lake are better known by this collective name
the Lakes of Killarney
$1,000 [25]
George Voinovich former mayor of this Midwest's state's largest city, was elected its governor in 1990
Ohio
Gary
$1,000 [21]
English poet & satirist whose "An Essay on Criticism" made him famous at the age of 23
Alexander Pope
David

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

The name of this automaker is an abbreviation of "Japan Industries"

Nissan

David "What is Nissan?" — wagered $2,000
Gary "What is Nissan?" — wagered $800
Mark "What is Nissan?" — wagered $2,000

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