Show #1588 1991-06-26 (taped 1991-03-18) Regular

Mark Born game 5.Game entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

Beverly Mailey — a biologist from Lansdale, Pennsylvania

Mike Savin — an insurance examiner originally from New York City, New York

Mark Born — an investment analyst from Los Angeles, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $68,399)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mark	$-400	$4,100	$12,800	$14,500 5-day champion: $82,899	$11,100 28 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Mike	$1,000	$1,200	$2,600	$5,200 3rd place: Konica Z-UP 80RC camera & Nintendo Entertainment System with Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy! & Fisher Price preschool + Wheel of Fortune for Game Boy	$2,600 10 R, 3 W
Beverly	$1,300	$1,900	$5,500	$5,201 2nd place: Whirlpool refrigerator + Sanyo coffee maker	$6,000 17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

STARTS WITH "O"	FICTIONAL CHARACTERS	WORLD WAR I	SONGS OF THE '80s	BOTANY	FAMOUS NAMES
$100 [26] The adjective Oxonian doesn't refer to oxen but to this town or its university Oxford Beverly	$100 [21] This "Arabian Nights" sailor encounters a cyclops on his third voyage Sinbad Mark	$100 [1] In addition to Archduke Ferdinand, the other person assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914 his wife Mark	$100 [3] She was the Dionne of Dionne & Friends who recorded "That's What Friends Are For" Dionne Warwick Mike	$100 [8] Grown for its edible root celeriac is a variety of this vegetable celery Mike	$100 [16] The year Lincoln was shot, this author published "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll Mark Mike
$200 [27] "The Moor's Pavane" is a ballet of love, betrayal & death, based on this play Othello Beverly	$200 [22] In a Hugo novel Parisians choose this character to be the King of Fools in the Epiphany celebration Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame) Mark	$200 [2] After 47 years of German rule, these 2 provinces were returned to France at war's end Alsace & Lorraine Beverly	$200 [4] Written by Jan Hammer the them of this TV cop show hit No. 1 in 1985 Miami Vice Beverly	$200 [9] Like the fields it's grown in, the dry, fresh grain of this plant is called paddy rice Beverly	$200 [17] While da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, this man was on his 4th & last voyage to the New World Columbus Mark
$300 [28] State, whose official state poem is "Howdy Folks" Oklahoma Beverly	$300 [23] The title character of Burnett's 1886 book who became a byword for any overdressed, pampered boy Little Lord Fauntleroy Mark	$300 [13] After the war this Medal of Honor winner settled on a Tennessee farm given to him by the state Alvin York Mark	$300 [5] You might as well face it, in 1986 Robert Palmer was "Addicted To" this Love Beverly	$300 [10] This substance is made from the milky juice of the Castilla elastica plant rubber Mike	$300 [18] In 1789 the Marquis de Sade was stuck in an insane asylum & this captain was stuck in a boat & set adrift Captain Bligh Mark Mike
$400 [29] Augustus Caesar's sister, her name is similar to his other name Octavia Mark	$400 [24] The title year during which Mr. Charrington works as a member of the Thought Police catching rebels 1984 Mike	$400 [14] 252 ships fought a 1916 naval battle off this Danish peninsula, making it the largest in modern times Jutland Mark	DD $500 [6] Singer who topped the pop charts with thefollowing:"Her hair is Harlow gold / Her lips a sweet surprise / Her hands are never cold / She's got Bette Davis eyes / She'll turn her music on you..." Kim Carnes Beverly	$400 [11] Nodules on the roots of beans fix this element from the atmosphere nitrogen Beverly	$400 [19] The only one of the Three Bs of classical music who was composing while Mark Twain was writing Brahms Mark
$500 [30] Albania was part of this empire for over 400 years, until 1912 the Ottoman Empire Mark	$500 [25] He is kidnapped not only in "Kidnapped", but in its sequel also David Balfour Mark	$500 [15] This British prime minister signed the Treaty of Versailles for his country David Lloyd George Mark	$500 [7] You would have found "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" on this band's album "The Joshua Tree" U2 Beverly	$500 [12] The benjamina species of this genus is the one most commonly grown as a house plant Ficus Mark Mike	$500 [20] Both born in 1564, one saw the phases of Venus, the other wrote the poem "Venus and Adonis" Galileo & Shakespeare Mark

Double Jeopardy! Round

RULERS	LITERARY TERMS	MEDICAL MATTERS	GEOGRAPHY	RELIGION	ANTONYMS
$200 [6] He lived from 1638 to 1715 & was King of France for all but five of those years Louis XIV Mark	$200 [11] From the Latin for "to speak alone", a monologue in which a character like Hamlet sorts out his thoughts a soliloquy Mike	$200 [13] This form of pneumonia got is name when 29 members of the American Legion died in 1976 Legionnaires disease Beverly	$200 [1] Chinese engineers have proposed a 550-foot-high, 1.5-mile-wide dam on this river, the country's longest the Yangtze Mike	$200 [21] From the Greek for "messenger", they frequently act as messengers in the Bible angels Mark Mike	$200 [26] Speaking of manners or oil, it's the opposite of refined crude Beverly
$400 [7] Nicknamed "Canmore" or "Big Head", Malcolm defeated & killed this ruler at Lumphanan, Scotland in 1057 Macbeth Mark Beverly	$400 [12] Epistolary novels consist of these missives letters Beverly	$400 [14] Drugs used to treat allergies are anti this chemical, released by the body during allergic reactions histamines Beverly	$400 [2] While the Scottish pronounce it like the British "borough", they spell it like this B-U-R-G-H Mark	$400 [22] According to the law of Moses the Jews were not to light fires or cook on this day, meaning rested the Sabbath Mark	$400 [27] Pronounced one way it's an antonym of take, pronounced another way it's an antonym of absent present Mike Beverly
$600 [8] Having killed the son he named his successor, he left Russia to the feeble-minded Feodor Ivan the Terrible Mike	$600 [18] An accidental reversal of sounds like "poured with rain" for "roared with pain" a spoonerism Mark	$600 [15] This is defined as a drop in body temperature below 95 degrees Fahrenheit hypothermia Mark	$600 [3] The Snowy Mountains contain the highest peak on this continent Australia Mark	$600 [23] On Maundy Thursday it is customary for the pope to do this to 12 paupers, as Christ did it to his disciples wash their feet Mark	$600 [28] Drop one letter from feast and you have this antonym fast Mark
$800 [9] This former Olympic gold medalist fled Greece in 1967 Constantine (II) Mark	$800 [19] Surprise endings are also called this kind of ending for the short story writer famous for them O. Henrys Beverly	$1,000 [17] The sudoriparous glands produce this sweat Mark	$800 [4] Founded by Chinese miners in 1857, it's Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur Beverly	$800 [24] If you repeat your mantra as the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi suggests, you're practicing this discipline meditation Beverly	$800 [29] President whose last name is an antonym of deny Grant
DD $2,000 [10] 2 of the 3 countries over which Canute the Great reigned (2 of) Denmark, England (or Norway) Mark	$1,000 [20] The Latin word for "swaddling clothes", it refers to books printed before 1501 incunabula Mark	DD $1,500 [16] In radial keratotomy the cornea is incised to correct this vision defect nearsightedness Mark	$1,000 [5] Though over 340,000 square miles, Mato Grosso is only the 3rd largest state in this country Brazil Mike	$1,000 [25] They were called Russellites, after their founder, before this name was chosen by convention in 1931 Jehovah's Witnesses Mark	$1,000 [30] P.T. Barnum used this antonym of entrance to trick people into exiting his museum egress

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. GOVERNMENT

Of all the independent agencies of the U.S. government, this one has the most employees

the Postal Service (the Post Office)

Mike "What is the Postal Service?" — wagered $2,600

Beverly "What is the Department of Defense?" — wagered $299

Mark "What is the Postal Service?" — wagered $1,700

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