Show #1310 1990-04-20 (taped 1989-12-03) Regular

Missing introductions.All of the categories started with the letter "A".

Contestants

Fran Lau — from

George Kessler — from

Liz Barnea — a librarian from Billings, Montana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $23,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Liz $900 $2,100 $6,900 $5,000
4-day champion: $28,900
$8,300
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
George $800 $1,100 $3,500 $1,500
2nd place: Maytag washer & dryer + MyLock sewing machine from New Home Sewing Machine Co.
$3,800
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Fran $900 $2,000 $4,400 $0
3rd place: Konica ZF-80 camera with film + Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune
$4,400
14 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANIMALS APRIL AVIATION AWARDS A.K.A. ANAGRAMS
$100 [18]
The common garter species is among the most common of these found in the U.S.
snakes
George
$100 [13]
If Leonardo da Vinci were alive & living in the U.S. he'd have to have his taxes in by this, his birthday
April the 15th
George
$100 [15]
The shortest schedule flight of a Boeing 727 is 5 minutes long & runs between San Francisco & this city
Oakland
Liz
$100 [10]
In 1949 "Time for Beany" became the 1st children's show to win one of these awards
an Emmy
Fran
$100 [1]
His original name was Carl Adolf von Sydow
Max von Sydow
George
$100 [2]
Someone does it to sate his appetite
eats (from sate)
Liz
$200 [21]
For lunch they may seize a drinking animal by the snout & pull it under the water
a crocodile (an alligator)
Liz
$200 [14]
This stadium built for the Mets was opened in April 1964
Shea Stadium
Fran
$200 [16]
The nose of this supersonic airliner can be moved down to give the pilot a better view of the runway
the Concorde
Fran
$200 [11]
This organization which aids children won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965
UNICEF
Liz
$200 [3]
This buxom blonde bombshell of the 1950s was born Vera Jayne Palmer
Jayne Mansfield
Fran
$200 [5]
Train students not to cheat
teach (from cheat)
Liz
$300 [22]
All lions are cats & all sea lions are these
seals
$300 [25]
April is a bad month for ship captains; the Titanic sank in 1912 & in 1789 this ship's crew mutinied
the Bounty
Liz
$300 [20]
The main section of a plane; the Twin Mustang F-82 had 2 of them, each with a cockpit
the fuselage
Liz
$300 [17]
A nickname for actors Quayle & Quinn, or an award for which they've both been nominated
Tony
Liz
$300 [4]
Gap-toothed comedian Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens used this name professionally
Terry-Thomas
George
$300 [8]
It's certainly not a fur for the blasé
sable (from blasé)
George
$400 [23]
Bony pony of Don Quixote
Rocinante
George
DD $300 [27]
Nixon wasn't fooling April 1, 1970 when he signed a bill prohibiting this on TV
cigarette advertising
George
$400 [19]
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents these awards annually
the Golden Globes
Fran
$400 [6]
This beautiful French actress' real name is Catherine Dorléac
Catherine Deneuve
Liz
$400 [9]
It's what ice does when heated
thaw (from what)
Fran
$500 [24]
2 types of these furry creatures are the Corsac & the kit
foxes
Fran
$400 [26]
Tradition says this city was founded in April 753 B.C. by a guy who'd been raised by a wolf
Rome
George
$500 [28]
In 1971 he won a Grammy for his comedy album "The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress"
Flip Wilson
George
$500 [7]
Late British character actress Edna May Nutter
Edna May Oliver
$500 [12]
In a 1979 film, Kelly Reno raced along the shore of a deserted island on one of these
a horse (from shore)

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARTISTS ARCHAEOLOGY AMERICAN AUTHORS ANATOMY AFRICA APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES
$200 [10]
An exhibition of paintings by Wang Yani, a 14-year-old from this country, toured the U.S. in 1989
China
Fran
$200 [15]
Built by the Romans to carry water near Nimes, France, the Pont du Gard is one of these structures
an aqueduct
Liz
$200 [25]
Cooperstown, New York was founded by his family after the American Revolution
James Fenimore Cooper
George
$200 [3]
Encyclopedia Americana says there are perhaps 100 trillion of these in an adult body
cells
George
$200 [5]
Libya was one of the poorest countries in the world until the late '50s when this was found there
oil
Liz
$400 [26]
Size of The Shirelles' "John" or The Four Seasons' girls who "don't cry"
big
George
DD $300 [14]
She painted her 1st large flower, "Petunia No. 2", in 1924
Georgia O'Keeffe
Liz
$400 [16]
In the 18th century William Stukeley of England suggested that this structure was used by the Druids
Stonehenge
Liz
$400 [1]
His 2nd & lesser-known trilogy was called "District of Columbia"
John Dos Passos
$400 [21]
Common name of the tympanic membrane
the eardrum
Fran
$400 [6]
Term for the African grasslands the giraffes call home
a savanna
Liz
$600 [27]
Contrary to his class name, a boxer weighing between 123 & 126 lbs. isn't as light as one of these
a feather
Fran
$400 [11]
Jamie Wyeth's famous father
Andrew Wyeth
Fran
$600 [17]
The 3rd age of the 3 age system, technically we're still in this metallic age
the Iron Age
George
$600 [2]
His brother William was a famous American philosopher
Henry James
Fran
$600 [22]
This artery is about an inch wide & a foot & a half long
the aorta
Fran
$600 [7]
In Algeria this mountain chain consists of 2 parallel ranges, the Tell & the Sahara
the Atlas Mountains
Liz
$800 [28]
Amount "of Dust" in the title of a 1934 Evelyn Waugh novel
a handful
Liz
$600 [12]
He was involved in a stormy affair with one of his students when he sculpted "The Kiss"
(Auguste) Rodin
Fran
$800 [19]
King Nabonidus was so into archaeology, he ignored defense matters & this empire overran Babylon
the Persian Empire
$800 [4]
This man, Henry Thoreau's friend, was the landlord at Walden Pond
Emerson
Liz
$800 [23]
This muscle forms the floor of the chest cavity
the diaphragm
Liz
DD $700 [8]
In July 1989 this ANC leader gave his 1st officially sanctioned public statement since June 1964
Nelson Mandela
Liz
$800 [13]
First name shared by artists Velázquez & Rivera
Diego
Liz
$1,000 [20]
Archaeologists have recently uncovered a Roman under the Piazza Della Signoria in this Italian city
Florence
Fran
$1,000 [18]
His 1st novel, "Go Tell It On The Mountain", was based on his early childhood in Harlem
(James) Baldwin
Liz
$1,000 [24]
Also called the shinbone, it's the 2nd longest bone in your body
the tibia
George
$1,000 [9]
Producing 40% of the world's supply of this crop, the Ivory Coast's economy buckled when prices crashed
cocoa

Final Jeopardy!

ACTRESSES

She suffered a serious injury while starring in "La Tosca", a play written for her

Sarah Bernhardt

George "Who was [letter crossed out] Price??" — wagered $2,000
Fran "Who is Liz Taylor?" — wagered $4,400
Liz "Who is M Callas?" — wagered $1,900

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