Show #1404 1990-10-11 (taped 1990-08-21) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Carol Kirk — an attorney originally from New York

Nick Coe — a chef from Pasadena, California

Lorraine Hirsch — a lawyer from San Jose, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lorraine $1,000 $1,400 $3,700 $6,200
2nd place
$5,200
18 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Nick $1,300 $3,100 $2,700 $5,300
3rd place
$4,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Carol $1,400 $2,700 $4,300 $7,401
New champion: $7,401
$4,300
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES ALL NUMBERS ADS & COMMERCIALS REPTILES GOLF BY "GEORGE"
$100 [22]
The Gerald Ford Presidential Library is located in Ann Arbor in this state
Michigan
Lorraine
$100 [9]
It precedes D, Rs & ring circus
3
Carol
$100 [16]
His son, Tony, Jr., promoted Kellogg's Frosted Rice cereal
Tony the Tiger
Lorraine
$100 [1]
Terrapin is the common name for certain freshwater varieties of this shelled reptile
a turtle
Lorraine
$100 [21]
To alert other golfers that a ball has been hit in their direction, shout this traditional warning
Fore!
Carol
$100 [3]
"My Fair Lady" is based on his play "Pygmalion"
George Bernard Shaw
Lorraine
$200 [23]
Huey Long & his brother Earl were 2 of the most powerful politicians in this state's history
Louisiana
Carol
$200 [10]
Number of reindeer mentioned by name in "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
8
Lorraine
$200 [17]
A picture of a coffee cup with 1 drop falling out of it is on containers of this coffee
Maxwell House
Lorraine
$200 [2]
It's the only U.S. state where alligators & crocodiles are found together naturally
Florida
Carol
$200 [27]
His legion of fans is known as "Arnie's Army"
Arnold Palmer
Carol
$200 [4]
He wrote of his grand old life in "20 Years on Broadway & the Years It Took to Get There"
George (M.) Cohan
Lorraine Nick Carol
$300 [24]
Due to its great running facilities, Eugene in this state is a favorite training site for athletes
Oregon
Nick
$300 [11]
If your chronological age & your mental age are the same, this is your IQ
100
Carol
$300 [18]
In ads for Post Bran Flakes, she says, "Two-thirds more fibre keeps the brass in this Horne"
Lena Horne
Nick
$300 [6]
While a nocturnal reptile is active at night, this type is active during the day
diurnal
Nick
$300 [28]
In 1990 this South African beat Jack Nicklaus & Lee Trevino to win the PGA Senior Championship
Gary Player
Nick
$300 [5]
This political columnist recently wrote a #1 bestseller on baseball called "Men at Work"
George Will
Lorraine
$500 [26]
William Henry Harrison won the Battle of Tippecanoe near Lafayette in what is now this state
Indiana
Lorraine
$400 [12]
A pinochle deck has this many fewer cards than a regular deck
4
$400 [19]
Madge the wisecracking manicurist soaks her clients' hands in this
Palmolive liquid
Carol
$400 [14]
Named for an Arizona river, it's 1 of just 2 types of poisonous lizards in the world
Gila (monster)
Nick
$400 [29]
The New Course at the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of this city opened in 1895
St. Andrews
Carol
$400 [7]
In "A Winter on Majorca" she describes her stay on the island with her lover Chopin
George Sand
Nick
DD $900 [25]
Country music's Alabama is from that state, while the Oak Ridge Boys began as a group in this state
Tennessee
Nick
$500 [13]
Throw all strikes in bowling and you'll get a 300; alternate strikes & spares and you'll get this score
200
Lorraine
$500 [20]
In Clairol ads, the answer to this famous question was "Only her hairdresser knows for sure"
Does she or doesn't she?
Lorraine
$500 [15]
Native to the South American tropics, it's the world's heaviest snake
anaconda
Carol
$500 [30]
After he won the U.S. Open in 1988, it wasn't odd that he won again in 1989
Curtis Strange
$500 [8]
"Adam Bede" was the first full-length novel Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pen name
George Eliot
Carol

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MIDDLE AGES SCIENCE WORLD GEOGRAPHY LIBRARIES QUOTES YES, NEBUCHADNEZZAR
$200 [13]
In 1084 Gregory VII, who held this office, was deposed by Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV
the pope
Nick
$200 [1]
Neoprene is considered an artificial form of this
rubber
Lorraine
$200 [3]
This Colombian capital was named for a Chibcha Indian town called Bacata
Bogota
Lorraine
$200 [23]
To locate a book in the card catalog, look it up under the subject, the title, or this
the author
Lorraine Nick
$200 [11]
William Cowper wrote, "it's the very spice of life that gives it all its flavor"
variety
Carol
$200 [19]
Carchemish, conquered by Nebuchadnezzar in 605 BC, was dug up in the 20th century by this man "of Arabia"
Lawrence
Nick
$400 [17]
A dance hysteria of the Middle Ages gave this alternate name to the disease chorea
St. Vitus' dance
Lorraine
$400 [2]
At the summer one, the noon sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer
the solstice
Nick
$400 [7]
Norway is noted for these long, narrow inlets of the sea
fjords
Nick
$400 [24]
In 1989, Linda Crismond became the first woman named Executive Director of the ALA, which is this
the American Library Association
Lorraine
$400 [12]
Shelley called them "the unacknowledged legislators of the world", and he should know, he was one
poets
Carol
$400 [20]
As reported in the Bible, Nebuchadnezzar had Nebuzaradan destroy this city & its temple
Jerusalem
$600 [18]
After Llewellyn, a chieftain who had held this title, died, England's Edward I gave it to his son
Prince of Wales
Lorraine Nick
$600 [4]
Edison spent over a year searching for the right material for this part of his light bulb
the filament
Lorraine
$600 [8]
This river forms an irregular boundary between Maryland & Virginia
the Potomac
$600 [26]
Italian-born librarian Sir Anthony Panizzi designed the famous reading room at this London museum
the British Museum
Nick
$600 [14]
According to the psalm, "thy word is a lamp unto" these, "and a light unto my path"
feet
Lorraine
$600 [21]
The Bible says anyone who didn't worship the king's idol was to be thrown into a fiery one of these
a furnace
Lorraine
$1,000 [6]
A monkey is a type of animal and a monkey puzzle is a type of this
plant (or tree)
Nick
$1,000 [10]
This Ontario city, 35 miles southwest of Toronto, is the center of Canada's steel industry
Hamilton
Nick
$1,000 [25]
There's a John Steinbeck Library in this city, his birthplace
Salinas, California
Nick
$800 [15]
In his diary, Samuel Pepys referred to this actress as "pretty witty Nell"
Nell Gwyn
Lorraine
$800 [22]
In Daniel 2, the image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream had a head of gold & feet of these
clay
Lorraine
DD $1,500 [5]
The 2 planets in our Solar System that have only 1 known moon
Earth & Pluto
Lorraine
DD $2,000 [9]
To climb Mt. Fuji you have to be on this island
Honshu
Nick
$1,000 [16]
She supposedly said, "Shoot if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag"
Barbara Fritchie
Carol

Final Jeopardy!

LANDMARKS

The tallest structure built for the Universal Exposition of 1889

Eiffel Tower

Nick "What is the Eiffel Tower?" — wagered $2,600
Lorraine "What is the Eiffel Tower?" — wagered $2,500
Carol "What was the Eiffel Tower?" — wagered $3,101

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