Show #1407 1990-10-16 (taped 1990-08-27) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Chris Cannole — an engineer from San Diego, California

Joe Laboda — a teacher from Hudson Falls, New York

Dan Poneman — a lawyer from Alexandria, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $-800 $500 $5,600 $9,801
2nd place
$4,300
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Joe $1,200 $4,700 $10,000 $11,200
New champion: $11,200
$10,800
27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $600 $1,900 $4,900 $400
3rd place
$4,900
18 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

RELIGION HISTORICAL TRIVIA COMPUTERS MUSEUMS 5-LETTER RIVERS COMPLETES THE MOVIE TITLE
$100 [2]
He not only told Mary "The Lord is with thee", but as Jibril, gave the Koran to Mohammed
the angel Gabriel
Joe
$100 [9]
In 1913 Henry Ford installed the first moving one in his Highland Park plant
an assembly line
Chris
$100 [14]
Like the 1929 stock market, when a computer system is down, it is said to have done this
crash
Joe
$100 [1]
The Motown Museum in this city is located on the site of Motown's original studios & offices
Detroit
Chris
$100 [5]
This North American river shares its name with a Canadian territory
the Yukon
Joe
$100 [21]
"Down and Out..."
...In Beverly Hills
Joe
$200 [8]
A mezuzah is a box containing Scriptural passages attached to a door post in this religion
Judaism
Chris
$200 [10]
In 1776 David Bushnell came up with a submarine he named for this reptile
a turtle
Chris
$200 [27]
It's short for "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"
BASIC
Joe
$200 [3]
There's a Ukranian arts & crafts museum in Saskatoon in this Canadian province
Saskatchewan
Chris
$200 [17]
The site of the first permanent British colony in the U.S. is on this Virginia river
the James River
Chris
$200 [22]
"Dog Day..."
...Afternoon
Joe
$300 [13]
This book, whose name means "second law", is the 5th book of the Bible
Deuteronomy
Chris
$300 [11]
In June 1778 he was made head of the new Secret Service 16 years before his famous duel
Aaron Burr
Dan Joe
$300 [28]
Switches, vacuum tubs, or transistors, once did the job of these tiny wafers of silicon
computer chips
Joe
$300 [4]
A museum in Louisville is devoted to the success story of this colonel who was famous for his legs
Colonel Sanders
Chris
$300 [18]
This river rises near Yellowstone, skirts the Grand Tetons, and flows south to Idaho and Hells Canyon
the Snake
Joe
$300 [23]
"Kind Hearts and..."
...Coronets
Dan
$400 [15]
Meaning "deeds", it's the Hindu idea that the quality of this life depends on one's actions in previous lives
karma
Chris
DD $300 [12]
Harding invited this vice president to attend Cabinet meetings, which was good, since he later had to conduct his own
Calvin Coolidge
Joe
$400 [29]
RAM & ROM are 2 examples of this computer capacity
memory
Joe
$400 [6]
If you want to see Rembrandt's "Night Watch", head for this Amsterdam museum
the Rijksmuseum
Joe
$400 [19]
This river is called Rio Tejo in Portugal & Rio Tajo in Spain where it rises
the Tagus
Chris
$400 [24]
"Jim Thorpe..."
...All-American
Joe
$500 [16]
Pope John XXIII was the first to send one of these papal letters to all men of good will, not just Catholics
an encyclical
Joe
$500 [26]
On August 6, 1926 Gertrude Ederle of New York spent 14 hours, 31 minutes doing this
swimming the English Channel
Dan
$500 [30]
In 1951 it became the 1st mass produced electronic computer
UNIVAC
Joe
$500 [7]
The section of Madame Tussaud's that displays wax effigies of murderers is known as this
the Chamber of Horrors
Dan Chris
$500 [20]
1 of the 2 5-letter names of the African river that's the 5th-longest in the world
the Congo (or the Zaire)
Dan
$500 [25]
"Heaven Knows..."
...Mr. Allison
Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. CITIES MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES COMPOSERS THE HUMAN BODY WOMEN AUTHORS WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
$200 [4]
A city in Washington shares this name with an island & much larger city in British Columbia
Vancouver
Chris
$200 [10]
To mount this winged horse means to do creative or inspired work
Pegasus
Joe
$200 [1]
The lyrics to many of his songs were written by his brother Ira
George Gershwin
Dan
$200 [18]
The central nervous system is comprised of the spinal cord & this organ
the brain
Chris
$200 [3]
In addition to writing novels, she also translated the Chinese classic "Shui Hu Zhuan"
Pearl Buck
Chris
$200 [23]
Bryan died 6 days after being cross-examined by Clarence Darrow in the Monkey Trial of this man
(John T.) Scopes
Chris
$400 [5]
This largest New Jersey city is the 3rd-oldest major city in the United States
Newark
Dan
$400 [11]
Appropriately, this word that means warlike comes from the name of the Roman god of war
martial
Joe
$400 [2]
His 2nd wife, opera singer Giuseppina Strepponi, has been compared to the fallen woman in his "La Traviata"
Giuseppe Verdi
Joe
$400 [19]
The body's thickest skin is found on the back & on this part of the foot
the sole (the heel)
Dan
$400 [7]
In 1934 P.L. Travers began a series of books about this magical nanny
Mary Poppins
Dan
$400 [24]
His most famous speech concluded, "you shall not crucify mankind upon" this
a cross of gold
Joe
$600 [14]
This Pennsylvania city got its name from a Christmas carol
Bethlehem
Joe
$600 [12]
The name of this young man beloved by Aphrodite has become a synonym for a handsome youth
Adonis
Joe Chris
$600 [6]
Conductor Hans von Bulow, who coined the term "The 3 Bs" was a contemporary of this "B"
Brahms
Dan Joe
$600 [20]
It's the small sac from which a hair grows
a follicle
Joe
$600 [26]
Romance novelist who tackled Vietnam in her 25th bestseller "Message From Nam"
Danielle Steel
Joe
$600 [25]
The number of times he was Democratic candidate for President
3
Joe
$800 [16]
This largest Wyoming city could have been called Collins but they used the soldier's first name
Casper
Dan Chris
$800 [13]
This adjective describes extremely difficult tasks such as cleaning the Augean stables
Herculean
Chris
$800 [8]
Liszt once called this "Carnival of the Animals" composer the finest organist in the world
Camille Saint-Saëns
$800 [21]
It's the artery which carries blood from the heart to the lungs
the pulmonary artery
Dan
DD $700 [27]
This author of "Second Chances" shares her name with a Booth Tarkington novel
Alice Adams
Joe
$800 [29]
He was known as "The Great Commoner" & "The Boy Orator of" this Nebraska river
the Platte
Chris
$1,000 [17]
State capital popularly known as "Insurance City"
Hartford (Connecticut)
Chris
$1,000 [15]
Derived from the name of a wine god, this adjective means "frenzied" or "wildly uninhibited"
Dionysian
Chris
$1,000 [9]
This German Romantic composer wrote many famous piano pieces for his wife Clara
Robert Schumann
Dan
DD $2,300 [22]
Most of the body's cholesterol is produced by the cells of this organ
the liver
Dan
$1,000 [28]
"Weep No More, My Lady" & "While My Pretty One Sleeps" are among her bestsellers
Mary Higgins Clark
Joe
$1,000 [30]
Woodrow Wilson appointed him to this post, the highest he achieved
Secretary of State
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIE ACTRESSES

She was usually cast in exotic Asian roles before her huge success playing a detective's wife in 1934

Myrna Loy

Chris "Who was Ida Lupino?" — wagered $4,500
Dan "Who was Myrna Loy?" — wagered $4,201
Joe "Who is Myrna Loy?" — wagered $1,200

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