Show #1514 1991-03-14 (taped 1991-01-28) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Mike Specht — an assistant district attorney from Thiells, New York

Marc Goldberg — an anesthesiologist from Cinnaminson, New Jersey

David Epstein — a lawyer from Irvine, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $46,101)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $1,200 $3,400 $6,200 $1
2nd place
$6,200
17 R, 2 W
Marc $600 $400 $7,000 $1,599
New champion: $1,599
$8,900
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Mike $1,800 $2,900 $5,100 $0
3rd place
$5,100
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

"G" IN GEOLOGY NEWSPAPERS ANIMAL SLANG MOVIE TRIVIA POTPOURRI ARISTOTLE
$100 [26]
A loose mixture of particles larger than sand, you might it in your driveway
gravel
Marc
$100 [1]
It's the only west coast newspaper with a Sunday circulation exceeding 1 million
the Los Angeles Times
David
$100 [6]
The canine quarters a person occupies when in disgrace
the doghouse
Marc
$100 [8]
In his film "Do The Right Thing" he played Mookie, the delivery boy
Spike Lee
Marc
$100 [21]
To eliminate the good as well as the bad is called throwing out the baby with this
the bathwater
Marc
$100 [16]
According to Britannica, Aristotle said the perfect age for this was 37 for men, 18 for women
marriage
David
$200 [27]
This form of carbon used in pencils is also called plumbago, or black lead
graphite
David
$200 [2]
This city's Arkansas Gazette is the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi
Little Rock
David
$200 [7]
Another word for bunk or baloney, from the name for the slop fed to pigs
hogwash
Mike
$200 [12]
She played the psychic through whom ghost Patrick Swayze talked to Demi Moore
Whoopi Goldberg
Mike
$200 [22]
Hey, Charlie! This company was the first to announce that it would sell dolphin-safe tuna
Starkist
Mike
$200 [17]
After tutoring the soon to be great Alexander, Aristotle returned to this city & founded the Lyceum
Athens
Mike
$300 [28]
Africa's Olduvai, where fossils of early man were found, is one of these deep, narrow valleys
a gorge
Marc
$300 [3]
Until 1976 this Chicago paper called itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper"
the Chicago Tribune
David
$300 [9]
An equine way to say your information comes from the original source
from the horse's mouth
Marc
$300 [13]
This 1957 film is the only one Red Buttons & Marlon Brando made together
Sayonara
David Marc
$300 [23]
It's a sign of the Zodiac as well as the name of 13 popes
Leo
Mike
$300 [18]
He joined this man's Academy as a student & went on to teach there
Plato
Marc
$400 [29]
The Waimangu, one of these in New Zealand, killed at least 2 people when it erupted in 1917
a geyser
David
$400 [4]
Begun in 1919 this New York City newspaper was the first tabloid picture paper in the U.S.
the Daily News
Marc
$400 [10]
If you are a sitting one of these, you could become a dead one
a duck
David
$400 [14]
This star of "M" didn't know how to whistle, so director Fritz Lang did it for him
Peter Lorre
Mike
$400 [24]
Leeza of Entertainment Tonight or a bunch of lesser apes
Gibbons
Mike
DD $500 [19]
Title of thefollowingfamous painting
"Aristotle Contemplating The Bust of Homer"
Marc
$500 [30]
This mineral is used in making plaster of Paris & Portland cement
gypsum
David
$500 [5]
Columnist George Will writes for Newsweek & this newspaper that owns it
the Washington Post
David
$500 [11]
Bart Simpson has steered the kids of the country to this way of saying, "Cool it!"
"Don't have a cow, man!"
Mike
$500 [15]
Her filmography includes "Joyride", "Something Wild", "Working Girl" & "Cherry 2000"
Melanie Griffith
Mike
$500 [25]
A play by Chekhov, or a trio of mountain peaks in Oregon
Three Sisters
David
$500 [20]
Aristotle's term for this was "Analytica", meaning to unravel
logic
David Marc

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE HUMAN BODY SHAKESPEARE THE CIVIL WAR QUOTES WORLD GEOGRAPHY SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE
$200 [18]
The name of this small bone at the base of the spine comes from Greek for cuckoo
the coccyx
Marc
$200 [6]
Mark Antony called her Egypt
Cleopatra
Marc
$200 [11]
In 1973 this ship that fought the Merrimack was located on the ocean floor off Cape Hatteras
the Monitor
Marc
$200 [1]
Blaise Pascal said this organ "has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of"
the heart
Marc
$200 [13]
Ciudad Juarez is this country's largest border city
Mexico
Marc
$200 [24]
This current Speaker is the only representative from Washington state to hold the post
(Thomas) Foley
David
$400 [19]
Both men & women have a thyroid cartilage better known by this Biblical name
the Adam's apple
Marc
$400 [7]
Ophelia says of him, "O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown"
Hamlet
Marc
$400 [12]
Just 6 days before Lincoln's death, Robert E. Lee surrendered at this Virginia site
Appomattox Court House
Marc
$400 [2]
Oscar Wilde said George Bernard Shaw "has no enemies, but is disliked by" these people
his friends
Marc
$400 [14]
Much of the world's crab catch is made in the waters off this country's Kamchatka peninsula
the Soviet Union
David
$400 [25]
This Texas Democrat served as Speaker of the House for a record 17 years
Sam Rayburn
Marc
$600 [20]
Peristalsis is the process that moves food along this tube that leads to the stomach
the esophagus
Marc
$800 [9]
In Act V of this play, Ferdinand & Miranda play chess
The Tempest
Mike
$600 [23]
On September 2, 1864 he sent a wire to President Lincoln stating "Atlanta is ours, & fairly won"
Sherman
David
$600 [3]
Great German poet & dramatist who called architecture "frozen music"
Goethe
Marc Mike
$600 [15]
Found in the 9th century when Charlemagne built a fortress on the site, its Germany's chief port
Hamburg
David
$600 [26]
1 of 3 Speakers of the past 50 years who represented Massachusetts
(1 of) Tip O'Neill, John McCormack & Joe Martin, Jr.
Marc
$800 [21]
Sickle cell anemia affects the shape of these cells
the red blood cells
Marc
$1,000 [10]
"None shall have access unto" her "till Katherine the curst have got a husband"
Bianca
Mike
$800 [27]
A Confederate attack at a Tennessee church meeting house culminated in this bloody battle of 1862
Battle of Shiloh
Marc
DD $1,000 [4]
Voltaire said this "is nothing more than a tableau of crimes & misfortunes"
history
Marc
$800 [16]
This region of Spain whose name is from the Arabic for "dry land" is dotted with windmills
La Mancha
$800 [29]
This Kentuckian was speaker on 3 different occasions in the early 1800s
(Henry) Clay
Marc
$1,000 [22]
Gigantism stems from excessive production of growth hormone by this gland
the pituitary
Mike
DD $1,600 [8]
In "A Midsummer Night's Dream" she says, "Methought I was enamored of an ass"
Titania
Marc
$1,000 [28]
5 days after taking command of the Army of the Potomac, he won the Battle of Gettysburg
(George) Meade
David Mike
$1,000 [5]
He said of the man who hears a different drummer, "Let him step to the music which he hears"
Thoreau
Mike
$1,000 [17]
1 of 2 nations that share the part of the Malay Peninsula north of Malaysia
Thailand or Burma/Myanmar
David
$1,000 [30]
Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, the first Speaker of the House, was a member of this party
the Federalist Party
David

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE

A line in Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" provided the title of this F. Scott Fitzgerald work

Tender is the Night

Mike "What is A Thing of Beauty?" — wagered $5,100
David "What is" — wagered $6,199
Marc "What is The Great Gatsby?" — wagered $5,401

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