Show #1517 1991-03-19 (taped 1991-01-29) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Dan Carey — a software engineer originally from Morristown, Tennessee

Sharon Brown — a strategic planner originally from Fremont, Nebraska

Marc Goldberg — an anesthesiologist from Cinnaminson, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $8,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marc $1,300 $2,400 $5,200 $7,801
4-day champion: $16,301
$5,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Sharon $400 $1,500 $3,900 $6,501
2nd place
$4,400
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Dan $1,000 $700 $-500 $-500
3rd place
$-500
8 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

1948 MEDALS & DECORATIONS SINGERS WEATHER U.S. CITIES PRINCESS DI
$100 [2]
The U.S. & Guatemala were the 1st countries to recognize this Mideast state, proclaimed May 14
Israel
Marc
$100 [22]
Since 1954 this ruling prince has granted the Order of Grimaldi
the Prince of Monaco (Prince Rainier)
Sharon
$100 [18]
On October 17, 1990, mother Naomi announced she was leaving their act for health reasons
the Judds
Dan
$100 [11]
It completes Charles Dudley Warner's words, "Everybody talks about the weather..."
"but nobody does anything about it"
Dan
$100 [6]
You can visit the house where George Herman Ruth was a babe in this Maryland city
Baltimore
Marc
$100 [1]
Diana's eyes are this color & you could say her blood is that color too
blue
Sharon
$200 [4]
This man, Japan's premier when Pearl Harbor was bombed, was sentenced to death in Tokyo
Tojo
Sharon Dan
$200 [27]
In 1912 Norway issued a South Pole medal for members of this explorer's expedition
Amundsen
Sharon
$300 [24]
Lee Hazelwood wrote 10 of the songs on "Boots", an album of her all-time hits
Nancy Sinatra
Sharon
$200 [12]
From "mausim", season, it's the wind system around the Indian Ocean that brings weather changes
monsoon
Sharon
$200 [7]
Greensboro in this state was a temporary Confederate capital in 1865
North Carolina
Marc Sharon
$200 [3]
In the fall of 1990, this magazine devoted an entire issue to "The Decade of Diana"
People Magazine
Dan
$300 [5]
Citation won this race on June 12 to become the 8th Triple Crown winner
the Belmont Stakes
Sharon Dan
$300 [28]
In 1932 the U.S. War Department revived this decoration first established by George Washington
the Purple Heart
$400 [25]
In 1990 at age 63, this diva gave her farewell performance in her hometown, Sydney, Australia
Dame Joan Sutherland
Dan
$300 [15]
A tubular ribbon of high-speed winds 20,000 to 40,000 feet up
the jet stream
Marc Dan
$300 [19]
In 1990, Jane Byrne announced she'd make a 4th run for mayor of this city; she won once in 1979
Chicago
Marc
$300 [8]
The press used to refer to the coy princess by this 2-syllable rhyming nickname
"Shy Di"
Marc
$400 [13]
This author's widow, born Zelda Sayre, was killed in a mental hospital fire
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marc
$400 [29]
In Russia, those who receive the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal are also awarded this Order
the Order of Lenin
Marc
DD $500 [23]
Discovered by Burt Bacharach, this singer had her first hit with thefollowing:"Don't make me over / Now that I'd do anything for you / Don't make me over / Now that you know how I adore you"
Dionne Warwick
Sharon
$400 [16]
The Grand Banks & London are said to have typical varieties of this weather phenomenon
fog
Dan
$400 [20]
New Mexico's largest city was named for a viceroy of New Spain, the Duke of this
Albuquerque
Marc
$400 [9]
How time flies; this first-born child of Diana's turned 8 on June 21, 1990
Prince William
Sharon
$500 [14]
Over 1 million people watched his cremation on the bank of the Jumna River on January 31
(Mohandas) Gandhi
Marc
$500 [26]
k.d. lang calls herself the reincarnation of this late, great country singer
Patsy Cline
Sharon
$500 [17]
Latin for "curl of hair", these wispy clouds can be blown into strands called mare's tails
cirrus
Marc Sharon
$500 [21]
George Eastman House in this city has a collection of over 400,000 photographs
Rochester, New York
Marc
$500 [10]
At the time of her engagement, Diana was employed as one of these
a kindergarten teacher
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE EARTH LITERATURE HERBS & SPICES PRESIDENTS SHOE BUSINESS PARKS
$200 [1]
The most recent one of these ages occurred during the Pleistocene Epoch, brrr!
an ice age
Marc
$200 [10]
Kindly Mr. Earnshaw owns this storm-beaten house on the moors in an Emily Bronte novel
Wuthering Heights
$200 [12]
Chamomile, an herb with dark green foliage, is rarely used except in making this beverage
tea
Marc
$200 [2]
He was first elected to Congress in 1946 from Massachusetts' 11th district
JFK
Marc
$200 [4]
Schoolgirls rather than cowgirls wear these casual shoes with a contrasting band of color
saddle shoes
Dan
$600 [28]
A Louisiana park is named for this pirate who aided Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafitte
Sharon
$400 [5]
Part of this major continent is called Minor
Asia
Sharon
$400 [11]
In "Les Miserables", he is also known as Father Madeleine
Jean Valjean
$400 [15]
The Greek word for fennel, a thin plant, or a 26-mile race run by thin people
a marathon
Marc
$400 [3]
He's the only President buried in Illinois
Abe Lincoln
Sharon
$400 [6]
A backless bikini by Rudi Gernreich & a toe-splitting sandal share this name
a thong
Sharon
$800 [27]
In this state's Crater of Diamonds Park, visitors may keep any diamonds they find
Arkansas
Marc
$600 [20]
The first marine life, the blue-green variety of this, appeared over a billion years ago
algae
Marc Dan
$600 [23]
Robert Jordan falls in love with Maria, a Spanish loyalist, in this Hemingway novel
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Marc
$600 [17]
A wise cook can tell you it's considered the most widely-used herb in the United States
sage
$800 [14]
This President & his wife Hannah were both born in Kinderhook, New York
(Martin) Van Buren
Sharon Dan
$600 [7]
Kids in the 1950s imitated idol Pat Boone by wearing these trademark shoes
white buck shoes
Sharon
$1,000 [26]
A park in this Alaskan city commemorates the Tlingit Indians' 1804 stand against Russian settlers
Sitka
Marc Sharon Dan
$800 [21]
In most of the Old World, it followed the Bronze Age, not the Wash & Dry Age
the Iron Age
$1,000 [25]
Antoine Roquentin learns life has no meaning in "Nausea", this existentialist's 1st novel
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
Marc
$800 [18]
Called the herbe royale, it rivals oregano as a pizza & spaghetti seasoning
basil
Sharon
$1,000 [16]
In 1868 he said, "I never aspired to but one office in my life. I should like to be mayor of Galena"
(Ulysses) Grant
Marc
$800 [8]
This brand of comfortable shoe sold for old 60 years is the top women's seller in the U.S.
the Naturalizer shoes
$1,000 [22]
From the Greek for "ancient animals", it's the longest & first era from which we have many fossils
the paleozoic
Dan
DD $1,600 [24]
In the chivalric romance "Orlando Furioso", Orlando is this king's nephew
Charlemagne
Marc
$1,000 [19]
In Matthew 23, Jesus mentions mint & anise & this spice, an ingredient in chili & curry powder
cumin
DD $2,000 [13]
His 1909 Abilene, Kansas high school yearbook said his brother Edgar would be President
Eisenhower
Marc
$1,000 [9]
The inflationary inflatable shoe that Reebok first put on the market for $170
the air Pump
Sharon

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

The bloodiest engagement of the war, it was fought a year before we declared independence

the Battle of Bunker Hill (also the Battle of Breed's Hill)

Sharon "What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?" — wagered $2,601
Marc "What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?" — wagered $2,601

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