Show #1613 1991-09-11 (taped 1991-08-06) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Scott Zielan — a real estate appraiser from Los Angeles, California

Alice MacNamara — an office administrator from New Rochelle, New York

Pat Yergler — a writer from Los Angeles, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pat $800 $2,600 $5,800 $0
3rd place
$7,000
21 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Alice $1,400 $1,700 $1,100 $2,200
2nd place
$1,100
9 R, 3 W
Scott $-400 $700 $7,800 $3,999
New champion: $3,999
$7,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD FACTS MUSICALS PHYSICAL SCIENCE FOOD ENGLISH LITERATURE SIMILES
$100 [7]
At various times Germany, Prussia & Russia have controlled this city, Poland's capital
Warsaw
Pat
$100 [4]
"Peg" was a 1983 musical autobiography of this singer who starred in it
Peggy Lee
Alice
$100 [21]
Hygroscopic substances have a tendency to absorb this
water
Pat
$100 [13]
As its name indicates, the tangelo is a cross between a pomelo & this citrus fruit
a tangerine
Pat
$100 [1]
The alternate title of her "Murder on the Orient Express" is "Murder on the Calais Coach"
Agatha Christie
Pat
$100 [15]
A reliable person is "as honest as the day is" this
long
Pat
$200 [8]
These mountains occupy more than 1/4 of Peru's land area
the Andes
Pat
$200 [5]
In titles of British musicals this word follows "Charlie" & "Me and My"
Girl
Pat Alice
$200 [22]
This element, important for bone strength, is the 3rd most abundant metal in the Earth's crust
calcium
Scott
$200 [14]
Eating a couple sprigs of this garnish herb is a good treatment for garlic breath
parsley
Pat
$200 [2]
Some Americans were extremely offended by this author's views of the U.S. in "Martin Chuzzlewit"
Charles Dickens
$200 [16]
In a time-worn simile this adjective precedes "as a fiddle"
fit
Pat
$300 [9]
Haiti, Barbados & Belize are all part of this continent
North America
Pat
$300 [6]
In this musical Eliza attends the Ascot races with Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
My Fair Lady
Scott
$300 [23]
The conversion of vapor to a liquid is called this
condensation
Pat
$300 [28]
This type of grape was developed by Ephraim Bull in Massachusetts in the 1840s
the Concord grape
Pat
$300 [3]
E.M. Forster set his novel "The Longest Journey" at this university where he had attended King's College
Cambridge
Alice Scott
$300 [17]
An exceptionally clumsy person is like "a bull in" one of these establishments
a china shop
Alice
$400 [10]
Of the approximately 170 million people who speak Portuguese, the majority live in this country
Brazil
Alice
$400 [11]
Andre Previn teamed up with Alan J. Lerner to write the songs for this musical about Chanel
Coco
Alice Scott
$400 [24]
About 0.01 percent of this gas found in nature is the deuterium isotope
hydrogen
Scott
$500 [30]
Chavicine, piperidine & piperine are among the chemicals that put the spice in this spice
pepper
$400 [26]
His short story collection "Mortal Coils" was published in 1922, 10 years before "Brave New World"
Aldous Huxley
Pat
$400 [18]
You don't have to sew to be "as neat as" one of these objects used by seamstresses
a pin
Pat
$500 [20]
In less than an hour you can drive across this tiny country nestled between Spain and France
Andorra
Pat
$500 [12]
He wrote the songs for "Hello, Dolly!" in 1964 & "La Cage aux Folles" in 1984
Jerry Herman
$500 [25]
This rock, the most abundant on land, is a popular tombstone material
granite
Scott
DD $1,000 [29]
This grain is the basis of hasty & Indian puddings
corn
Pat
$500 [27]
Prime minister who said, "When I want to read a novel, I write one", when George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" was published
Benjamin Disraeli
$500 [19]
Something that turns out well "comes up smelling like" these flowers
roses
Pat

Double Jeopardy! Round

STATE SEALS THE 1970s GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ITALIAN ART POETIC QUOTES BLACK AMERICA
$200 [11]
One of these celestial beings appears on Arkansas' seal along with an eagle & liberty
an angel
Alice Scott
$200 [1]
In 1979 Dan White was found guilty of killing George Moscone, this city's mayor
San Francisco
Scott
$200 [6]
His vice presidential running mates were John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace & Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Scott
$200 [21]
Bernini was asked to draw plans for this French museum, but jealous French artists sabotaged it
the Louvre
Pat
$200 [26]
The title of a Wordsworth sonnet tells us these women "fret not at their convent's narrow room"
nuns
$200 [16]
In her freshman year at college this TV talk show host was named Miss Black Nashville & Miss Black Tennessee
Oprah Winfrey
Alice
$400 [12]
The frigate Raleigh, built in Portsmouth in 1776, adorns this state seal
New Hampshire
Scott
$400 [2]
After 300 years of British rule this West Indies island chain gained its independence in 1973
the Bahamas
Alice
$400 [7]
Nuclear weapons development is the responsibility of this department, not Defense
the Energy Department
Pat
$400 [22]
From the Italian "grotta", "cave", it originally described overly ornate decor as in Nero's Golden House
grotesque
Pat
DD $200 [27]
The Longfellow poem that includes the question, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Pat
$400 [17]
Missouri's only national monument marks the birthplace of this famous scientist
George Washington Carver
Scott
$600 [13]
One can see the Snake River & a man plowing among the items on this state seal
Idaho
Scott
$600 [3]
In 1978 John Paul I died, only a month after succeeding this pope
Pope Paul VI
Scott
$600 [8]
James Thompson, who left office in January 1991, was this state's governor for 14 years, longer than anyone
Illinois
Scott
$600 [23]
Tintoretto painted this biblical meal for the church of San Giorgio Maggiore
the Last Supper
Pat
$600 [28]
Ogden Nash asked, "Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain" one of these
a germ
$600 [18]
He was ABC's senior Capitol Hill correspondent before becoming chief Washington anchor for CNN
Bernard Shaw
$800 [14]
Because he once had a colony in Newfoundland, George Calvert put the fisherman on this state seal
Maryland
Alice
$800 [4]
Head of the FBI in 1978, he became CIA director in 1987
William Webster
Pat
$800 [9]
From 1975-1980 she served as Connecticut's first woman governor
Ella Grasso
Scott
$800 [24]
Antonio Canova's nude model of this emperor is in the Wellington Museum in London
Napoleon
Alice
$800 [29]
Poet who wrote, "Before I build a wall, I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out"
Robert Frost
$1,000 [20]
She died in Paris in 1975 during the 50th anniversary celebration of her Paris debut
Josephine Baker
Scott
$1,000 [15]
Its seal shows a map of the state & the surrounding states of Mississippi, Florida, Georgia & Tennessee
Alabama
Scott
$1,000 [5]
In January 1972, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became the prime minister of this newly independent nation
Bangladesh
Alice
$1,000 [10]
This Cabinet department publishes many periodicals, including the Consumer Price Index
the Department of Labor
$1,000 [25]
His "Calumny of Apelles" & "Birth of Venus" are in the Uffizi
Sandro Botticelli
Pat
DD $1,500 [19]
A sculpture of this seamstress & civil rights heroine was unveiled recently at the Smithsonian
Rosa Parks
Scott

Final Jeopardy!

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

The day Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving, Americans observe this day

Columbus Day

Alice "What is Columbus Day?" — wagered $1,100
Pat "What is 4th Thursday" — wagered $5,800
Scott "What is Labor Day?" — wagered $3,801

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