Show #1550 1991-05-03 (taped 1991-02-19) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

Paul Carpenter — a software problem determination specialist from Burbank, California

Dan Hackett — a psychiatric resident originally from Flushing, New York

Jeff Raines — a writer originally from Birmingham, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $700 $4,800 $9,800 $10,600
2nd place: a trip to San Juan aboard Delta Airlines + a week's vacation at the Condado Plaza Hotel & Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico
$8,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Dan $800 $2,100 $8,200 $15,200
New champion: $15,200
$8,300
19 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Paul $500 $1,000 $5,200 $6,700
3rd place: Princess House Products hand-blown & lead crystal giftware, cookware & accessories + Nintendo Entertainment System with Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy! & Fisher-Price Preschool Games + Wheel of Fortune for Game Boy
$5,200
12 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S.A. CELEBRITY BOOKS 4-LETTER WORDS INVENTIONS THE BIBLE JEOPARDY! CATEGORIES
$100 [1]
Originally called New York, this Northwest city was renamed for Chief Sealth
Seattle
Dan
$100 [21]
Her searingly candid autobiography, "Ava: My Story", wasn't published until after her death
Ava Gardner
Dan
$100 [8]
A person used to further the purposes of another, or a chess piece of lowest value
a pawn
Dan
$100 [10]
This computer, introduced in 1984, was named for its designer's favorite apple
the Macintosh
Jeff
$100 [2]
Her last words to Samson were "The Philistines be upon thee, Samson"
Delilah
Jeff
$100 [22]
Add 2 letters to "real estate" & you'll get the name of this category about fictional settings
UNREAL ESTATE
Dan
$200 [3]
Fleeing the British, the Continental Congress met for 1 day at Lancaster in this state
Pennsylvania
Dan
$200 [27]
Suzanne Farrell wrote about her rise to fame in this profession in "Holding On to the Air"
ballet
Jeff
$200 [9]
Aaron, or the trilling sound a Scot might make when pronouncing the Rs in his name
a Burr
Jeff
$200 [11]
No one wanted the vote recorder he invented in 1868 in Boston
Thomas Alva Edison
Jeff
$200 [4]
"The Lord said unto Moses", this man's "heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go"
Pharaoh
Jeff
$200 [23]
This perennial Jeopardy! category could be called THESPIANS & THEIR PARTS
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
Paul
$400 [16]
Site of a Civil War battle, Lookout Mt. overlooks this Tenn. city
Chattanooga (Tennessee)
Jeff Dan
$300 [28]
"All His Jazz" profiles this director of "All That Jazz"
Bob Fosse
Dan
$300 [18]
This word commonly precedes expectancy, insurance & jacket
life
Jeff
$300 [12]
This developer of the steam engine also invented steam heating as a way to heat his office
(James) Watt
Jeff
$300 [5]
This messenger angel interpreted Daniel's vision for him
Gabriel
Jeff
$300 [24]
10-letter rhyming name of a catch-all category that's the same as POTPOURRI
HODGEPODGE
Paul
$500 [17]
William Saroyan was born in this raisin-growing capital of the world in Central California
Fresno
Jeff
$400 [29]
"Supreme Faith" is the sequel to this ex-Supreme's memoir "Dreamgirl"
Mary Wilson
Jeff
$400 [19]
A female deer, or an adjective describing her rear legs
hind
$400 [13]
Sonar was to be used in World War I to locate these craft, but the war ended before it could be used
submarines
Jeff
$400 [6]
According to Genesis 2:21, God took one of these from Adam while he slept
a rib
Dan
$400 [25]
In titles of categories this word has preceded NAMED ED, NAMED LOUIS & NAMED GEORGE
KINGS
Dan
DD $1,700 [15]
Port at the end of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline that was explored & named by Spaniards
Valdez
Jeff
$500 [30]
"Get to the Heart" is the story of this singer who "was country when country wasn't cool"
Barbara Mandrell
$500 [20]
A stand on which a coffin is carried, its name sounds like a beverage
a bier
Jeff
$500 [14]
It was about the time of the Civil War that he introduced his cylinder lock
(Linus) Yale
Jeff
$500 [7]
In Matthew 12:25 Jesus said, "Every city or" one of these "divided against itself shall not stand"
a house
Paul
$500 [26]
Our category on this foreign first lady included info on her beauty contest titles & her shoes
IMELDA MARCOS
Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES INTERIOR DESIGN POETS & POETRY MEXICO THE HUMAN BODY BLACK AMERICA
$200 [13]
Jozef Pilsudski was this country's 1st chief of state after it became a republic in 1918
Poland
Paul
$200 [26]
The Chateau de Chambord has 1 of these with twin spirals so 1 person can go up & 1 can go down without meeting
a staircase
Paul
$200 [7]
As you might expect, Tennyson was buried in this famous section of Westminster Abbey
Poets' Corner
Jeff
$200 [18]
The UN projects that by the year 2000 it will be the world's most populous urban area
Mexico City
Paul
$200 [1]
This gland produces thyroxine, a hormone which regulates metabolism
the thyroid gland
Paul
$200 [3]
Recommended by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Banneker was one of the surveyors who laid out this city
Washington, D.C.
Dan
$400 [14]
This president of Turkey was given the nickname Kemal, which means perfection, by 1 of his teachers
Ataturk
Dan
$400 [27]
The Jacobean style, which varied little from Tudor style, was named for this man
King James
Jeff
$400 [9]
His original first name was Nicholas but we know him better by his middle name, Vachel
Lindsay
Dan
$400 [19]
It was first cultivated in Mexico & is still the main crop there
maize (or corn)
Paul
$400 [2]
These joints are located between the metacarpals & the adjoining phalanges on a hand
the knuckles
Jeff Paul
$400 [8]
The popularity of ragtime ended about the same time that this composer died in 1917
Joplin
Dan
$600 [15]
A 1974 assassination attempt on this S. Korean president killed his wife instead
Park Chung Hee
Jeff Dan
$600 [28]
This English cabinetmaker, born in 1718, was noted particularly for Chinese & Rococo designs
Chippendale
Dan
$600 [10]
One of A.E. Housman's poignant poems is titled "To An Athlete" doing this "Young"
Dying
Jeff
$600 [20]
If a Mexican shows you his huaraches, he's showing you these
his shoes (his sandals)
$600 [4]
This temporary organ in pregnant women supplies the unborn baby with food & oxygen
the placenta
Paul
$600 [23]
In 1967 this author & comic ran for mayor of Chicago; in '68 he was a candidate for president
Dick Gregory
Jeff
DD $1,000 [16]
First name of the dauphin who was restored to the throne of France with the help of Joan of Arc
Charles (VII)
Dan
$800 [29]
The Regency & Empire Styles revived the use of the Klismos, a typical chair of this ancient civilization
Greece
Jeff
DD $700 [12]
British Romantic poet seen in the followingportraitwearing an Albanian costume:
(Lord) Byron
Dan
$800 [21]
Colors of the 3 vertical stripes on the Mexican flag
red, white & green
Jeff
$800 [5]
A jellylike substance called the vitreous humor fills much of the space in these organs
the eyes
Paul
$800 [24]
Replacing Jefferson Davis, Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, represented this state
Mississippi
Jeff
$1,000 [17]
Subject of a famous opera, this czar wasn't a Romanov but was elected by a national assembly in 1598
Boris Godunov
Jeff
$1,000 [30]
A poudreuse is a small one of these often equipped with a mirror that lifts up
a dressing table (a vanity accepted)
Paul
$800 [11]
He was very well-read but his formal education ended at Swansea Grammar School in Wales
Dylan Thomas
Dan
$1,000 [22]
After his forces captured & shot Maximilian, this Mexican hero was reelected president
Benito Juarez
$1,000 [6]
The lungs contain hundreds of millions of these air sacs which provide oxygen to the blood
alveoli
Dan
$1,000 [25]
In 1968 she became the first black woman elected to the House of Representatives
Shirley Chisholm
Paul

Final Jeopardy!

ACTRESSES & ROLES

Greer Garson, Jane Alexander, & Jean Stapleton have all played this first lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

Paul "Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?" — wagered $1,500
Dan "Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?" — wagered $7,000
Jeff "Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?" — wagered $800

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