Show #1443 1990-12-05 (taped 1990-09-17) Regular

Bruce Ikawa game 4.Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Becky Bryan — a merchandise controller from Washington, D.C.

Scott Smith — a physical therapist from Brooklyn, Ohio

Bruce Ikawa — a college professor originally from Indianapolis, Indiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $44,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bruce $500 $4,300 $13,400 $16,000
4-day champion: $60,599
$10,900
28 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Scott $0 $100 $2,100 $4,200
2nd place
$3,100
9 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Becky $600 $2,200 $4,000 $2,500
3rd place
$4,000
14 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MODERN LITERATURE HOLLYWOOD HISTORY ZOOLOGY SPORTS 10-LETTER WORDS HINTS FROM HELOISE
$100 [21]
In this futuristic Aldous Huxley novel, people attend feelies instead of movies
Brave New World
Bruce
$100 [12]
Legend says this magician still haunts the ruins of his Laurel Canyon estate in Hollywood
Harry Houdini
Bruce
$100 [10]
As a warning, it will stamp its front feet & growl before spraying
a skunk
Bruce
$100 [1]
On April 18th, 1923, he hit the first home run in Yankee Stadium
Babe Ruth
Becky
$100 [8]
Made by man rather than occurring in nature, it can refer to intelligence or respiration
artificial
Becky
$100 [2]
Heloise gives herself facials with this sticky sweetener; she says it cleans out her pores
honey
Bruce
$200 [22]
Jack London wrote the novel "John Barleycorn" as a protest against this
alcohol
Bruce
$200 [13]
He was the first cartoon character to get his own star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
Mickey Mouse
Bruce Scott
$200 [11]
The Indian species of this animal hunted for its horn is endangered
a rhinoceros
Becky
$200 [3]
This prehistoric South Seas sport was banned by missionaries in the 1820s
surfing
$200 [27]
The legislative governing body of the United Kingdom
Parliament
Bruce
$200 [7]
Heloise suggests using a brush intended for this kind of leather to scour burned pans
suede
Scott
$300 [23]
In John Updike's novels, it's the nickname of salesman Harry Angstrom
Rabbit
Becky
$300 [14]
When he read the novel "Gone with the Wind", his reaction was, "What a part for Ronald Coleman"
Clark Gable
Becky
$300 [17]
Horned lizards have the unusual ability to squirt this from their eyes
blood
Bruce
$300 [4]
These games were first held at Chamonix, France from January 25 to February 4, 1924
the Winter Olympic Games
Bruce
$300 [28]
Stealing the writings of others & passing them off as your own
plagiarism
Scott
$300 [9]
She uses this salad dressing ingredient to clean her coffee maker & steam iron & to rinse her dishes
vinegar
Scott Becky
$400 [25]
In the Thorne Smith novel, he was turned into an adventurous romantic by a pair of ghosts
Topper
Bruce
$400 [15]
Movie mogul known for his -isms, some of which were actually concocted by others
Sam (Goldwyn)
Bruce
$500 [19]
While a moth develops in a cocoon, a butterfly develops within this hard shell covering
a chrysalis
Becky
$400 [5]
The two professional teams whose home is the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
the Minnesota Twins & Minnesota Vikings
Bruce
$400 [20]
If your buttons fall off, you can sew them on with nylon fishing line or this hygiene product
dental floss
Bruce
$500 [26]
His "The Last of Mr. Norris" & "Goodbye to Berlin" are the basis of the musical "Cabaret"
Christopher Isherwood
Bruce
$500 [16]
The Chateau Marmont Hotel made the news when this comic actor died there in 1982
John Belushi
Becky
DD $1,000 [18]
Numbats & wombats belong to this order of mammals
marsupials
Bruce
$500 [6]
Tennis's Grand Slam winner in 1953, she was the first woman to win all four events
Mo Connolly
Bruce Scott Becky
$500 [24]
The reason you shouldn't wear perfume or scented hand lotion when you're on a camping trip
it attracts mosquitos
Bruce

Double Jeopardy! Round

WASHINGTON, D.C. QUOTES ROCKS & MINERALS MUSIC MONEY THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
$200 [1]
The land that constitutes the present-day District of Columbia once belonged to this state
Maryland
Becky
$200 [8]
In his poem "Lacon" Charles Caleb Colton advised, "When you have nothing to say, say" this
nothing
Becky
$200 [26]
Once commonly used to pave streets, they're defined as larger than pebbles & smaller than boulders
cobblestones
Scott Becky
$200 [3]
A pentatonic scale used in some Gregorian chants has this many notes
5
Scott
$200 [11]
In 1964, he replaced Ben Franklin on the U.S. half-dollar
Kennedy
Bruce
$200 [16]
This president said of his war experience, "San Juan was the great day of my life"
Teddy Roosevelt
Bruce
$400 [2]
Some words from the Declaration of Independence on his memorial are misspelled or missing
Jefferson
Bruce
$400 [19]
Referring to the lever, this ancient Greek said, "Give me where to stand and I will move the earth"
Archimedes
Bruce
$400 [27]
As its name indicates, the sial that composes much of Earth's crust contains these two elements
silicon & aluminum
$400 [4]
Stephen Foster originally wrote this song as "Way Down Upon The Pee Dee River"
"Old Folks At Home"
Bruce
$400 [12]
Federal, state & local governments issue these loan contracts to help raise money
bonds
Bruce
$400 [17]
In the unofficial theme song of the war, it's the kind of time had in the old town
a hot time
Becky
$600 [9]
His official residence is located in Observatory Circle on Massachusetts Avenue NW
Vice President Quayle
Becky
$800 [24]
Known as "The Actor", this robber said he robbed banks because "that's where the money is"
Willie Sutton
Bruce
$600 [28]
A major fuel in Eastern Europe, lignite is a soft brown type of this
coal
Bruce
$600 [5]
In the 1850s, Brigham Young established the choral group now called this
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Scott
$600 [13]
The Federal National Mortgage Association is known by this nickname
Fannie Mae
Bruce
$600 [20]
These words were usually followed by the now forgotten line, "To hell with Spain"
"Remember the Maine"
Scott
$800 [10]
You'll find a statue of Puck outside this library
the Folger (Shakespeare) Library
Bruce Becky
$1,000 [25]
"No one is such a liar as the indignant man", this German philosopher said in "Beyond Good and Evil"
Nietzsche
Bruce Scott
$800 [29]
Term for layers of rock having the same composition throughout
strata
Scott
DD $1,000 [6]
The English word for this instrument means "small" in Italian
piccolo
Scott
$800 [14]
Due to a copper shortage, 1943 U.S. pennies were made of this metal coated with zinc
steel
$800 [21]
In 1899, Lieutenant Andrew Rowan went to heroic length to deliver a message to this Cuban rebel leader
Garcia
Bruce
$1,000 [18]
Colonial architecture can be seen in this neighborhood, the city's oldest
Georgetown
Scott
DD $2,500 [23]
16th century Florentine political thinker who wrote, "It is far safer to be feared than loved"
(Niccolo) Machiavelli
Bruce
$1,000 [30]
Slate is formed by the action of heat & pressure upon this sedimentary rock
shale
Becky
$1,000 [7]
Daniel Barenboim has been named to succeed Georg Solti as director of this city's symphony in 1991
the Chicago Symphony
Scott
$1,000 [15]
The first paper money issued by the U.S. government, not individual banks, was authorized during this war
the Civil War
$1,000 [22]
Peace negotiations were held & a treaty was signed in this European capital
Paris

Final Jeopardy!

MAN IN SPACE

He was the only Mercury astronaut to walk on the Moon

Alan Shepard

Scott "Who is Alan Shepard?" — wagered $2,100
Becky "Who is White?" — wagered $1,500
Bruce "Who was Alan Shepard?" — wagered $2,600

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