Show #1456 1990-12-24 (taped 1990-09-25) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Curt Daniel — a chemistry teacher from Colorado Springs, Colorado

Chris Tully — a research assistant originally from Kearny, New Jersey

Gordon Nash — a teacher originally from New York City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gordon $1,000 $1,400 $8,200 $6,800
2-day champion: $27,600
$6,400
16 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Chris $-200 $2,100 $3,400 $1
3rd place
$4,500
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Curt $300 $1,300 $2,900 $5,800
2nd place
$2,900
14 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

COOKING "P"s LANGUAGES GOULASH TREATIES AUTO AD LINES CHRISTMAS SONGS
$100 [26]
Suet pudding that contains currants & usually raisins, but never the fruit for which it's named
plum pudding
Curt
$100 [11]
Andean Equatorial is an Aborigine language family spoken on this continent
South America
Curt
$100 [16]
Archipelago off northern Scotland in which a famous pony & sheepdog originated
Shetland
Gordon
$100 [6]
In 1936, this country broke the Locarno Treaties by sending troops into the Rhineland
Germany
Gordon
$100 [1]
"Have you driven" one of these "lately"?
a Ford
Curt
$100 [21]
The Chipmunks sang "Christmas, Christmas time is near, time for toys and time for" this
cheer
Gordon
$200 [27]
If you want to prepare these vegetables Duchess style, don't forget the egg yolks & butter
potatoes
Gordon Curt
$200 [12]
Over 100 million people in this country speak languages of the Dravidian group
India
Gordon
$200 [17]
When Ramsay & Travers discovered this gas in 1898, a red light went on over their heads
neon
Chris
$200 [7]
In the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, Denmark gave Norway to this country
Sweden
Gordon
$200 [2]
"We build excitement"
Pontiac
Curt
$200 [22]
According to the song title, they're "All I Want for Christmas"
my two front teeth
Chris
$300 [28]
Some people ferment this taro root dish for two or three days until it acquires a sour taste
poi
Curt
$400 [14]
It's the official language of Liberia, Sierra Leone & Papua New Guinea
English
Gordon
$300 [18]
During this century, the U.S. Constitution was amended just four times
the 19th century
Chris
$300 [8]
Of the Seven, 30 or 100 Years War, the one ended by the Peace of Westphalia
Thirty Years' War
Chris Curt
$300 [3]
"The heartbeat of America"
Chevrolet
Curt
$300 [23]
Line that follows "Then how the reindeer loved him as they shouted out with glee"
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, you'll go down in history
Chris
$400 [29]
This dessert named for a ballerina has a meringue base & is usually topped with fruit
pavlova
Curt
DD $500 [13]
Most of the Indian dialects spoken in Guatemala originated from this language
Mayan
Gordon
$400 [19]
In the 1960s, a new group of minstrels used the name of this man who put together a group in 1842
Christie's Minstrels
Chris
$400 [9]
This treaty ended World War I & set up the League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Curt
$400 [4]
"Built for the human race"
Nissan
$400 [24]
Burl Ives urged us to have this type of Christmas; "it's the best time of the year"
"A Holly Jolly Christmas"
Chris
$500 [30]
Some cooks add cheese to this cornmeal mush popular in Italy
polenta
$500 [15]
The angular katakana characters of this written language are used for foreign words
Japanese
$500 [20]
First name shared by Count Basie & Captain Kidd
William
Chris
$500 [10]
Named for the palace where it was signed, this treaty established Vatican City as an independent state
the Lateran Treaty
$500 [5]
"The ultimate driving machine"
BMW
Chris Curt
$500 [25]
The first line of this Christmas carol appears in "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"
"Deck The Halls"

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAME THE AUTHOR MEDICAL TERMS MARRIAGE U.S. CITIES BIBLICAL ZOO DWIGHT EISENHOWER
$200 [22]
"Portnoy's Complaint"
Philip Roth
Curt
$200 [1]
Medically speaking, it's the opposite of malignant
benign
Curt
$200 [21]
In the wedding vow "to love, honor & cherish", it's the word "cherish" has replaced
obey
Gordon
$200 [11]
Britannica calls this Georgia capital the artistic center of the Southeast
Atlanta
Chris
$200 [6]
Solomon compared a fair woman without discretion to a jewel of gold in this animal's snout
pig (or swine)
Chris Curt
$200 [16]
He switched this given first name with his middle name so he wouldn't be confused with his father
David
Chris
$400 [23]
"The Beautiful and Damned"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
$400 [2]
From the Latin for "I shall please", the doctor's dose for a hypochondriac
a placebo
Gordon
$400 [27]
In many states, living together a certain number of years constitutes this type of marriage
common-law
Gordon
$400 [12]
This largest Delaware city was founded by the Swedes who called it Fort Christina
Wilmington
Chris
$400 [7]
It's easier for this to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
a camel
Gordon
$400 [17]
Once Ike's protege, this man delivered the eulogy at his funeral
Richard Nixon
Chris Curt
$600 [24]
"Farewell, My Lovely"
Raymond Chandler
Chris
$600 [3]
Not a slow flight, but the common name for circadian dysrhythmia
jet lag
$600 [28]
This sex symbol said "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet"
Mae West
Curt
$600 [13]
Now a ghost town, in the 1870s this Nevada locale had a population of 30,000
Virginia City
Gordon
$600 [8]
Proverbs calls it the "strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any"
a lion
Chris Curt
$600 [18]
Ike's defense secretary is famous for saying "What's good for" this company "is good for America"
General Motors
Gordon
$800 [26]
"The Moon Is Down"
John Steinbeck
Chris
$800 [4]
More men than women suffer from Daltonism, commonly called this
colorblindness
Gordon
$800 [29]
This actor not only married Zsa Zsa Gabor, he married her sister Magda, too
George Sanders
Chris
$1,000 [15]
Alabama city on the Black Warrior River named for a Choctaw chief whose name meant "black warrior"
Tuscaloosa
$1,000 [10]
Samson caught 300 of them, tied torches to their tails & used them to burn the fields of the Philistines
foxes
$800 [19]
In 1955, this event caused the sharpest drop in the stock market since the Great Crash
Eisenhower's heart attack
Curt
$1,000 [25]
"Cakes and Ale"
Somerset Maugham
$1,000 [5]
It's also called "the royal disease" since European royal families were afflicted with it
hemophilia
Gordon
$1,000 [30]
Formerly, young English couples who wanted a quick marriage would elope to this Scottish village
Gretna Green
Chris
DD $2,400 [14]
Texas city southeast of Dallas named for the 10th president of the United States
Tyler
Gordon
DD $1,100 [9]
Noah sent this bird from the ark first, but it did not return
raven
Chris
$1,000 [20]
Though he was born in Denison, Texas, this Kansas town is home to his library
Abilene
Curt

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

The DuPont Company, which was founded in 1802, initially made only this product

gunpowder

Curt "What is gunpowder?" — wagered $2,900
Chris "What are firearms?" — wagered $3,399
Gordon "What was oil?" — wagered $1,400

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