Show #1457 1990-12-25 (taped 1990-09-25) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Mike O'Brien — a travel agent originally from Chicago, Illinois

Debra Barnes — a claims representative from Lodi, California

Gordon Nash — a teacher originally from New York City, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Gordon	$1,400	$2,100	$8,800	$13,400 3-day champion: $41,000	$8,700 23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Debra	$500	$-100	$6,700	$9,700 2nd place	$6,300 14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Mike	$100	$2,400	$3,200	$6,400 3rd place	$3,200 15 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

CHRISTMAS	FRUITS & VEGETABLES	AVIATION	STATE PARKS	MOVIE STARS	NEW YORK CITY
$100 [10] At 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve in Norway, these peal all over the country church bells Mike	$100 [21] Varieties of this vegetable include banana, acorn & butternut squash Gordon	$100 [6] It's what the F stands for in the numerical designations of U.S. military aircraft such as F-15 fighter Gordon	$100 [14] Illinois has two state parks named for this president Lincoln Debra	$100 [16] Gloria Swanson said Montgomery Clift, not William Holden, was the first choice for her leading man in this film Sunset Boulevard Mike	$100 [1] It's named The Big Board the New York Stock Exchange Gordon
$200 [11] For Christmas, Hershey's wraps these solid chocolates in red, green & silver foils Hershey Kisses Mike	$200 [23] Over 90% of the world's production of this fruit is from one species, Vitis vinifera grapes Gordon	$200 [7] In 1919, the founder of this Seattle-based aircraft firm helped carry the first international airmail Boeing Mike	$200 [24] A state park near Bardstown, Kentucky, was named for this Stephen Foster song "My Old Kentucky Home"	$200 [17] Laurence Olivier feared falling in love with this "Prince and the Showgirl" co-star Marilyn Monroe Gordon	$200 [2] In 1939, The World of Tomorrow was the theme for this the World's Fair Gordon
$300 [12] When this religious group came to power in England in 1642, they banned Christmas celebrations the Puritans Gordon	$300 [28] This purple-skinned vegetable is a main ingredient of moussaka & caponata eggplant Debra	$300 [8] Family of Soviet military aircraft originally designed by Mikoyan & Gurevich the MiGs Gordon	$300 [25] Washington Crossing State Park in Pennsylvania is located on this river the Delaware Mike	$300 [18] This star of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" played a modern Pimpernel in "Pimpernel Smith" Leslie Howard Gordon	$300 [3] Check this out! Its special holdings include Washington's copy of his farewell address New York Public Library Gordon
$500 [15] This saxophonist's Christmas album was called "Boots and Stockings" Boots Randolph Mike	$400 [29] In 1792, Captain Bligh finally managed to get a load of these trees to Jamaica breadfruit Mike	$400 [9] This type of aircraft was first used in warfare in 1944 when Sikorsky YR-4s evacuated casualties helicopters Debra	$400 [26] Longhorn Cavern State Park is located near Marble Falls in this state Texas Gordon	$400 [19] She romanced her "Fountainhead" co-star Gary Cooper, but married Roald Dahl Patricia Neal Debra	$400 [4] This song is also called "East Side, West Side" "The Sidewalks of New York" Gordon Mike
DD $800 [13] According to Clement Moore, it's how St. Nick's stomach shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly Gordon	$500 [30] North Carolina is the country's biggest producer of this tuber, belonging to the morning glory family sweet potato Mike	$500 [22] This aircraft company, based in St. Louis, is our nation's largest defense contractor McDonnell Douglas Debra Mike	$500 [27] There is a Tennessee state park named for this frontiersman on his former property in Lawrenceburg Davy Crockett Gordon Mike	$500 [20] With Mickey Rooney as his toughest young charge, he won an Oscar playing Father Flanagan Spencer Tracy Mike	$500 [5] It was losing a reported $1,000 a week when Adolph Simon Ochs bought it in 1896 The New York Times Gordon

Double Jeopardy! Round

BESTSELLERS	ART	20th CENTURY AMERICA	WORLD CITIES	ROCKS & GEMS	IT'S GREEK TO ME
$200 [21] This comic says his memoir, "Don't Shoot, It's Only Me", is about his life as a moving target Bob Hope Mike	$200 [19] The first word in the title of this Da Vinci work is a short form of Madonna the Mona Lisa Gordon	$200 [16] The academy for this branch of the service opened in 1955 the Air Force Mike	$200 [11] After a 1755 earthquake destroyed two-thirds of this city, it was rebuilt into Portugal's largest Lisbon Mike	$200 [5] You can touch a rock from there at the Smithsonian Institute's Air & Space Museum the moon Debra	$200 [1] To the Greeks & Carl Sagan, it's the universe the cosmos Debra
$400 [27] In 1990, eight of this late writer's tales were put in book form for the first time as "The Outlaws of Mesquite" Louis L'Amour Debra	$400 [20] Painters who studied under this Dutch master include Gerrit Dou, Nicolaes Maes, & Carel Fabritius Rembrandt Mike	$400 [17] On August 2nd, 1964, in this gulf, the destroyer Maddox fired at three North Vietnamese torpedo boats the Tonkin Gulf Debra	$400 [12] The City section of this city is located where the Romans first founded the town London Mike	$400 [7] This fool's gold can be told from gold when heated because it emits a foul odor pyrite Gordon	$400 [2] From Draco, lawmaker who demanded death for almost any lawbreaker, came this word for harsh draconian Debra
$600 [28] Harvey Mackay's recent bestseller tells how to do this "Without Being Eaten Alive" swim with the sharks	$600 [23] Georges Braque invented this art form in which different materials are glued to the picture's surface the collage Debra	$600 [18] This US chemist won the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded in 1963 Linus Pauling Gordon	$600 [13] Western Czechoslovakia was given to the Nazis in the pact signed in this German city Munich Gordon	$600 [8] White, pink, or gray rock made mostly of quartz & feldspar, especially suitable for tombstones granite Gordon Mike	$800 [4] Aristotle defined man as a politikon zoon, a political one of these animal Gordon
$800 [30] Jason Bourne comes back for more punishment in this author's "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Robert) Ludlum Debra	$800 [25] He painted portraits of women to show Henry VIII, who was looking for a wife (Hans) Holbein (the Younger) Gordon Debra	$800 [22] Later called the First Lady of the World, she was the first to hold regular White House press conferences Eleanor Roosevelt Gordon	$1,000 [15] Though this Mali city once bustled, its name is used to mean any remote place Timbuktu Debra	$800 [9] This white volcanic glass is used in stone or powder form to scour porcelain pumice Gordon	DD $1,000 [3] Greek for "hidden things", it now means "questionable" & often refers to 14 biblical books apocrypha Debra
$1,000 [29] Author of one of 1988's top-selling hardcover cookbooks, "The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American" Jeff Smith Debra	$1,000 [26] Napoleon's invasion of Spain inspired two of his most powerful works, "The 2nd of May" & "The 3rd of May" Goya Gordon	$1,000 [24] This son of a railroad magnate was the chief US negotiator of the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty Averell Harriman	DD $1,700 [14] Once called Hochelaga by the Indians, it's the largest French-speaking city after Paris Montreal Gordon	$1,000 [10] The imperial variety of this November birthstone is the most valuable topaz	$1,000 [6] In Greek, this two-word phrase means "the many"; in English, it's come to mean "the common people" hoi polloi

Final Jeopardy!

OPERA

Verdi eliminated all of the Venetian scenes in this opera based on a Shakespearean play

Otello

Mike "What is Otello?" — wagered $3,200

Debra "What is Otello?" — wagered $3,000

Gordon "What is Othello?" — wagered $4,600

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