Show #1459 1990-12-27 (taped 1990-09-25) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Jim Weiner — an engineer originally from St. Paul, Minnesota

Sonja Williams — a teacher from Bahama, North Carolina

Richard Healey — a deputy district attorney from Huntington Beach, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Richard	$1,000	$3,000	$12,200	$13,401 2-day champion: $27,401	$10,500 27 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Sonja	$1,100	$1,700	$6,700	$700 3rd place	$6,700 15 R, 0 W
Jim	$1,200	$2,000	$5,400	$7,400 2nd place	$5,400 13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

"V"OCABULARY	COUNTIES	HOT CUISINE	MOVIE TRIVIA	MAGAZINES	THE OCCULT
$100 [1] The greeting sent to a sweetheart on a certain saint's day, or the sweetheart it's sent to a valentine Sonja	$100 [6] In area, Nantucket is this state's smallest county; Worcester, the largest Massachusetts Richard	$100 [24] Spicy southwestern cuisine named for a U.S. state & the country that borders it Tex-Mex Sonja	$100 [12] Walt Disney received an Oscar with 7 miniature Oscars for this 1937 animated feature, his first Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Richard	$100 [17] Mad magazine mascot who has said, "The world is a place that's gone from being flat to round to crooked" Alfred E. Neuman Richard	$100 [11] French for "a sitting", it's a gathering to summon spirits a seance Richard
$200 [2] A quantity in math capable of assuming any of a set of values a variable Richard	$200 [7] Helena, Montana is the seat of this county named for the two men who explored the area in 1805 Lewis & Clark Richard	$200 [25] To cook steak au poivre, you first cover it with this pepper Jim	$200 [13] As a space marshal in "Outland", Sean Connery fought corruption on a moon of this giant planet Jupiter Sonja	$300 [19] A portrait of Benjamin Franklin appears above the table of contents of this magazine The Saturday Evening Post Richard Jim	$200 [22] It means "middle" & refers to a go-between for people of this world & spirits of the next a medium Sonja
$300 [3] A short drape hung across the top of a window a valance Jim	$300 [8] Seattle is the seat of this royal county, the most populous in Washington state King County Sonja	$300 [28] It's the name of both a thick soup & a regional dialect in Louisiana gumbo Richard	$300 [14] The last film directed by this son of a minister was "The Ten Commandments" Cecil DeMille Richard	$400 [20] This financial biweekly was founded by Henry R. Luce in February 1930 Fortune Richard	$300 [23] Daniel Dunglas Home popularized this word by reportedly floating 35' above the ground levitation Sonja
$400 [4] In perspective drawing, this is where parallel lines seem to converge the vanishing point Jim	$400 [9] Nevada county whose name is from the Greek word for "I have found it" Eureka Richard	$400 [29] Produced by the McIlhenny family since Civil War times, it's traditional in a Bloody Mary Tabasco Richard	$400 [15] In 1984's "The Bounty", Mel Gibson played Mr. Christian & he played Bligh Anthony Hopkins Richard	DD $500 [18] After James Harper founded "Harper's" in 1850, his brother launched this magazine that's also still published Harper's Bazaar Richard	$400 [26] The science that reads bumps on a person's head as a key to personality phrenology Jim
$500 [5] While "porcine" means resembling a pig, this means resembling a fox vulpine Sonja	$500 [10] Much of this Minnesota county's area consists of the U.S.-Canadian lake of the same name Lake of the Woods Jim	$500 [30] The fowl dish accompanied by hot sauce & blue cheese dressing, named for the city that originated it Buffalo chicken wings	$500 [16] Irving Berlin's "Let's Say It With Firecrackers" & "Easter Parade" were sung in this 1942 Bing Crosby film Holiday Inn	$500 [21] It's Canada's weekly news magazine Maclean's Jim	$500 [27] Not just someone you know, but a spirit in the form of an animal a familiar

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY LITERATURE	U.S. GOVERNMENT	NATURE	CRIME & PUNISHMENT	BALTIMORE	ROYALTY SPEAKS
$200 [18] When he died in 1891, his obituary in the New York Tribune said his best work was "Typee" Melville Jim	$200 [5] The Department of the Navy was established in 1798 under this second president John Adams Jim	$200 [1] Evidence has been found that proves these largest mammals once had hind legs & feet the blue whales Richard	$200 [2] In 1456, a posthumous trial granted by Pope Callistus overthrew her heresy conviction Joan of Arc Jim	$200 [13] This presidential assassin was buried in an unmarked grave in Green Mount Cemetery in 1869 John Wilkes Booth Sonja	$200 [24] He abdicated saying he "couldn't perform his duties without the woman I love" Edward VIII Richard
$400 [19] Her first novel, "The Professor", was published after her death; her most famous work is "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte Richard	$400 [6] This agency, the GSA for short, manages & supervises the government's property & equipment the General Services Administration Sonja	$400 [3] This North American rodent made famous in a tongue twister is a kind of marmot a woodchuck Sonja	$400 [11] Though she was found innocent, a rhyme said Lizzie Borden axed her parents with this many total whacks 81 Richard Jim	$400 [14] A Baltimore monument whose cornerstone was laid in 1815 was the U.S.'s first to honor this president Washington Richard	$400 [25] Louis XIV is said to have defined his supremacy by saying, "I am" this the state Richard
$800 [22] "Dead Souls" has been called one of the greatest novels ever written in this language Russian Jim	$600 [9] In 1961, he became the first director of the Peace Corps; 11 years later, he was McGovern's running mate Sargent Shriver Sonja	$600 [4] These small African parrots got their name because they rub each other with their bills when courting lovebirds Jim	$600 [12] He was released in 1971 after Nixon commuted his prison term but disappeared in 1975 Jimmy Hoffa Richard Sonja	$600 [15] This first railway system in the United States was chartered in the city on February 28, 1827 the Baltimore & Ohio Richard	$600 [26] Roman emperor whose last words were, "What an artist dies with me" Nero Richard
$1,000 [23] Some say her unfinished novel "The Watsons" is an early version of "Emma" Jane Austen Richard	$800 [10] Chief Justice who chaired the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution Warren Burger Richard	$800 [7] This sense in humans has been called distance chemoreception the sense of smell Sonja	$800 [16] Sentenced to death by poison for impiety & corrupting the youth, he turned down chances to escape Socrates Jim	$800 [29] The city was founded in 1729 & named for this family, the lords Baltimore the Calverts Richard	$800 [27] Among other things, she wished her epitaph to express "my virginity" Queen Elizabeth I Richard
DD $2,000 [20] The title of one of his macabre tales warns, "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (Edgar Allan) Poe Richard	DD $1,000 [17] In 1989, George Bush appointed Thomas R. Pickering to succeed Vernon Walters in this post U.S. representative to the United Nations (ambassador to the U.N.) Jim	$1,000 [8] The bark of the red mangrove tree yields this chemical used in making leather tannin Sonja	$1,000 [21] In 1983, 32 members of this terrorist group got life for murdering former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro the Red Brigade Richard	$1,000 [30] It's not only Baltimore's largest newspaper, it's Maryland's largest as well the Baltimore Sun Sonja	$1,000 [28] Czar who said "Better to abolish serfdom from above than wait 'til it begins to abolish itself from below" Alexander II Richard

Final Jeopardy!

ANCIENT HISTORY

The group who fought over his empire after his death was called the "Diadochi", successors

Alexander the Great

Jim "Who was Alexander the Great?" — wagered $2,000

Sonja "Who was Julius Caesar?" — wagered $6,000

Richard "Who was Alexander the Great?" — wagered $1,201

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