Show #1475 1991-01-18 (taped 1990-10-10) Regular

Lois Kurowski game 5.Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Bill Dukes — a personnel manager from Claremont, California

Susan Cobb — a Spanish teacher originally from Lubbock, Texas

Lois Kurowski — a doctoral student from Elkhart, Indiana (whose 4-day cash winnings total $57,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lois $1,200 $2,000 $4,500 $10
3rd place
$4,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Susan $1,000 $-500 $500 $500
2nd place
$1,300
12 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Bill $500 $2,100 $11,100 $13,100
New champion: $13,100
$10,900
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS GOVERNMENT & POLITICS TOM CRUISE MAGAZINES SYMBOLIC ANIMALS BARRELS
$100 [16]
His "to be or not to be" speech might have gone on forever if he hadn't noticed Ophelia
Hamlet
Bill
$100 [17]
The Office of Registrar of Copyrights is a division of this library
the Library of Congress
Susan
$100 [22]
Tom had a tough time in school as he suffers from this reading disability
dyslexia
Bill
$100 [6]
ABC not only offers a 900 phone number to inform you about these, it has a magazine, "Episodes"
soap operas
Bill
$100 [11]
Livestock that describes the stock market when prices are up
the bulls
Susan
$100 [1]
In 1939, Lew Brown, Wladimir Timm & Jaromir Vejvoda wrote a polka about this type of barrel
a beer barrel
Susan
$200 [27]
Characters in this play include nymphs, reapers & a boatswain
The Tempest
Susan
$200 [18]
In the Senate, a cloture vote is usually suggested to end this type of activity
a filibuster
Lois
$200 [23]
In January 1990, a few days after "Us" reported his marriage was healthy, Tom & she filed for divorce
Mimi Rogers
Lois
$200 [7]
Not printed in red ink, a new English language magazine for this city has an "Around the Square" section
Moscow
Susan
$200 [12]
The mule is the symbol of the Army, but this is the symbol of the Navy
the goat
Bill
$200 [2]
If you're watching women compete in barrel racing, you're at one of these events
a rodeo
Susan
$400 [29]
This friend of Romeo's cries "A plague on both your houses!" several times before he dies
Mercutio
Lois
$300 [19]
Though the first Attorney General was appointed in 1789, this department wasn't established until 1870
the Department of Justice
Bill
$300 [24]
Sales surges of this company's Wayfarers & Aviator glasses are attributed to Tom's wearing them in films
Ray-Bans
Bill
$300 [8]
The stars tell us the new magazine "Jupiter" covers this field
astrology
Lois Susan
$300 [13]
This bird is often pictured with an olive branch in its mouth
a dove
Susan
$300 [3]
This adjective describes conversations like the type that took place in old general stores
a cracker barrel
Bill
$500 [30]
In "Henry VIII", Henry VIII says of her, "When I am in heaven, I shall desire to see what this child does"
Elizabeth (I)
Susan Bill
$400 [20]
He was a pediatrician strongly opposed to abortion when Reagan named him Surgeon General in 1981
(Everett) Koop
Bill
$400 [25]
Getting into his role for this 1983 Coppola film, Cruise avoided showering for most of the nine weeks of filming
The Outsiders
Bill
$400 [9]
Actor Tim Matheson, who bought into this humor magazine in 1989, sold out in 1990
National Lampoon
Lois
$400 [14]
Moses pulverized this idol, mixed the powder with water & made the Israelites drink it
the golden calf
Susan
$400 [4]
Combined with "off", it means to hold back or keep away; as a noun, it's part of a barrel
stave
Bill
DD $800 [28]
Octavia Caesar appears as a character in these 2 plays
Julius Caesar & Antony and Cleopatra
Susan
$500 [21]
At an impeachment trial of a president, this person presides
the chief justice of the United States
Lois Susan Bill
$500 [26]
Tom is a driver on this actor's stock car racing team
Paul Newman
Lois
$500 [10]
Subscription agency that has Ed "I'll award you $10 million" McMahon as their spokesman
American Family Publishers
Susan Bill
$500 [15]
The Chinese believe this creature can prevent evil spirits from spoiling the new year
the dragon
Susan
$500 [5]
The world record for this is 18 set by Yvon Jolin at Terrebonne, Quebec in 1981
barrel jumping
Lois

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELS BOTANY IRELAND CLASSICAL MUSIC 19th CENTURY AMERICANS GLASS
$200 [2]
Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall wrote "Men Against the Sea" & "Pitcairn's Island" as sequels to this
Mutiny on the Bounty
Bill
$200 [17]
Pine nuts come from these parts of certain pine trees
pine cones
Lois Susan
$200 [26]
Said to represent the trinity, this three-leafed plant is Ireland's national symbol
the shamrock
Lois
$200 [12]
NYC school of music named for a cotton merchant who left $20 million to support a music foundation
Juilliard
Bill
$200 [7]
After his 1843 death, this lexicographer's heirs sold his dictionary rights to the GNC Merriam Company
Webster
Bill
$200 [1]
A fulgurite is the glass rock formed after sand has been struck by this
lightning
Bill
$400 [3]
Term for idealistic from a character in a Cervantes novel
quixotic
Bill
$400 [18]
The acorn is a true one of these, but a goober is not
a nut
Bill
$400 [27]
This stout beer, Ireland's most popular brand, is an important export
Guinness
Lois
$400 [13]
His brother, Johann Christoph, was the organist at the Michaeliskirche in Ohrdruf until 1721
Johann Sebastian Bach
Lois
$400 [8]
On April 3, 1882, Robert Ford shot & killed this outlaw in his St. Joseph, Missouri home
Jesse James
Lois
$400 [22]
The first glass factory in North America was established in 1608 in this settlement
Jamestown
Bill
$600 [4]
The inhabitants of these two planets fought in H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds"
Earth & Mars
Lois
$600 [19]
An organic material, such as peat, spread around plants to suppress weeds
mulch
Bill
$600 [28]
William Butler Yeats & Lady Augusta Gregory helped found this Irish national theatre in 1904
the Abbey
DD $500 [14]
Though he never married, he loved children & wrotethe following:
(Johannes) Brahms
Lois
$600 [9]
This U.S. Navy officer negotiated the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened trade with Japan
Commodore Perry
Bill
$600 [23]
Safety glass, such as that used in auto windshields, is a sandwich of glass sheets & this material
plastic (polyvinyl butyral)
$800 [5]
Though this Theodore Dreiser title character sounds like a nun or a nurse, she's really an actress
Sister Carrie
Lois
$800 [20]
Bees make honey from this sugary solution secreted by some plants
nectar
Lois
$800 [29]
Only three of the nine counties of this province belong to the Republic of Ireland
Ulster
Lois
$800 [15]
He claimed, "Never was I so pious as when composing 'The Creation'"
Haydn
Susan
DD $1,000 [10]
In 1876-77, he founded the American Library Association & became editor of the "Library Journal"
Dewey
Bill
$800 [24]
In 1271, the glass workers in this Italian city formed a guild
Venice
Bill
$1,000 [6]
Chapter 2 of his novel "Myron" begins with "Myra Breckinridge lives"
Gore Vidal
Bill
$1,000 [21]
Found in the cell walls of some plants, this carbohydrate helps jelly gel
pectin
Bill
$1,000 [30]
In 1905, editor A. Griffith formed this political organization, whose name means "We Ourselves"
Sinn Fein
Bill
$1,000 [16]
Barcarole is a French word for the type of song sung by these boatmen
the gondoliers
Susan
$1,000 [11]
In 1880, this industrialist patented a method for making dry photographic plates
(George) Eastman
Bill
$1,000 [25]
Most glass is composed of silica, soda & this caustic ingredient, also known as calcium oxide
lime
Lois Susan

Final Jeopardy!

THE POST OFFICE

2 of the 1st 3 men depicted on U.S. stamps

(2 of) George Washington, Benjamin Franklin & Thomas Jefferson

Susan "Who are Washington & Franklin?" — wagered $0
Lois "Who are Washington & Alexander Hamilton?" — wagered $4,490
Bill "Who are Washington & Franklin?" — wagered $2,000

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