Show #1476 1991-01-21 (taped 1990-10-15) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Jim Vespe — a medical and comedy writer from Mamaroneck, New York

Mary Anderson — a story editor from Santa Monica, California

Bill Dukes — a personnel manager from Claremont, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,100)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Bill	$700	$1,200	$4,200	$8,400 2nd place	$5,100 19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Mary	$300	$900	$5,900	$11,800 New champion: $11,800	$5,900 15 R, 4 W
Jim	$1,000	$3,300	$6,500	$1,200 3rd place	$6,500 16 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE	BIRDS	THE OCCULT	MARYLAND	COLORFUL PHRASES	LEONARDO
$100 [12] He was once the art director for Radio City Music Hall, as his daughter Liza could tell you Vincent Minnelli Bill	$100 [13] These birds were named for the river Phasis in Asia, where they lived along the banks pheasants Jim	$100 [25] Some of the mounts on your palm are named for planets; the mount of this planet is related to love Venus Bill	$100 [8] Temporarily moved to Newport, Rhode Island, the U.S. Naval Academy returned to this city in 1865 Annapolis Bill Mary	$100 [1] The business section of the telephone directory the Yellow Pages Bill	$100 [21] Vasari says while Leonardo was painting her, he had people amusing her so she wouldn't look melancholy the Mona Lisa Mary
$200 [16] After Nixon resigned in 1974, this daughter reportedly said, "Now I can wear hot pants to the supermarket" Julie Nixon Jim	$200 [17] Teddy Roosevelt established our first National Wildlife Refuge to protect these large-billed birds pelicans Mary	$200 [27] Now sold in toy stores, this occult communication device was invented by William Fuld in 1890 the Ouija board Bill	$200 [9] Maryland is nearly divided in 2 by this bay the Chesapeake Jim	$200 [2] One of the oldest breeds of dog, it's also the fastest the greyhound Bill	$200 [22] Leonardo was born in this small Tuscan town in 1452 Vinci Mary
$300 [11] In the late 1970s she became Minister of Human Settlements in the Philippines Imelda Marcos Bill	$300 [18] The most common species of these birds in the eastern U.S. is the ruby-throated the hummingbirds Bill	$300 [28] First name of Dr. Holzer, the ghost hunter who wrote "Life Beyond Life" & "Where the Ghosts Are" Hans Jim	$300 [6] The state song, "Maryland, My Maryland", is sung to the tune of this German Christmas Carol "O Tannenbaum" Jim	$400 [4] G.K. Chesterton wrote detective stories starring this shrewd Catholic priest Father Brown Mary	$300 [23] Leonardo served on the commission to decide where to put this big statue by Michelangelo "David" Bill
$400 [14] This "War and Remembrance" actor landed on the pop charts in 1958, singing "The Ballad of Thunder Road" Robert Mitchum Jim	$400 [19] Members of this bird family include the Canada spruce & the ruffed grouse Bill	$400 [29] These married physicists were among the scientists who investigated the Italian medium Eusapia Palladino the Curies Jim	$400 [7] Founded in Baltimore in 1980, Sojourner-Douglass College was named for these two abolitionists Sojourner Truth & Frederick Douglass Bill	DD $500 [3] Bobby Vinton's firstsongto make the pop charts, it went all the way to No. 1:"A long, long time ago, on graduation day, you handed me your book. I signed this way..." "Roses Are Red (My Love)" Bill	$400 [24] 1490s mural whose caption could be, "Verily I say unto you that one of you shall betray me" "The Last Supper" Jim
$500 [15] This TV loudmouth, whose father was a singer, is the nephew of actress Joan Bennett Morton Downey, Jr.	$500 [20] This term for an eagle's nest was once used to describe the young of an eagle aerie Mary	$500 [30] The LA Times reports this country's president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, says a ghost haunts her official home Iceland Jim	$500 [10] The official state insect, the Baltimore checkerspot, is one of these a butterfly	$500 [5] Nickname of Charles E. Bowles, a hooded robber who held up some 28 stage coaches between the years 1875-82 Black Bart Jim	$500 [26] This British castle's library has one of the finest collections of his drawings in the world Windsor Castle

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY	WORLD RELIGION	CLASSICAL MUSIC	NONFICTION	ISLANDS	COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE
$200 [30] In 1682 laws against capital punishment were enacted in this Quaker colony Pennsylvania Jim	$200 [14] Officers in this Christian movement founded by William Booth are ordained ministers the Salvation Army Mary	$200 [8] "Solveig's Song" is part of his "Peer Gynt" (Edvard) Grieg Mary	$200 [20] In 1840, after his return home, he published "Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle" Darwin Mary	$200 [13] At 402 square miles, it's the largest island in French Polynesia Tahiti Bill Jim	$200 [1] "There's a Girl in My..." Soup Mary
$400 [3] He was the first Vice President appointed under the terms of the 25th Amendment & he later became President Gerald Ford Jim	$400 [16] Theravada is the form of this religion practiced in Southeast Asia Buddhism Bill	$400 [9] Between April & December 1775 he wrote five violin concertos catalogued as Kochel 207, 211, 216, 218 & 219 Mozart Mary	$400 [21] Some consider James Boswell's biography of this author to be the greatest in the English language Samuel Johnson Mary	$400 [15] Archbishop Makarios became the first president of this Mediterranean island nation in 1960 Cyprus Bill	$400 [2] "To Be Young, Gifted and..." Black Mary Jim
$600 [4] Marcus Daly built the town of Anaconda, Montana from monies earned mining this mineral copper Bill	$800 [18] The Sharia is the canon law of this religion Islam Bill	$600 [10] Beethoven's "Piano Sonata in C sharp minor" is better known by this title "The Moonlight Sonata" Bill Mary	$600 [22] His books on ocean life include "The Silent World" & "The Living Sea" (Jacques) Cousteau Bill	$600 [25] This country consists of some 13,600 islands stretching from New Guinea to Sumatra Indonesia Jim	$600 [5] "Don't Bother Me, I Can't..." Cope Mary
$800 [27] Secretary of Defense who commissioned the "Pentagon Papers", a 47-volume study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam Robert McNamara	$1,000 [19] Melanesian cults that build replica wharves & airstrips to lure Western goods cargo cults Bill	$800 [11] Biographers note, while they were born near each other, Bach never met this "Fireworks Music" composer Handel Mary	$1,000 [24] In 1958, this artist's letters to his brother Theo were published in three volumes Van Gogh Mary	$800 [26] The largest one is Unimak the Aleutians Jim	$800 [6] "The Caucasian Chalk..." Circle Bill
$1,000 [28] Washington hired the man who ran this famous NYC tavern to be steward of the presidential household Fraunces Jim	DD $1,700 [17] Sikhs perform this ritual using water stirred with a two-edged sword baptism Bill	$1,000 [12] This pianist died at the age of 95 in 1982 & his ashes were scattered near Jerusalem, which holds a competition in his honor (Arthur) Rubinstein Mary	DD $1,500 [23] John F. Kennedy's 1940 thesis on England's unreadiness for war was published under this title Why England Slept Bill	$1,000 [29] America's Mackinac Island & Canada's Manitoulin Island lie in this Great Lake Lake Huron Bill	$1,000 [7] "The House of Blue..." Leaves Mary

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

The company named for this man is Sweden's largest manufacturer of chemicals

Alfred Nobel

Bill "Who was Nobel?" — wagered $4,200

Mary "Who was Nobel?" — wagered $5,900

Jim "Who is Farben?" — wagered $5,300

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