Show #1537 1991-04-16 (taped 1991-02-13) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Tom Klarquist — a physician originally from Cadillac, Michigan

Sheila Alway — a teacher from Clinton, New Jersey

Burt Albert — a lawyer from Salem, Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $28,402)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Burt	$2,600	$2,700	$6,100	$10,599 4-day champion: $39,001	$7,000 25 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Sheila	$700	$1,100	$-400	$-400 3rd place	$1,100 11 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)
Tom	$-300	$600	$800	$1,599 2nd place	$800 8 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY	PROVERBS	SCANDINAVIA	THE OSCARS	POTENT POTABLES	IT'S ABOUT TIME
$100 [1] With Rhode Island absent, the Constitution was signed September 17, 1787, by representatives from this many states 12 Burt	$100 [16] He that is his own one of these has a fool for a client a lawyer Sheila	$100 [18] Denmark's Kronborg Castle often hosts productions of this Shakespeare play Hamlet Burt	$100 [6] "Annie Hall" is the only film directed by him to have won an Oscar for Best Picture Woody Allen Burt	$100 [20] The "fish house" type of this drink served in a bowl contains rum & brandy, but luckily, no fish punch Sheila	$100 [11] Canine term for the days from mid-July to early September the dog days Burt
$200 [2] On August 11, 1958 the Skate became the second sub to go under the North Pole; this sub did it August 3 the Nautilus Sheila	$200 [17] Wanton kittens make sober these cats Tom	$200 [19] His childhood home in Odense, Denmark, is now a museum featuring fairy tale memorabilia Hans Christian Andersen Tom	$200 [7] When he served as the president of the Academy from 1927-29, his wife, Mary Pickford, won an Oscar Douglas Fairbanks Tom	$200 [24] To make an El Diablo, you need lime, creme de cassis, ginger ale & this Mexican liquor tequila Tom	$200 [12] In German, this day is called Mittwoch, meaning middle of the week Wednesday Burt
$300 [3] The USA's first commercial nuclear power plant was in this state that had our first oil well Pennsylvania Burt Sheila	$300 [21] This is half spent before we know what it is life Sheila	$300 [28] The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded in Stockholm, but in this capital city Oslo Burt	$300 [8] He won an Oscar for adapting his own novel, "The Exorcist", to film William Peter Blatty Burt	$300 [25] In names of cocktails, this color precedes baby, rose, & Russian white Burt Tom	$300 [13] Bissextile is another term for this kind of year a leap year
$400 [4] Black Friday, September 24, 1869, was Wall Street's reaction to Gould & Fisk's attempt to corner this the gold market Sheila	$400 [22] Do this in haste & repent at Reno marry Sheila	$400 [29] Sami, one of Norway's major languages, is spoken by this northern minority group Lapplanders Burt	DD $500 [9] 1 of the 2 songs by Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer that won Oscars in 1961 & 1962 "Moon River" (or "Days Of Wine And Roses") Burt	$400 [26] A "widow's dream" is a cocktail that contains this B&B ingredient benedictine Burt Sheila	$400 [14] India's Samrat Yantra, built in 1724 & 118' high, is the largest of these time pieces a sundial Sheila
$500 [5] From 1959-74, he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (William) Fulbright Burt	$500 [23] It is better to be born lucky than this rich	$500 [30] The names of the basic monetary units of all three Scandinavian countries mean this crown	$500 [10] Like brother Joseph, Herman Mankiewicz won an Oscar; his was for co-writing this 1941 Welles classic Citizen Kane Burt Tom	$500 [27] This cocktail made with lime juice, Southern Comfort & cranberry juice is named for a Southern belle the Scarlett O'Hara Sheila	$500 [15] The measurement of time by the apparent motion of fixed stars sidereal time

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR I	FICTION	DIPLOMACY	CLASSICAL MUSIC	SCIENTISTS	BIRTHPLACES
$200 [18] As First Lord of the Admiralty, this future British prime minister took the blame for the debacle at Gallipoli Churchill Burt	$200 [1] Dante's "Inferno" placed him in limbo while Cassius & Brutus dwelt in the lowest pit of Hell Caesar Burt	$200 [12] The United States handles its diplomatic affairs through this Cabinet department the State Department Tom	$200 [21] Among the sections of this Handel work are "His Yoke is Easy" & "He Shall Feed His Flock" "The Messiah" Tom	$200 [9] This Italian astronomer was born three days before Michelangelo died Galileo Burt	$200 [6] Our 12th president, Zachary Taylor, was the 7th president born in this state Virginia Burt
$400 [19] Billy Mitchell directed a 1918 attack against Saint-Mihiel by some 1,500 of these machines airplanes Burt	$400 [2] Though she has an illegitimate child & kills a man, the hearty tale about her is subtitled A Pure Woman Tess Burt	$400 [14] Following an appeal by this American, Syria released Navy pilot Robert O. Goodman on January 3, 1984 Jesse Jackson Burt	$600 [24] An ordained priest, this "Four Seasons" composer taught at a Venetian girls' orphanage for many years Vivaldi Sheila	$400 [13] For discovering radioactivity, Antoine Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Physics Prize with them the Curies Burt	$400 [7] Poet William Blake spent most of his life in this capital city, his birthplace London Burt
$600 [20] On August 4, 1914, 30,000 Germans attacked Liège despite this country's neutrality Belgium Sheila	$600 [3] According to the title of the Melville tale, Bartleby was one of these a scrivener Sheila	$600 [15] Jefferson held this rank when he represented us in France; the U.S. didn't have ambassadors until 1893 minister	$800 [25] He spent 17 years in the Russian navy & the sea figures prominently in his "Sadko" & "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov Burt	$600 [22] To continue his own work, this developer of the smallpox vaccine turned down a post with Captain Cook (Edward) Jenner Sheila	$600 [8] This stripper made her first nude appearance when she was born in Seattle in 1914 Gypsy Rose Lee Tom
$800 [27] The U.S. declared war on Germany April 6th, 1917, but not on this country until December 7th Austria-Hungary Burt Sheila	$800 [4] Title hero of a 1928 Virginia Woolf novel or a tourist city in central Florida Orlando Burt	$800 [16] Of 2, 4, or 5 years, the length of the UN secretary general's renewable term 5 years Burt	DD $1,500 [23] The Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus & Benedictus & the Agnus Dei are five parts of these compositions masses Sheila	$800 [26] In 1789, this French scientist published the first modern chemistry textbook Antoine Lavoisier Sheila Tom	$800 [10] The artist Sir Anthony Van Dyke was born in this Flemish city, one of the world's busiest ports, in 1599 Antwerp Sheila
$1,000 [28] In 1916, Charles succeeded this man as Habsburg emperor Franz Joseph	DD $1,000 [5] This Dickens tale may have been inspired by the mysteries of his friend Wilkie Collins The Mystery of Edwin Drood Burt	$1,000 [17] In 1985, after 28 years as Soviet foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko was replaced by him Eduard Shevardnadze	—	$1,000 [29] Sweden's Carl Wilhelm Scheele & this 18th century Englishman are both credited with discovering oxygen Joseph Priestley Burt	$1,000 [11] John James Audubon was born to a French father & Creole mother in what is now this Caribbean country Haiti Burt

Final Jeopardy!

MOUNTAINS

This granite peak is the most famous of the Black Hills

Mount Rushmore

Tom "What is Mount Rushmore?" — wagered $799

Burt "What is Mount Rushmore?" — wagered $4,499

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