Show #1216 1989-12-11 (taped 1989-08-29) Regular

Missing introductions.

Contestants

Bob Caruso — a political consultant from Scranton, Pennsylvania

Daniel Gray — an author from Puyallup, Washington

Bill Warren — a restaurant owner originally from Rockville, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,201)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Bill	$700	$1,900	$6,600	$0 3rd place: Armitron watches + Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune	$8,400 21 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Daniel	$1,500	$2,900	$6,900	$100 2nd place: trip on Delta to the Bahamas & stay at the Pirate's Cove Holiday Inn	$4,700 18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Bob	$1,200	$1,800	$3,400	$1,800 New champion: $1,800	$3,400 14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY	ROCK 'N' ROLL FILMS	CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS	POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS	"FAIR"	FOWL
$100 [4] In 1955, for the 1st time, some 6.5 mil. children in the U.S. were vaccinated against this disease polio Daniel	$100 [8] "Let's Spend the Night Together" was filmed during this British group's 1981 U.S. tour The Rolling Stones Daniel	$100 [16] In ancient times church bells were rung to ward off these demons Daniel	$100 [13] Gloria Steinem probably knows this postal abbreviation for Mississippi MS Daniel	$100 [19] The part of a golf course covered with short grass & extending from the tee to the putting green the fairway Daniel	$100 [1] "On the 1st day of Christmas, my true love gave to me" this fowl "in a pear tree" a partridge Daniel
$200 [5] She was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984 Indira Gandhi Bob	$200 [9] This actor received an Oscar nomination for the title role in 1978's "The Buddy Holly Story" Gary Busey Daniel	$200 [17] 12th c. Bishop de Sully selected the site, hired the architects & bought materials for this Paris cathedral Notre Dame Bill	$200 [14] If you were sending mail to Peyton Place, you'd abbreviate Place this way PL Bill Bob	$200 [20] Alaskan city that was the scene of a 1902 goldrush Fairbanks Bob	$200 [2] Bird whose feathers are used for pillows & whose livers are used for paté de foie gras a goose Bill
$300 [3] During Nixon's 1st term, the Senate rejected both C. Haynsworth & H. Carswell for this post Supreme Court Bill	$300 [10] Buxom blonde who was the girl in 1956's "The Girl Can't Help It" Jayne Mansfield Bob	$300 [28] Located in the Vatican, it was named for Pope Sixtus IV the Sistine Chapel Daniel	$300 [21] The postal service would deliver a letter addressed GU to this place Guam Bill	$300 [23] Women, as a group the fair sex Bill	$300 [15] Of a young cock, a young hen or an old rooster, what you'd get if you ordered a pullet surprise a young hen Bill
$400 [6] This Russian won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970; he left the USSR 4 years later Solzhenitsyn Bob	$400 [11] Animated feature, partly scripted by Erich Segal, in which Pepperland was invaded by the Blue Meanies the Yellow Submarine Daniel	$400 [29] T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" takes place in this one, where Thomas à Becket was murdered Canterbury Cathedral Bill Daniel	$400 [27] State abbreviated NE; it's not in New England Nebraska Bob	$400 [24] Person to whom the nursery rhyme "London Bridge is falling down" is addressed my fair lady Bill	DD $500 [18] These are the largest game birds native to North America turkeys Bill
$500 [7] Thor Heyerdahl & a crew of 7 crossed the Atlantic in 1970 in the Ra II, a craft made of this papyrus Daniel	$500 [12] Title of this '80 film is from the colors preceding "Sabbath" & "Oyster Cult" in names of heavy metal groups Black and Blue Bob	$500 [30] You can see this emperor's throne in Germany's Aachen cathedral where he was entombed in 814 A.D. Charlemagne Bob	$500 [26] State whose postal abbreviation is the reverse of Louisiana's Alabama Daniel	$500 [25] An auxiliary structure you might see on a motorcycle that reduces drag & provides wind protection fairing Bill	$500 [22] When young male chickens are neutered they become this type of meaty bird a capon Bill Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CITIES	MYTHOLOGY	ILLINOISIANS	PHYSICS	PHILOSOPHERS	VAUDEVILLE
$200 [1] To illustrate neon lighting the World Book article on neon uses a photo of "The Strip" in this city Las Vegas Daniel	$200 [10] Since he was a Cyclops, Polyphemus had only one of these an eye Bob	$200 [23] The only president born in Illinois Ronald Reagan Daniel	$200 [17] If this is alternating, running it through a rectifier will turn it into direct current Bill	$200 [11] After Socrates died, this philosopher left Athens but later returned to found the Academy Plato Bob	$200 [3] He started in Vaudeville as a silent juggler before becoming a "Bank Dick" in film W.C. Fields Bob
$400 [2] The 2 largest cities in Vietnam; they both begin with "H" Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City Bill	$400 [18] His descendants were known as the Heraclidae Hercules Bill	$400 [24] This 1st president of NOW was born Betty Goldstein in Peoria Betty Friedan Bill	$400 [19] This unit of pressure is abbreviated atm. atmosphere Bill	$400 [12] Italian scholastic philosopher whose followers are known as Thomists St. Thomas Aquinas Bob	$400 [6] She began in Vaudeville as one of the Gumm sisters but then took a different path, one of yellow brick Judy Garland Bob
$600 [4] The "Lady with the Lamp" was born in & named for this Italian city Florence Bob	$600 [21] Some say this infamous guard dog had 3 heads; some say he had 50 Cerberus Bill	$600 [25] This 3-time presidential candidate was born in Illinois but died in Tennessee after the Scopes trial William Jennings Bryan Daniel	$600 [28] Term for the path of an electron around a nucleus or a planet around the Sun an orbit Daniel	$600 [13] Philosophical movement most associated with Jean-Paul Sartre existentialism Daniel	$600 [8] Tap dancer turned columnist known for his "Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. N. & S. America & all the ships at sea" Walter Winchell Bob
$800 [5] The capital of Canada's Northwest Territories, it sounds like cowardly cutlery Yellowknife Bill	$800 [20] No war could be started during the wild Dec. festival named for him, a ringleader among Roman gods Saturn Bill Daniel	$800 [26] This comedian was born in Chicago though his mother spent the 9 months she carried him in Waukegan Jack Benny Bill	$1,000 [30] His 1921 Nobel Prize was primarily for his photoelectric effect; he was light years ahead of others Albert Einstein Bill	$800 [14] Nobel Prize-winning English philosopher who wrote "Principles of Mathematics" & was an anti-nuclear activist Bertrand Russell Bill	$800 [9] Minnie, the sister of Al Shean, of Gallagher & Shean, was their mother the Marx Brothers Bill
$1,000 [7] A bullet train runs from Tokyo to this city called "The Venice of Japan" Osaka	DD $1,900 [22] Thismusical instrument has a mythological name, & legend says it was invented by a god:[Instrumental music plays.] the pan flute (the pan pipes) Bill	$1,000 [27] We don't know where he wrote "The Martian Chronicles", but we know he was born in Waukegan Ray Bradbury Bill	DD $3,000 [29] It's the transmission of light through fine, flexible glass rods fiber optics Daniel	$1,000 [16] His "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" says the mind is a tabula rasa, or clean slate, at birth John Locke Daniel Bob	$1,000 [15] He was known as "The Perfect Fool" Ed Wynn Bill Daniel

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH ROYALTY

The name of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was changed to Windsor during this monarch's reign

George V

Bob "Who is George VI" — wagered $1,600

Bill "Who was George VI?" — wagered $6,600

Daniel "Who is Victoria" — wagered $6,800

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