Show #1549 1991-05-02 (taped 1991-02-19) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

Jeff Raines — a writer originally from Birmingham, Alabama

Danna Schoenberg — an attorney from New York City, New York

Kay Kipling — a journalist from Bradenton, Florida (whose 3-day cash winnings total $36,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kay $200 $-600 $4,800 $2,800
3rd place: Tasco telescope & tripod + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version
$4,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Danna $2,000 $400 $3,400 $6,800
2nd place: Samsung VHS camcorder & Hatteras hammock + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version
$4,200
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Jeff $800 $2,300 $6,500 $9,601
New champion: $9,601
$7,500
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

1ST NOVELS RELIGION 5-LETTER WORDS WEATHER NO. 1 HITS LEFTOVERS
$100 [1]
"The Naked & the Dead"
Norman Mailer
Kay
$100 [11]
From the Hebrew meaning to rest, it's the day of rest observed by Jews & Christians
the Sabbath
Danna
$100 [3]
What the homecoming queen rides on or her ice cream drink
a float
Danna
$100 [5]
The National Center for these stormsis in Coral Gables, Florida
hurricane
Kay
$100 [15]
One of five No. 1 hits for The Four Seasons
(1 of) "Rag Doll" ("Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like A Man" or "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)")
Danna
$100 [17]
This brand of pencil by Dixon was named after a Revolutionary Warfort in upstate New York
Ticonderoga
Kay
$200 [2]
"Tropic of Cancer"
Henry Miller
Jeff
$200 [12]
The Mormons officially ended this practice in 1890
polygamy
Danna
$200 [4]
Your heart, your stomach, or your keyboard instrument
an organ
Danna
$200 [21]
From the Latin for cast down, it's any form of rain or snow
precipitation
Jeff
$200 [16]
One of four solo No. 1 hits by Lionel Richie
(1 of) "Hello", "All Night Long", "Truly" or "Say You, Say Me"
Danna Jeff
$200 [18]
Common name of the Ficus elastica, an ant can't move one without "High Hopes"
a rubber tree plant
Danna
$300 [6]
"Tarzan of the Apes"
(Edgar Rice) Burroughs
Danna
$300 [13]
In the Western churches, Epiphany commemorates their visit to Jesus
the Magi (the Three Wise Men)
Jeff
$300 [9]
This word can refer to a golf course, or to several sausages
links
Danna
$300 [22]
In the Northern Hemisphere, eastbound aircraft fly with this to gain speed & save fuel
the jet stream
Jeff
$300 [28]
One of three No. 1 hits for The Monkees
(1 of) "I'm A Believer" ("Daydream Believer" or "Last Train To Clarksville")
Kay
$300 [19]
When the cost of a first class stamp went to 29 cents, this became the postage for a standard postcard
19 cents
Kay
$400 [7]
"Appointment in Samarra"
John O'Hara
$400 [25]
It's the largest Protestant denomination in the United States
Baptist
Danna Jeff
$400 [10]
Adjective, meaning ultra fashionable; it's from the name of a hotel chain, not crackers
ritzy
Danna
$400 [23]
A weather vane points in this direction
it points in the direction from which the wind is coming
Jeff
$400 [29]
One of two solo No. 1 hits by Ringo Starr
"You're Sixteen" (or "Photograph")
Kay Danna Jeff
$400 [20]
Guinness says the greatest advance for any one book is the $5 million for this author's "Whirlwind"
(James) Clavell
Jeff
$500 [8]
"Battle Cry"
Leon Uris
Jeff
$500 [26]
Completes the Muslim creed, "There is no God but Allah"
And Muhammad is his prophet
Kay Jeff
$500 [14]
To avoid making a clear, direct response, about your pivot, for example
hedge
Danna
$500 [24]
Air pressure is also called this from the instrument used to measure it
barometric (pressure)
Danna Jeff
DD $800 [30]
Heard here, it's Lloyd Price's only No. 1 hit:"The night was clear / And the moon was yellow / And the leaves came tumbling Down / I was standing on the corner / When I heard my bulldog bark / He was barkin' at the two men who were gamblin'..."
"Stagger Lee"
Danna
$500 [27]
Of the five recognized breeds of retriever, it's the only one developed in the United States
the Chesapeake Bay retriever
Danna

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER ANIMAL KINGDOM POLITICS EUROPEAN HISTORY PLAYWRIGHTS ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
$200 [16]
After flowing through part of India, the Brahmaputra joins this sacred river in Bangladesh
the Ganges
Danna
$200 [22]
In names of insects, this word follows alfalfa, strawberry, apple blossom & cotton boll
weevil
Kay
$200 [2]
At a salary of $130,000 a year, this New Yorker is the nation's highest paid governor
Mario Cuomo
Kay
$200 [11]
As a result of the War of Spanish Succession, Britain received Menorca & this rocky colony
Gibraltar
Jeff
$200 [1]
Sean O'Casey broke with this city's Abbey Theater after it rejected his "The Silver Tassie"
Dublin
Jeff
$200 [18]
The Chinese use this practice, which they developed, as a non-chemical form of anesthesia
acupuncture
Jeff
$400 [17]
Idaho Falls is the largest city on this 138-mile-long winding river
the Snake
Danna
$400 [23]
Some of these ray-like fish have electric organs in their tails & they sound like they belong in a rink
skate
Kay
$400 [5]
Although a registered Republican, he backed JFK in 1960 and became his Secretary of Defense
(Robert) McNamara
Jeff
$400 [12]
This country's last king, Stanislaus II took the throne in 1764 & ruled for 31 years
Poland
Kay
$400 [3]
His play, "The Matchmaker", was first produced under the title "The Merchant of Yonkers"
Thornton Wilder
Kay
$400 [28]
In 1895, Daniel Palmer became the first of these doctors who believe disease results from a misaligned spine
chiropractor
Kay
$600 [19]
Wisconsin's Green Bay is an extension of this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
Jeff
$600 [24]
The whippet, which was bred by crossing terriers with these, is called the poor man's race horse
a greyhound
Danna
$600 [6]
Also called The People's Party, it held its first convention in 1892 and ran James B. Weaver for President
the Populist Party
Kay
$600 [13]
The noble house with this color's name originated in France but has ruled the Netherlands since 1815
the House of Orange
Jeff
$600 [4]
This "Breakfast of Champions" author's play "Happy Birthday, Wanda June", opened off Broadway in 1970
Kurt Vonnegut
Jeff
$800 [27]
New age practitioners believe these rocks are alive and have healing powers
crystals
Jeff
$800 [20]
The name of this large Florida lake comes from the Seminole word for "big water"
Lake Okeechobee
Jeff
$800 [25]
The gavial, a crocodilian with a long narrow snout, is native to this continent
Asia
Danna
$800 [7]
Until appointed Defense Secretary, Dick Cheney was this state's only representative in the House
Wyoming
Jeff
DD $1,000 [14]
The Romans called Scotland, Caledonia & the people this, from a Latin word meaning painted
the Picts
Jeff
$800 [9]
Last name of the British twin brothers who between them, wrote "Amadeus" and "Sleuth"
Shaffer
Kay
$1,000 [21]
At 2,400 feet, the Norway Gulf is this sea's deepest point
the North Sea
Kay
$1,000 [26]
The Grant's species of this antelope has black-ringed horns that can be over 30 inches long
the gazelle
Danna
$1,000 [8]
This West Virginian is president pro tempore of the Senate
Robert Byrd
Kay
$1,000 [15]
The council of this Italian city was held in the mid-16th century to define Catholic belief
the Council of Trent
DD $1,200 [10]
He wrote "Murder in the Cathedral" for a 1935 festival in Canterbury where the play is set
T.S. Eliot
Kay

Final Jeopardy!

WARS

As of February 1991 the V.A. was still paying death pensions to 5 widows of veterans of this war

the Civil War

Danna "What is theSpanish American WarCivil War?" — wagered $3,400
Kay "What is the Spanish American War?" — wagered $2,000
Jeff "What is the Civil War?" — wagered $3,101

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