Show #1507 1991-03-05 (taped 1991-01-09) Regular

Mark Pestronk game 4.Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Carol Ruffner — an advertising executive originally from Chicago, Illinois

Scott Neugroschel — a software engineer and graduate student from Chatsworth, California

Mark Pestronk — a travel lawyer from Washington, D.C. (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,999)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mark	$0	$2,700	$7,900	$15,699 4-day champion: $51,698	$8,400 21 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Scott	$1,200	$-600	$3,600	$1,522 2nd place	$2,600 15 R (including 1 DD), 8 W
Carol	$1,400	$2,600	$8,100	$399 3rd place	$6,400 15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

1956	COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	CELEBRITY BIOGRAPHIES	THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH	ODDS & ENDS	CHAD & GERMANY
$100 [1] After the US withdrew an offer to finance this dam, Egypt seized the Suez Canal the Aswan Dam Scott	$100 [13] This New Jersey city has a Casino Career Institute that teaches craps, blackjack & roulette Atlantic City Mark	$100 [15] This Bob Woodward book was subtitled "The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi" Wired Mark	$100 [2] This term refers to all Americans, not just northerners, as in the United States Yankees Scott	$100 [7] William Gilbert coined the word electric & figured out the earth acts like a giant one of these a magnet Scott	$100 [22] Germany is in Europe, while Chad is on this continent Africa Mark
$300 [25] In October 1956, this Soviet satellite nation revolted & declared its neutrality Hungary Mark	$200 [14] This school at University Park, Pennsylvania was founded in 1855 as Farmers High School Penn State Scott	$200 [19] Late '40s-early '50s comedy team that's the subject of the bio "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" Martin & Lewis Carol	$200 [3] "Plonk" is the cheap type of this potent potable wine Scott	$200 [8] Hugh Hefner is helping to save Florida's Sylvilagus palustris hefneri, a breed of this named for him a rabbit Carol	$200 [23] Prior to independence in 1960, Chad had been ruled by this neighbor of Germany France Mark
$400 [26] He beat 39-year-old Archie Moore to become the youngest heavyweight champ up to that time Floyd Patterson Scott	$300 [16] NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is administered by this west coast school Caltech Mark	$300 [20] Chapter titles in a biography of this director include "The Informer", "They Were Expendable" & "Stagecoach" John Ford Scott	$300 [4] A British hairdresser calls them "plaits" braids Carol	$300 [9] In addition to two regular decks of 52 cards, Canasta uses four of these as wild cards jokers Scott	$300 [24] Germany has over 400 daily ones; Chad just 1, but then its literacy rate is only 17% newspapers Mark
DD $500 [12] Title of thefollowing, the biggest hit of 1956"You know I can be found / Sitting home all alone / If you can't come around / At least please telephone" "Don't Be Cruel" Mark	$400 [17] This Hanover, N.H. college has the oldest graduate school of business administration in the U.S. Dartmouth (College) Mark Scott	$400 [21] In a 1981 book title, Kitty Kelley called this actress "The Last Star" Elizabeth Taylor Scott	$400 [5] A "sleeping partner" isn't a bedmate, but this business relation silent partner Scott	$400 [10] In 1919, Asa Candler's family sold the Coca-Cola company for $25 million after he'd been elected this city's mayor Atlanta Carol	$400 [28] When it's noon at Greenwich, it's this time in both Chad & Germany 1:00 p.m. Mark
$500 [27] The last song the band played on board this ship before it sank was "Arrivederci Roma" the Andrea Doria Mark	$500 [18] Athletic teams from The Citadel, Georgia, Mississippi & Yale all share this nickname Bulldogs Carol	—	$500 [6] A U or universal certificate is equivalent to this American movie rating G Carol	$500 [11] A sculpture decorating the front of a ship or slang for a high profile, low power boss a figurehead Mark	$500 [29] Highly industrialized Germany has over 25,000 miles of these; Chad, none railroads Scott Carol

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY CHARACTERS	EUROPEAN HISTORY	THUNDER & LIGHTNING	ISLANDS	QUOTES	POCAHONTAS
$200 [16] The title character of this Dickens novel is the son of a murderer named Rudge Barnaby Rudge Scott Carol	$200 [1] Blanchard was first to cross this body of water in a lighter-than-air craft, Bleriot in a heavier-than-air the English Channel Scott	$200 [19] German for "lightning war", it's a swift military strike blitzkrieg Mark	$200 [6] No Man's Land, an island south of Martha's Vineyard, is the southernmost point of this state Massachusetts Mark	$200 [11] Ambrose Bierce called this emotion "a temporary insanity curable by marriage" love Carol	$200 [26] While held captive by the English, Pocahontas was converted to this religion & took the name Rebecca Protestantism (or Anglicanism or Christianity) Scott
$400 [17] The heroine of his novel "Roxana", or "The Fortunate Mistress", is as amorous as his Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe Carol	$400 [2] In the langues d'oil of N. France, these performers were trouveres; in the langue d'oc of S. France, this troubadours Carol	$400 [20] Nickname for moonshine that fits the category white lightning Mark	$400 [7] A bridge connecting these two California cities passes through Yerba Buena Island San Francisco & Oakland Mark	$400 [12] Oscar Levant said, "Strip away the phony tinsel of" this town "& you'll find the real tinsel underneath" Hollywood Scott	$400 [27] This captain claimed that Pocahontas saved him from being clubbed to death John Smith Mark
$600 [18] Before he dies, King Lear is briefly reunited with this daughter Cordelia Mark	$600 [3] The Palace of Peace in this Dutch city was completed in 1913, just before the world went to war The Hague Carol	$600 [21] The trio who ask, "When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning, or in rain?" the witches from Macbeth Carol	$600 [8] Governador Island is the site of Galeao Airport in this city, Brazil's second largest Rio de Janeiro Mark	$600 [13] According to Holbrook Jackson, man is this animal's "ideal of what God should be" a dog Scott	$600 [28] A mantle that may have been worn by this man, her father, is at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum Powhatan Scott
$1,000 [23] In a trio of novels by James T. Farrell, this is William Lonigan's nickname Studs Carol	$800 [4] In 1300, the gold coins of this Italian Republic on the Adriatic were accepted almost everywhere Venice Mark	$800 [24] This Carthaginian general, Hannibal's father, was called Barca, Phoenician for lightning Hamilcar Mark	$800 [9] Chateau d'If, featured in "The Count of Monte Cristo", is off the shore of this largest French port city Marseille Scott	$800 [14] This defender of John T. Scopes said, "There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court" Clarence Darrow Scott	$800 [29] Of "Indian princess", "playful one" or "tobacco leaf", what Pocahontas means playful one Mark
DD $2,500 [22] Occupation shared by Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey & Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre governess Carol	$1,000 [5] A hood-like cap is named for this place in the Crimea where the Light Brigade made its charge Balaclava	$1,000 [25] The sounds of distant thunder Rip Van Winkle heard were produced by odd-looking folks playing this ninepins Scott Carol	$1,000 [10] This Egyptian island where a lighthouse stood is now connected to Alexandria by an isthmus Pharos Carol	DD $2,000 [15] Samuel Johnson called this, "The last refuge of a scoundrel" Patriotism Scott	$1,000 [30] Pocahontas is buried beside this river the Thames Scott

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIE CLASSICS

This 1952 film was advertised with the slogan: "When the hands point up...the excitement starts!"

High Noon

Scott "What is Rock Around The Clock?" — wagered $2,078

Mark "What is High Noon?" — wagered $7,799

Carol "What is The Big Clock?" — wagered $7,701

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