Show #1534 1991-04-11 (taped 1991-02-12) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Burt Albert — a lawyer from Salem, Virginia

Janet Hutchinson — a bank executive from Hamilton, New Jersey

Les Friedman — a humanities teacher from Manlius, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,590)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Les $0 $2,200 $3,800 $0
2nd place
$3,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Janet $200 $-400 $400 $0
3rd place
$400
5 R, 3 W
Burt $1,700 $3,200 $7,200 $4,400
New champion: $4,400
$7,300
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

NAMES IN THE NEWS NEW YORK STATE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES AKA MYTHOLOGY "ALL" OR "NOTHING"
$100 [8]
MTV rejected her "Justify My Love" video as too hot to handle
Madonna
Burt
$100 [21]
This Republican served as governor from 1959 to 1973; in 1974, he became Vice President
Nelson Rockefeller
Burt
$100 [1]
In 1667, Solomon Stoddard was appointed this college's first librarian
Harvard
Burt
$100 [6]
Antonio Benedetto
Tony Bennett
$100 [13]
When he lost his golden touch by swimming in the River Pactolus, it was left with gold in its sands
Midas
Burt
$100 [17]
Completes the 1940 movie title, "Knute Rockne..."
All-American
Burt
$200 [9]
In a runoff election, he beat Stanislaw Tyminski by a 3-1 margin to become Polish president
Lech Walesa
Janet
$200 [22]
The easternmost point in the state is Montauk Point on this island
Long Island
Les
$200 [2]
This city's Emory University is called the Coca-Cola School because much of its funds comes from Coke stock
Atlanta
Les
$200 [7]
Conrad Robert Falk
Robert Conrad
Les
$200 [29]
In Rome, these women spent their lives tending the hearth at the Temple of Vesta
the Vestal Virgins
Les
$200 [18]
1 of 3 James Herriot book titles taken from a poem by Cecil F. Alexander
(1 of) All Creatures Great And Small , All Things Wise And Wonderful , or All Things Bright And Beautiful
Burt
$300 [10]
This reclusive movie actress's collection of art, etc., brought $21 million at auction
Greta Garbo
Burt
$300 [23]
When the Dutch established their colony in what's now New York, they gave the province this name
New Netherlands
Les
$300 [3]
City that's home to 1 of 4 campuses of the University of Tennessee
(1 of) Knoxville, Memphis, Martin, or Chattanooga
Burt
$300 [14]
Ramon Estevez
Martin Sheen
Janet
$300 [26]
Roman goddess of crossroads, her name means "meeting of 3 roads" or "trifling information"
trivia
Les
$300 [19]
Shakespearean comedy in which scheming friends bring together Beatrice & Benedick
Much Ado About Nothing
Janet
DD $500 [11]
This man, the United States' first drug czar, resigned that post in 1990
(William) Bennett
Burt
$400 [24]
In 1964, the New York State Thruway was renamed for this 1944 & '48 GOP presidential candidate
Thomas Dewey
Les
$400 [4]
This Pittsburgh University, named for 2 businessmen, was the first college in the world to grant degrees in drama
Carnegie Mellon
Burt
$400 [15]
Peter Aurness
Peter Graves
Burt
$500 [27]
Hawaii's Valley Island is named for this Polynesian sun god
Maui
$400 [20]
Elvis Presley's 1957 #1 hit that opens, "Oh, well, a-bless my soul, what's wrong with me?"
"All Shook Up"
Les
$500 [12]
This White House chief of staff & former New Hampshire governor was born in Havana, Cuba
John Sununu
Les
$500 [25]
City in Steuben County that has a glass museum & a factory where Steuben crystal is blown & engraved
Corning
Les
$500 [5]
This New England capital is home to the Berklee College of Music
Boston
$500 [16]
Delloreese Patricia Early
Della Reese
Burt
$500 [28]
As a candidate for this party in 1856, Millard Fillmore captured 8 electoral votes
the Know-Nothing Party
Burt

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY BIOLOGY COMPOSERS EUROPEAN RIVERS QUOTES FRUITY STORIES
$200 [6]
This, the oldest post-season college bowl game, was first played in Pasadena, January 1, 1902
the Rose Bowl
Janet
$200 [26]
The chromosomes of bacteria consist entirely of this substance with no RNA
DNA
Burt
$200 [17]
This composer used a melody by Sebastian de Iradier for the famous Habanera in "Carmen"
Bizet
Les
$200 [7]
The Henley Royal Regatta is held annually on this river
the Thames
Burt
$200 [1]
"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when" this happens, "that is news"
when a man bites a dog
Les
$200 [16]
It's the second of the four tales in which Tom Sawyer appears
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Les
$400 [8]
About 46 million people saw her TV tour of the White House in 1962
Jackie Kennedy
Janet
$400 [27]
This heart valve is named for its three flaps, or cusps
the tricuspid valve
Les
$400 [18]
This man, the "Father of the Waltz", was father of the "Waltz King"
(Johann) Strauss
Burt
$400 [9]
The 1,100-mile-long Kama River is this Russian river's greatest tributary
the Volga
Janet
$400 [2]
In 1927's "The Jazz Singer", he was heard saying, "You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks"
Al Jolson
Les
$400 [20]
It opens as Tom Joad travels home from prison through drought-stricken Oklahoma
The Grapes of Wrath
Burt
$600 [13]
Until 1999, this planet, usually eighth in distance from the sun, will be the farthest
Neptune
Janet
$600 [28]
Light entering the eye is partially refracted by this membrane before reaching the lens
the cornea
Burt
$600 [19]
In her novel, Lucrezia Floriani, George Sand portrayed this man, her lover, as a weakling
Chopin
Burt
$600 [10]
The Grand & Royal Canals link Dublin with Ireland's west coast via this river
the Shannon River
Les
$800 [4]
You'll find "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" under this author's name in "Bartlett's" quotes
(Mario) Puzo
Burt
$600 [21]
The wacky Disney gang of 1975 that rode again in 1979
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Les
$800 [14]
This country was technically neutral in World War II, but allowed the Allies to use bases in the Azores
Portugal
Janet Burt
DD $600 [29]
When blood does this, fibrinogen is converted to fibrin
clot
Burt
$800 [24]
He wrote "Petrushka" for Diaghilev & a circus polka for the Ringling Brothers
Igor Stravinsky
$800 [11]
Only small boats can navigate most of the 565-mile-long Ebro, this country's longest river
Spain
Burt
DD $1,000 [3]
In 1964, he said, "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political & moral questions of our time"
Martin Luther King
Les
$800 [22]
Anthony Burgess created this novel's Nadsat language from proper Russian & English, as well as slang
A Clockwork Orange
Burt
$1,000 [15]
William D. Ruckelshaus was the first head of this agency, established December 2, 1970
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Les Burt
$1,000 [25]
Mussorgsky commemorated pictures by his artist friend, Viktor Hartmann, in this piece
"Pictures At An Exhibition"
$1,000 [12]
2 important World War I battles were fought at this small tributary of the Seine
the Marne
$1,000 [5]
In a patriotic song, this word precedes "God mend thy every flaw"
America
$1,000 [23]
Ingmar Bergman's classic 1957 film that's noted for its use of flashbacks
Wild Strawberries
Les

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN DRAMA

1 of the last 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays with a woman's name in the title; they won in 1988 & 1989

The Heidi Chronicles or Driving Miss Daisy

Janet "What is" — wagered $400
Les "What is" — wagered $3,800
Burt "What is Daisy Miller?" — wagered $2,800

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