Show #1535 1991-04-12 (taped 1991-02-12) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Patty Stein — an attorney from Riverdale, New Jersey

Brian Olewnick — a capital assets manager from New York City, New York

Burt Albert — a lawyer from Salem, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Burt $1,600 $3,600 $7,800 $12,601
2-day champion: $17,001
$8,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Brian $-400 $1,200 $5,700 $5,700
2nd place
$4,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Patty $200 $1,100 $6,300 $1,199
3rd place
$6,300
16 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS WOMEN THE POST OFFICE 5-LETTER WORDS INSECTS MAGAZINES UNREAL ESTATE
$100 [1]
Last name shared by novelist Ayn & fan dancer Sally
Rand
Burt
$100 [9]
The post office says mail carriers have suffered almost 20,000 bites from these animals in the past 3 years
dogs
Patty
$100 [6]
Abraham Lincoln said, "As I would not be" one of these, "so I would not be a master"
a slave
Brian
$100 [7]
People get yellow fever from these disease carriers
a mosquito
Burt
$100 [8]
In 1922, a former Secretary of Agriculture published Fruit, Garden & Home, which became this in 1924
Better Homes & Gardens
Burt Patty
$100 [16]
This Thursday night sitcom takes place at Hillman College
A Different World
Brian Patty
$200 [2]
Margaret Bourke-White gained fame as one of these & was one of the first employed by Fortune magazine
a photographer
Burt
$200 [10]
This is the standard postal abbreviation for apartment
APT
Burt
$200 [23]
Pregnant women know it means "to yearn for", "covet" or "have a yen for"
to crave
Patty
$200 [27]
In some parts of the world, finding this chirping insect in your home is thought to bring good luck
a cricket
Patty
$200 [12]
The first man featured on its 4-page foldout was Lyle Waggoner of "The Carol Burnett Show"
Playgirl
Burt
$200 [17]
The title part of the Russian estate put on the auction block in a Chekhov play
The Cherry Orchard
Burt
$300 [3]
Nickname of speakeasy queen Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan, who was born in Waco in 1884
Texas
$300 [11]
The post office prefers that you type or print the address on an envelope using this color ink
black
Burt
$300 [24]
In "The Star-Spangled Banner", it's the last word you sing
brave
Patty
$300 [28]
This fruit fly, which probably originated in West Africa, first reached California in 1975
a Medfly
Patty
$300 [13]
This syndicated Sunday newspaper magazine is seen by over 35 million people a week
Parade
Burt
$300 [18]
James Spader is the younger man & Susan Sarandon the bolder woman working in this film's title burger stand
White Palace
Brian
$400 [4]
This Black Wimbledon champ appeared in the 1959 film "The Horse Soldiers" with John Wayne
Althea Gibson
Burt
$400 [21]
When you address an envelope, put the ZIP code on the last line next to this
the state
Burt
$400 [25]
An undertaker's work is so serious & solemn, it's often described as this type of matter
grave
Burt
$400 [29]
Ladybugs, fireflies & boll weevils are all members of this insect group
beetles
Brian
DD $400 [14]
Founder of the magazine whose first issue in 1936, captioned "Life Begins", showed a doctor slapping a baby
(Henry) Luce
Burt
$400 [19]
In this 1990 Peter Bogdanovich film, the kids from Anarene, Texas are planning a centennial
Texasville
$500 [5]
In the 1930s, this cosmetics queen opened a health resort at Main Chance Farm, her former country home
Elizabeth Arden
Burt Brian
$500 [22]
This will cost you 75 cents if you're mailing an item worth $50 or less
insurance
Patty
$500 [26]
In a deck of cards, a jack can also be called this
a knave
Brian
$500 [30]
Known as a 17-year locust, its developmental cycle is the longest of any known insect
a cicada
Brian
$500 [15]
Men's magazine that featured an article by Hemingway in its first issue in 1933
Esquire
Burt Patty
$500 [20]
In "The Music Man", Meredith Wilson used Mason City, Iowa as the basis for this fictional city
River City
Burt

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY LITERATURE RUSSIAN THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS WEATHER THE CIVIL WAR ANIMALS
$200 [3]
He began his saga of the Henry family in his 1971 bestseller, "The Winds of War"
(Herman) Wouk
Burt
$200 [1]
Meaning "one of the majority", it's what Lenin's followers were called
Bolsheviks
Patty
$200 [8]
In 1990, this "Pretty Woman" took home a Golden Globe for "Steel Magnolias"
Julia Roberts
Patty
$200 [20]
Heavy rains can trigger these sudden & severe deluges, especially in the Southwest
flash floods
Burt Brian
$200 [13]
Mistaken for the enemy, this general was shot by members of his own Stonewall Brigade
Stonewall Jackson
Burt
$200 [15]
About a third of a walrus's total weight is made up of this layer of fat
blubber
Brian
$400 [4]
In 1950, this playwright published his first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone"
Tennessee Williams
$400 [2]
Under this openness policy, once forbidden writers like Boris Pasternak are now being published
glasnost
Burt Brian
$400 [9]
Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway both won for this 1976 film
Network
Burt
$400 [22]
It's the point at which cooling vapor condenses into water droplets
the dew point
Brian
$400 [14]
Following the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued this edict January 1, 1863
the Emancipation Proclamation
Patty
$400 [16]
On the ground, a flock of these birds is called a gaggle; in the air, it's a skein
geese
Patty
$800 [6]
His short story collections include "Dandelion Wine" & "The Martian Chronicles"
Ray Bradbury
Brian
$600 [27]
This Russian word is used to describe the treeless area of the Arctic
the tundra
Brian
$600 [10]
Walter Matthau & Richard Benjamin received Golden Globes for this film, but George Burns didn't
The Sunshine Boys
Patty
$600 [23]
The frozen subsoil of the polar regions, which never thaws, has come to be called this
the permafrost
Burt
$600 [21]
This alleged inventor of baseball led troops that fired the first shots defending Fort Sumter
Abner Doubleday
Brian
$600 [17]
Blue, chocolate, lilac & seal point refer to the different colorings of this house cat
a Siamese cat
Patty
DD $1,000 [5]
James Joyce wrote about the Irish lower middle class in this 1914 story collection
The Dubliners
Burt
$1,000 [29]
Meaning self-boiler, it's a metal urn with a spigot used to boil water for tea
samovar
Patty
$800 [11]
In 1967, it was voted Best Foreign Language Foreign Film, & Anouk Aimee won, too
A Man and a Woman
Burt
$800 [26]
Because mercury freezes at about -38° Fahrenheit, weather stations in cold climates use this type of thermometer
alcohol thermometers
$800 [24]
The Rebs called the first major battle fought July 21, 1861, 1st Manassas; the Yankees called it this
Bull Run
Burt
$800 [18]
Mainly used for racing, the two fastest horse breeds are the quarter horse & this
thoroughbreds
Patty
$1,000 [7]
In 1950, this Nelson Algren novel about a drug addict won a National Book Award
The Man with the Golden Arm
Burt
DD $2,500 [28]
This word for "traveling companion" became known around the world in 1957
Sputnik
Brian
$1,000 [12]
In 1947, Harold Russell won an award for Best Non-Professional Acting for this post-World War II film
The Best Years of Our Lives
Burt
$1,000 [30]
Heavy rain & sometimes hail is produced by this type of cloud, also called a thunderhead
cumulonimbus
$1,000 [25]
Relieved of his command in 1862, this Union Army general later became governor of New Jersey
McClellan
Patty
$1,000 [19]
Of the five senses, the one associated with a snake's Jacobson's organ
sense of smell

Final Jeopardy!

BROADWAY MUSICALS

This musical featured such songs as "Heart" & "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo."

Damn Yankees

Brian "What is "Damn Yankees"?" — wagered $0
Patty "What is "Annie, Get Your Gun"?" — wagered $5,101
Burt "What is "Damn Yankees"?" — wagered $4,801

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