Show #1614 1991-09-12 (taped 1991-08-06) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Bruce Cole — a writer originally from Portland, Oregon

Ellen Jaffe McClain — a teacher from West Hollywood, California

Scott Zielan — a real estate appraiser from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,999)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Scott	$600	$2,000	$7,400	$100 2nd place	$6,700 21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Ellen	$900	$2,700	$8,100	$1,300 New champion: $1,300	$9,100 19 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Bruce	$1,300	$2,200	$6,200	$0 3rd place	$6,200 15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE	INDIANA	NICKNAMES	THE BIBLE	LANDMARKS	CELEBRITY SPELLING
$100 [18] This dark pigment is produced by skin cells called melanocytes melanin Scott Bruce	$100 [8] A memorial park in Fort Wayne honors this man who planted apple trees throughout the Midwest Johnny Appleseed Bruce	$100 [7] This "Around the World in 80 Days" producer was dubbed "Todd Almighty" Michael Todd Scott	$100 [15] When he saw the golden calf, he broke the first set of tablets containing the Ten Commandments Moses Ellen	$100 [1] The two heavenly bodies to whom the Aztecs built pyramids at Teotihuacan the Sun & the Moon Scott	$100 [3] Morley of "60 Minutes"; we won't give you 60 minutes to spell his last name S-A-F-E-R Scott
$200 [19] The snow that falls on these moving ice masses goes through a stage called névé or firn glaciers Ellen	$200 [26] Headquartered in Indianapolis, it's the nation's largest veterans organization the American Legion Scott	$200 [9] His standoffishness earned him the nickname "The Judge" long before he moved to Walden Pond Thoreau Scott	$200 [16] The Sermon on the Mount isn't mentioned in this fourth gospel John Ellen	$200 [2] The home Philip Johnson designed in New Canaan, Connecticut, is of this type that you don't throw stones in a glass house Ellen	$200 [13] We assume this director of "La Dolce Vita" is still living la dolce vita F-E-D-E-R-I-C-O F-E-L-L-I-N-I Ellen
$300 [22] Plutonic & volcanic are two types of this major category of rocks igneous Scott Bruce	$300 [27] More than half a million pieces of mail are received every Christmas season in this small town Santa Claus Ellen	$300 [10] This Massachusetts-born woman was "The Mother of the Red Cross" Clara Barton Scott	$300 [21] Matthew tells of these flowers of the field, the Song of Solomon, of the valleys the lilies Scott	$300 [4] A Hawaiian site got this name after British sailors thought volcanic crystals were precious stones Diamond Head Scott	$300 [14] Miss Mansfield, or Miss Meadows J-A-Y-N-E Bruce
$400 [23] Color of the shift that scientists study to determine the distance of a quasar from Earth the red shift Scott Bruce	$400 [28] William Henry Harrison & a thousand troops defeated the Shawnee Indians in an 1811 battle near this river the Tippecanoe Scott	$400 [11] Commanding general, who nicknamed J.E.B. Stuart "The Eyes of the Army" Robert E. Lee Bruce	$400 [24] Samson used this part of an ass to kill a thousand Philistines at Lehi the jawbone Bruce	DD $500 [5] In the 16th century, Catherine de Medici built these gardens on the former site of tile factories the Tuileries Scott	$400 [17] Ex-TV "Police Woman" Angie told us many people misspell her last name; she spells it this way (Angie) D-I-C-K-I-N-S-O-N Scott
$500 [30] These linkages holding groups of atoms together can be coordinate, electrovalent or covalent bonds Scott	$500 [29] You can visit the Terre Haute home of this socialist & 5-time presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs Ellen	$500 [12] The 2-word nickname Eleanor Roosevelt's father gave her, or the heroine of "The Old Curiosity Shop" Little Nell Ellen	$500 [25] Jesus was given this to drink on the cross vinegar Bruce	$500 [6] The Binnenhof, a 13th century complex that's the seat of the Netherlands government, is in this city The Hague Bruce	$500 [20] Gene Kelly didn't go back to Brigadoon to see Sid Caesar, but to be with this Cyd (Cyd) C-H-A-R-I-S-S-E Ellen

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES	WORLD LITERATURE	1959	SOUTHEAST ASIA	MYTHOLOGICAL OPERAS	"DE" GUYS
$200 [6] She didn't live to see her son elected president but she did see him become Monroe's Secretary of State Abigail Adams Bruce	$200 [12] A scientist who escapes the clutches of Captain Nemonarrates this 1870 tale by Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas Ellen	$200 [1] He was sworn in as Cuban premier on February 16th; he didn't become president until 1976 Castro Bruce	$200 [17] The largest city in Southeast Asia is Jakarta, this country's capital Indonesia Scott	$200 [30] This big wooden object is dragged inside the city walls in Act I of "The Capture of Troy" the Trojan Horse Scott	$200 [21] He was the founding president of France's Fifth Republic de Gaulle Scott
$400 [7] Mary Todd Lincoln, like her husband, was born in this state Kentucky Scott	$400 [13] Shortly after his "Candide" was published in Geneva, it was condemned by the city council Voltaire Bruce	$400 [2] Earl Long, the governor of this state, got out of a mental hospital by firing a couple of officials Louisiana Bruce	$400 [18] In Singapore, more than 75% of the population is of this ethnic group Chinese Ellen	$400 [27] Rameau's opera about Castor & this brother has been called his masterpiece Pollux Ellen	$400 [23] Before discovering the Mississippi, he helped Pizarro conquer the Incas de Soto Scott
$600 [8] Like Lucy Hayes, her immediate successor, she was the wife of a Civil War general Mrs. Grant Ellen	$600 [14] In Jane Austen's classic novel of two sisters, Eleanor represents "Sense" & Marianne this Sensibility Ellen	$600 [3] Baudouin I, the 28-year-old King of this country visited the United States on a good will tour Belgium Scott	$600 [19] Haiphong, Vietnam is the main port on this gulf the Gulf of Tonkin Ellen	$600 [20] Written in 1600, the earliest opera that has survived is about this wife of Orpheus Eurydice Bruce	$600 [10] Diamonds were first discovered in South Africa on this family's farm De Beers Scott Bruce
DD $1,000 [9] Dying in 1982 at the age of 97, she had lived longer than any other first lady Bess Truman Ellen	$800 [15] Language in which Oscar Wilde originally wrote "Salome" French Ellen	$1,000 [5] The only New York City building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it opened officially after his death the Guggenheim Museum Scott	$800 [22] On January 4, 1948, Burma gained its independence from this European power Great Britain Bruce	$800 [25] Henry Purcell's opera, "Dido & Aeneas", is based on Book IV of this the Aeneid Bruce	$800 [26] He built the Suez Canal, but failed in an attempt at a Panama Canal de Lesseps Ellen
$1,000 [11] Knowing what life with a soldier was like, she was against her daughter's marriage to Lieutenant Jefferson Davis Mrs. Zachary (Margaret) Taylor	$1,000 [16] "The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross" is the first book of this epic poemby Edmund Spencer The Faerie Queene Scott	DD $2,000 [4] The headline on the Times article about the Clutter family murder; Capote used it as the title of his book In Cold Blood Scott	$1,000 [24] It's the only nation in Southeast Asia ruled by a Sultan Brunei Ellen	$1,000 [28] After the death of her father Agamemnon is avenged, this heroine dances wildly then drops dead Electra	$1,000 [29] World Book says novelist Gustave Flaubert was the godfather of this short story writer (Guy) de Maupassant Ellen

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTORS

Advised to invent something to be used & thrown away, he did in 1895 & made a fortune

King Gillette

Bruce "Who was Kleenex?" — wagered $6,200

Scott "Who is Eastman?" — wagered $7,300

Ellen "Who was Kimberly?" — wagered $6,800

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