Show #1592 1991-07-02 (taped 1991-03-19) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

Molly Redfield — a Ph.D. candidate from Claremont, California

Garrison Osburn — a travel agent from Dallas, Texas

Mark Wasley — a computer consultant from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $47,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $600 $1,800 $6,600 $0
3rd place: Maytag Jetclean dishwasher + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$6,600
17 R, 1 W
Garrison $2,200 $2,300 $900 $2
2nd place: Orrefors stemware + Michael C. Fina 5-piece buffet service + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$5,900
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Molly $500 $3,600 $10,700 $8,100
New champion: $8,100
$8,100
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

1990 AESOP'S FABLES TRAVEL & TOURISM MEDICINE POTLUCK MUSICAL DOUBLETALK
$100 [26]
Congress approved not a one, not a two, but $500,000 to renovate this bandleader's birthplace
Lawrence Welk
Mark
$100 [17]
Every time the boy cried this, the villagers came to help him until he was really in trouble
wolf
Molly
$100 [16]
This London intersection may have gotten its name from the lace collars or pickadels sold there
Piccadilly Circus
Garrison
$100 [1]
Victims of heart disease tend to have high levels of this fatty compound in their blood
cholesterol
Molly
$100 [9]
Pfeffernusse are Christmas cookies whose name comes from this ingredient unusual in cookies
pepper
Mark
$100 [3]
The words Nanette hates to hear in the title song of the 1923 musical
no, no
Molly
$200 [27]
Rolling Stone reported this group's album went gold in one week, though you could buy it only at Pizza Huts
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Garrison
$200 [18]
In some versions, he's quoted as saying "Slow & steady wins the race"
the tortoise
Mark
$200 [19]
You can take a 1,000-mile excursion on this river from Belem to Manaus
the Amazon
Mark
$200 [2]
What we call the common one can be caused by some 200 different viruses
the cold
Garrison
$200 [10]
In Monopoly these two rolls of the dice can be made only by getting doubles
12 & 2
Mark
$200 [5]
It's what The Everly Brothers said to love in the title of their first Top 10 hit
bye, bye
Molly
$300 [28]
Hours after this man resigned, a surprised Gorbachev said he had been planning to makehim vice president
Shevardnadze
Molly
$300 [23]
It was killed to get all the gold it could give, but when opened, it had nothing inside
the goose (that laid the golden eggs)
Mark
$300 [20]
To make a local telephone call in this European country deposit 150 zloty & dial
Poland
Molly
$300 [4]
To steady an irregular heartbeat, a surgeon may implant one of these devices
a pacemaker
Garrison
$300 [11]
The home of the Williamson West Virginia Chamber of Commerce has walls made of this fuel
coal
Mark
$300 [6]
The university's fight song urges us to do this for old Notre Dame
cheer, cheer
Garrison
$400 [29]
Among the colors retired from its 64 count box were raw umber, orange yellow, & violet blue
Crayola
Mark
$400 [24]
2-word phrase for something disparaged because it's beyond one's reach, from an Aesop fable
sour grapes
Molly
$400 [21]
In this European country, ice cream stores are called gelaterias
Italy
Garrison
$400 [14]
In the U.S. the blood type indicated by this letter is most common
O
Garrison
$400 [12]
The fold of cloth that covers a garment fastening such as a zipper
a fly
Molly
$400 [7]
The Mamas & the Papas found this day so good to me, it was in their title twice
Monday, Monday
Garrison
$500 [30]
Two of the three men who were world heavyweight boxing champs in 1990
(2 of) Mike Tyson & Buster Douglas (or Evander Holyfield)
Garrison Molly
DD $1,000 [25]
After pretending to be one of these, the jay was told it is not only fine feathers that make fine birds
the peacock
Molly
$500 [22]
One of the highlights in visiting this kingdom is Everest National Park
Nepal
Molly
$500 [15]
Alcoholism & viral hepatitis are responsible for most cases of this liver disease in the United States
cirrhosis
Garrison
$500 [13]
A Tuskegee Alabama monument shows this educator lifting the veil of ignorance from a freed slave
Booker T. Washington
Molly
$500 [8]
The title noise the Nash Rambler makes in the 1958 novelty tune
beep, beep

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELS LAW FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES MASSACHUSETTS WORLD HISTORY BIRTHPLACES
$200 [7]
In this autobiographical novel Dickens based Mr. Micawber on his own father
David Copperfield
Molly
$200 [6]
It can be defined as action taken to prevent harm to one's property as well as one's person
self-defense
Molly
$200 [1]
In French, it not only means the art of cooking but the kitchen where one does it
cuisine
Garrison
$200 [22]
This hook-shaped peninsula was named for the fish caught off its shores
Cape Cod
Molly
$200 [12]
In 1976, Pol Pot became prime minister of the new communist government in this country
Cambodia
Garrison
$200 [17]
Newsman & "Nightline" host who was born in Lancashire, England
Ted Koppel
Molly
$600 [9]
His fictional bios include "Lust for Life" about van Gogh and "The Agony & the Ecstasy" about Michelangelo
(Irving) Stone
Mark
$400 [24]
Meaning "under penalty", it is a writ commanding one's appearance in court
a subpoena
Molly
$400 [2]
This state's name means "snow covered" in Spanish; its Sierra Mountains look like that each winter
Nevada
Mark
$400 [23]
This National Football League team plays its home games in Foxboro
the Patriots
Mark
$400 [13]
17th century explorers found ruins of the Norse settlement founded by Erik the Red here around 985
Greenland
Mark Molly
$400 [18]
Anna Magnani & Omar Sharif were both born in this second largest city in Egypt
Alexandria
Molly
$800 [10]
In the 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel, Coalhouse Walker plays this title type of music
ragtime
Garrison
$600 [25]
A criminal's accomplice, before the fact or after the fact
an accessory
$600 [3]
This word placed after the name is the Japanese equivalent of Mr., Miss & Mrs.
san
Mark
$600 [28]
Every year on the third Sunday in April, lanterns are hung in this Boston building steeple
the Old North Church
Garrison
$600 [14]
Driven out of China by the Mongols in the 13th century, they came back in 1644 & established the Qing Dynasty
the Manchurians
Mark
$600 [19]
Born in Petrovichi, USSR, he has written over 300 books including "I, Robot"
Asimov
Mark
$1,000 [11]
Just like magic,"Hocus Pocus" became a bestseller for him in 1990
Kurt Vonnegut
Garrison
$800 [26]
It refers to someone who would stoop to settling on someone else's land without permission
a squatter
Molly
$800 [4]
The profession of a German "Kapellmeister"
the choirmaster
Molly
$1,000 [30]
You can ride the USA's oldest operating carousel when visiting this island, the state's largest
Martha's Vineyard
Mark
$800 [15]
Sir Martin Frobisher was encouraged by Elizabeth I to conduct a search for this route
the Northwest Passage
Mark Molly
$800 [20]
He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia & founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church there
Jerry Falwell
Garrison
DD $2,500 [8]
The two countries that fought the war in "War and Peace"
Russia & France
Molly
$1,000 [27]
From the Latin for "to change", it's not a pardon, but a change that lessens the severity of a sentence
commute (commutation)
Garrison
$1,000 [5]
It means "dark chamber" in Latin, especially the one in which inverted images can be seen
a camera obscura
Mark
DD $5,000 [29]
The 2 U.S. presidents in the second half of this century born in Massachusetts
John Kennedy & George Bush
Garrison
$1,000 [16]
Chilean army general who led the coup that overthrew Allende
(Augusto) Pinochet
Molly
$1,000 [21]
Though we don't know where he lives now, this "Gravity's Rainbow" author was born in Glen Cove, New York
Thomas Pynchon
Garrison

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

This survivor of WWII's Bataan Death March went on to become a world leader

Ferdinand Marcos

Garrison "Who was Gandhi?" — wagered $898
Mark "Who was Ralph Bunche?" — wagered $6,600
Molly "Who was" — wagered $2,600

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