Show #1282 1990-03-13 (taped 1989-10-24) Regular

Missing introductions.

Contestants

Paul Oglesby — a lawyer from Mattoon, Illinois

Phil Leib — a typographer from Westfield, New Jersey

Jamie Orenstein — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $4,798)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jamie $1,300 $2,400 $4,100 $4,100
2nd place: trip on Delta to Boston & stay at the Copley Plaza Hotel + Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$5,400
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Phil $500 $1,300 $8,600 $9,001
New champion: $9,001
$8,900
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Paul $1,800 $2,300 $4,500 $700
3rd place: La-Z-Boy sleep sofa + Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$4,500
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE MYTHOLOGY SPORTS FASHION POTLUCK FILE UNDER "Z"
$100 [6]
An electric current generates this type of field
a magnetic field
Paul
$100 [1]
Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes & this goddess of love & beauty
Aphrodite
Jamie
$100 [15]
The 1st collegiate athletic contest was a crew race between these 2 Ivy League schools in 1852
Harvard & Yale
Phil
$100 [26]
This loose-fitting Hawaiian dress was given originally to the native women by missionaries
a muumuu
Jamie Phil
$100 [11]
The Cotton Club helped make this NYC neighborhood famous as an entertainment center in the 1920s
Harlem
Paul
$100 [21]
According to its name, this brand of TV is "the top"
Zenith
Phil
$200 [7]
Negatively charged, it was the 1st subatomic particle discovered
an electron
Paul
$200 [2]
Finn MacCool was a hero in the mythology of these early Europeans
the Irish
Paul
$200 [16]
The frog kick is the only leg movement allowed in this swimming style
the breaststroke
Jamie
$200 [27]
The first names of the 2 "Kleins" in the forefront of 20th century American fashion
Calvin & Anne
Phil
$200 [12]
Named for the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet, these brain waves are produced during deep sleep
delta waves
Jamie
$200 [22]
It's an Italian word for "little gourd" or squash
zucchini
Paul
$300 [8]
Anagram of "clan" that's a formula for salt
NaCl
Paul
$300 [3]
In his infancy this symbol of strength strangled 2 serpents sent by Hera
Hercules
Jamie
$300 [18]
A yokozuna is a grand champion in this Japanese sport
sumo wrestling
Jamie
$300 [28]
Numerical name of the baggy knickers worn by sportsmen of the 1920s & '30s
plus fours
Paul
$300 [13]
Type of Alpine singing heard in Act III of Rossini's "William Tell"
yodeling
Jamie
$300 [23]
Capital of the puppet state of Croatia during WWII, now capital of Yugoslavia's Croatian Republic
Zagreb
Jamie
$400 [9]
A star that's collapsed in upon itself creating a gravity field so strong not even light escapes
a black hole
Jamie
$400 [4]
Part human, part beast, these boisterous creatures were attendants of Dionysus
satyrs
Paul
$400 [19]
In 1963 this golfer first broke the $100,000 barrier for winnings
Arnold Palmer
Phil
$400 [29]
Sales of men's undershirts plummeted when Gable didn't wear one in this 1934 comedy
It Happened One Night
Jamie
$400 [14]
Will Rogers often opened his lectures saying, "All I know is" this
what I read in the paper
Phil
$400 [24]
Ohio city that has a museum displaying memorabilia of the author of "The Lone Star Ranger"
Zanesville
Phil
$500 [10]
The reason cyclones spin clockwise in the S. Hemisphere & the other way in the north is this "effect"
the Coriolis effect
$500 [5]
In Greek mythology these giants ruled the world before the gods & goddesses took over
the Titans
Paul
$500 [20]
Landover, Maryland is home to this National Hockey League team
the Washington Capitals
Phil
$500 [30]
1 of the most important 19th c. inventions was this Frenchman's loom that wove very intricate patterns
Jacquard
$500 [17]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Nathaniel Hawthorne were fellow students at this college in Brunswick, Me.
Bowdoin
Phil
DD $1,400 [25]
Group that had its biggest hit with thefollowingin 1964:"Well, no one told me about her, the way she lied / Well, no one told me about her,..."
The Zombies
Phil

Double Jeopardy! Round

MEDICINE MAGAZINES LITERARY TERMS MOUNTAINS AMERICAN ART LAURENCE OLIVIER
$200 [2]
In normal childbirth, this part of the baby emerges 1st
the head
Phil
$200 [10]
1 of 3 magazines published by the Children's Television Workshop
(1 of) Sesame Street Magazine , Kid City & 3-2-1 Contact
Phil
$200 [20]
The opposite of a preface or prologue; it's a short addition at the end of a literary work
an afterword (epilogue)
Phil
$200 [1]
Major chain formed when the Indian Shield pushed up against the Asian landmass
the Himalayas
Jamie
$200 [26]
Charles Russell, who lived 1864-1926, is known for his paintings of life in this section of the U.S.
the West
Phil
$200 [11]
Olivier filmed "Henry V" during this war; to avoid air raids, the battle scenes were shot in Ireland
World War II
Phil
$400 [5]
It's the most common emergency abdominal surgery in the Western world
appendectomy
Jamie
$400 [15]
Founded as a humor magazine in 1883, its name was bought by Time in 1936 & it was given a new format
Life
Phil
$400 [21]
It's the more common name of a soliloquy
a monologue
Jamie
$400 [3]
According to the Bible, he died on Mount Nebo which overlooks the Promised Land
Moses
Phil
$400 [25]
The chief exponents of this movement were Rosenquist, Lichtenstein & Warhol
pop art
Phil
$400 [12]
Olivier directed this woman, his 2nd wife, in the 1949 London production of "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Vivien Leigh
Phil
$800 [7]
An analgesic is taken to do this
relieve pain
Paul
$800 [18]
Cyrus Curtis founded this women's magazine in 1883; by 1987 its circulation was over 5 million
the Ladies' Home Journal
Phil Paul
$600 [22]
It's now defined as "silent performance", but originally it included dialogue
mime
Phil
$600 [4]
The Alps are divided among a number of countries; the Transylvanian Alps are all in this country
Romania
Jamie
$600 [27]
For a fresco, you have to put this on the wall before you apply the paint
plaster
Jamie
$600 [13]
On film he played this Shakespearean villain with a real limp after an arrow struck his leg
Richard III
Phil Paul
$1,000 [28]
3 semicircular canals in the inner part of this organ help maintain balance
the ear
Jamie
$1,000 [19]
Technology oriented publication that calls itself "The What's New Magazine"
Popular Science
$800 [23]
Poetry that uses natural cadences & stressed & unstressed syllables instead of meter is called this
free verse
Paul
$800 [8]
The chief system of Mexico; it consists of the Occidental, Oriental & del Sur Ranges
the Sierra Madre
$1,000 [29]
Leonard Craske's "The Man at the Wheel" statue in Gloucester, Massachusetts honors them
fishermen
Paul
$800 [14]
It was in this great romantic role that Olivier said, "The Moors and I will never change"
Heathcliff
Jamie
DD $1,300 [6]
Apoplexy is another term for this sudden loss of blood to the brain
a stroke
Jamie
DD $1,700 [17]
Playboy was based on the early formula for this men's magazine that featured Varga Girls
Esquire
Phil
$1,000 [24]
"He had a chin like Rin Tin Tin" is not only a rhyming couplet, it is also an example of this figure of speech
a simile
Paul
$1,000 [9]
The highest contiguous range of the Southern Appalachians
the Great Smoky Mountains
Jamie
$1,000 [16]
Olivier's favorite role was the seedy comic, Archie Rice, in this John Osborne work
The Entertainer
Phil

Final Jeopardy!

THE CALENDAR

In 8 B.C., when this month was renamed, a day from Feb. was added so it equaled the month before it

August

Jamie "What is August?" — wagered $0
Paul "What is July" — wagered $3,800
Phil "What is August?" — wagered $401

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