Show #1234 1990-01-04 (taped 1989-09-12) Regular

Missing introductions.

Contestants

Joe Haggerty — a distributor originally from Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Mary Heffron — originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

Mark Kassabian — from Pasadena, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $4,800 $5,800 $6,600 $13,199
2nd place: Profile vertical blinds + Code-A-Phone 2670 answering system + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version
$7,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Mary $500 $300 $3,500 $4,000
3rd place: La-Z-Boy sleep sofa + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version
$4,500
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Joe $100 $900 $6,700 $13,301
New champion: $13,301
$6,700
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

STARTS WITH "D" SONGS COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES SHOW BIZ BUSINESS WHITE WATER
$100 [6]
It could be a beaver's mother or the barrier the beaver builds to protect his island lodge
a dam
Joe
$100 [11]
The intro of this song tells us "Mrs. William Bailey was out hanging clothes on the line"
"Bill Bailey, Won't You Please... Come Home?"
$100 [1]
Established in 1802, it was the 1st of the service academies
Army, West Point
Mark
$100 [13]
This Viacom music television format now broadcasts in 24 countries
MTV
Mary
$100 [19]
An inhabitant of Byelorussia
a white Russian
Joe
$100 [17]
As of 7/1/89 all new residential ones of these installed in L.A. must be of the ultra low-flush variety
toilets
Mark
$200 [8]
Among nobility, it's the rank just under prince
duke
Mark
$200 [12]
"I found my April dream in" this country "with you"
Portugal
$200 [2]
Ben Franklin was a founder of the academy that evolved into this university
the University of Pennsylvania
Mark
$200 [24]
This network is by far the most profitable on cable or commercial TV in the U.S.
NBC
Joe
$200 [20]
In French it's "vin blanc"
white wine
Joe
$200 [18]
At the 1988 Summer Olympics Yugoslavia won the gold in this team sport
water polo
Mary Joe
$300 [7]
To eliminate malfunctioning elements in a computer prog. or hidden mikes in a room
to debug
Mark
$300 [14]
The Chordettes asked him to give their dream "lots of wavy hair like Liberace"
Mr. Sandman
Mark
$300 [3]
This Baltimore school endowed by a local banker has always been known for its a graduate programs
Johns Hopkins
Mark
$300 [25]
In 1989 an Oscar was given to this film manufacturer in honor of its 100 years in the industry
Eastman Kodak
Mark
$300 [23]
The name of this smooth white stone may be from Egyptian for "vessel of (the goddess) Baste"
alabaster
$300 [28]
The Soviet liner Maxim Gorky made news in June 1989 when it accidentally did this
hit an iceberg
$400 [9]
A sequence where square dancers approach each other, circle back to back & resume original positions
a do-si-do
Mary
$500 [16]
They're the dead cowboys who are "a-tryin' to catch the devil's herd across these endless skies"
"Ghost Riders In The Sky"
Joe
$400 [4]
King's College became Columbia U., & Queen's College became this N.J. state university
Rutgers
Mark
$400 [26]
This company's Orlando studio is the largest working U.S. movie & TV studio outside California
Universal
Mark Mary
$400 [22]
The white rats used in lab work are Norway rats of this type
albinos
Mary
$500 [10]
A picture or design printed on special paper to be transferred to another material
decal
Mark
DD $2,000 [15]
1930s song to which the Marcels added thefollowingover 25 years later:"Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom ba ba bom ba ba bom ba ba dang a dang dang / Ba ba ding a dong ding"
"Blue Moon"
Mark
$500 [5]
During the Colonial period this was the only college in the South
William & Mary
Mark
$500 [27]
The Beatles' Co. filed suit against a computer company for using this name on musical synthesizers
Apple
Mark
$500 [21]
Nickname of the group of navy battleships that began a 14-month world cruise in 1907
the Great White Fleet
Mark

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELS HISTORIC NAMES VOCABULARY JAPAN MAGIC & THE OCCULT ART
$200 [25]
Dumas père's novel "The Black Tulip" is, not surprisingly, set in this country
Holland
Mark
$200 [6]
This nautically nicknamed prince of Portugal never traveled farther than North Africa
Prince Henry the Navigator
Mark
$200 [1]
Chemical compound named for the man who introduced tobacco into France, Jean Nicot
nicotine
Mary
$200 [9]
6th c. Prince Shotoku called himself "emperor of the rising sun" & called the emperor of China this
the emperor of the setting sun
Mary
$200 [8]
A "scryer" can supposedly divine future or distant events by gazing into one of these
a crystal ball
$800 [27]
Type of painting that John Constable & J.M.W. Turner were famous for in 19th century England
landscapes
Mary
$400 [24]
After R. Chillingworth dies, Pearl becomes "the richest heiress of her day" in this novel
The Scarlet Letter
Mark
$400 [7]
This Shoshone woman was probably the most famous Indian guide of all time
Sacagawea
Joe
$400 [2]
Yiddish verb & noun for snack; it derived from Old High German "nascon", to gnaw
a nosh
Mary
$400 [12]
Noh plays were 1st performed in the 14th century, while these livelier dramas began in the 16th
kabuki
Mark
$400 [20]
Magician's prop that's usually made of hazel wood cut from a tree at sunrise
a magic wand
Joe
DD $2,000 [26]
Surrealist painter of thefollowing whose French title means "This is Not a Pipe":
René Magritte
Mark
$600 [23]
When she worked for Mr. Rochester, this was Jane Eyre's profession
governess
Mary
$600 [10]
Some say this outlaw pair was killed by soldiers during a bank robbery in Uruguay, not in Bolivia
Butch Cassidy & Sundance
Mary
$600 [3]
Northern opportunists in the post-Civil-War South, named for their luggage
carpetbaggers
Mary
$600 [13]
As a result of WWII Japan lost the southern Kurile Islands to this country, its closest neighbor
the Soviet Union
Mark
$600 [19]
Magic word that's based on 1st 4 letters of the alphabet
abracadabra
Joe
$800 [21]
The 1897 novel in which Lucy Westenra ends up with a stake through her heart
Dracula
Joe
$800 [11]
This empress of Mexico was in Europe when her husband, Maximilian, was executed in 1867
Carlota
Joe
DD $1,000 [4]
The name of this elected office is from the Latin word for old man
senator
Mary
$800 [14]
"The old pond a frog jumps in the sound of the water," is a translation of 1 of these
a haiku
Mary
$800 [18]
This 5-pointed star is traditionally a powerful weapon in magic
a pentagram
Joe
$1,000 [22]
His novel "Barnaby Rudge" contains vivid descriptions of the anti-Catholics riots of 1780
Charles Dickens
$1,000 [15]
His son Richard ruled England from 1658-9 but later fled to Paris where he went by the name "John Clarke"
Oliver Cromwell
Joe
$1,000 [5]
Term for the buying of church positions, from Simon Magus who tried to do so in the Bible
simony
Mark
$1,000 [16]
The world's largest active volcanic crater, Mount Aso, is on this southernmost of the main islands
Kyushu
Joe
$1,000 [17]
This root used in potions is said to resemble a human form & scream when pulled from the earth
the mandrake root

Final Jeopardy!

THE NOBEL PRIZE

In 1954 the U.N. won for Peace, Hemingway for Literature & this U.S. chemist for Chemistry

Linus Pauling

Mary "Who is Linus Pauling?" — wagered $500
Mark "Who is Linus Pauling" — wagered $6,599
Joe "Who is Linus Pauling?" — wagered $6,601

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