Show #1642 1991-10-22 (taped 1991-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Wayland Massey — an employment service specialist from Durham, North Carolina

Amy Heller — a film distributor from New York City, New York

Bill Gallagher — a teacher from Northumberland, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $300 $0 $5,100 $100
3rd place: Magnavox camcorder
$4,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Amy $1,800 $2,900 $6,100 $6,200
2nd place: Fila sportswear + Jules Jurgensen ladies' quartz watch
$6,100
16 R, 1 W
Wayland $-100 $1,100 $8,100 $12,201
New champion: $12,201
$8,300
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANATOMY MOVIE ARTISTS TREATIES U.S. GEOGRAPHY QUOTES THE OCCULT
$100 [18]
It's the bulging front part of the larynx & is bigger in men than in women
the Adam's apple
Amy
$100 [5]
Allan Jeayes played Dr. Tulp in the 1936 film about this Dutch artist
Rembrandt
Amy Wayland
$100 [26]
This economic union was established in 1957 by the treaty of Rome
the Common Market
Bill
$100 [13]
No city in Florida is more than 70 miles from either the Atlantic Ocean or this gulf
the Gulf of Mexico
Bill
$100 [1]
Lily Tomlin said, "the trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still" 1 of these
a rat
Wayland
$100 [11]
Author P.L. Curran claimed a spirit dictated 4 books to her by using 1 of these boards
a Ouija board
Wayland
$200 [19]
They contain tarsals, metatarsals & phalanges
the feet
Amy
$200 [6]
Well-traveled artist played by David Carradine in a TV movie & Anthony Quinn in "Lust for Life"
Paul Gauguin
Bill
$200 [27]
This congress of 1814 & 1815 partitioned Poland among Russia, Prussia & Austria
the Congress of Vienna
$200 [14]
Yosemite & Sequoia national parks are located in this California mountain range
the Sierras
$200 [2]
"The Left Handed Dictionary" defines this as "a body of citizens who will try anyone once"
the jury
Wayland
$200 [12]
22 of the cards in a set of these fortune-telling cards are known as the greater, or major, arcana
the tarot deck
Bill
$300 [20]
The pyloric sphincter is the "door" at its exit to the small intestine
the stomach
Wayland
$300 [7]
Halliwell's Film Guide says this 1965 film inspired 1 critic to say "Heston hits the ceiling"
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Bill
$300 [15]
The Boston mountains in Arkansas are the highest part of this range of hills
the Ozarks
Bill
$300 [3]
In 1774 this future president wrote, "the God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time"
Jefferson
Amy
$300 [22]
Some say the ghost of this girl who was born in 1587 haunted N.C. in the form of a white deer
Virginia Dare
Amy
$400 [21]
The place where specific ones of these are located on a chromosome is called a locus
genes
Wayland
$400 [8]
Jose Ferrer spent much of this 1952 film on his knees, playing the short Toulouse-Lautrec
Moulin Rouge
Amy
$400 [16]
The Savannah River forms much of the border between Georgia & this state
South Carolina
Bill Wayland
$400 [4]
Joseph Joubert said, "to teach is to learn" this many times
twice
$400 [23]
The luminous substance that supposedly emanates from a spiritualistic medium
ectoplasm
Bill Wayland
$500 [25]
Type of tissue that connects your ribs to your breastbone
cartilage
Amy
$500 [9]
In a 1966 film, Mel Ferrer played this 16th century Cretan known for his elongated figures
El Greco
Amy
$500 [17]
In area it's the smallest of New York city's five boroughs
Manhattan
Bill
$500 [10]
Baltimore wit who said, "a cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin"
Mencken
Amy
$500 [24]
These Hopi Indian dolls wear elaborate masks & represent spirits of the dead
a kachina doll
Bill Wayland

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY LITERATURE SCIENTISTS THE HIMALAYAS ANTIQUITIES DRAMA HOMONYMS
$200 [1]
This Turgenev novel is also known as "Fathers and Children"
Fathers and Sons
Amy
$200 [6]
While working at the Swiss patent office in 1905, he published his special theory of relativity
Einstein
Wayland
$200 [26]
The Himalayan breed of this has the long hair of the Persian & the coloring of the Siamese
a cat
Amy
$200 [21]
The Phoenicians were famous for carving this tusk material, a practice now opposed by animal lovers
ivory
Wayland
$200 [11]
He wrote plays like "Dulcamara" before teaming up with Arthur Sullivan for operettas
Gilbert
Bill
$200 [14]
To avoid an issue, or a woman's garment that hangs down from the waist
to skirt
Wayland
$400 [2]
Clym Yeobright is "The Native" in the title of this 1878 Thomas Hardy novel
Return of the Native
Amy
$400 [7]
In the 1950s this medical researcher developed an oral vaccine for polio
Sabin
Wayland
$400 [27]
This shaggy, long-haired mammal is able to do heavy work at very high altitudes
a yak
Bill
$400 [22]
Praxiteles' nude statue of this Greek goddess of love was considered shocking in its day
Aphrodite
Amy
$400 [12]
Shaw's Major Barbara is a major in this organization
the Salvation Army
Wayland
$400 [15]
A thick, wooden shoe, or to obstruct with thick, sticky matter
clog
Wayland
$600 [3]
"The Purloined Letter" opens in Paris in this detective's "little back library, or book-closet"
C. Auguste Dupin
$600 [8]
The work this Hungarian-born U.S. physicist did in developing the H-bomb is still secret
(Edward) Teller
Wayland
$600 [28]
What we call the abominable snowman the Sherpas call this
Yeti
Wayland
$600 [23]
A mosaic floor depicting a lion hunt was found at Pella, the birthplace of Alexander in this kingdom
Macedonia
Bill
$600 [13]
He once worked in a real estate office, the setting of his "Glengarry Glen Ross"
David Mamet
Wayland
$600 [16]
Soft & delicate, or legal money
tender
Bill
$800 [4]
His novel "The Master of Ballantrae" is subtitled "A Winter's Tale"
Robert Louis Stevenson
Amy
$800 [9]
This discoverer of oxygen was a founder of the 1st Unitarian Church in Pennsylvania in 1796
Joseph Priestley
Bill
$800 [29]
1933 novel by James Hilton set in a Himalayan monastery
Lost Horizon
Wayland
$1,000 [25]
The Erechtheum is an ancient Ionic temple made of this stone
marble
$800 [17]
His comedy "The Skin of Our Teeth" follows the Antrobus family of Excelsior, N.J.
Thornton Wilder
Wayland
$800 [19]
A length of yarn wound in a coil, or a flock of geese in flight
skein
Amy
$1,000 [5]
Expatriate who based "The Aspern Papers" on a story he'd heard about Lord Byron's mistress
Henry James
Amy
$1,000 [10]
This barometer inventor succeeded Galileo as professor of mathematics in Florence
Torricelli
Bill
DD $800 [30]
1 of the world's first 4 civilizations grew in this river valley, at the foot of the Himalayas
the Indus Valley
Wayland
DD $1,500 [24]
A monolith inscribed with his code was discovered at Susa, Iran in 1901
Hammurabi
Bill
$1,000 [18]
In this Ben Jonson play, Voltore, Corbaccio & Corvino scheme to inherit the title miser's money
Volpone
Amy
$1,000 [20]
To come together for a common purpose, or to hit a tennis ball back and forth
rally
Wayland

Final Jeopardy!

THE NEW TESTAMENT

At his mother's request, Jesus performed his first miracle in public at this event

the wedding at Cana

Bill "What was his baptism" — wagered $5,000
Amy "What is the wedding in Canna?" — wagered $100
Wayland "What is a wedding?" — wagered $4,101

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