Show #1645 1991-10-25 (taped 1991-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Jim Baughman — a fine arts printer from Los Angeles, California

Dallas Boggs — a university professor from Encinitas, California

Bill Spencer — a public policy analyst originally from Jackson, Mississippi (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $800 $1,900 $6,500 $12,500
2nd place: trip on Delta to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands & stay at the Frenchman's Reef
$8,500
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Dallas $1,800 $2,600 $5,900 $11,700
3rd place: Cuthhberton Christmas tree dinnerware + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy
$6,300
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jim $500 $2,300 $6,700 $13,400
New champion: $13,400
$6,700
17 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

IOWA MOVIE NOSTALGIA WRITING INSTRUMENTS BIOLOGY THE OLYMPICS "PRO"s & "CON"s
$100 [12]
The U.S. received Iowa's land as part of this 1803 deal with France
the Louisiana Purchase
Jim
$100 [6]
By the end of the film, her father, mother, daughter & 2 of her husbands are all "Gone with the Wind"
Scarlett O'Hara
Jim
$100 [7]
An informal lecture illustrated by drawing is this type of "talk"
a chalk talk
Bill
$100 [13]
Phagocytes are blood cells of this color that act as scavengers
white
Jim
$100 [26]
First used in Antwerp in 1920, the Olympic flag shows 5 of these on a white background
rings
Jim
$100 [1]
In the U.S., most grape juice & grape jelly are made from this variety of grape
Concord grapes
Bill
$200 [22]
This river gives the state its eastern boundary
the Mississippi
Bill
$200 [9]
In 1957 this "High Noon" star made "Love in the Afternoon" with Audrey Hepburn
Gary Cooper
Dallas
$200 [8]
Louis Waterman patented the 1st practical one of these with a self-contained reservoir
a fountain pen
Dallas
$200 [14]
This pure gas is a by-product of photosynthesis
oxygen
Jim
$200 [27]
In the 264 B.C. games Belistiche, a woman of Macedonia, owned the winning team in these races
chariots
Dallas
$200 [2]
This Utah city was named for a Canadian fur trapper who visited the area in 1825
Provo
Bill
$300 [23]
This state nickname probably honors Black Hawk, an Indian chief
the Hawkeyes
Dallas
$300 [10]
The title of this 1942 film, Carole Lombard's last, is the 1st line of a soliloquy from "Hamlet"
To Be or Not to Be
Dallas
$300 [19]
Hallmark owns the company that makes this brand of crayons
Crayola
Jim
$300 [15]
With walls as thin as one cell, they connect arteries & veins
capillaries
Dallas
$300 [28]
Paavo Nurmi was nicknamed the "Flying" one of these
a Finn
Dallas
$300 [3]
According to I Kings 11:3, Solomon had 700 wives & princesses & 300 of these women
concubines
Dallas
$400 [24]
This "American Gothic" painter was born in Anamosa & died in Iowa City
Grant Wood
Jim
$400 [11]
Burt Lancaster played German Judge Ernst Janning in this 1961 film about war criminals
Judgment at Nuremberg
Bill
$400 [20]
In 1861 Eberhard Faber built the first factory to produce these in the U.S.
pencils
Bill Jim
$400 [17]
The Russian scientist with whom we associate the phrase "conditioned response"
(Ivan) Pavlov
Jim
DD $500 [29]
Katarina Witt was the 2nd woman to win solo figure skating golds 2 games in a row; she was the 1st
Sonja Henie
Dallas
$400 [4]
It's also known as a surrogate's court
probate court
$500 [25]
Louis Jolliet & this French priest were the first 2 Europeans to visit Iowa's territory, in 1673
Pere Marquette
Bill
$500 [16]
In "Gilda" this actress said, "If I'd been a ranch, they would have named me the Bar Nothing"
Rita Hayworth
Jim
$500 [21]
A phonograph needle, or the sharp instrument used for writing or engraving
a stylus
Bill
$500 [18]
The presence of this chromosome in a set of 23 pairs indicates the set is from a human male
the Y chromosome
Jim
$500 [30]
The only aquatic sport in which men & women can compete against each other
yachting
Bill Dallas
$500 [5]
From the Latin for "to know thoroughly", it's a person with astute discrimination in the arts
a connoisseur
Dallas

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY MUSIC WOMEN MICHELANGELO POLITICIANS FAMOUS QUOTES
$200 [2]
Under Tito, this country was expelled from the Soviet bloc in 1948
Yugoslavia
Bill
$200 [24]
1 of the 2 musicals for which Rodgers & Hammerstein won a Pulitzer Prize
Oklahoma! (or South Pacific )
Bill
$200 [16]
In 1950 she was named AP Woman Athlete of the 1st Half of the 20th Century
"Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Dallas
$200 [7]
It's said that for months after this project he could only read a letter when he held it above his head
the painting of the Sistine Chapel
Dallas
$200 [15]
In May 1991 this former Sec'y of State turned up as a weatherman on "CBS This Morning"
Henry Kissinger
Dallas
$200 [1]
Brillat-Savarin said, "A meal without wine is like" one of these "without sunshine"
a day
Jim
$400 [3]
The Enlightenment, which began in Europe in the 1600s, was also known as "the Age of" this
the Age of Reason
Jim
$400 [27]
Julian Adderley's nickname, it's a mispronunciation of "cannibal"
"Cannonball"
Dallas
$400 [17]
From 1954-1960 this etiquette expert hosted a show called "It's in Good Taste"
Amy Vanderbilt
Dallas Jim
$400 [8]
Vasari categorized him as a painter, a sculptor &, for his work on St. Peter's, as this
an architect
Dallas
$400 [21]
Senate Majority Leader from 1980-84, he became Pres. Reagan's Chief of Staff in 1987
Howard Baker
$400 [11]
When asked what sort of death was best, this Roman answered, "A sudden death"-how prophetic
Julius Caesar
Bill
$600 [4]
It began in Germany on Oct. 31, 1517
the Protestant Reformation
Dallas
$600 [28]
This jazz saxophonist wrote the pieces "Now's The Time" & "Yardbird Suite"
Charlie Parker
Dallas Jim
DD $500 [23]
This director of the Boston Cooking School introduced the use of precise measurements for all ingredients
Fannie Farmer
Dallas
$600 [9]
Though he died in Rome, he was buried in this city where he spent his youth
Florence
Dallas
$600 [22]
In recognition of his 48 years in the House of Representatives, he was known affectionately as "Mr. Sam"
Sam Rayburn
Dallas
$600 [12]
Oscar Wilde wrote, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at" these heavenly bodies
the stars
Bill
$800 [5]
The 843 Treaty of Verdun divided his empire among his heirs
Charlemagne
Bill
$800 [29]
This tenor made his operatic debut at the Teatro Nuovo in his hometown of Naples in 1894
Caruso
Bill
$600 [19]
Her words to "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" 1st appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1862
Julia Ward Howe
Dallas
$800 [10]
One of the few pagan rather than Christian works he did was a statue of this Greek god of wine
Bacchus
Bill
$800 [25]
The last name of the brothers who were governors of N.Y. & Arkansas during the '60s
the Rockefellers
Jim
$1,000 [14]
Lord Byron wrote, "Maidens, like" these insects, "are ever caught by glare"
moths
Jim
$1,000 [6]
After fleeing from Norway, Viking Ingolfur Arnarson became the first settler of this country
Iceland
Jim
$1,000 [30]
This period of music is said to have ended with the death of Bach in 1750
Baroque
Dallas
$800 [20]
While with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, this biologist wrote "Under the Sea" & "The Sea Around Us"
Rachel Carson
Bill
$1,000 [18]
This statue was moved to its present spot in 1973 & a copy was put at the old spot, the Piazza Della Signoria
David
Bill
$1,000 [26]
In the 1980 pres. election, this independent candidate received about 7% of the popular vote
John Anderson
Bill
DD $2,000 [13]
"The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom", he wrote in "Prometheus Unbound"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bill

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY SEQUELS

"Perchance to Dream" is Robert B. Parker's sequel to this 1939 Raymond Chandler novel

The Big Sleep

Dallas "What is The Big Sleep" — wagered $5,800
Bill "What is TheLongBig Sleep?" — wagered $6,000
Jim "What is "The Big Sleep"" — wagered $6,700

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