Show #1664 1991-11-21 (taped 1991-09-11) Regular

Missing introductions.

Contestants

Lee Pellegrino-Gensey — from West Trenton, New Jersey

Alan Byrne — from Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania

Josh Vincent — a waiter and a chef from Brigantine, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Josh $1,200 $2,600 $12,300 $18,900
3-day champion: $48,800
$11,600
29 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Alan $1,500 $2,700 $9,400 $3,000
2nd place: Lloyd/Flanders indoor/outdoor furniture set + Northwestern Bell telephones
$7,500
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
lee $0 $3,100 $5,100 $100
3rd place: Aiwa stereo system
$4,500
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE HUMAN BODY ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES GEOGRAPHY MIDDLE NAMES FURNITURE MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS
$100 [9]
You have 2 of these passages & each one has an olfactory bulb at the top
nasal passages
Josh Alan
$100 [17]
When accepting a present, "don't look" one of these equines "in the mouth"
a gift horse
Josh
$100 [1]
In 1948 Norwegians increased the size of this capital city 27-fold
Oslo
Josh
$100 [12]
Lloyd Bentsen's middle name, or president Fillmore's first
Millard
Josh
$100 [7]
This tall chair made for a young child usually comes with a feeding tray
a high chair
Josh
$100 [4]
"Tresses"
Hair
Josh
$200 [27]
As their name indicates, the lingual tonsils are found at the back of this organ
the tongue
Josh
$200 [18]
Insincere people or big reptiles might feign sadness by shedding these
crocodile tears
Alan
$200 [2]
Derwentwater, Windermere, & Bassenthwaite are 3 of the lakes in this country's Lake District
England
Josh
$200 [13]
19th century Chief Justice Salmon Chase's middle name, or the largest city in Oregon
Portland
Alan
$200 [10]
It's a synonym for mirror; Alice went "through" one
a looking-glass
Josh
$200 [6]
"La Guardia!"
Fiorello!
Alan
$300 [28]
When a wisdom tooth becomes wedged between the jawbone & another tooth, it is said to be this
impacted
lee
$300 [20]
This adjective describes men who are nagged, not those who are attacked by chickens
hen-pecked
Alan
$300 [3]
There are no rivers on this large peninsula in southeastern Mexico
Yucatan
Josh Alan
$300 [14]
Admiral Farragut's middle name, or Scotland's largest city
Glasgow
Josh
$300 [11]
Furniture made from this molded, pulped paper mixture was popular during the Victorian period
papier-mâché
Alan
$300 [19]
"Toodle-oo Toodle-oo Conrad"
Bye Bye Birdie
Josh Alan
$500 [30]
This organ rids the body of ammonia by converting it to urea
the liver
Josh lee
$400 [23]
"To sow" this mythical beast's "teeth" means to stir up strife or war
dragon
lee
$400 [5]
Known for its oil & gas, this sea is also called the German Ocean
the North Sea
Alan
$400 [15]
Late, great MGM executive whose middle initial, B., stood for Burt
Louis Mayer
Josh
$400 [22]
Scagliola, a gypsum mixture made to look like this rock, is used to make tabletops & chimneypieces
marble
lee
$400 [21]
"Humorous Visage"
Funny Face
Josh
DD $1,000 [29]
3 semicircular canals are located behind the vestibule here
the (inner) ear
lee
$500 [24]
This animal may not wear gloves but its name precedes "glove" in the name of a plant of the genus Digitalis
fox
Alan
$500 [8]
From 1960-1990 the Aral Sea in this country shrank about 40%
the Soviet Union
Josh
$500 [16]
If you don't know this was Katherine Porter's middle name, you may belong on a "Ship of Fools"
Ann
lee
$500 [26]
From the French meaning to caper, this style of leg often adorns Queen Anne furniture
a cabriole
Alan
$500 [25]
"Guy From a Region in Central Spain"
Man of La Mancha
Josh

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHORT STORIES THE ELEMENTS LANGUAGES ILLINOIS QUOTES SLAVERY
$200 [21]
Jabez Stone sells his soul to the devil in the story about "The Devil and" this statesman
Daniel Webster
Josh
$200 [12]
Poisonous in large amounts, this element abbreviated "I" is needed by your body to prevent goiter
iodine
Alan
$200 [14]
The Roman Catholic church still considers this to be its official language
Latin
Josh
$200 [1]
His company has made Moline the "farm implement capital of the world"
John Deere
Josh Alan
$200 [2]
F.E. Smedley wrote in "Frank Fairleigh", "all's fair in" these 2 things
love & war
Alan
$200 [3]
The Romans trained Spartacus, a Thracian slave, to be one of these
a gladiator
Alan
$400 [22]
The heroine of 1 O. Henry story decides she'll die when "The Last" one of these drops off a vine
Leaf
Alan
$400 [13]
This deadly element, symbol As, is used in rat poison & in electrical equipment
arsenic
Josh
$400 [15]
The Papuan languages, which number more than 500, are spoken mainly on this island
New Guinea
Josh
$400 [7]
Illinois' state insect is the monarch type of this
a butterfly
Josh
$400 [19]
"In the long run", he wrote in "Walden", "men hit only what they aim at"
(Henry David) Thoreau
lee
$400 [4]
Slaves in the South used these religious songs as codes to communicate plans for escape
spirituals
Alan
$800 [29]
The ghost of a pirate visits his sisters in "The Supper at Elsinore" by this Danish authoress
(Karen) Blixen
Josh
$600 [25]
Used in emission control devices, it's more expensive than gold
platinum
Josh
$600 [16]
The main systems of pronunuation in this language are the Ashkenazic & the Sephardic
Hebrew
Josh
$600 [8]
In 1906 these 2 teams met in the World Series for the first & only time
the Cubs and the White Sox
Josh
$600 [20]
In a 1940 fireside chat, FDR said, "we must be the great arsenal of" this
democracy
Alan
$600 [5]
In a biblical epistle, this apostle asked Philemon not to punish Onesimus, a runaway slave
Paul
Josh
$1,000 [30]
Mark Twain wrote about a town full of hypocrites in "The Man that Corrupted" this place
Hadleyburg
lee
$800 [27]
This yellow element can be found in eggs, mustard & garlic
sulfur
lee
$800 [17]
It's sometimes referred to as "erse"
Gaelic (Irish)
Josh
$800 [9]
Democrat with a penchant for bow ties who has represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate since 1985
Paul Simon
Josh
$800 [24]
In his novel "Slapstick" he called New York City "Skyscraper National Park"
Kurt Vonnegut
lee
$1,000 [11]
Term for the colonial commerce in African slaves, West Indian molasses & New England rum
triangular trade
Alan
DD $2,500 [23]
Salem native who wrote about witchcraft in the Salem area in an 1835 story, "Young Goodman Brown"
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
Alan
$1,000 [28]
Just breaking into the top 100 is this element named after an Italian physicist
Fermium
lee
$1,000 [18]
A minority speak Tamil while about three quarters of Sri Lanka's people speak this language
Sinhalese
Josh
$1,000 [10]
In 1832 the U.S. Army defeated the Sauk Indians in this uprising, the last Indian war in Illinois
the Black Hawk War
Josh
$1,000 [26]
Wendell Phillips said, "one on" his "side is a majority"
God
Alan
DD $1,500 [6]
Writer J. Nabuco led the fight in the late 1800s to abolish slavery in this S. American country
Brazil
Josh

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CURRENCY

The Treasury prints more bills in these 2 denominations than any other

$1 bills & $20 bills

lee "What are one dollar and 5 dollar?" — wagered $5,000
Alan "What are $5 & $10?" — wagered $6,400
Josh "What are ONES and Twenties" — wagered $6,600

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