Show #1671 - Monday, December 2, 1991

Contestants

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Ed Peterson, a social studies teacher from Whippany, New Jersey

Jim Bresette, a U.S. Air Force captain from Columbia, Maryland

Elizabeth Pearce, a freelance editor and writer from New York City, New York

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Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE
FOREIGN FOOD
LEE REMICK
ISLANDS
PRISONS
FILE UNDER "M"
    $100 17
Of a tern, a termite or a terrapin, the one with the most legs
    $100 1
A minestrina is a thin Italian broth while this is a thick vegetable soup
    $100 25
S. Sondheim's 1964 musical "Anyone Can Whistle" starred Lee & this "Murder, She Wrote" actress
    $100 16
Home to the nationalist Chinese, its name means "terraced bay"
    $100 6
U.S. prisons are usually classified as minimum, medium or maximum this
    $100 11
This word for an afternoon performance comes from Matuta, a goddess of the dawn
    $200 22
To a sailor at sea it looks about 2.5 miles away; to a pilot 1 mile up, about 98 miles away
    $200 2
Parisians call this breakfast dish, which we named for them, "pain perdu", or lost bread
    $200 26
Her radiant portrayal of this prime minister's mother, Jennie, won her a Golden Globe Award
    $200 18
When owned by the Russians, these Alaskan islands were known as the Catherine archipelago
    $200 7
This type of jail was established in the late 1700s to make criminals feel sorry & repent
    $200 12
Journalist Don Marquis created this cat who was a friend of a cockroach
    $300 23
It's the term for the examination of living tissue samples by a histologist
    $300 3
This ciassic Greek cheese is "pickled" in brine
    $300 27
Lee & Gregory Peck were bedeviled by a little demon named Damien in this 1976 horror film
    $300 19
Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, is located on this island
    $300 8
A royal home as well as a prison until Elizabethan times, Rudolf Hess was held here from 1941-45
    $300 13
Neither good nor bad, it's from the Latin for "halfway up the mountain"
    $400 24
A phosphor is a substance that does this when its hit by ions or elecfrons
    $400 4
This country's mole poblano sauce contains chilies, garlic, spices, & chocolate
    $400 28
Jack Lemmon & Lee were both Oscar-nominated for playing alcoholics in this film
    $400 20
The name of these Danish islands in the N. Atlantic may be Old Norse for "Sheep Islands"
    $400 9
Prisons in this state have included Soledad & San Quentin
    $400 14
Whatever this Lola wanted, King Louis I of Bavaria gave her
    $500 30
You're cultured if you know these animals are often seeded with a bit of nacre
    $500 5
The girl from Ipanema could tell you that feijoada is often a Sunday dish in this country
    $500 29
When Lee played Miranda in a 1960 TV adaptation of this play, Richard Burton played Caliban
    DD: $1,300 21
Wine production is the main agricultural industry of this Portuguese island off the NW coast of Africa
    $500 10
This federal prison is on the Missouri just north of the Kansas town for which it was named
    $500 15
The first name of French hairdresser Grateau, who came up with a style with regular waves

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Elizabeth Jim Ed
$1,000 -$200 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Elizabeth Jim Ed
$3,100 $200 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

BALLET
NOVEL CHARACTERS
DESERTS
FAMOUS WOMEN
FORTS
BRITISH ROYALTY
    $200 6
In 1979 A. Godunov became the 1st member of this ballet company to defect to the West
    $200 2
His real name was Alonso Quixano
    $200 24
The eastern part of this desert is often called the Arabian desert
    $200 14
Last name of mother & daughter singers Naomi & Wynonna, who won Grammys for best country duo 1985-87
    $200 1
The poem "The Star-Spangled Banner" was originally titled "The Defense of" this fort
    $200 10
She once wrote in her journal, "My dearest Albert put on my stockings for me"
    $400 9
Act II of the ballet "Napoli" is set in this famous grotto on Capri
    $400 3
Characters in this 1961 novel include Milo Minderbinder & Major Major Major
    $400 25
Joshua Tree Nat'l Monument is on the border between the Colorado Desert and this California one
    $400 15
A month after she reportedly drowned, this evangelist reappeared & claimed she'd been kidnapped
    $400 4
Built at the junction of the North Platte & Laramie rivers, Fort Laramie was a stop on this trail
    $400 22
Her son Peter Phillips is 9th in line of succession to the throne even though he's a commoner
    $600 11
This legendary Diaghilev dancer is the subject of the ballet subtitled "Clown of God"
    $600 19
A teen hoodlum named Alex is the narrator of this futuristic tale by Anthony Burgess
    $600 26
The Chinese call it "Shamo", sand desert, or "Hanhai", dry sea
    $600 16
For "Lady and the Tramp", she co-wrote 5 songs, sang 3, & provided the voices
of 4 characters
    $600 5
This fort in SE Florida is where our boys were during the Seminole War
    $600 23
This king's trial for treason began on January 20, 1649; he was beheaded 10 days later
    DD: $1,900 12
In Act I of this Tchaikovsky ballet, the Lilac Fairy casts a spell over the palace
    DD: $2,200 20
This Herman Melville hero went to his execution crying, "God bless Captain Vere"
    $800 27
This desert extending from Beersheba to Elat forms the triangular southern half of Israel
    $800 17
In 1926, this Olympic gold medalist became the first woman to swim the English Channel
    $800 7
A rest stop on the Chisholm Trail, oil was found 90 miles west of this Texas city in 1917
    $800 29
This king was overthrown by his daughter & son-in-law in the Glorious Revolution of 1688
    $1000 13
In "Coppelia", Franz falls in love with Coppelia, not knowing she's a mechanical one of these
    $1000 21
After an unjust accusation of theft, this weaver moved from Lantern Yard to Raveloe
    $1000 28
Although it extends into Namibia, the heart of this desert lies in Botswana
    $1000 18
On the death of her husband in 1963, she became president of the Washington Post Company
    $1000 8
Albany, N.Y. started out as Fort Orange, founded by traders from this country
    $1000 30
The oldest person to become England's monarch in the 20th c., he was 59 in 1901

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Elizabeth Jim Ed
$14,800 $1,800 $6,400
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES
At the time of the first U.S. census, in 1790, this state was the most populous & the largest in area

Final scores:

Elizabeth Jim Ed
$13,300 $3,600 $5,400
New champion: $13,300 3rd place: The American Spectrum Encyclopedia + home reference library + + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy 2nd place: trip to Orlando & stay at Orlando Marriott International Drive

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Elizabeth Jim Ed
$12,300 $1,800 $5,600
26 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 9 R,
4 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $19,700

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Game tape date: 1991-09-23
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