Show #1692 - Tuesday, December 31, 1991

Contestants

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Mike McMahon, an engineer originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Amy Goldstein, a book editor from Princeton, New Jersey

Jim Alverson, a legal assistant from Tustin, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC HOMES
DISCO
SAUCES
COUNTRIES' FORMER NAMES
SALVADOR DALI
IN OTHER WORDS...
    $100 15
Now a shrine & museum, Beauvoir, in Biloxi, was the last home of this Confederate president
    $100 1
ABBA sang about a "Dancing" one, Hot Chocolate about a "Disco" one
    $100 22
Show us you know "shoyu" is the Japanese word for this sauce
    $100 6
Persia
    $100 11
Upside down, Dali's ashtray "The Swan of Leda" becomes this animal -- the swan's neck becomes a trunk
    $100 12
Amour causes Earth's rotations
    $200 16
Once belonging to merchant Archibald Gracie, Gracie Mansion is now home to this city's mayor
    $200 2
It's what K.C. & the Sunshine Band wanted you to "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake"
    $200 24
Many cooks make Bordelaise sauce with the red type of this; others prefer the white
    $200 7
Ceylon
    $200 23
Dali is classified as part of this art movement, founded in 1924
    $200 13
A pair of noodles is preferable to just a single noggin
    $300 17
Wren's nest in Atlanta contains mementos of this former owner & creator of Uncle Remus
    $300 3
This "Play That Funky Music" group got its name from a flavor of cough drops
    $300 25
To make mousseline sauce, add whipped cream to this "Dutch" sauce
    $300 8
Abyssinia
    $300 28
One of the guiding forces in his work was this doctor's theory of the unconscious
    $300 14
A pair of incorrect actions is unequal to one correct action
    $400 18
After the White House was set afire in 1814, this presidential couple moved to the nearby Octagon House
    $400 4
She recorded her first hit, "Love To Love You Baby", in Germany
    $400 26
Espagnole sauce is also known as this color sauce
    $400 9
British Honduras
    $400 29
Dali designed the dream sequence for this director's "Spellbound"
    $400 19
Wee whacks knock down big acorn producers
    $500 20
Biltmore House, a 250-room mansion in N. Carolina, was built in the late 1800s by a grandson of this "Commodore"
    $500 5
Jumping on the disco bandwagon, she recorded "The Main Event"
    $500 27
Bigarade sauce, usually served with duck, is flavored with this citrus fruit
    $500 10
Dutch Guiana
    DD: $1,500 30
Title of the 1931 work seen here, one of his best-known works:
    $500 21
A person that pauses won't know his location

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 17):

Jim Amy Mike
$3,300 $700 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Amy Mike
$3,800 $1,200 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD FACTS
COPPER
AMERICAN HISTORY
LITERARY CHARACTERS
COLUMBUS
NEW ENGLAND
    $200 2
Considered Norway's national sport, most Norwegians learn to do it before they go to school
    $200 19
Azurite, a principal copper-bearing ore, is this color
    $200 1
At noon on April 22, 1889, about 50,000 rushed into this territory to establish homesteads
    $200 3
This blue-eyed blonde & Tom Sawyer spent 3 days trapped in a cave with no food or light
    $200 17
To fool the crew, Columbus kept 2 of these; the one he showed them had lower mileage traveled
    $200 10
This first American to travel in space was born in East Derry, N.H.
    $400 4
Costa Rica is a source of this, the world's lightest commercial wood
    $400 20
This chemical symbol for copper comes from cuprum, the Roman name for Cyprian metal
    $400 13
Along with Dr. Alexis Carrel, this aviator developed the first artificial heart in 1935
    $400 6
The "A" on her gown was cut from fine red cloth & surrounded with embroidery & gold thread
    DD: $1,500 18
The first name Columbus gave to a New World island was this
    $400 21
In 1846 Maine became the first state to outlaw the sale of this; the law lasted until 1934
    $600 5
Many of the people in Mali are nomads living in tents made of this kind of hair
    $600 24
One of the world's largest open-pit copper mines is in Bingham Canyon NW of Provo in this state
    $600 14
The 1844 slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to the southern boundary of this Russian territory
    $600 7
As "The Catcher in the Rye" opens, he learns that he's being kicked out of Pencey prep school
    $600 23
If Columbus had arrived in China, he would have been there during this dynasty
    $600 22
Longfellow's poem "The Wreck of" this ship is set near Gloucester, Mass.
    $800 11
X-rays were discovered in this country in 1895
    $800 25
Copper must be present for iron to be utilized in the formation of this blood pigment
    $800 15
In 1948 this general succeeded Eisenhower as chief of staff of the Army
    $800 8
This Shakespearean title character's first line is "So foul and fair a day I have not seen"
    $800 26
As a penalty for offending the Spanish rulers, the town of Palos "donated" these 2 ships
    $800 27
In 1817 Thomas H. Gallaudet founded the first free U.S. school for these people in Hartford
    DD: $1,000 12
The name of its capital, the world's most northerly, means "bay of smokes"
    $1000 30
Trombones & other brass instruments usually consist of about 70% copper & about 30% this metal
    $1000 16
This rebellion of 1786-87 was an effort to stop foreclosures in Western Massachusetts
    $1000 9
This 140-pound dog in "The Call of the Wild" is a cross between a St. Bernard & a Scotch Shepherd
    $1000 28
His first wife's father was a captain for this Portuguese prince
    $1000 29
The first Democrat ever elected to the U.S. Senate by Maine voters, he ran with Humphrey in 1968

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Amy Mike
$6,500 $1,200 $2,200
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE MOVIES
This 1971 musical featured violin solos by Isaac Stern

Final scores:

Jim Amy Mike
$7,800 $100 $2,000
3-day champion: $28,000 3rd place: Yorx CD stereo system with triple-CD carousel changer, 24-track programmability & 13-function remote control + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger 2nd place: Krementz 14-karat gold & diamond earrings with total diamond weight of 0.59 karats + Jules Jürgensen man's sports slimline sweet watch in a 14-karat gold round case with black leather strap & black 12-diamond dial + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jim Amy Mike
$8,000 $2,700 $3,200
24 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 8 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $13,900

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Game tape date: 1991-10-21
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