Show #1454 - Thursday, December 20, 1990

A scattering of clues only.

Contestants

David Hewitt, a minister from Mount Pulaski, Illinois

Elaine Smith, a registered nurse from Ocala, Florida

Mitch Gerber, an editor originally from Buffalo, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE
SPORTS LINGO
FAMOUS PAULs
MAMMALS
GERMAN FAIRY TALES
MAKING BEDS
    $100 7
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    $100 9
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    $100 17
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    $100 2
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    $100 1
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    $200 8
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    $200 10
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    $200 18
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    $200 3
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    $300 14
The stories of Deborah, Gideon & Samson are found in this book
    $300 11
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    $300 19
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    DD: $500 4
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    $400 15
Solomon also ordered fir & algum trees from this country for the temple
    $400 12
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    $400 20
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    $400 5
Her punishment for letting a prince into the tower was a haircut & a one-way ticket to the desert
    $500 16
Though Romans comes 1st in the Bible, chronologically the earliest of his epistles is I Thessalonians
    $500 13
A golf fairway laid out at an angle, named for a canine's appendage
    $500 21
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    $500 6
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Mitch Elaine David
$400 $1,300 $900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mitch Elaine David
$800 $1,800 $2,700

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORERS
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS
MODERN LITERATURE
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
THE WIND
POTENT QUOTABLES
    $200 8
William Adams, the first Englishman to visit this country, was made a nobleman by the Shogun
    $200 7
Che, Peron, People of Argentina
    $200 13
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    $200 17
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    $200 26
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    $200 5
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    $400 9
King Charles of Spain made him a marques, but refused to make him Governor of Mexico in 1528
    $400 4
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    $400 14
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    $400 18
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    $400 27
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    $400 6
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    $600 10
In 1851 David Livingstone discovered this river on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border
    $600 3
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    DD: $200 19
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    $600 23
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    $600 28
Thanks to ocean winds from the west, this state produces over 90% of U.S. wind-generated energy
    DD: $600 12
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    $800 11
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    $800 2
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    $800 20
"Whistle", published in 1978, completed the James Jones trilogy that began with this novel
    $800 24
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    $800 29
Island group in the West Indies named for the fact that they're sheltered from the trade winds
    $800 15
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    $1000 22
After claiming the Mississippi Valley for France, he named the region Louisiana
    $1000 1
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    $1000 21
Richard Wright's first novel, it tells of a black youth named Bigger Thomas
    $1000 25
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    $1000 30
In classical mythology, the west wind
    $1000 16
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mitch Elaine David
$3,600 $4,000 $7,700

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Final Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
2 of the 4 Americans who negotiated the Treaty of Paris with the British in 1782

Final scores:

Mitch Elaine David
$7,200 $1,000 $8,100
2nd place 3rd place New champion: $8,100

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Mitch Elaine David
$3,600 $4,200 $7,700
12 R,
0 W		 10 R
(including 3 DDs),
2 W		 18 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $15,500

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