Show #1435 - Friday, November 23, 1990

Steve Robin game 4.
Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

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Robert Wasserman, an operations supervisor from Brooklyn, New York

Adela Oppenheim, an administrative assistant from Jamaica Estates, New York

Steve Robin, a marketing director from Scottsdale, Arizona (whose 3-day cash winnings total $28,100)

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Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES
CARTOONS
THE SOVIET UNION
OPERA
QUOTES
APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES
    $100 4
He told the 1932 Democratic convention, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people"
    $100 21
While his partner Baba Looey was a burro, Marshall Quick Draw McGraw was this
    $100 6
This nuclear plant, much in the news in 1986, is near the Ukranian town of Pripyat
    $100 1
The 1st production of his "Carmen" was a failure & he died before it triumphed
    $100 16
In his autobiography, he wrote of building a car "so low in price that no man will be unable to own one"
    $200 12
This illustrator of "Saturday Evening Post" covers received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977
    $200 22
This Oscar-winning character returned to the screen in 1990 in his 1st theatrical short in 26 years
    $200 7
GUM & TsUM are 2 of the largest of these in Moscow
    $200 2
Opera seria is Italian for "serious opera"; this is Italian for "comic opera"
    $200 17
Adolph S. Ochs is credited with this motto of the "New York Times"
    $300 13
This "Man of 1,000 Faces" wrote an Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on makeup
    $300 23
Disney's 1990 reissue of this Kipling classic was promoted with a McDonald's Happy Meal tie-in
    $300 8
The largest island in this Siberian lake is 300 square mile Olkhon
    $300 3
"Song of the Rat" & "Song of the Flea" are parts of Berlioz's "Damnation of" this man
    $300 18
In a 1936 speech Al Smith said, "No matter how thin you slice it, it's still" this
    $400 14
This Tennessee native helped found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1960 & served in the Georgia legislature from 1967-75
    $400 24
This comic character's roller coaster rode into theaters in tandem with Dick Tracy
    $400 9
The cruiser Aurora, which fired on the Winter Palace in 1917, is on display in this city
    DD: $500 5
This Saint-Saens opera set in Gaza c.1150 BC always brings down the house
    $400 19
According to Plutarch, Pyrrhus said, "One more such" of these "and we are lost"
    $400 27
In 1962 Smokey Robinson had 3 Miracles, & Frank Sinatra had this many
    $500 15
His poems "Thanatopsis" & "To a Waterfowl" were published when he was practicing law in Massachusetts
    $500 25
In May 1990 Universal Studios' Tour opened Fievel's Playland, based on this 1986 film
    $500 11
Blini, a type of these, are made with buckwheat & served with sour cream
    $500 10
In a Donizetti opera, this infamous Italian noblewoman poisons her own son
    $500 20
Scottish-born industrialist & philanthropist who said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced"
    $500 26
St. Peter wrote, "Charity shall cover" this amount "of sins"

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

Steve Adela Robert
$1,600 $1,700 $1,300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Adela Robert
$3,400 $1,800 $2,100

Double Jeopardy! Round

TRANSPORTATION FIRSTS
AMERICAN HISTORY
BESTSELLERS
WORLD FACTS
MYTHOLOGY
THE TOWER OF LONDON
    $200 21
In 1901 Daimler built the 1st of these cars named for the daughter of a customer
    $200 6
This state gave the Senate its 99th & 100th members
    $200 16
El Salvador has over 5 million in population but under 200,000 of these, so it's hard to reach out & touch someone
    $200 1
The cyclops was famous for only having 1 of these
    $200 2
The unlucky number of towers on the inner wall
    $400 22
Of the 29 military roads leading from Rome, it was the oldest & the 1st long paved road
    $400 8
On this date in 1917, the United States declared war on Austria-Hungary, so it lives in infamy too
    $400 17
Not the Greens, but the Fianna Fail, or Soldiers of Destiny, is this country's largest political party
    $400 3
Apollo loved Daphne, who was turned into this type of tree, hence the wreath he wears
    $400 4
Some say this saint welcomed his imprisonment in the Tower in 1534, but it was still no Utopia
    $600 23
1 of 2 railroads that met when the Golden Spike was driven at Promontory Point, Utah
    $600 9
In 1931 this President signed the bill making "The Star-Spangled Banner" our national anthem
    $600 28
His fictional account of the news business is told in "The Evening News"
    $600 18
It's the longest group of coral reefs in the world
    $600 5
Of the Fates, Cloth was the spinner, Lachesis the measurer, & Atropos had this job
    $600 7
This courtier was released to search for gold in the New World; he failed & was executed
    $800 24
Early versions of this vehicle include de Sivrac's celerifere & von Drais' draisine
    $800 12
As president of the American Federation of Labor, he brought back the Congress of Industrial Organizations & kicked out the Teamsters
    $800 27
He teamed up with Patricia Aburdene to write "Megatrends 2000"
    DD: $1,000 19
Sea in which you'll find The Netherlands' only overseas territory
    $800 14
Zeus assumed this animal form to swim to Crete with Europa on his back
    DD: $1,200 10
This 1888 Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set at the Tower features the following:

"Tower warders, / Under orders, / Gallant pikemen, valiant sworders! / Brave in bearing, / Foemen scaring, / In their bygone..."
    $1000 25
Named for a President, this became the 1st paved U.S. transcontinental highway in 1913
    $1000 13
This Secretary of State quit of the botched attempt to rescue the U.S. hostages in Iran
    $1000 26
"Vineland" has been called this author's most accessible book
    $1000 20
Half of this administrative unit that takes up one-third of Canada is within the Arctic Circle
    $1000 15
Young man who swam the Hellespont nightly to visit his love Hero
    $1000 11
These 2 wives of Henry VIII were beheaded at the Tower

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Adela Robert
$9,800 -$800 $5,500

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE OLYMPICS
The 1932 Summer & Winter Olympics, both held in the United States, were hosted by these 2 cities

Final scores:

Steve Adela Robert
$11,001 -$800 $11,000
4-day champion: $39,101 3rd place 2nd place

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Steve Adela Robert
$9,400 $100 $5,500
22 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $15,000

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Game tape date: 1990-09-11
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