Show #781 1988-01-18 (taped 1987-09-29) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Jake Edelman — a public affairs director from Eagle Rock, California

Jonathan Santore — a composer and graduate student originally from Greeneville, Tennessee

Bob Bearse — a software quality analyst originally from Chicago, Illinois

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Bob	$300	$400	$2,000	$4,000 3rd place	$2,700 9 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Jonathan	$1,700	$4,500	$9,900	$10,001 New champion: $10,001	$9,900 28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jake	$1,400	$1,200	$2,600	$4,100 2nd place	$2,600 9 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE HUMAN BODY	TRIVIA	BOWL CITIES	STAMPS & COINS	FURRY CREATURES	AUNTS
$100 [1] According to Guinness, the sex that expends the most calories in making a bed the male sex Jonathan	$100 [12] Aw, shucks, this is what shuckers do to oysters open them Bob	$100 [2] The Rose Bowl Pasadena Jake	$100 [14] Of penny, nickel or dime, the only one written on the current coin it represents the dime Jonathan	$100 [11] Though not cuddly, the black bear was the model for the original version of this cuddly toy the teddy bear Jonathan	$100 [7] It's America's biggest selling pancake mix Aunt Jemima Jonathan
$200 [19] The terms xanthoderm & melanoderm refer to the color of this skin Bob	$200 [13] You may have missed it, but this man proclaimed 1 week in June 1987 National Dairy Goat Awareness Week President Reagan Jake	$200 [3] The Orange Bowl Miami, Florida Bob	$200 [23] Honoring her 60th birthday in 1986, England put one of her baby pictures on a stamp Queen Elizabeth II Jonathan	$200 [25] Cute little wild gerbils may carry these insects, which can transmit the plague fleas Bob	$200 [8] In "Tom Sawyer", Huckleberry Finn went to live with the widow Douglas while Tom lived with her Aunt Polly Jake
$300 [20] Partition separating the abdomen & thorax, singers learn to breathe from there the diaphragm Jonathan	$300 [15] This spotted African howler can crush you with its jaws, which is no laughing matter the hyena Jonathan	$300 [4] The Cotton Bowl Dallas, Texas Jonathan	$300 [24] Term for a special coin minted to honor a specific event a commemorative Jake	$400 [27] To cross streams, hamsters reportedly inflate these with air, probably to add buoyancy their cheeks (cheek pouches) Bob	$300 [9] Her aunt, Fritzi Ritz, was the original title character of their comic strip Nancy Jonathan
$400 [21] It's closed by the orbicularis oculi muscle the eyelid Jonathan	$400 [16] In England, this October eve was sometimes called Nutcrack Night Halloween Jonathan	$400 [5] The Peach Bowl Atlanta, Georgia Jonathan	—	$500 [28] Michigan's nickname animal, these small, fierce mammals sometimes attack & kill moose the wolverine Jonathan	$400 [10] This term, a takeoff on a Harriet Beecher Stowe title, once meant a woman who didn't support women's lib an Aunt Tom Jake
$500 [22] Unless your parents saved them, you don't have the milk or deciduous ones of these anymore the teeth Jonathan	$500 [17] He was the youngest of the Marx Brothers Zeppo Jake	$500 [6] The Fiesta Bowl Tempe, Arizona Jake	—	DD $700 [26] 2 of the 4 principal animals raised on U.S. fur ranches (2 of) mink, chinchilla, nutria & silver fox Bob	$500 [18] On both "The Andy Griffith Show" & "Mayberry R.F.D." she played Aunt Bee Francis Bavier Jonathan

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY	ASTRONOMY	COOKING UTENSILS	CINEMATIC BATTLES	PEN NAMES	UNCLES
$200 [7] Varina Anne, daughter of this president, became known as the daughter of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis Jonathan	$200 [26] The tail of a comet always points in this direction in relation to the Sun away from the Sun Jonathan	$200 [1] From Latin "to strain", it can be used to rinse your rigatoni a colander Jonathan Jake	$200 [24] 1968's "Battle of El Alamein" dramatized the defeat of this Desert Fox Erwin Rommel Bob Jonathan	$200 [2] Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman changed Wilhelm to Amadeus in this man's honor Mozart Jonathan	$200 [9] 1960s television spy spoof that starred Stephanie Powers as April Dancer The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Bob Jonathan Jake
$400 [8] The famous daughter of Chief Wahunsenaca Pocahontas Bob Jake	$400 [27] The densest planet in the Solar System, it's almost four times denser than the Sun the Earth Bob	$400 [20] Generic name for the motorized multipurpose machine that shreds, dices & slices almost anything food processor Jake	$400 [25] Bogie's "Battle Circus", set in a MASH unit in this country, was filmed 17 years before "MAS*H" Korea Bob	$400 [3] This Irishman was born Abraham Stoker Bram Stoker Jonathan	$400 [10] After 4 acts, this famed Anton Chekhov play basically ends up where it started Uncle Vanya Jonathan
$600 [14] The 2 English astronomers for whom the famous boundary line between Penn. & Maryland was named Mason & Dixon Bob	—	$600 [21] A club-shaped hand tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar a pestle Jonathan	$600 [17] 1943's "Battle for Music" depicted the wartime struggle of this British orchestra the London Philharmonic Jonathan	$600 [4] Sylvia Plath originally published this novel under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas The Bell Jar Jonathan	$600 [11] Number one McCartney hit based on an actual US officer in World War I & II, and this relative of Paul's "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" Jonathan
$800 [15] He made the copper sheathing for the bottom of Old Ironsides Paul Revere Jonathan	—	DD $800 [22] By 1980, 37% of US households had one of these cake pans, popularized by Pillsbury in the 1970s a Bundt pan Jonathan	$800 [18] The documentary "Battle of Chile" recorded the 1973 overthrow of this leader (Salvador) Allende Bob	$800 [5] If you've seen "Street Scene," you know this was the pen name of playwright Elmer Leopold Reizenstein Elmer Rice Jake	$800 [12] Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy was housekeeper to this J.R. Garis children's story character Uncle Wiggily
$1,000 [16] Reflecting our government's views, the Bureau of Indian Affairs started in 1824 as part of this department the War Department Jake	—	$1,000 [23] It's used to thread small strips of fat through very lean meat to enrich it as it cooks a larding needle	$1,000 [19] This Russian silent film slaughter scene on the Odessa steppes is one of the most famous in film history The Battleship Potemkin Jonathan	$1,000 [6] Born Christopher Harris, he was a director before he wrote "The Lady's Not for Burning" Christopher Fry Bob	$1,000 [13] In the film version of "The Wizard of Oz", Charlie Grapewin played this uncle of Dorothy's Uncle Henry

Final Jeopardy!

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

This mountain was formerly called Bolshaya, Russian for "large" or "great"

Mt. McKinley

Bob "What is Mt. McKinley?" — wagered $2,000

Jake "What is Mt. McKinley?" — wagered $1,500

Jonathan "What is Mt. McKinley?" — wagered $101

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