Show #776 1988-01-11 (taped 1987-09-28) Regular

Leah Greenwald game 1.

Contestants

Robin Hoffmann — a magazine promotion manager originally from Peoria, Illinois

Leah Greenwald — an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sarah Workman — a history teacher from Pomona, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sarah $100 $-300 $3,700 $1,700
2nd place: a trip to Florida on Eastern Airlines + stay at Pickett Suite Hotel in Tampa + passes to Busch Gardens or Cypress Gardens
$3,100
8 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Leah $1,100 $1,800 $10,400 $11,000
New champion: $11,000
$10,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Robin $1,100 $1,200 $1,600 $5
3rd place: a Yamaha PSR-90 portable keyboard with MIDI & stereo sound
$1,300
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PHYSICAL SCIENCE GIRLS IN SONG SEE THE USA ANIMAL GROUPS WEAPONS THIS IS JEOPARDY!
$100 [16]
A rectifier is an electrical device used to convert alternating current to this
direct current
Leah
$100 [4]
"Went to a dance lookin' for romance, saw" this girl, "so I thought I'd take a chance"
Barbara Ann
Robin
$100 [1]
The science museum in this Virginia capital called its 1987 Science Circus "The Greatest Earth on Show"
Richmond, Virginia
Leah
$100 [2]
A group of vipers, even if the snakes don't live in a bird's dwelling
a nest
Sarah
$100 [8]
From the Germanic "hache", it's a small ax
a hatchet
Robin
$100 [12]
With a cash total of $172,800, he's Jeopardy!'s biggest winner ever
Chuck Forrest
Robin
$200 [22]
On Earth, it's the major force responsible for the weight of a body
gravity
Robin
$200 [5]
In Ritchie Valens' day, this song about a girl was more popular than its flip side, "La Bamba"
Donna
Robin
$200 [3]
This is 1 of NYC's longest streets, which you'll find out when you give your regards to it
Broadway
Leah
$200 [17]
Kangaroos, monkeys & Boy Scouts all come in these groups
troops
Sarah Robin
$200 [11]
U.S. land-based long-range nuclear missile that shares name with type of Revolutionary War fighter
a Minuteman
Robin
$300 [14]
On this late night host's list of 10 Things Communists Are No Damn Good At, #1 was "Guessing Final Jeopardy"
David Letterman
Leah
$300 [23]
At 15 on the modified Mohs' scale, this substance still has the highest hardness number
a diamond
Sarah
$300 [6]
According to Rodgers & Hart, "The most beautiful girl in the world isn't" either of these 2 stars
Garbo & Dietrich
$300 [7]
This city's voodoo tours can take you to voodoo rituals & voodoo queen Marie Laveau's tomb on Basin St.
New Orleans
Leah
$300 [21]
Though not noted for their musical skills, a group of gorillas is called this
a band
Leah
$300 [24]
One might be fired "out of the blue"--from a crossbow
a bolt
Robin
$400 [18]
In 1984, he made the music video "I Lost On Jeopardy"
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Robin
$400 [25]
Abbreviated "P", this element comes in red, white, & black forms
phosphorus
$400 [15]
In 1964 The Bachelors told this girl, "I'm in heaven when I see you smile"
Diane
Robin
$400 [9]
It was almost named "Texas Under 6 Flags", but someone said "Texas ain't never been under nothin'!"
Six Flags Over Texas
Robin
DD $500 [13]
Voice heardhereon the debut show March 30, 1964:"And now, entering the studio are today's contestants--this is Mrs. Mary Eubanks, a housewife from Candor, North Carolina..."
Don Pardo
Robin
$500 [20]
According to Frankie Laine, "If ever the devil was born without a pair of horns it was" this woman
you, Jezebel, it was you
$500 [10]
You can "Go Home Again" to see this author's boyhood home in Asheville, North Carolina
Thomas Wolfe
Leah
$500 [19]
On the original version, this was the highest dollar value on the Double Jeopardy! board
$100
Sarah Robin

Double Jeopardy! Round

HORS D'OEUVRES HISTORY THE HUSBAND MARRIED SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN STARTS WITH "W" CZECH, PLEASE
$200 [4]
From Latin for "undigested food", crudites refers to these
raw vegetables
Leah
$200 [1]
Peregrine White, the 1st child born in New England of English parents, was born on this ship
the Mayflower
Sarah
$200 [18]
Helen Menken, Mary Philips, Mayo Methot& Lauren Bacall
Humphrey Bogart
Leah
$200 [10]
Shakespearean play featuring Falstaff & some "happy homemakers"
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Leah
$200 [24]
To wrench painfully, like your mom might threaten to do to your neck
wring
Leah
$200 [25]
In Czech, it's "Praha", & it's over 1000 years old
Prague
Leah
$400 [5]
Chicken livers & water chestnuts wrapped in bacon; fortune cookies to follow
rumaki
Leah
$600 [3]
Before he was Canada's P.M., William Lyon Mackenzie King lived in this famous house with Jane Addams
Hull House (in Chicago)
Leah
$400 [17]
Virginia Cherrill, Barbara Hutton, Betsy Drake, Dyan Cannon &Barbara Harris
Cary Grant
Robin
$400 [11]
Name shared by Brutus' wife & the longest female role in "The Merchant of Venice"
Portia
Leah
$400 [21]
Both the first & last emperors of modern Germany bore this name
Wilhelm
Sarah
$400 [26]
His mother, Olga, was once ranked 2nd in Czechoslovakia in women's singles tennis
Ivan Lendl
$600 [6]
Ideally, this type of small appetizer served on toast or crackers should be small enough to eat in 1 bite
canapé
Sarah
$800 [7]
In 1962, this country became a constitutional monarchy under King Hassan II
Morocco
DD $800 [16]
He married Colleen Dewhurst twice & Trish Van Devere once
George C. Scott
Leah
$600 [12]
The daughter of Polonius
Ophelia
Leah
$600 [22]
The cicada killer is a large predatory variety of this insect
a wasp
$600 [27]
For poetry that eschews all "dogmas & dictates", Jaroslav Seifert won this in 1984
the Nobel Prize (for Literature)
Leah
$800 [9]
This chic Middle-Eastern dip is made primarily from chickpeas & served with pita bread
hummus
Leah
DD $1,000 [2]
Year in which Franklin Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented 3rd term as president
1940
Sarah
$800 [19]
Joan Blondell& June Allyson
Dick Powell
Leah
$800 [13]
Comedy which features the wedding of Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Leah
$800 [23]
It found no evidence of a conspiracy involving Oswald & Ruby
the Warren Commission
Leah
$800 [28]
Treaty of friendship, cooperations, & mutual assistance that Czechoslovakia signed in 1955
the Warsaw Pact
Sarah
$1,000 [15]
Hors d'oeuvres is French for "outside of" this, which is usually when they're served
work
Leah
$1,000 [8]
The 1st prime minister of independent Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
Leah
$1,000 [20]
Mary Todhunter Clark& Margaretta "Happy" Murphy
Nelson Rockefeller
Sarah
$1,000 [14]
In the 1st act, before he's king, this title character woos the newly-widowed Lady Anne
Richard III
Leah
$1,000 [29]
The eve of May Day, on which witches were believed to rendezvous
Walpurgisnacht
$1,000 [30]
Maryam d'Abo played a Czech cellist in this 1987 film
The Living Daylights

Final Jeopardy!

SOUTH AMERICA

These are the only 2 independent countries in South America named for a famous person

Colombia & Bolivia

Robin "What are Bolivia and Argentina" — wagered $1,595
Sarah "What are Bolivia and Surinam" — wagered $2,000
Leah "What are Bolivia & Colombia" — wagered $600

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