Show #777 1988-01-12 (taped 1987-09-28) Regular

Leah Greenwald game 2.

Contestants

Mary Ann Meyers — a homemaker from Clearwater, Florida

Pete Peterson — a chemist from Richlandtown, Pennsylvania

Leah Greenwald — an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Leah $2,900 $3,700 $4,300 $8,600
2-day champion: $19,600
$4,300
16 R, 2 W
Pete $200 $2,400 $6,800 $4,600
2nd place: Burris bustleback high-leg reclining chair with ball-and-claw legs + Capel hand-woven wool rug
$7,400
16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Mary Ann $1,000 $2,100 $4,500 $500
3rd place: Brother Compactronic AX-33 daisywheel electronic typewriter
$3,900
16 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE LIFE SCIENCE LICENSE PLATES ENDS IN "ABLE" PEOPLE MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS
$100 [4]
Since 1918, the "O. Henry Awards" have been given to outstanding examples of this form
a short story
Mary Ann
$100 [2]
No reptile today can truly do this; the pterodactyl could, but it's now extinct
fly
Mary Ann
$100 [5]
New auto license plates of this state now show the Statue of Liberty
New York
Mary Ann
$100 [6]
Make possible, or to supply the means to do something
enable
Mary Ann
$100 [16]
Choosing not to eat in homes of others, Mother Teresa said no to this NYC mayor's cookies & lemonade
Koch
Pete
$100 [1]
"The square root of 100"
10
Pete
$200 [8]
The "History of New York... by Diedrich Knickerbocker" was actually written by him
Washington Irving
Leah
$200 [19]
USA Today says a dolphin, hearing 2 heartbeats with its sonar, can tell if a woman's in this condition
pregnant
Leah
$200 [27]
Some of this state's plates now memorialize the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy
Florida
Leah
$200 [7]
Your income after deductions is this, according to the IRS
taxable
Leah
$200 [17]
Michael Jackson tried to buy from a London College the remains of John Merrick, better known as this
the Elephant Man
Mary Ann
$200 [3]
"Mallard consomme"
Duck Soup
Leah
$300 [12]
The title of this famous Anita Loos work states that they "Prefer Blondes"
gentlemen
Leah
$300 [24]
A Mr. Whipple shared the 1934 Nobel Prize for showing daily eating of this raw organ meat helps cure anemia
liver
Mary Ann
$300 [28]
A car with plate #LMW 28IF on this Beatles album cover furthered rumors that Paul was dead
Abbey Road
Leah
$300 [15]
Last name of Lisa Bonet's character on "A Different World"
Huxtable
Leah
$300 [20]
Model Paulina Porizkova said that due to a recent bonding job, she'll now show these on magazine covers
her teeth
Mary Ann
$300 [9]
"Paradise's Portal"
Heaven's Gate
Leah
$400 [13]
Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" is set in a Swiss sanatorium for this disease
tuberculosis
Mary Ann
$400 [25]
Artificial body organ which includes a dialyzer
a kidney
Pete
$400 [29]
It's newest license plates remind us "You've got a friend in" this state founded by Friends
Pennsylvania
Pete
$400 [18]
Another term for telegram
a cable
Pete
$400 [22]
In June 1987, Gary Eugene Duda petitioned a Georgia court to have his name changed to this, my oh my
Zippity (Duda)
Leah
$400 [10]
"Haughtiness Plus Partiality"
Pride and Prejudice
Leah
$500 [14]
Peter Quint & Miss Jessel are the ghosts in this Henry James ghost story
The Turn of the Screw
Leah
$500 [26]
It's the branch of biology dealing with heredity
genetics
Leah
$500 [30]
This state has few people & its plates have low #s, so there's room to show a cowboy on a bucking bronco
Wyoming
Pete
DD $500 [21]
1st "able" word in the song that ends with the following:"U--""--made my life complete,""V--""--means you're awful sweet... W-X-Y-Z..."
adorable
Mary Ann
$500 [23]
According to Forbes magazine, distinction of Sam Walton of Bentonville, Ark. among all the people in the U.S.
the richest
Pete
$500 [11]
"A Huge Snooze"
The Big Sleep
Leah

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORERS THE CALENDAR POULTRY SCOTLAND COSMETIC INDUSTRY WORD PLAY
$200 [3]
In their race to be 1st here, Roald Amundsen beat Robert Scott by 1 month
the South Pole
Pete
$200 [7]
1st month of the year that's also a verb
March
Leah Mary Ann
$200 [13]
The courtship rituals of the greater prairie chicken were imitated in these by Great Plains Indians
dances
Mary Ann
$200 [1]
Only country with which Scotland shares a land border
England
Leah
$200 [2]
Charles Lachman is the "L" in the name of this company co-founded with brothers Joseph & Charles Revson
Revlon
Pete
$200 [23]
This vowel is also a homophone for a part of the body
eye
Leah
$400 [4]
Cuba's governor went to the port to call off this man's expedition to Mexico just as the ships pulled out
(Hernando) Cortés
Pete
$600 [9]
Current name of the month that followed Sextilis on the Roman calendar
September
Pete
$400 [17]
Mythology says that Hera was so fond of these birds, she adorned their tails with eyes of her lover Argus
peacocks
Mary Ann
$400 [14]
Famous Scottish breeds of these include the Galloway, the Ayrshire, & the Aberdeen-Angus
cattle
Mary Ann
$400 [21]
Only 22 years old in the U.S., this Japanese cosmetic company founded in 1872 is the oldest in the world
Shiseido
Leah
$400 [27]
The 1st number with the same amount of letters as its name
four
Pete
$600 [5]
Radisson & Groseilliers explored the Lake Superior region searching not for gold, but these
furs (beaver fur accepted)
Pete
$800 [10]
As Sosigenes helped with a new calendar for Caesar, C. Clavius helped with this pope's
Gregory
Pete
$600 [18]
Pea, rose, & cushion are 3 types of this feature found mainly on chickens
their combs (or their crests)
$600 [15]
It's what you'd be looking at if a Highlander let you have a peek at his claymore
a sword
Mary Ann
$600 [22]
Charles Jundt took over beauty salon of swank NYC hotel, &, in '26, started selling products under this name
Charles of the Ritz
Mary Ann
DD $600 [28]
The 1st word in "Little Miss Muffet" that can be replaced by a symbol found on std. typewriters
and
Pete
$800 [6]
He picked up a reported equivalent of $500,000 w/Pizarro in Peru before discovering the Mississippi
Hernando de Soto
DD $1,000 [8]
It's the only month which can start on a Sunday & can end on a Saturday
February
Mary Ann
$800 [20]
From Greek, its name means "bird of the Phasis", a river in the Caucasus region of the U.S.S.R.
the pheasant
$800 [16]
This legendary hero defeated Edward II in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314
Robert Bruce
Pete
$800 [25]
When gov't took this man's estates after Russian Revolution, he fled to U.S. to set up his "royal" perfume co.
Prince Matchabelli
$1,000 [12]
While Champlain was "the Father of New France", this Frenchman got to Canada earlier & named Montreal
Jacques Cartier
Mary Ann
$1,000 [11]
During each 30-year cycle, Muslims do this to the month of Dhu al-Hijjah 11 times
they add a day
$1,000 [24]
This quail, the only one native to Eastern U.S., gets its name from its whistle, not its color
bobwhite
$1,000 [19]
The weaver's cottage where this American steel king was born is part of a museum in Dunfermline
(Andrew) Carnegie
Pete
$1,000 [26]
Faberge is privately owned by this husband of entertainer Pia Zadora
Meshulam Riklis

Final Jeopardy!

DRAMA

This play is divided into "parts", not acts, with the 2nd titled "The Gentleman Calls"

The Glass Menagerie

Leah "WhatWhatis The Glass Menagerie?" — wagered $4,300
Mary Ann "What is Taming of the Shew?" — wagered $4,000
Pete "What is Taming of the Shrew?" — wagered $2,200

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