Show #780 1988-01-15 (taped 1987-09-28) Regular

Leah Greenwald game 5.

Contestants

Michelle Lellouche — an archivist from Jacksonville, Florida

Steve Morris — a writer from Los Angeles, California

Leah Greenwald — an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts (whose 4-day cash winnings total $42,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Leah $1,600 $3,400 $10,400 $16,001
5-day champion: $58,802
$11,300
25 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs)
Steve $1,200 $1,400 $8,000 $15,900
2nd place: a trip to the Caribbean on Eastern Airlines + 1 week at the Xanadu Beach & Marina Resort
$7,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Michelle $-200 $600 $1,400 $2,800
3rd place: "Shoppers" limited edition serigraph numbered & hand-signed by Leo Posillico from Martin Lawrence Galleries
$1,400
5 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

STARTS WITH "WH" KINGS & QUEENS IN THE NEWS SPORTS TRIVIA MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CELEBRITY JEOPARDY!
$100 [2]
The Scotch variety is seldom spelled with an "E"
whiskey
Steve
$100 [1]
In 1895, Liliuokalani was charged with treason & forced to abdicate throne of this island group
Hawaii
Steve
$100 [15]
Nearly 4 mil. of them were thought to be eligible for the U.S. amnesty program that began in 1987
illegal aliens
Michelle
$100 [8]
Rogers Hornsby favored baseball over this sport, saying, "When I hit a ball I want somebody else to go chase it"
golf
$100 [5]
A small fipple flute that, by its name, sounds like it only costs one cent
a pennywhistle
Leah
$100 [21]
I was the female 2nd banana on "The Garry Moore Show"
Carol Burnett
Leah
$200 [20]
Little Miss Muffet could tell you this must be expelled from milk before you can make cheese
whey
Leah
$200 [3]
Fabiola, the current queen of this Low Country, was born a Spanish noblewoman
Belgium
Leah Michelle
$200 [16]
To discourage their use in holdups, one leading maker of BB guns is painting this part of toy guns orange
the barrel
Steve Michelle
$200 [9]
The College & Pro Football Halls of Fame are in different towns in this state
Ohio
Steve
$200 [6]
One name for this woodwind, "hautboy", is from the French meaning "high wood"
an oboe
Leah
$200 [22]
I once wanted to be a jockey, but ended up "Riding" Harvey Korman
Tim Conway
Leah
$300 [25]
It's a synonym for neigh, as Mister Ed could tell you
whinny
Leah
$300 [4]
The last king of this Scandanavian country was Frederick IX, a rear admiral who died in 1972
Denmark
Leah Steve
$300 [17]
This great Spanish tenor sang in a $10 mil. version of "Aida" staged at the Temple of Luxor in Egypt
Placido Domingo
Leah
$300 [10]
While in football the Jets represent New York, in hockey they represent this Canadian city
Winnipeg
Steve
$300 [7]
It's the call of an elephant or a brass instrument, or the brass instrument itself
a trumpet
Steve
$300 [23]
I played football at Florida State & used my # 22 in all my movies, like "Semi-Tough"
Burt Reynolds
Leah
DD $500 [27]
Questionable title of the following1972 hit:"You told me that you didn't love him /And you were going to say goodbye /But if you really didn't mean it /Why did you have to lie?..."
"Where Is The Love"
Leah
$400 [12]
King of Franks who was advised, it's said, by Theodulf the Visigoth & Elissaeus the Eunuch
Charlemagne
Leah
$400 [11]
In July 1987, this wife of baseball star Ray Knight was inducted in the LPGA Hall of Fame
Nancy Lopez
Leah
$400 [18]
The dance band "Hi-Hat" is a set of these worked by a foot pedal
cymbals
Steve
$400 [24]
I'm not really Chef Paul Prudhomme's twin brother, but I was "Barber" to Dean Martin for 8 years
Dom DeLuise
Leah
$500 [13]
Kings of this largest island in the Mediterranean included William the Bad & his son William the Good
Sicily
Steve
$500 [14]
Though the Mets got one, the NFL champion Giants weren't initially offered NYC ticker tape parade due to this
they played out of state, they played in Meadow Lands, New Jersey
Michelle
$500 [19]
Beethoven wrote many solo pieces for this instrument which can be 7-10 feet long
a (concert grand) piano
Leah
$500 [26]
I played Capt. Parmenter, Sam Jones, & Vinton Harper
Ken Berry

Double Jeopardy! Round

MAN IN SPACE WORLD CITIES WORD ORIGINS COLORS NEW HAMPSHIRITES CENTRAL CHARACTERS
$200 [21]
Halley's Comet was met in 1986 by this country's Suisei & Sakigake spacecrafts
Japan
Steve
$200 [10]
Capital of Australia's N. Territory, named for a famed British naturalist who was never there
Darwin
Steve
$200 [13]
Derived from Middle English words for "goose" & "summer", it's a gauzy summer fabric
gossamer
Leah Steve
$200 [5]
Like her eyes, the bottle of Elizabeth Taylor's new "Passion" perfume is this color
violet
Leah
$200 [9]
Gen. John Stark, who died at Manchester in 1822, was the last living general of this war
the Revolutionary War
Steve
$200 [1]
Quasimodo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Steve
$400 [27]
Craft aboard which U.S. astronauts spent the longest time in space, about 2000 hours
Skylab
Michelle
$600 [12]
The city for which Angora wool, Angora cats, Angora goats & Angora rabbits are named is now called this
Ankara
Leah
$400 [14]
One's lineage, named because the lines on a genealogical chart look like a crane's foot or "pie de grue"
pedigree
$400 [6]
On Mother's Day, a carnation of this color is worn in remembrance of a departed mother
white
Michelle
$400 [29]
To many New Englanders, this New Hampshire native was known as the "Godlike" Daniel
Daniel Webster
Leah
$400 [2]
Wolf Larsen
The Sea Wolf
Steve
$600 [26]
To date, this Space Shuttle named for a lost land has gone up on the fewest missions--2
Atlantis
Steve
$800 [22]
El Paso's twin city on the Mexican side of the border
Juarez
$600 [15]
These full-hipped riding breeches were named for a town in India
jodhpurs
Leah
DD $400 [18]
Color television works by blending these 3 primary colors of light
red, green, & blue
Leah
$800 [28]
She founded a church "which should reinstate primitive Christianity & its lost element of healing"
Mary Baker Eddy
Leah
$600 [3]
Raskolnikov
Crime and Punishment
Steve
$800 [25]
He went up in Vostok I
Yuri Gagarin
Steve
DD $1,000 [11]
The Warsaw Pact is administered from headquarters in this city
Moscow
Steve
$800 [16]
From a French phrase meaning "of good nature", this adjective is synonymous with suave & urbane
debonair
Leah
$600 [7]
While the rods in the retina are sensitive to dim light, these cells provide our color vision
cones
Steve
$1,000 [23]
At Binion's Casino in Las Vegas, you can see 100 $10,000 bills with this New Hampshirite on them
Salmon P. Chase
$800 [4]
Marguerite Gautier
Camille
Leah
$1,000 [24]
The 1st live pictures of a manned liftoff from here were transmitted in August 1971
the moon
Steve
$1,000 [20]
If you've split from Split, you've left this country's largest coastal city
Yugoslavia
Leah
$1,000 [17]
This slang term for "ridiculous" may derive from a word for the art of making decals, decalcomania
cockamamie
Leah
$1,000 [19]
Though from the Latin for "completely crude", this creamy color is popular for bridal lace
ecru
Steve
$1,000 [8]
Redmond Barry
Barry Lyndon
Leah

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTS

Of the 5 vowels, only these are the 1st letter of a president's last name

A & E

Michelle "What are A, and E?" — wagered $1,400
Steve "What are A + E?" — wagered $7,900
Leah "What are A & E ?" — wagered $5,601

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