Show #1206 1989-11-27 (taped 1989-08-23) Regular

Lisa Guay game 5.

Contestants

Michael Reilly — a maître d' from Fullerton, California

Steve Robinson — a salesperson and student from Santa Monica, California

Lisa Guay — a homemaker from Champlain, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $38,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lisa $800 $1,900 $2,300 $4,600
5-day champion: $42,600
$4,300
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Steve $1,600 $2,500 $5,500 $2,900
2nd place: Trip to New York City
$5,500
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Michael $300 $1,000 $4,000 $0
3rd place: Magnavox "Movie Maker" VHS Camcorder
$3,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

QUOTES PEOPLE ANIMALS GEOGRAPHY PLAYS MOTTOS
$100 [8]
Hollywood empire builder who "Labored like a mountain and brought forth a mouse"
Walt Disney
Steve
$100 [13]
Last year this man's son Robbie jumped his motorcycle over 22 cars & broke... his dad's record
Evel Knievel
Steve
$100 [19]
The upper part of this turtle feature is called the carapace
Shell
Michael
$100 [18]
It's the only papal state left in the world
Vatican City
Lisa
$100 [1]
In titles of plays, these 2 words precede "Lefty" & "Godot"
"Waiting For"
Michael
$100 [6]
Completes Kentucky's state motto, "United we stand..."
divided we fall
Steve
$200 [9]
American humorist who was dubbed "Poet Lariat"
Will Rogers, Jr.
Steve
$200 [14]
The N.Y. Times ran a correction when it misstated the shoe size of this Philippine first lady in November, 1988
Imelda Marcos
Steve
$200 [20]
A drone bee's only purpose in life is to do this with the queen & they do it in flight
Mate
Michael
$200 [27]
To feel an earthquake shake Djibouti, you have to be on this continent
Africa
Steve
$200 [2]
This Ibsen drama about a femme fatale unfolds in the Tesmans' fashionable villa
"Hedda Gabler"
Lisa
$200 [7]
The surgical unit in this long-running CBS comedy series had the motto, "Best Care, Anywhere"
"M*A*S*H"
Lisa Michael
$300 [10]
A player said of this late Green Bay coach, "He treats every man the same; he treats us all like dogs"
Vince Lombardi
Michael
$300 [15]
People Magazine called her 4 year-old daughter Athina "The richest little girl in the world"
Christina Onassis
Steve
$300 [21]
The bulldog is a symbol of this country where it was developed
England
Lisa
$300 [28]
The 2nd largest city in W. Germany, its state senate is headed by a burgermeister
Hamburg
$300 [3]
Jean Giraudoux's play about "The Madwoman of" this place wasn't performed until after his death
Chaillot
Steve
$300 [24]
Per its advertising motto, the insecticide Raid does this
"Kills Bugs Dead"
Lisa
$400 [11]
Those who knew this actress agreed with her statement "I've been on a calendar, but never on time"
Marilyn Monroe
Steve Michael
$400 [16]
He says that Gerry Rivers is not his real name but admits he was sometimes called Gerry as a kid
Geraldo Rivera
Michael
$400 [22]
Of sight, hearing, or smell, the sense that is best developed in most seals
Sight
Lisa Steve Michael
$400 [29]
California's 2 longest rivers, the San Joaquin & Sacramento, meet & flow into this bay
San Francisco Bay
$400 [4]
This 1928 Ben Hecht - Chas. MacArthur play influenced the public's conception of newspapermen
"The Front Page"
Lisa
$400 [25]
"All the news that fits" is the motto of this rock music magazine
"Rolling Stone"
Michael
DD $500 [12]
In 1952 a critic called this Fr. philosopher the "Decade's foremost theatrical confidence man"
Jean-Paul Sartre
Steve
$500 [17]
Mary Pickford's stepson; he made his film debut at 13 in 1922, & in in 1989 he was a guest star on "B.L. Stryker"
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Steve
$500 [23]
The 2 species of camel are the Arabian, also called the dromedary & this
Bactrian (2-Humped)
$500 [30]
Pile O' Bones was the original name of this capital of Saskatchewan
Regina
Lisa
$500 [5]
In Italy this Pirandello play is known as "Sei Personaggi in Cerca D' Autore"
"Six Characters in Search of an Author"
Michael
$500 [26]
The motto of this movie company is "Ars Gratia Artis", or Art for Art's Sake
MGM
Lisa

Double Jeopardy! Round

IN THE NEWS ART NEW YORK CITY AUTHORS JAZZ AMERICAN HISTORY
$200 [10]
Thanks to perestroika, lawyers in this country have created an advocacy assn., like a bar assn.
Russia/Soviet Union
Lisa
$200 [24]
Born Anna Mary Robertson, this artist died in 1961 at age 101
Grandma Moses
Steve
$200 [1]
This president, born just off Broadway, was the subject of the Broadway musical "Teddy & Alice"
Theodore Roosevelt
Steve
$200 [7]
Roman Polanski's film "Tess" was based on his novel "Tess of the D' Urbervilles"
Thomas Hardy
Lisa
$200 [6]
Trumpet player John Birks Gillespie is better known by this nickname
"Dizzy"
Steve
$200 [21]
The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition celebrated the 100th anniversary of this document
Declaration of Independence
Lisa Steve
$400 [13]
In 1989 a warehouse in Nebraska was destroyed by a flood of this sugar by-product
Molasses
Michael
$400 [25]
In 1534 Pope Paul III named him painter, sculptor & architect of the Vatican Palace
Michelangelo
Lisa
$400 [2]
New York City has 3 of these systems: the IND, the BMT & the narrow-gauge IRT
Subways
Steve
$400 [8]
This Civil War historian won a Pulitzer prize & a nat'l book award for 1953's "A Stillness at Appomattox"
Bruce Catton
Steve
$400 [17]
For 36 years this black "Hello, Dolly!" star has been married to jazz drummer Louis Bellson
Pearl Bailey
Steve
$400 [22]
On March 27, 1964, North America's most intense recorded earthquake, an 8.4, hit this state
Alaska
Lisa
$600 [14]
This Olympic runner who won 3 gold medals in 1988 retired recently to pursue writing & acting
Florence Griffith Joyner
Michael
$600 [28]
As a teenager, Andrew Wyeth was inspired by this American seascape artist
Winslow Homer
Lisa
$600 [3]
This national newspaper, based in New York, has the largest circulation in the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal
Lisa Steve Michael
$600 [9]
A Waltham, Mass. university is named for this Supreme Court justice & author of 1914's "Other People's Money"
Louis Brandeis
Steve
$600 [18]
In 1976 this guitarist's "Breezin' " LP became the 1st record by a jazz musician to go platinum
George Benson
Steve
$600 [23]
1 of 3 men who, under the name "Publius", wrote "The Federalist" essays urging ratification of the Constitution
Madison, Hamilton, & Jay
Steve
$800 [15]
One newspaper after another is fleeing this London street as banks & insurance COs move in
Fleet Street
Michael
DD $2,000 [29]
In 1888 Vincent van Gogh threatened to kill this artist who was his roommate at the time
Paul Gauguin
Lisa
$800 [4]
Residents of this most populous borough sued, saying they were underrepresented in the city government
Brooklyn
Michael
$800 [11]
"The Power of Myth" is a book based on his conversations on PBS with Joseph Campbell
Bill Moyers
Steve
$800 [19]
In 1975 this big band leader's album, "Thundering Herd", won a Grammy
Woody Herman
Steve
$800 [26]
Just before WWII this British king & his queen Elizabeth became the 1st British monarchs to visit the U.S.
George VI
Steve
$1,000 [16]
A jug of oil used to anoint kings of ancient Judah was recently found at Qumran near this body of water
Dead Sea
Michael
DD $1,200 [5]
One of New York's oldest skyscrapers; its name is derived from itsshape
Flat Iron Building
Michael
$1,000 [12]
"The Human Mind" & "Man Against Himself" were written by this Topeka, Kansas psychiatrist
Karl Menninger
$1,000 [20]
Benny Goodman's original quartet included drummer Gene Krupa, pianist Teddy Wilson & this vibraphonist
Lionel Hampton
Lisa Steve
$1,000 [27]
In 1982 Central High School was made a national landmark in memory of 1957 events there
Little Rock, AR

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

Genoa, Italy gave this state capital a 20' statue which was put in front of City Hall

Columbus, Ohio

Lisa "What is Columbus, OH?" — wagered $2,300
Michael "What is Albany?" — wagered $4,000
Steve "What is Albany?" — wagered $2,600

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