Show #786 1988-01-25 (taped 1987-10-19) Regular

Final Jeopardy! logo flashes on the game board's monitors instead of the show's logo.

Contestants

Sue Kelly — an office manager from Switzerland, Florida

Lennie Edwards — a teacher originally from Fort Dix, New Jersey

Stephanie Scott — a title officer assistant from Anaheim, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stephanie $700 $1,700 $2,600 $0
3rd place: an Oneida Silversmiths gift certificate
$4,900
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Lennie $300 $1,700 $9,500 $9,000
New champion: $9,000
$7,900
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Sue $800 $1,700 $1,300 $1,000
2nd place: a Gibson side-by-side refrigerator/freezer + a Helix 4 1/2" black & white TV/clock/radio
$1,300
8 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH DAKOTA CHILD CARE BIBLICAL GARDEN PITCHMAN & PRODUCT KNIGHTS RHYME TIME
$100 [26]
Suprisingly, South Dakota's nickname is this, the same as Florida's
the Sunshine State
Sue
$100 [16]
Dr. Spock says though it's fun to apply this to baby after a bath, it's not usually needed
powder
Lennie
$100 [21]
Moses saw one of these burning but not consumed
a bush
Stephanie
$100 [9]
Mrs. Olson
Folgers Coffee
Stephanie
$100 [1]
By the 1300s, knights were losing importance in warfare due to growing use of this explosive
gunpowder
Lennie
$100 [6]
A grandstander, or one especially good at pistol target practice
a hot shot
Lennie
$200 [17]
Produced by bacterial action, the chief cause of diaper rash is this, NH3
ammonia
Lennie
$200 [22]
Psalm 92 says, "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in" this country
Lebanon
Sue
$200 [10]
Snap!, Crackle!, and Pop!
Rice Krispies
Lennie
$200 [2]
In battle with his face covered, a knight's only identification was often this, emblazoned on his shield
crest or heraldic emblem (or coat of arms)
Lennie
$200 [7]
Counterfeit cash
funny money
Stephanie
$300 [18]
It's rare for this manual dominance to appear before the age of two
being right-handed (or left-handed)
Sue
$300 [23]
1963 Sidney Poitier film whose title comes from the flowers Jesus referred to in Matthew 6:28
Lilies of the Field
Sue
$300 [13]
Brother Dominic
Xerox
Stephanie
$300 [3]
Despite its name, this protective armor worn by a knight was not delivered by a postman
mail
Sue
$400 [11]
This fruit-garnished rum cocktail isn't indigenous to Hawaii but arrived there in 1953
a mai tai
Lennie
$400 [19]
It's the process that starts when the cup begins to replace the bottle or breast
weaning
Lennie
$400 [24]
Isaiah predicted, "The desert shall rejoice & blossom as" this flower
the rose
$400 [14]
Mother Nature
Chiffon Margarine
Lennie
$400 [4]
This word for a tilting match comes from the Latin for "close together", "juxta"
jousting
Lennie
DD $500 [8]
Title of the following, it was Shirley Ellis' follow-up hit to "The Nitty Gritty":"Tony, Tony, bo Bony banana fanna fo Fony Fee fy mo Mony, Tony!(Pretty good! Let's do Billy!)Billy, Billy, bo Billy..."
"The Name Game"
Stephanie
$500 [20]
Common in babies, this ocular condition, "strabismus", can improve spontaneously, tho rarely so
lazy eye (or cross-eyes, wandering eyes)
Stephanie
$500 [25]
In Mark chapter 11, Jesus found 1 of these trees w/out fruit & said, "No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever"
the fig tree
$500 [15]
Euell Gibbons
Grape-Nuts
Stephanie Lennie
$500 [5]
Before a boy could become a knight, he usually had to serve these 2 apprenticeships
a squire & a page
Lennie Sue
$500 [12]
The queue at the cashier's widow to pay your traffic ticket, or what's drawn by a pen with a 0.3mm point
a fine line
Stephanie

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPAIN LEGAL TERMS PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS COLONIAL AMERICA CLASSICAL COMPOSERS COUNTRY CROONERS
$200 [21]
Spanish department stores now stay open through this traditional 3-hour period
the siesta
Lennie
$200 [16]
"Another" or "otherwise" in Latin, either way it's an assumed name
an alias
Sue
$200 [1]
Pearl Buck's only Pulitzer-winning novel
The Good Earth
Lennie Sue
$200 [11]
Before the founding of New England in our country, New France was founded in what is now this country
Canada
Lennie
$200 [6]
The "Rimsky" in Rimsky-Korsakov's name is Russian for this Italian city
Rome
Stephanie
$200 [26]
Long before she "fell to pieces", she won 1st prize on Arthur Godfrey's talent scouts
Patsy Cline
Stephanie
$400 [22]
A statue of them, Cervantes' famous pair, rides through a plaza in Madrid
Don Quixote & Sancho Panza
Stephanie
$400 [17]
Shortened from "procuracy", it's the power of attorney given to another to vote your shares of stock
proxy
Lennie
$400 [2]
John Steinbeck's 1940 novel about the Joad family's journey
The Grapes of Wrath
Stephanie
$600 [13]
In colonial times, this state, which doesn't touch Massachusetts, was part of it
Maine
Lennie
$400 [7]
He was born under the sign of Pisces, the fish, so it's not surprising he wrote "Water Music"
Handel
Stephanie
$400 [27]
This Oklahoman, a former rodeo rider, won CMA's female vocalist of the year in '84, '85, & '86
Reba McEntire
$800 [24]
Meaning "the red" in Arabic, this famous fortress in Granada was originally built by the Moors
the Alhambra
Stephanie
$600 [18]
You can win a case by this if the other party doesn't show up in court
default
Lennie
$600 [3]
Booth Tarkington won in 1919 for this novel, perhaps best known as an Orson Welles film
The Magnificent Ambersons
$800 [14]
This founder of Georgia lived to see the colony he established become a state
(James) Oglethorpe
Lennie
$600 [8]
One of the "Three B's" himself, he was an ardent admirer of the other two
Brahms
Lennie
$1,000 [25]
By 1825, Spain had lost all its American colonies except these 2 islands, which it lost by 1898
Cuba and Puerto Rico
Stephanie Lennie
$800 [19]
Type of warrant issued by the court itself for the arrest of a party
a bench warrant
Lennie
$800 [4]
He won 2 Pulitzer prizes for drama & 1 for a novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
Thornton Wilder
Sue
$1,000 [15]
The mother of this founding father's illegitimate son William has never been identified
Benjamin Franklin
Stephanie
$800 [9]
It's said the pathetic life of this Russian composer is the real subject of his "Pathetique" symphony
Tchaikovsky
Lennie
DD $2,500 [23]
For a brief time in the early 19th c., his brother was installed as King Joseph I
Napoleon
Stephanie
$1,000 [20]
An article of personal property as distinguished from real estate
chattel
Lennie
$1,000 [5]
Virginia-born Wm. Styron won for his book, "The Confessions of" this actual leader of a slave revolt
Nat Turner
Lennie
DD $2,000 [12]
3 of the 5 main cities of the 13 colonies
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston (or Newport and Charleston)
Lennie
$1,000 [10]
While writing "Tannhauser", he also wrote a funeral cantata for C.M. von Weber who'd been dead 18 years
Wagner
Stephanie

Final Jeopardy!

THE MOVIES

This musical drama was made in 1927 & remade in 1953 and 1980

The Jazz Singer

Sue "What is Xanadu?" — wagered $300
Stephanie "What is ?" — wagered $2,600
Lennie "What is I Love Dominique?" — wagered $500

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