Show #662 1987-06-23 Regular

Bob Verini game 4.

Contestants

Linda Marshall — a housewife from Great Falls, Virginia

J.J. Fowell — a part-time pizza maker from Hollywood, California

Bob Verini — a playwright and actor from New York City, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $27,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $1,300 $2,600 $5,800 $9,201
4-day champion: $36,202
$6,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
J.J. $800 $1,300 $2,500 $5,000
3rd place: a serigraph of Afternoon Walk by Susan Rios from Martin Lawrence Galleries
$3,500
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Linda $1,500 $3,000 $4,600 $8,600
2nd place: a trip to the Caribbean
$4,600
13 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE BRAIN THE MILITARY THE MOVIES THE BAHAMAS THE OLYMPICS "THE"
$100 [13]
The 4 in the brain are the frontal, temporal, occipital, & parietal, none pierced as ears can be
lobes
Linda
$100 [6]
It's said the reason the weren't more WWII kamikazes was the shortage of these
planes
Bob J.J.
$100 [8]
For the 30th anniversary of this Mike Todd film, "Lifestyles"' Robin Leach circled the globe in 80 hours
Around the World in 80 Days
Linda
$100 [4]
On July 10, 1973, Prince Charles represented Queen Elizabeth at ceremonies celebrating this
the independence of the Bahamas
Linda
$100 [22]
This competition is divided into springboard & platform events
diving
Bob
$100 [15]
National League ballpark that commonly uses the word "the" in its title
the Astrodome
$200 [25]
Intensive indoctrination aimed at replacing your basic convictions with the party line
brainwashing
Linda
$200 [9]
973 dress white garrison caps were tossed in the air at this Hudson River site May 28, 1986
West Point
J.J.
$200 [7]
In "Crimes of the Heart" she shot her husband; in "'Night Mother," she shot herself
Sissy Spacek
Bob
$200 [5]
With international banking #2, this is the leading industry of the Bahamas
tourism
J.J.
$200 [23]
Ecaterina Szabo led this country's women's gymnastics team to the gold in the 1984 games
Romania
Bob
$200 [16]
Words which should precede name on the envelope when writing to a U.S. ambassador
"The Honorable"
Linda
$300 [26]
Slow brain waves on the EEG record show you're in Stage I of this
sleep
Bob
$300 [10]
British soldiers do this with their palms out, rather than down
salute
Linda
$300 [1]
Of Beau Brummel, Beau Geste, or Beau James, the one played in film by Bob Hope
Beau James
Bob
$300 [14]
Although considered part of the region, the Bahamas are not located in this sea
the Caribbean
Bob
$300 [24]
Competition whose events include team 3-day event & individual jumping
horseback riding (equestrian)
Linda
DD $400 [19]
Theydropped "The" in the '60s, but recently put it back to avoid confusion with the talk show host:
The Lettermen
Bob
$400 [29]
To keep the correct water level in your tissues, osmoceptors monitor this as it travels thru the brain
the blood
$400 [11]
It's reported that a U.S. military officer carrying "The football" is always with this man
the president
Linda
$400 [2]
1st paired in 1947's "I Walk Alone", their latest film together was 1986's "Tough Guys"
Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster
Bob
$400 [17]
Of Bimini, New Providence, or Grand Bahama, the island on which you would visit the capital, Nassau
New Providence
Bob Linda
$400 [27]
Number of the Olympiad whose games will be held in the summer of 1988
the XXIV
$400 [20]
In David Frost's "TW3", it was the 2nd "TW" phrase
"the Week"
Linda
$500 [30]
Sensations from the top rear two-thirds of it are carried to the brain by the lingual nerve
the tongue
J.J.
$500 [12]
Country which, by far, suffered the most casualties in WWII
the Soviet Union
J.J.
$500 [3]
David O. Selznick was fined $5000 in 1939 for using this 4-letter word in a film
"damn"
Linda
$500 [18]
To prevent the Germans from kidnapping this ex-king, Churchill sent him to govern the Bahamas
the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII)
Bob
$500 [28]
Number of oars used by one crew in the rowing event which uses the most oars
8
Bob
$500 [21]
It's 2nd verse begins, "On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep"
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY SHAKESPEARE'S LOVERS FAMOUS WALTERS AGRICULTURE AMERICAN HISTORY SWEET TALK
$200 [1]
If you're thinking of the 2nd largest city in Colorado, this one should spring to mind
Colorado Springs
Bob
$200 [13]
"The barge she sat in, like a burnisht throne burned on the water..."
Cleopatra
J.J.
$200 [2]
She's the only woman from any branch of the news media ever to make Gallup's list of "Most Admired Women"
Barbara Walters
J.J.
$200 [7]
It usually takes over 4 lbs. of feed for a hen to produce a dozen of these
eggs
J.J.
$200 [12]
Nixon's Att'y-Gen. E. Richardson resigned & Watergate prosecutor A. Cox was fired on this night of the week
Saturday
Bob
$200 [11]
Spiritually speaking, this "sweet" vehicle is "coming for to carry me home"
Sweet Chariot
J.J.
$400 [3]
A province of Indonesia & a former territory of Australia share this, the world's 2nd largest island
New Guinea
Bob J.J.
$400 [24]
Bassanio found this lady lawyer's picture inside a leaden casket
Portia
Bob
$400 [26]
He described his possum hero as a "reasonable, patient, softhearted, naive, friendly little person"
Walt Kelly
Bob
$400 [8]
The larvae of this "cotton bug" are more destructive than the adults
weevils
J.J.
$400 [14]
John Jay, not John Marshall, was the first one
chief justice of the Supreme Court
J.J.
$400 [22]
The last 3 words in "God Bless America", they'd be appropriate on a sampler
"Home sweet home"
Bob
$800 [5]
Seeing residents huddled around campfires on the shore, Magellan named the region this, meaning "Land of fire"
Tierra del Fuego
J.J.
$600 [23]
In 3rd play in which he appears, he becomes king & gets a girl, but she can't speak English
Henry V
Bob
$600 [25]
"Good morning Mr. & Mrs. South America & all the ships at sea! Let's go to press!"
Walter Winchell
Bob
$600 [9]
The average farm in this Southwestern state is larger than the average farm in any other state
Arizona
J.J.
$600 [15]
After the original 13, this was the 1st state admitted to the Union
Vermont
Bob
$600 [27]
Scottish poet who admitted "The sweetest hours that e'er I spend are spent among the lasses, O"
Robert Burns
Bob
DD $1,000 [4]
The Khyber Pass connects these 2 countries
Pakistan & Afghanistan
J.J.
$800 [19]
After he murdered her husband, Lady Anne spit in his face & then agreed to wear his ring
Richard III
Bob
$800 [21]
In 1900, this U.S. Army medical officer proved yellow fever is spread by mosquito bites
Walter Reed
Linda
$800 [10]
After this takes place, a corn cob turns into an ear of corn
pollenation (or fertilization)
Linda
$800 [16]
These 2 self-governing outlying areas of the U.S. were acquired from Spain in 1898
Puerto Rico and Guam
Bob J.J.
$800 [28]
In this 1969 Neil Diamond hit, "Good times never seemed so good"
"Sweet Caroline"
Bob
$1,000 [6]
1 of the 2 gulfs which border the Sinai Peninsula
the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba
Bob
$1,000 [18]
In "12th Night" it's Maria, not Olivia, who writes him the love not about his yellow stockings
Malvolio
Bob
DD $1,000 [20]
World Book calls him "The 1st novelist to portray peasant characters sympathetically"
Sir Walter Scott
Bob
$1,000 [17]
In his 1835 book "Democracy in America", this Frenchman predicted the present age's 2 superpowers
Alexis de Tocqueville
Bob

Final Jeopardy!

POP MUSIC

Elvis Presley record which held Billboard #1 singles position for 11 weeks, longest in rock era

"Hound Dog"/"Don't Be Cruel"

J.J. "What was Hound Dog?" — wagered $2,500
Linda "What is Don't Be Cruel?" — wagered $4,000
Bob "What is "Hound Dog"?" — wagered $3,401

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