Show #958 1988-11-02 (taped 1988-09-07) Regular

Contestants

Phil Nauss — a writer from Salt Lake City, Utah

Eileen Anderson — a registered nurse and childbirth educator from Baldwin, New York

Alison Roberts — an attorney originally from Port Sulphur, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alison $1,600 $2,600 $8,700 $11,100
3-day champion: $27,099
$11,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Eileen $800 $900 $3,300 $1
3rd place: a Lane Action Spoiler rocker/recliner
$3,300
11 R, 3 W
Phil $1,300 $4,700 $5,500 $11,000
2nd place: a Merillat oak modular shelving system + an Olympia EC2000 desktop calculator
$4,100
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

"FOR" WORDS TRAVEL & TOURISM COUNTRY & WESTERN MUSIC MEDICINE TELEVISION SKUNKS
$100 [1]
In a common saying, it's what some people can't see for the trees
the forest
Alison
$100 [11]
You can visit this sport's hall of fame on PGA Blvd. in Pinehurst, North Carolina
golf
Phil
$100 [24]
In Cole Porter's song, these words follow "can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences"
don't fence me in
Eileen
$100 [3]
Device that's implanted to control irregular heart beats
a pacemaker
Alison
$100 [20]
Ray Walston was the Martian while the "my" in "My Favorite Martian" referred to him
Bill Bixby
Phil
$100 [15]
With a favorable wind, skunks can do this for up to about 23 feet
spray
Phil
$200 [2]
A college team might have to do this for games played with ineligible team members
forfeit
Eileen
$200 [12]
Except when it's on tour, the most important King Tut collection is housed in this city
Cairo
Phil
$200 [25]
Hey, good lookin', this singer recorded some songs under the name Luke the Drifter
Hank Williams
Phil
$200 [7]
The term "strep", as in strep throat, is short for this type of bacteria
Streptococcus
Eileen
$200 [21]
Before playing the principal at "The Bronx Zoo", he played the city editor of the L.A. Tribune
Ed Asner
Phil
$200 [16]
The skunk lends its name to this foul-smelling "vegetable" found in swamps
skunk cabbage
Phil
$300 [4]
Jewelers as well as surgeons use this tool for grasping & holding
forceps
Alison
$300 [13]
Type of place you'd be visiting if you were in Wind Cave, Lassen or Zion
a national park
Alison
$300 [26]
In "Red River Valley", cowboys sing, "come and" do this "if you love me"
sit by my side
Eileen Phil
$300 [8]
He was a world authority on the gall wasp in the '20s before turning to sex research
Kinsey
Eileen
$300 [22]
In 1977 her own show aired on CBS just before "Maude"; now she's a "Golden Girl" with Bea Arthur
Betty White
Eileen
$300 [17]
Name of zee skunk in zee popular Warner Brothers cartoons
Pepé Le Pew
Phil
$400 [5]
Usually it's the last thing you're served in a Chinese restaurant
a fortune cookie
Alison
$400 [14]
1 of 2 famous Danish breweries you can tour in Copenhagen
Tuborg (or Carlsberg)
Phil
$400 [9]
For an upper GI you drink this; for a lower GI... well, we won't talk about that
barium
Alison Eileen
$400 [23]
The pilot of this show, set in North Carolina, played as part of "The Danny Thomas Show" in 1960
The Andy Griffith Show
Phil
$500 [19]
Skunks are the major carriers of this disease in the continental U.S.
rabies
Phil
$500 [6]
This word on the label signifies that vitamins have been added to milk
fortified
Phil
$500 [27]
You can spend the night in a Victorian style railroad car at the Choo Choo Hilton in this city
Chattanooga
Alison
$500 [10]
To test for this, the eyeball is anesthetized & a pressure gauge is placed on the front of the eye
glaucoma
Eileen
$500 [28]
He was a regular on Danny Kaye's, Carol Burnett's & Tim Conway's variety shows
Harvey Korman
Alison
DD $1,800 [18]
Condition of the skunk in the title of thefollowing1973 Top 20 hit:"Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose! /Roll up yer window and hold yer nose"
dead and in the middle of the road
Phil

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES ENGLISH LIT TECHNOLOGY CELEBRITY MARRIAGES THE CIVIL WAR PERFUME
$200 [1]
The 2 states that border no other states
Alaska & Hawaii
Eileen
$200 [6]
In 1772 James Boswell told this author he intended to write his biography
Doctor Samuel Johnson
Alison
$200 [10]
Count Rumford, who died in 1814, invented the drip version of this
the coffee maker (the coffee pot accepted)
Alison
$200 [26]
Carrie Leigh hopped out of this man's mansion & married an antique dealer, quick as a bunny
Hugh Hefner
Phil
$200 [13]
Heavy casualties at Shiloh led to calls for his firing, but Lincoln said, "I can't spare this man; he fights"
Grant
Phil
$200 [12]
Late designer whose perfumes are sold by the numbers: No. 5. No. 19 & No. 22
(Coco) Chanel
Phil
$400 [2]
Of Colorado, New Mexico or Arizona, the state where the Rio Grande begins
Colorado
Eileen Phil
$600 [8]
Among his historical novels are "I, Claudius" & "Claudius the God"
Robert Graves
Alison
$400 [15]
Eli Whitney's nephew invented a crusher used to grind up rock for surfacing these
roads
Phil
$400 [27]
This "Bewitch"ing actress was the 3rd wife of Oscar winner Gig Young
Elizabeth Montgomery
Alison
$400 [14]
This battle was Lee's last major offensive
Gettysburg
Phil
$400 [19]
Mimosa, mayflower & musk mingle in this, Yves St. Laurent's "capital" perfume
Paris
Alison
$600 [3]
Besides X, Y & Z, 2 of the 3 consonants that don't begin a state's name
J & Q (& B)
Alison
$800 [9]
Since the beadle named his waifs alphabetically, this character came between Swubble & Unwin
(Oliver) Twist
Eileen
$600 [16]
A fault in the rotation speed of this device produces a sound called a "wow"
a turntable
Phil
$600 [28]
Drama coach Uta Hagen was his 1st wife & singer Rosemary Clooney his 3rd
José Ferrer
$600 [22]
Northerners who sought advantage in the post-war South were said to tote their belongings in these
carpetbags
Alison
$600 [20]
Though it has the same name, Benetton's perfume wasn't named for this controversial Sean Penn film
Colors
Alison
$800 [4]
The last major land battle of the Revolutionary War took place in this state
Virginia
Eileen
$1,000 [11]
In an Oliver Goldsmith work, Dr. Primrose is the vicar of this parish
Wakefield
Alison
$800 [17]
The "D" in radar stands for this
detection
Eileen Phil
$800 [29]
Of the original stars of "Mission: Impossible", the 2 who were married to each other
(Barbara) Bain & (Martin) Landau
Alison
DD $800 [24]
In Sherman's famous "march to the sea", this seaport city was his goal
Savannah, Georgia
Alison
$800 [21]
The 2 perfumes mentioned in Matthew 2:11
frankincense & myrrh
Phil
$1,000 [5]
This state got its nickname, "Badger State", from the 1820s miners who dug into its hillsides
Wisconsin
Alison
DD $3,100 [7]
The Baconian theory expounds this
that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays
Alison
$1,000 [18]
Name given to the simplest electron tubes, as they have just 2 main parts, a plate & an emitter
a diode
Eileen
$1,000 [25]
1 of the 3 men whom Lincoln defeated in the 1860 presidential election
Breckinridge (or Douglas or Bell)
Alison
$1,000 [23]
Bulgaria is the chief producer of this perfume oil obtained by passing steam thru rose petals
attar (of roses)
Alison

Final Jeopardy!

THE SPACE RACE

Sputnik was the Soviet's 1st satellite, while this was ours

Explorer

Eileen "What is Telstar?" — wagered $3,299
Phil "What was Explorer?" — wagered $5,500
Alison "What is Explorer?" — wagered $2,400

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