Show #1162 1989-09-26 (taped 1989-06-19) Regular

Contestants

Marty Wazowicz — a teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania

Larry Thompson — an accountant from Breckenridge, Colorado

Tom Smolich — a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $39,802)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $100 $400 $2,900 $5,800
3rd place: Whirlpool French door refrigerator
$4,400
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Larry $1,800 $3,300 $4,900 $5,801
2nd place: a trip to St. Kitts
$5,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Marty $1,400 $2,900 $5,700 $9,801
New champion: $9,801
$5,700
16 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA FASHION BOTTOMS UP ARCHITECTURE NURSERY RHYMES POINT IT OUT
$100 [2]
Luci Nugent was only 19 when she gave birth to this president's 1st grandchild
LBJ
Marty
$100 [26]
At Christmas shopping, bags of this "5th Avenue" store feature a December calendar
Saks 5th Avenue
Tom
$100 [7]
As you might expect, it's the sweetener in a bee's knees cocktail
honey
Larry
$100 [21]
Dramatic 16th c. style named for the Portuguese "Barroco", meaning an irregular-shaped pearl
Baroque
Larry
$100 [16]
Since she had a bare cupboard, hers certainly wasn't a lucky dog, lucky dog
Old Mother Hubbard
Marty
$100 [1]
In Tunisia this hand sign means "I'll get you", in Japan "money" & in the U.S. "okay"
[the "O" sign]
Larry
$200 [3]
He was known as "Big Bill"
William Howard Taft
Marty
$400 [28]
Profession in which one might wear a cassock, alb, chasuble & maniple
priest
Larry
$200 [8]
Used to make martinis, it's an aperitif wine flavored with herbs
vermouth
Tom
$200 [22]
The Swedes who settled in Delaware in 1638 were the 1st in America to build cabins made of these
logs
Tom
$200 [17]
Precarious position of the bough-borne cradle
up in the treetop
Marty
$200 [11]
In the sobriety test, you shut your eyes, put your arms out to your sides & touch this
[your nose]
Tom
$300 [4]
In 1970 George Bush ran against Lloyd Bentsen Jr. for this position
U.S. Senator from Texas
Tom Marty
$500 [27]
At Blomingdale's, the DKNY shop features ready-to-wear clothes by this N.Y. designer
Donna Karan
Tom
$300 [9]
A gin cocktail is named for this man, John Tunney's father
Gene Tunney
Marty
$300 [23]
Ancient British monument that's an example of post-and-lintel construction later used by the Greeks
Stonehenge
Marty
$300 [18]
"See-saw, Margery Daw," he "shall have a new master"
Jacky
$300 [12]
Besides his heart, this was the other part of E.T. that glowed
[index finger]
Larry
$400 [5]
This wartime president had previously served in the Black Hawk War but saw no fighting
Abraham Lincoln
Larry
$400 [10]
All you need to make this simple cocktail is gin & sweetened lime juice
a gimlet
$400 [24]
Associated with geodesic domes, he once proposed saving energy by covering midtown Manhattan with a dome
R. Buckminster Fuller
Larry
$400 [19]
A 2nd verse to this rhyme begins "Every fiddler he had a fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he"
"Old King Cole"
Marty
$400 [13]
Paper covers stone, but stone breaks these
["scissors"]
Larry
$500 [6]
You can visit his home, Sagamore Hill, in Oyster Bay, Long Island
Theodore Roosevelt
Larry
$500 [15]
Bartenders know this juice puts the scarlet in a Scarlett O' Hara
cranberry juice
Tom Marty
DD $600 [25]
The Romans built their houses around this open-air central room
Atrium
Larry
$500 [20]
In this rhyme, a parent bemoans the fact her child has gone to bed with stockings & 1 shoe on
"Diddle Diddle Dumpling"
$500 [14]
Jim Lange would invite the couples on "The Dating Game" to do this with him at the end of the show
[throw a kiss]
Marty

Double Jeopardy! Round

"C" HERE THEATRE NAVIGATION BLACK AMERICA MYTHOLOGICAL ROMANCES AROUND THE HOUSE
$200 [2]
It can be a group riding exhibition performed to music or a merry-go-round
carousel
Marty
$200 [8]
By the end of this J.M. Barrie play, Wendy flies so badly she has to use a broomstick
Peter Pan
Marty
$200 [7]
The sextant is so named because its shape is this fraction of a full circle
1/6
Tom
$400 [12]
He once said that he "cried like a baby" while writing about Kunta Kinte
Alex Haley
Tom
$200 [17]
He loved Polyxena but demanded that she be slain at his tomb--what a "heel"!
Achilles
Larry
$200 [1]
Now over 60% of U.S. homes can save our show forever using one of these electronic devices
VCR (video cassette recorder)
Tom
$400 [3]
Pronounced one way, it means to comfort; pronounced another way, it's a cabinet for your stereo
console
$400 [10]
This Norwegian author's last play, "When We Dead Awaken", includes a major self-analysis
Henrik Ibsen
Larry
$400 [9]
Navstar, one of these, allows aircraft & ships to determine their position anywhere on Earth
a satellite
Tom
$600 [13]
A dancer in "The Wiz" & an understudy in "Dreamgirls", she's sung & danced on "The Cosby Show"
Phylicia Rashad
Tom
$400 [18]
After she rendezvoused with Poseidon in Athena's temple, Athena changed her hair into serpents
Medusa
Tom
$400 [22]
The focus of many living rooms, in Latin "focus" means this, abbreviated "fplc" in real estate ads
fireplace
Tom
$600 [4]
A fancy roast of lamb, veal, or pork; you might wear your tiara while eating it
crown roast
Marty
$1,000 [26]
Paul Scofield starred in the original production of this play & won an Oscar for the film version
A Man for All Seasons
Marty
$600 [16]
For centuries, navigators have used 2 stars in Ursa Major to point the way to this star
Polaris (or the North Star)
Larry
$800 [14]
He's famous for having gone on long fasts during the Vietnam War & the 1980 Iran hostage crisis
Dick Gregory
Marty
$600 [19]
He deserted his beloved water nymph, Oenone, to run off with Helen of Troy
Paris
Tom
$600 [23]
A man's personal servant, or a stand that holds his jacket
a valet
Larry
$800 [5]
A 10-letter word for a crotchety old miser, not a crotchety old dog
curmudgeon
Marty
$800 [27]
Invented in 1735, this clock, whose name means "time measurer", is used in sea navigation
a chronometer
Larry
DD $1,000 [11]
He won a 1962 Grammy forthe following:"I can't stop loving you, I've made up my mind..."
Ray Charles
Larry
$1,000 [21]
After Apollo gave her the gift of prophecy, she spurned him
Cassandra
Tom
$800 [24]
In old manor houses, it's the room off the kitchen where the dishwashing was done
the scullery
Marty
$1,000 [6]
If you were a mummy, some of your internal organs would be in these jars
canopic jars
$1,000 [15]
In 1977 PBS's "Black Journal" was renamed for him, its executive producer & host
Tony Brown
DD $1,500 [20]
Zeus carried Europa all the way to Crete when he was disguised as one of these
a bull
Tom
$1,000 [25]
This company is the largest single maker of finished Venetian blinds in the U.S.
Levolor
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

BEST SELLERS

A juvenile edition of this 1961 best seller was called "The Great Adventure of Michelangelo"

The Agony & The Ecstasy

Tom "What is The Agony & The Ecstasy?" — wagered $2,900
Larry "What is the Agony & the Ecstasy" — wagered $901
Marty "What is "The Agony & The Ecstasy?" — wagered $4,101

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