Show #1178 1989-10-18 (taped 1989-06-26) Regular

Contestants

Charley Horan — a photographic representative from Manhattan Beach, California

John Kirk — a yogurt franchise operator originally from Hong Kong

Ed Toutant — an engineer from Austin, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ed $800 $1,900 $5,300 $7,400
2nd place: a trip to Honolulu
$4,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
John $200 $900 $5,800 $6,000
3rd place: a Martin Lawrence Galleries serigraph + a Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior Editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune
$6,100
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Charley $1,400 $3,600 $7,400 $11,601
New champion: $11,601
$6,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

FEMALE FIRSTS FICTIONAL CHARACTERS "FORT"s 6-LETTER WORDS DANCES HAIL AND FAREWELL
$100 [16]
On July 30, 1923 Italian actress Eleonora Duse became 1st woman to appear on the cover of this newsmagazine
Time magazine
Charley
$100 [9]
Byron wrote an epic poem about this Latin lover whose mother sent him abroad at age 16 after an "intrigue"
Don Juan
Ed Charley
$100 [5]
This N.C. fort has reason to boast since airborne U.S. Army combat units are stationed there
Fort Bragg
Ed
$100 [25]
You can blow one with a mixture of soap & water or with some types of gum
a bubble
Ed
$100 [13]
The monkey & the frug were examples of this kind of dancing, sometimes done by girls in cages
go-go dancing
Charley
$100 [3]
This ABC prime time newsmagazine closes with "We're in touch, so you be in touch"
20/20
Charley
$200 [17]
This comedienne was the 1st permanent guest host of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"
Joan Rivers
Charley
$200 [21]
His sister Gretel won a pair of silver skates, but he didn't
Hans Brinker
John Charley
$200 [6]
On May 10, 1775 Ethan Allen & Benedict Arnold captured this fort on Lake Champlain from the British
Fort Ticonderoga
Charley
$200 [12]
The only Beatle with a 6-letter last name
Lennon
Charley
$200 [14]
The mazurka is a Polish folk dance which resembles this dance
a polka
Ed
$200 [4]
"And goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are"
Jimmy Durante
John
$300 [18]
5 years after Lindbergh, she became the 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
Ed
$300 [28]
Her real name was Aldonza Lorenzo, but Don Quixote named her this
Dulcinea
Charley
$300 [1]
This celebrated Maryland fort overlooking the Patapsco River is named for a signer of the Constitution
Fort McHenry
Charley
$300 [10]
This spout at the end of a gas hose is a diminutive form of nose
nozzle
Ed
$300 [22]
Dance you'd do to "Ah-one, ah-two, ah-doodle-dee-doodle-dee-do"
the old soft shoe
$300 [7]
Walter Cronkite usually closed his "CBS Evening News" telecasts with this phrase
"That's the way it is"
Ed
$400 [19]
The first woman in this sport to win over $100,000 in a season was Judy Rankin in 1976
golf
Charley
$400 [2]
Troops are processed for overseas duty at this New Jersey army base
Fort Dix
Charley
$400 [11]
Coarsely woven cloth made from jute or hemp fibers, it's used in potato sacks
burlap
Charley
$400 [23]
Little Egypt was famous for this type of dance, also known as the "hootchy-kootchy"
belly dancing
John
$400 [27]
For 20 seasons this comedian ended his TV variety series with "Good night & God bless"
Red Skelton
Charley
$500 [20]
In 1980 Kathleen Conley became the 1st woman to graduate from this Colorado school
the Air Force Academy
Charley
$500 [8]
This Kentucky army post is known as the "Home of Armor"
Fort Knox
Charley
DD $1,000 [15]
2 of the 5 states that fit this category
Oregon & Hawaii (Kansas, Nevada, Alaska)
Ed
$500 [24]
Line dance invented in Cuba whose name is derived from an African country
the conga
John
$500 [26]
This newscaster-adventurer signed off his radio broadcasts saying "So long until tomorrow"
Lowell Thomas
Ed

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FLOWERS ACTORS & ACTRESSES FRANCE RELIGION QUOTE "UN"QUOTE
$200 [15]
Opposing the Stamp Act, this patriot said, "If this be treason, make the most of it"
Patrick Henry
Ed
$200 [23]
Tulips, hyacinths & daffodils are usually grown not from seeds but from these
bulbs
Ed
$200 [11]
At the 1988 Emmy Awards he compared the character he played on "Family Ties" to Dan Quayle
Michael J. Fox
John
$200 [9]
France is 2nd to Italy in production of this drink but consumes the most per capita in the world
wine
Charley
$200 [1]
With the possible exception of Peter, Pius IX, who ruled from 1846-78 holds this record
being the pontiff longest
John
$200 [4]
The 8th amendment to the constitution outlaws punishment that is "cruel and" this
unusual
Charley
$400 [16]
At the Battle of Bunker Hill, Gen. Israel Putnam warned his troops, "Don't fire until you see" these
the whites of their eyes
John
DD $300 [29]
Thomas Moore wrote, "'Tis" this last flower "left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone"
the last rose of summer
John
$400 [20]
He has a portable gym that can fill 5 trailers, & there's still room for his wife, Maria Shriver
Arnold Schwarzenegger
John
$400 [10]
By law, full time French workers get at least 5 weeks of this with pay
vacation
Charley
$400 [2]
It's believed Ramses II was Pharaoh when these people fled from Egypt
the Children of Israel (the Jews)
John
$400 [5]
Humpty Dumpty told Alice, "There are 364 days when you might get" this kind of present
an un-birthday present
Charley
$600 [19]
The Battle of Long Island was the 1st time the Americans saw action against these soldiers
the Hessians
Ed John
$400 [27]
These garden or window plants of the genus Pelargonium come in varieties like Ivy & Lady Washington
geraniums
$600 [21]
Jamie Lee Curtis' parents; their real names are Bernard Schwartz & Jeanette Morrison
Janet Leigh & Tony Curtis
John
$600 [12]
A "hotel de ville" isn't a hotel at all but one of these municipal buildings
city hall (or town hall)
John
$600 [3]
Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, was one of the gods in the ancient religion of this country
Mexico
Ed John Charley
$800 [7]
Completes William Ernest Henley's line, "Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody, but..."
unbowed
Charley
$800 [24]
A 1777 victory at Brandywine Creek enabled the British to occupy this major city
Philadelphia
John
$600 [28]
Common foxglove is the source of this medicine that stimulates & stabilizes the heartbeat
digitalis
John
$800 [22]
This "SCTV" star made a big splash as Tom Hanks' brother in "Splash"
John Candy
Charley
$800 [13]
1 of the 2 Caribbean territories that are départements, or administrative districts, of France
Martinique (or Guadeloupe)
John
$800 [17]
Stoicism, which taught a form of naturalistic monotheism, originated in this country about 300 B.C.
Greece
John
$1,000 [8]
Speaking of his pyrrhic victory, Pyrrhus said, "Another such victory over the Romans, and we are" this
undone
Ed
$1,000 [25]
In October 1779 French Admiral Jean d'Estaing & the patriots failed to retake this Georgia city
Savannah
John Charley
$1,000 [26]
This "Onion Field" star said, "I'm the best friend you could ever have & the worst enemy"
James Woods
Charley
$1,000 [14]
Subject of a long-standing dispute, France regained this area from Germany after both World Wars
Alsace-Lorraine
Ed
$1,000 [18]
Protestant denomination named for the elders who administer it
Presbyterians
Ed
DD $1,600 [6]
The title of this songisn't mentioned anywhere in its lyrics:
"Unchained Melody"
Charley

Final Jeopardy!

PUBLISHING

For its 1990 edition Guinness is dropping all records of this 1 of the 7 deadly sins

gluttony

Ed "What is Gluttony?" — wagered $2,100
John "What is gluttony?" — wagered $200
Charley "What is Glutony?" — wagered $4,201

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