Show #559 1987-01-29 (taped 1986-11-04) Regular

Contestants

Margaret Wheeler — a high school librarian originally from Phoenix, Arizona

Lindsay Franco-Ferreira — a store manager originally from Surrey, England

Rex Schultz — a trial lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rex $900 $4,700 $11,700 $10,700
2-day champion: $19,800
$9,700
28 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Lindsay $200 $900 $1,500 $2,999
3rd place: Bushnell Astronomical telescope
$1,800
7 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Margaret $1,000 $2,300 $5,100 $7,600
2nd place: Vitamaster exercise cycle & Zenith 9-inch color TV
$5,100
14 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

JULY PROVERBS SINGERS MOVIE TRIVIA RUSSIA "BIG"
$100 [1]
The 1st American legislative assembly met on July 30, 1619 at Jamestown in this southern colony
Virginia
Rex
$100 [5]
We must learn to do this before we can run
walk
Margaret
$100 [16]
Bianca said marrying him "was like joining the Boy Scouts"
Mick Jagger
Rex
$100 [21]
This Hitchcock film had just 1 set--& it floated
Lifeboat
Rex
$100 [26]
Dyed Maroz, or "Grandfather Frost", is the Russian equivalent of this holiday figure
Santa Claus or Father Christmas
Lindsay
$100 [9]
A person who holds strong prejudices; Archie Bunker was a big one
bigot
Rex
$200 [2]
In July of 1796, the Secy. of State issued the 1st in U.S. to Francis Barrere, who was going overseas
passport
Rex
$200 [6]
They "can't be choosers"
beggars
Rex
$200 [17]
He & his stepmother Shirley Jones sang leads on Partridge Family records
David Cassidy
Lindsay
$200 [22]
First Lady played by Ginger Rogers in "The Magnificent Doll"
Dolley Madison
Rex
$200 [27]
Name shared by the places where Joseph Stalin & Jimmy Carter were born & raised
Georgia
Rex
$200 [10]
Any penitentiary, even a small one
big house
Lindsay
$300 [3]
On July 18, 1936, an army revolt started a civil war in this country
Spain
Rex
$300 [8]
Translation of the Latin proverb "In vino veritas"
In wine, truth
Lindsay
$300 [18]
His new book, "Man in White", is about St. Paul; his autobiography was "Man in Black"
Johnny Cash
Rex
$300 [23]
An invitation to waltz, a Rogers & Astaire film, or a musical question in "The King and I"
Shall We Dance?
Rex
$300 [28]
Most of Moscow, except the Kremlin, was burned due to the invasion ordered by this man
Napoleon
Rex
DD $300 [11]
Film whose credits began with a body &the following song:
The Big Chill
Lindsay
$400 [4]
Prince Charles wed Lady Diana on July 29th of this year
1981
Margaret
$400 [14]
"A woman's mind & winter wind" do this "oft"
change
Margaret
$400 [19]
Born Annie Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tenn., in 1976, she told Ike to take a hike
Tina Turner
Lindsay
$400 [24]
The Disney TV film "Tiger Town" was shown theatrically only in this "Tiger Town" of sports
Detroit
Rex
$400 [29]
In 1929 this revolutionary leader became 1st citizen ever expelled from Russia by the Soviet govt.
(Leon) Trotsky
Margaret
$400 [12]
It only happened once on Madonna Street, but Monty Hall offered one daily
Big Deal
Rex
$500 [7]
On 7/27/74, Rodino's House Judiciary Committee recommended sending this question to the full House
the question of the impeachment of Richard Nixon
Margaret
$500 [15]
On the indivisability of this, a proverb asks: "Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?"
getting married
Rex
$500 [20]
1st husband Jack Webb co-starred her with 2nd husband Bobby Troup in TV's "Emergency!"
Julie London
$500 [25]
Ads for this 1971 Woody Allen film called it "More moving than prunes"
Bananas
Rex
$500 [30]
1st person in Russia ever vaccinated against smallpox was this empress
Catherine the Great
Margaret
$500 [13]
German WWI cannon named for Mrs. Krupp, who ran the gun works
"Big Bertha"
Rex

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LINES WORLD LEADERS ANIMALS BUSINESS & INDUSTRY BASEBALL NIGHT TIME SOAPS
$200 [9]
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
A Tale of Two Cities
Rex
$200 [2]
Reagan said of him in January 1986, "I find he's not only a barbarian, but he's flaky"
Qadhafi
Rex
$200 [1]
Some doctors treat arthritis patients with this reptile secretion
venom
Rex
$200 [17]
It's said S.S. Kresge closed all his stores for 1 hour the day this "Granddaddy of the Five & Dime" died
Woolworth
Margaret
$200 [7]
1951 film "Angels in the Outfield" wasn't about a California team but this Pennsylvania one
Pittsburgh Pirates
$200 [25]
Benson butlered in this series which featured the Campbell & Tate family feud
Soap
Rex
$400 [12]
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank..."
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( Alice in Wonderland accepted)
Rex
$400 [3]
Re-establishing a free Poland was 1 of his 14 Points of 1918
Woodrow Wilson
Margaret
$600 [21]
When grabbed by a predator, a skink may ditch this part of its anatomy
its tail
Rex
$400 [18]
When introduced in 1931, this Miles Laboratories product fizzled in water but boomed in sales
Alka-Seltzer
Margaret
$400 [8]
With over 1000 RBIs, this Cincinnati Reds catcher led the majors during the '70s
Johnny Bench
Margaret
$400 [26]
Proving blondes don't always have more fun, she spent 9 weeks last season locked in an attic
Linda Evans (Krystle Carrington)
$600 [14]
"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills."
Out of Africa
Margaret
$600 [4]
In later years, this Indian prime minister carried with him part of a poem by Robert Frost
Nehru
Lindsay
$800 [22]
The black-masked scimitar babbler is not a noisy armed bandit, but this kind of animal
songbird
Margaret
$600 [19]
Robert J. Vlasic is now 5th largest shareholder in Campbell Soup Company, having sold them this
his pickle company
Rex
$800 [11]
"No boy or man can expect to succeed...& continue the use of cigarettes", said this Phila. manager in 1913
Connie Mack
Margaret
$600 [27]
After playing w/"Paper Dolls" in 1984, she became a lawyer on "Falcon Crest" in 1985
Morgan Fairchild
$800 [15]
"The time traveler (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding..."
The Time Machine
Margaret
$800 [5]
Born Ruhollah Mussavi, this world leader ironically spent 13 years of his exile in Iraq
Ayatollah Khomeini
Rex
DD $1,000 [20]
The ogre-faced spider is so called because 1 pair of these is unusually large
its eyes
Rex
$800 [24]
1st called the Curb Exchange because it did business on the street, it's USA's 2nd-biggest stock exchange
American Stock Exchange
Rex
$1,000 [13]
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson, with 3rd highest lifetime batting average, is not in Hall of Fame probably due to this
The "Black Sox" Scandal of 1919
Margaret
$1,000 [16]
"The Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement is perhaps unknown to you"
All About Eve
$1,000 [6]
Once a worker in a shaving brush factory, this diplomat shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
Henry Kissinger
Lindsay Margaret
$1,000 [23]
A horse's coronets aren't found atop its head, but at the top of these
hooves
Lindsay
DD $2,000 [10]
In the 1880s, for a kid to get new baseball cards, he'd have to buy packs of these
cigarettes
Rex

Final Jeopardy!

BRIDGES

It's spanned by the Bridge of the Americas

Panama Canal

Lindsay "What is the Panama Canal?" — wagered $1,499
Margaret "What is the Panama Canal?" — wagered $2,500
Rex "What is the -------?" — wagered $1,000

« Back to Games