Show #560 1987-01-30 (taped 1986-11-04) Regular

Contestants

Irwin Moskowitz — a marketing manager originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Nancy Neff — a teacher from Chattanooga, Tennessee

Rex Schultz — a trial lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rex $900 $2,300 $7,300 $300
2nd place: Emerson 25" stereo TV & Symphonic video cassette recorder
$8,300
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Nancy $500 $1,600 $7,000 $13,000
New champion: $13,000
$7,000
16 R, 0 W
Irwin $100 $300 $-300 $-300
3rd place: Oneida gift certificate
$-500
7 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

GOVERNMENT BIRDS THE "RIGHT" STUFF SPORTS QUOTES ISLANDS FAMOUS ROBOTS
$100 [11]
Short of city funds, the comm. of trust funds in Swampscott, Mass. wanted to spend $100 for these tickets
lottery
Irwin
$100 [17]
Bird noted for its high, raspy meow-call
catbird
Rex
$100 [3]
Cartoon mountie who could "do no wrong"
Dudley Do-Right
Rex
$100 [1]
Prior to a 1980 fight, he said "If Holmes don't C-sharp, he'll B-flat"
Muhammad Ali
Rex
$100 [24]
In a 1966 hit, they proclaimed, "I am a rock, I am an island"
Simon and Garfunkel
Nancy
$100 [12]
Pair of "Star Wars" droids who got their own animated cartoon series in 1985
R2-D2 and C-3PO
Nancy
$200 [13]
Reagan signed law limiting federal spending on new presidential libraries, with this 1 exception
Reagan Library
Rex
$200 [18]
The European cuckoo is considered a parasite because it lays its eggs there
in other birds' nests
Rex
$200 [7]
Opposing the "pro-choice" group, they're anti-abortion activists
right to lifers
Rex
$200 [2]
A fan said to this ex-coach "If you got that way drinking Miller Lite, I'd hate to see Miller heavy"
John Madden
Nancy
$200 [25]
Kitty Hawk site of the Wright Bros. 1st airplane flight, is on Bodie Island in this state
North Carolina
Rex
$200 [20]
For this show's robot, Bob May was inside & Dick Tufeld supplied voice crying "Danger Will Robinson"
Lost in Space
Irwin
$300 [14]
31 pages of report by this commission detailed chapter by chapter the book "Tying Up Rebecca"
The Commission on Pornography
Rex
$300 [19]
Called the "yellowhammer" because it sounds like one, the flicker is a variety of this
woodpecker
Irwin
$300 [8]
A 90° bend, or an appropriate sales technique
right angle
Nancy
$300 [4]
David Brenner said he doesn't like to watch this sport on TV because "I can't stand whispering"
golf
Rex
$300 [26]
Its 4 historic provinces are Connaught, Leinster, Munster & Ulster
Ireland
Rex
$400 [22]
Appropriate letter-number name of the computerized dog on "Doctor Who"
K9
Nancy
$400 [15]
European country that's #1 destination of congressional fact-finding trips
France
Irwin
$400 [23]
In the Bible, Noah sent one to look for land, & a group of them later fed Elijah
ravens
Rex
$400 [9]
It has only 10 amendments, since 2 on representatives' apportionment & compensation weren't ratified
Bill of Rights
Rex
$400 [5]
Hit by a ball in '34, this St. Louis pitching great said "The doctors x-rayed my head & found nothing"
Dizzy Dean
Rex
$400 [27]
West Indian island that's the home of the limbo dance & calypso music
Trinidad
Irwin
DD $500 [21]
[Video] 1926 film which featured the robot pictured in the following:
Metropolis
Irwin
$500 [16]
It began June 2, 1986; everybody waited 2 minutes, then Dole dropped his mike
televising the Senate
Rex
$500 [10]
Position shared by Jesse Helms in the political spectrum & Tim Kerr at the Philadelphia Spectrum
right wing
Irwin
$500 [6]
Yankee manager who told players to "Line up alphabetically by height"
Casey Stengel
Irwin
$500 [28]
Largest of the Mariana Islands, we acquired it in 1898
Guam
Nancy

Double Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS EXPLORERS BUSINESS LINGO CELEBRITY SECRETS BEES ALPHABETICALLY FIRST
$200 [1]
West Virginian who taught psychology, divorced a missionary, & wrote novels about China
Pearl Buck
Nancy
$200 [12]
He served in both the Confederate & Union armies before going to look for Livingstone
Stanley
Irwin
$200 [26]
A banker's best rate, or a butcher's best rib
prime
Rex
$200 [7]
She's no dummy, but her "brother" was, & Charlie's room was bigger than hers
Candice Bergen
Nancy
$200 [21]
As early as 3500 B.C., bees were domesticated in this ancient African civilization
Egypt
Rex
$200 [6]
It isn't too taxing to determine that this is the 1st month, alphabetically
April
Nancy
$400 [2]
Frontier heroine Betty Zane's life was fictionalized by this namesake descendant
Zane Grey
Rex
$400 [14]
Cause of the 1809 gunshot death of this Louisiana Purchase explorer is still undetermined
Meriwether Lewis
Nancy
$400 [27]
A bond value of 100% or an expert golfer's average score
par
Rex
$400 [8]
Number of Dale Evans' husbands before she rode off into the sunset with Roy Rogers
2
$400 [22]
Among other colors, mining bees can be a shade of 1 of these 2 metals dug from mines
gold & copper
Nancy
$400 [13]
Alphabetically 1st among continents, though 2nd in size
Africa
Rex
$600 [3]
A single sentence in one of his daughter's school books inspired him to write "Shogun"
James Clavell
Nancy
$600 [15]
Gone broke, he had himself put in a cask addressed to Panama, which he later crossed
Balboa
Nancy
$600 [28]
Over-the-counter stocks are indexed on the automated quote system known by this acronym
NASDAQ
$600 [9]
"Sugar Babies" star who said Louis B. Mayer's suicide attempt was her fault
Ann Miller
Irwin
$600 [23]
Because a bumblebee has a long one of these, only it can pollinate the red clover
tongue
Irwin
$600 [18]
Alphabetically the 1st vice president, 3 letters & 180 years ahead of Agnew
John Adams
Rex
$800 [4]
Of this India-born writer, Mark Twain said, "He knows all that can be known, & I know the rest"
(Rudyard) Kipling
Rex Irwin
$800 [16]
1st European to see bison, head & all, was this Spaniard whose name means "cow's head"
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
$800 [10]
He knew the honeymoon was over when Vivien Leigh attacked him in his sleep
Laurence Olivier
Nancy
$800 [24]
Tho collectors of nectar & pollen, these nonsocial bees don't build hives but bore in wood to nest
carpenter bees
DD $1,000 [19]
Alphabetically, the 1st U.S. state capital
Albany, New York
Rex
$1,000 [5]
Oddly paralleling his heroine Anna Karenina's death, he died at a train station
Tolstoy
Rex
$1,000 [17]
Columbus planned to sail westward to "Cipangu", which was the name Marco Polo used for this country
Japan
Rex
$1,000 [11]
Afraid of being an out-caste" this "Dark Angel" star passed her Indian mother off as her maid
Merle Oberon
Nancy
$1,000 [25]
Bees need feeding about 1300 times a day during this state of development
a larva (larval)
Rex
$1,000 [20]
Alphabetically, the 1st card in a deck of 52
ace of clubs
Nancy

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. STATES

Number of states whose names end with the same vowel they begin with

4

Nancy "What is 4?" — wagered $6,000
Rex "What is 2?" — wagered $7,000

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