Show #558 1987-01-28 (taped 1986-11-04) Regular

Contestants

Mary Frances Smith — a homemaker from Memphis, Tennessee

Rex Schultz — a trial lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland

Jim Crawford — a letter carrier from Seal Beach, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jim $600 $1,200 $2,800 $5,600
2nd place: trip to Palm Springs & stay at Ingleside Inn + Pinseeker golf clubs with bag
$2,800
11 R, 1 W
Rex $1,100 $3,700 $5,100 $9,100
New champion: $9,100
$4,700
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Mary Frances $200 $700 $4,500 $500
3rd place: Emerson 20" TV
$5,300
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

1951 B.B. SOUTH AMERICA BOWLING COUNTRY MUSIC STUPID ANSWERS
$100 [4]
In May, this utility co. became the 1st corporation in the world to have over 1,000,000 stockholders
AT&T
Rex
$100 [12]
Once called "France's most ogled export" this actress has said about aging, "...you rot away..."
Brigitte Bardot
Mary Frances
$100 [11]
In 1986, U.S. troops were sent to Bolivia to discourage trafficking in this export
cocaine
Mary Frances
$100 [1]
Weighing no more than 3 lbs. 10 oz., it stands 15" high & 4 ¾" at widest point
bowling pin
Jim Rex
$100 [26]
This relative of Barbara Mandrell is her manager
her father
Mary Frances
$100 [21]
Famous father of Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Elder
Mary Frances
$200 [5]
On Oct. 24,1951, Truman declared our state of war with this country had finally ended
Germany
$200 [13]
Nicknamed "Boom-Boom", this young Wimbledon champ started swinging a racquet at age 4
Boris Becker
Rex
$300 [15]
This small landlocked country is the only one in the world w/a flag whose front & back differ
Paraguay
Jim
$200 [2]
Maximum number of balls that can be rolled in the tenth frame
3
Jim
$200 [22]
Morning star Joan Lunden appropriately called her 1986 book "Good Morning, I'm" this
Joan Lunden
Rex
$300 [6]
Introduced in 1951, the 1952 Allstate was a car sold exclusively through this department store
Sears
Jim
$300 [16]
Former basketball pro who shot for the Senate & made it in 1978
Bill Bradley
Jim
$400 [18]
Of the Pampa, Gran Chaco, or Selvas, the geographical region not found in Argentina
Selvas
$300 [3]
When the ball is released, this finger should come out of its hole 1st
thumb
Rex
$300 [23]
Animals that are often classified by shape of their feet & beaks
birds
Rex
$400 [8]
This pair made headlines as they were sentenced to death for espionage against the U.S.
(Ethel and Julius) Rosenbergs
Rex
$400 [17]
A favorite of Nancy Reagan, this designer once had a line of designer chocolates
Bill Blass
Rex
$500 [19]
On his 3rd voyage to the New World, Columbus landed on mainland for 1st time in this country
Venezuela
$400 [7]
Distance from foul line to headpin, just 6 in. shorter than distance from pitcher's rubber to home plate
60 feet
Rex
$400 [24]
When the Metropolitan rejected her art collection, Gertrude Whitney founded this museum
the Whitney Museum
Rex
$500 [9]
Pope Pius XII called on Christians to "unite & fight under a single banner" against this
communism
Jim
$500 [20]
While in the U.S., this "Great Briton" wrote an operetta about Paul Bunyan
Benjamin Britten
Mary Frances
DD $600 [14]
3 of the 4 countries on the continent that border on the Pacific Ocean
(3 of) Chile, Peru, Ecuador (Colombia)
Rex
$500 [10]
On a "perfect strike" the ball actually only hits this many pins
4
Jim
$500 [25]
New Zealand's anthems are "God Save The Queen" & "God Defend" this
New Zealand
Rex

Double Jeopardy! Round

PEN NAMES FOOD & DRINK TV NOSTALGIA AUTOMOBILES ART COWBOY TALK
$200 [3]
Pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz, the man who put the fiddler on the roof
Sholom Aleichem
Jim
$200 [1]
This soft drink lists 7 ingredients, appropriate for its name
7 Up
Mary Frances
$200 [4]
A recent book about this now-controversial early 1950's series is aptly titled "Holy Mackerel!"
Amos 'n' Andy
Rex
$200 [17]
The Dept. of Transportation estimated that some 6700 lives/yr. would be saved if all states had this law
a seat belt law
Jim
$200 [16]
The Biennale, world's longest-running art festival, is held every year in this romantic Italian city
Venice
Rex Mary Frances
$200 [18]
From the Spanish "chaparreras", or leg armor, comes this word for cowboy leggings
chaps
Jim
$400 [5]
Newton Tarkington dropped his 1st name & used this middle one
Booth
Mary Frances
$400 [2]
Excluding reindeer milk, all major types of milk used by humans consist of 80-90 % of this ingredient
water
Rex
$400 [10]
It's what Jason, Joshua, & Jeremy Bolt did for a living on "Here Come the Brides"
logging (lumberjacks)
Mary Frances
$400 [21]
Of 400, 500, or 600 mph, the speed barrier broken when Craig Breedlove set personal record in 1965
600 miles per hour
Mary Frances
$400 [25]
Presidential subject of Grant Wood's painting, "Parson Weems' Fable"
George Washington cutting down the cherry tree
$400 [19]
A cowpoke might put a "bullrider", "Calgary" or "cattleman" crease in his
his hat (Stetson)
Jim Rex
$600 [6]
He published his 1st novel under the name Johnston Smith, winning no "Badge of Courage"
Stephen Crane
Jim
$600 [9]
Type of meat you're eating when having prosciutto & melon
ham
Rex
$600 [13]
James Beard's "I Love to Eat" opened with a shot of, not a recipe for, this famous Borden symbol
Elsie the Cow
Mary Frances
$600 [22]
In Feb. 1973, Motor Trend named '63 VW Van & '57 Chevy among 8 all-time best cars for this paired activity
making out
$600 [26]
19th c. painter Henri Rousseau was said to be 1 of 1st artists to paint in this natural environment
outdoors
Mary Frances
$600 [20]
When this "talking iron" spoke, everybody listened
a six shooter (a gun)
Rex
$800 [7]
Poetess who wrote "My candle burns at both ends," she once used the simpler name Nancy Boyd
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rex
$800 [11]
Cornhusker & Coon are types of this, the world's most widely produced & consumed cheese
cheddar
Mary Frances
$800 [14]
Butch Patrick was Greg on this Walter Brennan series before he played Eddie on "The Munsters"
The Real McCoys
Mary Frances
DD $1,000 [23]
The 2 1971 best sellers by Arthur Hailey & Harold Robbins about the Detroit auto business
Wheels & The Betsy
Mary Frances
DD $1,000 [27]
Modern artist on whose work the pattern on this shirt is based:
(Piet) Mondrian
Mary Frances
$1,000 [8]
Among this mystery writer's noms de plume are Carr Dickson & Carter Dickson
John Dickson Carr
Mary Frances
$1,000 [12]
You'll wonder where the yellow went when you take this spice out of mustard
turmeric
Rex
$1,000 [15]
Resident of Mayfield played by Frank Bank
Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford
$1,000 [24]
Long before WWII, the 1902 Twyford, built in Pittsburgh, Penn., was 1st car of this type in U.S.
a 4-wheel drive automobile

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS WOMEN

When she died on Jan. 22, 1901, Henry James wrote, "We all feel a bit motherless today"

Queen Victoria

Jim "Who is Queen Victoria?" — wagered $2,800
Mary Frances "Who was Grandma Moses" — wagered $4,000
Rex "Who was Queen Victoria" — wagered $4,000

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