Show #550 1987-01-16 (taped 1986-10-14) Regular

Contestants

JoFrannye Reichert — a logistician from Yellow Springs, Ohio

Mike Williams — a teacher originally from Huntington, West Virginia

Justin Culkowski — a college administrator originally from Buffalo, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Justin $600 $800 $3,800 $300
2nd place: Emerson 25" stereo color TV & Ventura luggage
$3,800
10 R, 0 W
Mike $1,200 $2,300 $6,000 $8,000
New champion: $8,000
$6,500
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
JoFrannye $100 $900 $3,400 $100
3rd place: Tappan SureCook microwave
$2,900
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS WEAPONS BEES LIBRARIES POP MUSIC TRIVIA HOMOPHONES
$100 [11]
Name of a famous hill in Cuba, or the Puerto Rican capital
San Juan
Justin
$100 [2]
The Light Brigade found these "to the right of them", "to the left of them", & "in front of them"
cannons
Justin
$100 [23]
Fortunately, this method of calming bees hasn't been banned by the Surgeon General
smoking
JoFrannye
$100 [13]
In 1939 his Hyde Park, N.Y. presidential library became 1st to be separate from Library of Congress
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
JoFrannye
$100 [6]
She was awarded her 1986 Female Pop Vocal Grammy Award by her cousin Dionne
Whitney Houston
JoFrannye
$100 [19]
To feel ill, or a heavy beer
ail/ale
JoFrannye
$200 [15]
You can chalk up the fact these towns in Delaware & England share the same name
Dover
Justin
$200 [1]
Weapon Don Quixote used to tilt at the windmill
lance
Mike
$200 [27]
Term for the large bunch of bees that, along with the queen, are on the move to a new colony
swarm
JoFrannye
$200 [12]
This service began in the U.S. using a horse-drawn wagon
bookmobiles
Mike
$200 [7]
"Midnight Train to Georgia" was originally called "Midnight Plane to..." this Texas city
Houston
$200 [20]
Hunting for Moby or the wall in Jerusalem
whaling/Wailing
JoFrannye
$300 [16]
Nevada's oldest permanent white settlement, or the birthplace of Columbus
Genoa
JoFrannye
$300 [4]
Snappy nickname for congressional party leaders' assistants
whip
Mike
$300 [28]
Of the worker, drone, or queen, the honeybee with the largest brain
worker
Mike
$300 [14]
This university library w/more than 10 million books has just 1 of the 100s donated by its namesake in 1638
Harvard
Mike
$300 [8]
In 1977 she spent a week on the top of the Top 40 chart with "Don't Leave Me That Way"
Thelma Houston
Mike
$300 [21]
Carry something down the passageway
haul/hall
JoFrannye
$400 [17]
Name of the "twin cities" on the Arkansas-Texas border
Texarkana
Mike
$400 [3]
The name of this large heavy knife is a diminutive of the Spanish "macho", meaning "hammer" or "ax"
machete
Justin
$400 [25]
You can get film strips from this branch of the L.A. Library or go next door & watch girls strip
Hollywood
$400 [9]
After his death in 1950, his recording of "September Song" became a big hit
Walter Huston
$400 [22]
A singer named Frankie or a street name Penny
Laine/Lane
Mike
$500 [18]
Island off New Jersey or Argentina, but Argentines call it "Isla de los Estados"
Staten Island
DD $500 [5]
Last names of old west gunmaking pair Horace & Daniel B.
Smith & Wesson
Mike
$500 [26]
Under the Dewey Decimal System all books in this general class are in the 800s
literature
Mike JoFrannye
$500 [10]
After "Phoenix" & "Wichita", it was Glen Campbell's 3rd Top 40 hit with a city in the title
"Galveston"
Mike
$500 [24]
To discover by chance, or penalized monetarily
find/fined

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE SYMBOLS POLI SCI 4-WORD PHRASES ANATOMY KIND OF A DRAG
$200 [12]
It's also what Cleopatra's attendant Charmian used to commit suicide
asp
Mike
$200 [11]
Its symbol is the map of the world inside olive branches, for peace
United Nations
JoFrannye
$200 [6]
The term for the official residence of an ambassador
embassy
Mike
$200 [23]
A teepee, or last 4 words of "The Star Spangled Banner"
home of the brave
Mike JoFrannye
$200 [1]
Senator Jake Garn donated one of his to be transplanted to his daughter Susan
kidney
Justin
$200 [3]
This comedienne recently sued a Vegas female impersonator for using her copyrighted jokes in his act
Joan Rivers
Justin
$400 [19]
Romeo wished to be a glove on Juliet's hand so that he might touch this part of her
cheek
JoFrannye
$400 [13]
Type of money whose symbol is a script "L" with a crossbar
pound
Justin
$400 [7]
In the U.S. the Constitution gives the holder of this office the power to pardon
President
Mike
DD $500 [24]
The 4-word phrase with which this man used to surprise people:
This is your life
Mike
$400 [2]
Part of the body where one would find the plantar arch
foot
Mike
$400 [4]
A D.C. hotel said death threats caused him to sneak in wearing women's clothes before his 1861 inauguration
Abraham Lincoln
Mike
$600 [20]
In this play, the twins of Antipholus & Dromio are also named Antipholus & Dromio
A Comedy of Errors
$600 [14]
The 4 firms that made up the Auto Union Company are symbolized in this automaker's 4-ring logo
Audi
Justin
$600 [8]
The high seas territorial limit for U.S. was originally set at this, their range of cannons at the time
3 (nautical) miles
Mike
$600 [25]
With few muscles attached to the "pinna", humans find it hard to move or wiggle this
ear
Mike
$600 [5]
He was "Dressed to Kill" Angie Dickinson
Michael Caine
$1,000 [22]
The rightful Duke of Milan in "The Tempest", he says "We are such stuff as dreams are made on"
Prospero
$800 [15]
This national airline's symbol is a female shamrock
Aer Lingus
Justin Mike
$800 [9]
Nickname for appropriation bills that are "pieces of bacon" for a congressman's "folks back home"
pork barrel
Justin
$800 [17]
In 1986 film, this "St. Elsewhere" star found himself in "A Fine Mess" dressed as a maid
Howie Mandel
JoFrannye
DD $1,300 [21]
The only two Italian cities mentioned in titles, they both begin with "V"
Verona and Venice
JoFrannye
$1,000 [16]
A diagonal line in the box in the upper right of the frame on the scoresheet
spare
Mike
$1,000 [10]
Russian term for a council or deliberative body
Duma or Soviet
Mike JoFrannye
$1,000 [18]
In 1941 film "Charley's Aunt" he impersonates his aunt from Brazil (where the nuts come from)
Jack Benny
JoFrannye

Final Jeopardy!

THE CIVIL WAR

Site of half the major battles, this state is considered the war's chief battleground

Virginia

JoFrannye "What is Georgia?" — wagered $3,300
Justin "What is Pennsylvannia" — wagered $3,500
Mike "What is Virginia?" — wagered $2,000

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