Show #623 1987-04-29 (taped 1987-01-07) Regular

Contestants

Linda Shewey — a housewife from Richmond, Virginia

Richard Heft — a screenwriter from North Hollywood, California

Bruce Adelstein — a research consultant from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bruce $300 $200 $-2,600 $-2,600
3rd place: Colortyme TV
$-1,600
9 R, 8 W (including 1 DD)
Richard $1,200 $1,000 $1,800 $3,500
2nd place: vacation in Palm Springs & Ventura luggage
$1,800
12 R, 4 W
Linda $800 $3,800 $8,100 $8,000
New champion: $8,000
$8,400
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHALES BEACHES "RED" NUMBERS IN SONG HATS IF ANYONE ASKS
$100 [3]
Whales can't perform this vital function through their mouths, only their blowholes
breathing
Bruce
$100 [16]
It's proposed Suffolk County, N.Y pay an initial cost of 54 mil. to put this back on Westhampton Beach
sand
Linda
$100 [1]
In some versions of Grimm's fairy tale, this character is called "Little Red Cap"
Little Red Riding Hood
Richard
$100 [21]
Biggest hit for The Crests was about a birthday cake with this many candles
16
Bruce
$100 [25]
It can top off a pen, radiator, or baseball player
cap
Bruce
$100 [2]
Of Tommy Dorsey or Jimmy Dorsey, the one who played sax
Jimmy Dorsey
Bruce Linda
$200 [4]
A gray whale calf in captivity at this San Diego aquatic park gained over 1 lb. per hour
Sea World
Linda
$200 [17]
They still hold speed trials on the hard, white-sand beach in this Florida racing city
Daytona Beach
Linda
$200 [5]
In a popular playground game, these words would precede "send Johnny right over"
red rover, red rover
Richard
$200 [9]
Neil Sedaka said, "You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen" when she'd reached this age
sweet 16
Richard
$200 [27]
Meaning to remove one's hat, it's a contraction of "do off"
doff
Bruce
$200 [10]
It's short for "and per se and", which means "this character by itself is the word 'and'"
ampersand
Richard
$300 [6]
Of 660, 6600 or 66,000, approximate # of whales killed in 1961-62 season
66,000
Richard
$300 [18]
Guide books now warn against swimming in the polluted water at this city's Copacabana Beach
Rio
Linda
DD $200 [14]
On his '50s variety series, this comedian sang the following theme song, which he co-wrote:I had a little girl by the name of Kate and every night we'd meet at eight. And when she'd greet me with a great big kiss I'd open my mouth and a holler like this
Red Buttons
Linda
$300 [26]
Title of the song that begins, "Some people say a man is made out of mud"
"Sixteen Tons"
Linda
$300 [28]
Of the 4 original Monkees, the 1 who usually wore a knit cap
Michael Nesmith
Richard
$300 [11]
There are no standard running times on pre-1928 films because the image wasn't synchronized to this
sound
Richard
$400 [7]
"Breaching", it's the last thing we see the whales doing in "Star Trek IV"
coming out of the ocean (jump out of the water)
Bruce Richard
$400 [19]
It's why there's presently only 1 beach at Great Salt Lake Park
lake has risen so much
Linda
$300 [13]
A strong virile man with lots of erythrocytes is this
red-blooded
Linda
$400 [22]
Lacy J. Dalton sang "God bless the boys who make the noise on" this Nashville street
16th Avenue
$400 [12]
He dresses in white except for red shoes with a cross embroidered on each one
pope
Linda
$500 [8]
1 of 2 groups into which whales are divided by dentition
baleen (or toothed)
Bruce Richard
$500 [20]
The name of this famous Venetian resort island means "beach" in Italian
Lido
Linda
$500 [15]
New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme helped populate this charred seafood dish
blackened redfish
Richard Linda
$500 [23]
It's the specific distance mentioned in folk song "The Erie Canal"
15 miles
Bruce
$500 [24]
It's said its other 56/100% is .28% carbonates, .11% alkali, & .17% mineral matter
Ivory Soap
Linda

Double Jeopardy! Round

BEETHOVEN CANADA SICKNESS & HEALTH POLITICAL QUOTES TOUGH TV TRIVIA JAPANESE WORDS
$200 [12]
Total number of complete symphonies Beethoven wrote
9
Bruce
$200 [8]
At least 5 different Canadian rivers are named for this rodent that lives in rivers
beaver
Richard
$200 [7]
Color blindness, usually found in males, is inherited through this parent
female
Bruce
$200 [1]
Speaking of this, de Gaulle told JFK, "I predict you will sink...into a bottomless military...quagmire"
Vietnam
Linda
$200 [23]
If you're watching "Fandango" or "You Can be a Star", you're watching TNN, which is this
The Nashville Network
Bruce
$1,000 [3]
A collector's item, this small ornament carved of wood or bone is often used as a kimono fastener
netsuke
Linda
$400 [13]
Number of times Beethoven married
Beethoven never married
Bruce
$400 [18]
Capital of the Yukon or what the Lone Ranger rode
Whitehorse
Richard
$600 [21]
Some say spring, summer & autumn attacks of this allergy are, in order reactions to tree, grass & weed pollen
hayfever
Linda
$400 [2]
"You can fool all the people some of the time, & some of the people all of the time, but you can't..."
you can't fool all of the people all of the time
Bruce Richard
$400 [24]
Happy Kyne & The Mirth Makers were house band on this late night show "hosted" by Martin Mull & Fred Willard
Fernwood 2 Night
Richard
$1,000 [20]
On March 29, 1827, it was attended by 20,000 people including Schubert
his funeral
Linda
$600 [14]
Looking at Bullwinkle's mouth might remind you of this Saskatchewan river & city
Moose Jaw
Bruce
$800 [22]
Nystagmus is the involuntary & rapid movement of these in a horizontal, vertical or rotary direction
eyes
DD $500 [4]
2nd part of this slogan was "to hell with Spain"
Remember the Maine
Linda
$600 [11]
On last prime time broadcast of "What's My Line?" in 1967, the "Mystery Guest" was this TV moderator
John Daly
$800 [15]
North Atlantic air traffic isn't controlled from Goose Bay, but from this town, also named for a goose
Gander, Newfoundland
DD $1,000 [16]
To treat a simple nosebleed, one should sit down, pinch nose & lean in this direction
lean forward
Bruce
$800 [5]
In 1952, he told the Rep. nat'l convention "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"
General Douglas MacArthur
Bruce Richard
$800 [10]
As this character, Bonnie Franklin brought up Julie & Barbara "One Day at a Time"
Ann Romano
$1,000 [17]
Though not 1 of the Great Lakes, this largest lake entirely in Canada is also called "Great"
Great Bear Lake
Bruce
$1,000 [19]
Alphabet letter designation of the cell usually attacked by the aids virus
T cell
$1,000 [6]
In 1962, he supposedly said, "We ought to saw off the eastern seaboard & float it out to sea"
Barry Goldwater
Linda
$1,000 [9]
It's what the "J.R." stands for in J.R. Ewing's name
John Ross
Richard

Final Jeopardy!

MOUNTAINS

Rising to 8651 feet, Mount Sinai is the highest point in this country

Egypt

Richard "What is Egypt?" — wagered $1,700
Linda "What is Syria?" — wagered $100

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