Show #661 1987-06-22 Regular

Bob Verini game 3.

Contestants

Emalie Brooks — a former teacher from Memphis, Tennessee

Al Lewis — a marketing consultant from Westing, Massachusetts

Bob Verini — a playwright and actor from New York City, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,202)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $0 $1,700 $11,000 $10,799
3-day champion: $27,001
$9,700
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Al $900 $3,800 $5,600 $0
3rd place: Olympus Infinity camera
$8,600
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Emalie $100 $1,000 $2,800 $2,700
2nd place: Marcy Fitness home exercise module + Pannill sweatshirts
$2,800
11 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICANA 4-LETTER WORDS SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSICAL MUSIC LESOTHO FOOD
$100 [1]
The 2 main streets of this Pennsylvania town are Cocoa & Chocolate avenues
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Emalie
$100 [15]
The triangular frame used to line up the billiard balls at the start of the game
the rack
Emalie
$100 [8]
In 1987, fans around the world celebrated this anniversary of Holmes' debut story
the 100th anniversary
Bob Emalie
$100 [21]
Born in Vienna in 1804, his creations include at least 13 polkas, 24 galops, 136 waltzes & 1 Johann Jr.
Johann Strauss Sr.
Bob
$100 [6]
Continent of which Lesotho is a part
Africa
Emalie
$400 [27]
Glutinous protein made from animal skin & bones, it' used to make film & wobbly desserts
gelatin
Emalie
$200 [2]
Though not rich himself, he wrote 19th century rags-to-riches stories aimed at boys
Horatio Alger
Bob
$200 [16]
Term for a bunch of wolves or cards
pack
Bob
$200 [9]
Because Abbey Nat'l Building Society has this address, it has a secretary to answer letters to Holmes
221-B Baker Street
Bob
$200 [22]
He signed some compositions "Signor Cavaliere Amadeo", a title given him by the Pope
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bob
$200 [7]
While we have stars & stripes on ours, Lesotho has a straw hat
its flag
Bob
$500 [26]
"Buckshot" is a slang term for this expensive jet set treat
caviar
Emalie
$300 [3]
If you're down & out "down east", your in this part of our country
New England
Bob
$300 [17]
One can be of thumb, carpet, or tie variety
a tack
Al
$400 [11]
According to fan Sean Wright, the stories mention lay, briar, & cherrywood types of these, never calabash
pipes
Bob
$300 [23]
A "walk down the aisle" just isn't the same w/out the march by this grandson of a Jewish philosopher
(Felix) Mendelssohn
Al
$300 [13]
Instead of money, a court in Lesotho might fine you so many head of these
cattle
Al
$400 [4]
Name of the famous Archibald Willard painting that he originally called "Yankee Doodle"
"The Spirit of '76"
Al
$400 [18]
A place for the spine, or the reverse side of a sign
back
Bob
$500 [12]
Every 10 years a group travels from Britain to Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland to re-enact this
where either Professor Moriarity or Sherlock Holmes went into the falls
Al
$400 [24]
In 1743, King George II began the custom of rising during this part of the "Messiah"
the Hallelujah Chorus
Bob
$400 [14]
"Lesotho Fatse La Bo-Ntata Rona","Lesotho Our Fatherland"
the national anthem
Emalie
$500 [5]
It's said Will Rogers called this huge Georgia boulder a pebble Calif. threw at Florida & missed
Stone Mountain
Al
$500 [19]
This first name isn't on the "Keystone" of the house, but that of the Sennett
Mack
Al
DD $800 [10]
Itsname came from what its wearer is doing
deerstalker
Bob
$500 [25]
Common name of Beethoven's 6th Symphony--you know, the one about the shepherds
the Pastoral Symphony
Al
$500 [20]
Until 1966, under the name Basutoland, Lesotho was a colony of this country
Great Britain
Al Emalie

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTS EVIL KNIGHTS EUROPE ON FILM MATHEMATICS TOUGH TV TRIVIA SUDDEN DEATH
$200 [8]
He was inaugurated in 1885 at age 47, & again in 1893 at age 55
Grover Cleveland
Al
$200 [25]
Evil Jedi knight of "Star Wars" whose heavy breathing sounded like an obscene phone call
Darth Vader
Bob
$200 [1]
This Finnish city did a "capital" job doubling for Moscow in "Gorky Park"
Helsinki
Emalie
$200 [27]
In pi, the number to the left of .14159
3
Al
$200 [7]
He was Chief Petty Office Otto Sharkey
Don Rickles
Emalie
$200 [20]
Playboy reported red hot news when they found this was the most common food item choked on
hot dogs
Bob
$400 [19]
The last 2 democratic tickets to run against Reagan were combinations of these 3 people
Carter & Mondale & Ferraro
Al
$400 [26]
Wanting to be "evil", the good knights in this Broadway musical sing "Fie on Goodness"
Camelot
Bob Al
$400 [2]
Doris Day heard murder threats, not "pillow talk", rising out of this city's fog in "Midnight Lace"
London
Al
$400 [15]
Number whose square is 10,000 & whose square root is 10
100
Al
$400 [11]
Jim Rockford's dad was known by this nickname
Rocky
Emalie
$400 [21]
Spanish for "killer", it's the fellow who gets to kill the bull
the matador
Emalie
$600 [16]
He was born in & died in Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren
Bob
$600 [28]
Spurned by her, Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert accuses Rebecca of witchcraft in this classic British novel
Ivanhoe
Bob
$600 [4]
Teenage Disney star set spinning on the blades of a Cretan windmill in 1964's "The Moonspinners"
Hayley Mills
Bob
$600 [3]
Number of equal sides on a rhombus
4
Emalie
$600 [12]
According to the show's title, what the group of men put together by Lt. Craig Garrison were called
Garrison's Gorillas
Bob
$600 [22]
They're the victims of the dreaded contagious disease known as "ich"
fish
$800 [17]
Though he was the first Federalist Party candidate elected president, he wanted to be nonpartisan
Washington
Al
$800 [29]
In the "Chanson de Roland", the evil knight Ganelon betrays this "Great" Frankish king
Charlemagne
Emalie
$800 [5]
In this 1954 film, 3 women wished for romance at Rome's Fontana di Trevi
Three Coins in the Fountain
Bob
$800 [9]
Greek for "3-angled measuring", this branch of mathematics is widely used in navigation
trigonometry
Al
$800 [13]
He played the "I" in the '50s series "I Married Joan"
Jim Backus
Bob
$800 [23]
He didn't win his pulitzer for "Obituaries" or "Not Dying", but for "The Time of Your Life"
William Saroyan
Bob
DD $3,000 [18]
In 1884, it was done to honor both grandfathers, Solomon Young & Anderson Shippe Truman
Harry Truman's middle initial being made S
Al
DD $3,100 [6]
Two Vincente Minnelli musicals set in Paris which won Oscars for Best Picture of '51 & '58
An American in Paris & Gigi
Bob
$1,000 [10]
Term for the line that divides an angle into 2 parts
bisector
Bob
$1,000 [14]
This family lived at 39 Crenshaw St., Tuckahoe, N.Y., next door to Arthur & Vivian Harmon
Maude Findlay & her husband
Al
$1,000 [24]
This English explorer joked with his executioner & even gave the signal for the ax to fall
(Sir Walter) Raleigh
Al

Final Jeopardy!

RELIGION

After being a hostage in Lebanon, he became head of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

Rev. Benjamin Weir

Emalie "Who is Jacobsen?" — wagered $100
Al "What is Smith" — wagered $5,600
Bob "Who is William Marshall" — wagered $201

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