Show #956 1988-10-31 (taped 1988-09-07) Regular

Contestants

Jane Gilman — a newspaper publisher and editor from Beverly Hills, California

Alison Roberts — an attorney originally from Port Sulphur, Louisiana

Alex Szabo — a postal clerk from Berea, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,850)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $1,700 $2,900 $8,900 $0
3rd place: Ricoh XR-M 35mm camera kit
$7,500
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Alison $400 $5,200 $13,600 $8,600
New champion: $8,600
$10,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Jane $300 $600 $800 $1
2nd place: Broyhill 6-piece bedroom set & Norman's of Salisbury bedding ensemble
$800
4 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY TV TRIVIA VERBS FOOD FOR THOUGHT MILITARY MELODIES POTPOURRI
$100 [1]
In 1987 an average of 2 new products a day were introduced that could be cooked in this device
microwave oven
Alex
$100 [8]
For a special "Golden Girls" Mother's Day episode, she played Sophia's mother
Beatrice Arthur
Alison
$100 [15]
Gormandizing is doing this to excess
eating
Alex
$100 [6]
1 tablespoon of soy sauce contains over 1,000 mg of this element
sodium
Alex Jane
$100 [7]
"We got to get up, we got to get up, we got to get up" are words to this bugle call
"Reveille"
Alison
$100 [20]
Dermatologists say there's no such thing as a "healthy" one of these, so use a sunblock
suntan
Alex
$200 [2]
Warner Books' successful bid of $4.94 million won it the rights to publish this novel's sequel
Gone with the Wind
Alex
$200 [9]
The daughter of this "Medical Center" star starred in "Cagney & Lacey"
James Daly
Alex Alison
$200 [16]
This synonym for deduce is spelled the same except for the last letter
deduct
Alison
$200 [26]
To avoid this deadly food poisoning, throw out any leaking, bulging or badly dented cans
botulism
Alison
$200 [13]
Lyrics to this tune conclude, "All is well, safely rest, God is nigh"
"Taps"
Alison
$200 [21]
USA Today reports the average U.S. citizen has about 1,000 of these coins at home
pennies
Alex
$300 [3]
This snack cake's inventor, Jimmy Dewar, ate 40,177 of them in his lifetime
Hostess Twinkies
Alex
$300 [10]
Toody & Muldoon tooled around in Car 54 while Reed & Malloy used this car
Adam-12
Alex
$300 [17]
Of snitch, snipe or sniggle, the one that can mean to fish for eels
sniggle
Alison
$300 [27]
Discovered in 1879, this artificial sweetener was used initially as an antiseptic
saccharin
Alison
$300 [14]
Traditional lyrics of this song say, "You'll never get rich by digging a ditch"
"You're In The Army Now"
Jane
$300 [22]
First Lady who promoted the Highway Beautification Act
Lady Bird Johnson
Alison
$400 [4]
80% of the world's supply of these are sold through De Beers
diamonds
Jane
$400 [11]
In France, this American series is titled "Clair De Lune"
Moonlighting
Alex
$400 [18]
Officially, to invest someone with ministerial, priestly or rabbinical authority
ordaining
Alex
$400 [28]
Sick people beware: this mineral in milk & yogurt can impair the absorption of some antibiotics
calcium
Alison
$400 [25]
In "Sound Off", the troops sound off from number 1 up to this number
4
Alex
$400 [23]
It's what Emmett Kelly's Weary Willie "cleaned" off the ring floor with his broom
the spotlight
Alison
$500 [5]
Restaurateur Adolphe Alfred Rempp developed this powdered product in the late 1930s
Adolph's Meat Tenderizer
$500 [12]
Though the show only lasted 1 year in the '50s, Irish McCalla is still recognized as this "Queen of the Jungle"
Sheena
Alex
$500 [19]
Prating is doing this for a long time, for little or no reason
talking
Alison
$500 [29]
Acidic ingredient in store-bought mayonnaise that actually lowers the risk of food spoilage
lemon juice
Alison
DD $1,500 [30]
Song that begins, "Off we go into the wild blue yonder", tells us the U.S. Air Force used to be called this
the Army Air Corps
Alison
$500 [24]
The name of Madame Butterfly's baby, it starts with a capital "T", which rhymes with "P"
Trouble

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY INSECTS DANCE JEWELRY THE CAROLINAS A.K.A.
$200 [2]
In 1951 the U.S. occupied this capital; in 1988 they sent athletes to it
Seoul, South Korea
Alex
$200 [18]
This "fever" carried by ticks is actually more prevalent in the Appalachians than it is out west
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Alex
$400 [24]
This ballroom dance was the dominant dance form of the 19th century
the waltz
Jane
$200 [17]
Legend says the Orloff, a crown jewel of this country, was stolen from the eye of an idol in India
Russia
Alex
$200 [12]
This author, once stationed at Charleston as a sergeant major, used it as his setting for "The Gold Bug"
Edgar Allan Poe
Alison
$200 [7]
Harold Lipshitz's stage name, which he used when playing Barney Miller
Hal Linden
Alex
$400 [3]
In October 1966 it reached a low of 744; October seems to be a bad month for it
the Dow Jones
Alison
$600 [20]
These bees who do nothing but fertilize queens have the shortest life span of any bee, 4 weeks
drones
Alex
$600 [1]
In the 1600s this dance-loving king helped make France the ballet center of Europe
Louis XIV
Alex Alison Jane
$400 [13]
This island was named for an 18th century treasurer of South Carolina; tell it to the Marines
Parris Island
Alex
$400 [8]
Melvyn Hesselberg, who made Garbo laugh in "Ninotchka"
Melvyn Douglas
Jane
$600 [4]
In 1921 President Harding presented her with a capsule of radium worth $100,000
Marie Curie
Alex
$800 [21]
Found on land, not in the water, this "colorful" insect feeds on anything starchy
silverfish
$800 [25]
Kenny Ortega choreographed 1987's "Dirty Dancing" & this similar 1988 film with a Latin beat
Salsa
Alex Alison
$600 [14]
The largest city in the Carolinas bears this woman's name
Charlotte
Alex
$600 [9]
Marion Cecilia Douras, who was a Ziegfeld girl when she met William Randolph Hearst
Marion Davies
Alison
$800 [5]
In 1978 a group of Indians began a 2,700 mile trek to Washington, D.C. after occupying this Calif. island
Alcatraz
Alex
$1,000 [22]
An insect's body consists of these 3 parts
head, thorax & abdomen
Alison
DD $2,000 [23]
Dance mentioned in the title of the following; it used to be a religious dance:
the hula
Alison
$800 [15]
These, on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, were named for the haze hanging over them
the Great Smoky Mountains
Alex
$800 [10]
Anna Myrtle Swoyer, "Rhoda"'s TV mom
Nancy Walker
Alison
$1,000 [6]
During the revolution, this British major was captured as a spy in Tarrytown, N.Y.
(John) Andre
Alison
DD $1,800 [19]
Of all insects worldwide, this disease carrier poses the greatest health hazard to humans
(Anopheles) mosquito
Alex
$1,000 [16]
Gov. John White of North Carolina was grandfather of this 1st English child born in the Americas
Virginia Dare
Alison
$1,000 [11]
Australian soprano Helen Porter Mitchell, who was the "toast" of British opera
(Dame) Nellie Melba
Alex

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

One of this author's two middle names was Balfour

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Jane "Who is" — wagered $799
Alex "Who was E.B. White?" — wagered $8,900
Alison "Who is Sir Walter Scott?" — wagered $5,000

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