Show #718 1987-10-21 (taped 1987-08-18) Regular

Contestants

Steve Ripley — a computer programmer from Simi Valley, California

Beth Phillips — a photographer from Santa Fe, New Mexico

Judith Seeger — an associate research engineer from Mountain View, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $38,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Judith $1,000 $2,500 $5,700 $100
2nd place: Admiral refrigerator & 7 Krups kitchen products
$6,700
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Beth $500 $-500 $4,200 $3,000
New champion: $3,000
$3,500
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Steve $400 $1,700 $5,500 $0
3rd place: Landes 5-piece silver coffee & tea set
$5,500
17 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY AMERICA SPORTS CITIES STREET SONGS TECHNOLOGY ROYAL RUMORS "CORN"Y WORDS
$100 [17]
President McKinley dedicated this president's NYC tomb in 1897
Grant
Judith
$100 [10]
NFL "Packers"
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Steve
$100 [14]
Teamed with a black dancer, Ted Lewis was famed for singing about "Me &" this "strolling down the avenue"
shadow
Steve
$100 [1]
Machine you might have around the house that has a feed dog, a design cam, & a bobbin winder
sewing machine
Steve
$100 [22]
Some said this queen had an illegitimate child by 1 of her servants after Albert's death
Victoria
Beth
$100 [4]
Not a chicken that shrank with cooking, but a popular type of game hen
Cornish game hen
Steve
$200 [24]
In 1842, after 7 years of battle, thousands of these Florida Indians were sent to Oklahoma
Seminoles
Steve
$200 [11]
MISL "Lazers"
Los Angeles
Steve
$200 [18]
In their last Top 10 hit, the Drifters sang they'd be "down by the sea, on a blanket with my baby" under this
the boardwalk
Judith
$200 [2]
Of 1943, 1963, or 1983, the last year Maytag made wringer-type washers
1983
Judith Steve
$200 [23]
"The Book of Royal Lists" says the poem "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" refers to this 16th c. queen
Mary Queen of Scots
Steve
$200 [5]
Originally, this wasn't a basket, but a goat's horn with fruits & vegetables tumbling out
cornucopia
Beth
$300 [25]
Following a precedent set by Washington, he was the 2nd President to choose not to run for a 3rd term
Thomas Jefferson
Beth Steve
$300 [12]
The pair of baseball "Sox"
Boston & Chicago
Judith Beth
$300 [19]
Its alternate title is "Feelin' Groovy"
"The 59th Street Bridge Song"
Steve
$300 [3]
Type of engine credited with making the Industrial Revolution possible
steam engine
Beth
$300 [6]
If you don't like convertibles, don't buy this model of Rolls-Royce
Corniche
Judith
$400 [15]
NBA "Mavericks"
Dallas
Steve
$400 [20]
According to Elvis, Heartbreak Hotel was located "down at the end of" this street
Lonely Street
Judith
$400 [9]
One type of atomic clock is based on the actions of molecules of this Windex ingredient
ammonia
Steve
$400 [7]
Curtains can hide a window & this can hide a curtain rod
cornice
$500 [16]
NHL "Canucks"
Vancouver
Judith Beth
$500 [21]
Inspired by a NYC lounge, this song urged, "Meet me, baby, down on 45th Street"
"The Peppermint Twist"
Judith Steve
$500 [13]
A computer, rating this 1863 speech for "strength of delivery", gave it an overall--zero
The Gettysburg Address
Judith
DD $500 [8]
Edible last name in the title of the following from "Li'l Abner":"When we fought the Yankees and annihilation was near /Who was there to lead the charge that took us safe to the rear? /Why it was..."
Jubilation T. Cornpone
Judith

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPE AVIATION ZOOLOGY FURNITURE MOVIES FROM CLASSICS MEATY QUOTES
$200 [10]
In a 1978 referendum, Austrian voters turned down use of this type of energy
nuclear (atomic)
Judith
$200 [15]
8 years before Lindbergh, John Alcock & Arthur Whitten Brown crossed this body of water nonstop
Atlantic Ocean
Steve
$200 [12]
Despite rumors, the female of this arachnid species doesn't always kill its mate after sex
black widows
Beth
$200 [17]
From French for "week", a semainier is a chest with this many drawers
7
Beth
$200 [1]
You could say this Dickens classic was a far far better thing than Ronald Colman had ever done
A Tale of Two Cities
Judith
$200 [6]
According to a traditional saying, "One man's meat" is this to another man
poison
Judith
$400 [27]
Ironically, the oldest bridge in Paris is the "Pont Neuf", which means this
new bridge
Judith
$400 [16]
Company which began in 1930 as Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.
TWA
Beth
$400 [13]
In ant colonies, they exist only for a short reproductive season & are not really part of colony life
drones or males
Judith Beth
$400 [18]
Found in 18th & 19th century bedrooms, a pot cupboard was a small case to house this
chamber pot
Judith
$400 [2]
The 1973 musical version of this featured Jodie Foster as Becky
Tom Sawyer
Judith
$400 [7]
Scottish poet who wrote "The Selkirk Grace", which begins "Some hae meat, and canna eat"
Robert Burns
Judith
DD $1,000 [28]
This southernmost country of the Balkan Peninsula has no navigable rivers
Greece
Judith
$600 [22]
Now usually built as toys, ornithopters are machines with wings that do this
flap
Judith Beth
$600 [14]
Dogs pant to regulate this
bodily temperature
Steve
$600 [19]
During the '40s, the U.S. became major furniture design center thru the efforts of this NYC museum
Museum of Modern Art
Beth
$600 [3]
Not about Goldwater & Johnson, this 1978 Stanley Kubrick film was based on a Thackeray novel
Barry Lyndon
Steve
$600 [8]
If this late actress makes it into Bartlett's, it will be with the line "Where's the beef?"
Clara Peller
$800 [23]
1st flown in 1954, the 1st jet transport built in the U.S. was this aircraft that's still widely used
Boeing 707
Steve
$1,000 [21]
Alligators & crocodiles are closely related to this non-reptile class that evolved from reptiles
birds
Judith
$800 [25]
High Point, in this southern state, is often called the furniture capital of the world
North Carolina
Beth
$800 [4]
John Ford, known for westerns, made the movie of this midwestern author's novel "Arrowsmith"
Sinclair Lewis
Steve
$800 [9]
"A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me," are lines from this Shakespearean play
Romeo and Juliet
Steve
$1,000 [24]
Starting in 1952 on their London-Johannesburg run, this airline became 1st with jet passenger service
BOAC
Judith
DD $1,500 [20]
This is the only species in the family "hominidae"
Homo sapiens (or man)
Beth
$1,000 [26]
For making his exquisite furniture, Thos. Chippendale used this wood almost excluesively
mahogany
Beth
$1,000 [5]
In 1984, Jeremy Irons was "Swann in Love", in an adaptation of this massive work by Proust
Remembrance of Things Past
Judith
$1,000 [11]
"Other men are the carving knife & serving dish; we are the fish & the meat," said this hero to both Chinas
Sun Yat-sen
Beth

Final Jeopardy!

ELECTIONS

State that's gone Republican more times than any other in Presidential elections is this 1 in New England

Vermont

Beth "What is Mass.?" — wagered $1,200
Steve "What is New Hamp" — wagered $5,500
Judith "What is N. Hampshire?" — wagered $5,600

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