Show #851 1988-04-25 (taped 1988-01-19) Regular

Contestants

Ed Levin — an architect from Los Angeles, California

Blaze Newman — a teacher from Encinitas, California

Jeff Brown — a physician from Los Gatos, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $200 $300 $6,200 $1,200
2nd place: 6-piece Broyhill bedroom set & Emerson 20" stereo color television
$6,300
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Blaze $300 $400 $5,000 $3,400
New champion: $3,400
$5,200
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Ed $1,000 $2,300 $1,700 $0
3rd place: In-Sink-Erator dishwasher
$1,700
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY ARTISTS ALPHABET SOUP WEIGHTS & MEASURES COMMERCIAL SLOGANS
$100 [10]
Though only 4 square miles in area, this island south of Elba really "counted" in a Dumas novel
Monte Cristo
Blaze
$100 [4]
Body part that was exaggerated in & became the trademark of Keane paintings
eyes
Ed
$100 [11]
Letter paired with "1" for a phrase meaning "top drawer"
A1
Ed
$100 [18]
It's 42 gallons of oil, but only about 31 gallons of wine
barrel
Blaze
$100 [17]
"Have you driven" one of these "lately?"
Ford
Blaze
$200 [9]
This region above the Arctic Circle covers parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland & the USSR
Lappland
Ed
$200 [5]
With over 153,629 saleable paintings as of May '86, Morris Katz of NYC holds this Guinness distinction
most prolific artist
Jeff
$200 [12]
ASCAP, the music organization, contains the same letters as this animal rights organization
ASPCA
Blaze Ed
$200 [19]
Of more, less, or the same as at sea level, what a 100 lb. sack of cement would weigh atop a 25,000 ft. peak
less
Jeff Blaze
$200 [16]
With this perfume, you can "Share the fantasy"
Chanel No. 5
Ed
$300 [3]
Though in the Caribbean, Aruba, Curacao & St. Eustatus are part of this European kingdom
the Netherlands
Blaze
$300 [6]
Both Renoir & Cezanne are famous for series of nudes involved in this ablutionary activity
bathing
Ed
$300 [22]
To access this company's long distance lines, dial 10, then spell out the company's name by dialing 299
A-T-T
Ed
DD $200 [20]
Title of the following, it's metric equivalent is 41.8, not 40, kilometers:"Santa Catalina is a-waitin' for me /Santa Catalina, the island of romance /Romance, romance, romance /Water all around it everywhere..."
"26 Miles"
Blaze
$300 [13]
It's "The antidote for civilization"
Club Med
Jeff Blaze
$400 [2]
The principal city of southern India, it has given its name to a colorful cloth produced there
Madras
Ed
$400 [7]
It was Donatello's, not Michelangelo's, which was the 1st monumental nude statue since the Roman empire
David
Blaze
$400 [23]
Letters lost in the common spelling "catalog" & "travelog"
U & E
Blaze
$400 [21]
A troy pound consists of this many ounces of 480 grains each
12
$400 [15]
These shoes, "Because life is not a spectator sport..."
Reebok
$500 [1]
Consisting of at least 400 islands, the Sulu Archipelago is part of this island country
Philippines
Jeff Blaze
$500 [8]
It's said his elongated figures & pathos reflect the grimness of the Spanish Inquisition
El Greco
Jeff
$500 [14]
"Sweet dreams you can't resist" are spelled this way
N-E-S-T-L-E-S
Ed

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY WORD ORIGINS CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS MICRO-ORGANISMS AUCTIONS UNREAL ESTATE
$200 [20]
Fighting in this war continued for a year after General Cornwallis surrendered
American Revolution
Ed
$200 [16]
Garment whose name comes from Old Norse for "fold of a gathered skirt", kjalta
kilt
Ed
$200 [15]
Nick Arnstein
Funny Girl
Blaze
$200 [5]
It's what the long, thread-like structures called flagella are used for
locomotion (movement)
Ed
$400 [21]
Highest price paid for an autograph of a living person was for a Reagan letter praising this crooner
Frank Sinatra
Jeff Ed
$400 [23]
To get to his castle near Hungary's Borgo Pass, take the 3 p.m. coach--& carry garlic or a silver cross
Count Dracula
Jeff
$400 [19]
DeWitt Clinton was, at the same time, lt. gov., a state senator & mayor of this state's largest city
New York
Ed
$400 [17]
From the Latin for "pig" & "spine", it's a big rodent with erectile bristles
porcupine
Ed
$400 [11]
Marian Paroo
The Music Man
Blaze
$400 [4]
Some cause disease; others aid chemical processes such as changing nitrites into nitrates
bacteria
Jeff
$600 [18]
The word auction comes from the Latin "augere" which means to do this
add or augment
Blaze
$600 [22]
Mark Twain wrote a story about "The Man That Corrupted" this incorruptible city
Hadleyburg
Blaze
$600 [10]
Monetary term for Pres. Taft's policy of encouraging U.S. capital investment in Latin America
Dollar Diplomacy
Blaze
$600 [25]
This word is derived from Greek for "writing about harlots"
pornography
Jeff
$600 [12]
El Gallo
The Fantasticks
Blaze
$800 [2]
This class of single cell fungus multiplies asexually by budding
yeast
Jeff Ed
$800 [7]
Founded in 1766, this world's oldest auction house is 2nd only to Sotheby's in dollar sales
Christie's
Jeff
$800 [27]
Concordia, smallest country in Europe, is the setting for his play "Romanoff & Juliet"
Peter Ustinov
Blaze
$800 [9]
In the 1839 Aroostook War, this New England state called out the militia to fight England
Maine
Ed
DD $1,000 [24]
This generic word for a class of toys is just an old nickname for "Dorothy"
doll
Jeff
$800 [13]
Emile de Becque
South Pacific
Blaze
$1,000 [1]
Meaning "false foot", an amoeba uses one or more to encircle & ingest food
pseudopod
Jeff
$1,000 [6]
Guinness says greatest corporate auction was this Co's purchase of Hughes Aircraft for $5 billion
General Motors
$1,000 [8]
On his deathbed in 1850, this senator reportedly said, "The South! God knows what will become of her."
John Calhoun
Jeff
$1,000 [26]
A magical little sprite, from the name given to the goddesses of fate, Fata
fairy
$1,000 [14]
Edvard Grieg
The Song of Norway
DD $1,500 [3]
Considered both plant & animal, the euglena is this color when living in the sunlight
green
Jeff

Final Jeopardy!

HOLIDAYS

The latest date on which Thanksgiving Day can occur in the U.S.

November 28

Ed "What is Nov. 26?" — wagered $1,700
Blaze "What is Nov. 30th?" — wagered $1,600
Jeff "What is Nov. 29" — wagered $5,000

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