Show #727 1987-11-03 (taped 1987-08-25) Regular

Kate Waits game 1.

Contestants

Bruce Howarth — an advertising executive from Tampa, Florida

Kate Waits — a law professor from Albany, New York

Ken Freedman — a professional snake handler from Long Beach, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ken $200 $1,300 $7,100 $12,100
2nd place: trip to Washington, D.C. & stay at the Madison Hotel + the Jeopardy! home game (boxed or computerized)
$7,100
18 R, 5 W
Kate $2,800 $5,000 $8,100 $14,201
New champion: $14,201 + the Jeopardy! home game (boxed or computerized)
$5,600
24 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Bruce $1,300 $1,300 $2,800 $3,600
3rd place: Magnavox Video Escort camera + the Jeopardy! home game (boxed or computerized)
$3,300
10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE CONSTITUTION SPORTS MANIAS TOM SAWYER DEFINITIONS A.K.A.
$100 [22]
Only amendment ratified by conventions, not state legislatures, was the 21st, repealing this
Prohibition
Ken
$100 [5]
Professional name of Rocco Machegiano
Rocky Marciano
Bruce
$100 [11]
Gallomania means you have an excessive interest, not in wine, but in this country noted for wine
France
Kate
$100 [23]
Tom 1st met her when, for a punishment, he was sent to sit on the girls' side of the classroom
Becky (Thatcher)
Kate
$100 [28]
A "pseudonymous" person uses a false one
name
Kate
$100 [1]
Mary Louise Streep
Meryl Streep
Ken
$200 [29]
The 16th Amendment was passed because the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution forbade this tax
income tax
Kate
$200 [6]
Before a horse can race, an ID number must be tattooed under this body part
(upper) lip
Kate
$200 [13]
Kids might drive parents to trichotillomania, the impulse to pull out this
hair
Bruce
$200 [24]
Form of transport commandeered by Tom when he ran away from home with Huck & Joe
raft
Kate
$200 [30]
A cylindrical structure for storing silage
silo
Ken
$200 [2]
Sari Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Kate
$300 [12]
What the Constitution calls "the militia" is now called this
national guard
Bruce
$300 [8]
Sport featured in the 1987 film "Hoosiers"
basketball
Kate
$300 [14]
Most women would love husbands who have doromania, the compulsion to do this & not just at Christmas
buy gifts
Ken Kate
$300 [17]
It was 30 yards long, 9 feet high, & put Tom in a melancholy mood
fence he had to paint
Ken
$300 [25]
To "inhume" means to do this
bury
Kate
$300 [4]
Mary Tomlinson, better known as "Ma Kettle"
Marjorie Main
Bruce
$400 [10]
The Constitution allowed Congress to ban the importation of these, but not until the year 1808
slaves
Bruce
$400 [3]
2 types of competition in this sport are "speed" & "figure"
skating
Ken
$400 [15]
Hippomania is the obsession for these animals
horses
Kate
$400 [20]
Of Sam, Sid, or Irving, the name of Tom's half brother
Sid
Ken Kate
$400 [26]
Any place of great spiritual suffering, named for the garden in Mark 14
Gethsemane
Ken
$400 [18]
Lillian de Guiche
Lillian Gish
Kate
$500 [9]
This cannot be raised or lowered during a President's term in office
salary
Kate
$500 [7]
Sport using a hollow, white celluoid ball, about 4 ⅝" in circumference & 2.5 grams in weight
ping pong (table tennis)
Kate
DD $900 [16]
Often one is asleep & therefore unaware that he is suffering from bruxomania, which is this
(grinding) gnashing of teeth
Kate
$500 [21]
Character that died after being locked in McDougal's Cave
Injun Joe
$500 [27]
This word probably means "flat-nosed" in Spanish but also refers toa tortila chip topped w/cheese
nacho
Ken
$500 [19]
Gary Hartpence
Gary Hart
Kate

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS MUSICAL THEATER ANATOMY SHIPS FRENCH CUISINE Q WITHOUT U
$200 [14]
The correct name of this country's capital is Krung Thep, though foreigners call it Bangkok
Thailand
Ken
$200 [12]
Sondheim musical based on a Bergman film, not Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
A Little Night Music
Kate
$200 [1]
It churns & kneads food for several hours, turning it into a mass called chyme
stomach
Kate
$200 [18]
At 1st this job aboard a galley was considered honorable; later, slaves & POWs were used
rowing
Bruce
$200 [22]
"Oeufs poches"
poached eggs
Bruce
$200 [8]
Australia's national airline
Qantas
Ken
$400 [15]
1 of 2 national capitals that begin with the letter "J"
Jakarta & Jerusalem
$600 [2]
By directing, writing & starring in "Little Johnny Jones", he gave his regards to B'way
George Cohan
Kate
$400 [4]
Only visible when a cell divides, they carry your genes
chromosome
Ken
$400 [19]
A flat-bottomed boat, it's also the term for a float on a seaplane
pontoon
Ken Bruce
$400 [23]
The word used in Paris to order sherbet
sorbet
Kate
$400 [9]
This "flaky" leader's name can be spelled with K, G, or Q without U
Qaddafi
Ken Bruce
$600 [24]
Of Vientiane, Valletta, or Vienna, the one that's not a European capital
Vientiane
Kate
$800 [3]
Lerner & Loewe were inspired by a Bret Harte story to write this musical about a Calif. gold strike
Paint Your Wagon
Ken
$600 [5]
The trachea divides into 2 bronchi, which, upon entering these, divide into bronchioles
lungs
Ken
$600 [20]
Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, its name was appropriate, since he won
Victory
Ken
$600 [27]
To get this dessert in Paris, you'd have to order "pudding au pain"
bread pudding
Kate
DD $500 [17]
The 2 Mideast countries that fit this category, 1 begins & 1 ends with "Q"
Iraq & Qatar
Bruce
$800 [25]
In the near future Abuja, a planned city will replace Lagos as this country's capital
Nigeria
Ken
$1,000 [11]
Ironically, this 1979 musical about "The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" flopped in London
Sweeney Todd
Ken
$800 [6]
The malleus, incus & stapes bones are better known by these 3 names
hammer, anvil, stirrups
Ken Kate
$800 [21]
Shape of the oldest known sails
square
Ken
$800 [28]
"Boudins de lapin" are sausages made from this animal's meat
rabbit
Kate
$600 [10]
If you were playing a riqq in an Egyptian band, you'd be making music by shaking & banging this
tambourine
Kate
$1,000 [26]
Name of this capital means "end of elephant's trunk" because it sits where the 2 Niles join
Khartoum
Kate
DD $2,500 [13]
I. Berlin wrote songs & Rodgers & Hammerstein 1st produced this show featuringthe following:"Anything you can do, I can do better! /I can do anything better than you!"
Annie Get Your Gun
Kate
$1,000 [7]
Your sclera is normally this color
white
Ken
$1,000 [30]
Company which commissioned the Lusitania
Cunard
$1,000 [29]
Often sauteed "a la provencale", these are sometimes called "nymphs' thighs"
frogs legs
Ken
$800 [16]
"QWERTY" refers to the usual arrangement of the letters on this
typewriter
Bruce

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. GEOGRAPHY

3 of the states that have areas known as "panhandles"

(3 of) Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, West Virginia, Idaho, Alaska & Maryland

Bruce "What are Texas, Oklahoma, & Florida" — wagered $800
Ken "What are Florida Oklahoma & Texas" — wagered $5,000
Kate "What are Texas, Oklahoma & W. Virginia?" — wagered $6,101

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