Show #957 1988-11-01 (taped 1988-09-07) Regular

Contestants

Kathy Serenberg — from Santa Monica, California

B.W. Radley — a claims adjuster originally from Santa Rosa, California

Alison Roberts — an attorney originally from Port Sulphur, Louisiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alison $2,900 $3,400 $3,700 $7,399
2-day champion: $15,999
$5,200
23 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
B.W. $-500 $-300 $2,900 $5,799
2nd place: trip to Acapulco & stay at Westin Las Brisas + choice of Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$3,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Kathy $1,900 $2,200 $5,200 $2,200
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer + choice of Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! Challenger
$5,200
15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANIMALS LANGUAGES COMIC BOOKS SEA SONGS THE WIFE MARRIED "WOO" WORDS
$100 [6]
Contrary to popular belief, diamondbacks don't always do this before striking
rattle
Kathy
$100 [7]
For centuries the Japanese language has used characters adopted from this language
Chinese
Alison
$100 [20]
"There's no need to fear", this comic is once again here
Underdog
B.W.
$100 [18]
According to the Beach Boys, "If ev'rybody had an ocean across the U.S.A., then ev'rybody'd be" doing this
"Surfin' U.S.A."
B.W.
$100 [13]
Desi Arnaz & Gary Morton
Lucille Ball
Kathy
$100 [1]
You might have read her novel "Orlando" if you're not afraid of her
Virginia Woolf
Alison
$200 [12]
Often bright green & squawky, true "lovebirds" belong to this bird family
parrot
Kathy
$200 [8]
The story in Genesis that explains man's diversity of language
The Tower of Babel
Kathy
$200 [21]
Archie's pal is Jughead & his rival, this guy
Reggie
Alison
$200 [19]
"Beyond the Sea", his version of the French song "La Mer", was a 1960 hit for this singer
Bobby Darin
Alison
$200 [14]
Set designer Tony Walton & director Blake Edwards
Julie Andrews
Alison
$200 [2]
Flutes, oboes & clarinets, for example
woodwinds
Alison
$300 [25]
It's the largest member of the camel family that's native to South America
llama
Alison B.W.
$300 [9]
In Shaw's "Pygmalion", it's the dialect Eliza Doolittle is trying to lose
Cockney
Alison
$300 [22]
Oh yeah! this wacky soft drink pitchman, er...pitch-pitcher, now has his own comic
Kool-Aid Pitcher (Kool-Aid Man)
Alison B.W.
$300 [28]
Song which opens, "Come all ye young fellows that follow the sea"
"(Blow) Blow The Man Down"
Kathy
$300 [15]
Spanish photographer Paco Grande, but not Mikhail Baryshnikov or Sam Shepard
Jessica Lange
Alison
$300 [3]
Robert Redford portrayed him in "All The President's Men"
(Bob) Woodward
Alison
$400 [26]
This big monkey has blue cheeks, a red nose & a red & blue rump
mandrill
Alison
$400 [10]
Though heavily influenced by Italian, Maltese is a dialect of this Semitic language
Arabic
Kathy
DD $500 [23]
Touted as the "Mickey Mouse of Japan", this little robot wants to be a real person:
Astro Boy
B.W.
$400 [16]
Frank White, a barber; Jules W. "Nicky" Arnstein, a gambler; & Billy Rose, a producer
Fanny Brice
Kathy
$400 [4]
A loudspeaker designed to reproduce low frequencies
woofer
Alison
$500 [27]
This tightly curled fur comes from newborn Karakul sheep
Astrakhan (Persian lamb)
Alison
$500 [11]
In Spanish, the "tilde" goes above this letter
N
Alison
$500 [24]
DC comic book group of heroes, they used to be "of America", now they're "International"
Justice League
B.W.
$500 [17]
Mel Ferrer & a psychiatrist named Dr. Dotti
Audrey Hepburn
B.W. Kathy
$500 [5]
Dog trainer called "a cross between a drill sergeant & Dr. Doolittle", she passed away in July 1988
Barbara Woodhouse
Alison

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 1970s MAPS COLLEGES PLAYS SCIENCE FAMOUS KNIGHTS
$200 [19]
On July 9, 1971 Henry Kissinger visited this Asian capital secretly
Peking
B.W.
$200 [18]
This continental name 1st appeared on a map in 1507
America
Alison
$200 [6]
Since 1778 troops have occupied the site of this U.S. service academy
West Point
Alison
$200 [3]
"Inherit the Wind" was inspired by this famous trial, & we're not monkeying around
Scopes Monkey Trial
Alison
$200 [26]
Part of your body in which you might find an amalgam of silver
teeth (fillings)
Alison
$200 [11]
He planted the 1st potatoes in Europe on the Irish estate he got from Queen Elizabeth I
Sir Walter Raleigh
Kathy
$400 [20]
He escaped 2 assassination attempts in September 1975
Gerald R. Ford
B.W.
$400 [22]
While the term "map" refers particularly to land area, this term refers to marine maps
charts
Kathy
$400 [7]
In the mid '80s scientists at this N. England brain trust produced artificial blood vessels from live cells
M.I.T.
B.W.
$400 [4]
He rewrote his 1st full-length play "Battle of Angels" & called it "Orpheus Descending"
Tennessee Williams
Kathy
$400 [27]
At sea level the speed of this is 332 meters per second
sound
Kathy
$400 [12]
He said he gave up 40 acting roles & a dozen directing jobs in order to make "Gandhi"
Sir Richard Attenborough
Alison
$800 [2]
In 1975 NASA launched Viking I & II, & in 1977 launched 2 space probes with this name
Voyager
Alison Kathy
$600 [23]
Until the 1500s maps were based on writings of this Greek geographer & astronomer
Ptolemy
$600 [8]
It has the smallest acreage but the largest population within the Calif. University system
UCLA
B.W.
$600 [5]
Of a gate, a bandit or a Buddhist priest, what Rashomon is in the play "Rashomon"
gate
B.W.
$600 [28]
On contact with air, phosphorus will do this
ignite
Kathy
$600 [13]
On September 26, 1977 he inaugurated the cheap transatlantic "Skytrain"
Sir Freddie Laker
Alison
DD $1,000 [1]
President Nixon signed the bill November 16, 1973 to build this 789-mile-long project
Alaska Pipeline
B.W.
$800 [24]
Type of map that depicts land configurations with contour lines & shading
topographical (relief)
B.W.
$800 [9]
George Bush played baseball & was Phi Beta Kappa while attending this university
Yale
Alison B.W.
$800 [16]
His offbeat play "The Skin of our Teeth" features a talking baby dinosaur
Thornton Wilder
Alison
$800 [29]
The federal government's "Superfund" program cleans these up
toxic waste dumps
Alison
$800 [14]
These musical writing partners were knighted 24 years apart, in 1883 & 1907
Gilbert & Sullivan
B.W.
$1,000 [21]
In September 1971 the Arab Republic of Egypt was proclaimed & they no longer used this former name
United Arab Republic
Alison Kathy
$1,000 [25]
The vertical & horizontal lines of a map's grids cross at points called these
coordinates
$1,000 [10]
The 1st modern laboratory for studying parapsychology was set up at this university in Durham, N.C.
Duke
Kathy
$1,000 [17]
When this playwright 1st presented "Medea" in an Athenian drama contest, it came in last
Euripides
Kathy
DD $1,500 [30]
A foot-candle is a unit of illumination & a foot-pound is a unit of this
work
Alison
$1,000 [15]
These 2 knights were part of "A Passage to India"; one as director, one in a leading role
David Lean & Alec Guinness
Alison

Final Jeopardy!

POLITICIANS

Carl Hayden represented this state in Congress from when it joined the Union until 1969

Arizona

B.W. "What is Arizona?" — wagered $2,899
Alison "What is Arizona?" — wagered $3,699
Kathy "What is Alaska" — wagered $3,000

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