Show #1248 1990-01-24 (taped 1989-09-25) Regular

Contestants

Oded Ben-Ami — a salesman from New York City, New York

Cecilia Huber — a critical care nurse and law student from Cleveland, Ohio

Dan Bowman — a letter carrier from Dixon, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $23,802)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $1,500 $2,400 $2,200 $4,400
3rd place: Fredrick Ramond New Romantic lamp + complete Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Jr. editions of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune
$4,000
17 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Cecilia $1,000 $3,000 $3,800 $7,600
2nd place: trip to Boston on Delta and stay at Guest Quarters Suite Hotel
$2,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Oded $700 $3,300 $4,500 $7,601
New champion: $7,601
$4,500
17 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COLONIAL AMERICA COUNTRY SINGERS ANTONYMS BUSINESS BIGGIES LITERARY RELATIVES THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
$100 [16]
The Fortune was the 2nd ship to bring Pilgrims over; this was the 1st
Mayflower
Dan
$100 [13]
Her younger sister Louise Mandrell was only 15 when she started touring with her as a bass player
Barbara Mandrell
Dan
$100 [8]
1986 Jane Fonda film that's an antonym of the 1988 Lori Loughlin film "The Night Before"
The Morning After
Cecilia
$100 [22]
This luggage maker would like you to think its products are as strong as the biblical man they are named for
Samsonite
Oded
$100 [1]
Their father, an Irish-born clergyman named Patrick Brunty, changed the spelling of the family name
Brontë Sisters (The Brontës)
Dan
$100 [3]
He was attacked by a woodpecker, had a pet duck that died & his middle name was Rosebud
Richard
Dan
$200 [17]
New Sweden was on the Delaware River & New Netherland extended up this river to the Mohawk
Hudson River
Oded
$200 [27]
After seeing the movie "Ruby Gentry", Roberta Streeter changed her name to this
Bobbie Gentry
Cecilia
$200 [9]
Antonym of "length" that's "the soul of wit"
brevity
Oded
$200 [23]
Founded in 1857, this company makes Elsie Ice Cream & Elmer's Glue
Borden's
Oded
$200 [2]
Sara Coleridge wrote children's verse but was best known for editing the works of this man, her father
Samuel Coleridge
Oded
$200 [4]
Profession of Rob & Laura's neighbor Jerry Helper
dentist
Dan
$300 [18]
This war began when Washington & his men attacked a small French detachment May 28, 1754
French & Indian War
Dan
$300 [28]
While none of the 4 Statler Brothers is named Statler, this many are really brothers
2
Cecilia
$300 [10]
These 6-letter antonyms for elder & younger both end in "nior"
senior & junior
Dan
$300 [24]
Owned by Bristol-Myers, this hair-care line includes the most popular hair-coloring products in U.S.
Clairol
Oded
$300 [14]
Her mother, feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft, died 11 days after her birth
Mary Shelley
Dan
$300 [5]
Alan Brady's brother-in-law & target of Buddy's bald jokes
Mel Cooley
Oded
$400 [19]
After failing with the 1st group of settlers here, Raleigh sent a 2nd group to the same place & lost them
Roanoke
Oded
$400 [29]
In 1970 this Virginia family became the 1st group elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame
Carters
$400 [11]
Its antonyms include soft & easy
hard
Cecilia
$400 [25]
The grass is always greener when it's this, the world's 1st synthetic turf
AstroTurf
Oded
$400 [15]
The adventures of his grandfather "Foul-Weather Jack" inspired parts of "Don Juan"
Lord Byron
$400 [6]
In "Never Bathe on Saturday", Laura finds herself in this predicament
her toe stuck in the drain (her toe stuck in the water spout)
Dan
$500 [20]
The Governor's Council was the upper house & this was the lower house of the Virginia legislature
House of Burgesses
Oded
DD $1,500 [30]
This"thin man" became a phenomenal success using TV commercials to sell his record albums:"Oh Rose Marie, I love you /I'm always dreaming of you..."
Slim Whitman
Cecilia
$500 [12]
Antonyms in the proverb concerning marriage & repentance
haste & leisure
$500 [26]
G.D. are the 1st & middle initials of this man who founded the company that created NutraSweet
Searle
Dan
$500 [21]
"Tom Jones" author who was reportedly descended from a branch of the Habsburgs
Fielding
Oded
$500 [7]
Connect the freckles on Rob's back & you'll see this Philadelphia landmark
Liberty Bell
Cecilia

Double Jeopardy! Round

RULERS HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES FAMOUS PHYSICIANS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS BY THE NUMBERS JEWELRY
$200 [11]
In 1166 he succeeded his father, William the Bad, on the throne of Sicily
William the Good
Cecilia
$200 [5]
Each June 11 this state celebrates King Kamehameha I Day
Hawaii
Dan
$200 [1]
He's been called "the man who reared 50 million kids"
Benjamin Spock
Dan Oded
$200 [18]
To take an up close & personal peek at Pike's Peak you have to be in this state
Colorado
Dan
$200 [13]
Descriptive of a Colt revolver
six-shooter
Dan
$800 [27]
The wife of a French nobleman just below a duke, or a long, oval gem cut usually with 58 facets
marquise
Dan
$400 [12]
He not only holds U.S. patent no. 4,805,631 for a heart monitor, he's also king of Morocco
King Hassan II
$400 [7]
In Australia this holiday was called 8-Hour Day to mark the successful struggle for a shorter work day
Labor Day
Oded
$400 [2]
He directed the building of his hospital & leper colony in French Equitorial Africa
Dr. Schweitzer
Dan
$400 [19]
In 1865 this Wyoming city was named after a lieutenant killed by the Indians, not a ghost
Casper
Cecilia
$400 [14]
One variation of this popular parlor game begins with "Is it animal, vegetable or mineral?"
20 questions
Oded
$1,000 [26]
One method of casting jewelry is called the cire perdue method, which means this
lost-wax
Dan
$600 [23]
When this czar traveled to Amsterdam, he spent 4 months working as a carpenter in a shipyard
Peter the Great
Oded
$600 [8]
Waitangi Day in New Zealand commemorates the 1840 treaty signed between the British & these natives
Maoris
Dan
$600 [3]
This Maryland doctor set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg
Dr. Samuel Mudd
$600 [20]
Not many people run into Bigfoot in the Rockies, but many see bighorns, which are these
sheep
Oded
$600 [15]
Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for playing a woman with multiple personalities in this 1957 film
The Three Faces of Eve
Cecilia
$800 [24]
Since 1986 workers in Iraq have been rebuilding this king's southern palace in what was Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
Dan
DD $600 [9]
Poppies are most associated with this federal holiday
Memorial Day
Dan
$800 [4]
In 1898 this army medical officer headed a commission that studied the spread of typhoid fever
Walter Reed
Cecilia Oded
$800 [21]
In the U.S. the southernmost point of the system is in New Mexico & the northernmost is in this state
Alaska
Dan
$800 [16]
In 1844 U.S. expansionists who wanted to annex the entire Oregon territory used this slogan
54-40 or fight!
Cecilia
DD $1,200 [25]
When Solon ruled this city, he diminished the power of the aristocracy & freed those enslaved by debt
Athens
Dan
$1,000 [10]
This birthplace of Richard Nixon has established a city holiday in his honor
Yorba Linda
Cecilia
$1,000 [6]
After testing 605 compounds, this German bacteriologist discovered a remedy for syphilis
Paul Ehrlich
Cecilia Oded
$1,000 [22]
This Scotish explorer was the 1st white man to cross the Rockies; he did it up in Canada in 1793
(Alexander) Mackenzie
Oded
$1,000 [17]
Severe torture to extract a confession, or, in masonic rites, a master mason
3rd degree
Oded

Final Jeopardy!

DIRECTORS

He was an actor for 21 years before he directed his 1st feature film at age 23 in 1977

Ron Howard

Dan "Who is Ron Howard?" — wagered $2,200
Cecilia "Who is Ron Howard?" — wagered $3,800
Oded "Who is Ron Howard" — wagered $3,101

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