Show #743 1987-11-25 (taped 1987-08-26) Regular

Contestants

Julie Rutherford — a travel analyst from Phoenix, Arizona

Ira Kirschner — a broker and CPA from Westlake Village, California

Michael Compton — a payroll supervisor from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $10,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $1,800 $3,600 $6,000 $12,000
2nd place: trip on Eastern to Florida and stay at Safety Harbor Spa & Fitness Center on Tampa Bay
$6,000
19 R, 2 W
Ira $1,000 $3,500 $11,600 $15,000
New champion: $15,000
$11,500
25 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W
Julie $400 $800 $3,600 $2,200
3rd place: Whirlpool refrigerator
$3,600
8 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR II CAVES CRIME & PUNISHMENT ACTRESSES ANTIQUES "TIP" "TOP"
$100 [19]
While V-E Day was celebrated May 8, 1945, this was celebrated September 2, 1945
V-J Day (victory in [over] Japan)
Michael
$100 [16]
Most caves are formed from this type of sedimentary rock
limestone
$100 [11]
Due to thefts of passenger's luggage, a British judge dubbed this airport "Thiefrow"
Heathrow
Ira
$100 [5]
It's said the "fuehrer" over Pola Negri's rumored affair with this man forced her to leave Germany
Adolf Hitler
Michael
$100 [24]
Before 1700, English spoons were made from this many pieces of silver, but later, from only 1
2
$100 [6]
In 1968, it's how Tiny Tim went "Thru the tulips"
tip-toeing
Ira
$200 [20]
The women appointed for voluntary emergency service in the navy were known by this acronym
WAVES
Michael
$200 [17]
The world's largest cave chamber open to tourists is the "Big Room" at these caverns in New Mexico
Carlsbad
Michael
$200 [12]
It's said a man in Boston was put in public stocks in 1656 for doing this to his wife in public on the Sabbath
kissing her
Julie
$200 [4]
Though she played "My Fat Friend" onstage, she now does commercials for Weight Watchers
Lynn Redgrave
Michael
$400 [28]
A popular song of 1875 popularized this name for tall case clocks
grandfather clocks
Ira
$200 [7]
Trademark for a deck shoe with a soft leather upper & a rubber sole
Top-Sider
Julie
$300 [21]
Due to claims he took part in WWII atrocities, this world leader has been barred from the U.S.
Kurt Waldheim
Ira
$300 [18]
From Greek for "cave", it's one who likes to study & explore caves
spelunker
Ira
$300 [13]
Out of the 13 charges he faced, this "Subway Vigilante" was only found guilty of 1 illegal weapon count
Bernhard Goetz
Michael
$300 [1]
TV "Golden Girl" who said, "I'm not tall, I'm not pretty, I'm not young--I never was!"
Estelle Getty
Michael
DD $500 [27]
Because of 1891's McKinley Tariff Act, this was required to appear on the bottoms of plates coming into U.S.
country of origin
Ira
$300 [8]
This rock group is last entry alphabetically in "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits"
ZZ Top
Michael
$400 [22]
While the SS was a German organization, the OSS was created by this country
United States
Julie
$400 [25]
Due to thousands of these insects there, New Zealand's Waitomo Cave "glimmers, glimmers"
glowworms
Michael
$400 [14]
In August 1978, William & Emily Harris pleaded guilty to the "simple kidnapping" of this person
Patty Hearst
Michael
$400 [2]
Epitome of the exotic 20s vamp, she was really little Theodosia Goodman from Cincinnati
Theda Bara
Ira
$400 [9]
From Middle English for "bartender", it's to drink, often to excess
tipple
Michael Ira
$500 [23]
In its 1st air raid on Italy, June 11-12, 1940, the RAF bombing pinpointed this company's Turin plant
Fiat
Ira
$500 [26]
The longest measured cave system in the world, over 300 miles, is this aptly-named one in Kentucky
Mammoth
Ira
$500 [15]
Though Michael Fagan broke into this ruler's bedroom in July 1982, he wasn't prosecuted
Queen Elizabeth II
Michael
$500 [3]
This "Gone With the Wind" star, not Vivien Leigh, was Elia Kazan's 1st choice for "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Olivia de Havilland
Michael
$500 [10]
Laurence Harvey fought his way up in society in this 1959 film, but Simone Signoret got the Oscar
Room at the Top
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH LIT CLASSICAL MUSIC '50s TV UTAHANS MAN IN SPACE IN OTHER WORDS...
$200 [15]
Shaw said of this bard, "It would...be a relief to me to dig him up & throw stones at him"
Shakespeare
Michael
$200 [29]
In a Rimsky-Korsakov piece, a prince turns into this insect, which promptly takes flight
bumblebee
Julie
$200 [6]
They included Doreen, Darlene, Eileen, Bonnie, Lonnie, Ronnie, Karen, Cubby & Annette
Mouseketeer
Ira
$200 [14]
A statue of him represents Utah in the Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
Brigham Young
Julie
$200 [24]
The 1st reusable space vehicle, one was 1st launched into orbit in 1981
Space Shuttle
Michael
$200 [1]
Tear free with your teeth an amount in excess of your masticating ability
biting off more than you can chew
Ira
$400 [16]
Pseudonym under which David John Moore Cornwell wrote "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"
John le Carré
Ira
$400 [12]
In 1876, Wagner wrote the "Centennial Inaugural March" for this country's 100th anniversary
United States
Ira
$400 [7]
It's said 7 million people saw him fire Julius La Rosa
Arthur Godfrey
Michael
DD $500 [20]
Heard here, they were discovered in Disneyland in '62 after Lawrence Welk wouldn't see them:"One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch, girl..."
The Osmonds
Ira
$400 [25]
Ency. Americana says that at a force of 5 Gs, blood has weight of this metal, Fe
Iron
Ira
$400 [2]
Canis lupis garbed with Ovis aries' attire
wolf in sheep's clothing
Michael
$600 [17]
Bunyan work in which you'd find the Slough of Despond
The Pilgrim's Progress
Ira
$600 [11]
Beethoven may have included one of these in his 3rd symphony, but we're not giving him Sousa's crown
March
Ira
$600 [8]
Characters on this show included Beulah Witch, Fletcher Rabbit & Oliver J. Dragon
Kukla, Fran & Ollie
Ira
$600 [21]
In 1922 at age 16, high schooler P.T. Farnsworth discovered the principles of this communications medium
television
$600 [26]
The primary function of retrorockets
to slow the rocket down
Ira
$600 [3]
Traverse Hades as well as a swollen river
cross Hell or high water
Julie
$800 [18]
In his long nonsense poem, Lewis Carroll also called this hunted title creature a "Boojum"
Snark
Ira
$800 [13]
Influenced by fellow Frenchmen like Monet, he was the 1st to apply Impressionism to music
Claude-Achille Debussy
Michael
DD $800 [9]
He'd often lament to Peg, "What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester A. Riley
Ira
$800 [22]
Many Americans have seen the signature of Ivy Baker Priest, who held this office
Treasurer of the United States
Ira
$800 [27]
A space module's life support system must remove this gas, a primary product of respiration
carbon dioxide
Ira
$800 [4]
Yale device, Wall Street commodity, plus pickle container
lock, stock & barrel
Julie
$1,000 [19]
J.L. Lowes' 1927 study of this author was title "The Road to Xanadu"
(Samuel Taylor) Coleridge
Ira
$1,000 [30]
German for "leading motive", it's a short theme in an opera for an individual character
leitmotif
Michael
$1,000 [10]
Game show announcer who also brought in the questions & kept score on Groucho's "You Bet Your Life"
George Fenneman
Michael
$1,000 [23]
Agriculture Secretary under Eisenhower, he's now President of the Mormon Church
Ezra Taft Benson
Ira
$1,000 [28]
The greatest number of people NASA has put into space at one time
7
$1,000 [5]
Lave one's grasping organs in respect to an entire extramarital fling
wash one's hands of the affair
Julie

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CAPITALS

Only national capital of a foreign country named for a U.S. President

Monrovia, Liberia

Julie "What is Frankfort?" — wagered $1,400
Michael "What is Monrovia Liberia?" — wagered $6,000
Ira "What is Monrovia Liberia?" — wagered $3,400

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