Show #1142 1989-07-18 (taped 1989-02-28) Regular

1989 Senior Tournament semifinal game 2.

Contestants

Freda Mammina — a teacher from Yonkers, New York

Ouida Rellstab — a teacher from New Orleans, Louisiana

Tom Welter — a quality controller from Anaheim, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $1,800 $2,200 $4,000 $8,000
2nd place: $5,000
$2,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Ouida $700 $2,500 $7,100 $8,001
Finalist
$5,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Freda $900 $2,000 $3,800 $7,600
3rd place: $5,000
$4,700
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES TUNES OF THE '20s FLORIDA SMOKING OLD TESTAMENT MISSING LINKS
$100 [1]
1950s first lady who was so fond of pink that in her day the White House was called "the Pink Palace"
Mamie Eisenhower
Tom
$100 [5]
"Look for" this, not a union label, "whene'er a cloud appears in the sky"
a silver lining
Tom
$100 [30]
You can bet this game, played in a fronton, is more popular in Florida than any other state
jai alai
Tom Ouida
$100 [21]
Tareyton claimed its smokers would "rather fight than" do this
switch
Freda
$100 [4]
Of the 150 of these, 73 are said to have been written by David
Psalms
Ouida
$100 [12]
Hear no evil,...Speak no evil
See no evil
Tom
$200 [2]
A native of Independence, Missouri, she lived to be almost 98 years old
Bess Truman
Tom
$200 [6]
"There's" one of these "round my shoulder, and a sky of blue above"
a rainbow
Ouida
$200 [26]
Stephen Foster's "Old Folks At Home" made this Florida river famous
the Suwannee
Ouida
$200 [22]
Government official whose stated goal is to make th U.S. a "smoke-free society by the year 2000"
the Surgeon General or (C. Everett) Coop
Ouida
$200 [17]
In the 1st month of their 2nd year in the desert, Moses & the people celebrated this holiday
Passover
Freda
$200 [13]
"Baubles,...Beads"
Bangles
Freda
$300 [3]
Her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Quincy
Mrs. John Adams (Abigail)
Freda
$300 [7]
Watch out for the Sheik of Araby; at night when you're asleep he'll creep into this
your tent
Tom
$300 [27]
In the movie "Where the Boys Are", it's the city where the boys are
Fort Lauderdale
Freda
$300 [23]
He rides the range in many countries since his cigarette is the top seller in the world
the Marlboro Man
Ouida
$300 [18]
Deuteronomy prescribes this form of capital punishment for idolatry & adultery
stoning
Freda
$300 [14]
"Veni,... vici"
vidi
Freda
$400 [10]
This neurotic 19th century first lady was disparagingly known as "The She-Wolf"
Mrs. Lincoln (Mary Todd Lincoln)
Ouida
$400 [8]
"If I had Aladdin's lamp for only a day, I'd make a wish and here's what I'd say..."
"Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning"
Freda
$500 [29]
The Sunshine Skyway crosses this bay to connect St. Petersburg to the Tamiami Trail
Tampa Bay
Ouida
$400 [24]
It's the slogan for Virginia Slims
"You've Come a Long Way, Baby."
Freda
$400 [19]
Both Micah & this prophet wrote, "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares"
Isaiah
Freda
$400 [15]
... Melchior, Balthasar
Gaspar
$500 [11]
Patty Duke played this first lady in a 1984 miniseries that starred Barry Bostwick
Martha Washington
Tom
$500 [9]
In "Good Boy", Helen Kane made this B. Kalmar-H. Ruby song famous, "Boop-boop-a-doop"
"I Wanna Be Loved By You"
Tom
DD $900 [28]
In the U.S., this mammal is found mainly in Florida:
manatee
Freda
$500 [25]
In a famous scene in "Now, Voyager", Paul Henreid lights 2 cigarettes & hands 1 to her, his co-star
Bette Davis
Tom
$500 [20]
King Darius of Persia contributed to its rebuilding fund
the Temple of Solomon (the Temple of Jerusalem)
Ouida
$500 [16]
Chanel No. 5 ... Chanel No. 22
Chanel No. 19

Double Jeopardy! Round

A.K.A. PLANTS POETS MOUNTAINS MAN IN SPACE ASTAIRE & ROGERS
$200 [1]
This late character actor's original name was Richmond Reed Carradine
John Carradine
Freda
$200 [11]
Some of these fruit & oil producing trees in Mediterranean countries are more than 2,000 years old
olive trees
Ouida Freda
$200 [10]
This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was the brother of Pulitzer Prize-winner Wm. Rose Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét
Tom Freda
$200 [17]
The Ainu, who lived there before the Japanese, gave this sacred mountain its name
Fujiyama
Ouida
$200 [22]
Although space shuttles are launched from Cape Canaveral, mission control is located in this city
Houston
Tom
$200 [6]
Ginger said the publicity dept. started the persistent rumor that she & Fred did this all the time
fight
Tom
$400 [2]
This flamenco dancer is Italian-American, & his real name is Costanzo Greco
Jose Greco
Freda
$400 [16]
Specifically used to support some legume plants, Archie's pal Jughead is as thin as one
a beanpole
Tom
$400 [12]
Late playwright Federico Garcia Lorca has been called this country's best-known modern poet
Spain
Freda
$400 [21]
You can ski on Mount Hermon, whose snows are a major source of this Biblical river
the Jordan
Freda
$400 [23]
Of 2, 4 or 6 days, length of time it took to reach the moon
4 days
$400 [7]
He wrote "Let's Face The Music & Dance" & "Change Partners" for Fred & Ginger, God bless him
Irving Berlin
Tom
$600 [3]
He was born William Samuel Rosenberg; James Caan played him in "Funny Lady"
Billy Rose
Freda
$600 [18]
These fronded plants were the most common type on Earth 300 million years ago
ferns
Ouida
$600 [13]
Masculine pen name of the late English poetess Florence Margaret Smith
Stevie Smith
Ouida
$600 [25]
Custer's last stand was precipitated by a gold rush into these hills sacred to the Sioux
the Black Hills
Freda
$800 [9]
In their 9th film, Fred & Ginger played this early 20th C. dance team famous for their "walk"
Vernon and Irene Castle
Ouida
$800 [4]
This singing movie star's real name is Doris Kappelhoff
Doris Day
Tom
$800 [19]
When it's time to harvest this crop, you'll probably pick a picker-sheller
corn
Freda
$1,000 [15]
American poet Amy Lowell wrote a biography of this English poet known for his odes
John Keats
Tom Ouida
$800 [26]
World Book says Mt. Elbrus in the Caucasus is the highest peak on this continent
Europe
Ouida
$1,000 [24]
After Fred & Ginger did this samba-style dance in "Flying Down to Rio", it became a national craze
the carioca
Tom Ouida
$1,000 [5]
Late Austrian actress-singer Karoline Blamauer, who was married to Kurt Weill
Lotte Lenya
Tom
$1,000 [20]
The twigs of this plant now used for liniment were once used for divining rods in water witching
witch hazel
Ouida
DD $2,400 [14]
They courted in secret because of her despotic father, & were secretly married on September 12, 1846
Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning
Ouida
$1,000 [27]
The highest peaks east of the Mississippi are in the Blue Ridge Range in this state
North Carolina
Tom
DD $2,000 [8]
An Astaire & Rogers film was named for this piece of Fred's clothing
Top Hat
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICANA

Hotel made famous by Dorothy Parker, Franklin Pierce Adams & Robert Benchley

the Algonquin

Freda "What is the Algonquin" — wagered $3,800
Tom "What is Algonquin?" — wagered $4,000
Ouida "What is the Algonquin?" — wagered $901

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