Show #1224 1989-12-21 (taped 1989-08-30) Regular

Jeff Bandman game 3.

Contestants

Richard Boyce — a writer originally from Plattsburgh, New York

Mary Barry — a telemarketing manager originally from Kankakee, Illinois

Jeff Bandman — a lawyer from La Jolla, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $1,100 $3,600 $9,000 $12,300
3-day champion: $28,902
$8,100
27 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Mary $-100 $1,600 $2,600 $100
2nd place: Trip to Freeport, Bahamas
$2,200
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Richard $1,000 $2,100 $5,500 $0
3rd place: Regal Cookware Set
$5,500
18 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

BRAZIL SUPERSTITIONS INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES ACTORS & THEIR ROLES QUOTES CHRISTMAS CAROLS
$100 [13]
This democratic privilege is compulsory for all Brazilians who are literate & between the ages of 18 & 65
Voting
Jeff
$100 [6]
If you cross your fingers it's okay to walk under one of these
Ladder
Jeff
$100 [1]
Its name is an acronym for "Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Service"
Qantas
Jeff
$100 [10]
Zero Mostel became a wild horned beast in this Ionesco play
"Rhinoceros"
Jeff
$100 [12]
Ben Franklin said, "3 may keep a secret, if 2 of them are" this
Dead
Richard
$100 [20]
(audio clue)
"Joy To The World"
Jeff
$200 [15]
It got its name after a Spanish explorer reported being attacked by female warriors there
Amazon River
Richard
$200 [7]
This mutant plant is considered lucky because it's said to resemble the Christian cross
Four-Leaf Clover
Richard
$200 [2]
Founded in 1919, this Dutch company is the oldest continuously operating airline in the world
KLM
Jeff
$200 [25]
He's played Mozart & The Elephant Man on Broadway & Luke Skywalker on film
Mark Hamill
Jeff
$200 [14]
Douglas MacArthur said, "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to" do this
Win
Richard
$200 [21]
(audio clue)
"The First Noel"
Jeff Richard
$300 [16]
In 1870 Brazil grew about half the world's supply of this; now it's about 30%
Coffee
Jeff
$300 [8]
In England it's considered good luck to see one of these somewhat sooty blokes on your wedding day
Chimney Sweep
Richard
$300 [3]
It's the aptly named state-owned airline of Greece
Olympic
Jeff
$300 [30]
Robert Preston & Bernadette Peters starred in this musical as Mack Sennett & Mabel Normand
"Mack And Mabel"
Mary
$300 [17]
He wrote in "Candide", "If this the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?"
Voltaire
Jeff
$300 [23]
(audio clue)
"O Little Town of Bethlehem"
Jeff
$400 [22]
What Brazilians call the "Selva"; conservationists are concerned because it's shrinking
The Rain Forest
Jeff
$400 [9]
The number of witches in a coven
13
Mary
$400 [4]
It's the only airline that flies directly to the U.S. from Helsinki
Finnair
Jeff
$400 [28]
Sigourney Weaver made her stage debut at age 6 in this feline role in "Alice In Wonderland"
Cheshire Cat
Richard
$400 [18]
Churchill called this country "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
Soviet Union/Russia
Jeff
$400 [24]
(audio clue)
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
Mary
$500 [29]
1950's president Juscelino Kubitschek is known as the "Father Of" this city
Brasilia
Richard
$500 [11]
In da Vinci's "The Last Supper", Judas has done this which brings bad luck
spilled the salt
Jeff Mary Richard
$500 [5]
It began as Malayan Airways & its "girls" wear Malay sarongs designed by Pierre Balmain
Singapore Airlines
Richard
$500 [27]
In 1960 this Irish-Mexican Oscar-winner originated the role of King Henry II in "Becket"
Anthony Quinn
Mary
DD $1,000 [19]
On May 23, 1775 he said, "Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace"
Patrick Henry
Jeff
$500 [26]
(audio clue)
"We Three Kings (Of Orient Are)"
Mary

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL LITERATURE DANCERS PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA FAMOUS PAIRS GENETICS POTPOURRI
$200 [6]
In the opening chapter of this Homerian epic, Athena urges Telemachus to look for his father, Odysseus
the Odyssey
Jeff Richard
$200 [11]
Some say her real name was Angela Duncan & some say it was Dora Angela Duncan
Isadora Duncan
Richard
$200 [13]
An amateur golf trophy, 1st awarded in 1958, is named for this president
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard
$200 [1]
The feline & the finch
the cat & the canary
Jeff Mary
$200 [25]
Biologists think this degenerative disease of memory loss may be caused by a gene on chromosome 21
Alzheimer's Disease
Jeff
$200 [17]
Bob Eckhardt won 1 of these contests in 1989 with "Whooeee! Whooo Pig, Whooo Pig, Whooo Pig! Whoeee Whoeee"
Hog-Calling Contest
Jeff
$400 [7]
In classical Greek & Roman poetry, this goddess was often described as rosy-fingered
Aurora, the goddess of dawn
Jeff
$400 [12]
This classiest of tap dancers was born in Omaha, the son of an Austrian beer salesman
Fred Astaire
Jeff
$400 [18]
Yes, he knew Ann Rutledge, but there's no evidence of a great love affair
Abraham Lincoln
Richard
$400 [2]
It completes: A good servant who comes whenever summoned is "at his master's..."
Beck And Call
Jeff
$400 [27]
Type of twins that have the same genetic makeup
identical twins
Mary
$400 [19]
In names of nuptial magazines, this word follows Southern, Southern Calif., & Modern
Bride
Richard
$600 [8]
His epic poem on the founding of Rome starred Aeneas & Dido as lovers
Virgil
Jeff
$600 [14]
Appropriately, Anna Pavlova kept these birds in a lake near her London home
Swans
Richard
$600 [22]
When his K.C. habadashery failed, he threw his hat into the political ring with help from Tom Pendergast
Harry Truman
Jeff
$600 [3]
With "and away" it means without a doubt; with "and wide", everywhere
Far
Jeff
$1,000 [28]
These human cells have no nucleus & do not contain genetic information
red blood cells
Mary
$600 [20]
In-Mut-Too-Yah-Lat-Lat was the Indian name of this Nez Perce chief who would "fight no more forever"
Chief Joseph
Richard
$800 [9]
Both Sophocles & Euripides wrote tragedies about this mythological figure noted for her loyalty to her father
Electra
Jeff
$800 [15]
She was a Rockette at Radio City Music Hall before she kicked up her heels in '54's "White Christmas"
Vera-Ellen
$800 [23]
He spent 5 of his 7 years in the Navy working in submarines under Hyman Rickover
Jimmy Carter
Richard
$800 [4]
Camille Saint-Saens composed an opera set in Gaza about this pair
Samson & Delilah
Mary Richard
DD $1,200 [29]
When an oncogene is "switched on", this disease results in humans
cancer
Mary
$800 [21]
James Paxton designed this London "palace" for the 1st World's Fair in 1851
the Crystal Palace
Jeff Richard
$1,000 [10]
Commander of Galilee in the Jewish revolt against Rome, he later wrote a history of the revolt
Josephus
Richard
$1,000 [16]
Vanity Fair called "Dancing On My Grave", this ballerina's memoirs, "Tutu Shocking"
Gelsey Kirkland
Richard
$1,000 [26]
The 2 presidents for whom Dolley Madison served as White House hostess or first lady
Jefferson & Madison
Jeff
DD $1,400 [5]
These 1955 & 1957 short stories by J.D. Salinger were published in one book in 1961
"Franny" & "Zooey"
Jeff
$1,000 [24]
The word that completes the title of the musical "A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the..."
Ukraine
Mary

Final Jeopardy!

AWARDS

More Congressional Medal of Honor winners have come from this war than any other

the Civil War

Mary "What is World War II?" — wagered $2,500
Richard "What is the Vietnam War?" — wagered $5,500
Jeff "What is the Civil War?" — wagered $3,300

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