Show #725 1987-10-30 (taped 1987-08-24) Regular

Contestants

Rich Kenney — a manufacturer's representative from North Branford, Connecticut

Alan Smith — a capitol administrator from Anchorage, Alaska

Mark Holmes — a lawyer from Hamburg, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $1,200 $3,500 $10,300 $15,200
2nd place: Lehigh All-Wood bedroom furniture + a Helix 4-in-1 TV/clock/radio combination
$10,300
25 R, 2 W
Alan $0 $100 $2,700 $3,100
3rd place: an Action Spoiler rocker/recliner by Lane
$2,700
6 R, 2 W
Rich $1,200 $3,800 $11,400 $20,601
New champion: $20,601
$9,000
20 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PHILADELPHIA MEDIUM & MESSAGE INSECTS ANAGRAMS MUSICAL "BELL"S FAMOUS CANADIANS
$100 [6]
Most autumns, Philadelphia hosts this annual football classic between service academies
the Army-Navy Game
Rich
$100 [18]
It's the code a Navy signalman uses to convey a message, letter by letter, via blinker light
Morse code
Mark
$100 [23]
Troupes of these, pulling tiny wagons & doing other tricks, are featured in tiny "circuses"
fleas
Mark
$100 [22]
How you might address a sleeping Mexican man if you're tired of listening to him snore
senor (for snore)
Mark
$100 [15]
When they ring, "It's Christmas time in the city"
"Silver Bells"
Alan
$300 [17]
In 1961, he was the singing M.C. of the Miss Canada pageant, but you won't hear him sing on "World News Tonight"
Peter Jennings
Rich
$200 [7]
4 bridges link Philadelphia with this neighboring state
New Jersey
Rich
$200 [11]
Name of the telegraphic instrument that reported stock market quotations on a paper tape
ticker tape
Mark
$200 [24]
While most butterflies fly during the day, these, their closest relatives, tend to fly at night
moths
Rich
$200 [21]
Usually, attending one of these somber affairs is not "real fun" at all
funeral (for "real fun")
Mark
$200 [25]
Johnny B. Goode "could play a guitar just like" this
ringing a bell
Rich
$400 [19]
Late actor whose brother, Vincent Massey, was Canada's governor-general
Raymond Massey
Mark
$300 [8]
Philadelphia, like Paris, has an entire museum devoted to the works of this sculptor, I think
Rodin
Rich
$300 [12]
The reason "magic slates" were used as communication devices in our Moscow embassy in April 1987
the fact that the U.S. embassy was filled with Russian bugs
Mark
$300 [4]
Of all bees that can do this, only the honeybee can't do it twice
sting
Mark
$300 [1]
Pressing 100 pounds would be a mere this for a 300-pound weight lifter
trifle (for lifter)
Rich
$300 [26]
1 of 2 Fifth Dimension "bell" songs that made the Top 10
"One Less Bell to Answer" or "Wedding Bell Blues"
$500 [20]
Born Edna Mae Durbin in Winnipeg, she was in "100 Men & a Girl"--as the girl
Deanna Durbin
$400 [9]
A bronze statue of this founder of the city stands atop Philadelphia's city hall
William Penn
Mark
$400 [13]
The "fax" in a telephone fax machine is short for this word
facsimile
Mark
$400 [5]
3 syllable name of this grasshopper comes from love call of some of the males when they're mating
katydid
Mark Rich
$400 [2]
The motto for this company might be "no wire unsent"
Western Union (for "no wire unsent")
Mark
DD $1,400 [27]
Title of the following, which was used as a theme in a memorable 1973 horror film:
"Tubular Bells"
Rich
$500 [10]
1 of the 2 rivers that meet at Philadelphia
Delaware (or Schuylkill)
Rich
$500 [14]
She delivered her acceptance speech at the 1987 Oscars in sign language
Marlee Matlin
Rich
$500 [16]
Lice, flies & locusts were the 3rd, 4th & 8th of these, respectively
the plagues of Egypt
Mark
$500 [3]
It's how a deli delivery boy with nothing to do might be described
idle (for deli)
Mark

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES FROM THE LATIN MEDICINE BIBLICAL PARTIES TOUGH TV TRIVIA
$200 [4]
In January 1962, this organization voted to exclude Cuba
OAS (Organization of American States)
Mark
$200 [25]
Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard & University of Pennsylvania
the Ivy League
Rich
$200 [7]
The Latin "praefatio", a foretelling, gave us this word for a book's forepiece
preface
Rich
$200 [15]
On a hospital P.A. system, "stat" means this
in a hurry
Alan Rich
$200 [1]
Genesis tells us Abraham made a great feast the day this child was weaned
Isaac
Mark Alan
DD $700 [27]
1 of 3 individuals to win an Emmy for Acting in the '77 landmark miniseries "Roots"
(1 of) (Lou) Gossett, Ed Asner or Olivia Cole
Rich
$400 [8]
Napoleon's "Continental System" tried to stop continental Europe from trading with this country
Great Britain
Alan
$400 [12]
Because of its Mormon affiliation, this Provo, Utah U. doesn't serve tea or coffee on campus
Brigham Young University
Mark
$400 [9]
In Latin it originally meant "to drive off the stage by clapping"; now it's what a bomb does
explode
Mark
$400 [16]
In May 1986, Dr. Robert Gale of UCLA traveled to this country to perform bone marrow transplants
the Soviet Union
Alan
$400 [2]
King Solomon sacrificed 120,000 sheep & 22,000 oxen for a gigantic 14-day feast at the dedication of this
the Temple at Jerusalem
Mark
$800 [26]
Laverne & Shirley's last names on the show
De Fazio & Feeney
Rich
$600 [22]
Until 19th C., this Asian country's foreign ministry was called the Hall for Governance of Barbarians
China
Alan
$600 [19]
1st Greek letter fraternity in U.S., since early 18th C., its membership has been "keyed" to scholarship
Phi Beta Kappa
Rich
$600 [10]
From the Latin "to live or keep company with"; it's an oral exchange
conversation
Mark
$600 [14]
Cerebral palsy is caused by trauma to this system
the nervous system
Alan
$600 [3]
When Herodias' daughter danced at Herod's birthday party, he lost his head
John the Baptist
Rich
$800 [23]
While the Mongol Empire was centered in Mongolia, the Mogul Empire was centered here
India
Mark
$1,000 [21]
After Luther posted 95 theses on a church in this town, it became a center for study of theology
Wittenburg
Mark
$800 [11]
In Latin, it's the thigh, but in English, it's the thighbone
femur
Mark Rich
$800 [17]
This specialty, not surgery, has seen a recent rise in malpractice ins. premiums
obstetrics
Mark
$800 [5]
At the banquet she threw, Haman fell on her bed & the king thought Haman was about to ravish her
Esther
Mark
$1,000 [24]
This Frenchman failed to build a canal across Panama after succeeding at Suez
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Mark
DD $2,500 [20]
Guinness credits U. of Karueein, found in 859 A.D. at Fez, Morocco, with this world record
the first university founded in the world that is in continuous operation
Rich
$1,000 [13]
Synonym for "trip", it's root is the Latin "diurnus", meaning "of one day"
journey
Mark
$1,000 [18]
Edema is more simply described as this
swelling
Rich
$1,000 [6]
Babylonian king Belshazzar's party came to an abrupt halt & his knees started shaking when he saw this
the handwriting on the wall
Alan

Final Jeopardy!

THEATER

After finding a new way to make this sound in 1709, John Dennis accused another play of stealing it

thunder

Alan "What is Thunder" — wagered $400
Mark "What is thunder?" — wagered $4,900
Rich "What is Thunder?" — wagered $9,201

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