Show #1227 1989-12-26 (taped 1989-09-11) Regular

Contestants

Barry Molitch — a retired stagehand from Incline Village, Nevada

Donna Grant — a model from Brooklyn, New York

Barbara Skolaut — a maintenance planner from Richmond, Virginia

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Barbara $0 $1,900 $7,300 $9,900
2nd place: Trip to Miami & Caribbean Cruise
$6,300
19 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Donna $900 $2,300 $4,900 $100
3rd place: Maple Leaf boullion investment coins
$4,900
16 R, 0 W
Barry $-600 $1,500 $7,700 $14,700
New champion: $14,700
$8,200
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

'89 ANNIVERSARIES FAMOUS QUOTES INVENTIONS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES ZOOLOGY "BABY" SONGS
$100 [11]
July 20, 1989 was the 20th anniversary of his "Giant Leap for Mankind" onto the moon
Neil Armstrong
Donna
$100 [17]
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford wrote in "Molly Bawn", "Beauty is in the eye of" this person
The Beholder
Donna
$100 [9]
The 1st electric version had only red & green lights & had to be worked by hand
Stop Light/Traffic Signal
Donna
$100 [21]
She called her book "Yvonne", not "Lily Munster"
Yvonne DeCarlo
Barbara
$100 [1]
Despite its name, it can have anywhere from 14 to 177 pairs of legs
a centipede
Donna
$100 [2]
Completes the line from "My Blue Heaven", "Just Molly and me..."
"And Baby makes three"
Barbara
$200 [12]
This "pony" car celebrated its 25th anniversary at the site of the 1964 World's Fair, where it was introduced
Ford Mustang
Donna
$200 [16]
Vice President Thos. R. Marshall was the man who said, "What this country needs is a good five cent one of these"
Cigar
Barbara
$200 [10]
Usually credited to Galileo, it originally contained water or alcohol, not mercury
Thermometer
Donna
$200 [22]
He's "the billionaire" in Terry Moore's book "The Beauty & The Billionaire"
Howard Hughes
Barbara
$200 [3]
This relative of the llama & the alpaca was hunted to near extinction for its wool
Vicuna
Barbara
$200 [5]
In a 1965 hit by Herman's Hermits, it's the line that follows "Every time I see you lookin' my way"
"Ooh, baby, baby can't you hear my heart beat"
Donna
$300 [13]
1989 marks the 150th anniversary of baseball & the 50th of its Hall of Fame in this village
Cooperstown, New York
Donna
$300 [18]
"Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth...such is the charge", he reported in "Apology"
Plato
Donna
$300 [23]
He marketed the 1st mass-produced camera
George Eastman
Barry
$300 [25]
Of Monique Van Vooren, Mamie Van Doren or Margo Adams, the one who wrote "Playing The Field"
Mamie Van Doren
$300 [4]
This behavior in gorillas can express exuberance or intimidate
Chest-beating
Donna
$300 [6]
Al Jolson urged doing this "with a Dixie melody"
"Rock-a-bye your baby"
Barbara Barry
$400 [14]
To open his Paris landmark in 1889, this engineer walked up its 1,671 steps & unfurled a French flag
Gustave Eiffel
Donna
$400 [19]
It was an R. Crumb cartoon character who used the slogan "Keep On" doing this
Truckin'
Barry
$400 [27]
A Swiss engineer got the idea for this from the burrs that stuck to his clothes
Velcro
Barbara
$400 [24]
Her book "On The Other Hand" opens with an open letter to King Kong
Fay Wray
Barry
$400 [28]
South American Indians use the jaws of these fish as scissors
Piranhas
Barbara
$400 [7]
It precedes, "I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely St. at Heartbreak Hotel"
"Since my baby left me"
Barry
$500 [15]
In April 1889 the Indian Territory was opened up & Sooners rushed into what is now this state
Oklahoma
Barry
$500 [20]
In "The Picture of Dorian Gray" this author claimed, "All art is quite useless"
Oscar Wilde
Barbara
$500 [30]
In 1908 this government department offered the Wright Brothers $25,000 for one of their airplanes
The War Department
$500 [26]
"The Three Musketeers" star who penned "Reed All About Me"
Oliver Reed
Barry
$500 [29]
This animal family includes the largest of the carnivores
Bear
Barbara
DD $500 [8]
A No. 12 hit in 1976, itreached No. 1 in 1988 as part of a melody:"Shadows grow so long before my eyes, and they're moving, across the stage, suddenly, the day turns into night..."
"Baby, I Love Your Way"
Barry

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES ACTORS & THEIR ROLES ITALIAN HISTORY ISLANDS POETRY SUPERSTITIONS
$200 [25]
At the 1989 inaugural parade, she ran over to Willard Scott & gave him a great big kiss
Barbara Bush
Barbara
$200 [1]
Fred Dryer spent 13 seasons as a defensive end before starring as this TV detective
Hunter
Barbara
$200 [21]
To complete the kingdom that is now modern Italy, Victor Emmanuel seized this city from Pope Pius IX in 1870
Rome
Barbara
$200 [2]
Unalaska is the largest in this island group that extends westward from Alaska for about 1,000 miles
Aleutians
Donna
$200 [7]
A 19th century rhyme says, "He who does not love wine, women & " this "remains a fool his whole life long"
Song
Barbara
$200 [14]
Breaking one is bad luck because not only is your image destroyed but possibly your soul too
Mirror
Barry
$400 [26]
She made a surprise appearance on Bob Hope's 85th birthday special & sang "Thanks For The Memory"
Nancy Reagan
Barbara
$400 [3]
Audrey Hepburn, not Leslie Caron, was the 1st to play this Colette heroine on Broadway
Gigi
Donna
$400 [22]
5 weeks after surrendering to the Allies in 1943, Italy declared war on this country
Germany
Barbara
$400 [8]
Wm. Wrigley Jr. bought this island near L.A. in 1919 & then built a 22-room summer cottage there
Santa Catalina Island
Barry
$400 [9]
Poem that includes the line, "Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung"
'"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Barry
$400 [15]
Good fortune goes to the person who gets the larger half of this object from a turkey's remains
Wishbone
Barbara
$600 [4]
Arnold Schwarzenegger played muscular Mickey Hargitay in the 1980 TV movie about this sex symbol
Jayne Mansfield
Donna
$600 [23]
Machiavelli was tortured on the rack for suspicion of trying to overthrow this Florentine family
The Medicis
Barbara Donna
$600 [11]
This island stopped being an island when a sandbar formed, linking it to Brooklyn
Coney Island
Barbara Barry
$600 [10]
Poe wrote that this maiden "lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me"
"Annabel Lee"
Barbara
$600 [17]
A dog doing this means someone's death is near
Howling
Barry
$800 [5]
Oscar-winners Dustin Hoffman & Geena Davis both played soap opera actresses in this film
"Tootsie"
Barry
$800 [24]
This ancient civilization once occupied present-day Tuscany, Umbria & Latium
Etruscans
Barry
$800 [12]
A large "bounty" to the residents of this island is the money they receive from the sale of stamps
Pitcairn Island
Barry
$800 [13]
Carl Sandburg wrote, "The fog comes on" these
little cat feet
Donna
$800 [18]
It defies the natural order of things to open it indoors, & it acts as a screen against good fortune
Umbrella
Barry
$1,000 [6]
Edward James Olmos gained 40 lbs. for the weighty role of a math teacher in this '88 release
"Stand And Deliver"
Barry
$1,000 [27]
As he crossed the Rubicon, Julius Caesar said, "Iacta alea est", which means this
"The die is cast"
Barry
DD $2,000 [16]
Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes, but volcanic Mt. Pelee is on this French West Indian island
Martinique
Barbara
DD $1,000 [20]
The man who wrote, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
Robert Frost
Barbara
$1,000 [19]
Soldiers who were smoking on the front at night may have been the source of this unlucky act
lighting three on a match
Barbara

Final Jeopardy!

TEXAS

The front of the state seal of Texas has 1 star & the back of the seal has 6 of these

Flags (Six flags over Texas)

Donna "What are roses?" — wagered $4,800
Barbara "What are flags?" — wagered $2,600
Barry "What are Flags?" — wagered $7,000

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