Show #787 1988-01-26 (taped 1987-10-19) Regular

Final Jeopardy! logo flashes on the game board's monitors instead of the show's logo.

Contestants

Joan Kurland — a musician originally from River Edge, New Jersey

Steve Kravitz — a trust and estate attorney from West Palm Beach, Florida

Lennie Edwards — a teacher originally from Fort Dix, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lennie $900 $2,000 $9,400 $18,800
2nd place: a trip to Safety Harbor Spa & Fitness Center on Tampa Bay + either the Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$8,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Steve $1,900 $3,200 $10,400 $18,900
New champion: $18,900 + either the Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$6,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Joan $700 $800 $4,600 $9,100
3rd place: a White-Westinghouse full-stackable washer & dryer + either the Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$4,600
10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SWIMWEAR CRIME CELEBRITY SECRETS PENNSYLVANIA POETRY "BACK" IN SPORTS
$100 [9]
Called the world's most expensive, a swimsuit studded with 104 of these stones costs $1.5 million
diamonds
Lennie
$100 [1]
"Jostler" & "dip" are slang terms for this type of light-fingered thief
pickpocket
Joan
$100 [2]
Late star who lamented "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. I want to be Cary Grant."
Cary Grant
Steve
$100 [14]
Opened in 1940, it's America's oldest superhighway
the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Lennie
$100 [22]
According to Byron, "She walks in beauty like..." this
the night
Lennie
$100 [3]
In basketball, you'll always find it hanging around the basket
backboard
Steve
$200 [25]
Tho the movie was called "Bikini Beach" she didn't wear one; Walt Disney didn't want her to show her navel
Annette Funicello
Steve
$200 [7]
In 1904 St. Louis became the 1st U.S. municipal police dept. to use this "handy" crime-solving aid
fingerprint kit
Steve
$200 [6]
Bobby Darin found out that the woman he thought was his sister was really this relative
his mother
Lennie
$200 [15]
The American Federation of Labor was founded in this industrial city
Pittsburgh
Steve
$200 [23]
Shelley was talking about the bird, not the Buick, in his ode to this "Blithe Spirit"
the skylark
Steve
$200 [4]
Group a coach doesn't want "in motion" before the football is snapped
backfield
Steve
$300 [28]
The Middle East's #1 exporter of swimwear, this country produces about 2 million suits a year
Israel
Joan
$300 [8]
Possibly from old French "besillier", to ravage, it's to steal money entrusted to one's care
embezzle
Joan
$300 [19]
Her daughter revealed that Lena Horne went a few rounds romantically with this "Brown Bomber"
Joe Louis
Lennie
$300 [16]
The Pennsylvania Dutch aren't of Dutch descent but of this ethnic group
German
Lennie
DD $200 [26]
Ogden Nash's 2-line poem titled "Reflections on Ice-Breaking"
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker"
Steve
$300 [5]
It's a catch in baseball, a shot in hockey & a stroke in tennis
backhand
Joan
$400 [29]
Silent film actor who turned Dad's clothing business into a swimwear firm "of California"
Fred Cole
$400 [12]
Some states apply the "Wild Beast Test" to persons who try to use this defense
insanity
Steve
$400 [20]
This swashbuckler claimed in his "Wicked, Wicked" memoirs that he was once a slave trader
Errol Flynn
Steve
$400 [17]
Pennsylvania did this 2nd, just 5 days after Delaware did it 1st
ratify the Constitution
Lennie
$300 [24]
He wrote! "O Captain!" My Captain!"
Walt Whitman
Joan
$400 [10]
On an 18-hole golf course, it's holes 10-18
the back nine
Steve
$500 [30]
Regarding that '78 S.I. shot, to this day she swears she didn't know the suit became transparent when wet
Cheryl Tiegs
Steve
$500 [13]
In "Deliberate Stranger", a 1986 movie for TV, Mark Harmon played this mass murderer
Ted Bundy
Lennie
$500 [21]
During WWI, a U.S. soldier "discovered" this hairy star on a battlefield & kept him in an oil drum
Rin Tin Tin
Steve
$500 [18]
It's said the Union was framed at Philadelphia & preserved 87 years later at this Pennsylvania town
Gettysburg
Lennie Joan
$500 [27]
A subdivision of a long narrative poem, Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" is divided into them
cantos
Lennie Steve
$500 [11]
What Minnesota Fats put on a cue ball to stop it dead after hitting another ball
backspin
Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENTISTS OLD TESTAMENT MOVIE MUSICALS BRITISH HISTORY ECONOMICS SPELLING
$200 [20]
The 1st English edition of his book on relativity came with 5 diagrams & a portrait of the author
Albert Einstein
Lennie
$200 [26]
Garden of Eden bordered on this longest river of SW Asia, usually paired with the Tigris
the Euphrates
Lennie
$200 [22]
He directed "Finian's Rainbow", but he's better-known for "The Godfather"
Francis (Ford) Coppola
Steve
$200 [10]
Some believed this slasher who terrorized London in 1888 belonged to the royal family
Jack the Ripper
Steve
$200 [5]
The International Bank for Reconstruction & Development is better known as this
the World Bank
Steve
$200 [3]
It's flotsam's constant companion
J-E-T-S-A-M
Lennie
$400 [21]
Sir Joseph Swan invented what was to become rayon trying to develop a new type of this for a light bulb
filament
Joan
$800 [23]
1st hunter mentioned in scripture, his name has become a synonym for a skillful hunter
Nimrod
Steve
$400 [19]
The 2 ex-Beatles who played themselves in "Give My Regards to Broad Street"
Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr
Lennie
$400 [13]
Robert Clive made about $1,000,000 while bringing much of this country into the British Empire
India
Lennie
$400 [6]
The United States was without a central bank from 1836 until this was created in 1913
the Federal Reserve
Lennie
$400 [4]
The wild wildebeest's other name
G-N-U
Steve
$1,000 [24]
He built the gallows from which he later was hanged
Haman
$600 [1]
This innovative film ended with a complete ballet danced to Gershwin music by Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron
An American in Paris
Joan
$600 [14]
Since she was "The Virgin Queen", Elizabeth I had no children & was last monarch of this dynasty
Tudor
Steve
$600 [11]
They wrote the "History of all hither to existing society is the history of class struggles"
Marx and Engels
Steve
$800 [8]
The Italian name of this little green squash literally means "little squash"
Z-U-C-C-H-I-N-I
Joan
DD $5,000 [25]
The Biblical pair mentioned in the followingsong:
Adam & Eve
Steve
$800 [2]
Bob Hope called this Clint Eastwood's "most violent" film: "When Clint sings, that's violence"
Paint Your Wagon
Lennie
$800 [16]
In July 1945, British voters turned Winston Churchill out of office in favor of this man
Clement Attlee
Steve
$800 [12]
18th C. Scottish economist, or pen name, under which George Goodman wrote "The Money Game"
Adam Smith
Lennie
$1,000 [9]
Many religions believe God to be omnipresent, omnipotent & this, having total knowledge
O-M-N-I-S-C-I-E-N-T
Lennie
$1,000 [18]
She recreated her Broadway role in "Bells Are Ringing", her last film before her untimely death
Judy Holliday
Joan
$1,000 [17]
At age 89, this philosopher-mathematician was jailed for his part in a 1961 anti-nuclear demonstration
Bertrand Russell
Joan
$1,000 [15]
According to his "curve", lower taxes may eventually result in higher government revenue
Arthur Laffer
Lennie
DD $2,000 [7]
Of all the countries, this war-torn central Asian country is 1st alphabetically
A-F-G-H-A-N-I-S-T-A-N
Lennie

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY POLITICIANS

He was an undersecretary of Health, Education & Welfare, a governor & vice president

Nelson Rockefeller

Joan "Who is Rockefeller" — wagered $4,500
Lennie "Who was Rockefeller?" — wagered $9,400
Steve "Who was Nelson Rockefeller?" — wagered $8,500

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