Show #791 1988-02-01 (taped 1987-10-20) Regular

Barbara-Anne Eddy game 1.Final Jeopardy! logo flashes on the game board's monitors instead of the show's logo.

Contestants

Jim Costello — a high school English teacher from Long Beach, California

Barbara-Anne Eddy — a freelance researcher from Vancouver, Canada

Judy Flannery — a homemaker from Eugene, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Judy $300 $600 $2,600 $0
3rd place: a Vita-Vac vaccum cleaner
$3,600
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Barbara-Anne $1,300 $3,100 $5,600 $11,200
New champion: $11,200
$7,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Jim $1,200 $2,000 $5,800 $300
2nd place: a Roper range + Regal cookware
$5,800
18 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PARIS PETES & PETERS PUNS POTENT POTABLES POETRY POTPOURRI
$100 [3]
Terms used to refer to the sides of the Seine
Left and Right Banks
Barbara-Anne
$100 [1]
On September 11, 1985, he hustled his way past Ty Cobb's record for Major League hits
Pete Rose
Barbara-Anne
$100 [2]
"Devil May Hare", "Roman Legion Hare", & "No Parking Hare", were all cartoons starring him
Bugs Bunny
Judy
$100 [10]
Meister Brau, Lowenbrau, Michelob
beers
Jim
$100 [14]
In the rhyme on days of birth, this day's child "is full of woe"
Wednesday
Barbara-Anne
$100 [18]
You might receive one in semi-block form, including a salutation & complimentary close
business letter
Jim
$300 [5]
Once the world's tallest structure, it's still used for navigation, meteorology & broadcasting
the Eiffel Tower
Barbara-Anne
$200 [8]
New-age artist of the '60s, his psychedelic designs appeared on poster, decals & ties
Peter Max
Jim
$200 [24]
World Book says carvings made out of bars of this can look like old ivory
soap
Jim
$200 [11]
Carlo Rossi, Paul Masson, Robert Mondavi
wines/winemakers
Judy
$200 [15]
In the song by Robert Burns, it's how "grow the rashes"; maybe he meant "rushes"
green
Barbara-Anne
$200 [19]
Number of 1 1/2-volt cells in a 9-volt battery
6
Barbara-Anne
$400 [6]
Charles de Gaulle Airport was opened in 1974 to relieve traffic at this airport south of Paris
Orly
Jim
$300 [9]
He installed his spouse in the husk of a Cucurbita pepo fruit
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
Barbara-Anne
$300 [25]
After the city of Bastrop, LA. stopped buying this for office restrooms, donations came "rolling in"
toilet tissue
Barbara-Anne
$300 [16]
According to the poem by John McCrae, these flowers blow "in Flanders Fields"
the poppies
Jim
$300 [21]
Our word "bandit" is from "bandito" in this language
Italian
Judy Jim
DD $500 [4]
Translation of the following, one of the top TV shows in Paris:
Wheel of Fortune
Barbara-Anne
$400 [12]
Chicago was his kind of group until he decided to go solo for the "Glory of Love"
Peter Cetera
Barbara-Anne
$400 [26]
USA Today said Dodger pitcher Alejandro Pena was scratched from the lineup due to this kids' disease
chickenpox
Barbara-Anne Jim
$400 [17]
One-word title of the Kipling poem about the infantry columns' footwear
"Boots"
Barbara-Anne
$400 [22]
Common cooking substance that contains starch, sodium bicarbonate, & an acidic compound
baking powder
Barbara-Anne Jim
$500 [7]
Landmark which stands in the center of the Place Charles de Gaulle
Arc de Triomphe
Jim
$500 [13]
Perhaps this ex-husband of Joan Collins could get the "Dynasty" writers to have Alexis pay him alimony
Peter Holm
Jim
$500 [27]
After Ssgt. Duane Finch played bugle at 10,354 funerals, the L.A. Times said he was in this condition
"'Tap'ped out"
$500 [20]
Published in 1850, it's a collection of 14-line poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Barbara-Anne
$500 [23]
Robert Tisch, who holds this government post, was made an honorary member of the Lettermen
postmaster general
Barbara-Anne

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTS PROVERBS PREHISTORIC TIMES PBS PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS PHYSICS
$400 [2]
In 1913 he became the 1st President since John Quincy Adams to address Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Judy
$200 [22]
Proverb on absence that concludes "...out of mind"
"Out of sight..."
Jim
$200 [6]
Of land, sea, or air, the natural habitat of a trilobite
sea
Barbara-Anne Jim
$200 [8]
Word which in PBS series' titles precedes "from Lincoln Center" & "from the Met"
"Live"
Jim
$200 [14]
This 1976 winner is still playing on Broadway after over 5,000 performances
"A Chorus Line"
Jim
$200 [18]
The 1st to win this was W. Roentgen, in 1901, for the discovery of Roentgen or X rays
the Nobel Prize
Judy
$600 [3]
He preceded Benjamin Harrison in the White House, & what do you know, followed him too
Grover Cleveland
Judy Jim
$400 [23]
Stockholders might "know a man by" this that "he keeps"
"the company"
Judy
$400 [7]
It seems this animal was top prey for Neanderthals in Germany 55,000 years ago; don't tell Santa
reindeer
Judy
$600 [11]
Since CBS dropped him, his treasure house now has a home on PBS
"Captain Kangaroo"
Barbara-Anne
$400 [15]
He won prizes for "Seascape" & "A Delicate Balance", but not for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Edward Albee
Barbara-Anne
$400 [27]
In the U.K., it's alternating, about 240 volts at a frequency of 50 hertz
(electric) current
Barbara-Anne
$800 [4]
The 34th & 36th Presidents, they were the only 2 born in Texas
(Dwight) Eisenhower & Lyndon (Baines) Johnson
Jim
$600 [24]
"A shut mouth" catches none of these & neither will "vinegar"
"flies"
Barbara-Anne
$600 [9]
In the late 1940s, Willard Libby developed this process for determining the age of a fossil
carbon-dating
Barbara-Anne
$800 [12]
In 1987, this PBS journalist went "In Search of the U.S. Constitution"
Bill Moyers
Judy
$600 [16]
The play based on her diary won the Pulitzer in 1956
Anne Frank
Judy
$600 [28]
The atomic particle called the Neutrino travels at this speed & is little affected by matter
the speed of light
Barbara-Anne
DD $1,000 [1]
He was the last vice president to become president
Gerald Ford
Judy
$800 [25]
Concerning hereditary influences, a proverb states "The apple never..." does this
"...falls far from the tree"
Jim
$800 [19]
During WWII, the bones of this, China's best-known human fossil, disappeared
the Peking Man
Judy
$1,000 [13]
Call letters of the PBS flagship station in Boston
WGBH
Barbara-Anne
$800 [17]
The original cast of this prizewinner included Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter & Marlon Brando
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
Jim
$1,000 [5]
At least one song from this candidate's 1908 & 1912 campaigns referred to him as "Big Bill"
William Howard Taft
Jim
$1,000 [26]
One variation puts it "A sword less hurt does than..." one of these
"a pen"
Barbara-Anne
$1,000 [20]
According to experts, it's the species that developed into Homo-Sapiens
Homo erectus
Barbara-Anne Jim
DD $2,500 [10]
During June 1987, KCET in L.A. was running this show at 8 A.M., 9 A.M., 10 A.M., & 4 P.M.
Sesame Street
Barbara-Anne
$1,000 [21]
This 1962 winner featured the songs "A Secretary is Not a Toy", "The Company Way" & "Coffee Break"
"How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying"
Barbara-Anne

Final Jeopardy!

POP MUSIC

Solo or in a duet or group, this artist has had more Billboard #1 hits than any other, 29 in all

Paul McCartney

Judy "Who is Phil Collins?" — wagered $2,600
Barbara-Anne "Who is Paul McCartney?" — wagered $5,600
Jim "Who is Willie Nelson?" — wagered $5,500

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