Show #795 1988-02-05 (taped 1987-10-20) Regular

Barbara-Anne Eddy game 5.Final Jeopardy! logo flashes on the game board's monitors instead of the show's logo.

Contestants

Mike Lerner — a tax accountant from Beverly Hills, California

Cynthia Green — a journalist from Tarrytown, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,000)

Barbara-Anne Eddy — a freelance researcher from Vancouver, Canada (whose 4-day cash winnings total $39,400)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Barbara-Anne	$1,600	$3,900	$11,300	$12,600 5-day champion: $52,000	$10,500 24 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Cynthia	$1,700	$3,300	$2,300	$2,300 2nd place: Trip to Pinehurst, North Carolina	$2,900 19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Mike	$-500	$400	$3,800	$0 3rd place: Lloyd Flanders Heirloom series furniture	$3,800 9 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

3-LETTER FOODS	4-LETTER WORDS	5-LETTER TV SHOWS	6-LETTER PRESIDENTS	7-LETTER CITIES	8-LETTER SCIENCE
$100 [3] The man Simple Simon met could have sold him one of these pie Cynthia	$100 [17] To gloss over reading material, or to remove fat from milk skim Barbara-Anne	$100 [2] Valerie Harper Rhoda Cynthia	$100 [14] After being wounded in Revolutionary War battle of Trenton, he probably needed some doctrine James Monroe Barbara-Anne	$100 [1] The stevedores here, in West Germany's busiest port, must be really beefy Hamburg Cynthia	$100 [18] While a variable is a quantity that changes, this is the term for a quantity that stays the same constant Barbara-Anne
$200 [4] A litchi is commonly referred to as one nut Cynthia	$200 [23] From the Latin "par" meaning equal, it's your equal on a jury peer Barbara-Anne	$200 [8] Bea Arthur Maude Barbara-Anne	$200 [16] The Iranians held the U.S. embassy hostages until he left office Jimmy Carter Mike	$200 [9] This city didn't rise from its ashes like its namesake, but from the Salt River Valley Phoenix Barbara-Anne	$300 [20] While the smallest unit of an element is an atom, the smallest unit of a compound is this molecule Mike
$300 [5] When used alone, this grain produces a black bread like pumpernickel rye Cynthia	$300 [24] Kipling said you'll be a man "if you can keep" this "when all about you are losing theirs" head Barbara-Anne Cynthia	$300 [13] Shirley Booth Hazel Cynthia	$300 [29] Like Coolidge before him, he was sworn in by former president Taft Herbert Hoover Cynthia	$300 [10] The name of this Scottish city, 3rd largest in Great Britain, is said to be from the Celtic for "dear green spot" Glasgow Barbara-Anne	$400 [21] Its mechanical heart is not a Jarvik-7, but a CPU, or central processing unit computer Mike
$400 [6] The coco yam, a west African variety of taro, can also be used to make this Pacific island dish poi Cynthia	$400 [25] 1 of 2 past tense forms of "go" that fit the category gone or went Cynthia	$400 [15] Linda Lavin Alice Cynthia	$400 [28] His administration created the National Security Council, which was in the news a lot in 1987 Harry Truman	$400 [11] This city in Nova Scotia is the Atlantic terminus of Canada's 2 major railways Halifax Barbara-Anne	$500 [22] The unit of measure for this force is the bar or millibar pressure
$500 [7] Legend says Columbus brought this vegetable to the New World in 1493 pea Cynthia Mike	$500 [30] German for "stop", it'll also stop a troop of American soldiers halt Barbara-Anne	$500 [26] Donna Pescow Angie Cynthia	$500 [27] Among the White House renovations he made was cleaning out Garfield's cabinet Chester Arthur	$500 [12] As Iran & Iraq have 4 letters, these cities, their capitals, both have 7, as usually spelled in English Teheran & Baghdad Barbara-Anne	DD $1,000 [19] In science the meaning of the followingion symbols:+ − positive & negative Barbara-Anne

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE AMAZON	OPERA	WEIGHTS & MEASURES	ROMAN EMPIRE	SENIOR CITIZENS	BY THE NUMBERS
$200 [19] It's said the Amazon basin provides the Earth with about 1/5 of this element that makes up 1/5 of the air oxygen Cynthia	$200 [7] In Bellini's "I Capuleti e I Montecchi", this famous pair is sung by a soprano & a mezzo-soprano Romeo & Juliet Barbara-Anne	$200 [13] It's what's counted by the ream paper Cynthia	$200 [12] "Official" language of the Roman Empire Latin Cynthia	$200 [4] Published when he was 72, his last book was on earthworms, not natural selection Charles Darwin Cynthia	$200 [1] A popular saying with soldiers in WWI was "50 million" of these "can't be wrong" Frenchmen Mike
$400 [20] Also called the cream nut, or butternut, it's the seed of an evergreen found mainly in the Amazon basin Brazil nut Barbara-Anne	$400 [8] Leoncavallo wasn't clowning around when he wrote this, his 1st produced opera & only hit I Pagliacci Barbara-Anne	$400 [15] It's measured with a fathometer ocean depth/depth of water Mike	$400 [14] The Roman emperor Constantine I left Rome & made this city the capital Constantinople Cynthia	$400 [22] Reportedly the oldest working playwright ever, this author of "Saint Joan" wrote his last play at age 93 George Bernard Shaw Cynthia	$400 [2] In geography, number of minutes in 1 degree 60 Mike
$600 [21] This part of the Amazon is so large that Marajo, an island almost the size of Denmark, lies within it the mouth/delta	$600 [9] Long before the play "Amadeus", this hyphenated Russian wrote the opera "Mozart & Salieri" Rimsky-Korsakov Barbara-Anne	$600 [16] U.S. standard unit equal to .083 foot inch Mike	$600 [26] Term for the order maintained by the Roman Empire in its part of the world from 27 B.C. to 180 A.D. Pax Romana Barbara-Anne	$600 [23] Physician & writer of the 3rd Gospel, he lived to be 84 Luke Barbara-Anne	$600 [3] If a waitress complains her customers just did a 95, it means they did this they left without paying Barbara-Anne
$800 [29] Large scale use of the Amazon's vast rubber crop was made possible by this process, invented in 1839 vulcanization Cynthia	$800 [10] Mimi was a seamstress in this Puccini opera La boheme Barbara-Anne	$800 [17] Of a gross ton, a net ton, or a short ton, the one not equal to either of the others gross ton	$800 [27] 5th man to reign as emperor & last to bear family name "Caesar" Nero Barbara-Anne Cynthia	$800 [24] Execs who feared offending this 78-year-old publisher offered RKO $800,000 to scrap "Citizen Kane" William Randolph Hearst Mike	DD $600 [5] Famous phrase describing the number of years between 1776 & 1863 "Four score and seven...." Cynthia
—	DD $1,000 [11] 5 of the 9 were Waltraute, Helmwige, Schwertleite, Grimgerde & Brunnhilde The Valkyries Barbara-Anne	$1,000 [18] As defined, a periodical is published at regular intervals greater than this period of time (greater than) daily Mike	$1,000 [28] Julius Caesar was killed not in the Senate chamber but in a theater built by this rival of his Pompey Barbara-Anne Cynthia	$1,000 [25] Advisor to Lincoln, this ex-slave became U.S. minister to Haiti at age 72 Frederick Douglass Barbara-Anne	$1,000 [6] The U.N. picked Matej Gaspar, born July 11, 1987, to symbolize this numerical achievement of our species the 5 billionth person born Barbara-Anne Cynthia

Final Jeopardy!

BEST SELLERS

Pen name of veterinarian James Alfred Wight

James Herriot

Cynthia "Who is Herriot?" — wagered $0

Mike "Who is Dr. Doolittle?" — wagered $3,800

Barbara-Anne "What is JAMES HERRIOT?" — wagered $1,300

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