Show #824 1988-03-17 (taped 1987-11-18) Regular

Ron Trigueiro game 5.

Contestants

Cheryl Van Middlesworth — a housewife from Cerritos, California

Michael Folz — a writer from Anaheim, California

Ron Trigueiro — a student from Caruthers, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $49,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ron $600 $700 $3,300 $6,600
2nd place: refrigerator + TV/clock/radio combination + Jeopardy! home game
$6,900
18 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Michael $1,500 $2,700 $5,100 $10
3rd place: dishwasher + Jeopardy! home game
$5,100
15 R, 1 W
Cheryl $1,400 $4,400 $8,800 $6,800
New champion: $6,800 + Jeopardy! home game
$7,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. CITIES AUTOMOBILES LYRICS COSMETICS JESSICAS CATS & DOGS
$100 [6]
The headquarters for Big Brothers is in this city known for that type of love
Philadelphia
Ron
$100 [19]
Some claim the expression "That's a real doozy" came from this antique luxury car
a Dusenberg
Michael
$100 [11]
A 1937 song says "They all laughed at" this explorer "when he said the world was round"
Columbus
Michael
$100 [10]
The most famous product made by the Olay Company of Wilton, Connecticut
Oil of Olay
Michael
$100 [22]
Allegations about her were instrumental in arranging in Bakker's swan song from PTL
Jessica Hahn
Ron
$100 [5]
The longest fence in the world, said to be 6,000 miles long, was built to keep out these wild Australian dogs
dingoes
Ron
$200 [4]
This city north of Phoenix was founded in 1895 by a man named Winfield Scott
Scottsdale
Cheryl
$200 [20]
Despite the logo, this Ford model is named for a WWII fighter plane
the Mustang
Ron
$200 [12]
Do this to "your baby with a Dixie melody"
rock-a-bye
Michael
$200 [14]
This famous hair-darkening "formula" comes from White Plains, N.Y., not Athens
Grecian Formnula
Michael
$200 [23]
Her real life love, Sam Shepard, was her cinematic lover in "Crimes of the Heart"
Jessica Lange
Michael
$200 [26]
Color that completes the names of the "Kerry terrier" & the "Russian domestic cat"
blue
Cheryl
$300 [1]
Residents of this state capital refer to the older U.S. states as "the lower 48"
Juneau
Michael
$300 [21]
The Champion Company of Toledo, Ohio is the world's biggest maker of these
spark plugs
Ron
$300 [13]
Of stars, stripes or ramparts, the ones mentioned first in "The Star-Spangled Banner"
stripes
Ron Michael Cheryl
$300 [16]
The 2 biggest sellers in depilatories, they both have 4 letters & start with "N"
Nair & Neet
Cheryl
$300 [7]
Before her death in '83, she was voted "most appealing anchor" along with Dan Rather
Jessica Savitch
Ron
$300 [27]
While a male lion & female tiger produce a liger, a male tiger & female lion produce this
a tigon
$400 [2]
The name of this Indiana city is French for "high land"
Terre Haute
Michael
$400 [24]
Hot wind from Africa that blows over Italy, or a hot car from Volkswagen
the Scirocco
Cheryl
$400 [15]
"They call the wind Maria", & the fire is known by this man's name
Joe
Cheryl
$400 [17]
Porcelana & Esoterica are made specifically to do this
to remove spots from the skin
Cheryl
$400 [8]
Mrs. Hume Cronyn
Jessica Tandy
Ron
$400 [28]
This wild cat has the largest range of any native mammal in the new world
a puma
Michael
$500 [3]
Thought it's the oldest English settlement in New Jersey, it wasn't named for an old English queen
Elizabeth
Michael
$500 [25]
A "Popemobile" is built into the converted chassis of one of this company's vehicles
Mercedes-Benz
Ron Cheryl
$500 [29]
"Je te plumerai" is what vous should sing to this French bird
alouette
Cheryl
$500 [18]
You can paint your face green or purple with Bonnie Bell Zingers, sunscreens with this metallic oxide
zinc oxide
Michael
$500 [9]
The adventure seeking, mystery-writing, crime-solving lady on "Murder She Wrote"
Jessica Fletcher
Cheryl
DD $1,700 [30]
From Welsh for "dwarf dog", this herding dog was 1st raised in Cardigan, Wales
the corgi
Cheryl

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN INDIANS THE CABINET THE BRITISH ISLES "D" IN SCIENCE DICKENS KIND OF A DRAG
$200 [6]
Famed for a legendary jump, his name was yelled by WWII paratroopers as they jumped
Geronimo
Cheryl
$200 [4]
1 of 2 Secretaries of State named Dean
Dean Rusk (or Dean Acheson)
Ron
$200 [13]
Sorcerer who supposedly spun his spells in a cave in Cornwall near Tintagel Castle
Merlin
Ron
$200 [16]
The conversion of salt water into useable fresh water
distillation (or desalination or desalinization)
Cheryl
$200 [15]
At the end of the book, David Copperfield begins a career as one of these, like Dickens
a writer
Michael
$200 [23]
This singer reportedly went to the premiere of his "Captain Eo" film disguised as an old lady
Michael Jackson
Michael
$400 [7]
Of the 5 Great Lakes, the only one whose name isn't derived from an Indian word
Superior
Ron
$400 [5]
On March 24, 1987, this former Secretary of State said he'd seek the Republican nomination for president
Al Haig
Cheryl
$600 [1]
Lizard Point is the southernmost spot on this, the largest island in the United Kingdom
Great Britain
Ron
$400 [17]
Another name for a generator, especially a small one supplying direct current
a dynamo
$400 [28]
Like Joe Friday, all Mr. Grandgrind in "Hard Times" wanted were these
the facts
Ron
$400 [24]
Norse god who dressed up like the goddess Freya to seduce a giant into giving his his hammer back
Thor
Cheryl
$800 [9]
Their tribal name means "stone people" but you see it mostly on silverware
the Oneida
Cheryl
$600 [12]
In the 1920s Interior Secretary Albert Fall fell from grace in this scandal
the Teapot Dome scandal
Cheryl
$800 [2]
It's the smallest of the 4 countries that make up the United Kindgom
Northern Ireland
Ron
$600 [18]
The study of the distribution & composition of human population
demography
Cheryl
$600 [30]
1 of 2 Dickens novels filmed in the 1940s by director David Lean
Great Expectations (or Oliver Twist )
Cheryl
$600 [25]
He masqueraded as a WAC, seamed stockings & all, in 1949's "I Was a Male War Bride"
Cary Grant
Cheryl
$1,000 [10]
Andrew Jackson broke the power of this tribe at 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend in what is present-day Alabama
the Creeks
Ron
$800 [14]
The last Secretary of State to be president, this James served under another James--Polk
James Buchanan
Ron
$1,000 [3]
The ancient Scots were called "Picts" because of this physical feature
tattoes or painted designs
$800 [19]
Name for the temperature at which at which air becomes saturated with water vapor and condensation takes place
the dew point
Ron
$800 [29]
Last name of the family that includes Martin, his brother Anthony & his grandson Anthony
Chuzzlewit
Ron
$800 [26]
Robert Morse donned drag to escape gangsters in this 1972 musical based on a Billy Wilder film
Sugar
Ron
DD $1,300 [8]
Though named for a bird, this tribe's members were called "the handsome men" by the French
the Crowes
Ron
$1,000 [11]
In 1971 Winton Blount left the cabinet though he kept this job
Postmaster General
Michael
DD $2,300 [20]
Country on whose flag the national emblem shownhereappears:
Wales
Ron
$1,000 [22]
His theory stated that all things are composed of atoms & tried to explain chemical compositions
(John) Dalton
Michael
$1,000 [21]
John Jarndyce is the owner of this title country estate
Bleak House
Ron
$1,000 [27]
She falls in love with Duke of Illyria while disguised as a boy page in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"
Viola

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD HISTORY

1st U.S. President to visit the U.S.S.R.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Ron "Who was F.D.R.?" — wagered $3,300
Michael "Who is Nixon?" — wagered $5,090
Cheryl "Who is Hoover?" — wagered $2,000

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