Show #1165 1989-09-29 (taped 1989-06-19) Regular

Contestants

Dale Ragus — a real estate broker from New York City, New York

Dan Boehme — a real estate marketing agent originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

Norm Burger — a manufacturing operations specialist originally from Watertown, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $13,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Norm $1,100 $1,700 $4,200 $1,200
3rd place: Gibson portable dishwasher
$4,500
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Dan $1,700 $2,300 $6,400 $8,500
2nd place: Berkline Super Motion Wall-Away sofa + Sunset Southwestern smoke-finished table lamp
$5,600
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Dale $1,300 $3,500 $9,700 $12,801
New champion: $12,801
$9,700
23 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

STARTS WITH "P" IN THE NEWS FICTION LAW ANATOMY NAME THAT MUSICAL
$100 [6]
Married name of Emily Price who wrote her etiquette when divorce left her broke
Emily Post
Norm
$100 [23]
Brenden Sullivan, Jr. was the chief defense lawyer for this Iran-Contra figure
Oliver North
Dan
$100 [21]
Lenny panics and accidentally kills Curley's wife while stroking her hair in this novel
Of Mice and Men
$100 [11]
In the cabinet the Dept. of Justice isn't headed by a secretary but by somebody holding this title
the attorney general
Dale
$100 [1]
When a physician takes a mallet & whacks you on the knee, he's usually testing this
your reflex
Norm
$100 [16]
A middle-aged baseball fan sells his soul to the devil to become a young star player
Damn Yankees
Dale
$200 [7]
Part of the constitution that begins "We the people of the United States"
the Preamble
Dan
$200 [24]
Sergei Priakin, the 1st Soviet to play for an NHL team, was hired by this Alberta team in 1989
Calgary (Flames)
Dan Dale
$200 [22]
George Amberson Minifer is the leading character in this novel, the middle volume of a trilogy
The Magnificent Ambersons
Dan
$200 [12]
If you die intestate you didn't leave one of these behind
a will
Norm
$200 [2]
This arm muscle with a long head & a short head flexes the forearm
the bicep
Norm
$200 [17]
A gambler wins a bet by taking a Salvation Army girl to Havana
Guys and Dolls
Norm
$300 [8]
A French copper coin called a picaillon is the root of this word that means "mean" or "petty"
picayune
Dan
$300 [25]
The British film "Scandal" tells the story of her affair with John Profumo
Christine Keeler
Norm
$300 [29]
By the end of this novel, Mr. Bumble is a pauper in the same workhouse where he once reigned supreme
Oliver Twist
Dale
$300 [13]
A famous part of this U.S. code is its Chapter 11
the bankruptcy code
Dale
$300 [3]
In your ear you have a tympanic bone, a tympanic cavity & a tympanic one of these
a membrane
Dan
$300 [18]
Big business satire in which a window cleaner bluffs his way to Chairman of the Board
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Dale
$400 [9]
This first century Roman Proconsul of Judea presided over the trial of Jesus
Pontius Pilate
Dan
$400 [26]
Junk bond king who was earning about $550 million a year at Drexel Burnham Lambert before being indicted
Michael Milken
Norm Dan Dale
$400 [28]
He was mortally wounded while slaying a dragon, decades after he beheaded Grendel
Beowulf
Dale
$400 [14]
Term for a minor who is legally in the care of a guardian
a ward
Dale
DD $500 [4]
Procedure in which a needle is inserted into the backbone to draw off some of the fluid inside
a spinal tap
Dan
$400 [19]
A Roman slave tries to buy his freedom by finding a courtesan for his master
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Dale
$500 [10]
Lavender, blue, yellow, white & red sandstone, marls & shale color this area of Northern Arizona
the Painted Desert
Norm
$500 [30]
When this tanker ran aground in 1989, it caused the biggest oil spill in U.S. history
the Exxon Valdez
Dan
$500 [27]
Southern author whose 3rd novel "Sartoris", was originally titled "Flags in the Dust"
(William) Faulkner
Dale
$500 [15]
Type of jury that conducts an inquest into the cause of death
a coroner's jury
Dan Dale
$500 [5]
Dislocate your hip & this bone is out of its joint
the femur
Dan
$500 [20]
An elderly Irishman steals a leprechaun's crock of gold & plants it in America
Finian's Rainbow
Norm

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES COMPOSERS WORD ORIGINS MOTHER GOOSE CANADA AWARD-WINNERS
$200 [17]
This 2nd cousin of John Adams signed the Declaration of Independence & led resistance to the Tea Act
Samuel Adams
Dale
$200 [1]
This Vienna-born composer was best known for his collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner
Frederick Loewe
Dale
$200 [12]
This word is probably a blend of "ruction" & "rumpus"; an ornery person might raise one
ruckus
Norm
$200 [2]
"He stole those tarts" from the Queen of Hearts & "took them clean away"
Knave of Hearts
Dan
$200 [25]
The Meech Lake Accord of 1987 recognized this French-speaking province as a distinct society
Quebec
Dale
$200 [7]
The 1st woman to receive the Lowell Thomas Electronic Journalism Award was this "20/20" co-host
Barbara Walters
Dale
$400 [18]
In 1989 a group of investors that included this president's son bought the Texas Rangers baseball team
George Bush
Dan
$400 [21]
A. Khachaturian wrote his "2nd Symphony" for the 25th anniversary of this country's 1917 revolution
Russia
Dan
$400 [13]
Ballroom dance whose name comes from a Spanish word for "revelry", not from a type of liquor
rumba
$400 [3]
"Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs & downstairs in" this garment
his nightgown
Dale
$400 [26]
The last battle of the French & Indian War was fought at Signal Hill near St. John's in this province
Newfoundland
Dale
$400 [8]
Well...God bless America; Reagan awarded this singer the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982
Kate Smith
Norm
$600 [19]
A 1986 book by this presidential grandson chronicled his grandfather's WWII years
David Eisenhower
Dale
$600 [22]
A trip to this country inspired Mendelssohn to write the "Hebrides Overture"
Scotland
Norm
$600 [14]
This name for a slender, lofty tower comes from the Arabic word for "lighthouse"
minaret
Dan
$600 [4]
It follows "There was an old woman lived under a hill; and if she's not gone..."
she's there still
Dale
$600 [27]
The town of Antigonish in this province holds annual Highland Games
Nova Scotia
Dale
DD $500 [10]
She won the 1973 Grammy for "Record of the Year" with the followingsong:
Roberta Flack
Norm
$800 [20]
This British actor was JFK's brother-in-law
Peter Lawford
Norm
$800 [23]
This Polish composer's health began to deteriorate rapidly after he broke up with George Sand
Frederic Chopin
Dale
$1,000 [16]
A fragrant unguent for the hair, so named because apples were once an ingredient
pomade
Dan
$800 [5]
This day's child "is loving and giving"
Friday's child
$800 [28]
In a famous ballad, Robert Service told the tale of the shooting of this "Dangerous" Yukon desperado
"Dangerous" Dan McGrew
$600 [9]
She became the 1st woman to win an Emmy for hosting a game show, for her "Just Men" series in 1983
Betty White
$1,000 [24]
Nancy Hanks was his mother's maiden name
Lincoln
Dale
$1,000 [30]
"Merry Widow" composer whose career was encouraged by Antonin Dvorak
Franz Lehar
Norm Dale
DD $1,500 [15]
The Latin word for body gave us this adjective referring to a large, bulky one
corpulent
Dan
$1,000 [6]
"Ding, dong, bell, Pussy's in the well. Who put her in? Little Johnny Green. Who pulled her out?" He did.
Little Tommy Stout
$1,000 [29]
This national park in Alberta bears the 1st name of fur trader Hawes
Jasper National Park
$1,000 [11]
She won a 1986 Tony for her performance in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
Lily Tomlin
Norm

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CAPITALS

It's the only world capital on the Tigris River

Baghdad, Iraq

Norm "What is Istanbul?" — wagered $3,000
Dan "What is Baghdad?" — wagered $2,100
Dale "What is Baghdad?" — wagered $3,101

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