Show #1172 1989-10-10 (taped 1989-06-21) Regular

Contestants

Greg Rombach — a salesman from Glendale, California

Helen Atlas — a speech pathologist from Orangeburg, New York

Kerry Tymchuk — an attorney originally from Reedsport, Oregon (whose 4-day cash winnings total $30,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kerry $1,300 $2,800 $3,200 $0
3rd place: a Design Institute America recliner + either the Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! scorekeeper
$3,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Helen $700 $2,100 $3,600 $2,600
2nd place: a trip to Tampa, Florida via Continental Airlines + either the Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! scorekeeper
$4,700
15 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Greg $900 $1,800 $5,000 $2,700
New champion: $2,700 + either the Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! scorekeeper
$5,600
15 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL SLOGANS COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES '50s SONGS SEWING FICTIONAL DETECTIVES "C" HERE
$100 [1]
"The New Deal"
Franklin (Delano) Roosevelt
Kerry
$100 [6]
These 2 colors of Georgetown University signify union of the North & South after the Civil War
gray (grey) & blue
Greg
$100 [18]
It's the phrase following "See you later, alligator"
After while, crocodile
Kerry
$100 [22]
Used more on clothing now, its 1893 patent described it as "a clasp locker or unlocker for shoes"
a zipper
Kerry
$100 [7]
Keye Luke & Sen Yung played this detective's No. 1 & No. 2 sons in several films of the '30s
Charlie Chan
Helen
$100 [14]
You could have one "of arms", "of mail" or "of paint"
a coat
Greg
$200 [2]
"The Great Society"
Lyndon B. Johnson
Helen
$200 [12]
Many of NASA's space probes are controlled from this university's jet propulsion lab
Cal Tech
Greg
$200 [23]
Marty Robbins reached No. 2 in 1957 with a song about "a white sport coat and" this flower
a pink carnation
Kerry Helen
$200 [26]
The collective 1-word name for pins, needles, thimbles, elastic, etc.
notions
$200 [8]
"The Long Goodbye", Raymond Chandler's 6th novel about this detective, was voted 1955's best mystery novel
Philip Marlowe
Kerry
$200 [15]
This sign of the Zodiac represents an animal that once pinched Hercules
Cancer
Greg
$300 [3]
"The New Frontier"
John (F.) Kennedy
Kerry
$300 [13]
Booker T. Washington borrowed $500 to buy the land on which this school was built
Tuskegee Institute
Kerry
$300 [24]
He was "Born on a mountiantop in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free"
Davy Crockett
Kerry
$300 [28]
"Knife", "inverted" & "box" are types of these fabric folds
pleats
Helen
$300 [9]
Hugh Drummond, created by Herman Cyril McNeile, in '20, was known by this tenacious nickname
"Bulldog"
Greg
$300 [19]
In poems, this word precedes "Into the garden, Maud" & "Live with me, and be my love"
come
Kerry
$400 [4]
"The Fair Deal"
Harry Truman
Kerry
$400 [16]
The athletic teams of this Coral Gables, Florida school are nicknamed the Hurricanes
the University of Miami
Helen
DD $500 [25]
In 1956, this song from Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" made No. 2 on the pop charts:"When I was just a little girl /I asked my mother..."
"Que Sera Sera"
Kerry
$400 [29]
Cutting along the diagonal of a fabric is called cutting on this
the bias
Helen
$400 [10]
In the late 1930s Peter Lorre starred as this Japanese sleuth in a series of 8 films
Mr. Moto
Helen
$400 [20]
"Semper Paratus", meaning always prepared, is the official song of this branch of he service
the Coast Guard
Greg
$500 [5]
"The Square Deal"
Teddy Roosevelt
Helen
$500 [17]
60,000 items pertaining to author Margaret Mitchell are housed at this university's library
the University of Georgia
$500 [27]
About her, Paul Anka sang, "I'm so young and you're so old, this my darling I've been told"
Diana
Helen
$500 [30]
Word for the part of a woman's dress between the neck, shoulders & waist
the bodice
$500 [11]
Paul Newman's "Harper" character was actually this private eye created by Ross MacDonald
Lew Archer
Helen
$500 [21]
Founded by the Mounties, this city in Alberta was named for one Mountie's ancestral home in Scotland
Calgary
Greg

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT ROME ACTORS & ROLES ANTONYMS BODIES OF WATER ARTS & CRAFTS POTPOURRI
$200 [7]
Augustus was given the title "Pater Patriae", which meant this, a phrase later describing Washington
"Father of Our Country"
Kerry
$200 [6]
In 1931 this platinum blonde played the "Platinum Blonde"
Jean Harlow
Helen
$200 [12]
Change 2 letters in mini & you produce this antonym
maxi
Greg
$200 [1]
This stormy bay north of Spain & west of France was named for the Basques
the Bay of Biscay
Greg
$200 [23]
Pottery that's "thrown" is made on this piece of equipment
a potter's wheel
Kerry Greg
$200 [20]
In Hawaii, this word sometimes refers to a veranda, & other times to a whole island
a lanai
Greg
$400 [16]
In early Rome the Plebeians were the lower class citizens & these were the upper class
the Patricians
Helen
$400 [8]
He played a lustful landlord trying to romance Carol Lynley in 1963's "Under the Yum Yum Tree"
Jack Lemmon
Kerry
$400 [13]
From the Latin "sub", beneath, & "figere", to fix, it's the opposite of a prefix
a suffix
Kerry
$400 [2]
The shore of this Israeli-Jordanian lake is the lowest point of land on Earth
the Dead Sea
Greg
$400 [24]
The lead strips surrounding pieces of stained glass are joined with this kind of an "iron"
a soldering iron
$400 [21]
Nyctophobia isn't an abnormal fear of smoking but of this
the night (or darkness)
Kerry
$600 [17]
The only battle Rome won against this general was at Zama, ending the 2nd Punic War
Hannibal (Barca)
Helen
$600 [9]
Bette Davis has played this monarch in 2 films; 1st in 1939 & again in 1955
Queen Elizabeth I
Greg
$600 [14]
Antonymically speaking, this classic soap opera becomes "The Center of Day"
"The Edge of Night"
Kerry
DD $600 [3]
The Colorado River flows into this gulf once known as the Vermilion Sea
the Gulf of California (or the Sea of Cortez)
Greg
$600 [25]
Similar to tie-dyeing, this process uses wax to resist the dye
batik
Helen
$600 [22]
2 of the 5 divisions Girl Scouts are separated into according to age
2 of (Daisies, Brownies, Juniors, Cadettes, & Seniors)
Kerry Helen
$800 [18]
This "elder" wrote a 37 volume scientific encyclopedia
Pliny the Elder
Helen
$800 [10]
In 1980 Paul LeMat was "Melvin"; he was "Howard"
Jason Robards
Kerry
$800 [15]
In Matthew 12:30 Jesus said "He that is not with me is" this
"against me"
Helen
$800 [4]
This sea gets its name from a collective term for the people of Latvia & Lithuania
the Baltic Sea
$1,000 [29]
Word for the framework, or skeleton, used as a support for clay, plaster or paper-mâché figures
an armature
$800 [27]
This lord didn't lose his marbles; he sold them in 1816--they're now in the British Museum
Elgin
Helen
$1,000 [19]
In 330 A.D. he moved the capital of the empire from Rome to Byzantium, which he renamed
Emperor Constantine
Greg
$1,000 [11]
In her film debut this actress recreated her stage role as Rita in 1983's "Educating Rita"
Julie Walters
Helen
$1,000 [5]
The Asian & European parts of Istanbul are linked by a bridge spanning this strait
the Bosphorus Strait
Greg
DD $1,100 [26]
Origami is the art of folding paper, & kirigami is the art of doing this to paper
cutting
Helen
$1,000 [28]
"Cathedra" isn't the plural of "cathedral"; it's one of these used by a bishop
a throne (or chair)

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES

The story of this man who rented a house in Omaha, Nebraska in 1917 was made into a 1938 film

Father Flanagan

Kerry "Who is Edison" — wagered $3,200
Helen "Who is Sergeant York" — wagered $1,000
Greg "WHO WAS LINDBERG?" — wagered $2,300

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