Show #717 1987-10-20 (taped 1987-08-18) Regular

Contestants

J.P. Duffy — a stage director and writer from Los Angeles, California

Denise Rossi — a systems engineer from Santa Monica, California

Judith Seeger — an associate research engineer from Mountain View, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $32,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Judith $700 $1,800 $5,400 $6,601
4-day champion: $38,800
$5,100
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Denise $100 $100 $1,400 $1
3rd place: Gibson Les Paul guitar + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$2,100
6 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
J.P. $800 $1,300 $3,300 $300
2nd place: trip to Florida on Eastern & stay at Safety Harbor Spa & Fitness center on Tampa Bay + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$3,300
15 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

PATRON SAINTS 4-LETTER WORDS U.S. HISTORY CHILDREN'S GAMES "LAST" MOVIES
$100 [1]
St. Barbara watches over these souls at such places as San Quentin
prisons
Judith
$100 [3]
Meaning "fasten up", it's the skirt highlanders fasten around their waists
kilt
Denise
$100 [13]
Ben Franklin published it annually from 1733 through 1758
Poor Richard's Almanac
Judith
$100 [12]
In the game Chutes & Ladders, direction you travel on any chute
down
J.P.
$100 [9]
Controversial 1973 film in which Maria Schneider & Marlon Brando did more than dance
Last Tango in Paris
J.P.
$200 [2]
St. Jerome managed to become their patron saint, even without knowing the Dewey Decimal System
librarians
J.P.
$200 [4]
A lively manner of speaking, or a brand of home permanent
lilt
Judith J.P.
$200 [20]
Masked bandits stole over $2 million from the Boston office of this company, January 17, 1950
Brinks
Judith
$200 [14]
In tetherball, the object of the game is to do this
get the ball, get the rope wrapped all the way around the pole
Judith
$200 [10]
1935 & 1960 films made possible only through the efforts of Mount Vesuvius
The Last Days of Pompeii
J.P.
$300 [5]
St. Nicholas is the patron saint of these cooks, who are usually rolling in dough
pastry cooks (bakers)
Judith
$400 [18]
Covered with a thin layer of gold, or just looking like gold, by association
gilt
Judith
$300 [21]
John Paul Jones reply to Capt. Richard Pearson's Sept. 23, 1779 question "Have you struck?"
I have not yet begun to fight!
J.P.
$300 [15]
In the card game Crazy Eights, eights can be used to do this
change the suit or the number
J.P.
$300 [11]
Set in a Texas town in 1951, it ends when one of the guys goes off to Korea & the rundown cinema is closed
The Last Picture Show
Judith
$400 [7]
He's patron against poisoning, & his twin sister Scholastica was 1st abbess of the Benedictine nuns
St. Benedict
$500 [19]
A sedimentary substance of fine mineral particles whose size falls between sand & clay
silt
J.P.
$400 [24]
The U.S. acquired property rights to build this in 1904, & T.R. was a man with a plan for it
Panama Canal
Judith
$400 [22]
At the end of the last verse in "Farmer in the Dell", run--or this edible will catch you
the cheese
J.P.
$400 [16]
Marty Feldman directed, starred in & co-wrote this parody of French Foreign Legion flicks
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
$500 [8]
Since his name derives from Latin for "wine", it's appropriate he's the patron of winemakers
St. Vincent
Judith J.P.
DD $600 [6]
Infraction sign that can stop this noise abruptly:
tilt
Judith
$500 [23]
The "scotch" in hopscotch has nothing to do with Scotland, but refers to these
lines
Judith J.P.
$500 [17]
Paul Muni played a concerned doctor in this "Last" movie--which was in fact his last
The Last Angry Man

Double Jeopardy! Round

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS AFRICAN ANIMALS MARK TWAIN LAKES & RIVERS MILITARY QUOTES NAMES IN SONG
$200 [16]
Cleared by one "special prosecutor" before becoming Att'y General, he faced a 2nd in May 1987
Meese
J.P.
$200 [4]
Though the largest primates, they have a smaller relative brain size than chimpanzees
gorillas
Denise
$200 [12]
Century in which Mark Twain died
20th century
J.P.
$200 [7]
This is the river you're "sent up" if you're sent from Kansas City to Leavenworth
Missouri
Denise J.P.
$200 [23]
Talleyrand is quote as saying it's "much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military"
war
Judith
$200 [1]
Since Marilyn McCoo had "The Wedding Bell Blues", she asked him "Please marry me"--& he did
Billy Davis, Jr.
Judith
$400 [17]
A 200-year-old law banning cohabitation in this state was repealed in May 1987 by Gov. Dukakis
Massachusetts
J.P.
$400 [10]
A hippopotamus does this as a gesture of attack not because he's sleepy
yawning
Denise J.P.
$400 [13]
Color of the suit that, late in Mark Twain's life, became his trademark
white
Judith
$400 [8]
River forming most of the Thailand-Laos border, or how a movie ape might identify himself
Mekong
Denise
$400 [24]
Joseph Heller wrote of his hero in "Catch 22", "He decided to live forever" or do this "in the attempt"
die
J.P.
$400 [2]
Rick Nelson said "Goodbye Heart" when he said "Hello" to her
Mary Lou
Judith
$600 [18]
1986's costliest campaign pitted Ed Zschau, who spent some 12 mil., & this Cal. senator who spent $11 mil.
Alan Cranston
Denise
$600 [11]
The upper incisors of an elephant are commonly called these
tusks
Judith
$600 [14]
"Dan'l Webster" was the name of this "Celebrated" title figure
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
J.P.
$600 [9]
It's the only lake at which Harrah's has a hotel
Lake Tahoe
J.P.
$600 [3]
"Help me, information, get in touch with" her, "The only one who'd phone me here from Memphis, Tenn."
Marie
J.P.
$800 [19]
Tenn. Gov. Ned McWherter ate pickles & ice cream after signing a law for businesses to provide this
maternity leave
$800 [22]
This genus, which includes drills & mandrills, includes the largest of all monkeys
baboons
Judith
$800 [15]
After being hit by a crowbar, a man from Hartford woke up near this castle site
King Arthur's Court
J.P.
DD $700 [20]
Besides Delaware, 2 of the other 3 states on the Delaware River
(2 of) New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Denise
$800 [5]
1 of the only 2 Oak Ridge Boys songs that made the pop top 40, they both fit this category
"Elvira" or "Bobbie Sue"
$1,000 [26]
In May 1987, a house sub-committee ok'd a bill to rename it New Columbia & make it the 51st state
District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)
Judith
$1,000 [25]
The largest wildebeest population, about 500,000, is found in this Tanzanian plain
serengeti
Denise
$1,000 [27]
In his comic criticism of this author's works, Twain calls "Chingachgook" "Chicago"
James Fenimore Cooper
$1,000 [21]
The temples of Abu Simbel were moved to escape the rising waters of this Aswan High Dam lake
Lake Nasser
$1,000 [6]
Jim Croce's title warning about Big Mr. Walker
"You Don't Mess Around With Jim"

Final Jeopardy!

THE 50 STATES

Though it touches no ocean, this state has 1 of the 10 longest shorelines in the U.S.

Michigan

Denise "What is Minnesota?" — wagered $1,399
J.P. "Where is Texas" — wagered $3,000
Judith "What is Michigan?" — wagered $1,201

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