Show #822 1988-03-15 (taped 1987-11-18) Regular

Ron Trigueiro game 3.

Contestants

Jeanne Douglas — a secretary from Los Angeles, California

Tom Brothers — an attorney from Lynnwood, Washington

Ron Trigueiro — a student from Caruthers, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ron $2,100 $2,800 $4,300 $8,600
3-day champion: $36,700
$6,000
24 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Tom $400 $1,300 $3,600 $0
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Jeopardy! box game
$3,900
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Jeanne $700 $2,000 $5,200 $1,700
2nd place: Oak dining furniture by Keller & Villeroy & Bochi dishes + Jeopardy! box game
$5,200
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

FORMER CAPITALS CARTOONS COLLEGES BEER BROADWAY LYRICS STARTS WITH "H"
$100 [6]
Shortly after taking power, the Bolsheviks moved the Russian capital back to Moscow from this city
St. Petersburg (Petrograd)
Jeanne
$100 [26]
To get out of trouble, Felix the Cat reached into this
magic bag (of tricks)
Ron
$100 [2]
Ivy League school originally called the College of New Jersey
Princeton
Ron
$100 [10]
Though it won a gold medal at the 1878 World's Fair, it prefers to sport a blue ribbon
Pabst
Ron
$100 [16]
"You coax the blues right out of this, Mame"
the horn
Jeanne
$100 [12]
A cab, or a second-rate writer who might be riding in it
hack
Ron
$200 [5]
A former capital of Canada, it's the country's oldest city
Quebec (City)
Ron Jeanne
$200 [27]
Though these 2 magpies looked alike, 1 had a Brooklyn accent, 1 a British accent
Heckle & Jeckle
Ron
$200 [3]
In 1805, in his junior year, James F. Cooper was expelled from this Conn. college for frivolity
Yale
Ron
$200 [18]
If you pour your beer in the center of the glass rather than the side, you'll get more of this
foam (head)
Jeanne
$200 [17]
"I've grown accustomed to her looks; accustomed to her voice; accustomed to" this
her face
Ron
$200 [13]
It gets 2 beats in 4/4 time
half note
Ron
$300 [1]
Under the Muslims, Cordoba was this country's capital
Spain
Ron
$300 [28]
Though Dudley Do-Right always rescued Nell, she loved this animal of his more
Horse
Jeanne
$300 [4]
Romberg's musical "The Student Prince" takes place at the university in this German city
Heidelberg
Ron
$300 [22]
This plant, related to marijuana, is used to flavor beer
hops
Tom
$300 [19]
In "Camelot", it's "that lovely month when ev'ryone goes blissfully astray"
May
Jeanne
$300 [14]
Term for fixtures that are turned down just before the curtain goes up
house lights
Jeanne
$400 [7]
Tradition says this 1st capital of Ancient Egypt was founded by its 1st king, Menes
Memphis
Ron
$400 [29]
This Friz Freleng character was touted as the world's fastest mouse
Speedy Gonzales
Ron Tom
$400 [9]
Commonly used to designate entire University of Paris, it's actually just one building of it
Sorbonne
Jeanne
$400 [23]
Ads for this beer say, "Come to think of it, I'll have" 1 of these
Heineken
Ron Jeanne
$400 [20]
"Button up" this "when the wind is free, take good care of yourself, you belong to me"
your overcoat
Jeanne
$400 [15]
16th century French Calvinists
Huguenots
Tom
$500 [8]
1 of 2 former national capitals of Pakistan
Rawalpindi (or Karachi)
Ron
DD $600 [30]
His niece & nephew are Knothead & Splinter
Woody Woodpecker
Ron
$500 [11]
West Point, N.Y. is home to the U.S. Military Academy while Kings Point, N.Y. is home to this academy
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Ron
$500 [25]
The names of more American brands of beer begin with this 3-letter word than any other
old
Jeanne
$500 [21]
"Pal Joey" song that begins "I'm wild again, beguiled again"
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" or "Bewitched"
Tom
$500 [24]
Named for a 17th c. liveryman, it's the appearance of free will when there's actually no choice at all
Hobson's choice
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

VERMONTERS WOMEN IN FICTION FAMILIAR PHRASES THE 20TH CENTURY CELEBRITY ODD JOBS CLASSICAL MUSIC
$200 [3]
He demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga "in the name of the Great Jehovah & the Continental Congress"
Ethan Allen
Ron
$200 [26]
Peter Pan's Darling
Wendy
Tom
$200 [27]
Some say the "T" in "It suits you to a T" refers to this drafting tool used for precise drawings
T-square
Ron
$200 [16]
In 1956, 3 U.S. physicists won Nobel Prize for this which allowed electronic miniaturization
transistor
Jeanne
$200 [17]
Singing bellboy Aaron Chwatt got his stage name from his hair color & the buttons on his uniform
Red Buttons
Ron
$600 [13]
Nationality of composer Jean Sibelius
Finnish
Ron
$400 [4]
On Aug. 3, 1923, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, he became only president to be sworn into office by his father
Calvin Coolidge
Tom
$400 [15]
In some versions of the legend, Tristan has 2 lovers, both named this
Isolde
Tom
DD $300 [8]
From medieval archers come these terms for a club's best & next best teams
first string & second string
Tom
$400 [12]
In 1914, his car company was praised as generous for setting a minimum wage of $5 a day
Ford
Tom
$400 [18]
Picking cotton for 10 years, she dreamed of singing with George Jones & later married him
Tammy Wynette
Ron
$800 [24]
Schoenberg & Webern were noted for pioneering use of this type of musical scale
12-tone or 12-note chromatic scale
Ron Tom
$800 [11]
Vermont's 1st one is Madeleine M. Kunin
woman governor
Tom
$600 [9]
This Thomas Hardy heroine was hanged for stabbing her seducer, Alec
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Ron
$600 [23]
This 17th century phrase meaning to hesitate is a corruption of "Shall I, shall I?"
shilly-shally
Tom
$600 [7]
In 1949, Sen. Robert Taft fought against this formal U.S. alliance with European countries
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Tom
$600 [19]
He was a lumberjack, a marine & worked in a Texas brothel before starring in "The Blob"
Steve McQueen
Ron
$1,000 [25]
His "Symphony of a Thousand", scored for 1,000 musicians, has only 2 movements
Gustav Mahler
$1,000 [14]
Originally a Vermont blacksmith, he went on to invent the steel plow
John Deere
Ron
$800 [5]
According to the title of Keats' ballad, "La Belle Dame" was "sans" this
Merci
$1,000 [22]
From recording accounts & scores by marking notches on a stick, it means "not a second too soon"
in the nick of time
Jeanne
$800 [2]
In the 20th century, 3 popes have elected to use this name, the Xth, XIth, & XIIth
Pius
Ron
$800 [20]
Once an elephant handler, he's now the world's best-selling western novelist
Louis L'Amour
Ron
DD $1,100 [10]
Artist who, in 1943, painted thefollowingin Arlington, Vermont:
Norman Rockwell
Ron
$1,000 [6]
The perpetually pleasant perpetrator of the "Glad Game"
Pollyanna
Tom
$1,000 [1]
On May 21, 1980 President Carter declared a state of emergency at this NY state site
Love Canal (Niagara)
Tom Jeanne
$1,000 [21]
A former circus fire-eater, he fired up critics with his acting in "Mona Lisa"
Bob Hoskins
Jeanne

Final Jeopardy!

COLONIAL AMERICA

1 of 3 colonies which as late as 1775 was still controlled by a proprietary family

(1 of) Pennsylvania, Delaware or Maryland

Tom "What is M [followed by short squiggle]" — wagered $3,600
Ron "What is Pennsylvania?" — wagered $4,300
Jeanne "What is Georgia?" — wagered $3,500

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