Show #775 1988-01-08 (taped 1987-09-22) Regular

Contestants

Bruce Wolfe — a software engineer from San Francisco, California

Sarah Workman — a history teacher from Pomona, California

Janet Holzer — a foreign language teacher from Indianapolis, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Janet $600 $1,700 $5,300 $6,701
2nd place: La-Z-Boy Signature II sleep sofa & Sierra fireplace
$4,700
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Sarah $1,800 $2,700 $6,700 $9,400
New champion: $9,400
$7,500
23 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Bruce $1,100 $1,700 $2,500 $5,000
3rd place: Stained Glass Overlay designer glass
$2,500
12 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

WYOMING FOOD #1 HITS MUSEUMS INTERNATIONAL ACTRESSES WHAT'S "NEW"?
$100 [19]
Despite its "friendly" name, this is Wyoming's largest city, not a ghost town
Casper
Janet
$100 [1]
The FDA prohibits use of tonka bean extract as a substitute for this ice cream flavoring
vanilla
Bruce
$100 [4]
1 of 5 #1 hits for the Eagles
"Hotel California"
Sarah
$100 [6]
Guinness says the world's largest single museum is this city's American Museum of Natural History
New York City
Bruce
$100 [11]
This Berliner's real name is Elke Schletz
Elke Sommer
Sarah
$100 [12]
January 1
New Year's Day
Janet
$200 [20]
Wyoming got the nickname "The Equality State" because it was the 1st state to grant this
women the right to vote
Bruce
$200 [2]
Even in your home, this 3-initial flavor enhancer can cause "Chinese restaurant syndrome"
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
Sarah
$200 [5]
1 of 4 solo #1 hits for Olivia Newton-John
"Have You Never Been Mellow" ("Magic", "Physical")
Bruce
$200 [7]
Movieland in Buena Park, California is this type of museum
wax museum
Janet Bruce
$200 [24]
The Canadian actress who stars on "Webster"
(Susan) Clark
Sarah
$200 [13]
This English city is famed for the coal it has exported since the 13th century
Newcastle
Sarah
$300 [22]
In this town you can visit Buffalo Bill Dam, Buffalo Bill Village, & Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Cody
Sarah
$300 [3]
Number of years the FDA says a fresh whole turkey can be safely stored in a freezer
1
Sarah Bruce
$300 [21]
1 of 3 #1 hits for Simon & Garfunkel
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Sarah
$300 [8]
Knott's Berry Farm's Museum of Miniatures features these "circus" insects in handmade costumes
fleas
Janet
$300 [28]
She starred in 1st film Roger Vadim directed & became his 1st wife
Brigitte Bardot
Sarah
$300 [14]
Bygone film form that typically ran some 10 min. & included current events, general interest features & sports
newsreel
Bruce
$500 [27]
In 1906, Pres. T. Roosevelt declared this "Tower" in N.E. Wyoming the nation's 1st nat'l monument
Devils Tower
Janet
$400 [17]
People used to think they could dine on oysters only during months with this in their names
R
Sarah
$400 [23]
1 of 2 #1 hits for B.J. Thomas
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
Bruce
$400 [9]
A statue of Chas. Goodyear holding hunks of rubber graces Goodyear's World of Rubber in this Ohio city
Akron
Sarah
$400 [29]
Born in Paris as Lily Claudette Chauchoin, this Oscar-winner now lives on Barbados
Claudette Colbert
Sarah
$400 [15]
Arithmetic that satirist Tom Lehrer said was "so very simple that only a child can do it"
new math
Bruce
DD $600 [26]
2 of 3 great river systems that partially begin in Wyoming
(2 of) Missouri, Colorado & Columbia
Sarah
$500 [18]
Types of these include Japanese, Greengage & Damson
plums
Janet Sarah
$500 [25]
Only #1 hit for Sam Cooke
"You Send Me"
Sarah
$500 [10]
A Kansas museum abuzz with live bees also has a dead horse, Commanche, who survived this 1876 battle
Custer's Last Stand
Sarah
$500 [30]
This "Rose Tattoo" star was born in Alexandria, the illegitimate daughter of an Egyptian
Anna Magnani
$500 [16]
In Orwell's "1984", it was a language "designed...to diminish the range of thought"
Newspeak
Bruce

Double Jeopardy! Round

1887 MEDICINE INDIAN NAMES FEMINISTS 4-LETTER WORDS CENSORSHIP
$200 [22]
The U.S. renewed a treaty with this independent country giving us right to build a base at Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Bruce
$200 [7]
Both malaria & yellow fever are transmitted by the "bite" of this type of insect
mosquito
Janet
$200 [21]
Pennsylvania town known for its wagons, it was named for this tribe also called the Susquehanna
Conestoga
Bruce
$200 [4]
18th c. English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft was the mother of this "Frankenstein" author
Mary Shelley
Sarah
$200 [12]
To set down a plane or pull in a fish
land
Sarah Bruce
$200 [1]
A '54 investigation by Cong. blamed delinquency on these "kiddy books", so the industry censored itself
comic books
Janet
$400 [23]
Developer of a library cataloging system, he founded 1st U.S. professional library school
Dewey
Sarah
$400 [8]
A vitamin B-12 deficiency can result in this, a deficiency in red blood cells
anemia
Janet
$400 [24]
This largest deer's name is from the Natick Indian language, not the cows'
moose
$400 [5]
V. Woodhull was a professional mind reader before she became 1st woman to run for this office
president
Janet Sarah
$400 [13]
The past participle of "do"
done
Janet
$600 [3]
In the 1910s, her birth control books were banned in NY & her husband was arrested for giving one away
Margaret Sanger
Sarah
$600 [9]
More common name for renal calculi, which vary from the size of a grain of sand to a golf ball
kidney stone
Sarah
$600 [25]
The Miami tribe lent its name to 3 rivers in this state, the Great Miami, the Little Miami, & the Maumee
Ohio
Sarah
$600 [6]
Constitutional amendment named in honor of Susan B. Anthony, it bears this number
19th
Sarah Bruce
$600 [14]
1 of the 2 4-letter words beginning with "H" that mean the handle of a sword
hilt (or haft)
Sarah
$800 [17]
The "M" in the PMRC, it's what the "P", or Parents, are concerned about
Music
Janet
$800 [10]
Used to help consciously control body functions, one technique is electrodermal response
biofeedback
Janet
DD $1,000 [26]
2 of the 4 Canadian provinces whose names were derived from Indian words
(2 of) Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec & Manitoba
Sarah
$800 [19]
She founded the National Organization for Women 3 yrs. after she wrote "The Feminine Mystique"
Betty Friedan
Janet Sarah
$800 [15]
A broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of marble or marble cake
slab
Janet
DD $1,000 [2]
In 1972, his recitation of the followingroutine got him arrested:"Well, there are 400,000 words in the English language and there are seven of them you can't say on television."
George Carlin
Janet
$1,000 [11]
If you have a tempero-mandibular joint dislocation, this has gotten out of line
jaw
Janet
$1,000 [27]
In 1883, the body of this Fox chief was disinterred & moved to the Iowa city named for him
Keokuk
Bruce
$1,000 [20]
This 6' tall Australian championed sexual freedom in her 1st book, "The Female Eunuch"
Germaine Greer
Sarah
$1,000 [16]
A song in "Mary Poppins" tells you to do this "In Time"
Step
Bruce
$1,000 [18]
To get around a new obscenity law, publishers in a late 19th c. used "enceinte" instead of this word
pregnant
Sarah

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CITIES

Having "married" the sea annually for over 600 years, this city is still called "The Bride of the Sea"

Venice, Italy

Bruce "What is Venice, Italy?" — wagered $2,500
Janet "What is Venice, Italy?" — wagered $1,401
Sarah "What is Venice, Italy?" — wagered $2,700

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