Show #1229 1989-12-28 (taped 1989-09-11) Regular

Contestants

Mike Carter — an attorney from Norman, Oklahoma

Nancy Miller — a homemaker from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Robert Baker — a pediatrician from Atlantic City, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robert $1,200 $1,300 $3,400 $101
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$4,700
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Nancy $600 $3,200 $4,600 $9,200
2nd place: trip on Continental to Tampa, Florida & stay at Guest Quarters Suite Hotel + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$4,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Mike $2,700 $2,000 $6,000 $9,500
New champion: $9,500
$6,000
20 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

STARTS WITH "B" THE 1980s ASTROLOGY TV LANDLORDS CITIES HUMPTY DUMPTY
$100 [4]
Medieval folk thought some geese hatched from these clinging crustaceans
barnacles
Nancy
$100 [3]
January 8, 1987 was the 1st time in its history that it closed at over 2,000
Dow Jones
Nancy
$100 [19]
Every sign of the zodiac is named for one of these
constellation
Robert
$100 [16]
They were Ricky & Lucy Ricardo's best friends, as well as their landlords
Fred & Ethel Mertz
Mike
$100 [1]
This city designed by Pierre L'Enfant was the world's 1st planned federal capital
Washington, D.C.
Robert
$100 [23]
In addition to Humpty, the poem also mentions men, including a king & these creatures
horses
Mike
$200 [5]
Despite its name, this lettuce shouldn't be tied under a baby's chin
bib
Mike
$200 [6]
In 1982 congress passed a law forcing states to allow trucks with these on interstate highways
two trailers (double trailers)
Mike
$200 [20]
In astrological lingo, the sun & the moon are called these, just like Mars, Jupiter, etc.
planets
Nancy
$200 [17]
Don Knotts replaced Norman Fell as the resident landlord in this ABC sitcom
Three's Company
Robert
$200 [2]
As in Great Britain, the town of Newcastle in Australia is known for mining this fuel
coal
Mike
$200 [24]
Number of times Humpty is mentioned in the poem
3
Nancy
$300 [13]
Tauromachy is the art of doing this
bullfighting
Robert
$300 [7]
In 1982, after an 8-year antitrust suit, this monopoly agreed to give up its 22 operating systems
AT&T
Mike
$300 [27]
This sign is represented by an arachnid that may have been the 1st land animal
Scorpio
Robert
$300 [18]
During the 1975-76 season of "Happy Days", Fonzie rented an apartment above his garage
Howard Cunningham
Robert
$300 [10]
Mexican resort noted for performers who dive from the Quebrada cliffs into 12 ft. of water
Acapulco
Mike
$300 [25]
Humpty Dumpty's & Jack & Jill are titles of these from The Children's Better Health Institute
magazines
Nancy
$400 [14]
It's a flat, baked roll covered with onion flakes & named for a city in Poland
bialy
Robert
$400 [8]
This 16-hour rock concert for African relief was broadcast worldwide from London & Philadelphia
Live Aid
Nancy
$400 [29]
The sign of the zodiac that's alphabetically 1st
Aquarius
Nancy Mike
$400 [21]
Sidney Fields played this comic pair's landlord named Sid Fields
Abbott & Costello
$400 [11]
Now the home of beer hall festivals, it was the site of the Beer Hall Putsch, or revolt, in 1923
Munich
Robert
$400 [26]
Humpty told her, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less"
Alice
Robert
$500 [15]
Badminton players often use this name for the shuttlecock
birdie
Mike
$500 [9]
Their long-standing dispute over the Shatt al-Arab waterway became open warfare in 1980
Iran & Iraq
Mike
DD $500 [30]
The only sign of the zodiac that isn't represented by a living thing
Libra
Nancy
$500 [22]
For 5 years she played Phyllis Lindstrom, Mary Richards' landlady in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Cloris Leachman
Nancy
$500 [12]
When the British invaded Montego Bay on this island, the Spanish settlers destroyed most of the old city
Jamaica
Mike
$500 [28]
Webster's defines Humpty Dumpty as something you can't do this to
put it back together
Nancy Mike

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN WOMEN ROYALTY FAMOUS PAIRS POTENT POTABLES THE SOUTH MUSICAL BIOGRAPHIES
$200 [18]
This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was known as Vincent to her family & friends
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mike
$200 [13]
Dying in 1908, this country's dowager empress T'zu Hsi ordered the death of her adopted son
China
Robert
$200 [6]
They ran away together at the end of "Hey Diddle Diddle"
dish & spoon
$200 [8]
Supposedly it was named for a fellow who drank several & then banged into a wall
Harvey Wallbanger
Mike
$200 [1]
This country music show has an "official candy bar", the Goo Goo Cluster
Grand Ole Opry
Mike
$200 [20]
In the 1971 film "The Music Lovers" Richard Chamberlain played this Russian composer
Tchaikovsky
Robert
$400 [19]
Oveta Culp Hobby became Colonel Hobby when this organization she headed became part of the Army
WACs
$400 [14]
This royal pair is buried in Granada, where their armies conquered the Moors in 1492
Ferdinand & Isabella
Robert
$400 [7]
"The Son of that Ephramite of Bethlehem Judah" & "The Philistine of Gath"
David & Goliath
Mike
$400 [9]
Falstaff called this wine "sack"; in its native Spain it's "Jerez"
sherry
Robert
$400 [2]
Daughters of Confederate soldiers live in the home for Confederate women near this Virginia capital
Richmond
Nancy
$400 [21]
Noted accordianist Jimmy Stewart played a famous trombonist in this 1954 biopic
The Glenn Miller Story
Robert Mike
$600 [15]
The man who founded this ancient Egyptian dynasty was a Macedonian general
Ptolemy
Robert
$600 [25]
Colloquially, a tall person & a short person, named for characters created by Bud Fisher
Mutt & Jeff
Robert
$600 [10]
Referring perhaps to the tall masts, this tall beer glass is named for a kind of ship
schooner
Robert
$600 [3]
You can ride a streetcar on this city's St. Charles line, but the Desire line is no longer running
New Orleans
Mike
$600 [22]
Nat "King" Cole portrayed this "Father of the Blues" in "St. Louis Blues"
W.C. Handy
Mike
$800 [16]
King Mongkut, who fathered dozens of children before he died at age 63, inspired this musical
The King and I
Mike
$1,000 [27]
He was 9 & she was 8 when they met in 1274; later he wrote about their relationship in "La Vita Nuova"
Dante & Beatrice
$800 [11]
Originally made with Rhine wine & seltzer or club soda, it's from the German word for "squirt"
spritzer
Robert
$800 [4]
Edenton, N.C. was named for Gov. Chas. Eden, believed to be a secret partner of this hirsute pirate
Blackbeard
Mike
$800 [23]
He kicked Elvis in the shins in "It Happened at the World's Fair" & portrayed him 16 years later in TV's "Elvis"
Kurt Russell
Mike
$1,000 [17]
This ruling family 1st seized power in Monaco in 1297
Grimaldis
Robert Mike
DD $1,300 [26]
Twosome singing the 1st Lennon-McCartneysongnot recorded by The Beatles to hit No. 1:"Please lock me away /And don't allow the day /Here inside, where I hide with my loneliness..."
Peter and Gordon
Robert
$1,000 [12]
The best of this brandy made in the Charente district, is called "Grande Champagne"
Cognac
Robert
$1,000 [5]
"Dixie" was played in Montgomery, Alabama on February 18, 1861 at this ceremony
inauguration of Jefferson Davis
Nancy
$1,000 [24]
This lyricist was portrayed by Mickey Rooney in "Words & Music"
Lorenz (Larry) Hart

Final Jeopardy!

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

Surprisingly, it was not made a legal U.S. holiday until 1941, over 150 yrs. after it was 1st celebrated

July 4th (Independence Day)

Robert "What is" — wagered $3,299
Nancy "What is Independence Day?" — wagered $4,600
Mike "What is the 4th of July" — wagered $3,500

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