Show #720 1987-10-23 (taped 1987-08-18) Regular

Contestants

John Lamb — a savings and loan executive originally from New York

Tom Gray — a journalist from Van Nuys, California

Beth Phillips — a photographer from Santa Fe, New Mexico (whose 2-day cash winnings total $7,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Beth $1,100 $3,100 $5,500 $4,500
3rd place
$5,500
19 R, 3 W
Tom $1,000 $2,200 $5,000 $10,000
2nd place
$5,000
13 R, 0 W
John $400 $-400 $8,200 $11,001
New champion: $11,001
$6,600
18 R (including 2 DDs), 9 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES BIRD SONGS TV TRIVIA THE HUMAN BODY AMY VANDERBILT SAYS "A.C."
$100 [1]
The lowest point of elevation in Louisiana is 5 feet below sea level in this port city
New Orleans
Tom
$100 [22]
"If happy little bluebirds fly beyond" this, "why, oh why can't I?"
the rainbow
Tom
$100 [14]
On "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", Hitchcock bricked up this "jolly old elf in a fireplace
Santa Claus
Beth
$100 [6]
This not only carries oxygen & food to tissue but removes waste products as well
blood
Beth
$100 [21]
This type of letter shouldn't be written at the office--except during lunch
a personal letter
Beth
$100 [9]
The Church of England
the Anglican Church
John
$200 [2]
Some say Secretary of State William H. Seward selected the name for this state
Alaska
John
$200 [23]
"There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, no I never saw them at all, till" this
"Till There Was You"
Beth John
$200 [15]
Writing about its stars' "sour grapes", TV Guide called this series "Whine Country"
Falcon Crest
Tom
$200 [7]
Exercise usually increases the size, not the number, of cells in these
muscles
John
$200 [26]
At an informal lunch, the two basic utensils always used for a place setting
a knife & a fork
Tom
$200 [10]
On February 4, 1987, Dennis Conner became only skipper to have lost, then recaptured this
America's Cup
John
$300 [3]
It's known as "The land where the tall corn grows"
Iowa
Beth
$300 [24]
Broadway show in which the muleteers sang "Little Bird, Little Bird" to Aldonza
Man of La Mancha
$300 [16]
The "Mary Tyler Moore Show" character whose wife's name was Edie
Lou Grant
Beth Tom
DD $400 [8]
In these organs, the right one is divided into 3 lobes but the left one into only 2
the lungs
John
$300 [27]
"Mssrs." should only be used on letters used for these male relatives
brothers
$300 [11]
You'll find this chilly ring at latitude 66°, 33' north, just above Iceland
the Arctic Circle
Beth
$400 [4]
It leads the world in producing sardine cans, but it's called the Pine Tree State
Maine
Beth John
$400 [25]
"As we kiss'd & said good-night'", this "sang in Berk'ley Square"
a nightingale
John
$400 [17]
When he narrated "The Fugitive", his voice boomed like a "cannon"
William Conrad
Beth Tom
$400 [19]
No digestion, just mineral & water absorption, takes place in this organ far along the alimentary canal
the large intestine
Beth
$400 [28]
If you can't remember this, just smile pleasantly & tell him or her "Nice to see you"
someone's name
Beth
$400 [12]
Due to controversial comments on "Nightline", he's no longer VP of the L.A. Dodgers
Al Campanis
Tom
$500 [5]
Congress gave this state the option to divide itself into 5 other states, but it never has
Texas
John
$500 [29]
"Since her beauty was sold for an old man's gold," she's only this
"A Bird In A Gilded Cage"
Beth
$500 [18]
Newsweek called this detective romp, at $1.6 million, TV's most expensive 1-hour drama
Moonlighting
Beth John
$500 [20]
Part of the body where you would find the frontal, parietal & occipital bones
the skull
Beth
$500 [30]
Though Amy says to put ashtrays in guest bedrooms, she also says to "put your foot down" about smoking here
in bed
John
$500 [13]
1 of the longest running series on radio was his "Letter from America", on BBC
Alistair Cooke
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN IN HISTORY OLYMPICS FRENCH CUISINE WORLD WAR II "D.C." DRAMA
$200 [7]
It's said she married an Indian chief when she was 14, years before she married John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Tom
$200 [24]
It's the shortest distance for races in both track & swimming
100 meters
Beth
$200 [1]
Vegetable featured in "soup a l'oignon"
onion
Tom
$200 [6]
On the Russian front near Moscow, mud helped slow this aggressor country's offensive
Germany
Beth John
$200 [16]
Painters use this sheet as protection against spills & drips
a drop cloth
John
$600 [21]
Moliere was influenced by this stylized form of Italian farce
commedia dell'arte
John
$400 [8]
Shakespeare spells this historic figure's last name "Bullen", but most of us know her by this name
Anne Boleyn
John
$400 [25]
It took Joan Benoit 2:24:52 to do this in the 1984 Olympics
complete the marathon
Beth
$400 [2]
One French cook book's recipe mixing romaine, vinaigrette, & this fungus is labeled "salade fi-fi"
mushrooms
Beth
$400 [9]
"Little Boy" was the code name for the atom bomb dropped on this city
Hiroshima
Beth John
$600 [18]
It's pressing molten metals into molds under pressure, or throwing a cube in gambling, often under pressure
die casting
$800 [22]
Following a suggestion by Jonathan Swift, John Gay wrote this "opera"
The Beggar's Opera
Tom
$600 [10]
She originated the term "birth control" which formerly had been called "voluntary motherhood"
Margaret Sanger
Beth
$600 [26]
In 1984, Carl Lewis won the gold in the same 4 events as this star did in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Jesse Owens
Tom
$600 [3]
"Pate de pommes a l'angleise" is a fancy French name for this all-American dessert
apple pie
John
$600 [13]
Early in 1942, the U.S. government gave this group free mail privileges
servicemen
Beth John
$800 [19]
A section of seats in an opera house, usually the tier above the orchestra
the dress circle
John
$1,000 [23]
The literary hero of Eugene O'Neill was this Swedish playwright who wrote "Miss Julie"
Strindberg
Tom
$800 [11]
Marat's murderer
Charlotte Corday
Beth John
$800 [4]
A chef might dole out "tarte a l'ananas", a dessert made with this tropical fruit
a pineapple
John
$1,000 [15]
Control of Guadalcanal was critical, since Japan was building an air base that would threaten this ally
Australia
John
$1,000 [20]
In these, the chemical producing the current is made into a paste so the contents will not spill
a dry cell battery
John
$1,000 [12]
Queen of this Scandinavian country at 18, Christina abdicated under pressure at 27
Sweden
John
$1,000 [5]
The 2 types of fish in "salade nicoise"
tuna & anchovy
John
DD $1,400 [14]
The last European capital "liberated", was this city on the Moldau, freed by the Russians in May 1945
Prague
John
DD $1,800 [17]
He sang the lead on the followingTV theme & co-starred on the series with his stepmother:"Hello world, here's a song that we're singin' /Come on, get happy /A whole lotta lovin' is what we'll be bringin' /We'll make you happy..."
David Cassidy
John

Final Jeopardy!

CARD GAMES

Term for marker passed around to designate who is dealer in poker, Truman is associated with one

a buck

Tom "What is a buck?" — wagered $5,000
Beth "What is ?" — wagered $1,000
John "What is the buck?" — wagered $2,801

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