Show #782 1988-01-19 (taped 1987-09-29) Regular

Contestants

Jenny Church — a supervisor originally from Pensacola, Florida

Paul Tidwell — a tutor from Mission Hills, California

Jonathan Santore — a composer and graduate student originally from Greeneville, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jonathan $2,000 $2,400 $9,200 $7,799
2nd place: Hotpoint cooking center & 12-piece Super Bra stainless steel cookware + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$9,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Paul $500 $900 $5,300 $10,600
New champion: $10,600
$6,100
19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Jenny $-300 $300 $300 $100
3rd place: Maxima AM/FM stereo system + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$300
3 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SPORTS FADS & FASHION AFRICA ON FILM AUTHORS "BEAUTIFUL" MUSIC
$100 [19]
Founding father who was called "Father of the Declaration of Independence"
Thomas Jefferson
Paul
$100 [6]
This city's annual marathon was 1st run back in 1897
Boston
Paul
$100 [16]
A book, "Follies & Foibles", says these coats, a college fad in the '20s, were cut up in the '50s for a hat fad
raccoon coats
Jonathan Paul
$100 [26]
The sequel to this film about game wardens in Kenya was called "Living Free"
Born Free
Jonathan
$100 [11]
His father fought against Napoleon in 1812, which he wrote about in "War and Peace"
Tolstoy
Jonathan
$100 [1]
The 1st line of "America the Beautiful"
O beautiful for spacious skies
Jonathan
$200 [20]
This famous frontiersman was a colonel in the Virginia militia
Daniel Boone
Paul
$200 [7]
He was world heavyweight champ from 1937-49, longer than anyone else
Joe Louis
Paul
$200 [17]
These 19th century skirt expanders were made of horsehair, "crino", & flaxcloth, "lino"
crinolines
Jonathan
$200 [25]
In film of Agatha Christie's book, Angela Lansbury & Mia Farrow both found "Death on" this river
the Nile
Jenny
$200 [12]
In 1936, W.H. Auden married Thomas Mann's daughter so she could escape this country
Nazi Germany
Jonathan
$200 [2]
Subtitle of "This is All I Ask", they were asked to "walk a little slower when you walk by me"
"Beautiful Girls"
$300 [21]
Born in Connecticut, Nathan Hale was a graduate of this Ivy League university
Yale
Paul
$300 [8]
In soccer, only a goalie can touch the ball with his hands; in team handball, only a goalie can do this to the ball
kick it
Paul Jenny
$300 [18]
1978 movie that revived the college party fad for toga fashions
Animal House
Paul
$300 [24]
A TV movie with Charles Bronson dramatized the 1976 Israeli commando "Raid on" this Uganda airport
Entebbe
Jenny
$300 [13]
He exhibited his watercolors internationally but was more famous for "Tropic of Cancer"
Henry Miller
Paul
$300 [3]
This '75 song was Joe Cocker's last solo single to make the charts
"You Are So Beautiful"
Jonathan
$500 [23]
Cousin to our 2nd President, this rebel leader was Massachusetts governor from 1793-1797
Sam Adams
$400 [9]
Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line; Earl Lloyd was the 1st black to play in this pro league
NBA (National Basketball)
Jonathan Paul
$400 [27]
It was this sporting fad of the 1890s that brought back the 1850s fashion of bloomers for women
bicycling
Jenny
$500 [28]
In the 1984 film "Sahara", this teen star dressed up as a man to race across the desert
Brooke Shields
$400 [14]
Legend says this "Decameron" author was in love with the illegitimate daughter of the King of Naples
Boccaccio
Paul
$400 [4]
In this song Ray Stevens says "We shouldn't care about the length of his hair or the color of his skin"
"Everything Is Beautiful"
Jonathan
DD $800 [22]
This was once moved from Philadelphia & hidden in Allentown's Zion Reformed Church
Liberty Bell
Paul
$500 [10]
Named for the Georgia mountain where his father was wounded in the Civil War, he was baseball's 1st commissioner
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Jonathan
$500 [15]
"Little Prince" author who disappeared while flying a WWII reconnaissance mission & was never found
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Jenny
$500 [5]
Charlie Rich came out from behind closed door with this, his only #1 pop hit
"The Most Beautiful Girl"

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS LOUISIANIANS ANIMALS RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS BEAUTIFUL "MUSIC" PHOTOGRAPHY
$200 [6]
Augustus Caesar renamed this Middle Eastern capital Julia Augusta Felix Berytus
Beirut
Jonathan
$200 [15]
In 1928, he was elected governor by the greatest margin in Louisiana history
Huey Long
Jonathan
$200 [1]
1 of the only 2 poisonous lizards in the U.S., both found in the Southwest
gila monster
Paul
$200 [7]
The ancient pagan symbol of eternity & divinity & NBC
peacock
Jonathan
$200 [12]
In 1967 folk singers Peter, Paul & Mary intoned "I Dig..." this
Rock and Roll Music
Paul
$600 [24]
Alfred Eisenstaedt is especially renowned for the photos he's taken since 1936 for this magainze
Life
Jonathan
$400 [2]
Capital of French Guiana which gave its name to a red pepper made from capsicum plants
Cayenne
Paul
$400 [16]
Though pardoned after the War of 1812, he returned to piracy & disappeared about 1821
Jean Lafitte
Paul
$800 [20]
The eggs of this extinct species, the world's heaviest bird, are the largest single cells known to science
elephant birds
Paul
$400 [8]
The # of points on a Mogen David
6
Jonathan
$400 [14]
This 1980 film starred Bruce Jenner, Valerie Perrine, & the Village People
Can't Stop the Music
Paul
$800 [22]
Later a director of the Sierra Club, he took his 1st picture of the Sierras with a box Brownie in 1916
Ansel Adams
Jonathan Paul
$600 [3]
While Bonn is the capital of West Germany, this is the capital of East Germany
Berlin
Jonathan
$600 [17]
Louisianians descended from original French or Spanish settlers are known by this term
Creole
Jonathan Paul
$1,000 [21]
Wolves in packs prey largely on ungulates, meaning animals having these
hooves
Paul
$600 [9]
Simon, son of Jonah, was renamed Petrus, this symbol upon which God would build his church
the rock
Jonathan
$800 [13]
Bob Parissi was the "white boy" who wrote this #1 hit for his group, Wild Cherry
"Play That Funky Music"
Jonathan
$1,000 [23]
Samuel F.B. Morse was among those who 1st informed America of this Frenchman's photographic "types"
Daguerre
Paul
DD $800 [4]
Riga, Vilnius & Tallinn are capitals of these 3 Soviet lands, which U.S. considers separate nations
Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia
Jonathan
$800 [18]
As a brigadier general, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard gave the order that began this
shelling of Fort Sumter
Paul
DD $800 [10]
Name of this Oriental mandala figure:
yin & yang
Jonathan
$1,000 [25]
According to the title of this 1974 song, when Kiki Dee carries a tune, she really carries a tune
"I've Got the Music in Me"
Jonathan
$1,000 [5]
Pres. Alfonsin has proposed moving this country's capital 475 mi. SW, to Patagonia
Argentina
Jonathan
$1,000 [19]
In or out of jail, he gave us folk songs like "Good Night Irene", "Rock Island Line" & "Midnight Special"
Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter)
Paul
$1,000 [11]
A bird leaving its cage has long symbolized the positive Christian attitude toward this sad event
death
Jonathan

Final Jeopardy!

TV WESTERNS

2 of only 3 westerns to achieve the #1 rating for a season

(2 of) Bonanza , Gunsmoke or Wagon Train

Jenny "What are Bonanza & Big Valley?" — wagered $200
Paul "What are Gunsmoke & Bonanza?" — wagered $5,300
Jonathan "What are "Gunsmoke &" Maverick?" — wagered $1,401

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