Show #842 1988-04-12 (taped 1987-12-15) Regular

Contestants

Dotty Craig — a nurse educator from Forty Fort, Pennsylvania

Ron Karr — a software engineer from Mountain View, California

Bob Beers — an attorney from Fairfax, Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $41,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $1,000 $3,400 $2,500 $5,000
2nd place: trip to Maui, Hawaii
$3,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Ron $-300 $800 $3,400 $5,001
New champion: $5,001
$2,800
8 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Dottie $-200 $1,500 $1,100 $100
3rd place: his and her watches from Daniel Mink
$1,100
11 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS COUNTRY CROONERS GAME SHOWS BLOOD HOLY "COW" FLAGS
$100 [23]
Puerto Rico's Don Q rum is named for him
Don Quixote
Bob
$100 [14]
With his band the Pridesmen, he's the "pride" of country music
Charley Pride
Dottie
$100 [22]
If Beulah the Buzzer beat your telling the "Truth", you then had to pay these
Truth or Consequences
Dottie
$100 [12]
Blood plasma consists almost entirely of this
water
Dottie
$100 [11]
The Random House Dictionary calls it a children's game involving shooting, chasing, & capturing
cowboys & Indians
Dottie
$200 [9]
Vexillology
the study of flags
Bob
$200 [16]
Mark Twain based her on Laura Hawkins, who lived across the street from him in Hannibal
Becky Thatcher
Bob
$200 [7]
Just for the record, his 1st 2 initials stand for Billy Joe
B.J. Thomas
Bob
$200 [17]
Survey says this game will return to the airways in September 1988, but without Richard Dawson
Family Feud
Bob
$200 [13]
From the Latin for "body", it's a blood cell
a corpuscle
Ron
$200 [10]
A form of leather, or what has to happen before other cow go seek
cowhide
Bob Ron Dottie
$400 [24]
The world's largest flagmaker, Annin & Co. of N.J., says this country's flag is the hardest to make
the United States
Ron
$400 [25]
This young stag is the title hero of Felix Salten's classic story
Bambi
Bob
$300 [4]
Butcher Holler was the home hollow of this "Honky Tonk Girl"
Loretta Lynn
Bob
$300 [8]
According to Merv Griffin, the original title of this show was "What's the Question?"
Jeopardy!
Bob
$300 [15]
Though it's among the 4 best known, only about 3% of the U.S. population belong to this blood group
AB
Bob
$300 [3]
The 3rd line of "Hey Diddle Diddle", it sounds like an attempt to get into Guinness
the cow jumped over the moon
Bob
DD $1,700 [27]
Only state flag of its shape, itssymbols represent state's name & order it entered union:
Ohio
Bob
$500 [26]
He stabs himself after admitting he "loved not wisely but too well"
Othello
Bob
$400 [5]
The Statler Brothers took their name from a regional brand of this paper product
facial tissue
$400 [18]
He's gone from cards on "Gambit" to dice on "High Rollers"
Wink Martindale
Dottie
$400 [20]
Septicemia is better known by this popular term
blood poisoning
Dottie
$400 [2]
As a verb, it means to make a monk of someone; as a noun, it's the hood they wear
a cowl
Bob
$500 [6]
Her 1987 win made her the only woman to win CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year 4 years in a row
Reba McEntire
Bob Ron
$500 [19]
Last names of the Burt & Bert who created "Win, Lose or Draw"
Burt Reynolds & Bert Convy
Dottie
$500 [21]
Where platelets dissolve into thromboplastin one of these may begin to form
a clot
Ron
$500 [1]
A chicken
coward

Double Jeopardy! Round

EARLY MAN WORLD WAR II BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS U.S. STATES ETIQUETTE SKIING & SKATING
$200 [7]
Neanderthals are credited as the 1st people to do this to their dead
bury them
Bob
$200 [6]
This country's Maginot Line was considered impenetrable, so the Germans simply went around it
France
Dottie
$200 [15]
Queen Victoria's famous remark after seeing a man imitate her
"We are not amused."
Dottie
$200 [1]
The capital of this state is named after Helena, Minnesota
Montana
Ron
$400 [13]
A "regret" reply must be in the same degree of formality as this
an invitation
Bob
$1,000 [22]
Short for Oslo's former name, it's a basic turn maneuver in which both skis are parallel at finish
Christie
Bob
$400 [20]
Genetic researchers have traced the lineage of our subspecies back to 1 woman on this continent
Africa
Bob
$400 [14]
In early 1943, the Soviets took some 90,000 German prisoners at the battle there
the Battle of Stalingrad
$400 [9]
This is the only quote in Bartlett's attributed to Greta Garbo
"I want to be alone."
Bob
$400 [2]
A city named for French-Canadian fur trapper Etiene Provost is in this state, far from French-speaking Canada
Utah
Dottie
$600 [16]
Amy Vanderbilt says it's an insult to the cook if you do this to the food before tasting it
put salt on it (salt or pepper, season it)
Bob Dottie
$800 [12]
Like the Nile Valley in Egypt, this valley in China is also called a "cradle of civilization"
the Yellow River
Bob
$600 [8]
Louis XVIII said, "Punctuality is the politeness of" these people
kings
$600 [3]
State with the highest state income tax rate, 13.5%, on taxable earned income over $26,000
New York
$800 [17]
The only excuse for a bride to have these typed would be some crippling accident, like a broken hand
thank you notes
Bob Dottie
$1,000 [21]
Species whose time span ran from about 1.6 million to 150,000 years ago
Homo erectus
$800 [10]
"Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night" is listed under this lyricist's name
Stephen Sondheim
Ron
$800 [4]
Great American athlete Jim Thorpe is buried in the town named for him in this state
Pennsylvania
Bob
$1,000 [18]
It's the usual minimum number for pallbearers
4
Bob Ron
DD $1,200 [19]
Prehistory can be divided into these 3 ages, each named for a different tool material
Stone, Iron & Bronze
Ron
DD $2,500 [11]
On December 17, 1903, these 2 telegrammed: "Success... inform press. Home Christmas."
Orville & Wilbur Wright
Bob
$1,000 [5]
The Old Man of the Mountains, carved by nature into a mountainside, is an attraction of this N.E. state
New Hampshire
Ron Dottie

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPE

This capital some 1500 miles from London has surpassed it as the most populous city in Europe

Moscow

Dottie "What is Stockholm?" — wagered $1,000
Bob "What is Moscow?" — wagered $2,500
Ron "What is Moscow?" — wagered $1,601

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