Show #1181 1989-10-23 (taped 1989-06-27) Regular

Contestants

Jay Wish — a physician from Shaker Heights, Ohio

Roberta Simon — a lawyer from San Francisco, California

Charley Horan — a photographic representative from Manhattan Beach, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $25,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Charley $2,100 $1,900 $3,900 $7,800
2nd place: Ashley bedroom group and Waverly bedroom ensemble
$3,900
16 R, 3 W
Roberta $600 $100 $1,300 $2,600
3rd place: Oneida silversmith gift certificate & Nintendo system featuring Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune
$900
7 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jay $1,200 $4,600 $4,000 $7,801
New champion: $7,801
$5,300
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES WORLD RELIGION SPORTS & GAMES INSECTS BRITISH MUSICALS STARTS & ENDS WITH "T"
$100 [7]
Jackie Kennedy's favorite First Lady was this down-to-earth native of Independence, Missouri
Bess Truman
Jay
$100 [16]
From the Greek "Katechess", meaning to teach orally, it's a book of instruction
catechism
Jay
$100 [1]
One of Japan's favorite sports, it's called "besuboro" there
baseball
Charley
$100 [6]
Type of beetle that comes in species like pea, green & grain, as well as boll
the weevil
Jay
$100 [21]
"Winnie", a musical about him, featured a tank & a live bulldog
Winston Churchill
Charley
$100 [12]
The name of this brand of chewing gum means "three teeth"
Trident
Jay
$200 [8]
Her loyalty to the government was questioned because she was a Southerner
Mary Todd Lincoln
Roberta
$200 [17]
Term for Hindu priests, it's also the name of the highest Hindu caste
Brahmin
Charley
$200 [2]
A song from "Porgy & Bess" is about this dice game, invented by blacks in 19th c. New Orleans
craps
$200 [22]
"Liza of Lambeth", the 1st novel by this "Of Human Bondage" author, became a musical in 1976
W. Somerset Maugham
Jay
$200 [13]
A secret date to Bill & Coo in some secluded rendezvous
a tryst
Jay
$300 [9]
She met her future husband while she was a teacher at Whittier High School in California
Pat Nixon
Jay
$300 [18]
Christian denomination that uses the "Book of Common Prayer"
the Anglican Church (or Episcopalian)
Jay
$300 [3]
Teams in this aquatic sport wear either white or blue caps, while their goalkeepers wear red
water polo
Charley
$400 [24]
Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's 1st Biblical musical was about this man & his brothers
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Jay
$300 [14]
Called "Xizang" in China, this region is often referred to as "the roof of the world"
Tibet
Charley
$400 [10]
When Claudia Alta Taylor was 2 years old, her nurse said she was as pretty as one of these
a lady bird
Roberta
$400 [19]
According to the Hebrew Bible this "Anointed One" would be a descendant of King David
the Messiah
Jay
$400 [4]
France's greatest sporting event, this annual 2,500 mi. bicycle race takes nearly a mo. to complete
the Tour de France
Charley
$500 [25]
Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's 2nd Biblical musical depicted his last 7 days on earth
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jay
$400 [15]
This person will mount your marlin or stuff that stag you bagged
a taxidermist
Jay
$500 [11]
In 1776 this future First Lady urged her husband John "to remember the ladies," or else...
Abigail Adams
Charley
$500 [20]
Eastern way of life that holds as its highest virtue the respect of children for their parents
Confucianism
Charley Roberta
$500 [5]
Italian game in which a ball called a "pallino" is the target for other balls that are hit or thrown
bocce
Charley
DD $1,000 [23]
This musical, set in 19th c. London, featuredthe following:"In this life, one thing counts /In the bank, large amounts /I'm afraid these don't grow on trees..."
Oliver
Jay
$500 [26]
It's what the Boy Scouts & weatherbeaten cowboys call a newcomer
a tenderfoot
Jay

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 20TH CENTURY LITERARY SETTINGS ART THE 50 STATES DANCERS PALACES
$200 [2]
He was expelled from the USSR in 1929 & assassinated in Mexico in 1940
Trotsky
Charley
$200 [1]
Nick & Nora Charles of "The Thin Man" did their sophisticated sleuthing in this city
New York
Charley
$200 [13]
Andrea del Sarto's painting of this meal is far less famous than da Vinci's
the Last Supper
Jay
$200 [8]
Parts of Big Cypress Nat'l Preserve & Everglades Nat'l Park are included in this state's Monroe Co.
Florida
Jay
$200 [20]
Nicknamed "Bojangles", he danced with Shirley Temple in 4 films and choreographed a 5th
(Bill) Robinson
Charley
$200 [24]
A mob of Parisian women vandalized this magnificent palace in October 1789
Versailles
Charley
$400 [3]
England & France lost most of their influence in the Mideast as a result of this 1956 "crisis"
the Suez crisis
Roberta
$400 [4]
Aldous Huxley novel set in London & New Mexico in the year 632 "after Ford"
Brave New World
Jay
$600 [18]
He painted frescoes on the walls of the Sistine Chapel a few years before "The Birth of Venus"
Botticelli
Roberta Jay
$400 [9]
State named for England's Queen Elizabeth I
Virginia
Roberta
$400 [21]
The 1976 joint autobiography "The Two of Us" was written by singer Tony Martin & this dancer, his wife
Cyd Charisse
Charley
$400 [27]
The name of this Moorish fortress-palace means "the red house" in Arabic
the Alhambra
$600 [5]
Mao Tse-Tung followed the failure of "The Great Leap Forward" with this "revolution"
the Cultural Revolution
Charley
$800 [12]
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Thornton Wilder set in Peru in the early 18th century
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Charley Jay
$800 [19]
He painted portraits of Cocteau, Diaghilev & Gertrude Stein
Picasso
Charley Roberta
$600 [10]
This Rocky Mountain state's flag features a white bison on a blue background
Wyoming
Charley Roberta
$600 [22]
On their 1950s TV programs, they urged us "to put a little fun in your life, try dancing"
the Murrays (Arthur & Kathryn)
Jay
$600 [28]
Stormed during the October revolution, this Leningrad palace is now part of the Hermitage
the Winter Palace
$800 [6]
In the 1950s this secret society terrorized both white & black residents of Kenya
the Mau Mau
DD $1,000 [11]
Dante's "The Divine Comedy" is set in these 3 otherworldly places
Purgatory, Hell & Heaven
Roberta
$1,000 [23]
Sir John Tenniel drew cartoons for "Punch" but is best known for illustrating this author's books
Lewis Carroll
Jay
$800 [15]
It calls itself "The Heart of Dixie"
Alabama
Roberta Jay
$800 [25]
Discovered by Gene Kelly, this French leading lady danced with Fred Astaire in "Daddy Longlegs"
Leslie Caron
Charley
$1,000 [7]
This organization was established bu the Treaty of Rome in 1957
the European Common Market
Roberta
$1,000 [14]
The only one of Shakespeare's plays that does not take place in any known city or country
The Tempest
Jay
DD $2,000 [17]
Mountain depicted in the 19th century print seen here:
Mount Fuji
Jay
$1,000 [16]
The power drill was 1st used in the U.S. to dig the Hoosac Tunnel through the Berkshires in this state
Massachusetts
Jay
$1,000 [26]
"Go into Your Dance" was the only joint film appearance by Al Jolson & this tap-dancing wife
Ruby Keeler

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

After Haiti, it's the oldest independent black republic in the world

Liberia

Roberta "What is Liberia?" — wagered $1,300
Charley "What is Lyberia?" — wagered $3,900
Jay "What is Liberia?" — wagered $3,801

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