Show #723 1987-10-28 (taped 1987-08-24) Regular

Contestants

Martha Adams — a medical transcriptionist from San Antonio, Texas

Dave Higgins — a stage hand originally from Iowa

Richard Miller — a psychiatrist from North Hollywood, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,200)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Richard	$2,100	$4,500	$9,300	$11,199 2-day champion: $23,399	$9,400 25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Dave	$600	$800	$-2,800	$-2,800 3rd place: Magnavox VCR	$-1,000 7 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Martha	$500	$1,100	$3,700	$0 2nd place: Marcy home fitness center & Converse athletic wear	$4,700 15 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY	CINEMATIC ROSES	CRABS	WORLD RELIGION	SPORTS	ACCORDING TO SPOCK
$100 [3] Labor leader in the AFL, John Lewis resigned in 1935 & helped form this rival organization the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) Richard Dave	$100 [4] Sean Connery "monk"eyed around in this 1986 mystery The Name of the Rose Richard	$100 [9] The huge front pincer of this crab is used for courting females & fighting, not for playing the violin the fiddler crab Dave	$200 [12] Orthodox sikhs wear this headgear turbans Richard	$300 [1] Of a flyweight, bantamweight or featherweight boxer, the 1 who weighs most featherweight Richard	$300 [15] Of the 1st, 2nd or 3rd child, the one that tends to be the least outgoing, as parents fuss too much over it the 1st Dave Martha
$200 [16] American frontiersman who worked as advance man for the Transylvania Co. Daniel Boone Richard	$200 [8] This 1980 documentary interviews 5 "Rosie"s who worked in factories during WWII Rosie the Riveter Martha	$200 [25] It's Latin for "crab" not for "moonchild" cancer Richard	$300 [6] These ascetics chant to reach religious ecstasy, but they're better known for "whirling" dervishes Richard	$400 [2] The maximum allowable weight of a standard bowling ball 16 pounds Richard	$400 [14] Overdressing a baby for warmth will cause its body to lose the ability to adjust to this temperature changes Richard
$300 [17] White House press secretary wounded by John Hinckley, March 30, 1981 James Brady Dave	$300 [10] This 1935 film starred Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald, not Buddy Sorrell & Sally Rogers Rose Marie Martha	$300 [20] Making homes in the shells of live oysters, the smallest crabs are named for this pod vegetable a pea crab Richard Dave	$400 [7] This great religious leader was born circa 563 B.C. near the India-Nepal border Buddha Dave	$500 [5] Used to train riders in Rome, it's said to have the longest history of all gymnastic equipment the horse (or side horse) Richard Martha	$500 [13] Occurring in boys 4 times as often as girls, this nighttime condition often lasts until age 12 bedwetting Martha
$400 [22] The name of Robert Livingston's estate, Fulton named a steamship after it Clermont Richard	$400 [11] Anna Magnani won an Oscar for "Best Actress" in this 1955 film adaptation of a T. Williams play The Rose Tattoo Richard	$400 [19] After a blue crab sheds its old shell, & before the new one hardens, it can be sold as this popular edible a soft shell crab Martha	$500 [21] The Russian Orthodox Church had missionaries here since the 1790s, & a resident bishop for Sitka in 1841 Alaska Richard	—	—
$500 [24] Named Supreme Commander of NATO in 1950, in 1953 he became Commander in Chief of American Armed Forces Dwight David Eisenhower Dave	DD $400 [23] "Rosie", a '82 biographical movie made for TV, stars Sandra Locke as the singer heard here:"This old house once knew his children /This old house once knew..." Rosemary Clooney Richard	$500 [18] Found only off the coast of Japan, this largest of all crustaceans is named for the arachnid it resembles a spider crab Martha	—	—	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

ISLANDS	GAMES	SHAKESPEAREAN ROYALTY	NEW MEXICANS	FOLK MUSIC	KILLER WORDS
$200 [14] This tiny British colony in the Atlantic is famous for knee-length shorts & pink coral beaches Bermuda Martha	$200 [1] Both pinata hitters & donkey tail pinners have to wear one blindfolds Richard	$200 [4] Hamlet was Prince of Denmark but Fortinbras was prince of this other Scandinavian country Norway Martha	$200 [12] This "King of the innkeepers" learned the hotel trade working in his father's inn in San Antonio Conrad Hilton Martha	$200 [11] In this French song, the singer tells the skylark, "I will pluck your head, neck, wings, legs..." Alouette Richard	$200 [9] Febricide is not the killing of February, but this common flu symptom fever Martha
$400 [19] This huge island is North America's northernmost landmass Greenland Dave	$400 [2] Of rope rings, knives, or cards, equipment you need to play quoits rope rings Martha	$400 [5] In "Troilus and Cressida", Troilus' father is king of this Troy	$400 [18] Author buried at Taos, his "Lady Chatterley's Lover" did much to bury Victorian morals D. H. Lawrence Richard	$400 [17] Abdullah Bulbul Amir fought for the shah, while Ivan Petrofski Shevar fought for him the czar Richard	$400 [10] On Sundays in many Spanish-speaking countries, aficionados witness tauricide, which is this the killing of the bull Richard
$600 [20] To preserve the endangered tortoises, Ecuador has declared parts of these islands a national park the Galapagos Richard	$600 [3] Number of squares on a checkerboard that are used in the game of checkers 32 Richard	$600 [6] At the start of the play named for him, this villain is the Duke of Gloucester Richard III Martha	$600 [25] Called the USA's foremost female painter for 70 years, she was noted for paintings of animal skulls Georgia O'Keeffe Richard	$600 [21] In record albums he was touted as "My Son, the Folk Singer", "My Son, the Celebrity" & "My Son, the Nut" Allan Sherman Dave	$600 [13] In medical terms, cytocide is the killing of these cells Richard
$1,000 [23] Country whose territory includes parts of both New Guinea & Borneo, the world's 2nd & 3rd largest islands Indonesia Dave Martha	$800 [24] The 3 suits in this game are bamboos, characters & dots mahjong Richard	DD $1,000 [7] 2 of the 3 characters in "Macbeth" who were kings of Scotland both in the play & in history (2 of) Macbeth, Duncan & Malcolm Martha	$800 [26] 1-time Albuquerque resident who, in 1944, became Pulitzer Prize-winning WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle Dave Martha	$800 [27] Only state mentioned in the cowboy song, "Git Along, Little Dogies" Wyoming Martha	$800 [15] As the blade of the guillotine fell, Louis XVI fell victim to this, the killing of kings regicide Martha
DD $1,800 [22] 1 of 2 island groups in west & s.w. of Portugal that are actually part of the country (1 of) the Azores & the Madeiras Dave	$1,000 [29] According to Hoyle, up to this many people can play stud poker with a single deck 10 Dave	$1,000 [8] Play in which the king of Naples is shipwrecked by a sorcerer Tempest Richard	$1,000 [30] Gen. Patton thought his WWII cartoons were a slur on military honor, but he won a Pulitzer Prize for them anyway Bill Mauldin	$1,000 [28] Pete Seeger's 1963 hit decrying the lack of individuality in the typical suburban housing tract Little Boxes Richard Martha	$1,000 [16] From Latin for "bee", it's the killing of bees, whether they "bee" killers or not apicide Martha

Final Jeopardy!

COMEDIANS

To win a bet with Frankie Laine, this man composed 350 songs in just 1 week

Steve Allen

Martha "Who is _____" — wagered $3,700

Richard "Who is Steve Allen?" — wagered $1,899

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