Show #1209 1989-11-30 (taped 1989-08-23) Regular

Contestants

Pat Curry — a homemaker from Irvington, New Jersey

Cecil Reniche — a salesperson originally from Naperville, Illinois

Jeff Slike — an ATM repairman originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $3,000 $3,800 $10,000 $5,000
3-day champion: $31,300
$10,000
23 R, 1 W
Cecil $100 $2,100 $6,900 $0
3rd place: a Benrus watch+
$6,500
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Pat $500 $1,600 $2,000 $500
2nd place: a trip for 2 to San Francisco+
$3,000
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

STATE NICKNAMES JEWELRY HISTORICAL FILMMS MATHEMATICS POTENT POTABLES ANIMAL GROUPS
$100 [6]
"The Spud State"
Idaho
Jeff
$100 [22]
This glamorous family was in the jewelry business in Budapest, as Eva could tell you, dahling
the Gabors
Cecil
$100 [1]
In England this George C. Scott soldier saga was subtitled "Lust for Glory"
Patton
Jeff
$100 [21]
In the equation y=2x+3, 2 & 3 are called constants & the y & x are called this because they can change
variables
Pat
$100 [11]
The potent potable you need to make coq au vin bourguignonne
burgundy
Cecil
$100 [16]
If these spineless sea creatures smack of trouble, it's because a group of them is called a smack
a jellyfish
Cecil
$200 [7]
"The Creole State"
Louisiana
Cecil
$200 [23]
The name of this blue-green stone comes from the Latin for "sea-water"
aquamarine
Cecil
$200 [2]
The 1955 film "Prince of Players" featured John Derek as this "dramatic" assassin
John Wilkes Booth
Cecil
$200 [25]
Number of inches in half a yard
18
Pat
$200 [12]
The part of an egg that goes into a Ramos fizz
the white
Jeff
$200 [17]
A group of moles, or 1 of Hercules' 12 tasks
a labor
$300 [8]
Dan Quayle would know that this state calls itself "The Crossroads of America"
Indiana
Jeff
$300 [24]
Gilles Legare was the personal jeweler to this heavily bejeweled "Sun King"
Louis XIV
Jeff
$300 [3]
In 1933 this solitary Swede played "Queen Christina" of Sweden
Greta Garbo
Jeff
$300 [28]
The 3rd power of a number, or in geometry, a solid with 6 faces
a cube
Cecil
$300 [13]
There's a sleeping hombre wearing a sombrero on the label of this Mexican coffee-flavored liqueur
Kahlúa
Jeff
$400 [19]
Called a skein when they're flying, a flock of geese on the ground is called this
a gaggle
Pat
$400 [9]
It's called the "Mother of Presidents" because 8 of our chief executives were born there
Virginia
Jeff
$400 [26]
This metal was predominant in ancient Egyptian jewelry--Tut, Tut
gold
Pat
$400 [4]
"Anne of the Thousand Days" dramatized the tragic romance of this Anne
Anne Boleyn
Jeff
$400 [29]
It's larger than an acute angle and smaller than an obtuse one
a right angle
Cecil
$400 [14]
Glemlivet, Glennfidich & Ballatine's are all brands of this
Scotch
Jeff
DD $500 [18]
A pitying of these birds is what you traditionally receive on the 2nd day of Christmas
turtledoves
Cecil
$500 [10]
Home of Arbor Day & J. Stanley Morton, this plains state is "The Tree Planters State"
Nebraska
Cecil
$500 [27]
The largest deposit of this fossil tree resin used in jewelry are found beside the Baltic Sea
amber
Cecil
$500 [5]
Charlton Heston drove the Moors from Spain in this film & still had time for amor with Sophia Loren
El Cid
Pat
$500 [30]
Knowing a bit can be either 0 or 1 should tell you bit is short for this type of digit
binary
Cecil
$500 [15]
The type of liquor you need to make a Tom Collins
gin
Jeff
$500 [20]
A group of owls, or a group of Lords or Commoners
a parliament
Jeff Cecil

Double Jeopardy! Round

STARTS WITH "L" PRESIDENTIAL SONS SWITZERLAND FICTION BROADWAY LYRICS 7 WONDERS
$200 [6]
The most elusive creature we know, its nickname is Nessie
the Loch Ness Monster
Jeff
$200 [13]
Dwight Doud was the name of this president's 1st-born son who died before age 3 in 1920
Eisenhower
Cecil
$200 [26]
This type of farming is the most important branch of agriculture
dairy farming
Pat
$200 [21]
If you were a Red Guard in 1960s China, you probably had a copy of this book in your pocket
Chairman Mao's Red Book
Pat
$200 [9]
"Once in love with" this girl, "always in love with this girl"
Amy
Jeff
$200 [1]
Besides the mausoleum at Helicarnassus, the other wonder whose main function was as a tomb
the pyramid at Giza
Cecil
$400 [7]
A "romantic" name for a trophy with 2 handles
a loving cup
Pat
$400 [14]
His 1987 autobiography was entitled "On the Outside Looking In"
Michael Reagan
Cecil
$400 [22]
The alternate title of her book is "How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall & Huston & almost lost my mind!"
Katharine Hepburn
Jeff
$400 [10]
"By right" she "should be taken out and hung for the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue!"
Eliza Doolittle
Jeff
$400 [2]
A little shorter than the Statue of Liberty, it was also a hollow statue
the Colossus of Rhodes
Jeff Cecil
$600 [8]
An "Addams Family" character, or what he might do when he walks
Lurch
Jeff
$600 [15]
In the late 1940s actress Faye Emerson was married to this president's son, Elliott
FDR
Jeff
$600 [23]
French publishing house known for its "Grand Dictionnaire" & its "Gastronomique"
Larousse
Pat
$600 [16]
Line that follows "We got volleyball and ping pong and a lot of dandy games! What ain't we got?"
We ain't got dames
Jeff
DD $800 [3]
If you wonder where this wonder was, it was on the bank of the Euphrates
the Hanging Gardens (of Babylon)
Cecil
$800 [11]
It means treating someone like a celebrity, not like a jungle beast
to lionize
Cecil
$800 [18]
This son of Gerald Ford played Andy Richards on "The Young & the Restless"
Stephen Ford
Jeff Pat
DD $1,000 [24]
Title of the 1858 book in which you'd you'd see this illustration:
Gray's Anatomy
Pat
$800 [17]
Completes the line "Pardon me, miss, but I've never done this..."
with a real life girl
Pat
$800 [4]
The only 1 of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World that had a fire going at the top of it
the Lighthouse at Alexandria
Jeff
$1,000 [12]
This word for sleight of hand comes from Middle French for "light of hand"
legerdemain
Cecil
$1,000 [19]
Lincoln's only son to reach adulthood, he served as Secretary of War under Garfield & Arthur
Robert
Pat
$1,000 [25]
His 1968 book "The Teachings of Don Juan", was based on the practices of the Yaqui Indians
Carlos Castaneda
Jeff
$1,000 [20]
Title character who's "given us the drive again, to make the south revive again"
Mame
Jeff
$1,000 [5]
If you were "as rich as" this king, you could help fund a Temple of Artemis just like he did
Croesus
Cecil Pat

Final Jeopardy!

THE POST OFFICE

From 1837-1970 this animal was on the seal of the Post Office Department

a horse

Pat "What is an eagle?" — wagered $1,500
Cecil "What is an eagle?" — wagered $6,900
Jeff "What is the eagle?" — wagered $5,000

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