Show #832 1988-03-29 (taped 1987-12-08) Regular

Steven Popper game 2.

Contestants

Terry Sheldon — an entrepreneur from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mary Haney — an assistant director for an alumni association from Brooklyn, New York

Steven Popper — an economist originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $1,500 $2,800 $13,400 $15,500
2-day champion: $25,700
$10,800
28 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Mary $-200 $-300 $500 $0
3rd place: a side-by-side refrigerator/freezer + Jeopardy! box game
$500
6 R, 6 W
Terry $1,600 $4,400 $5,600 $10,100
2nd place: a trip for 2 to Tampa, Florida + Jeopardy! box game
$4,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE WOMEN IN HISTORY COUNTRY CROONERS WEDDINGS LEATHER "BROAD" MINDED
$100 [3]
Something described as argentiferous contains or produces this metal
silver
Steven Terry
$100 [1]
In 1873 Susan Blow opened the 1st public kindergarten in the U.S. in this Missouri city
St. Louis
Steven
$100 [26]
He disdains the pop sound, so his songs like "Amarillo By Morning" are "straight" country
George Straight
$100 [17]
Commoners could be lined up by sex & paired off for mass marriages among these South American Indians
the Incas
Terry
$100 [10]
In 1372, a royal charter was granted to this city's leather-sellers company
London
Steven
$100 [13]
Street that runs past Columbia University & Lincoln Center & through Times Square
Broadway
Mary
$200 [6]
Of Andy Panda, Mickey Mouse or Droopy Dog, 1 who belongs to most numerous order of mammals
Mickey Mouse
Terry
$200 [2]
Born Manya Sklodowska, she was the 1st director of Paris' Insitut du radium
Marie Curie
Terry
$300 [28]
Nobody sang "Nobody" like she did in 1982
Sylvia
$200 [19]
Originally, this may have been adopted to hide the bride from evil spirits
the veil
Steven
$200 [12]
Term for a place where hide is converted into leather
a tannery
Steven
$200 [14]
As a noun or adjective, this refers to carpet
broadloom
Terry
$300 [7]
A lunar one of these is equivalent to 29.53 days, a solar one, 30.43
a month
Steven
$300 [4]
Born a commoner, Farah Diba married this man in 1959
the Shah of Iran
Steven Mary Terry
$400 [29]
Because he lacks a true singer's voice, this host of "Fandango" was nicknamed "Whispering Bill"
Bill Anderson
Terry
$300 [23]
At a Jewish ceremony, this symbolizes the couple's future home
the canopy (or the chuppah)
Steven Terry
$300 [15]
Tooling is done to add this to the leather's surface
a design
Terry
$300 [20]
Types of tobacco such as Connecticut cigar binder & Pennsylvania cigar filler
broad leaf
Terry
$400 [8]
It's the opposite of a planet's aphelion
perihelion
Steven
$400 [5]
18th c. planter Eliza Pinckney was such a patriot that this pres. asked to be a pallbearer at her funeral
George Washington
Terry
DD $1,000 [27]
Born blind, he sangthe following, which hit No. 1 on the country & No. 5 on the pop charts:"Well you can walk out on me tonight /If you think that it ain't feeling right..."
Ronnie Milsap
Terry
$400 [24]
In the Catholic Church, matrimony is called one of these, from Latin "to consecrate"
a sacrament
Steven
$400 [16]
This leather, produced from the lower layer of sheepskin, is used by carwashers
chamois
Mary
$400 [21]
A tense, twilled napped woolen with a smooth face
broadcloth
Steven
$500 [9]
Greek letter identifying the antibody-bearing globulin in blood protein
gamma
Terry
$500 [11]
The 1st president of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Terry
$500 [25]
The traditional "Here Comes the Bride" s actually "The Bridal Chorus" from this composer's opera "Lohengrin"
(Richard) Wagner
Mary Terry
$500 [18]
Moroccan leather is from this type of animal
a goat
$500 [22]
A piece of paper printed one just one surface
broadside
Terry

Double Jeopardy! Round

GREEK DRAMA MILITARY MEN THE LOW COUNTRIES THE PLANT KINGDOM ADJECTIVES MOVIE TRIVIA
$200 [5]
The only complete Greek satyr play which survives today is named for this 1-eyed monster
Cyclops
Mary
$200 [2]
Gen. MacArthur's father was once military gov. of this country Mac Ar Mac Ar Mac Ar Mac Ar Mac Ar Mac Ar Mac ArMacArthurrnedn
the Philippines
Steven
$200 [29]
In 1960, Belgium granted independence to this African country
Zaire (the Belgian Congo)
Steven
$200 [8]
The broad, flat portion of a leaf, or a single piece of grass
a blade
Steven
$200 [23]
Apt adjective for a box of Wheaties, a good piecrust or a weird person
flaky
Mary Terry
$200 [25]
Orson Welles won an Oscar for co-writing this, his 1st film
Citizen Kane
Terry
$400 [7]
Prince Neoptolemus, son of this famous "heel", is featured in "Philoctetes"
Achilles
Mary Terry
$400 [3]
Killed while resisting capture, 21-year old Frank Luke Jr. was 2nd only to him as a U.S. WWI ace
Eddie Rickenbacker
Steven
$400 [6]
While Belgium & the Netherlands are kingdoms, Luxembourg is this
a grand duchy
Steven Mary
$400 [11]
Paleobotony is the study of plants in this form
fossils
Steven
$400 [1]
Having most of the air removed before being hermetically sealed, like ground coffee
vacuum-packed
Steven
$400 [26]
The 1st shot of Marlene Dietrich in Hitchcock's "Stage Fright" focuses on these, her most famous asset
the legs
Steven
$600 [13]
In "The Trojan Women" this femme fatale is sentenced to "The vile death earned by her vile life"
Helen (of Troy)
Steven
$800 [9]
He designed a saddle adopted & used by the cavalry & headed the Union Army early in the Civil War
McClellan
Terry
$600 [16]
Of the 3 Low Countries, the 1 that has only a single official language
the Netherlands
Steven
$600 [12]
Turpentine is most commonly a by-product of this tree
a pine tree
Steven
$600 [19]
In cooking, this adjective usually follows a noun & tells us the food is covered with blazing liquor
flambe
Terry
$600 [27]
The title of a 1980 Oscar-winning film said "Moscow Does Not Believe in" these
tears
Mary
$800 [14]
Written & set during this war, "Lysistrata" proposed ending it with a sex strike
the Peloponnesian War
Steven
$1,000 [10]
An unsuccessful candidate for West Point, he was eventually named Air Force Chief of Staff in 1961
General Curtis LeMay
$1,000 [18]
This area of Belgium on the North Sea was home to painters such as Rubens, Breughel & van Eyck
Flanders
Mary
$800 [20]
It's the term applied to the dark center of certain flowers or the sunken buds on certain tubers
the eye
Steven
$800 [22]
As a noun, it's Philo Vance, but as an adjective, it's a type of novel about him
detective
Steven
$800 [28]
This European upheaval was the setting for Lillian Dish's classic silent film "Orphans of the Storm"
the French Revolution
Steven
$1,000 [15]
In Aeschylus' play, this title character is chained to a rock in the Scythian wilderness
Prometheus
Mary
DD $2,000 [4]
Church which expelled Rev. War General N. Greene for unseemly interest in the military
the Qukaer Church (the Society of friends)
Steven
DD $2,000 [17]
The 3 capitals of the 3 low countries
Luxembourg, Brussels & The Hague (Amsterdam also acceptable)
Steven
$1,000 [21]
This flower organ is made up of an ovary, style, & stigma
the pistil
Steven Mary Terry
$1,000 [24]
From the Old French for "sweet", it's a tone sweet to the ear
dulcet

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS

He was the last U.S. president to take the oath of office on March 4th

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Mary "Who is Lincoln?" — wagered $500
Terry "Who was F.D.R.?" — wagered $4,500
Steven "Who was F.D. Roosevelt?" — wagered $2,100

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