Show #729 1987-11-05 (taped 1987-08-25) Regular

Kate Waits game 3.Clues from this game heard in the background of the 1989 Tom Hanks–Carrie Fisher movieThe 'Burbs.

Contestants

Michael Moreno — an attorney from Providence, Rhode Island

Hallie Greenburg — a registered nurse originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Kate Waits — a law professor from Albany, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,802)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kate $500 $2,100 $5,800 $10,001
3-day champion: $37,803
$5,900
25 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Hallie $1,800 $2,600 $5,000 $9,000
2nd place: Keller dining room furniture & Villeroy & Boch china
$4,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Michael $800 $1,400 $4,200 $8,400
3rd place: Daniel Mink his & hers watches
$4,200
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANIMALS HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES HOW TO... TV COPS BODIES OF WATER DIAMONDS
$100 [4]
The migration of these whales from Baja California to the Arctic is the longest of any mammal
gray whales
Kate
$100 [15]
The 1st bank holiday of the year in England, it's the 1st day banks are closed in the U.S. too
New Year's Day
Kate
$100 [12]
Shoot off a gun, open the gate, or say "On your mark, get set, go"
how do you start a race
Hallie
$100 [8]
Rank of TV cops T.J. Hooker, Joe Friday & Pepper Anderson
sergeant
Kate
$100 [22]
The 4 highest waterfalls in the U.S. are all in this national park
Yosemite
Kate
$100 [3]
Sport that's played on a diamond
baseball
Hallie
$200 [5]
While female ducks are just called ducks male ducks are called this
drake
Hallie
$200 [16]
Roman Catholics celebrate all of them, known & unknown, on November 1
saints (All Saints Day)
Michael
$200 [19]
Spin 73 plates simultaneously, walk 85 miles in 24 hours backwards, or be the largest lizard on Earth
get in the Guinness Book of World Records
Hallie
$200 [9]
This 7-year-old show had its last roll call on May 5, 1987
Hill Street Blues
Kate Michael
$200 [23]
Of Democrat, Republican or Liberal, the 1 that's a U.S. river
Republican
Hallie
$200 [10]
Financier, supersalesman & bon vivant known for handing out $100 bills
"Diamond Jim" Brady
Michael
$300 [6]
The 1st Britons to see this Australian oddity thought a duck's beak had been sewn to a mammal body
platypus
Kate
$400 [28]
It's the next federal holiday after Washington's Birthday
Memorial Day
Kate
$300 [20]
Use a confederate, deal seconds, or place secret markings on the backs
cheat at cards
Hallie
$300 [1]
The late night lineup on CBS includes reruns of this NBC series starring Fred Dryer
Hunter
Kate
$300 [24]
A make of car is named for this country's Isuzu River, & we're not lying
Japan
Kate
$300 [11]
Song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is from this musical
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
Kate
$400 [13]
Burrowing marsupials like the wombat have pouches that open toward this direction to keep dirt out
downward (underneath, toward the bottom)
Hallie
$500 [27]
In 1987, these 2 "days", both beginning with "F", fell on June 14 & June 21
Flag Day & Father's Day
Michael
$400 [21]
Draw a vertical line, then from its top, center & bottom points draw short lines to the right
how do you draw the letter E
Kate
$400 [2]
FOX TV's "21 Jump Street" puts undercover cops into these institutions
high schools
Michael
$400 [25]
The 2 seas connected by the Suez Canal
Mediterranean & Red
Kate
$400 [17]
Bambi & Thumper are 2 women who attack James Bond in this film
Diamonds Are Forever
Hallie Michael
$500 [14]
Measuring up to 5 ft. across, this "royal" arthropod is a prime Alaska catch
Alaskan king crab
Kate Hallie
$500 [29]
Remain calm, float with arms stretched out at right angles to body, slowly roll to firmer ground
avoid sinking into quicksand
Kate Hallie
$500 [7]
Formerly Howard Cunningham, he plays sheriff Amos Tupper on "Murder, She Wrote"
Tom Bosley
Hallie
$500 [26]
West Germany is building a canal which will link these 2 major European rivers
Rhine & Danube
Michael
$500 [18]
On "Night Court", she played the caustic, chain-smoking bailiff
Selma Diamond
Kate

Double Jeopardy! Round

1945 NEBRASKANS ART BUSINESS & INDUSTRY BIOGRAPHIES RUBIES
$200 [13]
Because of rationing, U.S. citizens crossed into this country at Windsor to buy meat & eggs
Canada
Hallie
$200 [8]
Future president born Leslie Lynch King Jr., July 14, 1913 in Omaha
Gerald Ford
Michael
$200 [3]
Quick on the draw, Max Beckmann painted the "Sinking of" this ship the year it happened, 1912
the Titanic
Kate
$200 [22]
In the McDonald's corporate "think tank", executives float on this type of bed to brainstorm
waterbed
Kate
$200 [20]
"Duce!"
Benito Mussolini
Michael
$200 [15]
"The people...who put me in the position I'm in will never let the...facts come...to the world" said this assassin
Jack Ruby
Kate
$400 [9]
On May 8, Allied forces celebrated V-E Day, which stood for this
Victory in Europe
Kate
$400 [26]
Hollywood's highest-paid star in his day was this silent screen comic whose trademark was his specs
Harold Lloyd
Kate
$400 [10]
Like his father before him, Alexander the Great appointed Apelles as this
court artist/painter
Kate
$400 [27]
You don't need to be a soda jerk to use 1 of these pens that are making a steady comeback in the 1980s
fountain pen
Kate
$400 [21]
"How Sweet It Is"
Jackie Gleason
Hallie
$400 [16]
Saying "Her price is far above rubies", the Bible asks, "Who can find a virtuous" one
woman
Kate
$600 [5]
Harlan Fiske Stone administered oath of office to both these presidents in 1945
FDR & Harry Truman
Kate
$600 [25]
Only the 2nd Democratic congressman from Nebraska, he was his party's nominee for president 3 times
William Jennings Bryan
Kate
$600 [11]
Branch of art for which Donatello was known
sculpture
$600 [28]
In Sept. 1986, clothing magnate Aldo Gucci was sentenced to 1 year in prison & fined $30,000 for this offense
tax evasion
Hallie
$600 [4]
"The Sun King"
Louis XIV
Kate Hallie Michael
DD $500 [17]
Avoiding "Let's Spend the Night Together", many radio stations played this flip side which made #1:
"Ruby Tuesday"
Kate
$800 [2]
Time said this Joe Rosenthal photo was easily the most widely printed of WWII
the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima
Hallie
$800 [24]
Influenced by her own Nebraska childhood, she wrote "O Pioneers!", "My Antonia" & "A Lost Lady"
Willa Cather
Kate
$800 [12]
Under the name "Phiz", Hablot Browne provided illustrations for this author known as "Boz"
Charles Dickens
Michael
DD $1,000 [29]
3 of the 5 brands of sneakers that topped U.S. sales in 1986
Reebok, Nike & Converse
Hallie
$800 [6]
"Prick Up Your Ears"
Joe Orton
Kate Michael
$800 [18]
She was 1st black actress to star in major roles at the American Shakespeare Festival
Ruby Dee
Michael
$1,000 [1]
101st Airborne Division put on display the $200 million art collection looted & hoarded by this Nazi
(Herman) Goering
Michael
$1,000 [23]
Before hosting his own talk shows, he wrote for Johnny Carson & was a guest on the Merv Griffin show
Dick Cavett
Kate
$1,000 [14]
Spanish artist who painted the "Milkwoman of Bordeaux" & lithographed the "Bulls of Bordeaux"
Francisco Goya
Kate Hallie
$1,000 [7]
"With Malice Toward None"
Abraham Lincoln
$1,000 [19]
Only variety of this bird found east of the Mississippi & north of Florida is the ruby-throated
hummingbird
Hallie

Final Jeopardy!

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

1 of 2 singers who have hit #1 as a solo, & in a duo & trio, both have had hits with "You Can't Hurry Love"

Diana Ross or Phil Collins

Michael "Who is Diana Ross" — wagered $4,200
Hallie "Who is Diana Ross?" — wagered $4,000
Kate "Who is Diana Ross?" — wagered $4,201

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