Show #879 1988-06-02 (taped 1988-03-07) Regular

Contestants

Todd Hueta — a student from Sunnyvale, California

Lauri Donahue — a lawyer from San Francisco, California

Jack Koenig — an actor and househusband from New York City, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jack $500 $1,600 $4,100 $8,200
3-day champion: $23,599
$4,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Lauri $2,200 $4,200 $7,400 $5,400
2nd place: Keller bedroom furniture
$7,900
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Todd $1,000 $1,600 $2,400 $4,000
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer
$2,400
12 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY AIRPORTS '60s SONGS BEAUTY SECRETS THE ELEMENTS TV GUIDE SAYS
$100 [15]
Marcus Opellius Macrinus was the 1st emperor of this who was not a senator first
Rome
Lauri
$100 [30]
There are Midway Airports in Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi & New Mexico, as well as in this major city
Chicago
$100 [13]
We won't spell it out for you, but this was Aretha Franklin's 1st #1 hit on the pop charts
"Respect"
Lauri
$100 [16]
Indian women reportedly used this bird's fat on their faces before the bird became our national symbol
eagle
Todd
$100 [21]
This scientific theory says the elements were created in 1st few minutes of the universe's creation
Big Bang Theory
Jack
$100 [1]
"Frank steals a rare Colt .45 & lets Radar take the rap"
M*A*S*H
Lauri
$200 [14]
Conquistadores founded this city on the site of the Aztec cities Tenochtitlan & Tlatelolco
Mexico City
Jack
$200 [29]
Though the planes land on paved runways, Lexington Kentucky's airport is named for this grass
bluegrass
Jack
$200 [17]
Single word in common in the titles of the 3 Top 40 hits Jackie DeShannon had during the 1960s
love
Todd
$200 [5]
This Arizona Republican reportedly said, "Peanut butter is a darn good shaving cream"
Barry Goldwater
Todd
$200 [22]
Discovered in 1789 & given atomic number 92, it was named after the planet discovered in 1781
uranium
Lauri
$200 [6]
"Surrounded by police, a desperate Kimble seeks sanctuary in a home for the blind"
The Fugitive
Todd
$300 [9]
His 1971 trip to Europe marked the 1st time a reigning emperor had ever left Japan
Hirohito
Lauri
$300 [20]
Though he was court-martialed, Milwaukee's airport is named for this general & advocate of U.S. air power
Billy Mitchell
Jack
$300 [18]
In July 1963, they hit #1 with "Surf City" a year before the Beach Boys had their 1st #1 hit
Jan and Dean
Todd
$300 [2]
In "Caesar & Cleopatra", Cleopatra tells the aging Caesar to rub rum on his head to make this happen
grow hair
Lauri
$300 [23]
The gas neon is obtained from distilling a liquid form of this common substance
air
$300 [7]
"Scheduled: Stupid Pet Tricks"
Late Night with David Letterman
Jack
$400 [10]
This Mormon leader announced he would run for president of U.S. in 1844, the same year he was killed
Joseph Smith
Todd
$400 [26]
Home field of the president's plane, Air Force One
Andrews Air Force Base
Todd
$400 [19]
According to the title, it's where the Dixie Cups were going to get married
"Chapel of Love"
Lauri
$400 [3]
Some 19th century women used "eau de veau", made from a boiled foot of this animal on their skin
veal (calf)
Lauri
$400 [24]
On this famous chart, the vertical columns are groups & the horizontal rows, periods
the Periodic Table
Lauri
$400 [8]
"Jack's broken leg upsets Janet's plan for a cozy evening at home with a date"
Three's Company
Lauri
$500 [11]
Captain Kidd used to hang out in the Indian Ocean on this 4th largest island in the world
Madagascar
Todd
$500 [28]
The airport formerly called Friendship Int'l is now named for these 2 cities which it serves
Baltimore & Washington
$500 [27]
Song that begins "It's knowing that your door is always open & your path is free to walk"
"Gentle on My Mind"
Jack
$500 [4]
"Book of Royal Lists" says King George IV had himself bled for this beautifying reason
to whiten his skin (make himself clearer)
Lauri
DD $1,000 [25]
Though chemists call it a noble gas, the EPA calls it the #1 U.S. radiation health risk
radon
Lauri
$500 [12]
"Tootie's learning to drive--& she's driving everyone bananas"
The Facts of Life
Todd

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW HAMPSHIRE NOVELS GARDENING SOCRATES DEMOCRATS RETALIATORY PHRASES
$200 [1]
In New Hampshire, neither sales nor individual salaries are subject to this, by the state
taxes
Lauri
$200 [4]
Daniel Defoe claimed this novel was an allegory of his own life
Robinson Crusoe
Lauri
$200 [23]
Acidic soils can be made more alkaline by adding, perhaps a "twist" of this calcium compound
lime
Jack
$200 [10]
This student of Socrates & author of "Apology" wasn't present at his teacher's death
Plato
Todd
$200 [6]
This former Ark. senator famed for scholarships once helped the Justice Dept. in the Schechter Chicken case
William Fulbright
$200 [7]
You can fight back "like for like", "measure for measure", or "tit for..." this
tat
Jack
$400 [8]
More than 1/3 of the people of this, New Hampshire's largest city, are of French-Canadian descent
Manchester
Jack Lauri
$400 [3]
He didn't publicly admit he'd written "Ivanhoe" until 8 years after it was published
Sir Walter Scott
Todd
$400 [25]
Of temperature, sun, or rain, the one which most determines which plants naturally grow where
temperature
$400 [20]
He's quoted as saying "I am a citizen..." of this
the world
Jack
$400 [11]
Washington senator Henry Jackson's nickname, it was taken from a comic strip character
"Scoop"
Jack
$400 [12]
Starts the kiddy rebuke which ends, "Everything you say bounces off me & sticks to you"
I'm rubber and you're glue
Todd
DD $700 [19]
The Connecticut River separates New Hampshire from this state
Vermont
Jack
$600 [2]
In "A Tale of Two Cities", Madame Defarge "needled" the victims of the revolution by doing this
knitting
Jack
$800 [27]
It's a blanket statement, we'd say ice plant, Aaron's beard & carpet bugle are all good plants for this
ground cover
Lauri
$600 [21]
It was Socrates' home town, no matter where he said he was a citizen of
Athens
$600 [15]
During the Roaring '20s, he was known as "Beau James" & New York's "Playboy Mayor"
Jimmy Walker
Todd
$600 [13]
You might give the object of your vengeance "A dose of" this
your own medicine
Jack Todd
$800 [5]
Though "Silas Marner" was her most popular work, "Middlemarch" was her masterpiece
George Eliot
Todd
DD $1,000 [26]
Either the "virtuous" or "pecuniary" name by which this lunaria plant is known:
silver dollar/money plant
Lauri
$800 [22]
Xanthippe
his wife
Lauri
$800 [16]
Minn. governor Orville Freeman nominated JFK for president, then served him as secretary of this
Agriculture
$800 [14]
Revenge of this sort sounds like feeding someone only pies, pudding & ice cream
giving someone their just desserts
Lauri
$1,000 [9]
Not published till after his death, the "End of the Chapter" trilogy ended this author's "Forsyte Saga"
John Galsworthy
$1,000 [28]
"Basic Gardening" says to do this between 3 & 5 P.M. when food supply in leaves & petals is most abundant
cut flowers
Todd
$1,000 [24]
He served as a hoplite, or infantryman, during this war
Peloponnesian War
Lauri
$1,000 [17]
Tip O'Neill followed this Oklahoma congressman as Speaker of the House
Carl Albert
$1,000 [18]
Latin for "something for something", it's how you might equally give back what you got
quid pro quo
Jack

Final Jeopardy!

THE UNITED NATIONS

In 1971, it became the only country to be officially expelled from the United Nations

Taiwan (also known as Nationalist China)

Todd "What was Taiwan?" — wagered $1,600
Jack "What is Taiwan?" — wagered $4,100
Lauri "What is South Africa?" — wagered $2,000

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