Show #672 1987-07-07 (taped 1987-03-04) Regular

Eric Berman game 4.

Contestants

Craig Miller — a pastor from San Bernardino, California

Mary Frechette — a registered nurse from Smithfield, Rhode Island

Eric Berman — a journalist from Crown Point, Indiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $34,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eric $2,100 $3,200 $7,600 $3,001
4-day champion: $37,101
$8,800
26 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Mary $500 $-300 $1,500 $1,001
2nd place: Pine Factory solid pine furniture + Zenith DeLights Series fun-sized 9" color TV
$1,500
6 R, 4 W
Craig $-200 $500 $500 $990
3rd place: Action recliners by Lane "Abby" classic Queen Anne recliner chair
$500
8 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

FIRSTS ISLANDS TV SISTERS FOLK DANCES VOCABULARY FURRY CREATURES
$100 [5]
The 1st publication to call itself a "magazine" was printed in 1731 in this country
Great Britain
Eric
$100 [18]
Where "the Minnow" ran aground
Gilligan's Island
Eric
$100 [1]
Series that featured Sister Sixto, Sister Jacqueline & Sister Bertrille
The Flying Nun
Eric
$100 [24]
1 of 2 countries, 1 Balkan, 1 Middle Eastern, with which the hora is associated
Israel (or Romania)
Eric
$100 [7]
Of a barnacle, binnacle, or carbuncle, the one you'd find most useful aboard ship
binnacle
Eric
$100 [16]
Though the Bedlington terrier looks like this wooly mammal, it was bred to hunt foxes & badgers
a sheep (or lamb)
Eric
$200 [10]
In the early 20th c., this mid-morning institution was reputedly begun at an American Rolls-Royce factory
coffee break
Eric
$200 [19]
Lord Byron's poem "The Island" was based on this famous mutiny
the mutiny on the Bounty
Eric
$200 [2]
Her resemblance to Carol Burnett led to role of Carol's kid sister Chrissy on "The Carol Burnett Show"
Vicki Lawrence
Eric
DD $200 [25]
It's the name of both this song & the dance done to it:
"La Cucaracha"
Eric
$200 [8]
Of a witch, waterfowl, or way out, what you're looking for if you're looking for a egress
way out
Eric Mary Craig
$200 [17]
"The fastest mouse in all Mexico", his 2nd role was in a 1955 Oscar-winning cartoon
Speedy Gonzales
Craig
$300 [13]
Introduced by brother of famed Civil War general, it was America's 1st antitrust law
the Sherman Act
$300 [20]
1 of the 1st Pacific islands to be settled by Europeans, Guam was colonized by this country by the 1690s
Spain
Craig
$300 [3]
This TV "Boy" had 3 younger sisters named Erin, Elizabeth & Mary Ellen
John-Boy (Walton)
Eric
$300 [26]
Many of this country's dances act out the life of god Krishna
India
Craig
$300 [9]
Of a buttock, futtock, or fetlock, the 1 not found on a horse
futtock
Mary
$300 [23]
Found primarily in Siberia, this species is the marten most valued for its fur
sable
Mary
$400 [14]
In 1938, Don Budge became 1st & only U.S. male to accomplish this feat in tennis
winning the grand slam
Eric
$400 [21]
The name of this famous World War II site means "sulfur island" in Japanese
Iwo Jima
Craig
$400 [4]
Dianne, Peggy, Kathy & Janet
The Lennon Sisters
Mary
$400 [11]
Of ex parte, ex libris, or ex post facto, the 1 that's not a legal term
ex libris
Eric
$500 [15]
The 1st congregational church in America was founded by Wm. Bradford & this group he led
the Pilgrims
Eric
$500 [22]
The 2nd largest island in the Mediterranean
Sardinia
Eric Mary Craig
$500 [6]
The 2 stars of "Charlie's Angels" whose characters were sisters
Cheryl Ladd & Farrah Fawcett-Majors
Eric
$500 [12]
Of polydactyl, polydipsic, or polydemic, what you'd be if you were stranded in the desert without water
polydipsic

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEORGE WASHINGTON THEATER GEOGRAPHICAL SINGERS 20THCENTURY BUSINESS NEWS PICK "COTTON"
$200 [19]
For the 1st inauguration, this book had been forgotten, so a copy was borrowed from a Masonic lodge
a Bible
Eric
$200 [8]
Tennessee Williams set "The Glass Menagerie" in this Missouri city where he grew up
St. Louis
$200 [1]
Country band appropriately named since their "home's in Alabama"
Alabama
Craig
$200 [6]
In 1977, he became 1st person to be both president of USSR & head of the Communist party
Leonid Brezhnev
Craig
$200 [22]
Even though "nobody doesn't like" popsicles either, this company sold the division that makes them
Sara Lee
Eric
$200 [14]
Another name for the poisonous water moccasin snake of the Southeast U.S.
the cottonmouth
Craig
$400 [20]
It's said his administration had fewer fed. workers than he had slaves here, at his own plantation
Mount Vernon
Mary Craig
$400 [9]
Geo. B. Shaw's "Heartbreak House" was inspired by this author's "3 Sisters" & "Cherry Orchard"
Chekhov
Eric
$400 [2]
Named for NYC borough, the R&B group has been a "Shining Star" in music for 20 years
The Manhattans
Mary
$400 [7]
In 1959, posters of an actress in a bathing suit were painted over when this pope drove thru Rome
John XXIII
Eric
$400 [23]
A new ad for a California hospital goes "Kidney stones? Who ya gotta call?..." These, of course
Stonebusters
$400 [15]
In song, they were located "Down in Louisiana just a mile from Texarkana"
old cotton fields back home
Mary
$600 [21]
This famous nickname 1st appeared in German on a U.S. calendar in 1778
"Father of His Country"
Eric
$600 [10]
Title of a Ferber-Kaufman play about struggling actresses, or where you'd bring them flowers
Stage Door
Eric
$600 [3]
Folk trio that chose their name because Calypso music was in vogue when they formed
the Kingston Trio
Mary
DD $600 [13]
Ironically, in the late '20s, the U.S. helped supervise elections in this Central American nation
Nicaragua
Eric
$600 [24]
If you need bucks while basking on a beach in Brazil, just look for 1 of these new "banco movels"
mobile banks
$600 [16]
1970 film in which Dets. Gravedigger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson expose bogus "back-to-Africa" scheme
Cotton Comes to Harlem
$800 [25]
In 1774 & 1775, Washington was a delegate to the 1st & 2nd sessions of this body
the Continental Congress
Eric
$1,000 [12]
Abbie Cabot tempts her stepson Eben beneath the trees in this O'Neill tragedy
Desire Under the Elms
$800 [4]
John Ford Coley & this "Britisher" teamed in the '70s & found "Love Is The Answer"
England Dan
Mary
$800 [27]
On Aug. 30, 1914, the Germans made this capital the 1st major city bombed by airplane
Paris
Craig
$800 [17]
This Colonial intellectual entered Harvard at age 12 & got his B.A. degree at 15
Cotton Mather
Eric
$1,000 [26]
This famous "speech" by Washington in 1796 was printed in a newspaper, not delivered publicly
Washington's farewell address
Eric Craig
DD $1,200 [11]
Commedia dell'Arte sweetheart in the original Harlequin romances
Colombine
Eric
$1,000 [5]
"Almost Paradise", the love theme from "Footloose", was sung by Heart's Ann Wilson & this leading Loverboy
Mike Reno
$1,000 [18]
Versions of biblical books in "modern translation with a Southern accent", by Clarence Jordan
the Cotton Patch Versions

Final Jeopardy!

GAMBLING

3 of the 4 states with the highest lottery sales in dollars in calendar year 1986

(3 of) California, New York, Illinois & Pennsylvania

Craig "What are Cal., NY, and PA.?" — wagered $490
Mary "What are Calif. + N.Y.? + N.J." — wagered $499
Eric "What are Calif., NY, andIllinoisOhio?" — wagered $4,599

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