Show #664 1987-06-25 Regular

Contestants

Renee Pennington — a word processing center supervisor from New York City, New York

Ray Allex — a ticket seller from Los Angeles, California

Myra Backner — an office worker from Stoughton, Massachusetts

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Myra $900 $200 $1,500 $1,700
3rd place: an electronic piano
$2,800
10 R, 6 W (including 3 DDs)
Ray $800 $2,500 $5,900 $7,000
New champion: $7,000
$5,900
19 R, 4 W
Renee $400 $600 $1,400 $2,700
2nd place: a trip for 2 to Jamaica
$1,400
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LINES WILD WEST TV THEMES CARS BY THE NUMBER "F" WORDS THOSE DARN OYSTERS
$100 [1]
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..."
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Ray
$100 [16]
During the stagecoach era, these birds reportedly sprinted ahead of the coaches at 18 mph
roadrunners
Myra Ray
$100 [11]
[Music plays]
The Odd Couple
Renee
$100 [21]
RX 7
Mazda
Ray
$100 [2]
In basketball, they lead to free throws
fouls
Ray
$300 [24]
What oysters love to do with dinoflagellates
eat them
$200 [7]
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream..."
The Old Man and the Sea
Ray
$200 [17]
Once bigger than Delaware, the King Ranch, largest in the U.S., is located in this state
Texas
Ray
$200 [12]
[Music plays]
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
$200 [22]
560 SEL
Mercedes
Renee
$200 [3]
You can do this to someone's shoes or the bill
fill
Renee
$400 [25]
It's said when the ratio of male & female oysters is uneven, some oysters actually do this
they change their sex
Myra Ray
$300 [8]
"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that."
A Christmas Carol
Myra
$300 [18]
"Faro" is one type of this
a card game
Ray
$300 [13]
[Music plays]
The Wild Wild West
Myra
$300 [23]
928 S4
Porsche
Ray
$300 [4]
Doing this makes a body builder's biceps bulge
to flex
Myra
$400 [9]
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville 9 that day..."
"Casey at the Bat"
Myra
$400 [19]
Famous 1903 Western made just 4 yrs. after Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch 1st blew up an express car
The Great Train Robbery
Ray
$400 [14]
[Music plays]
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Myra
$400 [26]
325 e
BMW
Ray
$400 [5]
It can be a fault in fabric or someone's character
a flaw
Ray
DD $400 [10]
"The great fish moved silently through the night water..."
Jaws
Myra
$500 [20]
Discharged from the Army as a drunk, this dime novelist sobered up enough to nickname Buffalo Bill
Ned Buntline
Ray
$500 [15]
"As I walk along, I wonder /A what went wrong with our love /A love that was so strong..."
Crime Story
$500 [6]
It struck out in a book by baseball player Jimmy Piersall
fear
Renee

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE PEOPLE WORLD CAPITALS COOKING SLAVERY LAST LINES
$200 [26]
Done to such things as garbage cans to reduce corrosion, it's the coating of iron or steel with zinc
galvanizing
$200 [9]
The Virgin Islands can now hear her syndicated radio show on sex therapy
Dr. Ruth
Ray
$200 [4]
The capital of this SE Asian country lies on the Rangoon River
Burma
Ray
$200 [1]
These put the amandine in noodles amandine
almonds
Renee
$200 [18]
This nation, formerly Abyssinia, didn't abolish slavery until 1942
Ethiopia
Renee
$200 [2]
"And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every one!"
A Christmas Carol
Myra
$400 [27]
1 of 2 reasons sharks must constantly keep in motion
(1 of) to avoid sinking or drowning
Ray
$400 [10]
According to a German magazine, under Hitler the state gave newlyweds one of these books
Mein Kampf
Myra Renee
$400 [5]
It's "The Paris of the Balkans", which makes it, we guess, "The Paris of Romania", too
Bucharest
Ray Renee
$400 [3]
"The Esquire Cookbook" says scrambled eggs this style were created by chef to King Farouk, not TV host Phil
Donahue
Ray
$400 [19]
Aztec slaves could not only own property, but ironically, even these
other slaves
Myra
$400 [11]
"I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here! Here! t is the beating of his hideous heart!"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Renee
$600 [28]
# of stars in the "belt" of the constellation Orion
3
DD $500 [17]
In naming NY estate he bought n '34 to house curios, he used "BION", initials of his newspaper feature
Robert Ripley ("Believe It or Not!")
Myra
$600 [6]
This country is developing a new capital, Abuja, to replace Lagos
Nigeria
Ray
$600 [23]
Profession of the Italian cook who created "Tournedos Rossini"
a composer
Myra Ray
DD $400 [21]
The only slave state west of the Mississippi not to secede from the Union
Missouri
Myra
$600 [12]
"...most gratefully bless the day when Mr. Jones was married to his Sophia"
Tom Jones
Renee
$600 [15]
With ads shot in her Koala blue store, this singer is now promoting Australian tourism
Olivia Newton-John
Myra
$800 [7]
New Zealand's capital was named for Arthur Wellesley, the 1st man given this title
(Duke of) Wellington
Ray
$800 [24]
Only the ribs of this animal can be properly prepared as spareribs
a pig
Myra
$600 [20]
in 1488, the pope accepted 100 Moorish slaves from this Spanish king
Ferdinand
Renee
$800 [13]
"Hello everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."
A Star is Born
Ray
$800 [16]
Comedian who is spending 1987 traveling the U.S. to ask people why they like Pizza Hut
Rich Hall
$1,000 [8]
Willemstad, the capital of the Netherlands Antilles, is on this, the largest of its islands
Curaçao
$1,000 [25]
When a French chef makes "tomatoes farcies" , "farcies" indicates he has done this
stuff them
$1,000 [22]
chain of events leading to freedom for this island country began with a huge slave revolt in 1791
Haiti
Ray
$1,000 [14]
"'Some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake.'--Jonathan Harker"
Dracula

Final Jeopardy!

THE CABINET

2 of the 4 original cabinet posts, which despite widespread belief, did not include Postmaster General

(2 of) Secretary of State, Treasury, War and Attorney General

Renee "What are Secretary of Treasuery and Secretary of State?" — wagered $1,300
Myra "What are Treasury & Secretary of State?" — wagered $200
Ray "What is State & War" — wagered $1,100

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