Show #668 1987-07-01 (taped 1987-03-03) Regular

Doug Molitor game 4. Single-player Final Jeopardy!

Contestants

Patti Demerirjian — a housewife from Dayton, Ohio

Bob Rome — a music teacher from Los Angeles, California

Doug Molitor — a writer from Brentwood, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $37,501)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Doug	$2,200	$3,400	$9,500	$13,500 4-day champion: $51,001	$10,800 31 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Bob	$800	$500	$-1,500	$-1,500 3rd place: an entertainment center	$-1,500 8 R, 6 W
Patti	$300	$300	$-500	$-500 2nd place: a trip for 2 to Tampa, Florida	$300 9 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NAMESAKES	COLORS	TREES	BROADWAY LYRICS	WORLD LEADERS	STUPID ANSWERS
$100 [23] He took not only inspiration but his stage name from French magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (Harry) Houdini Bob	$100 [20] A new addition to the Oreo family is a cookie with this different color filling green (mint accepted) Doug	$100 [10] The "leaves" of most coniferous trees are usually called this needles Doug	$100 [15] The "South Pacific" sailors sang, "What ain't we got? We ain't got" these dames Bob	$100 [6] In 1950 he graduated with a law degree from the University of Havana Fidel Castro Doug	$100 [1] She played Shirley MacLaine in "Out on a Limb" Shirley MacLaine Patti
$200 [24] This late film star was named for a steamship, the S.S. Rosalind Rosalind Russell Doug	$200 [21] The Volunteer Youth Patrol, the Guardian Angels, wear berets this color red Doug	$200 [11] Traditionally, a forester divides a tree into 3 parts: the crown, the trunk, & this the roots Doug Patti	$200 [16] In "Finian's Rainbow", pragmatic line following "When I'm not near the girl I love..." "I love the girl I'm near" Bob	$200 [7] Shortly after the Russian Revolution, he became a library assistant at Peking University Mao Tse-tung Doug	$200 [2] According to World Book, it was the cattle brand used by Conrad Kohrs CK Doug
$300 [25] English colonists named Jamestown after this king James I Doug	$300 [22] The amount of space each color takes up in this depends on the size of raindrops in which it forms the rainbow Bob	$300 [12] The world's largest rain forest is found in this river basin the Amazon Doug	$300 [17] As sung in "Oklahoma", "Don't laugh at my jokes too much, people will say" this "We're in love" Patti	$300 [8] In 1951 he defeated Clement Attlee to become prime minister of Britain again Winston Churchill Bob	$300 [3] The 2 pieces of equipment you'll need to play stickball on the streets of New York a stick & a ball Doug
$400 [26] Though it hurts me to say it, this word was derived from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's name masochism Doug	$400 [28] In downhill skiing, international symbol for expert slopes is a diamond this color black Patti	$400 [13] This "medical" term can include all tree care, not just bark & wood wounds tree surgery Doug	$400 [18] "When love comes in & takes you for a spin, oo la la-la, c'est" this "Magnifique" Patti	$400 [9] World leader whose surname can be taken to mean "of France"--& it seemed he took it so (Charles) de Gaulle Patti	$400 [4] In "Charlotte's Web", it's what Charlotte is a spider Doug
$500 [27] Office complex which gave its name to a national scandal in the early '70s Watergate Patti	DD $800 [29] Colorful highballin' name of the following: "Orange Blossom Special" Patti	$500 [30] As produced by a redwood, there are about 300,000 of these per pound seeds Doug Patti	$500 [19] Musical in which the title character sings, "I will never grow a moustache, or a fraction of an inch" Peter Pan Bob Patti	$500 [14] When Corazon Aquino visited this leader in 1986, they chatted about haiku poetry the Emperor of Japan (Hirihito) Doug Bob	$500 [5] To promote a new line of these at L.A. Auto Show, Mitsubishi used Vanity, Vanna White, & Dale Evans vans Bob

Double Jeopardy! Round

BEGINNINGS	STATE CAPITALS	LITERARY "LADY"s	THE CIVIL WAR	CANADIAN ACTORS	CRUSTACEANS
$200 [1] Language that had its beginnings in the 10th c. when the Jews were forced from northern France Yiddish Doug	$200 [7] Home offices for over 50 insurance companies are found in this Connecticut capital Hartford Patti	$200 [12] As W.S. Gilbert wrote in "Iolanthe", "Faint heart never won" this fair lady Doug	$200 [17] After delivering this, Lincoln said, "It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed" the Gettysburg Address Bob	$200 [2] In the movie "MAS*H", this New Brunswick native played Hawkeye Donald Sutherland Doug	DD $1,000 [27] Combining these 2 senses, "chemoreception" allows crustaceans to detect dissolved substances in H2O smell & taste Doug
$400 [22] Older than chess, a form of this common board game was played by Egyptians in 2nd millennium B.C. checkers Doug Patti	$400 [8] This capital was named for the smaller of 2 rock bluffs on which it was situated Little Rock (Arkansas) Doug Bob	$400 [13] Pia Zadora played a screenwriter in this, her only film based on a Harold Robbins novel The Lonely Lady	$400 [18] He said "War is cruelty and you cannot refine it" before marching to the sea Sherman Doug	$400 [3] Among the "Three Amigos", he's the Canadian Martin Short Doug	$1,000 [26] Some crustaceans reproduce through par then ogenesis, which is development from these an unfertilized egg Doug
$600 [23] This bathroom article was 1st made in the U.S. in 1857 & sold as "Gayetty's Medicated Paper" toilet tissue Patti	$600 [9] In 1610 Spaniards named this capital "the Royal City of the Holy Faith of St. Francis of Assisi" Santa Fe Doug	$600 [14] The mystery woman of Shakespeare's sonnets the dark lady Doug	$600 [19] This vice president was intoxicated when he gave his inaugural speech in 1865 Andrew Johnson Doug	$600 [4] Known as a silent screen sweetheart, her only Academy Award for acting was a talkie Mary Pickford Doug	—
$800 [24] Local anesthetic introduced as a substitute for cocaine in 1905 novocaine or procaine Doug	$1,000 [11] The least populous state capital, it's found in the least populous state east of the Mississippi Montpelier, Vermont Doug Bob Patti	$800 [15] Watery title of Raymond Chandler's 1943 detective novel The Lady in the Lake Doug	$800 [20] "Little woman" whose private letters about nursing Union soldiers were published in 1863 Louisa May Alcott Bob	$800 [5] Considered a British actor in U.S. & a U.S. actor in Britain, he played an Austrian in "The Sound of Music" Christopher Plummer Doug	—
$1,000 [25] In the 17th c., modern embalming was started by this Eng. physiologist & discoverer of circulation (William) Harvey Doug	DD $1,500 [10] 2 of 3 state capitals that begin with "P" (2 of) Phoenix, Providence, Rhode Island & Pierre, South Dakota Doug	$1,000 [16] Her 1st novel, "Glenarvon", fictionalized her notorious romance with Lord Byron Lady Caroline Lamb	$1,000 [21] In 1862 the Union seized Roanoke Island, New Bern, & Ft. Macon, gaining control of this state's coast North Carolina Bob Patti	$1,000 [6] Born a Montreal bus driver's daughter, she was nominated for an Oscar for "Anne of a Thousand Days" Geneviève Bujold Doug Bob	—

Final Jeopardy!

WORD PLAY

"Cruciverbalist" is a 14-letter word for one who constructs these

crossword puzzles

Doug "What are crossword puzzles?" — wagered $4,000

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