Show #716 1987-10-19 (taped 1987-08-18) Regular

Contestants

Mark Allen — a special projects manager originally from New York City

Tim Dicarlo — a student originally from Niagara Falls, New York

Judith Seeger — an associate research engineer from Mountain View, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $14,699)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Judith $1,700 $6,200 $10,000 $17,500
3-day champion: $32,199
$8,500
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Tim $1,000 $1,600 $11,200 $5,000
2nd place: SoundDesign home entertainment center & Sam Moore wing chair
$7,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Mark $900 $1,700 $4,600 $3,000
3rd place: Stained Glass Overlay
$3,700
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS BROTHERS SCIENCE WHITE HOUSE WHEELS PLAYS "ONLY" SONGS RHYME TIME
$100 [16]
Frank & Jesse
James Brothers
Tim
$100 [11]
Of fresh, brackish, or salt water, the 1 in which it's easiest to float
salt water
Tim
$100 [14]
While the presidential limousine was being bullet-proofed, LBJ used a car assigned to this FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover
Judith
$100 [15]
When "Dracula" opened on Broadway in 1927, he played the title role
Bela Lugosi
Mark
$100 [3]
According to The Platters, it's who "can make this world seem right"
only you
Mark
$100 [1]
Almost ale
near beer
Judith
$200 [17]
Wilbur & Orville
Wright Brothers
Judith
$200 [12]
It strikes the Earth about 100 times each second & kills about 100 Americans each year
lightning
Tim
$200 [27]
Cars equipped with special manual controls enabled this president to drive
Franklin Roosevelt
Judith
$200 [18]
E.L. Masters' "Spoon River Anthology" is cited in this Thornton Wilder play in which the dead also talk
Our Town
Judith
$200 [7]
#2 hit for the Carpenters which has become a wedding standard
"We've Only Just Begun"
Judith
$200 [2]
A towering partition
tall wall
Judith
$300 [20]
Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny & Jimmy
Osmonds
Tim
$300 [13]
Snowshoe rabbits & jack rabbits are not really rabbits but these animals
hares
Tim
$300 [28]
In 1909, George H. Robinson was the 1st appointed to serve as this for a president
chauffeur
Tim
$300 [19]
He said in an autobiography that he wrote "Blithe Spirit" in 5 days, & it was produced 5 weeks later
Noël Coward
Mark
$300 [8]
In Roy Orbison's 1st big hit, the ones who know how he feels
"Only the Lonely"
Judith
$300 [4]
A deceased cranium, especially that of a Jerry Garcia fan
dead head
Mark
$400 [21]
Dmitri Fyodorovich, Ivan Fyodorovich, Alexey Fyodorovich & Smerdyakov
Brothers Karamazov
Judith
$400 [24]
Ferns don't grow from seeds but from these
spores
Judith
$400 [29]
To accommodate these public servants, running boards were sometimes added to presidential vehicles
Secret Service agents
Tim
$400 [23]
Helene Hanff knows the address of the Marks & Co. Book Store was at #84 on this London street
Charing Cross Road
Mark
$400 [9]
Both Sam Cooke & Dr. Hook said "she was too young to fall in love" because she was this
only sixteen
Judith
$400 [5]
What you might call the leg joints of a flying social insect
bee's knees
Tim
$500 [22]
Jacob Ludwig Carl & Wilhelm Carl
Brothers Grimm
Tim
DD $2,000 [26]
Any 2 chemical elements whose symbol begins with a letter other than that beginning its English name
lead* & antimony**
Judith
$500 [30]
Perhaps as a back-up, this type of vehicle was kept at the White House until 1928
horse & carriage (horse drawn carriage)
Judith
$500 [25]
Profession completing the title of the Jean Anouilh play, "The Waltz of the..."
Toreadors
Judith
$500 [10]
It was Sheena Easton's 2nd biggest hit as well as the theme of a James Bond film
"For Your Eyes Only"
Mark
$500 [6]
A "minyan", the number of males needed for a Orthodox Jewish service
ten men
Judith

Double Jeopardy! Round

EARLY AMERICA THE MIDDLE EAST 10-LETTER WORDS REPTILES WEIGHTS & MEASURES THE MOVIES
$200 [6]
In the 1760s, the 1st Lord of the Treasury put a colonial import tax on this olive stuffing
pimentos
Mark
$200 [1]
Cleopatra ruled from this port, now Egypt's 2nd-largest city
Alexandria
Judith
$200 [13]
My dear Watson, it's the type of school one attends before junior high or middle school
elementary
Mark
$200 [2]
Lizards & these are combined into the largest of the 4 main groups of reptiles
snakes
Mark
$200 [14]
If you were a wizard of "oz.", you'd be a whiz at this unit of weight
ounces
Mark
$200 [3]
This blonde, not the heartbreak of psoriasis, caused "The Seven-Year Itch"
Marilyn Monroe
Judith
DD $5,000 [27]
1 of 2 presidents eulogized by Daniel Webster in Boston on Aug. 2, 1826
(1 of) Thomas Jefferson (or John Adams)
Tim
$400 [5]
At the town of Al-Qurnah, Iraq, these 2 historic rivers join
Tigris & Euphrates
Judith
$400 [19]
A device useful to biology students who want to sneak a peek at a paramecium
microscope
Mark
$400 [24]
This "monster" was named after a river in Arizona
gila monster
Mark
$400 [15]
Horse race measurement, it was originally the length of a furrow in a plowed field
furlong
Judith
$400 [4]
Listen, sweetheart, "Casablanca" was set in this country
Morocco
Tim
$600 [8]
Country governed by a supreme council made up of the 7 rulers of its component parts
United Arab Emirates
Tim
$800 [21]
Many consider this varietal white wine to be America's finest
Chardonnay
Tim
$600 [18]
The crocodylus niloticus has lived, at one time or another, on almost all parts of this continent
Africa
Judith
$600 [16]
Of imperial gals., U.S. gals. or liters, the 1 of which it would take greatest number to fill your tank
liters
Mark
$600 [7]
In the 1933 & 1949 versions of this kiddie classic, Katharine Hepburn, then June Allyson, played Jo
Little Women
Tim
$800 [9]
Kipling said, "There aren't no 10 commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" east of there
Suez
Judith
$1,000 [22]
Indefinitely frozen subsoil underlying polar regions
permafrost
Tim
$800 [25]
For most reptiles active at night, they're slit-shaped, for most active during the day, round
pupils
Judith Mark
$800 [17]
A measuring system used by pharmacists, its name is from the old name for pharmacist
apothecary's
Judith Tim
$800 [11]
In 1962, he won the title as the title character in "Kid Galahad"
Elvis Presley
Judith
$1,000 [10]
In January 1987, this Speaker of the Iranian Parliament claimed Pres. Reagan sent him a Bible
Rafsanjani
Tim
DD $1,500 [20]
Fattening food, or just one member of the quintet heard here:"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day..."
temptation
Mark
$1,000 [26]
The mating cry of these Galapagos Islands reptiles is described as able to "make an elephant envious"
(giant) tortoises
Tim
$1,000 [23]
Measurement standards were taken from the human body until this system was proposed in 1670
metric
Judith
$1,000 [12]
He foresaw WWII in his 1936 film adaptation of his own novel, "The Shape of Things to Come"
H.G. Wells
Judith

Final Jeopardy!

MYTHOLOGY

The father of King Midas was famous for this, which he used to connect his ox cart's pole & yoke

Gordian knot

Mark "What is a rope?" — wagered $1,600
Judith "What was the Gordian knot?" — wagered $7,500
Tim "What is" — wagered $6,200

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