Show #941 1988-10-10 (taped 1988-08-01) Regular

Contestants

Paul Katz — a lawyer from Flagler County, Florida

Sue Nelson — a travel agent from Austin, Texas

Alec Iorio — an international freight forwarder originally from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alec $600 $400 $6,800 $6,800
2-day champion: $10,800
$8,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Sue $700 $1,800 $2,000 $3,990
2nd place: trip on Eastern to St. Thomas & stay at Frenchman's Reef Resort
$2,000
11 R, 3 W
Paul $100 $2,200 $3,400 $0
3rd place: Whirlpool microwave & range
$3,400
13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD WEST SAINTS SPORTS MOVIE TRIVIA COLORS THE TELEPHONE
$100 [26]
This hat, originally called "Boss of the Plains", is better known by the name of its maker
Stetson
Paul
$100 [4]
Simeon the Stylite sat atop one of these for some 36 years, a Guinness record
pillar
Alec
$100 [13]
In 1902, 1st year this bowl game was played, the final score was Michigan 49Stanford 0
Rose Bowl
Paul
$100 [7]
In 1936 this Oriental detective, not Groucho, was "...at the Circus", "...Opera" & "...Race Track"
Charlie Chan
Alec
$100 [1]
This snappy spice is also a girl's name & a color
ginger
Alec
$100 [18]
World Book says, to make a simple telephone set you need 2 tin cans & 1 of these
string
Sue
$200 [11]
We don't know much about St. Bartholomew except that he was 1 of this group's original 12
12 Apostles
Alec
$200 [14]
In 1987 she won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon for the 6th year in a row
Martina Navratilova
Paul
$200 [8]
David Denby's review of this film in New York Magazine was titled "Wallow"
Willow
Paul
$200 [2]
If you're in excellent health you're "in" this
pink
Paul
$200 [22]
The international calling code for this country is "1"
USA
Sue
$300 [19]
The calendar of saints says they were the 1st non-Jews to have worshipped Jesus
Three Kings (Wisemen)
Alec
$300 [15]
The Figure Skating Hall of Fame is in Colorado Springs; this other skating hall of fame is in Newburgh, N.Y.
speed skating
Paul
$300 [9]
Only the 3rd, 4th & 7th installments of this film series opened on the date in their titles
Friday the 13th
Alec
$300 [3]
Key lime pie, when made with true key limes, is not green but this color
yellow
Sue Paul
$300 [23]
On a standard 12-button touchtone phone, number of buttons that have no letters on them
3
Sue
$400 [20]
The emblem of St. Nicholas; no wonder Christmas puts gift-buying parents in hock
3 balls
$400 [16]
This company, not Wilson or Spaulding, holds the contract to make baseballs for the Major Leagues
Rawlings
Paul
$400 [10]
He starred in 1937's "Elephant Boy" & 1952's "Hello Elephant"
Sabu
Sue
$400 [5]
An Irish Protestant, usually from Northern Ireland
Orangeman
Alec
$400 [24]
After a fire wiped out a Chicago area switching center in May 1988, sales of these rose 40%
cellular telephones
Alec
$500 [21]
The name of this South American capital is Spanish for St. James
Santiago
Sue
$500 [17]
The 1992 Winter Olympic Games will be held in this country that hosted the 1968 Winter Games
France
Paul
$500 [12]
If you need a bio-exorcist, say this name 3 times, but we can't guarantee the results
Beetlejuice
Paul
DD $600 [6]
Name of the group heard here:"We all came out to Montreux / On the Lake Geneva shoreline / To make records with a mobile / We didn't have much time..."
Deep Purple
Alec
$500 [25]
Alexander Graham Bell made this lab assistant a partner in the Bell Telephone Company
Watson
Alec

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE CHARACTERS IN PLAYS "P"s & "Q"s GEOLOGY MUSIC TRIVIA THOSE FABULOUS ROMANS
$200 [12]
It extends 50.71 miles from Limón Bay on the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Paul
$200 [6]
The full name of the title character in this Chekhov play is Ivan Petrovitch Voynitsky
Uncle Vanya
Sue
$200 [14]
In area it's New York City's largest borough
Queens
Sue
$200 [19]
The New York Times reports 20% of U.S. production of this comes from Prudhoe Bay
oil or petroleum
Sue
$200 [9]
The only person mentioned by named in "Hail, Columbia!" is this president
Washington
Alec
$200 [1]
According to legend, Romulus & Remus were sired by this war god
Mars
Alec
$400 [13]
Paricutin in Mexico is one of the most recent of these to form in the Western Hemisphere
volcanic cone
Sue
$400 [7]
George & Martha & Nick & Honey
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Alec
$400 [15]
Technically, this is a trademark name for table tennis
Ping-pong
Alec
$400 [20]
Rock crystal is the clear form of this mineral
quartz
Sue
$400 [24]
The 1st line of this song says, "The warden threw a party in the county jail"
"Jailhouse Rock"
Paul
$400 [2]
After overcoming Antony & Lepidus, Octavian, later known by this name, became emperor
Augustus
Alec
$600 [8]
Arthur Miller character who has a wife named Linda & sons name Biff & Happy
Willy Loman
Paul
$600 [16]
The tails of this airline's planes all sport kangaroos
Qantas
Paul
$600 [21]
Term given to the erosion of rocks from exposure & variations in humidity & temperature
weathering
$600 [25]
Of a sheng, a spinet or a sackbut, the one you should never stick in your mouth to play
spinet
Alec
$600 [3]
This poet begins his epic of Aeneas with words meaning "I sing of arms and the man"
Virgil
Alec Paul
$1,000 [11]
Aristophanes title character whose name means "she who disbands the armies"
Lysistrata
Alec
$800 [17]
On a typewriter, elite type gives you 12 characters per inch while this type give you 10
pica
Alec
$800 [22]
In January 1978 "Baby Come Back" was No. 1 on the pop charts & this mineral was no. 1 on the Mohs scale
talc
Sue
$800 [26]
This musical form debuted in the 16th century & some say the 1st production was called "Dafne"
opera
Alec
$1,000 [5]
Though he died a Roman citizen, Plutarch, author of "Parallel Lives", was born in this country
Greece
Alec
DD $1,600 [10]
Her last line in "A Streetcar Named Desire" is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"
Blanche DuBois
Alec
$1,000 [18]
This author of "Boris Gudunov" is widely viewed as the greatest Russian poet of all time
Pushkin
Sue
$1,000 [23]
A rock that's "gneiss" falls into this class
metamorphic
Sue
$1,000 [27]
Told nobody lost much money writing about the South, he decided to compose "Georgia on My Mind"
Hoagy Carmichael
DD $1,600 [4]
This man, known as the Elder or Censor, ended his speeches saying, "Carthage must be destroyed"
Cato
Alec

Final Jeopardy!

THE CIVIL WAR

1 of 2 states admitted to the Union during the Civil War

(1 of) West Virginia or Nevada

Sue "What is West Virginia" — wagered $1,990
Paul "What was Michigan" — wagered $3,400
Alec "What is Texas?" — wagered $0

« Back to Games