Show #542 1987-01-06 (taped 1986-10-08) Regular

Keith Bell game 3.

Contestants

David Dickman — a magazine editor from North Hollywood, California

Dale Butland — a press secretary originally from Columbus, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,000)

Keith Bell — a personnel specialist from Alexandria, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,901)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Keith $200 $400 $5,100 $10,200
3-day champion: $26,101
$5,300
16 R (including 2 DDs), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Dale $100 $700 $1,500 $1,500
2nd place: a trip to New Orleans & stay at the Bienville House
$1,500
7 R, 2 W
David $1,300 $4,200 $5,600 $100
3rd place: Daniel Mink watches
$5,600
20 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SPORTS SOAP OPERAS 4-LETTER WORDS EUROPE GIANTS SUDDEN DEATH
$100 [2]
1st called "kitten ball," it was invented in 1887 as an indoor derivative of baseball
softball
Keith
$100 [9]
Abby on "Knots Landing", she got her 1st soap experience on "Love is a Many Splendored Thing"
Donna Mills
Keith
$100 [14]
A John LeCarre spy "Came in" from it
the Cold
Dale
$100 [3]
A Roman amphitheater was recently unearthed in this country's city of Budapest
Hungary
Keith
$100 [10]
Big Philistine who was a head shorter after getting stoned by David
Goliath
David
$100 [1]
Leonard Warren literally died on stage while performing at this New York opera house
The Metropolitan Opera House
Dale
$200 [8]
Though swords are ancient weapons, this sport didn't develop until the 15th century
fencing
Keith
$200 [27]
An original cat in "Cats", F. Hughes now plays police chief A. DeVane on this #1 daytime soap
General Hospital
Keith Dale David
$200 [15]
Au
gold
Dale
$200 [4]
In Finland, all proceeds from gambling are donated to this
charity
$200 [17]
Late '60s TV series about earthlings stranded on a planet of pituitary cases
Land of the Giants
David
$200 [23]
Occupation of Alexandra Mosca, who "undertook" a Playboy pictorial in the April 1986 issue
a mortician
$300 [11]
Length of a regulation period in hockey
20 minutes
David
$300 [28]
Topping "Santa Barbara's" Nov. '84 quake, "Search for Tomorrow" leveled its town w/this '86 disaster
a flood
$300 [16]
Fuzzy substance in which Fleming found penicillin
mold
Keith
$300 [5]
Only Andorra & this adjacent country let U.S. citizens stay for more than 3 months with only a passport
Spain
Keith
$300 [18]
This actor was a bouncer, giving drunks the boot with a size 18EEE, before he was "Jaws" in Bond films
Richard Kiel
$300 [24]
K. Yamashiro, commander of destroyer which sank this boat & gave JFK back problems, died Jan. 25, 1986
PT-109
David
$400 [12]
German for "shot", in skiing it's a straight shot down the mountain
schuss
David
$400 [19]
In printing, type with thickened lines to give a very black look is called this
bold
Keith David
DD $500 [6]
Alphabetically, this country is the 1st in Europe
Albania
Keith
$400 [22]
What the Jets were called before Namath, of the Giants who ruled before Zeus
the Titans
David
$400 [25]
This is the only office in the U.S. Postal Service which can open your mail
a Dead Letter Office
David
$500 [13]
The 1956 "Summer" Olympics were held in November & December in this city
Melbourne
David
$500 [20]
A collection of tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne were "Twice" this
Told
Keith
$500 [7]
This country has Europe's largest coal, iron ore, & petroleum deposits
the U.S.S.R. (the Soviet Union)
Keith David
$500 [21]
"Stretch", the latest Giant inductee in Baseball's Hall of Fame
Willie McCovey
David
$500 [26]
Parodying New Hampshire's, an entry in this state's license plate contest was "Eat Cheese or Die"
Wisconsin
Dale

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR INVENTIONS ODD TOWNS ROCK 'N ROLL BIOLOGY "STEIN"s
$200 [6]
Of the Monitor & the Merrimack, the 1 that fought for the South
the Merrimack
Keith
$200 [19]
U.S. patent#123790, Feb. 20, 1872, is for a machine to turn a block of wood into 1000s of these
toothpicks
Keith David
$200 [1]
Until Oct. 1983, crank calls were common in Bryant Pond, ME. since most phones were this kind
crank phones
Keith
$200 [8]
"Police"man who said, "I'm a rich, successful songwriter - what do I write aboutnow?"
Sting
David
$200 [12]
They protect larvae during the pupal stage & were protected by B. Dennehy in a R. Howard film
cocoon
David
$200 [16]
Assistant football coach at Purdue, he went on to buy the Yankees
George Steinbrenner
David
$400 [7]
He said, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it"
Abraham Lincoln
Dale
$400 [20]
Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero discovered this compound which blew up Alfred's brother Emil Nobel
nitroglycerine
David
$400 [2]
As the town's residents will tell you, this small N. England state has only town in world named Henniker
New Hampshire
David
$400 [13]
Thanks to the Concorde, this drummer-singer was at both the London & Philadelphia Live Aid shows
Phil Collins
Keith
$600 [15]
Fluid that's left when you remove all the corpuscles from the blood
plasma
David
$400 [24]
In 1853, this immigrant & veteran of Waterloo founded a piano factory in New York
Henry Steinway
David
$600 [9]
Because he opposed secession, he was deposed as Texas governor in 1861
Sam Houston
Keith
$600 [21]
Contrary to his name, he put ink, not H2O, in the fountain pen he patented in 1884
Waterman
David
$600 [3]
A museum in Quitman, Texas is named for this unfortunately named daughter of former Gov. James Hogg
Ima
Dale
$800 [17]
It's contained in the anther sacs of a stamen
pollen
Keith
$1,000 [11]
7 of the 11 Confederate states seceded while this man was president
James Buchanan
Keith
$800 [22]
1st administrator of the U.S. patent system, he never took out a patent for any of his inventions
Thomas Jefferson
Keith
$800 [4]
Wall, S. Dakota, is famous for this legendary store with an ice water well & a "real" jackalope
Wall Drug
Dale
DD $1,000 [14]
Rheas, emus, & cassowaries are classified as ratites because they can't do this
fly
Keith
DD $1,500 [10]
(Here comes the music.)Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along Sing it as we used to sing it, 50,000 strong...Civil War event depicted in this song:...Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the jubilee!Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!
Sherman's march through Georgia
Keith
$1,000 [23]
In 1888, Marvin Chester Stone patented the 1st of these, hand-rolled & made of paraffined paper
straws
Dale David
$1,000 [5]
Founded July 12, 1887, Mound Bayou, Miss. is oldest city in U.S. whose population is exclusively this
Black
Keith
$1,000 [18]
Discounting Clairol, the color of human hair is mainly due to this dark pigment
melanin
Keith

Final Jeopardy!

ASTROLOGY

While Gemini is represented by 2 humans, this sign is represented by a pair of animals

Pisces

Dale "What is Pisces?" — wagered $0
Keith "What is Pisces?" — wagered $5,100
David "What is Cancer" — wagered $5,500

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