Show #545 1987-01-09 (taped 1986-10-08) Regular

Contestants

Mark Palmer — a financial proofreader from Long Beach, California

George Neil — a copywriter from Los Angeles, California

Patty Godon-Tann — a teacher from Santa Monica, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Patty $500 $1,300 $3,700 $1
3rd place: designer glass from Stained Glass Overlay
$3,700
9 R, 0 W
George $1,200 $1,700 $4,700 $3
2nd place: La-Z-Boy sleep sofa & wingback chair + Krups kitchen products
$4,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Mark $1,300 $3,300 $10,200 $10,999
New champion: $10,999
$10,500
23 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY TELEVISION RED SHOES PSYCH 101 PLANTS "AN"IMALS
$100 [20]
The 1st Flag Day, June 14, 1877, celebrated this anniversary
the 100th anniversary of the flag
Patty
$100 [1]
This police series set in New York made the city sound like a nudist colony
Naked City
Mark
$100 [15]
He flies over Metropolis in his red high-tops
Superman
Mark
$100 [4]
When you use a projection defense mechanism, it's who you blame for your own faults
others
Mark
$100 [25]
The name of this wild herb comes from the French meaning lion's tooth
dandelion
George
$100 [2]
If it looks like a herring & is perched on your pizza, you'd better hope it's this
anchovy
Patty
$200 [21]
9 days after gold was discovered here, Mexico sold the territory to the U.S.
California
George
$200 [9]
"Out of the night when the full moon is bright comes the horseman known as" this
Zorro
George Mark
$200 [16]
Tom Hanks, in a 1985 film
The Man with One Red Shoe
George
$200 [6]
Name given by Freud in 1890s to his methods of research & therapy
psychoanalysis
George
$200 [26]
A member of the mustard family, this garnish can be of Swedish, garden or water varieties
cress
Patty
$200 [3]
Hollow-horned ruminants who made themselves right at "Home on the Range"
antelope
George
$300 [22]
Even the 39-month extension given in 1978 for states to ratify this amendment didn't help
Equal Rights Amendment
Mark
$300 [10]
In 1963, California theater owners pledged money to fight this form of TV
pay TV
George
$300 [17]
Bespectacled British rocker who sang, "The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes"
Elvis Costello
Mark
$300 [7]
Originally the part of the abdomen where melancholy sat, it now refers to imaginary illnesses
hypochondria
$300 [27]
In "A Visit from St. Nicholas", Santa & his reindeer flew away "like the dawn of" this prickly plant
thistle
George
$300 [5]
Be careful, Leo Buscaglia; this green "water boa" can hug you to death
anaconda
George
$400 [23]
Occupation of most of the debt-ridden participants in Shay's Rebellion of 1786-87
farmers
Mark
$400 [11]
The Emmys are awarded for TV programs, but the "Clios" are awarded for excellence in these
commercials
Mark
$400 [18]
In the 1948 film, she danced in "The Red Shoes"
Moira Shearer
George Mark
$400 [8]
Gregory Peck's characters in "Mirage" & "Spellbound" both suffered from this, remember?
amnesia
Patty
DD $600 [28]
Fungi not only lack roots, stems & leaves, but also this food-making matter
chlorophyll
George
$400 [13]
It's an earthworm's alias
angleworm
George
$500 [24]
Fraction of the nation Roosevelt saw as "ill-housed", "ill-clad", "ill-nourished" in 1937
one-third
George
$500 [12]
"To Tell the Truth", they also produced "What's My Line?" & "I've Got a Secret"
Mark Goodson & Bill Todman
Mark
$500 [19]
"Wicked Witch of the West" who finally wore the ruby slippers in 1971's "Brewster McCloud"
Margaret Hamilton
Patty
$500 [14]
The introvert-extrovert theory of personality types were made famous by this Swiss psychoanalyst
Carl Jung
Mark

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD TRADE SURPRISING AUTHORS WOMEN IN THE NEWS SPORT SHIFTS EXPLORERS POTPOURRI
$200 [25]
Driving down the price of gold was among proposed U.S. sanctions against this country
South Africa
Mark
$200 [1]
His play "The Jeweller's Shop" opened in London 3 days before he paid a papal visit to Great Britain
Pope John Paul II
Patty
$200 [9]
His wife, Safia, has been quoted as saying "If I thought he was a terrorist, I would not stay with him"
Muammar Gaddafi
Mark
$200 [10]
Basketball's former Fort Wayne Pistons now represent this city
Detroit
Mark
$200 [5]
Rounding this in 1616, Dutch explorer Willem Schouten named it after his home town of Hoorn
Cape Horn
George
$200 [21]
In order to install air conditioning, Springfield, Ill. closed this landmark in fall of 1986
Lincoln's home
George
$400 [2]
He named one of his novels "An Eye for an Eye", although he saved Leopold & Loeb from execution
Clarence Darrow
George
$400 [15]
On May 20, 1986, Sharon Wood became 1st North American woman to reach the top of this
Mount Everest
Patty
$400 [11]
Only NFL franchise shift which the NFL has actively opposed involved the move of this team
the Raiders
Mark
$400 [6]
Canadian province found by John Cabot in 1497, which may be how it got its name
Newfoundland
George
$400 [22]
Traditional gift for a 14th anniversary that Mr. & Mrs. Babar would be horrified to get
ivory
Mark
$600 [3]
Alabama senator Jeremiah Denton wrote of his ordeal as 1 of these in "When Hell was in Session"
POW (prisoner of war)
George
$600 [16]
Of Bardot, Deneuve, or Fonda, the 1 not suing Roger Vadim for invasion of privacy
Jane Fonda
George
$600 [12]
Entire 1944 World Series was played in St. Louis with the Cardinals vs. this team, now the Orioles
St. Louis Browns
Mark
$600 [7]
In 1520, he found the strait at 52 deg. 30' south that now bears his name
Ferdinand Magellan
George
DD $500 [24]
Of "Rad", "Rag", "Ram", "Ran", "Rap" & "Rat", the 2 that were theatrical releases of the '80s
Ran & Rad
Mark
$800 [4]
Before becoming British PM, he wrote an 1837 novel based on his own affair with a married woman
Benjamin Disraeli
Patty
$800 [17]
She 1st defected to the West in 1967, returned to Russia in 1984, then came back to the U.S., April 16, 1986
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Mark
$800 [13]
1 of 2 current Major League Baseball teams that were formerly "The Washington Senators"
Minnesota Twins (& the Texas Rangers)
Mark
$800 [18]
He discovered Lake Tanganyika with John Speke, but translated "The Arabian Nights" by himself
Sir Richard Burton
Mark
$600 [23]
A survey of U.S. corporate executives showed 62% arrived at work during this hour
7-8 in the morning
$1,000 [8]
Oscar-winning late French actress whose only novel chronicled the rise of anti-Semitism
Simone Signoret
Patty
$1,000 [20]
In election here in '80, Vigdis Finnbogaddotir became 1st elected female president in the world
Iceland
George Mark
$1,000 [14]
When the NBA's Philadelphia '76ers played in Syracuse, they were known by this name
the Nationals
Mark
$1,000 [19]
In the 16th century, area Tycho Brahe was noted for exploring
the solar system (space, the heavens)
George

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

The only person from whom the names of 2 current state capitals are derived

Christopher Columbus

Patty "Who was Thomas Jefferson" — wagered $3,699
George "Who is Wm Penn?" — wagered $4,697
Mark "Who is C Columbus?" — wagered $799

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