Show #1115 1989-06-09 (taped 1989-02-07) Regular

Contestants

Julie Harris Neiger — a teacher from San Diego, California

Jim Tigrak — an aerospace engineer originally from Champaign, Illinois

David McCutchen — an inventor and filmmaker originally from Santa Barbara, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $1,400 $1,700 $1,300 $2,599
2nd place: Pulaski Ridgeway clock & Galaxy Carpet Mills carpeting
$1,300
12 R, 4 W
Jim $900 $3,800 $1,600 $2,100
3rd place: Svend Jensen of Denmark crystal set
$2,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Julie $200 $1,800 $6,200 $4,400
New champion: $4,400
$6,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

1970 POP MUSIC RELIGION ALASKA TRIVIA CELEBRITY SPELLING
$100 [6]
A bill banning advertising of these products on radio & TV was signed into law on April 1, 1970
cigarettes
Julie
$100 [8]
Nickname of Robert Bell, who along with "the Gang", had hits like "Jungle Boogie" & "Celebration"
Kool
David
$100 [1]
According to Revelation 20:3, the devil will be chained & holiness will prevail on earth for this many yrs.
1,000
Jim
$100 [2]
The forget-me-not isn't the state motto, it's this
state flower
Jim
$100 [4]
The tropical version of this Mattel boyfriend wears flowered trunks & comes with his own lei
Ken
Jim
$100 [10]
Colorful last name of colorful "Cabaret" star Joel
G-R-E-Y
Jim
$200 [7]
Length that replaced the "mini" as skirt lengths dropped to mid-calf around 1970
midi
Jim Julie
$200 [15]
His "Graceland" album won a Grammy in 1987; his "Graceland" single won one the following year
Paul Simon
Jim
$200 [9]
Completes the verse: "Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna..."
Hare Hare
David
$200 [3]
Alaska celebrated its centennial in 1967, 100 years after it was purchased from this country
Russia
Jim
$200 [22]
During the Renaissance these criminals were known as "corsairs"
pirates
Jim Julie
$200 [13]
Shirley MacLaine's brother uses this last name
B-E-A-T-T-Y
David Jim
$300 [19]
After a 5-year strike, the union led by this man signed contracts with most table grape growers
Cesar Chavez
David
$300 [16]
According to this Credence Clearwater Revivial song, "People on the river are happy to give"
"Proud Mary"
Jim
$300 [5]
The Maritime Indians had no writing & used these posts to keep certain records
totem poles
Julie
$300 [23]
On July 16, 1988 Eastern Massachusetts got a new one, 508
area code
Jim
$300 [14]
This Smith was in "Charlie's Angels" & "Rage of Angels"
J-A-C-L-Y-N
Jim
$400 [20]
Millions of American observed this anti-pollution day on April 22, 1970
Earth Day
Julie
$500 [18]
This group's 1982 debut album "Business as Usual" & debut single "Who Can It Be Now?" both reached No. 1
Men at Work
Jim
$400 [11]
This Alaskan variety of grizzly bear is one of the world's largest land carnivores
Kodiak
David
$400 [24]
If you've done this in a Volkswagen & can prove it, Volkswagen will give you 3 $100 savings bonds
had a baby (given birth)
$400 [26]
Any 1 of the last names of folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary
T-R-A-V-E-R-S (or Y-A-R-R-O-W or S-T-O-O-K-E-Y)
Julie
$500 [21]
For her involvement in the "Soledad Brothers" case, she made the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List
Angela Davis
Julie
DD $1,400 [17]
1 of 2 singers with whom Julio Iglesias had Top 20 singles in 1984
(1 of) Willie Nelson (or Diana Ross)
Jim
$500 [12]
In the early 19th c. this was Alaska's main export, but it's now a small percentage of the economy
fur
David
$500 [25]
Martha Parke Custis & John Parke Custis were related to George Washington this way
step children
Julie

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LITERATURE KINGS COUNTIES THE HUMAN BODY "LAST" RESORTS
$200 [11]
H.G. Wells Martian mayhem
The War of the Worlds
David
$200 [6]
The king of beasts
lion
Jim
$200 [16]
Mackinac, Saginaw & Kalamazoo counties are in this state
Michigan
Julie
$200 [1]
Scientists working independently of each other discovered this blood factor in both 1939 & 1940
Rh
David
$200 [19]
The Roman Catholic sacrament of "extreme unction" is commonly called this
last rite
Julie
$200 [21]
The citizens of Monaco aren't permitted to gamble at this town's famous casino, but you can
Monte Carlo
Julie
$400 [12]
Though only a short story, this author's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" was made into a full-length movie
Hemingway
Julie
$400 [7]
The King of Kings
Jesus
Jim
$400 [17]
Of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex or Wessex counties, the one Massachusetts doesn't have
Wessex
David
$400 [2]
As a verb, this part of your body means to give someone a weapon
arm
Jim
$400 [20]
Marlon Brando & Maria Schneider are overwhelmed by passion in this 1973 film
Last Tango in Paris
Jim
$600 [13]
Welsh poet noted for his volume of short stories, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog"
Dylan Thomas
Julie
$600 [8]
The King of Swing
Benny Goodman
David
$600 [18]
A total of 23 U.S. counties are named for this Pennsylvanian
(Benjamin) Franklin
David Julie
$600 [3]
The special transparent tissue located just behind the iris
lens
David Jim
DD $800 [22]
Donna Summer won a 1978 Grammy for singing this Oscar-winning song:"I need you by me / Beside me, to guide me..."
"Last Dance"
Julie
$800 [14]
Dumas' coughing courtesan Marguerite Gautier
La Dame aux Camélias ( The Lady of the Camellias )
Julie
$800 [9]
The king of Sweden
Carl XVI Gustav
David Julie
$800 [25]
Las Vegas, Nevada is located in this county named for a U.S. senator from Montana
Clark
Julie
$1,000 [5]
Term for the tiny gap between neurons that nerve impulses have to jump
synapse
David
$800 [23]
Sophia Kalish a.k.a. Sophie Tucker a.k.a. this
The Last of the Red Hot Mamas
Julie
$1,000 [15]
In 1929 race driver-turned-writer Erich Maria Remarque wrote this WWI pacifist novel
All Quiet on the Western Front
Jim
$1,000 [10]
The King of Torts
Melvin Belli
Julie
$1,000 [26]
Manhattan, the nation's smallest county in area is officially called this
New York County
David Jim
DD $2,000 [4]
Though it makes monocytes & stores blood for emergency use, this organ is nonessential & can be removed
spleen
Jim
$1,000 [24]
Completes the title of the unauthorized biography of G. Vanderbilt's childhood "Little Gloria..."
Little Gloria...Happy at Last
David Jim

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

British actress who won Oscars for playing Southern women in 2 different films

Vivien Leigh

David "Who is Vivian Leigh?" — wagered $1,299
Jim "Who was Vivian Leigh?" — wagered $500
Julie "Who is Patricia Neal?" — wagered $1,800

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