Show #657 1987-06-16 (taped 1987-02-17) Regular

Contestants

Robin Ditzler — a homemaker from Poway, California

Dan Stewart — a college professor from Sligo, Pennsylvania

Meg Shreve — an attorney from Bolinas, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Meg $1,300 $3,000 $5,000 $9,999
3-day champion: $29,799
$5,800
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Dan $900 $2,600 $6,600 $1,600
2nd place: trip on Eastern to Caribbean & stay at Hedonism II Resort
$7,600
21 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Robin $900 $1,400 $5,800 $600
3rd place: Berkline Wallaway sofa
$5,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

INSECTS FOOD & DRINK COMMON BONDS METROPOLITAN OPERA SPINOFFS "OUT" WORDS
$100 [11]
All insects hatch from these
eggs
Meg
$100 [10]
An old name for a strong ale, now it's usually preceded by "egg"
nog
Dan
$100 [15]
Busby, borsalino, boater
hats
Dan
$100 [1]
A 1965 Met performance of "Il Trovatore" had to be cancelled due to this famous power problem
the blackout in New York City
Dan
$100 [5]
Though inspired by 'The Six Million Dollar Man", it wasn't called "The Six Million Dollar Woman"
The Bionic Woman
Meg
$100 [2]
A type of boat motor
outboard motor
Meg
$200 [13]
Mayflies live for a very short time because adult mayflies can't do this
eat
Meg
$200 [12]
During WWII, some Dutch reportedly avoided starvation by eating the flowers & bulbs of this plant
the tulip
Dan
$200 [16]
Carter, Day George, Bird Johnson Robb
Lindas
Meg
$200 [14]
While on a 1906 West Coast tour, the company survived this legendary disaster
San Francisco earthquake (and fire)
Dan
$200 [6]
"Good Times" was a spinoff from "Maude", which was a spinoff from this show
All in the Family
Meg Robin
$200 [3]
What you'd have to do to beat the fastest gun or best artist in the West
outdraw him or her
Dan
$300 [25]
When male moths lose these sensory appendages, they lose all interest in female moths
antennae
Dan
$300 [28]
From Italian for "salt", this type of sausage often uses meat that's seasoned with red wine
salami
$300 [22]
Bridget, Bonaventure, Boniface
saints
Dan
$300 [17]
In 1940, this "star-studded" oil co. began its Saturday sponsorship of Met radio broadcasts
Texaco
Meg
$300 [7]
Before they became sitcoms, Phyllis & Rhoda were characters on this series
Mary Tyler Moore
Robin
$300 [4]
You can plug your lava lite into it
an outlet
Robin
$400 [26]
These wasps are called the 1st papermakers because they build paper nests
hornets (yellowjackets)
Dan
$400 [29]
Most Parisians wouldn't have the "Gaul" to serve this bread dish for breakfast
French toast
Dan
$400 [23]
Essex, Franklin, Pierce-Arrow
old automobiles no longer in production
Dan
$400 [18]
Two great Italian tenors debuted at the Met on November 23, Pavarotti in 1968 & this singer in 1903
Caruso
Meg
$400 [8]
Before moving to their own show, "The Ropers" were the landlords on this sitcom
Three's Company
Meg
$400 [20]
A pariah
an outcast
Dan
$500 [27]
An immature insect, or a lesser forest goddess
nymph
Dan
$500 [30]
Flavor of cake used in making a sachertorte
chocolate
Robin
DD $1,000 [24]
A ship, a violin, a nose
things that have a bridge
Dan
$500 [19]
Including "Lohengrin", all Met operas in the 1st season were sung in these 2 Romance languages
Italian & French
Meg
$500 [9]
With a twitch of her nose, she left "Bewitched" & got a show named after her
Tabitha
Robin
$500 [21]
Frank, as one who calls a pariah a "pariah"
outspoken
Meg

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY LITERARY FLOWERS JAZZ PSEUDONYMS TRAVEL & TOURISM "IN" WORDS
$200 [4]
In 1818, Congress ordered these cut back from 15 to 13, and they've stayed that way since
stripes on the flag
Meg
$200 [26]
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "Marriage...is a field of battle, not a bed of" these
roses
Meg
$200 [1]
Louis Armstrong was born in this city which was the 1st center for what would be called jazz
New Orleans
Robin
$200 [7]
First name in pseudonyms of 19th century female authors "Sand" & "Eliot"
George
Dan
$200 [21]
Whether buying a Singapore sling in Singapore, or a Manhattan in Manhattan, you'd use bills called this
dollars
Dan
$200 [12]
"You're ugly & your mother dresses you funny," for example
insult
Meg
$400 [5]
On Sept. 4, 1886, U.S. troops captured this Apache leader & deported him--to Florida
Geronimo
Robin
$400 [27]
The "live flowers" in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" have this amazing ability
ability to talk
$400 [2]
Nickname shared by jazz greats Webb & Corea
Chick
Robin
$400 [17]
40 inches tall, 19th c. entertainer Charles Sherwood Stratton was best known by this name
General Tom Thumb
Dan
$400 [22]
The "Indrailpass" lets you use all this country's trains, including the Rajdhani Express
India
Dan
$400 [13]
An egghead
intellectual
Dan
$600 [6]
On July 27, 1909, he set a world record by staying aloft for 1 hour, 1 minute & 40 seconds
Orville Wright
Meg
$600 [28]
In "Hamlet", shortly after saying, "There is pansies, that's for thoughts", she drowns herself
Ophelia
Robin
$600 [3]
He brought jazz into a new era with his song "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Duke Ellington
Dan
$600 [18]
His acting career ruined by a sex scandal, this rotund silent comic directed using name Will B. Goodrich
(Roscoe) "Fatty" Arbuckle
Robin
$600 [23]
Fodor's says this is Mexico's #1 resort for international visitors & numero uno for Mexicans too
Acapulco
Robin
$600 [14]
What you become when you drink far too much
intoxicated or inebriated
Robin
$800 [8]
In August 1958, the Nautilus made the 1st undersea crossing of this
North Pole
Dan
$800 [29]
In a 1974 film, Cyblll Shepherd played this florally-named Henry James heroine
Daisy Miller
Meg
DD $1,000 [10]
It's whom you'd expect to see on TV if you heard thefollowing Vince Guaraldi jazz theme: [Instrumental "Linus and Lucy" plays]
Peanuts & Charlie Brown (characters from the television show, Peanuts )
Robin
$800 [19]
Born Helen Louise Leonard, she was famous for singing & her 40 yr. relationship with Diamond Jim Brady
Lillian Russell
$800 [24]
If you ask a waiter in Beijing "Qing gei wo yidiar cha" he'll bring you this
tea
$800 [15]
What you might get when you eat far too much
indigestion
Meg
$1,000 [9]
On May 15, 1972, he was shot in a Laurel, Maryland shopping center
George Wallace
Robin
DD $800 [30]
Walt Whitman mourned Lincoln in his poem "When" these "Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Lilacs
Meg
$1,000 [11]
Playboy called this trumpeter's "Kind of Blue" the best jazz album of all time
Miles Davis
$1,000 [20]
Born Harry Gerguson in New York, this flamboyant L.A. restaurateur passed as a Russian prince
Mike Romanoff
$1,000 [25]
The National Museum of Science & Technology in Milan is named after this man
(Leonardo) Da Vinci
Dan
$1,000 [16]
Impalpable, it's that vague something you can't quite put your finger on
intangible
Robin

Final Jeopardy!

THE CONTINENTS

Besides Antarctica, the other 2 continents that have no communist countries

Australia & South America

Meg "What are Australia & South America?" — wagered $4,999
Robin "What are Australia & North America?" — wagered $5,200
Dan "What are Australia & N. America?" — wagered $5,000

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