Show #998 1988-12-28 (taped 1988-10-03) Regular

Jeff Richmond game 4.

Contestants

Tom Leckey — a teacher from Arlington, Virginia

Carol Bunch — a computer science instructor originally from Nacogdoches, Texas

Jeff Richmond — a city planner from West Hollywood, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $23,702)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $3,400 $5,200 $11,000 $19,401
4-day champion: $43,103
$11,000
26 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Carol $500 $1,800 $2,000 $1,000
3rd place: Emerson VCR
$2,000
10 R, 2 W
Tom $700 $900 $9,700 $16,200
2nd place: Broyhill bedroom set + Troy Lighting chandelier
$7,500
17 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

1972 FABRICS ARTISTS SPORTS "DOWN" WORDS FOOD ON THE MAP
$100 [1]
This high school dropout became the 1st American world chess champion
Bobby Fischer
Carol
$100 [3]
The grounds crew at Tiger Stadium could tell you tarp is short for this waterproof canvas
tarpaulin
Jeff
$100 [18]
While working in the Himalayas, artist Peter Adams had to put vodka & gin in his paints to prevent this
their freezing up
Tom
$100 [17]
August 9, 1988 marked the 1st time an official one was played at Wrigley Field
a night game
Jeff
$100 [8]
Othello's was jealousy
his fatal downfall
Carol
$100 [2]
Cabbage cousin that hails from Belgium
Brussels sprouts
Carol
$200 [4]
Bangladesh applied to join this but China's veto barred it
the United Nations
Tom
$200 [24]
Suit fabric associated with Madison Avenue in a Sloan Wilson novel
gray flannel
Carol
$200 [20]
He worked as a cabin boy & dancing master but was most famous for drawing birds
(John James) Audubon
Jeff
$200 [19]
Red Barber used to keep an egg timer in the booth to remind himself to announce this every 3 minutes
the score
Carol
$200 [9]
According to Petula Clark, "The lights are much brighter there"
"Downtown"
Carol
$200 [13]
Fish from the waters under the White Cliffs
Dover sole
Jeff
$300 [5]
In November Nixon lifted a 22-year-old travel ban to this country, a ban he'd broken
the People's Republic of China
Jeff
$300 [25]
John the Baptist word a garment made of this animal's hair
camel
Tom
$300 [21]
Besides being a painter, Raphael was one of the most important architects in this country
Italy
Jeff
$300 [27]
Despite protests over drug use, Pedro Delgado of Spain was declared 1988 winner of this famous bike race
the Tour de France
Jeff
$300 [10]
Word describing a period when computers can't compute
downtime
Jeff
$300 [14]
In contrast to the New England type, this soup doesn't use milk but is made with tomatoes
Manhattan clam chowder
Jeff
DD $400 [6]
In the Presidential election that year, it was the only state McGovern carried
Massachusetts
Jeff
$400 [26]
A lightweight fabric with a wrinkled surface, a party paper resembles it
crepe
Jeff
$400 [22]
Every year from 1931-76 he painted illustrations for the Boy Scout Calendar
Norman Rockwell
Carol
$400 [28]
W.C. Handy might have enjoyed watching this St. Louis pro hockey team play
the St. Louis Blues
Tom
$400 [11]
On a PBS series, Hudson, Rose & Mrs. Bridges resided there
Downstairs
Jeff
$400 [15]
Succotash ingredient from south of the border, Ecuador's that is
Lima beans
Jeff
$500 [7]
The strongman of the year in this country was Gen. Omar Torrijos
Panama
Jeff
$500 [30]
Burlap-like fabric from which sacks are made, in fact its name is from Sanskrit for "sack"
gunny
$500 [23]
He was a football player & boxer at Yale before he started sculpting cowboys
(Frederic) Remington
Carol
$500 [29]
In Olympic platform diving, the height of the platform
10 meters
Jeff
$500 [12]
Description of someone who is practical
down-to-earth
Jeff
$500 [16]
Poultry dish like the "mother of Russian cities" used to make
chicken Kiev
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY MOVIES FAMOUS QUOTES ODD JOBS LITERATURE MARCO POLO
$200 [5]
Only state in which you'd find tundra
Alaska
Jeff
$200 [24]
Gene Autry rode him, "The World's Wonder Horse"
Champion
$200 [1]
According to Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth feared her husband was "too full o'th' milk of" this
human kindness
Tom
$200 [14]
In an odd modeling job for a Benson & Hedges print ad, model Rob Ramsel was clad only in these
pajama bottoms
Jeff
$200 [19]
We bet you can guess this is the country in which D.H. Lawrence set "Kangaroo"
Australia
Tom
$200 [11]
Marco found the Chinese using these black "stones" that burned
coal
Tom
$400 [6]
This Va. valley between the Allegheny & Blue Ridge Mtns. was a major Civil War battleground
the Shenandoah
Tom
$400 [25]
Only X-rated movie to win "Best Picture" Oscar, its rating was later changed to "R"
Midnight Cowboy
Carol Tom
$400 [2]
Karl Marx said, "The workers have nothing to lose but" these
their chains
Tom
$400 [15]
The only midway worker at Murphy Bros. Exposition Carnival allowed to sport a beard
the bearded lady
Jeff Tom
$400 [22]
This hobbit-forming author's initial stan for John Ronald Reuel
Tolkein
Tom
$400 [12]
Starting out in 1271, it took over 3 years for the Polos to reach this ruler's palace
Kubla Khan
Tom
$600 [8]
Immortalized in many songs, it's the main waterway of Indiana
the Wabash
$600 [26]
In their late 20s, Sly Stallone & Henry Winkler played teenage "Lords" of this area of Brooklyn
Flatbush
Jeff
$600 [3]
"Curses are like young chickens," Robert Southey wrote, "they always" do this
come home to roost
Carol
$600 [16]
Material a lapidary works on--with quite a bit of polish
stones (gems)
Jeff
$600 [23]
Title of the 1906 short story where a watch fob and comb set were given as presents
the Gift of the Magi
Jeff
$600 [13]
When Marco wrote about China, he called it by this name
Cathay
Jeff
$800 [9]
The Thousand Islands are in the St. Lawrence & the 10,000 Islands are off this southern state's west coast
Florida
Tom
$800 [29]
Breaker, breaker--Jerry Reed sang the songs & co-starred in this 1977 box office smash
Smokey and the Bandit
Tom
$800 [4]
Burns wrote, "O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, to see oursels" this way
as others see us
Jeff
$800 [17]
She's the current First Lord of the Treasury of England
Thatcher
$800 [27]
Richard Llewellyn's 1939 tale of a Welsh mining family
How Green Was My Valley
Jeff
$1,000 [21]
On his death bed, he's said to have stated, "I did not tell half of what I saw" for this reason
you wouldn't have believed it
Tom
DD $1,500 [10]
The 2 state capitals located closest to each other are Boston & this one
Providence (Rhode Island)
Tom
$1,000 [30]
Critics sang the praises of this 1983 feature in which Robert Duvall sang
Tender Mercies
Carol
$1,000 [7]
Rossini is quoted as saying, "Give me a laundry list and I'll" do this with it
set it to music
Jeff Carol
$1,000 [18]
Texas troubleshooter called in to extinguish the burning Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea
"Red" Adair
$1,000 [28]
Among her works are "By the North Gate", "A Garden of Earthly Delights" & "Bellefleur"
Joyce Carol Oates
DD $2,500 [20]
When Marco came home to this city after 24 years, he found it at war with Genoa & was captured
Venice
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

He was the 1st incumbent president to debate his opponent for office on TV

Gerald Ford

Carol "Who is LBJ?" — wagered $1,000
Tom "Who is Gerald Ford?" — wagered $6,500
Jeff "Who was Ford?" — wagered $8,401

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