Show #960 1988-11-04 (taped 1988-09-07) Regular

Contestants

Andrew Martin — a student originally from Freehold, New Jersey

Diane St. John — a teacher from San Luis Obispo, California

Steve Brown — a chief petty officer from Twentynine Palms, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $1,200 $4,400 $8,200 $6,799
2-day champion: $26,799
$10,500
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Diane $400 $1,200 $4,800 $100
2nd place: Keller dining furniture + Villeroy & Boch dishes
$4,800
16 R, 2 W
Andrew $700 $1,200 $3,600 $1
3rd place: Martin Lawrence Galleries serigraph of "Orchestra" by Mark King
$3,600
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COUPLES IN THE NEWS SWEETS THE BODY HUMAN VIRGINIA DEFINITIONS THE BEATLES
$100 [28]
This "Big City" boy isn't allergic to pollan, Tracy Pollan that is
Michael J. Fox
Diane
$100 [17]
Joy of Cooking"s recipe for these makes "about 8 5"-long fat men or 16 thinner ones"
gingerbread men
Diane
$100 [7]
Over 400 of these account for about 40% of your body's weight, more perhaps for Arnold Schwarzenegger
muscles
Andrew
$100 [1]
When little George Washington moved here as a tot, it was called Little Hunting Creek Plantation
Mount Vernon
Steve
$100 [18]
It's a "comfy" covering for your teapot
a tea cozy
Steve
$100 [6]
Color of the cover of the album officially titled "The Beatles"
white
Diane
$200 [29]
They have been referred to as the "Vice" king & "The Ice Queen"
Don Johnson & Barbra Streisand
Andrew
$200 [8]
Traditionally, the crisscross designs on peanut butter cookies are made with this utensil
a fork
Diane
$200 [9]
Nails grow from this top layer of skin
the epidermis
Steve
$200 [2]
Chincoteague is famous for its wild ponies but has an entire museum devoted to this yummy mollusk
oysters
Andrew
$200 [20]
A jukebox, or an early movie theater that charged only 5¢
a nickelodeon
Andrew
$200 [10]
The only day of the week not mentioned in "Lady Madonna"; maybe 3 syllables were hard to rhyme
Saturday
Diane
$300 [26]
She's the new anchor in Mike Nichols' life
Diane Sawyer
$300 [16]
Pastry chefs know these are the 2 main ingredients in meringue
egg whites and sugar
Diane
$300 [11]
Heartburn is not a burning sensation in the heart but in this tube
the esophagus
Diane
$300 [3]
1 of the 3 U.S. presidents who also served as governor of Virginia
James Monroe (or Jefferson or Tyler)
Andrew
$300 [21]
A person who removes the outer covering from trees or one who works outside a carnival show
a barker
Steve
$300 [19]
In August 1962 he was kicked out of the group
Pete Best
Diane
$400 [27]
In February she got an Olympic bronze; in March she got a gold wedding ring from Brian Hogen
Debi Thomas
Diane
$400 [14]
Pralines are most commonly made with this nut
pecans
Diane Andrew
$400 [12]
The anatomical name for the voice box
the larynx
Steve
$400 [4]
When it became Virginia's capital, Middle Plantation was renamed Williamsburg in this king's honor
William III (William of Orange)
Diane Andrew
$400 [24]
A division within a classification, or ⅙ of a "Jeopardy!" board
a category
Steve
$400 [22]
Since "Sgt. Pepper" was released in 1967, this was the year Pepper taught the band to play
1947
Steve
$500 [30]
A popular tabloid topic, Gitte & Gastineau are this pair
Mark Gastineau & Brigitte Nielsen
Steve
$500 [15]
The part of Great Britain best known for its shortbread
Scotland
Andrew
$500 [13]
This hormone causes cells to take in & use sugar from the bloodstream
insulin
Andrew
$500 [5]
This concert site in Vienna, Virginia was the 1st in the Nat'l Park system dedicated to the performing arts
Wolf Trap
Steve
$500 [25]
Piece of clothing on which a man usually wears his cockade
a hat
Steve
DD $1,000 [23]
Tommy Smothers, Timothy Leary & others joined this Beatle & his new wife in thefollowing1969 hit:Ev'rybody's talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism This-ism, that-ism, ism, ism, ism All we are saying is give peace a chance
John Lennon
Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

CORPORATE AMERICA BRITISH HISTORY BEST SELLERS QUOTES GEOGRAPHY JOANNES, JOANNAS, ETC.
$200 [26]
In December 1987 the Baer brothers of Colorado bought this "Famous" cookie company
Famous Amos
Andrew
$200 [5]
By 1750 about 10% of England's population lived in this city
London
Steve
$200 [11]
He promises new thinking, not Newspeak, in his book "Perestroika"
Mikhail Gorbachev
Steve
$200 [13]
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy," he said in a fireside chat December 29, 1940
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Diane
$200 [6]
The Strait of Messina separates the Calabria region in the "toe" of Italy from this island
Sicily
Andrew
$200 [21]
We can thank him for 2 names in this category: his 2nd wife Joanne Copeland, & his 3rd, Joanna Holland
Johnny Carson
Diane
$400 [27]
Procter & Gamble is test marketing this type of product in different colors, pink & blue
disposable diapers
$400 [1]
From French for "a discussion", it evolved from a medieval assembly of Barons & prelates
parliament
Andrew
$400 [12]
In "Detour: A Hollywood Story", this star's daughter Cheryl Crane talks about life with mom
Lana Turner
Diane
$400 [14]
Mark Twain said, "Adam...did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was" this
forbidden fruit
Andrew
$400 [7]
Adjective found in the names of the Slave & Bear Lakes in Canada
Great
Steve
$400 [22]
Actress with many facets but only "3 Faces of Eve"
Joanne Woodward
Steve
$600 [28]
In '88 this popcorn developer received an honorary doctorate in agriculture from Purdue
Orville Redenbacher
Diane
$600 [2]
He was in England for only 6 months of his 10-year reign which began in 1189
Richard the Lionheart (Richard I)
Steve Andrew
$600 [18]
"Heaven & Hell" is the final book of this John Jakes Civil War trilogy
North & South ( North & South and Love & War accepted)
Steve Andrew
$600 [15]
In this show, Adelaide laments, "A person can develop a cold"
Guys and Dolls
Andrew
$600 [8]
The Turkmen are a Turkic people with their very own republic in this country
the Soviet Union
Andrew
$600 [23]
Her trademark has been an ear-splitting operatic vocalization
Jo Anne Worley
Diane
$800 [29]
The Senate's "Bork Bill" aims to bar these businesses from revealing what you rented from them
video rentals
Diane
$800 [3]
Term used to describe the re-establishment of the monarchy in 1660
The Restoration
Steve
$800 [19]
In 1979 his "Cruel Shoes" hit No. 2 but never overtook "The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet"
Steve Martin
Steve
$800 [16]
On the Cuban Missile Crisis, Dean Rusk said, "We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just" did this
blink
Diane
$800 [9]
The Plain of Sharon is the most densely populated area in this country
Israel
Steve
$800 [24]
Statuesque brunette who played Lt. Dish in the 1970 movie "M*A*S*H"
Jo Ann Pflug
DD $1,700 [4]
In 1936 this king uttered his last words, "How is the Empire?"
George V
Steve
$1,000 [20]
"The Bonfire of the Vanities" is this journalist's 1st novel
Tom Wolfe
$1,000 [17]
"Birth of a Nation" star who said in 1987, "Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit"
Lilian Gish
Steve
DD $3,500 [10]
Cape Agulhas is this continent's southernmost point
Africa
Steve
$1,000 [25]
1940s films of this Joanne include "Red River" & "All the King's Men"
Dru
Steve

Final Jeopardy!

LETTER PERFECT

Vowel found in the names of 7 of the 9 planets

U

Andrew "What is "A"" — wagered $3,599
Diane "What is e" — wagered $4,700
Steve "What is E?" — wagered $1,401

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