Show #631 1987-05-11 (taped 1987-02-10) Regular

1987 Senior Tournament quarterfinal game 1.Inaugural Senior Tournament game.

Contestants

Dorothy McClellan — an airline employee from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Joe Dobkins — a manufacturer's representative from Oceanside, New York

Irene Grzywacz — a teacher originally from Connecticut

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Irene $500 $2,000 $8,600 $10,000
Automatic semifinalist
$8,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Joe $0 $1,300 $1,300 $2,600
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$1,300
7 R, 2 W
Dorothy $200 $1,500 $5,700 $8,700
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$5,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MAMMALS ANCIENT ROME FINE CHINA LUNCH COUNTER LINGO RELIGION NOISEMAKERS
$100 [9]
It's said these furry rodents were named for the Chincha Indians, who used to eat them
chinchillas
Dorothy
$100 [1]
He had affairs with Cassius' wife & Brutus' mother, giving the guys good reason to stab him
Julius Caesar
Irene
$100 [6]
First made in the 17th century, this country's Imari ware includes blue & white sake bottles
Japan
Irene
$100 [10]
You don't hit someone with this "lead pipe"; you eat it with meatballs
spaghetti
Irene
$100 [19]
The Digambara monks of India believe that salvation is not possible for this sex
women
Joe
$100 [4]
The hollow cone through which cheerleaders scream at you
megaphone
Joe
$200 [11]
Because of man, the zebra-like quagga & Steller's sea cow are both this
extinct
Irene
$200 [2]
What the Roman elite did with dormice, ostrich wings & flamingo tongues
ate them
Irene
$200 [22]
The controversial china Nancy Reagan ordered is bordered in this, her favorite color
red
Irene
$200 [15]
"Sneeze", shaken in soups & salads
pepper
Dorothy
$200 [20]
The Phoenicians used to sacrifice these to the god Moloch, definitely not according to Spock
children
Irene
$200 [5]
Dancers' rhythm instruments whose name derives from Spanish word for chestnut, "castana"
castanets
Dorothy
$300 [12]
Most mammals are homoiothermic, which means this is constant year-round
body temperature
Irene
$300 [3]
Roman historians usually wrote in this language until Cato the Elder wrote "Origines" in Latin
Greek
Joe
$300 [25]
"Queen's ware" was named for the wife of this last king of the American colonies
George III
Dorothy
$300 [16]
To order liver cooked with these, a waitress yells, "Put out the lights & cry!"
onions
Joe
$300 [21]
In 1934, at the age of 79, Evangeline Booth became the 1st woman general in this religious "corps"
Salvation Army
Dorothy
$400 [13]
Monotremes are the only mammals which give birth this way
laying eggs
$400 [7]
Among these, a sector was a light-armored version of the heavily armored Samnite
gladiators
Irene Joe
$400 [26]
Firm famed for its pale blue jasperware adorned with white classical figures
Wedgwood
Dorothy
$400 [17]
If you want this Irish immigrant entree, scream "red horse, put a wreath on it!"
corned beef & cabbage
$400 [23]
In a traditional Jewish wedding, the couple is married under 1 of these, symbolic of the bridal chamber
chuppah (canopy)
Joe
$500 [14]
All mammals of the order pinnipedia have this kind of feet
flippers (webbed feet)
Joe
DD $500 [8]
On the earliest known Roman calendar, these were the 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th months
September, October, November, & December
Irene
$500 [27]
The 1st European soft-paste porcelain was made by a member of this famous family of Florence
Medicis
Dorothy
$500 [18]
If you "brand bossy", you're doing this
frying a hamburger
Dorothy
$500 [24]
Name of this religion founded in the 7th c. can be translated as "submission", "surrender" or "commitment"
Islam
Irene

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAUTICAL HISTORY WASHINGTON D.C. DOUBLE MEANINGS LITERATURE SINGING COWBOYS GIRLS IN SONG
$200 [1]
This country now has the largest submarine fleet in the world
USSR
Joe Dorothy
$200 [6]
It was established from the fortune left our gov't in 1829 by British scientist James Smithson
Smithsonian Institute
Joe
$200 [7]
A strapless slipper, or the farm animal who's probably too stubborn to wear it
mule
Dorothy
$200 [16]
F. Tennyson & C. Tennyson Turner wrote "Poems by 2 Brothers" with this more famous brother
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dorothy
$200 [26]
Apple Valley's most famous citizen, he once sponsored a girls' bowling team called the "Triggerettes"
Roy Rogers
Irene Dorothy
$200 [21]
On their knees, baritones sing to her, "You is my woman now"
Bess
Dorothy
$400 [2]
Elizabeth I knighted him upon his Golden Hind
Sir Francis Drake
Irene Dorothy
$400 [9]
By a rules committee decision, this has been served in the Senate restaurant every day since 1907
navy bean soup
Irene
$400 [8]
Southern slang for a peanut, or southern name for a Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show"
goober
Irene
$400 [17]
Tho not usually regarded as black authors, this former French pere & fils were of black heritage
Dumas
Irene
$400 [27]
Abbreviate his native state & you'll find his 1st name; watch "Three's Company" & you'll find his son
Tex Ritter
Dorothy
$400 [22]
As George M. Cohan said "It's a grand old name"
Mary
Dorothy
DD $600 [3]
Docked in New England it's called the oldest commissioned ship afloat in any of the world's navies
U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides)
Irene
$600 [10]
Tho much larger, this was built in the exact proportions of Ancient Egyptian obelisks
Washington Monument
Irene
$800 [14]
The Archbishop of Manila, or what you shouldn't commit in front of him
Cardinal Sin
Irene
$600 [18]
Tho his novel "The Rainbow" was banned as "obscene", he wrote a sequel, "Women in Love", anyway
D.H. Lawrence
$600 [23]
If your name is this, & you're Irish, "I'll take you home again"
Kathleen
Irene
$800 [4]
Among former names of this service was "The Revenue Marines"
Coast Guard
Irene
$800 [11]
Washington is divided into 4 unequal quadrants with this building at its center
Capitol Building
Irene
DD $1,000 [13]
A Northerner who goes South for the winter, orthis1970 hit:"When I was young my heart was young then too..."
snowbird
Dorothy
$800 [19]
He won Pulitzer Prizes for "Alice Adams" & "The Magnificent Ambersons"
Booth Tarkington
$800 [24]
Of her, it's asked "When did your sparkle turn to fire & your warmth become desire?"
Gigi
Dorothy
$1,000 [5]
In the 1770s, to help prevent scurvy, he served sauerkraut aboard his ship, the Endeavor
Captain Cook
$1,000 [12]
Tho work on it began in 1907, this famed Episcopal church has never been completed
Washington Cathedral (Church of St. Peter or National Cathedral)
Dorothy
$1,000 [15]
A proverbial saying, or the brand of coffee you drink while thinking of it
maxim
$1,000 [20]
Religious mania forced this Russian to burn his sequel to his great novel "Dead Souls"
Gogol
$1,000 [25]
"At night, dear heart, for you I pine," usually in groups of 4
"Sweet Adeline"
Irene

Final Jeopardy!

TELEVISION

It was Steve Allen who coined this show's question, "Is it bigger than a breadbox?"

What's My Line?

Joe "What is What's My Line20 Questions" — wagered $1,300
Dorothy "What is What's My Line?" — wagered $3,000
Irene "What was "What's My Line?"" — wagered $1,400

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