Show #868 1988-05-18 (taped 1988-03-02) Regular

1988 Senior Tournament semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Tom Wickham — an airline pilot from Torrington, Connecticut

Ross Cameron — a student from Vallejo, California

Louise Reyburn Dice — a farmer and writer from Taos, New Mexico

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Louise $1,500 $1,700 $9,300 $12,401
Finalist
$8,100
23 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Ross $-100 $800 $6,200 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$6,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Tom $1,000 $1,700 $3,700 $7,300
2nd place: $5,000
$3,700
10 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY PEOPLE BODY LANGUAGE NOAH TOOLS OSCAR-WINNING SONGS
$100 [3]
This state with a large Jewish community is the leading grower of temple oranges
Florida
Louise
$100 [20]
This 86-year-old British "First Lady of Romance" published 26 more books in 1986
Barbara Cartland
Louise
$100 [1]
Someone who quibbles over trifles is said to be splitting these
hairs
Louise
$100 [9]
Though it rained this many days, it took 150 days for the waters to subside
40
Ross
$100 [26]
It's what a pipe smoker uses a tamper for
to tamp down his tobacco (in the bowl)
Louise
$100 [21]
Bob Hope's theme song, he 1st sang it in "The Big Broadcast of 1938"
"Thanks for the Memory"
Ross
$200 [5]
The son of Daniel Boone laid out this capital of Missouri, but it was named for a president
Jefferson City
Louise
$200 [19]
This chairman of Occidental Petroleum has met with every Soviet leader since Lenin except Andropov
Armand Hammer
Ross
$200 [2]
You shouldn't stick yours out; chickens do it on the chopping block, & look where it gets them
neck
Tom
$200 [10]
It was God's symbol to Noah that he'd never flood the earth again
rainbow
Louise
$200 [25]
The tuning variety can raise a pitch; the pitch variety can raise hay
fork
Louise
$300 [17]
In 1742, merchant Peter Faneuil completed building his hall in this city
Boston
Ross
$300 [14]
When the B'way theater named for this actress, now 87, was razed, another was renamed for her
Helen Hayes
Ross
$300 [4]
If someone mentions yours following "lunk", "dunder", or "chowder", you should be insulted
head
Tom
$300 [11]
According to Genesis 5, Noah is 10th in descent from this man
Adam
Ross
$300 [24]
Also called picture puzzles, they're better known by this name, from the tool that used to make them
jigsaw (puzzles)
Louise Tom
$400 [18]
98.3% of this U.S. state is owned by the federal government
Alaska
Louise Tom
$400 [15]
Fathering a son at age 75, this Spanish guitarist reportedly said, "I had a grandson directly"
Segovia
Louise
$400 [6]
Following the rules, you do this to "the mark" or "the line"
toe
Louise
$400 [12]
Created in Genesis 1:20-22, they weren't on the list of things to be destroyed, nor were they on the ark
fish
$400 [23]
By definition a palette knife is not used for cutting but for mixing these
paints
Tom
$500 [8]
Funk & Wagnalls says the farthest east you'll find U.S desert land is in this state east of the Rockies
Texas
Louise Ross
$500 [16]
No lonely widow, this busy chairman of the board of the Washington Post says, "I wish I were lonelier"
(Katharine) Graham
Louise Tom
$500 [7]
Meaning "blows from a clenched hand", it's another name for boxing
fisticuffs
Louise Tom
$500 [13]
With the ark business over, Noah settled down & began to grow these
vines (grapes)
Louise
$500 [22]
You use a Phillips screwdriver for Phillips screws & this for Allen screws
Allen wrench
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES PAINTERS BLACK AMERICA '40s TELEVISION "F" IN SCIENCE OH, SHAW!
$200 [11]
When Congress complained the Easter egg roll was ruining the Capitol grass, Lucy Hayes had it moved here
White House lawn
Louise
$200 [25]
This Dutchman was also called Jan van der Meer van Delft to distinguish him from others of the same name
(Jan) Vermeer
Ross Tom
$200 [19]
A black literary renaissance of the '20s is named for this neighborhood in which it was centered
Harlem
Ross
$200 [8]
This sponsor's "Star Theater" started Tuesday September 21, 1948
Texaco
Ross
$200 [10]
Paleontologists really dig these
fossils
Louise Ross Tom
$200 [29]
Shaw was born in this capital city in 1856
Dublin
Ross
$400 [26]
She saved Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Geo. Washington just before the British burned the capital
Dolley Madison
Ross
$400 [24]
Antonio Bin is smiling; the 300 copies he's done of this famous work sell at up to $1500 each
Mona Lisa
Louise
$400 [20]
The 24th Amendment abolished these, making it possible for many more blacks to vote
poll taxes
Louise
$400 [7]
The regular band on his variety show was the Pennsylvanians
Fred Waring
Ross
$400 [1]
Just the stuff to give your refrigerator a charge
Freon
Louise Tom
$400 [15]
The executioner says of this character, "Her heart would not burn, my lord"
Joan of Arc (Saint Joan)
Louise
$600 [16]
By court order, photographer Ron Galella must keep at least 25 feet away from her
Jacqueline Kennedy
Louise
$600 [21]
In Cocteau's 1959 movie "Le Testament d'Orphee" this bald, easily recognized artist played himself
Picasso
Louise
$800 [28]
Playing the accursed Judas on B'way in "Jesus Christ Superstar" proved a blessing to this star's career
Ben Vereen
$600 [4]
According to the title, this was Martin Kane's profession
private eye
Ross
$600 [9]
The point of support of a lever
fulcrum
Tom
$600 [14]
Called Shaw's "surrogate son", this flamboyant hero legally changed his name to "T.E. Shaw"
T.E. Lawrence
Ross
$1,000 [18]
Before Congress agreed to do it, this steel magnate offered to pay pensions to widowed first ladies
Andrew Carnegie
Tom
$800 [22]
His experiments with thick paints gave this 18th c. British portraitist the nickname "Sir Sploshua"
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Louise
$1,000 [27]
Upon replacing Frank Carlucci, Lt. Gen. Colin Powell became the 1st black to hold this position
National Security Advisor
Louise
$800 [5]
"The Bigelow Show" paired Winchell & Dunninger, a ventrioloquist & one of these
mentalist
Ross
DD $1,000 [3]
Chemical reaction of organic substances brought about by yeasts or bacteria
fermentation
Ross
$800 [12]
Sometimes this play opens with an incredibly long prologue spoken at the Temple of Ra in Memphis
Caesar and Cleopatra
Louise
DD $2,000 [17]
Clare Booth Luce said this first lady "comforted the distressed" & "distressed the comfortable"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Louise
$1,000 [23]
Some 40 portraits of Philip IV of Spain are credited to this artist
Velázquez
$1,000 [6]
Talk show host who formerly was a regular on "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowlege"
Mike Douglas
$1,000 [2]
In 1831 this great English physicist discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction
(Michael) Faraday
Ross
$1,000 [13]
Shaw was reportedly furious & insulted at winning an Oscar for this film
Pygmalion
Louise

Final Jeopardy!

RIVERS

2 of the 3 European rivers that begin with "T" on which a national capital is located

(2 of) Thames, Tiber or Tagus

Tom "What are Thames & Tiber" — wagered $3,600
Ross "What are the Thames & Tigris" — wagered $6,200
Louise "What are the Thames & the Tiber?" — wagered $3,101

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