Show #691 1987-09-14 (taped 1987-06-16) Regular

Contestants

Walt Meyer — a writer and motel desk clerk originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pam Cromley — a computer analyst from Blue Springs, Missouri

Ted Cooperstein — a lawyer originally from Potomac, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,901)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ted $500 $4,500 $9,100 $7,250
3-day champion: $26,151
$9,100
26 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Pam $700 $1,600 $800 $1
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer
$2,800
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Walt $600 $1,200 $3,600 $1,700
2nd place: trip on Continental to New York & stay at the Halloran House
$3,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LINES CURRENT MONARCHS HOLLYWOOD LANDMARKS BLUE JEANS WEAPONS NUMBER, PLEASE
$100 [11]
"My country, 'tis of thee..."
"America"
Ted
$100 [17]
He is the reigning prince of Monaco
Prince Rainier
Pam
$100 [3]
The 1st public presentation of these awards was held in 1929 in the Blossom Room of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel
the Academy Awards
Ted
$100 [20]
His first "jeans" made in 1853, were neither blue nor denim, but brown & canvas
Levi Strauss
Ted
$100 [1]
It was named after its co-inventor John Thompson, an American Army officer
the Tommy gun (Thompson submachine gun)
Ted
$100 [7]
Having this number of corners gave the tricorn hat its name
3
Pam
$200 [12]
"O beautiful for spacious skies..."
"America The Beautiful"
Ted
$200 [16]
Bhumibol Adulyadej, not Yul Brynner, current rules this country
Thailand
Ted
$200 [9]
In 1960, the 1st of these was laid on Hollywood Boulevard
star
Walt
$200 [26]
On the back of his 1984 album cover, he's wearing blue jeans with a red baseball cap in the right rear pocket
Bruce Springsteen
Pam
$200 [2]
Weapon that was the trademark of Lash LaRue
a (bull)whip
Walt
$200 [8]
Minimum number of people needed to form a "nuclear family"
3
Ted Pam Walt
$300 [21]
"Hey, there! Stella, baby!"
A Streetcar Named Desire
Pam
$300 [13]
OPEC nation ruled by King Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz
Saudi Arabia
Ted
$300 [10]
In 1932, actress Peg Entwhistle leapt to her death from the "H" in this
the Hollywood Sign
Pam
$300 [27]
A huge billboard in Italy parodied this artist's work with God offering a naked Adam a pair of jeans
Michelangelo
Ted
$300 [4]
They are also called "knuckle-dusters"
brass knuckles
$300 [18]
According to the best seller & 1950s TV series title, number of lives led by Herbert A. Philbrick
3
Pam
$400 [22]
"Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the Valley of Death rode the six hundred..."
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Ted
$400 [14]
It's ruled by King Olav V
Norway
Ted
$400 [25]
1921 was the 1st year this amphitheatre held its spectacular Easter sunrise service
the Hollywood Bowl
Ted Walt
$400 [28]
Take a stab at the name of these blue jeans whose label is punctuated with a question mark
Guess
Ted
$400 [5]
From the Czech "houfnice" meaning "catapult", it's a cannon that shoots with a high trajectory
a howitzer
Ted
$400 [19]
In its entire-52-year history, The New Yorker magazine has had only this many different editors
3
$500 [23]
"It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea..."
"Annabel Lee"
Ted
$500 [15]
Since 1951, King Baudouin I has ruled this nation
Belgium
Ted
$500 [30]
To see real stars, go to this famed observatory, where tourists have star-gazed since 1935
the Griffith Observatory
Walt
DD $500 [29]
Like 501s, this1979 Top 20 hit is considered a classic:"Money talks / But it don't sing and dance and it don't walk / And long as I can have you here with me / I much rather be..."
"Forever In Blue Jeans"
Ted
$500 [6]
The instruments of murder in this 1978 Jacqueline Bisset film were all food related
Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe
Pam
$500 [24]
Total number of times the number 3 has been the correct response in this category
4
Walt

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CONFEDERACY COMPUTERS DEER ISLANDS MUSIC STARTS WITH "E"
$200 [1]
Thomas Jonathan Jackson earned this famous nickname at the 1st Battle of Bull Run
Stonewall
Walt
$200 [17]
Tandy computers are sold exclusively through stores with this name
Radio Shack
Pam
$200 [14]
Parts of these can include the tray tines, bay tines, brow tines, & top points
antlers
Walt
$200 [6]
Only Vatican City has fewer people than Nauru & Tuvalu, island nations found in this ocean
the Pacific
Pam Walt
$200 [21]
English translation of the Mozart title "Die Zauberflote"
The Magic Flute
Ted
$200 [7]
Aural jewelry
earrings
Pam
$400 [2]
Closest Confederate state to Washington, D.C., it wasn't readmitted to the Union until 1870
Virginia
Ted
$400 [18]
In March '87, Apple introduced the Macintosh SE, the 1st Mac considered a "clone" of this industry "standard"
the IBM PC
Walt
$400 [19]
Since they smell like this, male Pampas deer should have no problems warding off vampires
garlic
Ted
$400 [10]
The 3 islands within San Francisco city limits are Treasure, Yerba Buena & this
Alcatraz
Ted
$400 [24]
Based on "The Beggar's Opera", "The Threepenny Opera" is set not in Germany but in this English-speaking city
London
Ted
$400 [8]
The type of sea duck whose soft down is used to stuff quilts
eider
Ted Walt
$600 [5]
He wound up as an insurance salesman after his famous "Charge" at Gettysburg
(General George) Pickett
Ted
$600 [27]
Of printed out, erased, or stored, what you've done if you've "dumped" all the info that's in the core
printed out
Pam Walt
$600 [20]
Though man has now introduced some species here, deer are not indigenous to this continent
Australia
Walt
$600 [11]
Tierra del Fuego, separated from South America by the Strait of Magellan, is shared by these 2 countries
Chile & Argentina
Ted
$600 [25]
After WWI, Schoenberg developed a composition system based on this number of tones
12
Ted Walt
$600 [9]
The second largest city in Alberta
Edmonton
Ted
$800 [3]
Henry Wirz, commander of this prison where some 13,000 died, was hanged for murder in 1865
Andersonville
Walt
$1,000 [29]
This computer has "starred" in 2 films, one in 1968 & its sequel in 1984
HAL (9000)
Walt
$800 [22]
Found in northern latitudes, this largest member of the deer family can weight close to a ton
a moose
Ted Walt
$800 [12]
While Indonesia has over 13,000 islands, two-thirds of the people live on this 1
Java
Ted Walt
$800 [26]
In 1914, this composer of "Babes in Toyland" helped to found ASCAP
(Victor) Herbert
Walt
DD $1,000 [15]
Your gullet
your esophagus
Walt
$1,000 [4]
The Great Seal of the confederacy pictured this president on horseback
George Washington
Ted
DD $2,000 [28]
It's the "M" in RAM or ROM
memory
Pam
$1,000 [23]
Deer are this type of mammal, named from Latin for "to chew the cud"
ruminants
Pam
$1,000 [13]
Britain's northernmost point is this group of Scottish islands north of the Orkneys
the Shetland Islands
Ted
$1,000 [16]
Richard the Lion-Hearted's mother
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Pam

Final Jeopardy!

THE MIDDLE EAST

The Al-Aqsa Mosque & Dome of the Rock now stand on this ancient building's site

the Temple of Solomon (Herod's Temple, the Temple of Jerusalem)

Pam "What is ?" — wagered $799
Walt "What is the Me" — wagered $1,900
Ted "What was thesecondtem" — wagered $1,850

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