Show #818 1988-03-09 (taped 1987-11-16) Regular

Contestants

Andi Brown — a director of development from Marshfield, Massachusetts

Jack Lowe — a pediatrician from Rockville, Maryland

Leslie Goodman-Malamuth — a freelance writer and housewife from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Leslie $1,100 $2,400 $8,900 $3,999
2nd place: Broyhill Queen Anne style cherry wood entertainment center + Colortyme traditional style twin-speaker color console TV
$6,200
15 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Jack $1,500 $2,300 $12,300 $17,805
New champion: $17,805
$12,300
24 R, 2 W
Andi $800 $2,900 $5,900 $3,900
3rd place: Avita professional rowing machine w/electronic display
$5,700
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WOODY ALLEN FILMS "CALIFORNIA" SONGS SCIENCE SEWING SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS
$100 [6]
Oral B Laboratories now offers toothpaste bearing these 2 Muppets' names
Kermit the Frog & Miss Piggy
Leslie
$100 [11]
At the beginning of "Play It Again, Sam", Woody is watching this Bogart classic
Casablanca
Andi
$100 [1]
"Though East Coast girls are hip," the Beach Boys wished "'they all could be" these
"California Girls"
Jack
$100 [17]
Like monkeys & squirrels, the coconut crab is able to do this in search of food
climb (trees)
Leslie Jack
$100 [16]
These temporary fasteners should be rustproof so they won't mark delicate fabrics
pins
Jack
$100 [26]
3 murderers, a Scottish doctor, &some apparitions
Macbeth
Andi
$200 [7]
Criticized for its unfair trade advantage, Japan has agreed to shorten this, starting in 1988
their workweek
$200 [12]
Film in which C. Walken, as Diane Keaton's suicidal brother Duane, drove Woody to the airport
Annie Hall
Andi
$200 [2]
The Eagles' top-selling single that begins "on a dark desert highway"
"Hotel California"
Jack
$200 [22]
Lava & pyroclastic rocks are examples of this class of igneous rocks
volcanic rocks
Jack
$200 [18]
It can be found on top of 2 oxen or a shirt
a yoke
Andi
$200 [27]
3 triumvirs &8 conspirators
Julius Caesar
Andi
$300 [8]
About 43% of all American cheese sold in the U.S. is made using the process invented by this cheese peddler
Kraft
Jack
$400 [14]
This "Star Wars" star came down to Earth to play a caterer in "Hannah & Her Sisters"
Carrie Fisher
Leslie
$300 [3]
"All the leaves are brown & the sky is gray," it is 1966, & the Mamas & the Papas are doing this
"California Dreamin'"
Leslie
$300 [23]
A conjunction of the Sun, Earth, & Moon can only occur during this phase of the Moon
a new moon
$300 [19]
From Old German "to patch", this type of stitch is used to hold pieces of fabric together temporarily
baste
Leslie
$300 [28]
4 or 5 players,2 grave diggers,& "a fantastic fop"
Hamlet
Andi
$400 [9]
U-Haul is overhauling its fleet of trucks & trailers to combat stiff competition from this company
Ryder
Leslie
DD $500 [13]
"Manhattan" opens & closes with this famous piece:
Rhapsody in Blue
Andi
$400 [4]
Albert Hammond's sadly inaccurate weather presumption: 'cause "it pours, man. It pours"
"It Never Rains In Southern California"
Jack
$400 [24]
In 1858, Alfred Wallace & Charles Darwin each proposed theories of evolution based on this
natural selection
$400 [20]
Parts of one include the teeth, tab, & top-stop
a zipper
Andi
$400 [29]
2 friars,1 nurse &1 apothecary
Romeo and Juliet
Andi
$500 [10]
Recently, this liquor co. sold off many of its wine operations, including Paul Masson & Taylor Calif.
Seagram's
Leslie
$500 [15]
Appropriately, this 1980 film featured Hoagy Carmichael's most celestial song
Stardust Memories
Andi
$500 [5]
In this 1924 song, Al Jolson, born in Russia, claimed the West Coast was "right back where I started from"
"California, Here I Come"
Jack
$500 [25]
The word science comes from the Latin "scientia", which means having this
knowledge
Jack
$500 [21]
The elastic, seam binding, snaps, etc. needed to finish a garment are called this
the notions
Leslie
$500 [30]
The Duchess of York, the Lieutenant of the Tower, &the ghosts of the title character's victims
Richard III
Jack

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES EUROPE GRAVE MATTERS FIGURES OF SPEECH TIME FAMOUS LASTS
$200 [2]
Mary Todd
(Mrs.) Lincoln
Leslie
$200 [1]
The enormous palace that houses this Parisian museum is larger than the Vatican Palace
the Louvre
Leslie
$200 [26]
It seems appropriate that this author is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, N.Y.
Washington Irving
Jack
$200 [18]
From Greek "to sneer", it's a form of wit, frequently ironic, intended to taunt
sarcasm
Jack Andi
$200 [11]
From the 1696 play "The Lost Lover", we get the expression "No time like..." this
the present
Leslie Andi
$200 [12]
After stepping on the executioner's toe, her last words were, "Pardon, monsieur, I did not mean it"
Marie Antoinette
Jack
$400 [3]
Dolley Payne Todd
Dolley Madison
Andi
$400 [4]
This creature could be 1,422 years old, since it was 1st sighted in Scotland in 565 A.D.
the Loch Ness Monster
Jack
$400 [27]
He's buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, where he served his presidential term
Jefferson Davis
Jack
$400 [19]
An inquiry for which you don't expect a response, usually because it's obvious
a rhetorical question
Andi
$400 [14]
A division of a school year, it originally meant "6 months"
a semester
Andi
$400 [13]
1925 was the last year the steam-powered car developed by these identical twins was built
Stanley
Jack
$600 [8]
Thelma Catherine Ryan
Pat Nixon
Leslie
$600 [5]
It's the largest city in Switzerland
Zurich
Jack
$600 [28]
Among those buried here are Audie Murphy, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., & Robert Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
Jack
$600 [20]
Figure of speech in which inanimate objects are given human qualities
personification
Leslie
$600 [15]
For an astronomer, "UT" stands for this
universal time
Jack
$600 [23]
He hit his last Major League home run July 20, 1976, about 28 months after his most famous one
Hank Aaron
Leslie
$800 [9]
Mary Geneva Doud
Mamie Eisenhower
Jack
$800 [6]
Known for its lovely parks, this Bulgarian capital is called "the greenest city in Europe"
Sofia
Leslie Jack
$800 [29]
Schubert was buried where he asked to be, near this great German composer who died in 1827
Beethoven
Andi
$1,000 [22]
From Greek "to throw beyond", an extravagant statement like "the Emmy telecast was 3 years long"
hyperbole
Andi
$800 [16]
A time-out in Rugby can only be declared if this has happened
an injury
Jack
$800 [24]
Ludovico Manin, who abdicated in 1797, was last to hold this office, which ruled Venice for 1100 years
the Doge
Leslie
$1,000 [10]
Rachel Donelson Robards
Andy Jackson's wife
Jack
$1,000 [7]
Gheg & Tosk are spoken in this country, which has had no diplomatic relations with U.S. since the 40s
Albania
Jack
$1,000 [30]
Acquaintances in life, Thoreau, L.M. Alcott & this philosopher are neighbors at a Concord cemetery
Emerson
Jack
DD $3,000 [21]
An aside in a speech said to an imaginary person, it's also the superscript sign in this clue
an apostrophe
Leslie
$1,000 [17]
A clepsydra is a clock run by this type of power
water
Jack
DD $1,500 [25]
Mahatma Gandhi's last fast was a last-ditch attempt to prevent war between these 2 countries
India & Pakistan
Leslie

Final Jeopardy!

RIVERS

Below sea level for most of its course, it's called "the lowest river on Earth"

the Jordan

Andi "What is the Nile?" — wagered $2,000
Leslie "What is the River of Babylon?" — wagered $4,901
Jack "What is the Jordan?" — wagered $5,505

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