Show #814 1988-03-03 (taped 1987-11-10) Regular

Contestants

Janis Fahnert — an airline reservation sales representative originally from Sebring, Ohio

Mike Perez — a stockbroker from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Sandy Taylor — a marketing representative from Oakland, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sandy $1,400 $1,200 $5,700 $700
2-day champion: $10,100
$6,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Mike $1,100 $1,500 $5,200 $0
3rd place: Whirlpool washer & dryer + Jeopardy! box game
$3,900
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Janis $1,200 $2,200 $5,200 $0
2nd place: a trip on Eastern to Florida & stay at Sheraton Bal Harbour + Jeopardy! box game
$5,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FLOWERS COLORFUL SONGS PHYSICS FRENCH COOKING TRIVIAL TOURISM TOYS & GAMES
$100 [20]
From Old English for "day's eye", this flower opens anew each morning & closes again at night
the daisy
Sandy
$100 [12]
Right on the heels of Bobby Vinton's 1963 "Blue On Blue" came this hit about something blue
"Blue Velvet"
Mike
$100 [14]
Used in acoustics, it's a 2-pronged metal instrument that emits a tone of fixed pitch when struck
a tuning fork
Sandy
$100 [1]
"Arroser" in French, it's what chefs do to keep a turkey moist while baking it
to baste
Sandy
$100 [3]
His grave used to boast a stone raven, but you won't find it now; it's flown the coop
Edgar Allan Poe
Mike
$200 [27]
When you drop coins in the Musical Bogey Bank, it plays this theme from "Casablanca"
"As Time Goes By"
Mike
$200 [21]
It can precedealyssum, William, or pea
sweet
Janis
$200 [13]
A #1 hit, it was based on a true story of a man returning home from prison
"Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree"
Sandy
$200 [15]
From Latin for "twist", the term for a turning or twisting force
torque
Mike
$200 [2]
Type of wine used in "sauce bourguignonne"
Burgundy (wine) (red wine)
Janis
$200 [4]
The folks in Kennebunkport, Maine, celebrated Nat'l Dump Week with dump art made from this
garbage
Janis
$300 [8]
1 of 2 animals which are, appropriately, playing pieces in the game of "Tigo"
tiger (goat)
Sandy
$300 [23]
In North America, these birds are the chief bird pollinators of flowers
hummingbirds
Sandy
$400 [18]
This last #1 hit for 3 Dog Night was originally written in honor of Supreme Court desegregation ruling
"Black And White"
Janis
$300 [16]
It's the term for the reflected radio wave signal received by a radar unit, unit, unit
an echo
Janis
$300 [9]
Carre d'agneau is a loin of this type of meat
lamb
Sandy
$300 [5]
Appropriately, Grand Saline, Tex. sports the only house in America made entirely of blocks of this
salt
Janis
$400 [22]
Kenner makes Crinklers Shape Shooters especially for molding this modeling compound
Play-Doh
Sandy Janis
$400 [24]
The term "substance" refers to the amount of this contained within rose petals
water (moisture)
DD $500 [17]
Color in title ofthis1967 No. 1 hit for The Lemon Pipers:"Drop your silver in my tambourine /Help a poor man build..."
"Green Tambourine"
Janis
$400 [26]
An ammeter is used to measure this
electric current (amperes)
$400 [10]
What you'd buy in an American grocery store if a recipe calls for "fromage a la creme"
cream cheese
Sandy
$400 [6]
You'll find a statue of this "star" outside the Roy Rogers Museum & the star himself inside--stuffed
Trigger
Mike
$500 [28]
This giant 6' inflatable "King of the Monsters" doesn't come with a giant inflatable Raymond Burr
Godzilla
$500 [25]
Cereus is a night-blooming variety of this plant
cactus
Sandy
$500 [19]
Brother & sister Nino Tempo & April Stevens hit #1 describing a night that was this color
purple
$500 [29]
Also called a "linac", it's an apparatus for accelerating ions to high energies
a linear accelerator
Sandy
$500 [11]
French for "froth", this smooth fluffy dessert is frequently flavored with chocolate
mousse
Janis
$500 [7]
If you can't go to Cork, Ireland, pop over to Shamrock, Texas & kiss this sham rock
the Blarney Stone
Mike

Double Jeopardy! Round

MASSACHUSETTS LITERARY ANIMALS STARTS WITH "E" CANADIAN ACTORS THE MILITARY MORE PROVERBS OF DEATH
$200 [16]
In 1957, a replica of this sailed from England & reached Plymouth, Mass.
the Mayflower
Sandy
$200 [6]
Invisible rabbit who Elwood P. Dowd says is 6' 1/2" tall
Harvey
Sandy
$200 [5]
Snails for snobs
escargot
Sandy
$200 [11]
On radio, he was "The Voice of Doom", but on TV, he was the papa of the Ponderosa
Lorne Greene
Mike
$200 [25]
In WWII, ocean-racing yachts were pressed into service to patrol for these enemy vessels
submarines
Sandy
$200 [26]
It's "another man's poison"
one man's meat
Sandy
$400 [17]
Carver, Mass. is the world center for production of this fruit, so give thanks
cranberries
Sandy Mike
$400 [7]
Used to hoax Don Quixote, Clavileno was a horse made of this
wood
$400 [4]
It's one or the other
either
Mike
$400 [14]
This beauty from Alberta is best known for her date with a beast atop the Empire State Building
Fay Wray
Janis
$400 [24]
In August 1987, Col. Gregorio (Gringo) Honasan led a rebel attack against this country's' government
the Philippines
$400 [27]
"As a man" does this, "so shall he die"
lives
Janis
$600 [18]
A sea captain named this peninsula after making large catches of fish off it
Cape Cod
Sandy
$600 [8]
The Mad Hatter tried to stuff this furry creature into the teapot
the Dormouse
Sandy
DD $500 [2]
The Gaelic name for this capital is Dunedin
Edinburgh
Sandy
$600 [13]
Quebec-born "Blackboard Jungle" star whose 1st name was originally spelled "Gwyllyn"
Glenn Ford
Janis
$600 [23]
In the U.S. Navy, it's the class of enlisted rank just below a petty officer
a seaman
Mike
$600 [28]
It's "death's feast", & "there has never been a good" one
war
Sandy
$800 [19]
Logically, this is the state dog
the Boston Terrier
Sandy
$800 [9]
Not entirely bare when found, Paddington Bear was wearing a tag & a large one of these
a hat
Janis
$600 [3]
Articulation
enunciation
Mike
$800 [12]
This ex-ballet dancer from British Columbia has been Mrs. Craig Stevens since 1944
Alexis Smith
Janis
$800 [22]
In 1957, 3 Coast Guard cutters sailed thru the NW Passage & helped establish this "DEW" line
distant early warning
$800 [29]
According to Job, "There the wicked cease from troubling & there the weary be at rest"
the grave
$1,000 [20]
As governor, this future pres. won nat'l exposure in 1919 by dealing with a police strike
Coolidge
Mike
$1,000 [10]
Archy & Mehitabel were these 2 types of animals
cockroach & a cat
Mike
$1,000 [1]
Lancelot's less famous lover, also known as Galahad's mother
Elaine
$1,000 [15]
MGM billed this Montrealer as "The 1st Lady of the Screen", perhaps because she was married to Irving Thalberg
Norma Shearer
DD $2,300 [21]
One of only 2 locations at which Marines can go through boot camp
(1 of) Parris Island (San Diego)
Mike
$1,000 [30]
In Greek mythology, he "waits for all," & you won't need your Dramamine
Charon

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

2 or more governments' joint dominion over a territory, it's come to mean a form of home ownership

condominium

Mike "What is a trust?" — wagered $5,200
Janis "What is joint tenancy?" — wagered $5,200
Sandy "What is joint tenancy" — wagered $5,000

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