Show #1108 1989-05-31 (taped 1989-02-06) Regular

Missing player introductions and prizes.

Contestants

Yvonne — from

Don Connolly — from Bethesda, Maryland

Robert Windeler — a writer from Beverly Hills, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $13,701)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robert $800 $1,300 $4,600 $6,000
3-day champion: $19,701
$5,700
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Don $1,200 $1,500 $5,900 $2,599
2nd place
$5,900
14 R, 1 W
Yvonne $500 $400 $1,400 $1,400
3rd place
$1,900
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY FLOWERS OPERA ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
$100 [1]
A Phila. square is named for D. Rittenhouse, an astronomer who built the 1st of these in America
a telescope
Robert
$100 [13]
Twining flower that opens in the a.m., or the title of a 1933 film starring Katharine Hepburn
morning glory
Don
$100 [4]
Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare" depicts Caesar's romance with her
Cleopatra
Robert
$100 [3]
Walt Disney intended it to be an "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow"
EPCOT
Don
$100 [12]
The Movieland Wax Museum statue of this star of 1933's "The Invisible Man" is just clothes & a hat
Claude Rains
$200 [2]
On July 4, 1917 an American colonel spoke these words at Lafayette's tomb in Paris
Lafayette we are here
Yvonne
$200 [14]
A tall, graceful summer flower, or a PBS show hosted by Carl Sagan
cosmos
$200 [18]
This title character isn't a filet, she's Lothario's long-lost daughter
Mignon
Robert
$200 [8]
Belgian airline whose full name is Société anonyme belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation aérienne
SABENA
Robert Yvonne
$200 [22]
On TV, Uncle Martin had to physically raise these before he could turn invisible
his antenna
Don
$300 [5]
In the South the Battles of Bull Run were known as this
the Battles of Manassas
Don
$300 [15]
Literally "flower of the lily", it's seen in heraldry as well as in the garden
fleur-de-lys
Robert
$300 [19]
Verdi's title character "Nabucco" is based on this biblical personage
Nebuchadnezzar
Yvonne
$300 [9]
Jimmy Stewart knows, from a 1955 film he did, that "SAC" stands for this
the Strategic Air Command
Don
$300 [23]
You could see him at all times as Illya Kuryakin but only sometimes as Daniel Westin
David McCallum
Don Yvonne
$400 [6]
As chairman of this gov't body, Joseph P. Kennedy outlawed stock manipulation practices that had made him rich
the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
Don
$400 [16]
Methods of doing this to flowers include hanging them upside-down & putting them in silica gel
to dry them
Yvonne
$400 [20]
Though it deals with marital infidelity, this popular opera's name means "rustic chivalry"
Cavalleria rusticana
Don
$400 [10]
You can see John Candy & company on this fictitious television channel
SCTV
Robert
$500 [7]
On June 30, 1906 Congress passed this act which required an honest statement of contents on food labels
the Pure Food and Drug Act
Yvonne
DD $500 [17]
Flower mentioned in the last line of thefollowingsong:"I want some red roses for a blue lady /Mister florist take my order please /We had a silly quarrel..."
white orchid
Yvonne
$500 [21]
This opera is known for the famous "mad scene" of Lucy Ashton
Lucia di Lammermoor
$500 [11]
Most college applicants take either the SAT, Scholastic Aptitude Test, or the ACT, which is this
the American College Test

Double Jeopardy! Round

FASHION HISTORY CITIES THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH MAGAZINES WORLD RELIGION PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES
$200 [14]
In Rome this was the ceremonial garment for all citizens
a toga
Robert
$200 [13]
Birnbaum's United States Travel Guide calls it "the community that made beer famous"
Milwaukee
Yvonne
$200 [1]
The place an Englishman went if he nipped down to his local
the pub
Don
$200 [3]
The L.A. Times called this magazine's 35th anniversary issue "a stroll down mammary lane"
Playboy
Robert Yvonne
$200 [2]
Moveable Christian feast that can take place between March 22 & April 25
Easter
Robert
$200 [12]
This man, JFK's brother, gave Caroline away at her 1986 wedding
Teddy Kennedy
Don
$400 [27]
An early ad for its jeans read, "already an immense success, patent riveted... $13.50 per dozen"
Levis (Levis Strauss)
Robert
$400 [19]
This French resort city is pronounced like your brother's daughter
Nice
Robert
$400 [4]
A "punter" isn't a guy who kicks footballs but does this with a turf accountant
bet
Robert
$400 [8]
YM refers to this type of "Miss"
Young
Yvonne
$400 [23]
The Jewish feast of Purim marks this queen's saving of the Jews in the Persian Empire
Esther
Yvonne
$400 [15]
She's the wife of yoga instructor Paul Grilley
Patti Davis
Robert
$600 [28]
Courrèges boots, worn with '60s miniskirts, were mid-calf boots of this color
white
$600 [20]
The CN Tower, the world's tallest freestanding structure, is located in this Canadian city
Toronto
Don
$600 [5]
It's the British word for the trunk of a car
the boot
Robert
$600 [9]
For 19 years this magazine has been picking "The Bachelor of the Month"
Cosmopolitan
Robert
$600 [24]
According to Mormon teaching, it's the name of the angel who appeared to Joseph Smith
Moroni
Don
DD $500 [17]
President who had a brother whose given names were Sam Houston
Lyndon Johnson
Robert
DD $800 [29]
Egyptian women used a dye made from this plant to make their hair redder
henna
Robert
$800 [21]
A former British colony, this independent city-state is smaller than New York City
Singapore
Robert
$800 [6]
A British joke about one of these may begin "Did you hear the one about the commercial traveler..."
a traveling salesman
Robert
$800 [10]
For the Dec. '88 issue, the last of its 100th year, its cover, front, back & spine, was a hologram
National Geographic
Yvonne
$800 [25]
In Catholicism, the "Immaculate Conception" refers to this person's being born without original sin
the Virgin Mary
Don
$600 [16]
George, Jeb, Neil, Marvin & Dorothy
George Bush's children
Robert
$1,000 [22]
Designed by U.S. architect Walter B. Griffin in 1911, it is Australia's largest inland city
Canberra
Don
$1,000 [7]
Send down someone & you've expelled them; send up someone & you've done this to them
made fun of them
Robert Yvonne
$1,000 [11]
Mirabella will be a new magazine from Grace Mirabella who edited this fashion mag for 17 years
Vogue
$1,000 [26]
The Moslem calendar starts from the year of this, Mohammed's flight from Mecca
the Hegira
Don
$1,000 [18]
John Tyler & his father, who was also named John, both served as governor of this state
Virginia
Robert

Final Jeopardy!

BEST SELLERS

The title of this 1970 best seller referred to brothers Rudolph & Thomas Jordache

Rich Man, Poor Man

Yvonne "What is??" — wagered $0
Robert "What wasRich Man, Poor Man?" — wagered $1,400
Don "What is The Texans" — wagered $3,301

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