Show #649 1987-06-04 Regular

Eugene Finerman game 4.

Contestants

Claudia Courtney — a systems analyst from San Diego, California

John Bear — a college president from Nashville, Tennessee

Eugene Finerman — a writer from Chicago, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $28,301)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eugene $1,700 $4,200 $9,800 $16,601
4-day champion: $44,902
$8,400
20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
John $100 $1,100 $8,300 $8,801
2nd place: a trip to Tampa, Florida
$6,300
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Claudia $1,000 $1,400 $4,400 $0
3rd place: Emerson audio rack system
$4,400
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 50 STATES HOLLYWOOD QUOTES 1971 KIDDIE LIT WORD ORIGINS SLEEP
$100 [19]
Only state named for a neighboring country
New Mexico
Eugene
$100 [1]
Otto Preminger claimed directing Marilyn Monroe "was like directing" this famous collie
Lassie
Claudia
$100 [6]
When Ohio ratified the 26th Amendment in 1971, the national voting age became this
18
John
$100 [7]
They wrote "Hans the Hedgehog", "Clever Hans" & "Iron Hans", as well as "Hansel & Gretel"
the Grimm brothers
Eugene
$100 [10]
Blankets soldiers carried in these were made of wool from town of Duffel, Belgium
duffel bags
Claudia
$100 [17]
To avoid puffy eyes in the morning, experts say to raise this end of the bed up 3 or 4 inches
the head
Claudia
$200 [21]
The Great Salt Lake is larger than either of these smallest 2 states
Rhode Island & Delaware
$200 [2]
Gene Kelly said, "I'd change my name to Ginger" to dance with this partner again
Fred Astaire
Claudia
$300 [9]
On April 19, he & 3 women companions were sentenced to die in California gas chamber
Charles Manson
Claudia
$200 [20]
Spy novelist who published "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" for kids in 1964, the year he died
Ian Fleming
John
$200 [11]
Showing skin that looks like the undyed leather of, say, a buffalo, led to this term for naked
stripped to the buff
$200 [18]
In commercials, Susan Anton & Joey Heatherton promoted the values of this company's "Perfect Sleeper"
Serta
John
$300 [22]
Our westernmost state
Alaska
John Claudia
$300 [3]
"I wasn't erotic," insisted this "Blue Angel" star, "I was snotty"
Marlene Dietrich
Eugene
DD $400 [8]
As a songwriter she topped pop charts 8 times, as a singer only once, with thefollowing"Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time / There's something wrong here there can be no denyin'"
Carole King
Eugene
$300 [24]
German legend best-known in English through Robert Browning's rodent rhyme
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Eugene
$300 [12]
Different levels of a building are called these because scenes of tales were painted on the various levels
stories
Claudia
$300 [23]
1st line of the famous monologue which contains "To sleep, perchance to dream"
"To be or not to be, that is the question"
Eugene
$400 [26]
Of all states having a coastline, this New England state has the shortest, just 13 miles
New Hampshire
John
$400 [4]
Speaking out of character, she said, "I would have slept with Addison & probably gotten rid of him by now"
Cybill Shepherd
Eugene
$400 [15]
In the middle of the summer, August 15 to be exact, President Nixon froze these
wages & prices
Eugene John Claudia
$400 [25]
She "starred" in the books Reverend Dodgson wrote for Miss Liddell
Alice
John
$400 [13]
Hybrid variety of cotton named for the Arizona county where it was developed
Pima
Claudia
$400 [28]
People awakened during REM sleep report they've been doing this
dreaming
Eugene
$500 [27]
To enhance its reputation, Marshall Murdaugh came up w/motto that this state "is for lovers"
Virginia
John
$500 [5]
Jane Fonda called accepting this Oscar "the greatest moment in my life"
the Oscar for her father Henry Fonda
Eugene
$500 [16]
He said he was acting under orders of his company commander, Capt. Ernest Medina
Lt. (William) Calley
Eugene
$500 [14]
A pandering politician, though in ancient Greece this person championed the common people
demagogue
Eugene

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICA BUSINESS & INDUSTRY CLIMBING MUSIC, "OVER" & "UNDER" NOTORIOUS WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP
$200 [14]
Though this country is named for elephant tusks, its main products are coffee, cocoa & wood
the Ivory Coast
Claudia
$200 [7]
Highest profit margin of any U.S. food co. is enjoyed by this #1 cereal maker
Kellogg
John
$200 [25]
You can't get a reservation to climb this Himalayan mountain until 1997
Everest
John
$200 [3]
It's said you're cultured if you can hear this & not think of the Lone Ranger
the William Tell Overture
John
$200 [13]
Of guilty or not guilty, the verdict in Lizzie Borden's murder trial
not guilty
John
$200 [1]
In his last years, he was so desperate for money that he had to offer up his Civil War swords
(Ulysses) Grant
John
$400 [18]
Swahili for "boss", it's what Bob Hope wanted to be called in a 1963 film
bwana
Eugene
$400 [8]
The French firm IZOD contracted to use his name for their tennis shirt after he won 1927 Davis Cup
(René) Lacoste
John
$400 [29]
If you're glissading, you're going in this direction
down
John
$400 [10]
From 1936 film, "Born to Dance", this Cole Porter standard sounds like a dermatological condition
"I've Got You Under My Skin"
John
$400 [16]
Rumors said this French queen sold herself to a cardinal for a diamond necklace
Marie Antoinette
Eugene
$400 [2]
Some opponents accused this British Prime Minister of having a "schoolgirl crush" on President Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
Claudia
$600 [22]
w/U.S., S. African & Chinese support, Jonas Savimbi aims to topple pro Soviet regime in this former Port. colony
Angola
Eugene John
$600 [9]
With over 4000 stores, it's the largest chain of pizza parlors in the U.S.
Pizza Hut
Claudia
$600 [26]
If there's a sudden rise in temperature following a heavy snowfall, watch out for these
avalanches
John
$600 [15]
It precedes "It's time to call it a day, they've burst your pretty balloon & taken the moon away"
"The Party's Over"
Eugene
$600 [17]
Though of Jewish descent, he became the 1st Grand Inquisitor of Spain
(Tomás de) Torquemada
John
$600 [4]
First Lady suspected of disloyalty because her brothers were Confederate soldiers
Mary Lincoln
Eugene
$800 [23]
Since many prefer its "flag of convenience", this country has, by tonnage, largest fleet of merchant ships
Liberia
John
$800 [11]
In 1837, William Proctor & James Gamble started making soap & candles in this city
Cincinnati
John
$800 [27]
Term for roping down a rock face
rappelling
Claudia
$800 [21]
This 1976 Diana Ross song sounds like she OD'd on romance & was paying for it the morning after
"Love Hangover"
$1,000 [20]
Clytemnestra killed this husband after she fell in love with his cousin Aegisthus
Agamemnon
Eugene
$800 [5]
While President from 1921 to 1923, he reportedly had an illicit liaison in a White House closet
Harding
John
$1,000 [24]
EB says some 2 million died in 19th c. upheavals due to Zulu expansion under this chief
Shaka
$1,000 [12]
Both Defense Sec'y Weinberger & Sec'y of State Shultz are former executives of this construction co.
Bechtel
Eugene
DD $3,000 [30]
On maps, it's abbreviated "USGS"
the United States Geological Survey
John
$1,000 [28]
1963 hit for Dionne Warwick, or a refusal of a cosmetician's offer
"Don't Make Me Over"
Claudia
DD $2,000 [19]
The eyes of 1 of Jack the Ripper's victims were photographed by police in this mistaken belief
the murderer's reflection was to be found in the eyes
Eugene
$1,000 [6]
After his 1st wife died in the White House in 1892, this 23rd President married her niece
Benjamin Harrison
Eugene John

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS AMERICANS

Renaissance man, "he seized the lighting from heaven & the scepter from tyrants"

Ben Franklin

Claudia "Who is Jefferson?" — wagered $4,400
John "Who is Ben Franklin" — wagered $501
Eugene "Who is Ben Franklin?" — wagered $6,801

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