Show #909 1988-07-14 (taped 1988-03-28) Regular

Bruce Naegeli game 1.

Contestants

David Natkin — an attorney from Lexington, Virginia

Bruce Naegeli — a librarian from Phoenix, Arizona

Pete Tremblay — a law student originally from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 4-day cash winnings total $44,702)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Pete $1,600 $2,500 $4,900 $9,800
2nd place: Ashley bedroom group & CapriLighting + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$5,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Bruce $500 $1,300 $5,700 $10,700
New champion: $10,700
$6,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
David $1,400 $1,700 $3,900 $7,799
3rd place: Tappan SureCook microwave oven + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$3,900
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES TELEVISION COLE PORTER SONGS THE 17th CENTURY SUSHI INTRANSITIVE VERBS
$100 [7]
Dane who called his 1855 autobiography "The Fairy Tale of my Life"
Hans Christian Andersen
Bruce
$100 [1]
She tap-danced on TV with Donald O'Connor at age 9, long before doing "One Day at a Time"
Bonnie Franklin
Pete
$100 [17]
"Is it a fancy not worth thinking of, or is it at long last" this
love
Pete
$100 [6]
“Timetables of History" says this hand 1st appeared on watches in 1670; about time!
the minute hand
Pete
$100 [22]
When you get kaki, which is this, don't expect a pearl, too
oyster
Pete
$100 [16]
To favor a leg when walking
to limp
David
$200 [8]
Translated, the title of this notorious work means "My Battle" or "My Struggle"
Mein Kampf
Pete
$200 [2]
This is both the alias of Robert McCall & the title of the series about him
The Equalizer
Pete
$200 [27]
"Here's hoping we meet now & then, it was great fun, but it was just" this
just one of those things
Bruce
$200 [12]
A 1699 treaty forced the Ottoman Empire to give most of Hungary to this country
Austria
David
$200 [23]
Order unagi for the freshwater, but not the electric, variety of this
eel
Pete
$200 [18]
Intransitive verb expected of a bronco in a rodeo event
bucking (to buck)
David
$300 [9]
Bill Leonard, the ex-president of this TV network's news, called his book "In the Storm of the Eye"
CBS
Pete
$300 [3]
A gas station attendant on "The Andy Griffith Show" enlisted & became this, the title of the spinoff
Gomer Pyle
Pete
DD $200 [30]
Late comedian heard here, singing a 1941 Cole Porter tune on B'way in "Let's Face It":"But honey, I suspect you all / Of bein’ intellectual / And so, instead of gushin’ on / Let’s have a big discussion on /Timidity, stupidity, solidity, frigidity / Avidity, turbidity, / Manhattan and viscidity / Fatality, morality, legality, finality / Neutrality, reality, or Southern hospitality / Pomposity, verbosity / You’re loosing your velocity / But let’s not talk about love"
Danny Kaye
Bruce
$300 [13]
His 72-year reign over France began in 1643
Louis XIV
David
$300 [24]
Tako is this, including all the arms
octopus
David
$300 [19]
It once meant to lose brightness or courage & still means to lose consciousness
to faint
David
$400 [10]
He wrote "Rumba is My Life" in 1948, before he rumba-ed off with Charo
Xavier Cugat
Bruce
$400 [4]
Classic quiz show on which you might have heard, "That's 3 down & 7 to go, Miss Francis?"
What's My Line?
David
$300 [28]
Original singer of "I Get A Kick Out Of You", she belted it on Broadway in 1934 in "Anything Goes"
Ethel Merman
$400 [14]
In 1687, his "Principia Mathematica" scientifically transformed our concept of the universe
Newton
Pete
$400 [25]
Of Kawasaki, Yamaha, or Suzuki, the one that is also a type of sushi
Suzuki
$400 [20]
For the wind to blow in sudden brief rushes
to gust
Bruce
$500 [11]
"Once Upon a Time" contains this designer's own story about her notorious 1934 custody trial
Gloria Vanderbilt
David
$500 [5]
He played Chet Kincaid, an L.A. gym teacher & coach
Bill Cosby
David
$400 [29]
"I love the looks of you, the lure of you, I'd love to make" 1 of these "of you"
a tour
$500 [15]
New World foods such as potatoes, peanuts & this grain helped spark a population increase in China
corn (maize)
David
$500 [26]
Hirame is this, a flounder whose name means "holy flatfish"
the halibut
$500 [21]
From Old French "to divide", this verb means to go away or leave
to depart
Pete

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES BOTANY PLAYS MILITARY AIRCRAFT MARY ELLEN SAYS TRANSITIVE VERBS
$200 [1]
The 1st atomic bomb was exploded, aptly, in this state whose name is from that of an Aztec war god
New Mexico
David
$200 [23]
Botanically, a legume is not a vegetable, but is a dry, podded type of this
a fruit
Bruce David
$200 [6]
T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" concerns a famous murder in this British cathedral
Canterbury
Pete Bruce
$200 [8]
A P-47 Thunderbolt bearing name of WWII ace Hubert Zemke was displayed under this Paris landmark after war
the Eiffel Tower
David
$200 [19]
If you run out of ginger ale, mix equal parts of Coke & this Uncola & no one will be the wiser
7UP
Pete
$200 [16]
To list a book's key words, usually alphabetically in the back
index
Bruce
$400 [2]
The easternmost section of Rhode Island cannot be reached by land without going thru this state
Massachusetts
Pete
$400 [24]
The part of a flower formed by the petals, or a type of Toyota
the corolla
Bruce
$400 [7]
Actors who play John Merrick in this drama are advised to see a doctor before contorting themselves
The Elephant Man
David
$400 [9]
In 1949, the, "Lucky Lady II" became 1st airplane to complete this, taking 94 hours & 1 minute
a non-stop trip around the world
David
$400 [20]
When the fizz fizzles out of your champagne, add 1 of these tiny dried fruits & voila! Bubbles!
raisins
David
$400 [17]
Literally to cut the leg tendons, it can mean to destroy the efficiency of someone or something
to hamstring
Pete Bruce
$800 [4]
You'll find the great Miami River, the Little Miami River, & Miami University in this state
Ohio
David
$600 [25]
Of shade, partial sun, or full sun, amount of light gardenias should be grown in
the full sun
$800 [13]
Characters in this Greek drama include Force, Violence, & the title Titan, who's all tied up
Prometheus Bound
Bruce
$600 [10]
In 1921, 3 biplane bombers helped this general prove planes could sink battleships
Billy Mitchell
Bruce
$600 [18]
To lay waste; as a noun, it can be wreaked
to havoc
Pete
DD $1,000 [3]
Michigan borders all the Great Lakes except this one
Lake Ontario
Pete
DD $1,000 [12]
Despite its title, this Pirandello play has over 17 characters
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Pete
$800 [11]
The 1931 Curtiss "Shrike" was 1st U.S. military plane with these on wings to reduce landing speed
flaps
Pete
$800 [21]
From German "to announce", it's to announce cards for a score in a card game
to meld
$1,000 [5]
This western state has the highest coastal sand dunes & the deepest lake in the U.S.
Oregon
Pete
$1,000 [14]
Kaufman & Hart play dedicated to Alexander Woollcott "for reasons that are nobody's business"
The Man Who Came to Dinner
$1,000 [15]
The primary letter & number identification of the Boeing "Superfortress" of WWII
the B-29
Bruce
$1,000 [22]
To cultivate land with a disking device or torment someone with bad news
to harrow
Bruce

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD GOVERNMENTS

This nation's 1936 & 1977 constitutions guarantee its 15 political divisions the right to secede

the USSR

David "What is the USSR?" — wagered $3,899
Pete "What is the U.S.S.R.?" — wagered $4,900
Bruce "What is U.S.S.R?" — wagered $5,000

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