Show #656 1987-06-15 (taped 1987-02-17) Regular

Missing challenger introductions.

Contestants

Maryellen Cyr — a registered nurse from Boston, Massachusetts

Mikel Borg — a firefighter from Austin, Texas

Meg Shreve — an attorney from Bolinas, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Meg $1,100 $3,900 $8,800 $8,400
2-day champion: $19,800
$10,100
23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Mikel $0 $1,000 $800 $0
3rd place: Fedders air conditioner
$800
10 R, 4 W
Maryellen $200 $800 $4,000 $0
2nd place: tappan electric range with microwave on top & Regal stainless steel cookware
$4,000
11 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATURE CIVICS SICKNESS & HEALTH FASHION NAME CHANGES SPORTS SHIFTS
$100 [11]
In the Rub-al-Khali Desert, these windblown embankments reach heights up to 300 feet
sand dunes
Mikel
$100 [1]
Highest court that can interpret U.S. constitutional law
the U.S. Supreme Court
Mikel
$100 [6]
Unlike most other vaccines, the Sabin polio vaccine is taken this way
orally
Maryellen
$100 [16]
In the '20s, women often wore a "flattener" to play down this
their bosom
Mikel
$100 [5]
Of Tammette, Wynette, or Spraynette, Tammy Wynette's original middle name
Wynette
Mikel Maryellen
$100 [2]
In 1968, pro basketball's Hawks flew their coop in St. Louis & landed in this city
Atlanta
Meg
$200 [19]
Some crab spiders lie in wait on yellow or white flowers since they can do this to avoid being seen
they can change their color to match those flowers
$200 [3]
The original staff of this gov't dept. created in 1862 included a gardener & department head Isaac Newton
the Department of Agriculture
Maryellen
$200 [7]
Of an osteopath, podiatrist or chiropractor, the 1 who can't write you a prescription
a chiropractor
Maryellen
$200 [17]
At a Hollywood benefit last year, Teddy Ruxpin was seen wearing this type of formalwear
a tuxedo
Meg
$200 [25]
Name under which Stefanie Federkiewicz took "Hart"
Stefanie Powers
Maryellen
$200 [12]
Formerly the Kansas City Scouts, then the Colorado Rockies, they're now this N.J. NHL entry
the New Jersey Devils
Mikel
$300 [22]
About 11,500 feet in the Rockies, it's the point beyond which full-sized trees cannot grow
the timber line
Meg
$300 [4]
Attempts to end the spoils system were made after this president was killed by a disappointed office seeker
James Garfield
$300 [8]
Called the "kissing sickness", it especially afflicts teenagers
mononucleosis
Meg
$300 [18]
Some types of these are leg-of-mutton, parachute, & raglan
sleeves
Mikel
$300 [28]
Of Roger Moore, Garry Moore or Sir Thomas More, the 1 whose real name was Thomas Garrison Morfit
Garry Moore
$300 [13]
Though now in St. Louis, until 1960 the football Cardinals of the NFL played for this city
Chicago
Mikel
$400 [23]
Time-Life says before 1600, American Indians used to do this to forests to flush out game
burn them (set forest fires)
Meg
$400 [20]
Term for number of legislative members needed to conduct business
a quorum
Meg
DD $300 [10]
Illness you can catch that's mentioned in thefollowingsong:"What do you get when you fall in love?A guy with a pin to burst your bubble / That's what you get for all your trouble..."
pneumonia
Meg
$400 [26]
In 1966, Dior introduced long coats inspired by this Omar Sharif film
Doctor Zhivago
Maryellen
$400 [29]
Charlie Chaplin married this "Modern Times" co-star, whose real name was Marion Levy
Paulette Goddard
$400 [14]
When Wilt Chamberlain first joined the Warriors, they played in this city
Philadelphia
$500 [24]
In wetlands, these simple plants form the base of all food chains
algae
Mikel
$500 [21]
In 1976, they became the 1st VP candidates to debate on TV
Mondale & (Senator Robert) Dole
Meg Mikel
$400 [9]
This narcotic has been widely used as a cough suppressant
codeine
Meg
$500 [27]
The length of this Spanish head covering used to depend on, whether a woman was married, single or a widow
a mantia
Meg
$500 [15]
While the Mariners are the present Seattle A.L. baseball club, the original one there was this
the Pilots
Meg

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CONFEDERACY THE SOVIET UNION STARTS WITH "L" ASTRONOMY QUOTABLE WRITERS QUESTIONABLE SONGS
$200 [26]
Officially, he was general-in-chief of all Confederate forces for only 9 weeks
Lee
Meg
$200 [16]
"When there is freedom, there will be no state," said this founder of the Soviet state
Lenin
Meg
$200 [6]
An emergency could be a matter of this
life & death
Meg
$200 [8]
Term for the moment when the Sun's "upper limb" disappears below the horizon
sunset
Mikel
$200 [21]
Daphne du Maurier reportedly said, "Writers should be read, but neither seen nor" this
heard
Mikel
$200 [1]
Disney's 1st hit song, it helped make "The 3 Little Pigs" 1 of the most popular animated short subjects ever
"Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?"
Meg
$400 [27]
The unusual relationship of Private Keith Blalock to his messmate, alias Private "Sam" Blalock
husband & wife
Mikel
$400 [17]
It was at the 20th Communist Party Congress in 1956 that 1st party secretary Khrushchev denounced him
Stalin
Meg
$400 [7]
From Greek for "word", it's a dictionary full of words
a lexicon
Meg
$400 [9]
To Moon voyagers, Earth appears to be this color
blue
Maryellen
$400 [22]
Max Shulman's advice to aspiring authors is:"Seek truth & marry" this
wealth (money)
Maryellen
$400 [2]
The Elegants' 1958 #1 hit, "Little Star" begins with this question
"Where Are You (Little Star)?"
Maryellen
$600 [28]
This state was the original "Dixieland", reportedly named for French word "Dix" on its $10 bills
Louisiana
Meg
$600 [18]
In Russia it can mean either a grandmother or the headscarf she wears
a babushka
Meg
$600 [10]
In Bartlett's quotations, there are more citings under this word than any other starting with "L"
love
Maryellen
DD $500 [15]
The 6 "Superior" planets
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto
Meg
$600 [23]
Herman Wouk said these "returns are the most imaginative fictions being written today"
tax returns
Mikel
$600 [3]
Showing persistence, it's what "each night", Dion asked "the stars up above"
"Why Must I Be A Teenager In Love?"
Maryellen
DD $600 [20]
Meaning "fellow traveler", this Russian word appeared in late '50s headlines
Sputnik
Meg
$800 [11]
Used as a watchdog because of its acute hearing, this breed started in Tibet over 800 yrs. ago
the Lhasa apso
Meg
$600 [13]
This constellation's 7 main stars are called "The Plough" in Britain & "the Big Dipper" in U.S.
Ursa Major (the Great Bear)
Meg
$800 [24]
Oscar Wilde felt this author of "Turn of the Screw" wrote fiction "as if it were a painful duty"
Henry James
$800 [4]
Consisting only of questions, this song asks, "Do you miss me tonight, are you sorry we drifted apart?"
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
Maryellen
$800 [19]
Author who won 1958 Nobel Prize for literature but was compelled to reject it
Boris Pasternak
Mikel
$1,000 [12]
From Old German for "coarse cloth", this color is often a grayish green
loden green
$800 [14]
Consisting of an umbra & a penumbra, these disturbances can cluster to become 200,000km across
sunspots
Meg
$1,000 [25]
Author of "Self-Reliance" who advised "Never read a book that is not a year old"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
$1,000 [5]
Title of song which also asks, "Now that you left me, how can I live through another day?"
"What Now My Love"

Final Jeopardy!

YOUNG WOOD

Monthly, over 3 boxcars of ponderosa pine become this toy invented in 1916 by F.L. Wright's son John

Lincoln Logs

Mikel "What are gliding airplanes?" — wagered $800
Maryellen "What are blocks?" — wagered $4,000
Meg "What are Tinker Toys?" — wagered $400

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