Show #467 1986-09-23 (taped 1986-08-12) Regular

Contestants

Jeffrey Ellis — a consulting scientist originally from London, England

Heidi Yorkshire — a freelance writer from Beverly Hills, California

Jay DeBoer — an attorney and state legislator from Petersburg, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jay $1,000 $3,400 $4,000 $7,401
2nd place: trip on Western Airlines to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico & stay at Villa Del Mark Resort
$5,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Heidi $1,800 $2,700 $7,400 $8,900
New champion: $8,900
$7,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jeff $500 $1,600 $5,200 $1,600
3rd place: Amelia Earhart luggage
$5,200
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTS MEDICINE TV NOSTALGIA BANGLADESH SPELLING HATS
$100 [1]
Subject of the Peter Hurd portrait which LBJ called "the ugliest thing I ever saw"
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Jeff
$100 [12]
Christmas seals now fight all lung disease, but originally targeted this #1 killer of early 1900s
tuberculosis
Jay
$100 [19]
In the Mary Tyler Moore Show pilot, he tells Mary "You got spunk... I hate spunk"
Lou Grant
Jeff
$100 [11]
The country's name refers to this "tigerish" Indian province of which it was once part
Bengal
Heidi Jeff
$100 [20]
In the Gregorian calendar, it's the 2nd month
F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y
Jay
$100 [6]
Tassel on this hat represents the lock of hair by which Allah pulls a believer up to heaven
a fez
Heidi
$200 [2]
3 of our first 5 presidents died on this holiday
July 4th
Jay
$200 [15]
Though Fleming discovered this 1st modern antibiotic in 1928, his Nobel Prize for it came in 1945
penicillin
Heidi
$200 [21]
Danny DeVito came out of his cage to marry Rhea Perlman during a lunch break of this show
Taxi
Jay
$200 [13]
Though it's the chief food crop of the country, not enough is grown to feed the population
rice
Heidi
DD $200 [27]
This word is also spelled out in the song that includes thefollowing:"What you want..."
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Jay
$200 [7]
True examples of this famous "straw" are made of toquillo straw, & are from South, not Central, America
a Panama hat
Heidi
$300 [3]
Only president buried in any of our 10 largest cities, his tomb is in New York
Grant
Jay
$300 [16]
Derived from bark of cinchona tree, it was for years only known remedy for malaria
quinine
Heidi
$300 [22]
Still in diapers when he joined the Today show cast in 1953, he sent the ratings climbing
J. Fred Muggs
Jeff
$300 [14]
On a suggestion from Ravi Shankar, he organized the concerts for Bangladesh
George Harrison
Jeff
$300 [28]
A device used to stop the flow of blood through an artery by compression
T-O-U-R-N-I-Q-U-E-T
Heidi Jeff
$300 [8]
Korean girls looking for husbands once avoided men who wore tall horse-hair hats, which indicated this
that they were married
Heidi
$400 [4]
It's said it took 4 plumbers with special tools to extricate this president from the White House bathtub
Taft
Jay
$400 [17]
Venereal disease formerly known as "the pox" or "the great pox" as opposed to smallpox
syphilis
Heidi
$400 [23]
They lived at 623 E. 68th Street & had a baby on January 19, 1953
Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz (Lucy & Ricky Ricardo)
Jeff
$400 [25]
Decade of the 20th c. when East Pakistan became Bangladesh
the '70s
Jay
$400 [29]
Steak sauce, made of vinegar, soy, & other ingredients, named for a county in England
W-O-R-C-E-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-R-E
Heidi
$400 [9]
It's brimless to allow worshipper to touch forehead to ground & is always worn by Sikhs in public
a turban
Heidi
$500 [5]
While President Truman often called wife Bess "The Boss", he called her "The Boss's Boss"
Margaret Truman
Heidi
$500 [18]
Once the symbol of Hermes or Mercury, it's now the symbol of the medical profession
the caduceus
Jay
$500 [24]
Leroy the high school coach drowned in a bowl of her chicken soup
Mary Hartman
$500 [26]
Due to the geography of the country, it's the primary form of transportation
boat
Jay
$500 [30]
If you can use your left hand & right hand equally well, you're considered this
A-M-B-I-D-E-X-T-R-O-U-S
Jay Heidi
$500 [10]
The 3' high hennin, worn by ladies of Europe in the 1400s, had this shape
the cone-shaped hat

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD POLITICS SCIENCE TRIVIA NAME'S THE SAME ENGLISH LITERATURE MUSICAL FACTS
$200 [11]
Family which ruled Haiti for 28 years, until February, 1986
the Duvaliers
Jay
$200 [1]
It's what a chronometer measures
time
Jeff
$200 [21]
Real name shared by the stars of "Harvey" & "Scaramouche"
James Stewart
Jay
$200 [9]
In the early 1500s, this 14-line form of poetry was introduced from Italy
a sonnet
Heidi
$200 [4]
A meaningful series of tones, or Gene Autry's ranch
a melody
Jay
$400 [12]
The term "People's Republic" is generally a euphemism for govt. under this doctrine
communism
Jay
$400 [2]
Ridges called eskers & oval hills called drumlins are formed by these icy phenomena
glaciers
Jeff
$400 [22]
"Auntie Mame" playwright, or rebel general whose mother was reportedly buried alive - but escaped
Robert E. Lee
$400 [10]
Only 24 of these 120 proposed stories exist, since author & friends never made it back to the Tabard Inn
the Canterbury Tales
Jay
$400 [5]
A piece written in tempo "allegro" should be played this way
fast
Heidi
$600 [13]
The Soviet Union has said it favors having part of 1988 Summer Olympics held in this country
North Korea
Jay Jeff
$600 [3]
Umbras & penumbras can be parts of a sunspot or types of these
shadows
Jay
$600 [23]
Henry's queen who died after Edward VI's birth, or a "reigning queen" of TV mini-series
Jane Seymour
Jay
$600 [18]
Victorian novelist who often set his gloomy tales in "Wessex County"
Thomas Hardy
Heidi
$800 [7]
A dot to the right of a note does this to its time value
add half the value again (increase by half)
Heidi
$800 [14]
In Austrian election, it was claimed this U.N. Sec-Gen served on the staff of a Nazi war criminal
Kurt Waldheim
Jeff
$800 [16]
The most common compound on the Earth's surface
water
Jeff
DD $1,600 [24]
1 of 2 actresses born Gladys Smith; one kept her last name, while one kept neither
(1 of) Alexis Smith or Mary Pickford
Jay
$800 [19]
Until the late 800s, most prose writers in England wrote in this language
Latin
Heidi
DD $900 [6]
Sentence used to remember notes on the 5 lines of the staff of a standard treble clef
every good boy does fine (every good boy deserves favor)
Heidi
$1,000 [15]
Longest-ruling Latin American dictator, Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, has led this country since early '50s
Paraguay
Jeff
$1,000 [17]
Fahrenheit & centigrade readings are identical at this temperature
minus 40
Jay Jeff
$1,000 [20]
Themes of violence & vengeance dominated Jacobean drama during reign of this 17th c. king
King James
$1,000 [8]
From Latin for "measuring", this shifting of keys has been a Barry Manilow trademark
modulation
Heidi

Final Jeopardy!

THE FLAG

"Star-Spangled Banner" that flew over Ft. McHenry in War of 1812 had this same # of both stars & stripes

15

Jay "15" — wagered $3,401
Jeff "What is 16?" — wagered $3,600
Heidi "What is 15?" — wagered $1,500

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