Show #811 1988-02-29 (taped 1987-11-10) Regular

Missing Marge's occupation.

Contestants

Marge Stratmann — from New York City, New York

Jeff Liebster — an attorney and broker from Sherman Oaks, California

Michael Shutterly — a bank officer from Elkridge, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $2,600 $3,400 $8,500 $12,601
3-day champion: $38,001
$8,000
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Jeff $2,300 $4,100 $6,300 $12,600
2nd place: La-Z-Boy sleep sofa & Armstrong carpet
$5,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Marge $0 $0 $1,600 $3,200
3rd place: Brother Compactronic AX-33 typewriter
$1,600
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES ACCORDING TO SPOCK PEOPLE 4-LETTER WORDS FAMOUS ALLIGATORS ANTIQUES
$100 [5]
The Old Spanish Trail began in what is now this "New" state & ended in California
New Mexico
Michael
$100 [13]
When explaining to small children where babies come from, never use this ornithological delivery theory
a stork
Jeff
$100 [18]
Appropriately, when he hosts "Firing Line", William F. Buckley usually sits leaning to this side
to the right
Michael
$100 [19]
To worry, or a ridge on a guitar
a fret
Michael
$100 [23]
In title of his 2nd-biggest hit, Bill Haley told the alligator this
see you later
Marge
$300 [26]
You didn't have to be insane to make 1 of these patchwork quilts, popular in the U.S. from 1870-1889
a crazy quilt
Marge
$200 [4]
It measures about 48 by 37 miles
Rhode Island
Michael
$200 [20]
There should be no real damage to permanent teeth if this bad habit is given up by age 6
thumbsucking
Michael
$200 [12]
The "Center for the Strange" predicted this Atlanta Braves owner will buy his own third world country
Ted Turner
Marge
$200 [16]
From Greek "to shine", it's the fixture in which a light bulb shines
a lamp
Michael Marge
$200 [24]
If your college football team is tackling the Gators, they're playing this university
Florida
Jeff
$400 [27]
Reportedly some of the mechanical types of these in 19th c. Italy were powered by birds, not batteries
toys
$300 [1]
If you want to winter at Valley Forge, just like Washington did, you have to go to this state
Pennsylvania
Jeff
$300 [15]
Worse at bedtime, separation anxiety is a major trauma for kids at this "terrible" age
2
Jeff
$300 [6]
You can go "Out on a Limb" with her at her seminars for $300--"$100 each for the mind, the body & the spirit"
Shirley MacLaine
Michael
$300 [9]
A shaving wound
a nick
Jeff
$300 [25]
Found growing near the habitat of alligators, the avocado is also known as this
the alligator pear
Michael Jeff
$500 [28]
Appropriately, the Antiques Forum is held annually in this Old Virginia city
Williamsburg
Michael
$400 [2]
Martin Luther King Jr. is buried in this state
Georgia
Michael
$400 [21]
Before a meal, after a meal, or 2 p.m., the best time to bathe a newborn baby
before a meal
Michael Jeff Marge
$400 [7]
In 1978, in what was called his "2nd defection", he left American Ballet Theatre for the New York City Ballet
(Mikhail) Baryshnikov
Jeff
$400 [10]
In studying grammar, you'll find this word preceding "participle" & "tense"
past
Jeff
$400 [14]
This comic strip alligator at one time shared title billing with Pogo
Albert
Michael
$500 [3]
Among this state's tourist attractions are a tulip festival in Holland & the Soo Locks
Michigan
Jeff
DD $1,000 [22]
Children need others to play with, not just to have fun, but to learn this
socialization or how to live in society (how to get along with other people)
Jeff
$500 [17]
As UPI's bureau chief, Helen Thomas alternates with the AP chief to ask the first question at these
presidential press conferences
Jeff
$500 [11]
To make this drink, you ferment honey in water & flavor it with herbs & spices
mead
Michael
$500 [8]
Though this company's emblem is a crocodile in France, it's called an alligator in the U.S.
Lacoste (Izod)
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY MAN IN SPACE AUCTIONS PLAYS THE PAPACY GOOD "GUY"s
$200 [7]
Egypt's highest mountains are found on this peninsula
the Sinai Peninsula
Jeff
$200 [21]
NASA has pencilled in the next one of these for June 1988
Space Shuttle flights
Michael
$200 [13]
Auctioneer's action that signifies the moment at which a contract is created between buyer & seller
the banging of the gavel
Marge
$200 [25]
Ed Ames, Gene Wilder &Kirk Douglas were original stars of this 1963 play based on Ken Kesey's novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jeff
$200 [10]
Amazingly, no man serving as pope ever visited Spain until he did in 1982
John Paul II
Jeff
$200 [23]
In the '50s, he was TV's "Zorro", in the '60s, he was "Lost in Space"
Guy Williams
Michael
$400 [6]
From Old Russian for "lowlands", these flat, grass-covered plains make up most of the Ukraine
the steppes
Jeff
$400 [22]
An astronaut "on" this planet would weigh about 2.5 times as much as he did on earth
Jupiter
Jeff
$400 [16]
In 1983, Sotheby's auction house dropped these 2 names & became simply Sotheby's
Parke-Bernet
Marge
$600 [20]
"Jaws" star who wrote the acclaimed play "The Man in the Glass booth"
Robert Shaw
Michael
$400 [9]
Though the pope's street clothes are in the same style as the cardinals, his are this color
white
Michael
DD $400 [24]
Herb Alpert & Dionne Warwick had Top 10 hits with masculine & feminine versions of this song:"Who looks at you the way I do? / When you smile, I can..."
"This Guy's In Love With You"
Michael
$600 [1]
Of the 7 Central American countries, the # that border on the Pacific Ocean
6
Marge
$600 [3]
The ESA; like NASA, they shoot off rockets
the European Space Agency
Michael
$600 [17]
2 of the 3 options that Christie's offers you if you can't bid in person
(2 of) by proxy (a representative of Christie's) and by mail (or telephone)
Marge
$800 [19]
This legendary Victorian hero is the leading character in Paul Giovanni's "The Crucifer of Blood"
Sherlock Holmes
$600 [4]
During a papal election, observers in St. Peter's Square watch for the "fumata", which is this
smoke
Marge
$600 [8]
Novelist Gustave Flaubert taught the art of writing to this master of the short story
(Guy) de Maupassant
Michael
$800 [2]
The only country whose names begins with "O" is on this continent
Asia
Michael
$1,000 [18]
Early '80s drama with 3 roles:Dr. Martha Livingstone, Mother Miriam Ruth, & the title character
Agnes of God
$800 [14]
There hasn't been 1 of these pretenders to the papal throne since the year 1449
antipopes
Michael
$800 [11]
Words which earned Leo Durocher his place in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Nice guy finish last
Jeff Marge
$1,000 [5]
Pirates of the Caribbean plundered ships along the Spanish Main, which referred to this
the mainland of South America
Michael
DD $1,500 [15]
1 of the 8 titles every pope holds
(1 of) Pontifex Maximus (Supreme Pontiff) (or Vicar of Jesus Christ, Bishop of Rome, Supreme Sovereign of Vatican City)
Michael
$1,000 [12]
In the name of national security, Chuck Norris threatened to rearrange Jim Backus' face in this '79 film
Good Guys Wear Black

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN IN HISTORY

Famous woman depicted on the Crimean monument in Waterloo Place, London

Florence Nightingale

Marge "Who is Florence Nightingale?" — wagered $1,600
Jeff "Who is Florence Nightingale?" — wagered $6,300
Michael "Who was Florence Nightingale?" — wagered $4,101

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