Show #695 1987-09-18 (taped 1987-06-16) Regular

Contestants

Douglas Goodman — a theatrical producer and manager from New York City, New York

Babette Heistand — a librarian from Shaker Heights, Ohio

Tom Bendycki — a copy editor originally from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $300 $2,800 $11,000 $15,000
3-day champion: $39,400
$11,000
24 R, 1 W
Babette $1,600 $2,900 $6,600 $11,600
2nd place: Lehigh bedroom furniture & Zenith 9" TV
$5,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Douglas $100 $1,000 $4,800 $9,595
3rd place: Service Merchandise gift certificate
$3,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BLACK AMERICA FASHION TV TRIVIA ANIMALS TREES MUSIC PEOPLE
$100 [2]
Jackie Mabley, who had 3 children by age 14, used this appropriate stage name
Moms (Mabley)
Tom
$100 [12]
Willi Smith's last designs included a webbed wedding gown for the bride of this comic book superhero
Spider-Man
Tom
$100 [1]
City in which "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" is taped
Chicago
Douglas
$100 [17]
The 2-humped camel is native to this continent only
Asia
Tom
$100 [23]
This tree's name is from the Middle English for Prussia, "pruce"
the spruce
Babette
$100 [5]
This "Gambler" took a chance & recently published a book of his photos of America
Kenny Rogers
Douglas
$200 [6]
G. Washington named Black surveyor B. Banneker to commission that laid out this city's boundaries
Washington, D.C.
Douglas
$200 [22]
Firm whose ads stress, with an international flair, their "united colors"
Benetton
Douglas
$200 [3]
City in which "Sneak Previews" with Michael Medved & Jeffrey Lyons is taped
Chicago
Tom
$200 [18]
Ency. of Mammals says this rodent is probably responsible for more human deaths than all wars
the rat
Tom
$200 [24]
The variety of this tree called the "paper" or "canoe" has a white bark that peels off
the birch
Babette
$200 [8]
Still occasionally soloing for her father's choir, this Queen of Soul gets lots of "R-E-S-P-E-C-T"
Aretha Franklin
Babette
$300 [7]
It's said he also developed at least 75 products from the pecan
George Washington Carver
Babette
$300 [28]
The bodice or waist of a dress, or, more commonly, a flower bouquet worn on the bodice or waist
a corsage
$300 [4]
City in which "At the Movies" with Rex Reed & Bill Harris is taped
Chicago
Babette Douglas
$300 [19]
If the booby prize you've just won is a real booby, you've won this type of animal
a bird
Tom
$300 [25]
Adjective to describe trees with thin, drooping branches, like the willow Salix babylonica
weeping
Douglas
$300 [9]
Her sister, Loretta Lynn, nicknamed her for a southern hamburger chain
Crystal Gayle
Babette
$400 [13]
By order of Pres. Reagan, boxer Joe Louis was buried in this cemetery in 1981
Arlington National Cemetery
Douglas
$400 [29]
In May 1987, a network TV ad taboo ended when a live model was shown wearing one of these on bare flesh
a brassiere
Tom
$400 [15]
"On Nov. 13", he "was asked to remove himself from his place of residence; that request came from his wife"
Felix Unger
Tom
$400 [20]
Lyndon, Maine was renamed for this North American reindeer once found in the area
caribou
Tom
$400 [26]
The most populous U.S. city named after a tree is this one near San Francisco
Oakland
Tom
DD $500 [10]
Singer heard here, Alice Cooper called her "The Queen of Housewife Rock":"In the morning fun when no one will be drinking any more wine / I'll wake the sun..."
Helen Reddy
Babette
$500 [14]
He grew up in Harlem & used it as setting for his 1st novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
James Baldwin
Tom
$500 [16]
It's the role Jack Klugman played the longest on TV
Quincy
Tom Douglas
$500 [21]
Because it can breathe air at the surface, this fish is able to live in polluted water
the catfish (walking catfish, lungfish)
Babette
$500 [27]
You're "bound" to find out that its state tree is the southern pine
Alabama
Douglas
$500 [11]
This singing "Handy Man" built his own house on Martha's Vineyard
James Taylor
Babette

Double Jeopardy! Round

"A" IN LITERATURE "B" IN HISTORY "C" IN SPELLING "D" IN SCIENCE "F" IN GEOGRAPHY "PASS"
$200 [5]
This "Little Woman" wrote her 1st book at age 16 for Emerson's daughter
Louisa May Alcott
Douglas
$200 [21]
Surname of the Corsican brothers Joseph, Lucien, Louis, Jerome & Napoleon
Bonaparte
Douglas
$200 [26]
The last car on a freight train
C-A-B-O-O-S-E
Douglas
$200 [15]
An electric current that flows only one way
DC (direct current)
Douglas
$200 [11]
State capital nicknamed the "Bluegrass Capital"
Frankfort, Kentucky
Tom
$200 [2]
A system of grading sometimes used to replace traditional letter grades
pass/fail
Tom
$400 [8]
Orwell fable that stated "All animals are equal, but some... are more equal than others"
Animal Farm
Douglas
$400 [23]
Bligh's blighted boat
the Bounty
Tom
$400 [28]
An edible plant related to the cabbage & broccoli, or some boxers' ears
C-A-U-L-I-F-L-O-W-E-R
Douglas
$400 [16]
In 1825, at 16, this evolutionist-to-be left school & went to Edinburgh U. to study medicine
(Charles) Darwin
Babette
$400 [12]
You might sit in your sauna and sip Chablis in these 2 European countries that begin with "F"
Finland & France
Babette Douglas
$400 [3]
Designated post offices will take your application for one
a passport
Tom
$600 [27]
His 1st play, "The Zoo Story", was written in just 3 weeks
Edward Albee
Tom
$600 [24]
Some say over 100 British prisoners suffocated in this Indian cell in 1756
the Black Hole of Calcutta
Tom
$600 [19]
High levels of this fatty substance found in all animal tissues can spell health risks for humans
C-H-O-L-E-S-T-E-R-O-L
Tom
$600 [20]
Term for the ratio of mass to volume for a material or object
density
Tom
$600 [7]
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, this bay has some of the highest tides on Earth, up to 70'
the Bay of Fundy
Babette
$600 [4]
This commemorates God's skipping the Israelites' homes & smiting only the Egyptian firstborn
Passover
Babette
$800 [25]
This colonial protest took place on December 16, 1773
the Boston Tea Party
Tom
$1,000 [17]
Apparel worn by troops during maneuvers bears this design for concealment from the enemy
C-A-M-O-U-F-L-A-G-E
Babette
$800 [10]
The elastic strength of your skin is provided by this, the inside layer of cells
the dermis
Tom
$800 [6]
It's most of Belgium's northern half
Flanders
Douglas
$1,000 [14]
Before its extinction, huge flocks of this American bird would literally darken the sky
the passenger pigeon
Tom
$1,000 [22]
The final battle of the Wars of the Roses was fought on this field
Bosworth Field
Tom
DD $1,500 [18]
Light yellowish green, or a liqueur that has that color
C-H-A-R-T-R-E-U-S-E
Babette
$1,000 [9]
This word describes a molecule made up of just 2 atoms
diatomic
Douglas
$1,000 [1]
A Scottish estuary, the rivers Clyde & Forth each have one
a firth
Tom
DD $2,000 [13]
This type of drama, popular in the Late Middle Ages featured scenes of the crucifixion
a passion play
Douglas

Final Jeopardy!

COLLEGES

Located in New England, it's the only Ivy League school that is a college, not a university

Dartmouth

Douglas "What is Dartmouth? (my alma mater!)" — wagered $4,795
Babette "What is Dartmouth?" — wagered $5,000
Tom "What is Dartmouth?" — wagered $4,000

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