Show #567 1987-02-10 (taped 1986-11-11) Regular

Contestants

Michael Cowell — a superior court commissioner originally from Calcutta, India

Dorothy Regner — a costumer from Honolulu, Hawaii

Jake Harle — a law student from La Palma, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jake $300 $1,200 $4,000 $799
2-day champion: $8,400
$4,600
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Dorothy $-200 $1,200 $3,600 $0
3rd place: Marcy Fitness Products exercise bike
$3,600
12 R, 3 W
Michael $500 $600 $3,400 $2
2nd place: Tappan electric range with microwave & 7 Krups kitchen products
$3,300
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ASTROLOGY PEOPLE TOYS & GAMES GLADIATORS MEDICINE TAKE A GUESS
$100 [4]
From Greek for "hour watcher", it's a diagram of the stars & planets at a given moment, such as birth
a horoscope
Jake
$100 [5]
While visiting Japan in 1986, this princess was dubbed by the media "Madam Butterdi"
Princess Diana
Michael
$100 [1]
In addition to a TV series, this "Master of the Universe" doll now has his own comic strip
He-Man
Jake
$100 [8]
A "retiarius" entangled his opponent in this, like a fish
a net
Michael
$100 [10]
There's evidence that 20,000 volts of electricity can cure victims bitten by these venomous creatures
snakes
Dorothy
$100 [18]
With her new look, this Disney star now resembles "a rodent version of Madonna"
Minnie Mouse
Dorothy
$200 [6]
In astrology, the Sun & Moon are classed as these
planets
Jake
$200 [7]
"Baby Jane" star who told Bette Davis' daughter not to "corrupt" her children by talking to them
Joan Crawford
Michael
$200 [2]
Reportedly, President Hayes got in trouble when he spent $6 of public funds for a set of this lawn game
croquet
Jake
$200 [9]
Highest office held by Commodus, who thought he was Hercules & fought as a gladiator
a Roman emperor
$200 [16]
At 45% of the U.S. population, it's "O"
the most common blood type
Michael
$200 [19]
"The Dictionary of the Old West" defines "skimmies" as calves raised on this
skim milk
$300 [11]
Like M. Douglas & B. Bardot, persons born under this "balanced" sign bear the Venus dimple
Libra
Michael
$300 [25]
This weight-conscious Dodger has t-shirts reading "Do not feed the manager" in 5 languages
Tommy Lasorda
Jake
$300 [3]
Of "Sorry", "Yahtzee", or "Shogi", the game which takes an "!" with its name
Sorry!
Jake Dorothy Michael
$300 [14]
To spare a gladiator's life, merciful spectators waved these
handkerchiefs
$300 [17]
Kidney stone patients who've had their stones removed using this hi-tech tool were reportedly de"light"ed
a laser
Jake
$300 [20]
Oscar-winning son of vaudeville's Lester Crawford & actress Helen Broderick
Broderick Crawford
Dorothy
DD $500 [12]
According to thefollowing Kris Kristofferson song, it's Jesus' sun sign:"He ate organic food / He believed in love and peace / And never wore no shoes / Long hair, beard and sandals / And a funky bunch of friends..."
Capricorn
Michael
$400 [28]
He painted limp watches & shot a blunderbuss to create an art form he called "bulletism"
Salvador Dalí
Dorothy
$400 [26]
Number of questions that are included in a set of "Trivial Pursuit" cards
6000
Jake Dorothy
$400 [15]
The "andabatae" reportedly fought wearing helmets that deprived them of this sense
sight
Jake
$400 [23]
It's a doctor who deals in the study of diseases, not trailblazing
a pathologist
Michael
$400 [21]
While Comanches called September the "Mexican Moon", Mexicans used to call it this
the Comanche Moon
$500 [13]
Name given to the sign appearing on the eastern horizon at the time of one's birth
the ascendant sign (the rising sign)
Michael
$500 [27]
Mattel has taken a group of these directed by Joe Sedelmaier & turned them into a new video board game
commercials
Jake Michael
$500 [24]
From Greek words & Latin suffix meaning "low sugar in the blood", it's just that
hypoglycemia
Dorothy Michael
$500 [22]
1986 was the 1st year a chorus, not just a band, performed this traditional song at the Kentucky Derby
"My Old Kentucky Home"
Dorothy

Double Jeopardy! Round

MAMMALS AUTOMOBILES PATRON SAINTS THE SENSES "SAND" ROCKIN' ROLES
$200 [4]
The echidnas and the platypus are the only mammals left who bear young this way
by laying eggs
Dorothy
$200 [2]
The Chrysler corporation maintains that these "boys have more fun"
Dodge boys
Michael
$200 [1]
Yes, he really is the patron saint of sweethearts
St. Valentine
Jake
$200 [16]
1 photon is not only the minimum amount of this a person can see, but the minimum that can exist
light
Jake
$200 [9]
Where children play or cats do their business
a sandbox
Michael
$200 [12]
Dick Gautier was this army-bound rock 'n' roller "Bye-Bye"d on Broadway in 1960
Conrad Birdie
Jake
$400 [5]
Among ungulates, it stands head & neck above the rest
a giraffe
Dorothy
$400 [22]
Suggesting they got 40 mpw (miles per wind), some owners of these affixed wind-up keys to rear engine "hood"
Volkswagen Bugs
Dorothy
$400 [3]
After her teeth were knocked out in religious riot, St. Apollonia became patron saint of this profession
dentistry
Michael
$400 [17]
External senses include basic 5 & this 1 felt by special skin receptors, especially in summer
heat or temperature
Michael
$400 [10]
A man might find this in his toolbox or, around 5 p.m., on his face
sandpaper
Dorothy
$400 [13]
In 1979 TV biopic he was played by Kurt Russell & referred to as "a walking drugstore"
Elvis Presley
Jake
$600 [6]
Type of mammals that live in an area called a "warren"
rabbits
Michael
$600 [24]
In 1953, the 1st year they were manufactured, all corvettes were painted this color
white
Dorothy Michael
$600 [27]
Though the IRS doesn't allow him as a deduction, St. Matthew is the patron saint of these
accountants (tax collectors)
Michael
$800 [21]
The ion of this simplest element is probably the stimulus for sour taste sensation
hydrogen
Jake
$600 [11]
103
a thousand
Jake
$600 [14]
In 1984, M. McKean, C. Guest, H. Shearer, D. Kaff, and 1 drummer after another made up this rock group
Spinal Tap
$800 [7]
This order runs from tiny creatures weighing 1/3 oz. to the capybara who tips the scales at over 100 lbs.
rodents
Dorothy
DD $600 [26]
Legend says that in the U.S. the 1st of these engine parts was Charles Duryea's wife's perfume atomizer
the carburetor
Jake
$1,000 [23]
When you get a whiff of a hamburger on the BBQ or a dead fish on the pier, this nerve is responsible
the olfactory nerve
Jake
$800 [19]
Any of various thin circular echinoderms of the order Clypeasteroidea
sand dollars
Dorothy
$800 [15]
Pioneering rock 'n' roll DJ, played by Tim McIntire in "American Hot Wax"
Alan Freed
$1,000 [8]
Prized for its fur, this seal was named for the dark crescent shape on its back & sides
the harp seal
DD $1,200 [18]
In both 1970 & '73, Diana Ross had a hit with this sense in the title
touch
Michael
$1,000 [20]
Winston Churchill attended the Royal Military Academy here
Sandhurst
Michael
$1,000 [25]
Mick Jagger played a retired rock star in this 1970 psychological thriller
Performance

Final Jeopardy!

WORD ORIGINS

In the 1860s, sailors aboard this British ship were ordered to wear identical brass-buttoned blue jackets

the HMS Blazer

Michael "What is the HMS Victory" — wagered $3,398
Dorothy "What is the H.M.S. Middy" — wagered $3,600
Jake "What are pea jackets" — wagered $3,201

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