Show #915 1988-07-22 (taped 1988-03-29) Regular

Last game of Season 4.Every clue was prepared byJeopardy!staff researcher Victoria Haselton.

Contestants

Chuck Bennett — a chemist from Fullerton, California

Dave Prechtl — a warehouse manager from Rosemead, California

Ted Tarson — a former market research manager from Nyack New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ted $1,200 $1,000 $4,000 $8,000
2nd place: Jenn-Air grill-range + 7 Krup kitchen products
$4,000
18 R, 7 W
Dave $1,400 $1,900 $4,900 $8,001
New champion: $8,001
$4,900
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Chuck $400 $2,405 $2,205 $4,005
3rd place: Lucien Piccard his & her watches
$2,700
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

GEORGIA HUMMINGBIRDS CHILDREN'S SONGS MAUREEN STAPLETON WEATHER IN OTHER WORDS...
$100 [7]
Reportedly, on January 23, 1780, Georgia became the 1st state to name a town after this president
George Washington
Ted Dave
$100 [21]
"Nectar" in feeders is tinted this color, believed to be the hummer's favorite flower color
red
Dave
DD $5 [30]
Type of choral arrangement heard here:"Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream Row, row, row your boat..."
a round
Chuck
$100 [1]
On location in California for months, she went "nutsy" playing mom to this actress in the film "Nuts"
Barbra Streisand
Ted
$100 [14]
During the 1940s, kerosene burners were used along airport runways to dissipate this
fog
Ted
$100 [3]
Mendicants are forbidden options
beggars can't be choosers
Dave
$200 [8]
The Cherokee Phoenix, printed at New Echota in 1928, was 1st Indian one of these
a newspaper
Dave
$200 [22]
Good at hovering, hummingbirds inspired Igor Sikorsky to design this type of flying craft
a helicopter
Chuck
$100 [26]
In the lyrics that end ring-a-ring the roses, this occurs
all fall down
Ted
$200 [2]
No, Maureen & this "All in the Family" actress aren't related, let alone sisters
Jean Stapleton
Ted Dave
$200 [17]
Halos around the Sun or Moon are caused by refraction of light by these crystals
ice
Chuck
$200 [4]
A quill beats out a claymore
the pen is mightier than the sword
Ted
$300 [9]
Atlanta was 1st named "Terminus" because these lines terminated there
railroads
Dave
$300 [23]
During cold weather hummers can "torpidate", lowering this to conserve energy
their body temperature (their metabolism)
$200 [27]
"Here we come looby loo, here we come looby light" all on this night
Saturday
Ted
$300 [5]
In 1959, she received an Oscar nomination in this category for her 1st film, "Lonelyhearts"
(Best) Supporting Actress
Ted
$300 [18]
Encyclopaedia Britannica says this has no predictive value; it's just sunlight reflected in rain
rainbows
Ted
$300 [13]
Procure but with one melody
buy it with (for) a song
$400 [10]
This conquistador came marching through Georgia in 1540, not riding in the car that took his name
de Soto
Ted
$400 [24]
The shapes of these, straight or curved, are adapted for feeding on particular flowers
beaks (bills)
Ted
$300 [28]
The 2 colors of the tisket tasket basket
green & yellow
Ted Chuck
$400 [6]
Her advice to actors is "Get a lot of" this "and talk loud"
sleep
Chuck
$400 [19]
The time lag between these 2 phenomena allows the calculation of distance between observer & storm
the thunder & the lightning
Chuck
$400 [15]
Mummies, for example, don't gossip
dead men don't talk (dead men tell no tales)
Dave
$500 [12]
Indians called this half-million acre swamp "trembling earth"
the Okefenokee
Dave
$500 [25]
It's the only U.S. state where the hummingbird is not a native
Hawaii
Ted Dave
$400 [29]
She swallowed a fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly, I think she'll die
the old lady
Chuck
$500 [11]
Maureen, an accomplished gamester in real life, played this "Game" with E.G. Marshall on Broadway in 1978
The Gin Game
Ted
$500 [20]
It's estimated Earth's mean temperature may rise 4°C by the mid-21st cent. due to increase of this gas
carbon dioxide
Ted Dave Chuck
$500 [16]
An orbiting tart
pie in the sky

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LITERATURE MOUNTAINS ISLAM ARCHITECTURE SPELLING NAME THE SPORT
$200 [2]
In 1540s Mexico, Franciscan Fray Sahagun began a history of these Indians in their own language
the Aztecs
Dave
$200 [20]
Mount Likavitos, not the Acropolis, is the highest point in this city
Athens
Chuck
$200 [16]
Muhammad advised believers to wear clothes of this "most agreeable" color
white
Ted
$200 [25]
If you come with me to a "casbah" in North Africa, we'll visit this type of military structure
a fortress
$200 [1]
The second year in college or high school
S-O-P-H-O-M-O-R-E
Chuck
$200 [3]
Half-nelson
wrestling
Dave
$400 [8]
This British poet, a notorious "Don Juan", kept his ringlets fresh by wearing curlers to bed
George Gordon Lord Byron
Ted
$400 [21]
You'll find a Great St. Bernard & a Little St. Bernard Pass in this European mountain system
the Alps
Ted
$400 [17]
If you miss the annual Haj to Mecca you can perform the Umra, or lesser one of these, at any time
a pilgrimage
$400 [12]
A short intercessory prayer, or as any woman will tell you, the right to vote
S-U-F-F-R-A-G-E
Ted Dave
$400 [4]
Triple-Salchow
figure skating
Dave Chuck
$600 [9]
In 1673, this French playwright became fatally ill during his satire "The Imaginary Invalid"
Molière
Chuck
$600 [22]
In 1875, a Scot, Geo. Anderson, became the 1st person to climb Half-Dome in this U.S. park
Yosemite
Dave
$600 [18]
On Women's Day in 1979, women in Tehran protested wearing this; now they have no choice
a veil (the chador)
Dave
$600 [13]
In ordinal numbers, this follows forty-ninth
F-I-F-T-I-E-T-H
Ted
$600 [5]
Tsukahara
gymnastics
Dave
$800 [10]
India, where his father & grandfather were missionaries, inspired this 1922 Hermann Hesse novel
Siddhartha
Dave
$800 [23]
Unlike nearby Everest, 22,958' Machapuchare has never been climbed because this country forbids it
Nepal
Chuck
$800 [19]
In Islamic tradition, 1 sign of this will be the appearance of the barbarian nations Gog & Magog
the final days (the end of the world)
Dave
$800 [14]
The capital of Brazil
B-R-A-S-I-L-I-A
Ted Dave
$800 [6]
Counter-riposte
fencing
Ted
$1,000 [11]
She said women need money & "A Room of One's' Own" to write fiction--like "Orlando"
Virginia Woolf
Ted
DD $1,000 [24]
The 1988 Winter Olympics took place in the foothills of these mountains
The Rockies
Dave
$1,000 [15]
A small corsage worn by a man in his buttonhole
B-O-U-T-O-N-N-I-E-R-E
Ted Dave
$1,000 [7]
Telemark
skiing
Ted

Final Jeopardy!

ROYALTY

Before his marriage in 1956, he slipped out of Los Angeles using the alias "C. Monte"

Prince Rainier

Chuck "Who is Prince Rainer" — wagered $1,800
Ted "Who is Prince Rainier?" — wagered $4,000
Dave "Who was Prince Reineir" — wagered $3,101

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