Show #923 1988-09-14 (taped 1988-07-19) Regular

Contestants

Art Hill — a hotel controller from La Crosse, Wisconsin

Chris Williams — a lawyer and writer from Baltimore, Maryland

Terry Floren — a firefighter from Dayton, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Terry $500 $2,000 $6,900 $2,900
3rd place: DIA recliner
$6,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Chris $1,100 $2,400 $5,400 $10,798
New champion: $10,798
$6,400
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Art $700 $1,600 $3,200 $3,100
2nd place: Ashley bedroom group & Louverdrape pleated shades
$3,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

TV TRIVIA NOTORIOUS DOGS FOOD AMERICAN SONGS FAMOUS QUAKERS
$100 [6]
"Massage parlor television" was how some denounced this '70s detective trio
Charlie's Angels
Terry
$100 [11]
He arranged the murders of some of his own children as well as slaying the infants of Bethlehem
King Herod (the Great)
Chris
$100 [23]
This keeps a racing greyhound from biting other dogs in the heat of the chase
a muzzle
Chris
$100 [7]
The only canned luncheon meat distributed nationally, its name is a contraction of "spiced ham"
Spam
Art
$100 [1]
According to the minstrel song, "There'll be" one of these "in the old town tonight"
a hot time
Terry
$100 [5]
Descended from a long line of Quakers, he was the son of village blacksmith Jesse Clark Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Chris
$200 [13]
These were the first 4 words that appeared on Paladin's calling card
Have Gun – Will Travel
Art
$200 [12]
Audie Murphy, Paul Newman & even Roy Rogers played this youthful outlaw on film
Billy the Kid
Chris
$300 [26]
The name for this type of dog is from Old French for "Spaniard"
a Spaniel
Art
$200 [16]
This vegetable, which comes in spears, was used 2.000 years ago as a medicine, not a weapon
asparagus
Chris
$200 [2]
Title of the song that says, "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home"
"Home Sweet Home"
Art
$200 [18]
A N.Y. Ivy League university is named for this Quaker who helped develop the U.S. telegraph system
(Ezra) Cornell
Art
$300 [8]
Name of the establishment where we first heard Flo the waitress let fly with "Kiss my grits"
Mel's
Art
$300 [10]
In legend, the evil sorceress Morgan le Fay is this king's half-sister
King Arthur
Chris
$300 [14]
Ovo-lacto vegetarians eat dairy products, vegetable products & these
eggs
Terry Chris
$300 [3]
Paul Dresser, who wrote "On The Banks Of The Wabash", was a brother of this "Sister Carrie" author
Theodore Dreiser
Terry
$300 [24]
If you know a "Whit" about poetry, you know that this man was "The Quaker Poet"
John Greenleaf Whittier
Terry Art
$400 [17]
From 1961-64 she worked for the Baxter family
Hazel
Terry
$400 [20]
In the early 1800s this pirate was "governor" of Galveston island, Texas
Jean Lafitte
$400 [15]
Ipswich, Massachusetts is famous for this type of shellfish
clams
Chris
$400 [4]
In this 1918 hit, subtitled "The Stammering Song", she's "the only g-g-g-girl that I adore"
"K-K-K-Katy"
Chris
$400 [19]
Quaker author Jessamyn West's 1st novel, it was made into a film about Quakers starring Gary Cooper
Friendly Persuasion
Chris
DD $500 [9]
Pop singer who co-wrote thefollowingTV theme:[The Tonight Showtheme plays]
Paul Anka
Art
$500 [21]
"Who will free me from this turbulent priest?" asked Henry II, ordering this man's murder
(Thomas à) Becket
Chris
$500 [27]
Chinese for "golden orange", this citrus fruit looks like a tiny, oblong orange
a kumquat
Terry
$500 [22]
This plaintive Civil War song is sometimes called "Tenting Tonight"
"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground"
$500 [25]
Legend says this Quaker sewed something special for Geo. Washington in her back parlor
Betsy Ross
Art

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELS THE UNIVERSE WORLD WAR II "PORT"s ON THE MAP 3-SYLLABLE WORDS FAMOUS COUSINS
$200 [7]
The last name of sisters Amy, Beth. Jo & Meg
March
$200 [2]
2 of 3 dates on which the summer solstice can occur
(2 of) June 20th & June 21 (or June 22nd)
Terry
$200 [18]
Col. Paul Tibbits & Major Thomas Ferebee made history on August 6, 1945 by dropping this
the atomic bomb
Chris
$200 [9]
In 1770 it replaced Cap-Haitien as the capital of Saint-Domingue, which is now Haiti
Port-au-Prince
Art
$200 [14]
Alaskan city that's bidding for the 1994 Winter Olympics
Anchorage
Terry
$200 [24]
Sargent Shriver's distant cousin who is a tennis champion
Pam Shriver
Chris
$400 [8]
This novel concludes, "After all, tomorrow is another day"
Gone with the Wind
Terry
$400 [3]
Steady-state, oscillating universe & big bang
theories on how the universe was formed
Terry
$400 [20]
Germany's V-2 was the world's 1st rocket-powered one
missile
Art
$400 [10]
European country whose lavish 16th century style of architecture was known as "Manueline"
Portugal
Art
$400 [1]
The 2 colors in a rainbow that have 3 syllables are indigo & this on
violet
Terry
$800 [22]
Country cousins Mickey Gilley, Jerry Lee Lewis & this TV evangelist were reportedly "inseparable" as children
Jim(my) Swaggart
Chris Art
$600 [19]
1 of 2 characters in "Tom Sawyer" who have "Joe" in their names
(1 of) Injun Joe (or Joe Harper)
Terry
$600 [4]
This "great hunter" seems to be hunting the 7 Pleiades of the constellation Taurus
Orion
Chris
$600 [21]
On Dec. 8, 1941 this country declared war on Japan hours before we did
Great Britain
Art
$600 [11]
West Coast city called America's "City of Roses"
Portland, Oregon
Art
$600 [15]
From Latin "to spit on", it's a spittoon
cuspidor
Chris
$1,000 [28]
Tyrone Power was a 2nd cousin of this Tyrone, who founded a theater in Minneapolis
(Tyrone) Guthrie
Art
$800 [23]
Thornton Wilder novel that delves into the lives of 5 travelers who fall to their deaths in Peru
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Terry
DD $1,000 [5]
The 2 planets which have no known natural satellites
Mercury & Venus
Chris
$800 [26]
French town noted for its bottled drinking water & its collaborationist WWII government
Vichy
Chris
$800 [12]
The construction of the Suez Canal resulted in the founding of this city
Port Said
Chris
$800 [16]
To pound, crush or grind into a powder
pulverize
Terry
$1,000 [25]
Pen name of E.Z.C. Judson who originated the dime novel & gave William F. Cody his famous nickname
Ned Buntline
$1,000 [6]
About 140 A.D. he compiled the "Almagest", an encyclopedia that included a star catalog
Ptolemy
$1,000 [27]
2 leading Nazis Hitler expelled from the party the day before he committed suicide
the deputy Fuhrer Göring & the head of the SS Heinrich Himmler
$1,000 [13]
This capital of Trinidad & Tobago was founded by Spanish settlers in the 1500s
Port of Spain
DD $1,100 [17]
The first 3-syllable word in "The Star-Spangled Banner"
perilous
Terry

Final Jeopardy!

MUSICALS

This Lerner & Loewe musical was written directly for the screen & wasn't a Broadway musical 'til 1973

Gigi

Art "What is Cinderella?" — wagered $100
Chris "What was Gigi?" — wagered $5,398
Terry "What is Camelot?" — wagered $4,000

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