Show #925 1988-09-16 (taped 1988-07-19) Regular

Contestants

Gil Jones — a copyright investigator from Baltimore, Maryland

Chris Morris — a medical intern from Knoxville, Tennessee

Jack Walsh — an accountant from Hermitage, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jack $1,900 $3,100 $7,700 $12,100
2-day champion: $20,200
$8,700
23 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $-100 $1,500 $2,100 $4,100
3rd place: Queen Anne chair by Action Recliners by Lane
$2,100
9 R, 3 W
Gil $1,500 $1,900 $6,000 $12,000
2nd place: Soundesign audio/video center & Pressman games
$6,500
16 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

18th C. AMERICA SONGS BIRDS NAIL CARE COMPANY TOWNS 9-LETTER WORDS
$100 [4]
Congress authorized the selection of this city's site on July 16, 1790
Washington, D.C. (the District of Columbia)
Jack
$100 [2]
In 1956 & '57, Fats Domino had back to back hits with this color in the title
blue
Gil
$100 [9]
Today Alcatraz hosts the world's 6th largest colony of these sea birds
Western gulls
Gil
$100 [18]
Type of nail file named for the powdered mineral substance that coats it
an emery board
Jack
$100 [1]
It's home to Monsanto, Ralston Purina & Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
Gil
$100 [24]
To car buffs, a "mag" was originally a lightweight wheel made of this metal
magnesium
Jack Chris
$200 [13]
Even with tax, this beverage when imported from England was cheaper than that smuggled from Holland
tea
Jack
$200 [3]
Little Richard, The Everly Brothers& Kenny Rogers all sang about a woman named this
Lucille
Gil
$200 [10]
Of a covey, coven or covet, the one that's a group of partridges
covey
Chris
$200 [19]
Between 0.5 & 1.2 millimeters per week
how much do nails grow in a week on average
Jack
$200 [5]
Heinz; Westinghouse; USX, formerly U.S. Steel
Pittsburgh
Jack
$200 [25]
The name for this popular sausage comes from the Italian word for "(hot) chilis"
pepperoni
Chris
$300 [14]
Ben Franklin began publishing this the year George Washington was born
Poor Richard's Almanack
Jack
$300 [11]
Old song which says, "We'll kill the old red rooster" after "we'll all go out to meet her"
"She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain"
$300 [17]
This process of cleaning & smoothing feathers w/their bills is to birds what primping is to people
preening
Chris
$300 [20]
It's the nonliving epidermis at the base of your nails
the cuticle
Chris
$300 [6]
Gencorp; B.F. Goodrich; Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Akron
Jack Chris
$300 [26]
Term for capital letters, from printers' practice of keeping larger type in bins above smaller type
uppercase
Jack
DD $300 [16]
This neighbor, originally annexed as a county of Virginia, became a state itself in 1792
Kentucky
Gil
$400 [12]
1 of 2 Dionne Warwick Top 10 songs with "Never" in the title
"I'll Never Fall In Love Again" (or "I'll Never Love This Way Again")
Jack
$400 [29]
New species of this nocturnal predator are still being discovered at the rate of 1 every decade
owls
Gil
$400 [21]
Despite what you've heard, eating this glutinous substance won't keep your nails from splitting
gelatin
Chris
$400 [7]
Bank of America; Transamerica; Levi Strauss
San Francisco
Jack
$400 [27]
A moveable bridge between ship & shore
a gangplank
$400 [15]
In 1792, on his way to China, American Robert Gray named this northwest river for his ship
Columbia
Gil
$500 [23]
In 1967 Al Martino thought "nothing's quite as pretty as" she is "in the morning"
Mary
$500 [30]
Stubborn albatrosses that had to be removed from airstrips at Midway Is. were nicknamed this
gooney birds
Chris
$500 [22]
As you can tell from its name, this manicure tool comes from a citrus tree
an orange stick
$500 [8]
Pillsbury; General Mills; Land o' Lakes
Minneapolis
Gil
$500 [28]
The period during which the collection is taken in church
the offertory
Jack

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ROMAN EMPIRE AUTHORS MOVIES WEIGHTS & MEASURES WORLD GEOGRAPHY PROVERBS
$200 [9]
By the time he was appointed dictator in 49 B.C., the Roman "bread dole" had risen to 200,000 people
Julius Caesar
Gil
$200 [17]
After marrying Eliza Stowe's widower, she had a daughter named Eliza & wrote a book about an Eliza
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Chris
$200 [1]
"Melvin & Howard" is the story of a gas station attendant who claims to be a beneficiary in this man's will
Howard Hughes
Jack
$200 [16]
According to Ted Williams, Babe Ruth had one that weighed 54 ounces
a bat
Gil
$200 [3]
Yokohama is on the bay named for this larger city
Tokyo
Gil
$200 [2]
It is this "that blows nobody any good"
an ill wind
Gil
$400 [10]
Since Agrippina was a niece of Emperor Claudius, consent of this body was needed for them to wed
the Senate
Jack
$400 [25]
Poet whose wife died after her dress caught fire while he worked on "Tales of a Wayside Inn"
Longfellow
Jack
DD $300 [22]
Only No. 1 hit for Henry Mancini & His Orchestra was this movie theme written by Nino Rota:[Instrumental music plays]
"A Time For Us"
Gil
$400 [18]
Spelled "G-E-R-D" in Old English where it meant a small stick, it now means a precise length
a yard
Chris
$400 [4]
It's the ocean bordering Australia to the west
the Indian Ocean
Jack
$400 [5]
"East or west", this "is best"
home
$600 [11]
At one point in the 2nd Punic War, his forces almost annihilated the Roman army
Hannibal
Jack
$600 [26]
Besides some songs, he wrote only 1 major poem, "Tam o' Shanter", after age 27
Robert Burns
Jack
$400 [21]
In 1926 John Barrymore kissed Mary Astor & Estelle Taylor a total of 127 times playing this lover
Don Juan
Gil
$600 [19]
It's the only measure of distance mentioned in the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
a league
Jack
$600 [13]
In both area & population it's the 2nd largest country in South America
Argentina
Chris
$600 [6]
In his collection "Hesperides", Robert Herrick advised to do this "while ye may"
gather ye rosebuds
Chris
$800 [12]
Under the Romans, this kingdom in the Holy Land included Jerusalem & Bethlehem
Judea (Judah)
Gil
$800 [27]
Mark Twain's last home, Stormfield, named for one of his last characters, was in this state
Connecticut
Jack
$800 [23]
"Black Sunday"s terrorist target
the Super Bowl
Jack
$800 [29]
Used in surveying, a chain is divided into 100 units called these
a link
Jack
$800 [14]
Only country on the American mainland that borders only 1 other country
Canada
Gil
$800 [7]
Proverbial phrase that precedes "... so is the tree inclined"
as the twig is bent
Jack
DD $1,000 [20]
The largest provincial capital of the Roman Empire, it was once ruled by Marc Antony
Alexandria
Jack
$1,000 [28]
His story, "Music for Chameleons"; was about a real-life friend who played Mozart for lizards
Truman Capote
$1,000 [24]
An assistant director in shirt sleeves & tie is seen scaling the walls of Babylon in this D.W. Griffith epic
Intolerance
$1,000 [30]
In metric prefixes, kilo- means thousandfold & this means thousandth part
milli
Jack
$1,000 [15]
The Portuguese found a lot of this in what is now Ghana, hence the name of its coast
gold
Jack Gil
$1,000 [8]
1st half of proverb that ends "... & God for us all"
every man for himself

Final Jeopardy!

THE U.S. CAPITOL

Only state to contribute a statue of a king for our Capitol's National Statuary Hall

Hawaii

Chris "What is Hawaii?" — wagered $2,000
Gil "What is Hawaii?" — wagered $6,000
Jack "What is Hawaii?" — wagered $4,400

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