Show #927 1988-09-20 (taped 1988-07-20) Regular

Contestants

Gary Smith — a lawyer from Toronto, Ontario

Ross Barker — a cassette book producer from Pasadena, California

Sara Winter — an academic dean and psychologist from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sara $1,100 $1,800 $7,000 $0
3rd place: Uncontrollable Season serigraph by Leo Posillico from Martin Lawrence Galleries + Jeopardy! box game of Jeopardy! Challenger
$7,200
18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Ross $-400 $1,500 $7,200 $0
2nd place: Dresher brass bed & Stiffel table lamp + Jeopardy! box game of Jeopardy! Challenger
$7,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Gary $1,000 $700 $3,300 $3,600
New champion: $3,600
$3,300
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE BIRDS FASHION WORLD GEOGRAPHY POETRY TITLES
$100 [14]
He told the L.A. Times, "I'm getting sick of slipping a shrimp on the barbie"
Paul Hogan
Sara
$100 [19]
Members of this "talking" bird family were familiar pets to Romans
the parrot family
Sara Gary
$100 [1]
This New York-based national department store abbreviates its name SFA
Saks Fifth Avenue
Gary
$100 [6]
Almost all of Siberia lies within this largest Soviet Socialist Republic
the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic
Gary
$100 [24]
Thomas Moore wrote, "'Tis the last rose of" this, "left blooming alone"
summer
Sara
$100 [11]
A title of address for a priest in Italian & Spanish, it's "father" in both languages
padre
Gary
$200 [15]
In 1988 this auto exec spoke his mind in his new book "Talking Straight"
Lee Iacocca
Gary
$200 [20]
This "talking" bird is a species of starling
the myna bird
Gary
$200 [2]
Term for someone who makes men's chapeaus--whether he's "Mad" or not
a hatter
Sara
$200 [7]
This largest Spanish seaport has an exact replica of Columbus' flagship the Santa Maria
Barcelona
Sara
$200 [25]
Called "France's greatest lyric poet", he also wrote novels such as "Les Miserables"
Victor Hugo
Sara
$200 [12]
From the Turkish for "ruler", it was a title given to Mongol rulers in the 13th century
Khan
Gary
$300 [16]
On the average, it takes Judye Suttenberg 1 hour to sell your family a set of these
an encyclopedia (the World Book Encyclopedia )
$300 [21]
Though eagles are much smaller than humans, these sense organs are nearly the same size
eyes
Ross
$300 [3]
The Marciano brothers founded the company that makes this "questionable" fashion label
Guess?
Sara
$300 [8]
Kilauea sits on the S.E. slope of Mauna Loa which sits on this island
the Big Island of Hawaii
Ross
$300 [26]
Poe said of these, "What a horror they outpour on the bosom of the palpitating air!"
bells
Ross Gary
$300 [13]
While his title means "head", he ranks just below a major in the army
captain
Ross
$400 [17]
After saving them for 15 years, Loyd Woods used 1,400,000 of these to buy a new truck
pennies
Sara
$400 [22]
Some waterfowls mistaking shotgun pellets for seeds or grits have been stricken with this
lead poisoning
Ross
$400 [4]
Of 5, 7 or 9, number that precedes the name "West" on the popular shoe brand
9
Sara
DD $500 [9]
2 of the 6 Mexican states that border the U.S.
(2 of) Chihuahua, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Baja California Norte, Sonora & Nuevo León
Ross
$400 [27]
In Longfellow's poem, she was the long-lost love of Gabriel Lajeunesse
Evangeline
Ross
$500 [18]
Before turning to acting, this "Frank's Place" star was an executive at Du Pont
Tim Reid
Ross
$500 [23]
The yellow-bellied sapsucker & the common flicker are members of this family
the woodpecker family
Gary
$500 [5]
Creator of the soft, silk jersey prints of the '50s was not Gucci nor Fiorucci but this Italian designer
(Emilio) Pucci
$500 [10]
The Transylvanian Alps are part of this major mountain system of Central & Eastern Europe
the Carpathians
Ross Gary
$500 [28]
Langston Hughes asked, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like" this
a raisin in the sun

Double Jeopardy! Round

OPERA THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE HISTORIC PLACES ARTISTS RELIGION "Y" NOT
$200 [4]
If you hear "It Ain't Necessarily So", you are necessarily hearing music from this opera
Porgy and Bess
Gary
$200 [3]
Only this language is spoken by more people than English
Mandarin (Chinese)
Sara Gary
$200 [16]
In ancient times, criminals were thrown from the south face of this city's Capitoline Hill
Rome
Sara
$200 [22]
He said, "The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows," & proved it with his David
Michelangelo
Gary
$200 [2]
Unification Church officials say a man from Zimbabwe is the reincarnation of this leader's son
(the Reverend) Moon
Ross
$200 [17]
Specified on the pattern envelope, it's the amount of fabric needed to make a piece of clothing
yardage
Sara
$400 [1]
In Verdi's "Macbeth", he's killed right after singing a beautiful aria & before becoming a ghost
Banquo
Sara
$400 [12]
According to Guinness, they include: the, and, of & to
the most frequently used words in the English language in written form
Sara Ross
$400 [27]
Camp David, the presidential retreat, is in this state
Maryland
Ross
$400 [23]
His pale face topped with silver hair was almost as familiar as his paintings of soup cans
Andy Warhol
Ross
$400 [7]
According to Bernadette, the Virgin Mary said the waters of this town will heal the sick
Lourdes
Sara
DD $200 [20]
In 1969 Stevie Wonder made the Top 10 with thefollowing:"What happened to / The world we knew / When we would dream and scheme / And while..."
"Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"
Sara
$600 [5]
This country's national opera company is the Ethniki Lyriki Skini
Greece
Gary
$600 [13]
Pidgin English is used primarily between westerners & natives of this continent
Asia
Ross
$600 [28]
One of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history was fought on this island a.k.a. "Naka Iwo"
Iwo Jima
Ross Gary
$600 [24]
Born Anna Mary Robertson, she was discovered at age 77 & painted 40 pictures after reaching 100
Grandma Moses
Sara
$600 [8]
A dhoti is a long white loincloth worn by men in this religion
Hinduism
Ross
$400 [18]
A Tibetan ox, or to chatter about, say, a Tibetan ox
a yak
Ross
$800 [6]
In the "Ring Cycle", he is raised by a Nibelung
Siegfried
Sara
$1,000 [15]
The only Central American country that has English as an official language
Belize
Ross
$800 [30]
In the 1880s gold was found in this island group, called "land of fire" by Magellan
Tierra del Fuego
Ross
$800 [25]
Braque said he & this other famed Cubist were "roped together like mountaineers"
Picasso
Ross
$800 [9]
Jehovah's Witnesses believe Christ cast him out of heaven in 1914, hence the world's troubles
Satan
Sara
$600 [19]
It's been called the southern equivalent of "yooze guys"
y'all
Sara
$1,000 [11]
Term for the speech that's sung between arias
recitative
Gary
DD $1,500 [14]
After 1066 Old English evolved into Middle English, due mainly to the influence of this language
Norman French
Ross
$1,000 [29]
Located between Afghanistan & Pakistan, this 33 mi. mountain gap was famous in the annals of British India
the Khyber Pass
Sara
$1,000 [26]
After Spain's King Philip II denied him royal patronage, he worked the rest of his life for the church
El Greco
Ross
$1,000 [10]
Islamic law allows a man to keep up to this many wives at one time
4
Ross Gary
$1,000 [21]
In "Gulliver's Travels" they were a race of brutes with the form & all the vices of man
the Yahoos
Sara

Final Jeopardy!

1978

Upon Golda Meir's death, this leader said, "I must, for history's sake, praise her as an honest foe"

(Anwar) Sadat

Gary "Who was Sadat?" — wagered $300
Sara "Who isAnwarNassar?" — wagered $7,000
Ross "Who is Menachem Begin?" — wagered $7,200

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