Show #707 1987-10-06 (taped 1987-06-23) Regular

Contestants

Dr. Bob Loitz — a pediatric cardiologist from Pasadena, California

Gail Upp — an executive assistant originally from Greeley, Colorado

Paul Spangler — a psychologist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Paul $600 $1,500 $3,900 $7,300
2-day champion: $13,200
$3,900
15 R, 3 W
Gail $700 $1,100 $7,700 $700
3rd place: Maxxima stereo system + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$4,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Bob $1,300 $2,000 $7,300 $4,000
2nd place: Roper grill range & Regal cookware + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version
$5,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

NORTH CAROLINIANS FICTIONAL ANIMALS SPORTS ASTRONOMY STARTS WITH "A" #1 HITS
$100 [8]
You can't "See It Now", but he used to host "Person to Person"
Edward R. Murrow
Gail
$100 [9]
After the 3 little kittens lost their mittens, she told them, "You shall have no pie"
their mother (dear)
Gail
$100 [18]
Sport you're playing if your ball lands in a bunker
golf
Gail
$100 [1]
During the geocentric period of astronomy, people believed the Sun revolved around this
the Earth
Bob
$100 [21]
On "Jeopardy!", these precede the questions
the answer
Paul
$200 [27]
1 of 4 #1 hits for The Everly Brothers
(1 of) "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have To Do Is Dream", "Bird Dog" or "Cathy's Clown"
Gail
$200 [14]
Though for 2 presidents she was White House "hostess", her name's on a different brand of snack cakes
Dolley Madison
Paul
$200 [10]
Winnie-the-Pooh's donkey pal
Eeyore
Paul
$200 [19]
Czech tennis star Hana Mandlikova has applied for citizenship to this country, E. Goolagong's homeland
Australia
Bob
$200 [3]
Because this force is less powerful on the Moon, colonists may face loss of muscle mass
gravity
Bob
$200 [22]
The type of fidelity you pledge to the flag
allegiance
Gail
$300 [26]
1 of 3 #1 hits for Three Dog Night
(1 of) "Joy To The World", "Black And White" or "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)"
$300 [15]
In N.C., she was Lucy Johnson; in Hollywood, she was Mrs. M. Rooney, Mrs. A. Shaw & Mrs. F. Sinatra
Ava Gardner
$300 [11]
1 of the 2 types of clothing lost by Peter Rabbit when Mr. McGregor chased him
(1 of) his shoes or a new jacket
Paul Gail
$300 [20]
The U.S. women's team that trains at Copper Mountain, Colorado competes in this sport
skiing
Gail
$300 [5]
Mrs. H. Hodges of Sylacauga, Ala. is the 1st person known to have been injured by 1 of these
a meteor
Paul
$300 [23]
The kind of white sponge cake you should serve to seraphic messengers
angel
Paul
$400 [28]
1 of 2 #1 hits for Ricky Nelson
(1 of) "Poor Little Fool" or "Travelin' Man"
Gail
$400 [16]
Abolitionist leader Levi Coffin was known as the "President" of this "Railroad"
the Underground Railroad
Paul
$400 [12]
The reindeer in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" who shares his name with a Roman god
Cupid
Paul
$400 [2]
When this sport 1st appeared on TV in 1940, Pittsburgh beat Fordham 57-37 at Madison Square Garden
basketball
Gail
$400 [6]
A spiral nebula is one type of this
a galaxy
Gail
$400 [24]
The Yeti
the Abominable Snowman
Paul
$500 [17]
Called "The Barrymore of the Bible", this Charlotte, North Carolina native is famous for his crusades
Billy Graham
Paul Bob
$500 [13]
The title animal of this J. Kjelgaard novel is an Irish Setter whose formal name is "Champion Sylvester's Boy"
Big Red
Gail
DD $500 [4]
N.Y. Yankee great seen & heard in thefollowingnewsreel:"I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth"
Lou Gehrig
Bob
$500 [7]
The 2 ways telescopes are classified according to how they gather light
a refractor or a reflector (refracting or reflecting)
Bob
$500 [25]
Site of the apocalyptic battle foretold in Revelation, Chapter 16
Armageddon
Gail

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY INVENTIONS THE HEART NEEDLEWORK THEATER 6-LETTER WORDS
$200 [2]
It's been estimated that tho it has over 1/2 the world's pop., less than 10% of this continent yields crops
Asia
Bob
$200 [21]
It's said J.B. Jolly of Paris noticed that turpentine spilled on a dress cleaned it & so invented the process
dry cleaning
Bob
$200 [17]
A normal heart does this about 70 times a minute, or more than 100,000 times a day
beat
Paul
$200 [1]
"Flower garden" & "wedding ring", 2 popular old designs for these, are still "bee"ing made today
quilts
Paul
$200 [9]
It's stealing the scene from another actor, even if you're downstage
upstaging
Gail
$400 [26]
An apparatus that keeps your toes toasty, or '30s gangster slang for a pistol
a heater
Paul
$400 [11]
The "Valley of Death", Cubatao, in this country's Sao Paulo state, may be world's most polluted place
Brazil
Paul
$400 [22]
The "iconoscope" was an early form of this device, 5 of which we use to tape our show
a camera
Gail
$400 [16]
Blood flows back to the heart from these organs by way of the 4 pulmonary veins
the lungs
Bob
$400 [8]
Of 3/8", 5/8", or 7/8", the standard width measurements for sewing seams
5/8"
Gail
$400 [10]
Before fiddling on the roof, he turned into a rhinoceros onstage in an Ionesco play
Zero Mostel
Paul
$600 [27]
Put a loony in the bin, perpetrate a murder, or place something in your memory
commit
Paul
$600 [12]
Of Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea or Kenya, the 1 that isn't on the equator
Equatorial Guinea
Paul Bob
$600 [23]
The 1st of these synthetic fabrics was called "terylene" in Britain, "tergal" in France, & "dacron" in U.S.
polyester
Gail
$600 [15]
This designer of the most famous artificial heart is a sculptor as well as a surgeon
(Dr. Bob) Jarvik
Bob
$600 [5]
When knitting a stockinette pattern, follow 1 knitted row with a row of this stitch
a purl
Gail
$600 [18]
On Broadway, he played the young lawyer in "Barefoot in the Park" & repeated the role on film
Robert Redford
Gail
$800 [13]
It lies between Spain & France, is governed by Spain & France, & uses the currency & languages of both
Andorra
Bob
$1,000 [25]
With his invention he disproved the notion that it was nonsense "to stop a railroad train with wind"
George Westinghouse
Gail Bob
$800 [4]
The lower chamber on each side of the heart
the ventricle
Gail
$800 [6]
The term for these comes from "exemplar", Latin for "pattern", not "home sweet home"
a sampler
Gail
$800 [19]
It's said an actress in "The Beggar's Opera" caused the duel between this historic American pair
(Aaron) Burr & (Alexander) Hamilton
Paul
DD $2,500 [14]
Independent island country S. of Sicily, it may have been part of a land bridge linking Africa to Italy
Malta
Bob
DD $4,000 [24]
Georges de Mestral got idea for this from burrs that stuck to his pants during a hunting trip
Velcro
Gail
$1,000 [3]
This, not auricle, is proper name for the upper chamber--or a central chamber of a Roman house
the atrium
Bob
$1,000 [7]
You can unravel our answers more easily than you can this finished edge on a bolt of fabric
a selvage
Gail
$1,000 [20]
World's longest running musical, this off-Broadway play sold over 1 million tickets in a theater seating 153
The Fantasticks
Gail

Final Jeopardy!

MONEY

The sum of the 2 pieces of current U.S. money that feature Jefferson's portrait

$2.05

Paul "What is $2.05?" — wagered $3,400
Bob "What is .06 [something scribbled out]" — wagered $3,300
Gail "What is $5." — wagered $7,000

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