Show #767 1987-12-29 (taped 1987-09-21) Regular

Contestants

Barry White — a househusband from Portland, Oregon

June Ailin — an attorney originally from Washington, D.C.

Cliff Harris — a branch director of the YMCA from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cliff $100 $100 $3,500 $0
3rd place: Emerson stereo system + home game
$3,500
7 R, 0 W
June $1,100 $2,800 $7,200 $0
2nd place: trip to Tampa, Florida + home game
$7,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Barry $2,000 $3,400 $9,200 $14,500
New champion: $14,500
$8,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WILD WEST SUBURBS GAMES SCIENCE COUNTRY MUSIC '87 CINEMA
$100 [1]
Judge Roy Bean claimed to administer the only law west of this Texas river
the Pecos River
Barry
$100 [2]
Kansas City, Kansas is a suburb of this city
Kansas City, Missouri
Barry
$100 [11]
In the middle ages this game's board was often on the back of a chessboard, so it was called the "back game"
backgammon
Cliff
$100 [15]
One of the simplest machines, it's a rigid beam pivoted at a fulcrum
a lever
June
$100 [12]
According to Crystal Gayle, "You've been" doing this "in your sleep with loving on your mind"
talking
June
$100 [22]
In an '87 film, Elisabeth Shue turned this normal job odd by taking 3 kids on "Adventures"
Adventures in Babysitting
Barry
$200 [7]
Though he warred against U.S. Cavalry, this Apache dedicated his 1905 autobiography to T. Roosevelt
Geronimo
Barry
$200 [3]
L.A. suburb named for a dentist which shares its name with a Chicago suburb named for a famed botanist
Burbank
Barry
$200 [13]
A 1592 Scottish law forbade this game on the Sabbath; later it was banned only "in tyme of sermons"
golf
Barry
$200 [16]
On a primary rainbow, this is the color on the outside
red
June Barry
$200 [27]
"Trigger"-happy star who sang "Hoppy, Gene & Me, we taught you how to shoot straight"
Roy Rogers
June
$200 [23]
Pizza-the-Hut & the evil Dark Helmet were among the characters in this "Star Wars" parody
Spaceballs
$300 [8]
The handle of Gen. Custer's gun was made of this substance from the sea
mother of pearl
Barry
$300 [4]
You have to cross several bridges to get from Washington, DC to its suburbs in this state
Virginia
June
$300 [14]
To have pinball machines considered games of skill, not chance, makers began adding these in 1947
flippers
June
$300 [17]
The 1st successful human heart transplant was performed during this decade
the '60s
Barry
DD $600 [28]
Composer of thefollowing, which was featured in the movie about her life:"You've come to tell me something you say I ought to know / That he don't love me anymore and I'll have to let him go / You say you're gonna take him, oh, but I don't..."
Loretta Lynn
June
$300 [24]
The only 1 of the 3 credited with the story for "Superman IV" who also had a major speaking role in it
Christopher Reeve
June
$400 [9]
New Mexico Terr. governor Lew Wallace offered to pardon this outlaw if he would turn himself in
Billy the Kid
Barry
$400 [5]
If driving down I-80 you see Sparks, you've reached a suburb of this Nevada city
Reno
June
$400 [20]
Odds against getting this poker hand on any deal are about 649,740 to 1
a royal flush
Barry
$400 [18]
The name of this element is from the French for "water generating"
hydrogen
Barry
$400 [25]
He plays the man whose "Innerspace" in invaded by Dennis Quaid
Martin Short
June
$500 [10]
Last name of 1 of the 2 pairs of brothers the Earps & Doc Holliday faced at the O K Corral
the Clantons (or the McLauries)
Barry
$500 [6]
Your Social Security file is maintained at agency HQ in Woodlawn, a suburb of this Mid-Atlantic port
Baltimore
$500 [21]
29-year-old engineer Nolan Bushnell invented this 1st video game & went on to found Atari
Pong
June
$500 [19]
Containing mucus & the enzyme ptyalin, this liquid helps in food digestion
saliva
June
$500 [26]
Affliction suffered by "The Lost Boys"
they're vampires
June

Double Jeopardy! Round

WEST VIRGINIA WORLD HISTORY "QUAD"s POETRY PHOBIAS POLITICIANS
$200 [24]
It wasn't until 1939 that West Virginia made the final payment on its $12 million debt to this state
Virginia
Barry
$200 [7]
Ivan IV of Russia took the title of Czar, the Russian form of this name
Caesar
Cliff
$200 [21]
Examples include dogs, cats, rats, crocodiles, horses, & salamanders
quadrupeds
June
$200 [16]
He wrote poems about sharks & seaweed, but they aren't as famous as his book about a big whale
Herman Melville
June
$200 [8]
Not a fear of big dinosaurs, tyrannophobia is a peasant's fear of them
tyrants
June
$200 [1]
Lester Maddox was governor of Georgia, then became Lt. governor under this future president
Jimmy Carter
Cliff
$400 [25]
"Mountaineers are always free"
the state motto
Barry
$400 [4]
Century during which Simon Bolivar did his liberating
the 19th Century
Barry
$400 [22]
You'll find these muscles in the front of your thighs
quadriceps
Barry
$400 [17]
Nonsense poet who wrote about the Jumblies "who went to sea in a sieve"
Edward Lear
Barry
$400 [9]
This common fear can be called hypsophobia, altophobia, or acrophobia
fear of heights
June
$400 [2]
This president from California was denied an appointment as an FBI agent due to budget limitations
Nixon
Barry
$600 [26]
Moundsville, West Virginia boasts the largest conical versions of these Indian relics in U.S.
(Indian) burial mounds
June Barry
$600 [3]
1 of the 2 nicknames given to Ottoman ruler Suleiman I
(1 of) Suleiman the Magnificent or Lawgiver
Barry
$600 [23]
Adjective for something that occurs every four years
quadrennial
Barry
$600 [18]
"Do I dare to eat a peach?" asked T.S. Eliot in this "Love Song"
"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock"
June
$600 [10]
If you suffer from ouranophobia & hadephobia, you won't be happy at either of these places when dead
heaven or hell
Cliff
$600 [13]
He decided against an opera career & later opposed Truman in 1948
Thomas Dewey
Cliff
$800 [29]
In 1888, due to the Hatfield-McCoy feud, W. Va. was actually invaded by authorities from this state
Kentucky
Barry
$800 [5]
From 1871-1918, this was the largest constituent kingdom of the German Empire
Prussia
Barry
$800 [27]
¼ of a circle
a quadrant
Cliff
DD $1,000 [19]
Emily Dickinson wrote, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er" do this
succeed
June
$800 [11]
Reason a man suffering from "belonophobia" avoids new shirt packages & political conventions
fear of pins
June
$800 [14]
Eisenhower's Sec'y of State, his grandfather was Benjamin Harrison's Sec'y of State
John Foster Dulles
Barry
$1,000 [30]
Due to W. Va's natural character, this feature is considered the most irregular of the lower 48
the state boundary (line)
DD $1,400 [6]
With his 1569 projection map, this Flemish cartographer redrew the world for explorers
(Gerardus) Mercator
Barry
$1,000 [28]
The name for this 19th c. dance originally meant a group of horsemen performing riding maneuvers
a quadrille
June
$1,000 [20]
"Invictus" ends with "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of" this
my soul
June
$1,000 [12]
It's why a pogonophobic would have been afraid of Abe Lincoln after 1860 but not before
afraid of beards
$1,000 [15]
His strong showing in the 1968 N.H. primary helped discourage LBJ from running that year
Eugene McCarthy
Cliff

Final Jeopardy!

VOCABULARY

This word is from the Greek for "sailor of the universe"

cosmonaut

Cliff "What is an astronaut?" — wagered $3,500
June "What is navigator?" — wagered $7,200
Barry "What is a cosmonaut?" — wagered $5,300

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