Show #1226 1989-12-25 (taped 1989-09-11) Regular

Jeff Bandman game 5.Missing introductions.

Contestants

Bill McIntyre — originally from New Jersey

Christina Glatfelter — from Pennsylvania/Baltimore area WMAR

Jeff Bandman — a lawyer from La Jolla, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $39,501)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $700 $2,200 $3,900 $5,000
5-day champion: $44,501
$5,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Chris $100 $500 $-500 $-500
3rd place: Emerson 20" TV/VCR + Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior edition of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune
$-500
8 R, 6 W
Bill $600 $900 $4,700 $1,600
2nd place: Lehigh bedroom furniture + Kingsdown sleep set
$4,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY SICKNESS & HEALTH GAMES "C" HERE TOUGH TV TRIVIA CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
$100 [1]
Some rulers of the German empire used this title derived from the Latin "Caesar"
Kaiser
Bill
$100 [26]
Because this is the most common form of cancer in women, it's suggested women perform a self-exam monthly
breast cancer
Jeff
$100 [16]
Ten pin is a form of this game
bowling
Bill
$100 [6]
One can betraffic, nose orice cream
a cone
Bill
$100 [21]
Would you believe this show that pitted CONTROL against KAOS was filmed on the stage we're on now
Get Smart
Chris
$100 [11]
On "the night before Christmas" these were hung by the chimney with care
stockings
Chris
$200 [2]
If the Genoese had waited 1 year before selling this island to France, Napoleon would have been an Italian
Corsica
Bill
$200 [27]
Thanks to their helmets, football players avoid this ear condition common among boxers
cauliflower ear
Bill
$200 [17]
This chess piece can move in any direction but only 1 square at a time
the king
Jeff Chris Bill
$200 [7]
In 1908 Mary Baker Eddy founded this newspaper
The Christian Science Monitor
Jeff Bill
$200 [22]
Chris Young was Bryce Lynch, the teen genius who created this computer-generated TV character
Max Headroom
Jeff
$200 [12]
Signs in Spanish-speaking homes wish this, as Jose Feliciano could tell you
Feliz Navidad
Chris Bill
$400 [4]
The terms commando & concentration camp were 1st widely used in this 1899-1902 war in Africa
the Boer War
Chris
$500 [28]
Also known as Hansen's disease, it occurs much more in the tropics than in Scandinavia
leprosy
$300 [18]
The smaller disks that are aimed at the little cup in tiddlywinks are called these
the winks
$300 [8]
It's not oats for artillery but soldiers considered expendable in war
cannon fodder
Bill
$300 [23]
Gumby is green & his pal Pokey is this color
orange
Jeff
$300 [13]
In 1989 the Supreme Court ruled you can put a tree up on gov't property but not one of these
a nativity scene
Chris
DD $500 [3]
It's considered the world's 1st industrial nation
England (Great Britain)
Bill
$400 [19]
Except in the case of a tie, this many points wins a game of table tennis
21
Jeff
$400 [9]
a.k.a. bachelor's button
cornflower
Chris Bill
$400 [24]
Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington said this group's motto is "Whatever it is, I didn't do it"
the Sweathogs
Jeff
$400 [14]
In 1828 a U.S. diplomat in Mexico discovered this plant, & it was named for him
poinsettia
Chris
$500 [5]
Before the French Revolution both the peasants & the bourgeoisie belonged to this "Estate"
the Third Estate
Jeff
$500 [20]
In Scrabble, it's the symbol that's on the pink central starting square
a star
$500 [10]
Once a theatrical trick to win applause, this word also means insincere or empty language
claptrap
$500 [25]
The names of George & Jane Jetson's children
Judy & Elroy
Jeff
$500 [15]
Send a Druid out to get this & he'll cut if off an oak tree with a golden sickle
mistletoe

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S.A. MUSICAL THEATER WOMEN STAMPS SPY NOVELS FOREIGN PHRASES
$200 [3]
City that's home to the largest cathedral, St. John the Divine, & synagogue, Temple Emmanu-El
New York
Jeff
$200 [1]
In "The Sound of Music" the nuns asked, "How do you solve a problem like" her
Maria
Chris
$200 [11]
Between the 1984 & 1988 Olympics, this glamorous Black runner worked as a hairstylist
Florence Griffith Joyner
Jeff
$200 [26]
The earliest form of this was made from vegetable starch
the glue on stamps (the adhesive)
Chris
$200 [14]
His 1st 2 fast-paced thrillers were "The Scarlatti Inheritance" & "The Osterman weekend"
Robert Ludlum
Jeff Bill
$200 [17]
If Karl Marx asked a Dutchman, "Spreekt u Engels?" he asked this
Do you speak English?
Bill
$400 [4]
The Gator Bowl game is held in this city, Florida's largest
Jacksonville
Jeff Bill
$400 [2]
It's the all-Black version of the opera "Carmen"
Carmen Jones
Bill
$400 [12]
She was the 1st woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, for "The Guns of August" in 1963
Barbara Tuchman
Jeff
$400 [22]
Pen name of David Cornwell, whose latest spy novel is "The Russia House"
John le Carré
Bill
$400 [18]
In Norwegian this useless action becomes "Kaste perler for svin"
cast pearls before swine
$600 [5]
The geographic center of North America is some 65 miles east of Minot in this Plains state
North Dakota
$600 [6]
Edward Kleban & this composer won Tonys for their musical score for "A Chorus Line"
Marvin Hamlisch
Bill
$600 [13]
In 1932 this modern dancer & choreographer became the 1st dancer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship
Martha Graham
Chris Bill
$600 [23]
The "Dogs" in this 1974 F. Forsyth novel were white mercenaries hired to work in West Africa
The Dogs of War
Bill
$600 [19]
In Latin "lapsus linguae", it's what lets the cat out of the bag
a slip of the tongue
Jeff
$800 [8]
This state's Dunes National Lakeshore is on the southern shore of Lake Michigan
Indiana
$800 [7]
1924's "Lady, Be Good" starring Fred & Adele Astaire was the 1st hit musical play for this composer
George Gershwin
Jeff Chris Bill
$1,000 [16]
The queen of this country is the former Princess Sophia of Greece
Spain
$800 [24]
Laurence Harvey was a "brainwashee" in this 1962 film based on a novel by Richard Condon
The Manchurian Candidate
Jeff
DD $1,000 [20]
It's the literal translation of the Spanish phrase that's the title offollowingsong:"Now the hacienda's dark, the town is sleeping / Now the time has come to part, the time for weeping / Vaya con Dios my darling..."
"Go With God"
Jeff
$1,000 [9]
This city has been called "The Hub of the Universe"
Boston
Bill
$1,000 [10]
1974's "Lorelei", in which Carol Channing played Lorelei Lee, was based on this earlier musical
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Chris
DD $1,500 [15]
First name shared by Italian opera stars Scotto & Tebaldi
Renata
Jeff
$1,000 [25]
Spy novelist Helen whose works include "Decision at Delphi" & "Cloak of Darkness"
MacInnes
Chris Bill
$1,000 [21]
Italian beaches might post the warning "attento alle meduse," meaning this
watch out for jellyfish
Jeff

Final Jeopardy!

THE SUPREME COURT

1 of 4 presidents who left office without having appointed a Supreme Court justice

Jimmy Carter, Andrew Johnson, Zachary Taylor or William Henry Harrison

Jeff "Who is Jimmy Carter?" — wagered $1,100
Bill "Who was Truman" — wagered $3,100

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