Show #900 1988-07-01 (taped 1988-03-21) Regular

Contestants

Tom Briner — a mortgage loan officer from Midlothian, Virginia

Elizabeth Ezrine — an international market development manager from New York City, New York

Carol Reeve — a homemaker from Orinda, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carol $1,000 $1,600 $8,200 $9,200
2-day champion: $19,700
$8,300
24 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Elizabeth $-300 $200 $3,500 $8
3rd place: stay at Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs
$3,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Tom $-500 $-100 $700 $1,350
2nd place: SoundDesign audio-video center + 50 Video Treasures home videos
$700
8 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

"B" MOVIES 4-LETTER WORDS FICTION COOKING THE PAUL McCARTNEY SONGBOOK
$100 [21]
Movie in which Harrison Ford sets out to track down "Replicants" in 21st century Los Angeles
Blade Runner
Tom
$100 [1]
Different types include pine, volcanic, &ice cream
a cone
Carol
$100 [3]
1818 classic in which a Swiss student is ultimately destroyed by his own creation
Frankenstein
Carol
$100 [11]
This stew ingredient can actually be the tail of any beef animal, not just its namesake
ox tail
Carol
$100 [15]
[Instrumental music plays.]
"Tomorrow"
Tom
$200 [22]
Music heard when Bo was seen in "10", it became a movie title for her 5 years later
"Bolero"
Carol
$200 [2]
The citrus fruit that fits this category
a lime
Elizabeth
$200 [7]
This classic centers on a story-telling contest among pilgrims vying for a free meal at Tabard Inn
The Canterbury Tales
Carol
$200 [12]
If you don't want to cry, try paring these under running water
onions
Carol
$200 [16]
[Instrumental music plays.]
"Tenderly"
Tom
$300 [23]
This 1983 film had an appropriate title, since Richard Gere was running from the law
Breathless
Tom
$400 [5]
From Arabic for "the wood", it's a pear-shaped, wooden musical instrument
a lute
Carol
$300 [8]
A man named Marlow narrates several works by this author, including "Heart of Darkness"
(Joseph) Conrad
Carol
$300 [13]
Of parsley, sage, rosemary, or thyme, the 1 that isn't a member of the mint family
parsley
Carol Elizabeth Tom
$300 [17]
[Instrumental music plays.]
"Mr. Sandman"
Carol
$400 [24]
1952 movie in which a brainy chimp leads a college football team to victory--without Ronnie's help
Bonzo Goes to College
Carol
DD $500 [4]
When it means "rescind", you can do it to an embargo. & when it means "steal", you can do it to a purse
lift
Carol
$400 [9]
This James Michener novel explored life in Colorado from prehistoric times to the 20th century
Centennial
Carol
$400 [14]
You can throw a bomb any time, but the best time to serve a "bombe" is during this course
dessert
Elizabeth
$400 [18]
[Instrumental music plays.]
"The Christmas Song"
Elizabeth
$500 [25]
Word in movie titles that precedes"Narcissus","Orchid" &"Rose"
Black
Tom
$500 [6]
Muscovite is an example of this group of flaky silicates used for insulation
mica
Tom
$500 [10]
"Where the Truth Lies", a recent mystery novel, was co-written by this actress who played Miss Marple on TV
Helen Hayes
Elizabeth
$500 [20]
The Italian term for small, thin slices of meat, it sounds like a dish of small, thin slices of potato
scaloppine
Tom
$500 [19]
[Instrumental music plays.]
"On, Wisconsin!"
Carol

Double Jeopardy! Round

STATE OBJECTS BIOLOGY RELIGION GEOGRAPHY THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH EDS, EDDIES, & EDWARDS
$200 [27]
Michigan's fish is not the lake but the brook variety of this
trout
Carol
$200 [25]
Insects are dipterous if they have 2 of these
wings
$200 [20]
After denouncing Jim Bakker, this fellow Assemblies of God minister admitted having sinned himself
Jimmy Swaggart
Tom
$200 [5]
Colon & Balboa are the 2 major ports at either end of this
the Panama Canal
Elizabeth
$200 [10]
While a British electrician "earths" a wire, an American electrician does this to it
he grounds it
Elizabeth
$200 [11]
The answer to his motto "How am I doing?" was positive enough to reelect him several times as NYC's mayor
Ed Koch
Elizabeth
$400 [2]
Of an official dog, cat, or bird, the one that Maine has that no other state does
a cat
Tom
$400 [26]
Agar, which swells in water to form a gel, or, in another sense, Wrigley's
gum
Elizabeth
$400 [21]
Islam's profession of faith says, "There is no god but Allah & Muhammad is..." this
his prophet
Carol
DD $500 [6]
This city is the southernmost national capital in South America
Buenos Aires
Elizabeth
$400 [16]
An apartment house in London would be referred to as "a block of..." these
flats
Carol
$400 [12]
Carrie's famous father
Eddie Fisher
Carol
$600 [1]
In 1988, this state's Senate voted "Faded Love" official Country Western song--sweep that down your plain
Oklahoma
Carol
$600 [28]
Organic rusts are members of this plant group
a fungus
Carol Tom
$600 [22]
Jews are called gentiles by members of this church
the Mormon Church
Carol
$600 [7]
The huge Deccan Plateau covers most of the peninsula which forms the southern part of this country
India
$600 [17]
Type of vehicle christened a dustcart in Britain
a garbage truck
Carol
$800 [14]
He recently signed with Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Really Useful Company" to be a theatrical P.A.
Prince Edward
Elizabeth
$800 [3]
Mississippi & Louisiana both have this southern blossom as state flower
the magnolia
Carol
$800 [29]
Among animals, this outer layer of cells, such as skin, generally insures that the body is waterproof
the epidermis
Tom
$800 [23]
It's the formal name of the Jesuit order
the Society of Jesus
Carol Elizabeth
$800 [8]
Of all African countries, only Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya & Somalia share this geog. distinction
they are all on the equator
Carol Elizabeth
$800 [18]
While a Democrat "runs" for office in the U.S., in Great Britain a Tory does this
stands for office
Carol
DD $1,000 [13]
The 2 Massachusetts senators who served together from the late '60s to the late '70s
Edward Kennedy & Edward Brooke
Carol
$1,000 [4]
In 1983, the USS Nautilus was designated state ship of this state where it was built
Connecticut
Elizabeth
$1,000 [24]
5-letter word for a religious council, a major Lutheran one is headquartered in Missouri
a synod
Carol
$1,000 [9]
The U.S. halted some $79 million in aid to this country after its bloody presidential elections of 11/87
Haiti
Carol
$1,000 [19]
An American worker receives his pay in an envelope while a British labourer gets his wages in one of these
a wage packet
$1,000 [15]
Though his play "Seascape" had only 65 B'way performances, it ran long enough to win him a 2nd Pulitzer Prize
Edward Albee
Carol

Final Jeopardy!

POLITICAL NICKNAMES

40 years after "Happy Warrior" Al Smith lost a pres. election, this other "Happy Warrior" also lost

Hubert Humphrey

Tom "Who was Hubert Humphrey??" — wagered $650
Elizabeth "Who wasAlf LandonA. Stevenson" — wagered $3,492
Carol "Who is Hubert Humphrey?" — wagered $1,000

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