Show #901 1988-07-04 (taped 1988-03-22) Regular

Contestants

Kevin Frear — a U.S. Army captain from Baumholder, Germany

Rod Graf — a landscaper from Claremont, California

Carol Reeve — a homemaker from Orinda, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carol $-300 $500 $1,300 $2,600
2nd place: Broyhill secretary desk & hutch + Baldwin Oxford lamp
$1,300
16 R, 8 W
Rod $-500 $-600 $600 $1,200
3rd place: Helbros his & hers watches
$1,600
5 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Kevin $1,100 $2,600 $4,400 $6,100
New champion: $6,100
$5,400
17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SEA CREATURES THE CONTINENTS GUINNESS FILM FACTS BLACK AMERICA FASTENERS
$100 [16]
Wallets made from slime eels may do this to your bank cards
desensitize (demagnetize)
Carol
$100 [1]
It's the only continent where monotremes, egg-laying mammals, are found
Australia
Rod
$100 [6]
The largest indoor set ever built was the UFO landing site for the climax of this '77 blockbuster
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Kevin
$100 [11]
The World Almanac lists this man, born circa 1860, as a botanist, chemurgist & educator
George Washington Carver
Carol
$100 [21]
One can hold a stamp in an album or a door to its frame
a hinge
Rod
$200 [17]
Of spit, spat or sput, the proper term for a young oyster
a spat
Carol
$200 [2]
Of 3, 6, or 10, the number of mainland countries on North America
10
Carol Rod Kevin
$200 [7]
The hills of Cardiff, Wales are alive with the fact that Myra Franklin has seen this movie 940 times
The Sound of Music
Kevin
$200 [12]
It was under this name that Elijah Poole led the Black Muslims
Elijah Muhammad
Rod Kevin
$200 [22]
It's 2 strips, one with nylon hooks & the other with nylon pile
Velcro
Kevin
$300 [18]
This cephalopod is sometimes called "pearly" & sometimes called "chambered"
a nautilus
Carol
$300 [3]
The 12 countries that signed the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 represent this many continents
6
Carol
$300 [8]
A Shelley Duvall scene in this Stanley Kubrick 1980 thriller, set the record for most takes in a talkie--127
The Shining
Carol Kevin
$300 [13]
Hiram Revels, who finished out Jefferson Davis' term in 1879, was 1st Black elected as this
a (U.S.) senator
Carol Kevin
$300 [23]
Working on a vacuum principle, they hold your Garfield doll to your car window
a suction cup
Kevin
$400 [19]
When a coelacanth fish was caught near Africa in 1938, scientists were interested for this reason
because it was thought to be extinct
Carol
$400 [4]
It's the continent with the greatest population density
Europe
Carol
$400 [9]
"Lights of New York", which came out a year after "The Jazz Singer", was the 1st one
all talking film
Rod Kevin
$400 [14]
One of the 1st Blacks to get a patent, Henry Blair got his 2nd in 1836 for a device to plant this crop
cotton
Kevin
$400 [24]
Its name might have come from the Latin "scrofa" meaning "sow", since its threads look like a sow's tail
a screw
$500 [20]
Some folks call this mollusk the devilfish, perhaps because of its scary-looking appendages
the octopus
$500 [5]
Though basically centered in 1 country, it has the most adherents of any religion in Asia
Hinduism
Carol Kevin
$500 [10]
This spaghetti Western starring Henry Fonda & Jason Robards had the longest screen credits, 12 minutes
Once Upon a Time in the West
$500 [15]
A founder of this group, W.E.B. Du Bois, edited its magazine "The Crisis"
the NAACP
Carol Kevin
$500 [25]
The long metal pin that holds your shish kebab together
a skewer
Carol

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY LOCATIONS 5-LETTER WORDS MEXICAN HISTORY CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! SICKNESS & HEALTH TABOOS
$200 [7]
Everything is edible in the town of Bunbury, located in this land created by L. Frank Baum
Oz
Carol
$200 [2]
Speaking to journalists in 1973, Richard Nixon said "I'm not a..." this
a crook
Carol
$200 [12]
Founded by the Aztecs in the 1300s, Tenochtitlan is now called this
Mexico City
Carol
$200 [13]
I became a leading man riding down the streets of N.Y. on horseback as Marshal Sam McCloud
Dennis Weaver
Kevin
$600 [21]
Hypermetropia & hyperopia are fancy terms for this condition
farsightedness
Carol
$600 [26]
Of a barbarian, a monk, or a merchant, the only 1 for whom a Chinese scholar was allowed to play his zither
a monk
Carol
$400 [8]
Book you'd have to read to "visit" Brobdingnag
Gulliver's Travels
Kevin
$400 [3]
In a November 1987 Playboy interview, Jessica Hahn said, "I am not a..." this
a bimbo
Carol
$400 [17]
In 1917, this country asked Mexico to enter WWI on its side to win back land Mexico had lost to the U.S.
Germany
Kevin
$400 [14]
I played bouillabaseball for the Melmac Orbiters under my real name Gordon Shumway
ALF
Rod
$800 [22]
This dread epidemic caused by "Pasteurella pestis" 1st entered the U.S. in 1899
the black death (bubonic plague)
Kevin
$800 [25]
Deuteronomy 14 says it's OK to do this to a pygarg but not to a cormorant
eat it
Kevin
$800 [10]
"The Shire" is a county in Eriador where these small good-natured folk live
the Hobbits
Rod
$600 [4]
By local statute, you can't open one in Palm Springs, California: so call it a "hotel"
a motel
Carol
$600 [1]
This city, whose name means "True Cross", was 1st Spanish settlement in Mexico
Veracruz
Carol
$600 [18]
In 1929, I made my 1st appearance on television in Chicago; it wasn't on a Tuesday night
Milton Berle
Carol
$1,000 [23]
Technically known as "syncope", it's caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure
fainting
$1,000 [24]
One major taboo treated in his 1913 book "Totem & Taboo" is incest
Sigmund Freud
Kevin
DD $1,000 [9]
The town in this famous poetic "Anthology" was inspired by two Illinois cities, Lewistown & Petersburg
Spoon River
Kevin
$800 [5]
It's Justin Wilson's cuisine, I gar-on-tee
Cajun
Kevin
DD $1,000 [15]
This future U.S. president became a national hero in his battle against Santa Anna in 1847
Zachary Taylor
Rod
$800 [19]
I was Martin Mull's sidekick on "Fernwood 2-Night" & Sarah Purcell's on "Real People"
Fred Willard
$1,000 [11]
The Silent Ones watch over these, which were found by Allan Quartermain's African expedition
King Solomon's Mines
Kevin
$1,000 [6]
This word meaning "old woman" is a nickname for Bridget
biddy
Carol
$1,000 [16]
The French invaded Mexico when this Indian reform leader suspended loan payments to Europe
(Benito) Juarez
Kevin
$1,000 [20]
I gave Elizabeth Taylor a purple Harley to celebrate her "Passion"
Malcolm Forbes
Carol Rod

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE

John Flamsteed was appointed the 1st Astronomer Royal in 1675, when this was founded

the Greenwich Observatory

Rod "What is the Greenwich Obs?" — wagered $600
Carol "What is Greenwich Observatory?" — wagered $1,300
Kevin "What is Greenwich Royal Observatory?" — wagered $1,700

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