Show #890 1988-06-17 (taped 1988-03-14) Regular

Contestants

Susan Brook — a subcontract administrator from Torrance, California

Madeleine Millar — a graduate student and beauty consultant originally from Orange, California

Steve Herron — a letter carrier from Shawnee, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $-300 $1,800 $3,100 $5,001
2-day champion: $15,001
$3,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 7 W
Madeleine $200 $2,300 $2,500 $100
3rd place: Casio CW30 electronic typewriter
$3,000
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Susan $-100 $300 $100 $199
2nd place: Roper grill range + BRA cookware
$1,100
7 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR SHIPS GAME COOKERY CELEBRITY RELATIVES CITY NICKNAMES "WORLD"LY SONGS
$100 [8]
Once the Union controlled this river, Lincoln said, "The father of waters again goes unvexed to the sea"
the Mississippi
Steve
$100 [21]
15th century admiral Cheng Ho commanded a fleet of 62 of these boats, all over 500 feet long
junks
Steve
$100 [25]
Remove this carefully from wild game & never use it to grease pans because it gets rancid quickly
the fat
Steve Madeleine
$100 [7]
He's the nephew of playwright Archibald MacLeish & the grandson of FDR's 1st Sec'y of War. Geo. Dern
Bruce Dern
Steve
$100 [1]
Nickname popularized in the '70s to show the world that NYC has "a new & brightly polished image"
The Big Apple
Madeleine
$100 [2]
She "picks my ties out, eats my candy, drinks my brandy"
"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World"
Susan
$200 [9]
Upon the death of Lincoln, Secretary of War Stanton said, "Now he belongs to" these
the ages
Madeleine Susan
$200 [22]
The U.S. entered WWI some 2 years after this British liner was sunk by a German U-boat
the Lusitania
Steve
$200 [26]
Bear meat should be well-cooked, because it, like pork, can carry the parasite that causes this disease
trichinosis
Steve
$200 [10]
Late bandleader whose father was the mayor of Santiago, Cuba
Desi Arnaz
Madeleine
$200 [17]
"Baghdad by the Bay", according to Herb Caen
San Francisco
Madeleine
$200 [3]
The Bee Gees' 1st charted hit of 1972, & welcome to it
"My World"
Madeleine
$300 [14]
In this northern battle, Union troops on Cemetery Ridge faced Confederates on Seminary Ridge
Gettysburg
Madeleine
$300 [23]
The Susan Constant, the Godspeed & the Discovery carried the 1st Englishmen to this settlement
Jamestown
Steve
$300 [28]
If you want to cook these arboreal rodents, the gray ones are preferred for eating
squirrels
Madeleine
$300 [11]
Her dad Billy was a clown with Barnum & Bailey Circus, but she was a witch in "The Wizard of Oz"
Billie Burke
Steve Madeleine
$300 [18]
It's been called "America's most interesting city", as well as "Gumbo City"
New Orleans
Steve
$300 [4]
In song, Helen Reddy said sometimes life feels like this
"You And Me Against The World"
$400 [15]
Pre-Civil War president who in 1865, wrote the book "The Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion"
Buchanan
Steve
$400 [24]
In 1938, this famous passenger liner crossed the Atlantic in just 3 days, 20 hrs. & 42 mins.
Queen Mary
Madeleine
$400 [12]
This "fair lady" is the daughter of a Dutch baroness & granddaughter of a governor of Dutch Guiana
Audrey Hepburn
Steve Susan
$400 [19]
"The Cradle of the Confederacy"
Montgomery
Steve
DD $500 [5]
Less than 2 months after "We Are The World" hit No. 1, this songtopped the charts:"Welcome to your life / There's no turning back / Even while we..."
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World"
Madeleine
$500 [16]
It's said Lincoln's firing Gen. G. McClellan in 1862 caused Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc CleMcClellanemocratdo
run for president
Madeleine
$500 [27]
Name of the U.S. Navy ship hit in an Iraqi missile attack May 17, 1987
the USS Stark
$500 [13]
Jayne & Audrey Meadows were born in this country where their parents were missionaries
China
Steve
$500 [20]
"The Gateway to the West"
St. Louis
Steve
$500 [6]
Though one of the greatest of country artists, Eddy Arnold had only this song break into the Pop Top 10
"Make The World Go Away"
Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

1962 ANTIQUES BODIES OF WATER PHYSICS POETRY PARTS OF SPEECH
$200 [1]
He re-signed with the Yankees for $72,500, almost twice what he got in 1961, when he hit 61 homers
Roger Maris
Steve
$200 [21]
Originally the word "antique", meaning old, referred to these 2 classical Mediterranean cultures
Greek & Roman
Susan
$200 [8]
Oregon's Willamette is one of the few U.S. rivers that flows in this compass direction
north
Steve
$200 [14]
If a substance experiences a change of state, it doesn't mean it moved to Texas, but did this
changes from liquid to solid (solid to liquid, solid to gas)
Susan
$200 [6]
In "Idylls of the King", Tennyson calls her "fairest of all flesh on earth"
Guinevere
Madeleine
DD $100 [26]
This part of speech comes from the Latin "to add to", which is its function
an adjective (a conjunction)
Steve
$400 [2]
He published the memoir "Six Crises"; if he had waited, he could have added a few more
Richard Nixon
Steve
$400 [22]
It's said the early Chinese drank their tea lukewarm, so early teacups lack these
handles
Madeleine
$400 [9]
This Canadian province contains both Lake Winnipeg & Lake Winnipegosis
Manitoba
Steve Madeleine Susan
$400 [15]
In the 2nd cent. B.C., he found the weight of a floating body equals that of the water it displaces
Archimedes
Madeleine
$400 [7]
Since it was written in the 1st person, he's regarded as the leading character in "The Divine Comedy"
Dante
Steve
$200 [13]
Of cooks, cooking, or cooked, the form which cannot act as a noun
cooked
Steve
$600 [3]
The theme of the World's Fair was "Man in the Space Age" & its symbol was this
the Space Needle
Steve Susan
$600 [23]
Called "long case" or "tall" clocks by antique dealers, they're popularly known as this
grandfather clocks
Madeleine
$600 [10]
Largest U.S. naval recruit training center is not on the ocean but on the shore of this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
Susan
$600 [16]
The term for the tendency of a material to return to its original shape after being deformed
elasticity
Susan
$600 [18]
Byron based a poem on the true story of a man who spent years as the "Prisoner of" this castle
Chillon
Madeleine
$400 [17]
Type of punctuation generally following an interjection which expresses strong emotion
an exclamation
Madeleine
$800 [4]
A Senate subcommittee held hearings on the dealings of this Texas financier
Billy Sol Estes
Steve Madeleine
$800 [24]
In 1968, the Corp. of London sold the McCulloch Oil Co. this, which Guinness calls the largest antique ever sold
the London Bridge
Susan
$800 [11]
Venezuela's oil production is centered on this lake
Lake Maracaibo
Susan
$800 [19]
Wordsworth wrote, "My heart leaps up when I behold" 1 of these "in the sky"
a rainbow
$1,000 [5]
Named premier by de Gaulle April 14, he resigned October 6, & was reappointed November 27
Georges Pompidou
$1,000 [25]
The highest price paid for one of these machines was $6,450 for an 1886 Daw & Tait model
a typewriter
Steve
DD $1,000 [12]
The 2 countries, 1 coastal, 1 landlocked, that share Lake Titicaca, the world's highest large lake
Peru & Bolivia
Susan
$1,000 [20]
Child bride who ended up in "her tomb by the sounding sea"
Annabel Lee
Steve Susan

Final Jeopardy!

CINEMA

The last film Cecil B. De Mille directed, it was a partial remake of a silent epic he'd directed 33 years before

The Ten Commandments

Susan "What is the 10 Commandments?" — wagered $99
Madeleine "What is Birth of a Nation?" — wagered $2,400
Steve "What is the 10 Commandments?" — wagered $1,901

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