Show #548 1987-01-14 (taped 1986-10-14) Regular

Contestants

Frank Ferguson — a lawyer from Richmond, Virginia

Lance Lawson — a product manager originally from Moline, Illinois

Sharon Miyasato — an attorney from Oakland, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,998)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sharon $0 $400 $3,800 $7,599
2nd place: Tappan electric range w/ microwave + Zenith 9" color TV
$3,800
11 R, 1 W
Lance $1,100 $2,200 $5,400 $8,410
New champion: $8,410
$6,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Frank $1,200 $1,400 $4,200 $0
3rd place: Daniel Ming his & hers watches
$3,900
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

FACTS & FIGURES AMERICAN LITERATURE CARDS TV HOSPITALS WEATHER "SEA" LIFE
$100 [1]
80% of cocaine entering U.S. comes in by air thru this state, keeping Crockett & Tubbs busy
Florida
Sharon
$100 [6]
He wrote that "persons attempting to find a plot" in "Huck Finn" "will be shot"
Mark Twain
Lance
$100 [20]
In the 18th c., the rules of whist were laid down according to this card authority
(Edmond) Hoyle
Lance
$100 [15]
Richard Chamberlain learned his bedside manner at Blair General Hospital in this series
Dr. Kildare
Sharon
$100 [8]
It can be classified as bead, ribbon, or ball, by Jove
lightning
Frank
$100 [21]
A manatee, a dugong, or "Admiral" Elsie
a sea cow
Lance
$200 [2]
At 3.85 cups of tea per person per day, this country is world's #1 tea drinker outside the Orient
Great Britain
Frank
$200 [7]
This author's son Jack wrote "Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With & Without Papa."
Ernest Hemingway
Frank
$200 [25]
Though up to 6 can play, canasta is best with this number
4
Lance
$200 [16]
Elizabeth Taylor showed up on this soap opera in 1981 at what else? A wedding
General Hospital
Frank
$200 [9]
Of April, June, or September, month in which the most Atlantic hurricanes occur
September
Lance
$200 [27]
A sailor or a pirate, especially one who growls & bites
a sea dog
Lance
$300 [3]
Kids in America have made this non-carbonated "soft drink" #3 behind Coke & Pepsi
Kool-Aid
Frank
$300 [12]
So no one would read it, this Atlanta belle had her novella about interracial lovers destroyed
Margaret Mitchell
Lance
$300 [26]
"Le vieux garcon", meaning "old boy", is a French game similar to this
Old Maid
Sharon
$400 [18]
Paul Lynde sent "Temperatures Rising" playing doctor at this city's Capital General Hospital
Washington
$300 [10]
Weather of the past 500 years in France was charted by using this profession's harvest records
winemakers
Frank
$300 [23]
A flat branching coral, or someone who really likes the Jacques Cousteau specials
a sea fan
$400 [4]
At 37.5 million miles away in July '86, this planet made its closest approach to Earth in 15 years
Mars
Sharon Lance Frank
$400 [13]
Encyclopedia Americana calls him the "1st great dramatist" in American literature
Eugene O'Neill
$500 [19]
This longest-running medical drama in prime time history was set at a university medical complex
Medical Center
$400 [11]
A variant of a proverb calls this the "shepherd's delight"
red sky at night
Lance
$400 [24]
Unlike the land animal it's named for, this sea creature has a prehensile tail
a seahorse
Frank
$500 [5]
After South Africa, this country mined the most gold in 1985
ths USSR
Lance
$500 [14]
This short novel, Melville's last, wasn't published until 33 years after his death
Billy Budd
Sharon Frank
DD $600 [17]
"Nicknamed" for the hospital in which it's set, this series'them eis the following:[Instrumental music plays]
St. Elsewhere
Frank
$500 [22]
According to the World Almanac, the lowest recorded temperature for this state was 14º F
Hawaii
Lance Frank
$500 [28]
British & German ships reported sighting them in WWI, as did the steamer Santa Clara in 1947
sea serpents
Frank

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY REPUBLICANS SPORT OF KINGS FOREIGN FOODS RIVERS WESTERN SONGS
$200 [10]
If a vestal virgin violated this vow, she was buried alive
chastity
Sharon
$200 [1]
With over 53 mil., he amassed greatest number of popular votes ever in a presidential election
Ronald Reagan
Frank
$200 [2]
Most racehorses over 2 years old have this tattooed inside their upper lip
an identification number
Frank
$200 [17]
This vegetable (or is it a fruit?) makes gazpacho gazpacho
a tomato
Frank
$200 [7]
The Robert E. Lee beat the Natchez in a famous 1870 steamboat race on this river
the Mississippi
Sharon
$200 [26]
It's where "the stars at night are big & bright"
"Deep In The Heart Of Texas"
Frank
$400 [11]
Pompey divorced this Roman's lover, married his daughter, & was defeated by him at Pharsalus
Julius Caesar
Sharon Lance
$400 [8]
Author of "Soul on Ice" & former Black Panther, he sought Calif. Republican Senate nomination in 1986
Eldridge Cleaver
Sharon
$400 [3]
Of triangular, straight, or oval, shape of England's Ascot race track
triangular
$400 [19]
In Germany, you might serve spatzle, not spaghetti, with these "klops"
meatballs
Frank
$400 [18]
It's said the ashes of Joan of Arc were thrown into this river
the Seine
Sharon
$1,000 [27]
They're "a try'n to catch the devil's herd across these endless skies"
"Ghost Riders In The Sky"
Frank
$600 [12]
Only the dead could leave when Nero sang, & some women did this, which increased the captive audience
gave birth
Frank
$600 [9]
Connecticut congresswoman, ambassador to Italy, & wife of Time Life founder
Clare Boothe Luce
Lance
$600 [4]
In most stakes races, this many horses share the purse
4
Frank
$600 [20]
Calling vegetables "julienne" does not mean they're prepared by Julieann, but cut this way
cut thin (thin strips)
Lance
$600 [23]
River whose course Lewis & Clark followed for the first year of their journey
the Missouri
Lance
$800 [13]
Philosophy whose name comes from the porch, or "stoa", where Zeno met his students
the Stoics (stoicism)
Lance
DD $1,000 [15]
Joseph W. Martin, who last served from 1953-55, was last Republican to hold this position
Speaker of the House
Lance
$800 [5]
Horseracing's scoreboard
the tote board
Frank
$800 [21]
Mulligatawny soup, meaning "pepper water", is found on menus featuring this country's cuisine
India
Sharon
$800 [24]
The Danube, Dnieper, & Dniester all flow into this body of water
the Black Sea
$1,000 [14]
Born in what is now Algeria in 354, he became Bishop of Hippo & wrote "The City of God"
(St.) Augustine
Lance
$1,000 [16]
Though he was known as "Mr. Republican", 1952 GOP convention chose Eisenhower instead
Robert Taft
Sharon Lance
$1,000 [6]
Started in 1863, the racetrack at this N.Y. site has oldest continuous meeting in U.S.
Saratoga
Frank
$1,000 [22]
Legend says the name of this Scottish smoked haddock came from fishing village of Findhorn
finnan haddie
Lance
DD $1,000 [25]
Dr. Burkhart Waldecker marked the spot with the Latin words "caput nili", meaning this
the head of or the source of the Nile
Lance

Final Jeopardy!

THE SOVIET UNION

He was top Soviet leader longer than anyone else

Joseph Stalin

Sharon "Who was Stalin?" — wagered $3,799
Frank "Who was Brezhnev?" — wagered $4,200
Lance "Who was Stalin?" — wagered $3,010

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