Show #553 1987-01-21 (taped 1986-10-15) Regular

Contestants

Liz Voss — a legal assistant from Walnut, California

Laurence Braude — an actor and casting assistant from Venice, California

Jerry Salzman — a systems analyst originally from Akron, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,182)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jerry $600 $2,300 $6,100 $11,700
2-day champion: $20,882
$5,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Laurence $-200 $-1,200 $200 $399
3rd place: Smith Corona electric typewriter
$0
8 R (including 1 DD), 9 W
Liz $900 $1,500 $3,100 $6,100
2nd place: Admiral refrigerator + Zenith 9" color TV
$3,100
13 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

TRAVEL & TOURISM AMERICAN HISTORY SMOKING O.R. DRUG STORE STOP THE PRESSES!!!
$100 [19]
Of the tributes to Washington, Jefferson & Lincoln in Wash. D.C., the 1 that's called a monument
the Washington Monument
Jerry
$100 [6]
This service academy opened July 4, 1802 with arrival of 1st 10 cadets
West Point
Liz
$200 [26]
Per latest USDA statistics, this country has largest per capita cigarette consumption in world
the United States
Jerry Liz
$200 [4]
"You'll like my gourmet popping corn better or my name isn't..." this
Orville Redenbacher
Jerry
$200 [23]
It completed the '50s jingle, "You'll wonder where the yellow went..."
"when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent"
Jerry
$200 [22]
At 7:30 A.M., July 1, 1986, Nevada raised a speed limit above this but had to rescind it within 30 seconds
55
Laurence
$200 [25]
The restaurant serves pink sugar at the Pink Madonna Inn at San Luis Obispo in this state
California
Jerry
$200 [7]
Col. John Nixon read this publicly for 1st time on July 8, 1776
the Declaration of Independence
Jerry
$300 [11]
When this was released in 1964, many smokers switched to cigarettes with less tar & nicotine
the Surgeon General's report
Jerry
$300 [1]
He doubted he could finish his 60-story "City of Faith" med center until he saw Jesus towering over it
Oral Roberts
Jerry
$300 [14]
Generic name of the pain reliever in Bufferin
acetylsalicylic acid
Jerry
$300 [5]
On July 3, 1986, USA Today revealed that President Reagan carries this amount of money in his pockets
no money
Liz
$300 [24]
To lure more corporate execs to their villages, Club Med has programmed these into the program
computers
Laurence
$300 [10]
Over the veto of W. Wilson, Congress passed the Volstead Act which enforced this amendment
the 18th Amendment
Laurence
$400 [12]
Before he became Magnum, P.I., Tom Selleck lit up billboards for this cigarette brand
Salem
Laurence
DD $500 [2]
Title & subject of thefollowing:"One of these days / I'm gonna climb that mountain / Walk up there among the clouds / Where the cotton's high / And the corn's a-growin' / And there ain't no fields to plow"
"Old Rivers"
Jerry
$400 [15]
Generic name of the pain reliever in Tylenol
acetaminophen
Jerry
$400 [8]
The pope said they have been misunderstood & do exist though you can't see them
angels
Jerry
$400 [20]
With 1 foot in each of these 2 countries, you could have your picture taken standing in S. & C. America
Panama and Columbia
Jerry
$400 [17]
Completed in 1825, this waterway was only 4 feet deep
the Erie Canal
Liz
$500 [13]
After starting 1st commercial tobacco farming in 1612, he probably saw less of his wife, Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Laurence
$500 [3]
Duane Allen, Wm. Lee Golden, Joe Bonsall & R. Sturban took their collective name from this Tennessee town
Oak Ridge
$500 [16]
It's said Lilly's Tincture of Merthiolate didn't sell well until this was added to make it sting
alcohol
Liz
$500 [9]
Another 1600 pairs of her shoes have been found, bringing the total up to 4600
Imelda Marcos
Laurence Liz
$500 [21]
1 of 2 countries from which, on a clear day, you can see the top of Kilimanjaro
Kenya (or Tanzania)
Laurence
$500 [18]
Some speculate the election of this "Great Compromiser" as President could have prevented civil war
Henry Clay
Laurence Liz

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE THE EQUATOR BABY SONGS BRITISH RULERS CELEBRITY QUOTES BICYCLES
$200 [26]
This 1920 S. Lewis novel aroused controversy & was burlesqued in 1921's "Ptomaine Street"
Main Street
Liz
$200 [6]
The latitude of the Equator
zero
Jerry
$200 [27]
In 1965, Herman's Hermits asked "Baby, baby can't you hear..." this chest noise
"Baby, Baby, Can't You Hear My Heartbeat"
Liz
$200 [24]
Surname of Richard II, it's derived from "planta genista" meaning "sprig of broom"
Plantagenet
Jerry
$400 [16]
When Liz Taylor said, "What a dump!" in this film, she was quoting B. Davis in "Beyond the Forest"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
$400 [8]
Weighing far less than steel, Lexan is one type of this lightweight material sometimes used for frames
plastic
Liz
$400 [19]
Mark Twain originally called this memoir "Old Times on the Mississippi"
Life on the Mississippi
Laurence
$400 [5]
Westernmost capital in South America, it lies almost directly on the Equator
Quito
Jerry
$400 [25]
In his only #1 hit, Mac Davis urged his baby not to do this
(Don't) "Get Hooked On Me"
Jerry Liz
$400 [23]
Banned 1968 play "Early Morning" suggested that this queen & Florence Nightingale were lovers
Queen Victoria
Liz
$600 [10]
8-time Oscar winner who said, "what I need is a script about a girl who isn't poor & doesn't hate clothes"
Edith Head
$600 [7]
These come in side-pull or center-pull type
brakes
Jerry
$600 [18]
"Requiem for a Nun" was this author's sequel to his "Sanctuary"
Faulker
Liz
$800 [3]
All points on the magnetic Equator are equidistant from these
the magnetic poles
Jerry
$600 [13]
In the first line of the '50s song, it follows "Be-bop-a-lula"
"She's My Baby"
Laurence
$600 [20]
James I's mother, played by K. Hepburn in 1936 & Vanessa Redgrave 35 years later
Mary, Queen of Scots
Jerry Laurence Liz
DD $1,000 [11]
He said "power is the great aphrodisiac," 8; Nancy Maginnes must have believed him
Henry Kissinger
Laurence
$800 [9]
In 1890s, firemen pedaled the Schoedelin Quadricycle not only to get to fire but do this
pumping water
Laurence
$800 [1]
In this book's final chapter, Aramis says, "Our last adventures have quite disgusted me"
The Three Musketeers
Jerry
$1,000 [4]
North of the equator, these blow from the northeast; south of the equator, from the southeast
the trade winds
Jerry
$800 [14]
This couple didn't take the advice they offered one another in "Baby Don't Go"
Sonny & Cher
$800 [21]
Her father-in-law, the Duke of Northumberland, used her as a puppet to keep Mary Tudor off the throne
Lady Jane Grey
Liz
$1,000 [12]
Bartlett's credits this much-maligned musician with quote "I cry all the way to the bank"
Liberace
Laurence
$1,000 [17]
Poet laureate who wrote, "I hope to see my pilot face to face when I have crost the bar"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Laurence Liz
DD $2,000 [2]
The circumference of the Earth at the Equator is approximately this many thousand miles
25,000
Jerry
$1,000 [15]
Ex-Limelighter G. Yarborough brought this theme from a '65 Steve McQueen film to the pop charts
"Baby The Rain Must Fall"
Laurence
$1,000 [22]
He lost at Wimbledon in 1926, but won the English throne when his brother abdicated
George VI
Laurence Liz

Final Jeopardy!

THE CABINET

The Secret Service is part of this Cabinet department

Department of the Treasury

Laurence "What is the Treasury Dept?" — wagered $199
Liz "What is the Dept. of the Treasury" — wagered $3,000
Jerry "What is the Treasury?" — wagered $5,600

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